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Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, the Cumberland Gap has been successfully negotiated, and Daniel (Dewey Martin), his family, and a group of settlers are on their way to a permanent settlement in Kentucky. Unfortunately, the Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Beatrice Kay
Synopsis: Con artists Morgan (Wally Brown) and Axe (Dave Willock) flimflam Clementine Hawkins (Beatrice Kay), a former dance-hall girl turned boarding-house keeper, with an elaborate scam involving "The Burma Rarity", a priceless emerald. Inasmuch as Ben Cartwright introduced Clementine to the crooks, he Read More
Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, several members of Boone's wagon train are angered when Daniel (Dewey Martin) orders them to lighten their loads so they can negotiate the mountains and have turned back to North Read More
Synopsis: Doctor Wayne Edley (Skip Homeier) has trouble finding colleagues that will back him up when he is accused of malpractice by a disgruntled patient (Frank Cady). But that's nothing compared to the trouble facing the good doctor when he is accused of two murders committed by scalpel. Perry Mason must Read More
Synopsis: Eve Nesbitt (Gloria Talbott) contacts Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to determine the progress of the insurance settlement related to the drowning death of her husband Willard (Les Tremayne). As it happens, however, Willard is only pretending to be dead so that Eve can collect on the policy's Read More
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames
Synopsis: One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor so forgetful that he missed his own wedding twice. He creates an extremely resilient flying rubber, dubbed "Flubber," and manages to make his old Model-T bounce all the way Read More
Actors: Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid
Synopsis: Director Henry Levin followed up this light romantic comedy with Where the Boys Are and started a beach trend going. This conventional story stars one of his favorite actors Clifton Webb as Robert Dean, the father of two lively teen-age daughters. He and his wife Mary (Jane Wyman) accompany their Read More
Actors: Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Michael Dante, Andrew Duggan
Synopsis: A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular cowboy hero Randolph Scott before Scott's retirement. John Hayes (Scott) left the Civil War behind him when he took on the job of managing the Overland Stage Lines out of a small Read More
Synopsis: Rather than pay a gambling debt owed to Bret Maverick (James Garner), notorious gunslinger Henry Arnett (a pre-Batman Adam West) skips town when Bret shows up. Impressionable Smoky Vaughn (Gary Vinson) incorrectly assumes that Arnett was afraid of Bret's gun, and spreads the word that there's a Read More
Actors: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best
Synopsis: The Left Handed Gun was adapted by Gore Vidal from his own TV play, The Death of Billy the Kid. 33-year-old Paul Newman stars as 21-year-old William Bonney, the hotheaded gunslinger known as Billy the Kid. Avoiding the usual Hollywood glamourization of this controversial character, Newman portays Read More
Actors: Jonathan Kidd, Doris Dowling, Barbara Turner, Irene Seidner, Jaclynne Greene
Synopsis: The little-known British melodrama Wink of an Eye was given a brief American distribution by United Artists. Jonathan Kidd plays Atterbury, the apparently mild-mannered owner of a small perfume laboratory. No one suspects that Atterbury plans to murder his harridan of a wife (Jaclynne Greene) and Read More
Synopsis: Charles Brent (Grant Withers), owner of the building where Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) keeps his offices, is being blackmailed by Arthur Binney (Richard Erdman), who threatens to expose the sordid past of Brent's young wife Anne (Mari Aldon). When Binney turns up dead, Brent takes the rap Read More
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland
Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control many of the city's venues; when they ask Lewis Read More
Actors: Don Burnett, Mamie van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell, Eddie Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
Synopsis: Untamed Youth is a camp classic, so stupefyingly awful that it's actually festive. The villains are cotton grower Tropp (John Russell) and corrupt female judge Mrs. Steele (Lurene Tuttle), who conspire between them to ship female convicts to work on Tropp's farm for starvation wages. Two of the Read More
Synopsis: The fraternal filmmaking team of produced Sigmund Neufeld and director Sam Newfield once again joined forces on The Wild Dakotas. Made some two years after the "official" demise of the "B" western, the film attempts to revive the genre with a new cowboy star, one Will Williams. In keeping with the Read More
Synopsis: Based on true police stories, these two episodes of the 1954 series are hosted by Charles Bickford and feature real-life police officers. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead
Synopsis: Tyrone Power is a Dutchman, and Susan Hayward is an Irish lass. If you believe that, then the rest of Untamed will go down a lot easier. Power is a Boer calvary commander attempting to bring peace to his South African homeland. He has an affair with Hayward, a married woman whose husband is killed Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling
Synopsis: For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more in control of things than Captain John Sullivan Read More
Actors: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Constance Bennett
Synopsis: Based on a story by Paddy Chayefsky, this is the tale of a man who is being forced to retire from his job, at the age of 65, and decides to fight back. Impersonating the head of the company, he sets out to convince them to get rid of their outmoded retirement policy and gives a creditable speech Read More
Actors: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez
Synopsis: A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent, Loretta Young without) who come to America in hopes of raising funds for a children's hospital. Travelling to a small New England town presciently named Bethlehem, the nuns befriend Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, William Daniels, Rita Johnson, Gigi Perreau, Jimmy Hunt
Synopsis: In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the bride's three bratty children. Unfortunately, the way things work out, the whole family ends up tagging along. The little darlings are less than pleased that their widowed Read More
Actors: Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary de Camp, Bobby Driscoll, Henry Morgan, Wally Brown
Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the early days of their marriage. When they meet in 1938, Bill is working as a machinist, and Susan is a clerk in a bookstore. They fall in love and decide to wed, but it's not Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi
Synopsis: RKO's prefabricated comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney came to an abrupt end with Genius at Work. A slapsticky remake of 1937's Super Sleuth, the film casts the stars as Jerry and Mike, the stars of a weekly radio "unsolved mysteries" series. Ellen (Anne Jeffreys), the show's head writer Read More
Actors: Jack Haley, Anne Jeffreys, Wally Brown, Iris Adrian, Morgan Conway
Synopsis: With Vacation in Reno, RKO contract actress Anne Jeffreys proved herself an accomplished comedienne, a fact verified by her later work on TV's Topper. Jeffreys is cast as Eleanor, the wife of would-be prospector Jack Carroll (Jack Haley). When hubby goes off to find a cache of hidden loot near Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Synopsis: Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Sheldon Leonard, Tony Romano, Ralph Edwards, Don Wilson
Synopsis: Every so often, RKO Radio got the notion to launch a series of annual musical extravaganzas a la MGM's Broadway Melody and Paramount's Big Broadcast films. Despite the disappointing results of such earlier efforts as Radio City Revels and New Faces of 1937, RKO gamely tried again with 1945's Radio Read More
Actors: Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi, Wally Brown, Anne Jeffreys, Sheldon Leonard
Synopsis: This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast once more as Jerry Miles and Mike Strager, this time employed as Broadway press agents. Mike and Jerry's latest scheme is to hire a genuine zombie for the opening of a new Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Vera Vague, Robert Mitchum
Synopsis: Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown is cast as fast-talking Jerry Miles and Carney plays slow-witted Mike Strager. This time, Jerry and Mike are travelling showmen, stranded in San Francisco when the 1849 Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Gordon Oliver, Virginia Mayo
Synopsis: Ostensibly a vehicle for RKO Radio's new comedy duo Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Seven Days Ashore actually casts Brown & Carney in subordinate roles. The plotline is carried by furloughed sailor Dan Arland (Gordon Oliver), who while docked in San Francisco gets mixed up with three amorous Read More
Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria de Haven, Eugene Pallette, Walter Slezak
Synopsis: Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was effectively musicalized in 1944 as Step Lively. The plot remains intact: Fly-by-night theatrical producer Gordon Miller (Groucho Marx in the 1938 film, George Murphy in the remake) Read More
Actors: Mischa Auer, Marcy McGuire, Wally Brown
Synopsis: In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This film realistically portrays the role of the USO during the WW II time period. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Elizabeth Risdon
Synopsis: RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe Velez is back again in the leading role, as is Leon Errol as disguise-happy Uncle Matt, but Velez's husband is now played by Walter Reed. When Lupe purchases a baby ocelot Read More
Actors: Margo, John Carradine, Robert Ryan, Amelita Ward, William Terry
Synopsis: In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via flashback. Though they all ride together to work everyday, and they think they know each other very well, the stories they tell show them otherwise. The group of workers is made up Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Richard Martin, Erford Gage, Margaret Landry
Synopsis: Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's prefab "answer" to Universal's Abbott and Costello, made their joint starring debut in Adventures of a Rookie. The boys play a couple of GIs on leave, who attend a party at a girls' boarding house. The fun begins when the house is quarantined during a scarlet Read More
Actors: Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Isabel Jewell, Hugh Beaumont, Jean Brooks, Evelyn Brent, Erford Gage
Synopsis: Producer Val Lewton once more utilized leftover Magnificent Ambersons sets for his psychological horror piece The Seventh Victim. Kim Hunter arrives in New York's Greenwich Village in search of her errant sister Jean Brooks. Gradually, the naive Hunter is drawn into a strange netherworld of Satan Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Erford Gage, Claire Carleton, Joan Barclay
Synopsis: In this follow-up to the successful Adventures of a Rookie, Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO Radio's hastily-teamed "answer" to Abbott and Costello, further mess up military protocol. Cast as Jerry Miles and Mike Strager (the character names they'd bear in all their RKO vehicles), our heroes march Read More
Actors: Ruth Warrick, Joan Carroll, Walter Reed, Wally Brown, Tom Kennedy
Synopsis: Best described as "cute," Petticoat Larceny was intended as a showcase for RKO Radio's latest juvenile discovery, 11-year-old Joan Carroll. The story concerns a bratty radio star (Carroll) who wants to inject some blood-and-thunder plotlines and gangster lingo into her broadcasts. To this end, she Read More
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