Victor Sen YungFilmography

The Red Pony

Actors: Henry Fonda, Clint Howard, Maureen O'Hara

Synopsis: The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star as a turn-of-century farming couple. Clint Howard plays their 10-year-old son, a rebellious lad constantly at odds with his taciturn father. Read More

Bonanza: The Marriage of Theodora Duffy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Ponderosa ranchhaned Griff King agrees to pose as the husband of one Theodora Duffy (Karen Carlson). There is nothing personal in this arrangement: Theodora wants to solve a crime, and pretending to be Mrs. King is merely a means to an end. Also in the cast are Ramon Bieri as Jonas Holt, Robert Read More

Kung Fu

Actors: David Carradine, Barry Sullivan, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A Chinese/American priest, Caine must flee to the United States after he is forced to kill a royal nephew. He wanders the American West of the 1860s, keeping his cool until Read More

Bonanza: A Place to Hide

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Fugitive Confederate officer Cody Ransom (Jon Cypher) is finally willing to surrender to the Union forces-but only if the Cartwright men act as intermediaries. Unfortunately, by-the-book Northern officer Major Donahue (Hurd Hatfield) insists upon handling the capture all by himself-and he is Read More

Bonanza: Second Sight

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: Joan Hackett guest-stars as Judith, the fiancee of a young pastor named Jess (James Booth). Blessed-or, perhaps, cursed-with the gift of clairvoyance, Judith is called in to locate a missing Jamie. But her intensely religious sweetheart does not want Judith to use her "special powers." Written by Read More

Bonanza: A Lonely Man

Actors: Victor Sen Yung, Kelly Jean Peters, Peter Hobbs, Henry Wills, Bing Russell

Synopsis: The focus in "A Lonely Man" is on Victor Sen Yung as Ponderosa houseboy Hop Sing; indeed, Sen Yung is the only series regular to appear in this episode. Having fallen in love with a white woman (Kelly Jean Peters, Hop Sing runs afoul of a racist judge (Peter Hobbs), who eagerly digs up an old and Read More

Bonanza: Shanklin

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Charles Chioffi plays the title character in the thrill-packed Bonanza installment Shanklin. Hoss Cartwright is shot by a band of ex-rebel soldiers who want Ben Cartwright to finance the formation of a Second Confederacy. Only Shanklin, the man who pulled the trigger, can save Hoss' life-and he Read More

Bonanza: First Love

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: Young Jamie is once more riding for a fall when he falls in love with the much-older Kelly (Pamela Franklin). Making things worse is the fact that Kelly is the wife of Jamie's schoolteacher Dan Edwards (Jordan Rhodes), whose jealousy borders on insanity. Featured in the cast are Lisa Eilbacher as Read More

Bonanza: One Ace Too Many

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Once more, Lorne Greene essays the dual role of Ben Cartwright and Ben's lookalike, confidence trickster Bradley Meredith. This time out, Meredith takes advantage of Ben's trip to Carson City to auction off the Ponderosa, piece by piece. Kate Jackson makes an early TV appearance as Ellen, while Read More

Bonanza: The Initiation

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Ronald Howard, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: Jamie is a member of a boy's club which delights in forcing new members to undergo a grueling initiation process. Unfortunately, one of these hazings results in the death of a hapless teenager. Though the townsfolk blame Ted Hoag (Ronny Howard), a homeless youth, for the boy's death, Jamie and the Read More

Bonanza: The Reluctant American

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Londoners Leslie and Gillian Harwood (Daniel Massey and Jill Haworth) arrive in Nevada to take charge of a ranch on behalf of a British investment firm-and immediately mistake the Ponderosa for the ranch in question. Thus, the Cartwrights become involved in the couple's travails, attempting to Read More

Bonanza: The Silent Killer

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Meg Foster

Synopsis: "The Silent Killer" is the deadly influenza epidemic that has swept through the territory around the Ponderosa. To combat the disease, tradition-bound Doc Martin (Harry Holcombe) and Harriet Clinton (Louise Latham) set up an emergency hospital on the Cartwright spread. Further complications ensue Read More

Bonanza: The Stillness Within

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Jo Van Fleet

Synopsis: Blinded in an explosion, Joe Cartwright, uncertain as to whether his sight will ever be restored, bitterly cuts himself off from the rest of his family. Enter Miss Ellen Dobbs (Jo Van Fleet) from San Francisco, who specializes in teaching the blind how to cope with the "sighted" world. Electing Read More

Bonanza: A Home for Jamie

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Will Geer

Synopsis: Having unofficially adopted Jamie, Ben is poised to make it official in court. His plans are scuttled by the arrival of Jamie's actual grandfather Callahan (Will Geer, who wants to take the boy back with him to Boston. Written by Jean Holloway, this Bonanza episode served as a reunion for Will Read More

Bonanza: Easy Come, Easy Go

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ann Prentiss, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: The cantankerous Calhouns-nouveau riche prospector Luke Calhoun (Dub Taylor) and his man-hungry daughter Meena (Ann Prentiss-return to Bonanza in the December 12, 1971 episode "Easy Come, Easy Go." As Meena again tries to snare a husband, Luke-reduced to poverty by a crooked land deal-accepts Read More

Bonanza: Face of Fear

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Neta (Jewel Blanch), a teenaged friend of Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie, witnesses the murder of Mr. Trunkett, but is too frightened to say anything about it. Meanwhile, the murderer, a man named Bannon (Bradford Dillman), impersonates the dead man in order to inherit a fortune. The danger to Read More

Bonanza: A Deck of Aces

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Alan Oppenheimer

Synopsis: Lorne Greene plays a dual role, as Ponderosa patriarch Ben Cartwright and Ben's con-man lookalike Bradley Meredith. The fun begins when Meredith, posing as Ben, makes a major land sale to the railroad-a deal that the real Ben had previously turned down flat. Also in the cast are Alan Oppenheimer Read More

Bonanza: Rock-a-Bye Hoss

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Sen Yung, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: In this comic episode, Hoss Cartwright is tapped to judge a Virginia City "beautiful baby" contest. In so doing, he inadvertently sparks a chain reaction of disaster and ill will, culminating with the exposure of a long-suppressed "scandal". The Moral: All babies are beautiful, but most grownups Read More

Bonanza: The Gold Plated Rifle

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Lou Frizzell

Synopsis: To silence the taunts of his young friends, Jamie tries to prove that he's a "real Cartwright" by showing up at school with Ben's rifle-and without Ben's permission. Inevitably, the rifle is broken, and a reluctant Ben punishes Jamie for lying about the incident. Embittered, Jamie runs away from Read More

Bonanza: The Night Virginia City Died

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Angel Tompkins, Ray Teal

Synopsis: Bonanza's twelfth season commenced on September 13, 1970 with the episode titled "The Night Virginia City Died." Several Virginia City buildings have burned to the ground; the townsfolk are in an uproar, and the local constabulary is apparently helpless. Meanwhile, the Cartwrights have befriended Read More

Bonanza: A Matter of Circumstance

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ted Gehring

Synopsis: The eleventh season of Bonanza was wrapped up on April 19, 1970 with the powerhouse episode "A Matter of Circumstance." Though several prominent actors-notably young Vincent Van Patten-appear in the supporting cast, the episode is virtually a one-man show, focusing on Michael Landon as Joe Read More

Bonanza: Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: Perhaps the silliest Bonanza episode ever filmed, "Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing" was written by Larry Markes. This is the one in which Hoss Cartwright dresses up in a huge rabbit costume to entertain a group of orphans at an Easter party. En route to the festivities, Hoss runs afoul of four Read More

Bonanza: The Luck of Pepper Shannon

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Neville Brand guest-stars as Pepper Shannon, a stage robber whose career has been blown up to "heroic" proportions by the dime-novel brigade. Unfortunately, Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie idolizes Shannon, who has allowed Jamie to "capture" him to avoid being shot by his enemies. It is only Read More

The Hawaiians

Actors: Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Tina Chen, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener. Charlton Heston is top-billed as a sailor who returns to his Hawaiian homestead, only to learn that his grandfather's fortune has been bestowed upon his hated cousin Alec McCowan Read More

Bonanza: Honest John

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Jack Elam plays the title role in this Bonanza episode from December 20, 1970. Belying his nickname, Honest John is a prevaricating drifter, who over the protests of the Cartwrights has settled on the Ponderosa. Banking on the trust and friendship of young Jamie, Honest John finds himself in a Read More

Bonanza: The Medal

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell guest-stars as Mathew, a former Northern war hero and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, now living a pauper's existence in Nevada. Ben Cartwright comes to Mathew's aid when the man is victimized by Seth Nagel (Harry Townes), a Southerner determined to avenge the loss of his home Read More

Bonanza: Old Friends

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright finds himself in the uncomfortable position of choosing between two old and treasured friends, both of whom abuptly re-enter his life after 27 years. Charlie Sheppard (Robert Wilke), formerly Ben's prospecting partner, is now a wanted outlaw, while Jess Waddell (Morgan Woodward) has Read More

Bonanza: Sweet Annie Laurie

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Joan Van Ark, James Olson

Synopsis: Joan Van Ark made an early TV starring appearance in this January 5, 1969 episode of Bonanza. The actress is cast as Laurie Adams, who is desperate to break off her relationship with her fugitive-outlaw husband Kelly Adams (James Olson). Hoss Cartwright tries to help Laurie, a task made difficult Read More

Bonanza: Stage Door Johnnies

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathleen Crowley, Walter Brooke

Synopsis: On July 28, 1968, the producers of Bonanza surprised the series' fans by interrupting their summer-rerun schedule with the first-run episode "Stage Door Johnnies." Kathleen Crowley appears as Mademoiselle Denise, the sexy new singer at the Silver Dollar Saloon. The men of the Ponderosa vie for her Read More

A Flea in Her Ear

Actors: Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Rachel Roberts, John Williams

Synopsis: Taken from the 1907 comedy play by Georges Feydeau, A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her husband's activities away from home. Gabrielle (Rosemary Harris) is convinced her attorney husband Victor (Rex Harrison) is seeing another woman because of his inattention to Read More

Bonanza: The Last Vote

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tom Bosley, Wally Cox

Synopsis: As a result of a wager, Hoss and Joe Cartwright decide to enter politics, each supporting an opposing mayor candidate for the upcoming Virginia City election. Comic chaos ensues when both brothers become campaign managers for their respective candidates, and are thus forced to suck up to the man Read More

Bonanza: Mark of Guilt

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: This episode of Bonanza is a showcase for Victor Sen Yung as Hop Sing, the Cartwrights' loyal Chinese manservant. When Hop Sing's pigtail is cut off by town bully Emo Younger (Sam Greene), Joe Cartwright vows to avenge this act of public humiliation-and is subsequently arrested for murder when Read More

Bonanza: Little Girl Lost

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Linda Sue Risk

Synopsis: A distant relative of Ben Cartwright, preteen tomboy Samantha Dorcas (Linda Sue Risk is delivered to the Ponderosa in the hope that Ben will be able to "tame" the troublesome girl. Meanwhile, Sam's mother Martha (Antoinette Bower) struggles desperately to escape her existence as a saloon girl. Read More

Bonanza: A Bride for Buford

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Lola Albright, Jack Elam

Synopsis: The rest of the Ponderosa men are astonished when Hoss Cartwright shows up reeking of cologne and dressed to the nines. It is all part of Hoss' scheme to prove that mercenary saloon gal Dolly Bantree (Lola Albright) only loves grungy miner Buford Buckelew (Jack Elam) for his money. Paul Brineger Read More

Bonanza: Ponderosa Explosion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Sen Yung, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: In this comic episode, Hoss and Joe Cartwright embark on yet another big-business scheme. Investing in two rabbits, our heroes intend to make a fortune selling rabbit skins. Alas, neither brother has the heart to take a knife to the cute little bunnies, which of course proceed to multiply at an Read More

Bonanza: Clarissa

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Nina Foch, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Nina Foch guest-stars as Clarissa, Ben Cartwright's snooty Eastern cousin. Swooping down upon the Ponderosa, the well-meaning but insufferable Clarissa manages to alienate all of the Cartwrights' friends-and even worse, causes ranch cook Hop Sing to tender his resignation. It has been suggested Read More

Bonanza: The Sure Thing

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kim Darby, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright purchaeses a stallion from drunken lout Burt Loughlin (Tom Tully), hoping to fulfill the fondest dreams of Burt's sweet daughter Trudy (Kim Darby). It is Trudy's wish to ride the stallion to victory in a upcoming high-stakes race. But Ben's good intentions may be undone by Burt, who Read More

Bonanza: The Gentle Ones

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Walker, Jr., Lana Wood

Synopsis: Written by Frank Chase, "The Gentle Ones" is the tale of two brothers, both in the horse trading business. Kindhearted Mark (Robert Walker Jr.) is a cowboy who loves horses; his brutal sibling Frank (Pat Conway) is a rancher who likes nothing more than to "break" his horses in the most sadistic Read More

Bonanza: Maestro Hoss

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: Hoss Cartwright once again falls victim to a clever palm reader, in this case a travelling prognosticator named Madama Morova, played by no less than Zsa Zsa Gabor. Giving Hoss a Stradivarius, Morova informs him that he is an undiscovered violin virtuoso, destined to give his first public concert Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part Two

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Rod Cameron, Tom Lowell

Synopsis: In Part Two of "Ride the Wind", Curtis Wade (Rod Cameron takes over from the late Charles Ludlow as head of the new Pony Express service. Determined to keep the service running and to finish the route despite attacks by the Paiutes, Wade is driven not so much by duty as by his ego, which has been Read More

Bonanza: Tommy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mike Witney

Synopsis: The wife of vicious outlaw Jess Miller (Michael Witney), long-suffering Allie (Janet De Gore takes refuge at the Ponderosa, where she grew up. Jess wants to forcibly take Allie back-but he wants nothing to do with their son Tommy (Teddy Quinn, a deaf mute. Frank Puglia appears as the kindly Padre. Read More

Bonanza: To Kill a Buffalo

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jose de Vega, Steve Gravers

Synopsis: Jose De Vega is cast as Tatu, an embittered Indian youth who hates all white men. Injured and left to die by his tribe, Tatu is rescued by Hoss, who makes it his mission in life to prove to the boy that not all whites are monsters. Before the episode is over, both Tatu and Hoss have their faithful Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Noah Beery, Jr., Victor Jory, Dorothy Green, Rod Cameron

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

Bonanza: Three Brides for Hoss

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Majel Barrett

Synopsis: The Ponderosa is thrown into a tizzy when Kentucky woman Annie Slocum (Majel Barrett) shows up, claiming that Hoss Cartwright asked her to be his bride. In short order, two other women named Yvette (Danielle Aubry and Libby (Mitzi Hoag) also arrive, making the same claim! It is all the handiwork Read More

Bonanza: A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Sally Kellerman, Hampton Fancher

Synopsis: Bonanza closed out its seventh season on May 15, 1966 with the comic episode "A Dollar's Worth of Trouble." Gypsy palm reader Mme. Adella (Mabel Albertson predicts that Hoss Cartwright's life will soon accommodate a blue-eyed blonde, a moonshiner, and a murderous gunslinger. As these Read More

Bonanza: To Bloom for Thee

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Geraldine Brooks, Don Haggerty

Synopsis: Geraldine Brooks, who played Ben Cartwright's first wife in the 1961 Bonanza episode "Elizabeth, My Love," was cast as Hoss Cartwright's love interest in the October 16, 1966 episode "To Bloom for Thee." Beaten down by life, Carol Attley (Brooks) has become cold, aloof and distrustful. Read More

Bonanza: The Fighters

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Michael Conrad, Phillip Pine

Synopsis: Hoss Cartwright seriously injures washed-up boxer Hank Kelly (Michael Conrad in a challenge fight. Feeling guilty, Hoss refuses all entreaties to fight on a professional basis-but younger brother Joe is eager and willing to show off his pugilistic prowess. Featured in the cast are Phillip Pine as Read More

Bonanza: Home from the Sea

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Alan Bergmann, Ivor Francis

Synopsis: Though the character of Adam Cartwright was gone from Bonanza, he was far from forgotten, as proven by this episode from May 1, 1966. Alan Bergmann guest-stars as Gilly Maples, a shipmate of the now-seafaring Adam. Arriving at the Ponderosa, Gilly claims to be a lonely fellow, seeking only the Read More

Bonanza: Bullet for a Bride

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Marlyn Mason

Synopsis: Marlyn Mason guest-stars as Tessa Caldwell, who is accidentally blinded in a hunting accident caused by Joe Cartwright. More out of pity and guilt than love, Joe offers to marry the girl. Eventually, she regains her sight-but her covetous father (Denver Pyle), anxious to see his daughter wed to a Read More

Bonanza: My Son, My Son

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Teresa Wright

Synopsis: A widower for many years, Ben Cartwright finally decides to take another bride, the lovely Katherine Saunders (Teresa Wright). Alas, the wedding plans are shelved when Katherine's son Eden (Dee Pollack) is accused of murder. Out of loyalty to his fiancee, Ben defends Eden from the law, but soon Read More

Bonanza: Square Deal Sam

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: Ernest Truex guest-stars as "Square Deal Sam" Washburn, a veteran confidence trickster. Sam's latest suckers are the Cartwrights and their cook Hop Sing, whom he sweet-talks into a phony land deal. But redemption is at hand for Sam and his wife Martha (Nydia Westman), courtesy of a group of Read More

Bonanza: Half a Rogue

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Slim Pickens makes his first appearance as the rogueish but lovable mountaineer Jim Leyton. Wounded while busting out of jail, Jim tries to steal Hoss Cartwright's horse for a quick getaway, then passes out from his injuries. When he comes to, Jim tries to beat his murder rap by claiming that Hoss Read More

Bonanza: The Saga of Whizzer McGee

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, George Brenlin

Synopsis: George Brenlin is cast as Whizzer McGee, a short-statured scrapper who doesn't take kindly to people making fun of his size. As a result, Whizzer loses job after job, usually by pummeling his latest employer into unconsciousness. It appears that Whizzer's fortunes will improve when he is Read More

Bonanza: The Lady from Baltimore

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Mercedes McCambridge guest-stars as Deborrah Banning, the wife of Baltimore publisher Horace Manning (Hayden Rorke). Having married for money and social prestige, Deborrah ended up living in poverty and obscurity due to her husband's many financial failures. Now living vicariously through her Read More

Confessions of an Opium Eater

Synopsis: Very freely based upon the book by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater is set in San Francisco during the Tong Wars of the 1800s. Lotus is one of a group of women kidnapped from China and brought to the United States, where they are to be traded in exchange for precious opium. Read More

Flower Drum Song

Actors: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki, Benson Fong

Synopsis: The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the only Rogers and Hammerstein film to lose money at the box office. It looks far better now than it did back in 1961, if only because of the paucity of musical films in the Read More

Bonanza: Land Grab

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John McGiver

Synopsis: Mike Sullivan (George Mitchell) and his cronies pitch camp at the Ponderosa, claiming that they've been sold a generous portion of the ranch's best land. It turns out that Sullivan and others have been hornswoggled by a fellow named John Zink, or maybe John Polk. Ben Cartwright finds himself in a Read More

Bonanza: Day of the Dragon

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Lisa Lu

Synopsis: Sue Ling (Lisa Lu), a Chinese slave girl purchased by the infamous General Tsung (Richard Loo), is kidnapped and held for ransom by low-lifes Gordon (Mort Mills) and Barrett (Harry Lauter). But when Joe Cartwright plays poker with the two kidnappers, he unwittingly ends up with Sue Ling as his Read More

Bonanza: The Countess

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Maggie Hayes

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright's former sweetheart Lydia (Maggie Hayes), now the wealthy and widowed Lady Lydia Chadwick, returns to Virginia City. Upon her arrival, she makes a beeline to the Ponderosa, hoping to rekindle her romance with Ben. When he resists her charms, Lady Lydia vows to ruin him financially Read More

Bonanza: Tax Collector

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathie Browne

Synopsis: At the behest of a local bureaucrat, good-for-nothing Jock Henry (Eddie Firestone) becomes Virginia City's tax collector. Jock also becomes drunk with power, levying huge, unfair assessments against everybody in the vicinity. Thus it is when Jock is faced with a series of profound personal crises Read More

Bonanza: The Rescue

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Accusing Josh Tatum (Leif Erickson) of stealing cattle, Ben Cartwright gets into a fight with Tatum, and is seriously injured for his troubles. Ben's sons Joe, Adam and Hoss swear to avenge their father by taking care of Tatum themselves. Unfortunately, the well-intentioned Cartwright boys are not Read More

Bonanza: Feet of Clay

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Ladd

Synopsis: David Ladd, the son of movie idol Alan Ladd (and a future film executive in his own right) guest-stars as young Billy Allen, left all alone in the world by the death of his mother. Hoping to snap Billy out of his melancholy, Hoss Cartwright becomes close friends with the boy. Billy's loyalties and Read More

Bonanza: San Francisco Holiday

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathleen Crowley

Synopsis: At the end of a cattle drive, the Cartwrights and their cowhands look forward to rest and relaxation in San Francisco, Instead, two of Ben's gullible drovers are shanghaied on a boat bound for Hong Kong. While searching for his missing employees, Ben is himself shanghaied, forcing Hoss and Joe to Read More

Bonanza: The Fear Merchants

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Gene Evans

Synopsis: The ugly consequences of bigotry are examined in this episode of Bonanza. Gene Evans plays Andrew Fulmer, who runs for mayor of Virginia City on a "hate all outsiders" platform. Backed up by hired thugs, Fulmer targets the town's Chinese population for his most violent persecution. The hostility Read More

Bonanza: The Saga of Annie O'Toole

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Ida Lupino is cast as the titular Annie O'Toole, who along with her father (John Patrick) arrives in Washoe Diggings with a gold claim filed by her fiancé Swede Lumberg (Alan Hale Jr.). When Annie's father dies, Adam Cartwright helps her establish a restaurant to keep her solvent. Annie is going Read More

Bonanza: The Julia Bulette Story

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jane Greer

Synopsis: Film noir icon Jane Greer guest-stars as Julia Burnette, a hard-shelled Virginia City saloon owner. Despite Julia's checkered past, Little Joe Cartwright is smitten by her beauty and charm. Ignoring the admonitions of his father and brothers, Joe falls in love with the much older woman. Written by Al C. Ward Read More

Bonanza: The Last Hunt

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Chana Eden

Synopsis: While on a mountain expedition in the dead of winter, Hoss and Little Joe come upon an Indian woman (Chana Eden) who is about to give birth. Building a shelter for the woman, the two Cartwright boys stay by her side until the baby is born, then bring both mother and child back to the Ponderosa. Read More

Bonanza: Mr. Henry T. P. Comstock

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jack Carson

Synopsis: In the ninth episode of the series Bonanza, we get an episode-length flashback into history. While working on the Ponderosa, the Cartwrights are fired on by an old sourdough who claims they're on his land, presenting them with a deed signed by Mr. Henry T.P. Comstock. Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) Read More

Bonanza: A Rose for Lotta

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: The 14-season run of Bonanza began with this introductory episode, originally aired on September 12, 1959, entitled "A Rose for Lotta." Guest star {$Yvonne DeCarlo) plays renowned entertainer Lotta Crabtree, who finds herself duped into a plot against the Cartwright family and their ranch, the Read More

Bonanza [TV Series]

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary

Synopsis: The first hour-long network Western series telecast in color, Bonanza was also the granddaddy of all "property" Westerns, future examples of which included The Virginian, The Big Valley, and The High Chaparral. The series took place during and after the Civil War in Virginia City, NV. Lorne Greene Read More

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Beverly Garland, John Larch, Russell Johnson, Fortunio Bonanova

Synopsis: Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry. Brown is accused of permitting his men to walk into a deadly ambush; he knows he's innocent, and he spends the rest of the picture tracking down the real culprit. Joining a Read More

She Demons

Actors: Victor Sen Yung, Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Charlie Opuni, Gene Roth, Rudolph Anders

Synopsis: Irish McCalla, the statuesque heroine of TV's Sheena Queen of the Jungle, heads the cast of She Demons. Shipwrecked on a volcanic island, spoiled heiress Jerrie Turner (McCalla) and explorers Fred (Tod Griffin) and Sammy (Victor Sen Yung) fall into the clutches of unreconstructed Nazi scientist Read More

The Hunters

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan, May Britt, Lee Philips

Synopsis: Directed with crisp efficiency by Dick Powell, The Hunters is a romantic melodrama with an aviation angle. Robert Mitchum plays veteran Air Force pilot Maj. Cleve Saville, in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea. Among the men under Saville's command are cocksure Lt. Ed Peil (Robert Read More

Jet Attack

Actors: John Agar, Audrey Totter, Gregory Walcott, James Dobson, Leonard Strong

Synopsis: Denied a big budget, Jet Attack scores dramatic points by concentrating on the human side of warfare. Shot down behind enemy lines in North Korea, jet jockeys Tom (John Agar), Bill (Gregory Walcott) and Chick (Nicky Blair) link up with Russian nurse Tanya (Audrey Totter). She insists that she's on Read More

Men in War

Actors: Robert Ryan, Robert Keith, Aldo Ray, Phillip Pine, Vic Morrow, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Anthony Mann, best known for his intelligent Westerns and hard-boiled crime films, directed this unflinching look at the realities of war set against the backdrop of the Korean conflict. Lt. Mark Benson (Robert Ryan) is the leader of a platoon that has just been given orders to advance to Hill Read More

Accused of Murder

Actors: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things, Ilona is guilty; she was, after all, the last person to see crooked lawyer Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. But Lt. Roy Hargis (David Brian) is convinced that Ilona is Read More

Blood Alley

Actors: Berry Kroeger, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim, Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: John Wayne teaches those dirty Commies yet another lesson in Blood Alley. Wayne plays a veteran seaman who comes to the aid of Lauren Bacall, the daughter of a missionary doctor killed by the Red Chinese. It takes no little persuasion, but Bacall finally convinces Wayne to smuggle a group of Read More

The Left Hand of God

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars in this improbable tale that marked Gene Tierney's return to the screen after battling mental illness for a number of years. Bogart plays Jim Carmody, an American soldier of fortune who, after crashing his plane in China, takes up with the Chinese warlord General Yang (Lee J. Cobb Read More

Soldier of Fortune

Actors: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry, Alex D'Arcy

Synopsis: The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary, running a successful smuggling operation in and out of Hong Kong. Gable is hired by Susan Hayward, who hopes to locate her missing husband, photographer Gene Barry. Upon Read More

Port of Hell

Actors: Dane Clark, Carole Mathews, Wayne Morris, Marshall Thompson, Marjorie Lord

Synopsis: In this early disaster film, the tough-minded and strict Los Angeles Harbormaster must use his courage and wits when the communists announce they have planted an atomic bomb on a freighter. It will detonate in 12 hours. Now, the harbormaster must not only save the city, he must keep his actions Read More

The Shanghai Story

Actors: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the bread-and-butter firm of Republic Pictures. The film takes place in the eponymous far-eastern metropolis (courtesy of the Republic backlot), where Communist police chief Colonel Read More

Target, Sea of China

Actors: Harry Lauter, Aline Towne

Synopsis: A feature version of a twelve chapter Republic Pictures, this drama starred Harry Lauter as Tom Rogers, an enterprising South Seas island trader who gets involved with Nazi thugs, a native revolution and smugglers, ably assisted by a lovely emissary from the United Nations, Aline Towne. One of the Read More

Jubilee Trail

Actors: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Ray Middleton, Pat O'Brien

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to add to his riches by marrying off his brother Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Riddle of the Chinese Jade

Synopsis: A priceless Chinese jade statuette is stolen just before it is to be donated to the National Museum. The culprit is the misguided Harry Wong (Victor Sen Yung), a resident of Metropolis' Chinatown, who has arranged the theft because of a falling out with his prospective father-in-law. Superman Read More

Forbidden

Actors: Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger, Marvin Miller

Synopsis: Forbidden bears traces of several earlier film noirs, with Tony Curtis filling the shoes vacated by the likes of Alan Ladd, Dick Powell and Robert Mitchum. Curtis acquits himself very nicely as a small-time hood sent to Macao by gangster Lyle Bettger to locate Joanne Dru, the widow of another Read More

Target Hong Kong

Actors: Richard Denning, Nancy Gates, Richard Loo, Soo Yong, Ben A. Astar

Synopsis: This Columbia quickie stars Richard Denning as an American soldier of fortune who wanders into Hong Kong. He is hired by interested parties, both business and military, to prevent the tiny British-owned island from falling into the hands of the Communist. Had the film's "head Red" Ben Astar been Read More

The Sniper

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe Menjou, one of the most virulent Red-baiters of the Read More

Peking Express

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn, Marvin Miller, Benson Fong

Synopsis: Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad passengers escaping war-torn China are overtaken by Chinese; in the first remake, Night Plane to Chungking, a plane is forced down in a jungle surrounded by Japanese troops. Read More

The Groom Wore Spurs

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Stanley Ridges, James Brown

Synopsis: Since someone had already used the title The Bride Wore Boots, it follows that there'd eventually be a film called The Groom Wore Spurs. Jack Carson stars as movie cowboy hero Ben Castle, who in "real life" is exactly the opposite of his screen image. When Castle gets into a scrape in Las Vegas Read More

Valley of Fire

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Russell Hayden, Christine Larson

Synopsis: Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of a wide-open western town. The villain of the piece, Tod Rawlings (Harry Lauter), decides to undermine Gene by convincing a band of disreputable miners to hijack a wagon Read More

The Law and the Lady

Actors: Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Sr., Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main, Hayden Rorke

Synopsis: The Law and the Lady is the third film version of the venerable Frederick Lonsdale stage play The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Greer Garson follows in the footsteps of Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford as a beautiful confidence trickster, working in concert with a suave jewel thief (Michael Wilding). Jane Read More

Key to the City

Actors: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco, Clarissa Standish (Loretta Young), the mayor of a small town in Maine, meets Steve Fisk (Clark Gable), the down-to-earth leader of a tiny northern California community. Read More

The Breaking Point

Actors: John Garfield, Phyllis Thaxter, Patricia Neal, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first version, though it still is far from faithful to its source. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, who has metamorphosed from Hemingway's gun-runner to an ex-PT boat captain, now Read More

Woman on the Run

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliott, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a witness (Thomas P. Dillon), while out walking his dog one night -- after being shot at for his trouble, he's approached by the police, who want to put him into protective Read More

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than anything else--not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Dan Dailey plays a travelling medicine show entrepreneur who comes to the aid of fast-shootin' Anne Read More

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Actors: June Haver, Mark Stevens, S.Z. Sakall, Charlotte Greenwood, Gale Robbins

Synopsis: Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular composer Fred Fisher. As played by S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, Fisher is a serious musician who yearns to write opera rather than tin pan alley hits. Since the aged, portly Sakall Read More

State Department File 649

Actors: Virginia Bruce, William Lundigan, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson, Richard Loo

Synopsis: Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649. William Lundigan plays Ken, an operative of the U.S. Foreign Service stationed in North China. Ken is one of several people trapped in a remote village by evil warlord Yun Usu (Richard Loo Read More

The Golden Eye

Actors: Roland Winters, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Bruce Kellogg

Synopsis: The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold, bringing out the worst characteristics of several people involved. When murder enters the picture, Charlie Chan interrupts his vacation and investigates, with the dubious Read More

Half Past Midnight

Actors: Kent Taylor, Peggy Knudsen, Joe Sawyer, Walter Sande, Gil Stratton

Synopsis: In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer. The police are in hot pursuit. It Read More

The Feathered Serpent

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rogues' Regiment

Actors: Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Vincent Price, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Even when decked out in a Foreign Legion uniform, Dick Powell looked, talked and acted like an urban private eye. In Rogues' Regiment, American secret agent Whit Corbett (Dick Powell) joins the Legion in order to track down Nazi war criminal Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) in French Indo-China. Read More

The Shanghai Chest

Actors: Roland Winters, Mantan Moreland, Deannie Best, John Alvin

Synopsis: Even after three appearances as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan, Roland Winters showed no interest in taking the role seriously. Shanghai Chest finds Charlie in the employ of the U.S. government, assigned to solve a series of puzzling murders. The victims all appear to have died by snakebite, which Read More

Docks of New Orleans

Actors: Stanley Andrews, Virginia Dale, Dian Fauntelle, Carol Forman

Synopsis: Docks of New Orleans was Roland Winters' second appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan -- and like the first (The Chinese Ring) the film was based on an earlier "Mr. Wong" series entry. This time out, Chan attempts to solve a case involving a stolen shipment of chemicals. Read More

The Crimson Key

Actors: Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling, Dennis Hoey, Louise Currie, Ivan Triesault

Synopsis: In this suspense film, a detective must find the murderer of a rich and jealous wife and her husband, a doctor with a tendency to work late into the night. After many missteps and false leads, he finally finds himself confronted with a sexy former patient of the deceased doc. Is she the guilty Read More

The Chinese Ring

Actors: Roland Winters, Warren Douglas, Mantan Moreland, Philip Ahn

Synopsis: Roland Winters takes over the role of wily oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the so-so Monogram programmer The Chinese Ring. The film is a remake of 1939's Mr. Wong in Chinatown, right down to dialogue and camera angles. Charlie Chan gets dragged into the story when a beautiful Chinese princess (Jean Wong Read More

The Trap

Synopsis: In this mystery, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) helps out an actress justly terrified for her own life after her fellow actors slowly begin to die horrible deaths. The homicides transpire at a Malibu beach house; Chan gathers all of the clues into one location and hones in on the killer. This marked Read More

The Web of Danger

Actors: William Hall, Russell Hicks

Synopsis: An unimportant but likeable Republic drama, Web of Danger revolves around the rivalry between two hardhat bridge-builders. Ernie (Bill Kennedy) and Bill (Damian O'Flynn) spend most of the footage duking it out, usually over a "dame". But when the chips are down, our heroes work side by side to Read More

The Flame

Actors: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston) is willing to help her boyfriend George McAllister (John Carroll) get his hands on his ailing brother Barry's (Robert Paige) fortune. She is willing to marry Barry, knowing full well that he has only been given a few months to live. And when she deviates from the Read More

Intrigue

Actors: George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully, Marvin Miller

Synopsis: George Raft once again plays the outcast of society who comes through in the end in Intrigue. Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc) Read More

Dangerous Millions

Actors: Kent Taylor, Dona Drake, Tala Birell, Leonard Strong, Rex Evans

Synopsis: In this mystery, a millionaire shipping tycoon commands that eight of his relatives come to his Chinese mountain retreat upon his death. There each will be entitled to an equal share of his fortune. He dies, and the eight go to China. Trouble ensues in the remote cabin when two relatives are Read More

Shadows over Chinatown

Actors: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Tanis Chandler, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over Chinatown. This time out, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) and his erstwhile assistants, son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) and chauffeur Birmingham (Mantan Moreland), investigate a clever Read More

Dangerous Money

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan, along with Number Two Son, are aboard a ship bound for Pago Pago. On route a federal agent is murdered. The two sleuths investigate. The film is also titled "Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Betrayal from the East

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Abner Biberman, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: With famed journalist Drew Pearson appearing in the film's prologue and epilogue, it was easy in 1945 to confuse Betrayal from the East with Real Life. Lee Tracy is once again cast as a seemingly disreputable type with a heart of gold, in this case an expatriate ex-GI named Eddie. Believing that Read More

China

Actors: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Iris Wong

Synopsis: Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a cynically materialistic American who has no qualms about selling oil to the enemy; as far as he's concerned, their money spends as well as anyone's. Against the advice of Read More

The Mad Martindales

Actors: Jane Withers, Marjorie Weaver, Alan Mowbray, Jimmy Lydon, Byron Barr

Synopsis: With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end. 16-year-old Withers is cast as Kathy Martindale, the youngest member of a wacky turn-of-the-century San Francisco household. A dedicated suffragette, Kathy occasionally takes Read More

Little Tokyo, USA

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Brenda Joyce, Harold Huber, Donald Douglas, June Duprez

Synopsis: Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will Read More

Across the Pacific

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Victor Sen Yung, Charles Halton, Keye Luke

Synopsis: A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific was originally envisioned as the story of a Japanese invasion of Hawaii. Real-life events of December of 1941, however, precluded such a scenario and the location was changed Read More

Castle in the Desert

Actors: Sidney Toler, Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr, Douglas Dumbrille, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave desert. When snoopy weekend guest Professor Gleason (Lucien Littlefield) is murdered, every member of the household falls under suspicion-none more so than Mr. Manderly (Douglass Dumbrille Read More

Moontide

Actors: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon Read More

Manila Calling

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason

Synopsis: Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its execution. Lloyd Nolan stars as Lucky Mathews, the leader of an American guerilla unit, sworn to keep fighting even after the Japanese invasion of Mindano. Likewise staying on is Read More

Charlie Chan in Rio

Actors: Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright, Jr., Ted North, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence. While the original film was set in Hawaii, the remake takes place in Brazil, but the basic intrigues remain the same. While vacation in Rio de Janeiro with his son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung Read More

Dead Men Tell

Actors: Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon, Donald Douglas

Synopsis: Wily Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is summoned when Miss Nodbury (Ethel Gryffies), an elderly eccentric, is murdered just before taking part in a seafaring treasure hunt. Chan deduces that the old lady died of fright, brought on by the apparent visitation of the ghost of her Read More

The Letter

Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Sen Yung

Synopsis: William Wyler's dark and poisonous melodrama, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, features Bette Davis in one of her nastiest roles. The story begins in the shimmering moonlight on a tropical Malayan rubber plantation. Shots ring out and a wounded man, Geoffrey Hammond (David Newell) staggers Read More

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Actors: Sidney Toler, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie

Synopsis: Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in wait at a spooky wax museum run by demented plastic surgeon Dr. Cream (Henry Gordon). Chan is lured to the museum's opening day ceremonies on a ruse, along with a variety Read More

Murder over New York

Actors: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Ricardo Cortez, Donald MacBride

Synopsis: Murder Over New York finds Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) arriving in the Big Apple for a policeman's convention. No sooner has he arrived than Charlie is up to his neck in a murder mystery. This time the killing is tied in with a gang of enemy saboteurs, bent upon scuttling Read More

Charlie Chan in Panama

Actors: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash

Synopsis: Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental sleuth, who on this occasion must weed out an elusive enemy saboteur named Ryner, who plans to destroy the Panama Canal. Any one of the supporting characters might be the Read More

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Actors: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the film's quality by taking a look at its 1940 remake, Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise. On the verge of revealing the identity of an international murderer, a Scotland Yard man Read More

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Actors: Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore, Victor Sen Yung, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: Movie buffs are nearly unanimous in agreement: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is the best of the Sidney Toler "Charlie Chan" entries. The film wastes no time getting started, with Chan (Toler) and his son Jimmy (Sen Yung) on hand when Charlie's writer friend Paul Essex (Louis Jean Heydt) dies on Read More

Charlie Chan in Reno

Actors: Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, George "Slim" Summerville, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: Sidney Toler made his second appearance as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the above-average Charlie Chan in Reno. It all begins when nervous young Mary Whitman (Pauline Moore) shows up in Reno to seek a divorce from husband Curtis Whitman (Kane Richmond). Before long, Jeanne Bentley (Louise Read More

20,000 Men a Year

Actors: Randolph Scott, Preston S. Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Mary Healy

Synopsis: A transport pilot is ordered to fly a risky mission. The pilot, Scott, refuses the dangerous mission and is fired from his job. Scott starts up a pilot school which struggles to stay in business. As an inspector for the government, Foster gives Scott trouble about his school, Scott hopes a new Read More

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Actors: Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: Sidney Toler made his first appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in 1938's Charlie Chan in Honolulu, while Victor Sen Yung likewise makes his series debut as Charlie's Number Two Son Jimmy. While awaiting the birth of his first grandchild, Chan endeavors to solve a Read More