Walter ReedFilmography

Ironside: Seeing is Believing

Synopsis: On the testimony of five different eyewintesses, Sgt. Ed Brown is arrested for the beating death of a bookie. Naturally, Ed is innocent, but is unable to prove that he was vacationing alone at a mountain retreat at the time of the killing. With time running out for the wrongfully accused Read More

Family Affair: A House in the Country

Synopsis: Theorizing that an apartment in downtown Manhattan is no place to raise three children, Bill (Brian Keith) decides to purchase a big house in the suburbs. Upon visiting their prospective new home, Cissy (Kathy Garver), Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) express an abundance of Read More

The Destructors

Actors: Richard Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: National Intelligence Agent Dan Street (Richard Egan) is on the trail of some stolen laser rubies. It is assumed the agents will come after the raygun itself for their evil purposes. Count Romano (Michael Ansara) is the swimsuit-import mogul who tries to keep his head from going under while Read More

Panic in the City

Actors: Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: A murder investigation uncovers a plot that could destroy the world as we know it in this thriller. When a scientist doing research on nuclear weapons is murdered during a hospital stay, federal investigator Dave Pomeroy (Howard Duff) is called in to find out who killed him and why. With the help Read More

The Money Trap

Actors: Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: In this well-regarded film noir thriller, Joe Barron (Glenn Ford) is a police detective whose wife Lisa (Elke Sommer) has inherited a stock portfolio from her father. Joe and Lisa go on a spending spree, but when their new holdings fail to pay dividends, Joe finds himself deep in debt. Dr. Read More

Moment to Moment

Actors: Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Sean Garrison, Arthur Hill, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this suspense drama. Kay Stanton (Jean Seberg) is the wife of well-known psychiatrist Neil Stanton (Arthur Hill). Neil's international reputation often keeps him on the road Read More

The Sand Pebbles

Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane

Synopsis: Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo, is ordered to patrol the Yangtze Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

The F.B.I.: Collision Course

Synopsis: When hitchhiker Frank Schroeder (a pre-Hawaii 5-0 Jack Lord) gallantly saves a young Mexican girl named Teresa (Pilar Seurat) from being sexually assaulted, she gratefully tags along with him on his Eastward journey. What Teresa doesn't know is that Frank is a triple murderer who for several days Read More

The F.B.I.: The Plunderers

Synopsis: After meticulously planning a Baltimore bank robbery, four men--Hogan (Ralph Meeker) Collins (Don Quine), Cowboy (Albert Salmi and Breese (Paul Bryar)--steal only a few thousand dollars. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) wants to know why the thieves were willing to settle for so paltry a Read More

The F.B.I.: The Sacrifice

Synopsis: In Southern California, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) go undercover as missile-plant works to plug up a security leak and capture an enemy spy. The situation becomes even more precarious when the Communist higher-ups arrange the "accidental" demise of one of their own Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Chicken Killer

Synopsis: In one of Petticoat Junction's rare fantasy episodes, the Bradley girls' beloved dog (played by future Benji star Higgins) is accused of being a chicken killer by sadistic dogcatcher Hinky Mittenfloss (brilliantly played by the inimitable, squeaky-voiced Percy Helton). Thrown into a dog pound that Read More

Fort Courageous

Synopsis: In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its Read More

Convict Stage

Synopsis: In this western a cowboy rides out for vengeance against the outlaws who brutally murdered his sister. But before he can exact vigilante justice upon the killers a wise old lawman manages to round up the gang and bring them to proper justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheyenne Autumn

Actors: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden

Synopsis: John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, anyway). Set in 1887, the film recounts the defiant migration of 300 Cheyennes from their Read More

Where Love Has Gone

Actors: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by John Michael Hayes, the film follows the events that befall Luke Miller (Michael Connors) when he discovers that his daughter, Danielle (Joey Heatherton), has been arrested for Read More

Flashing Spikes

Bonanza: The Way Station

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Both Adam Cartwright and fugitive killer Luke Martin (Robert Vaughn) seek shelter from a storm in the way station run by old Jesse (Trevor Bardette) and his granddaughter Marty (Dawn Wells). Sensing that the impressionable Marty is fascinated by the charismatic Martin, Adam intervenes and tells Read More

How the West Was Won

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, George Peppard, Karl Malden, John Wayne

Synopsis: Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 Read More

Maverick: The Cactus Switch

Synopsis: Bart (Jack Kelly) feels particularly euphoric after he wins an enormous amount of money in a poker game. Returning to his hotel room to celebrate his good fortune, Bart is sidetracked by the woman down the hallway, Lana Cane (Fay Spain)--who appears to be on the verge of committing suicide. Read More

The Untouchables: The Waxey Gordon Story

Synopsis: In his third Untouchables appearance, Nehemiah Persoff impersonates another real-life gangland figure, in this case the notorious "beer baron" Waxey Gordon. Riding high on the hog after cornering the New Jersey beer market, Waxey has no compunction about killing or double-crossing everyone in Read More

One Step Beyond: Dead Man's Tale

Synopsis: Having quit his job as a newspaperman, Phillip Werris (Lonny Chapman) tries to make a go of a farm in Canada, but before long he and his wife Jan (Jena Engstrom) are flat broke. With no other option, Phillip decides to go back to writing, and begins turning out freelance articles. . .in his sleep. Read More

The Twilight Zone: Nick of Time

Actors: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin, Guy Wilkerson, Stafford Repp, Walter Reed

Synopsis: Future Star Trek captain William Shatner stars as Don Carter, who is on his honeymoon with his perky young wife Pat (Patricia Breslin). Stranded in a small town while their car is being repaired, Don and Pat wander into a diner, where their attention is diverted by a curious fortune-telling Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Credulous Quarry

Synopsis: Lawyer Richard Hammon (John Conwell) is accused of murdering his wife by running her down with his car. Taking Richard's case is another attorney, Everett Dorrell (Russell Arms), who happens to be crooked. In the end, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) must not only save Hammon from conviction but must Read More

13 Fighting Men

Actors: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews, Robert Dix, Richard Garland

Synopsis: This action film set just after the Civil War tends to stay on the surface of the story instead of diving deeper into character motivation. A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightful place within the government coffers. As might be Read More

Sergeant Rutledge

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Carleton Young, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The first big budget Western to feature a black hero, this military courtroom drama from director John Ford starred his long-time stock player Woody Strode. When a cavalry commander and his daughter are discovered murdered, racism amidst the 9th Cavalry immediately leads to suspicions that Read More

Macumba Love

Actors: Walter Reed, Ziva Rodann, William Wellman, Jr., June Wilkinson, Ruth de Souza

Synopsis: A low-budget, low-standard drama about voodoo and death in Brazil, Macumba Love is directed by Douglas Fowley (Doc Holliday in the Wyatt Earp TV series). A writer travels to the land of the samba in order to investigate its voodoo practitioners and several suspicious-looking murders that could be Read More

The Horse Soldiers

Actors: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot Gibson

Synopsis: Based on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General Grant to take three regiments 300 miles into enemy territory. They must destroy the railroad line between Newton Station and Vicksburg in hopes of choking off supplies to Read More

Westbound

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

Arson for Hire

Actors: Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas, Frank Scannell, Anthony Carbone, John Merrick

Synopsis: Feeble in the action department, this drama directed by Thor Brooks fizzles before the arsonist gets his due. John (Steve Brodie) is the leader of an arson squad and he does not realize that it is one of his men who is setting the disastrous fires around town. The duplicitous and secretly criminal Read More

Maverick: According to Hoyle

Synopsis: Diane Brewster makes her first appearance as Samantha Crawford, a larcenous lass who proves to be quite a handful for Bret Maverick (James Garner). Claiming to be the daughter of George Cross (Tol Avery), who once lost a great deal of money to Bret, Samantha charms our hero into player poker with Read More

Summer Love

Actors: John Saxon, Molly Bee, Rod McKuen, Judi Meredith, Jill St. John, Fay Wray

Synopsis: Summer Love is a sequel to 1957's Rock Pretty Baby, with John Saxon repeating his role as aspiring musician Jim Daley. When his band is hired to perform at a summer resort, Jim falls in love with two girls: sweet Joan Wright (Judy Meredith) and not-so-sweet Erica Landis (Jill St. John). Meanwhile Read More

The Deep Six

Actors: Alan Ladd, William Bendix, James Whitmore, Dianne Foster, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sunbather's Diary

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) receives a phone call from Arlene Dowling (Susan Morrow), who claims that she was robbed of all her belongings (including her clothes!) while sunbathing. Among the missing items is Arlene's trailer, in which was hidden a diary. Shortly thereafter, Perry finds himself defending Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Atomic Captive

Synopsis: Reporters Clark (George Reeves), Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) venture onto a Nevada atomic testing site in hopes of interviewing scientist Dr. Latislav (Raskin Ben-Ari), who has exiled himself from the rest of humanity after being exposed to radioactivity. Meanwhile, a pair of enemy Read More

Missile Monsters

Synopsis: The title of this Republic sci-fier is Missile Monsters, but what it really is is a feature-length abridgement of the 1951 serial Flying Disc Man From Mars. The story concerns the efforts of a Martian named Mota (Gregory Gaye) to take over the world. This being a Republic serial, Mota hires Read More

How to Make a Monster

Actors: Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway, Paul Brinegar, Gary Clarke, Malcolm Atterbury

Synopsis: Like many American International films of its era, How to Make a Monster was sold to distributors on the basis of its title alone: only after theatrical play dates had been established did anyone get around to writing a script! Robert H. Harris plays Pete Drummond, who according to the script has Read More

Gunsmoke: Sweet and Sour

Synopsis: Much against her better judgment, Kitty (Amanda Barnes) hires dewey-eyed Rene Decker (Karen Sharpe) to work at the Long Branch. Matt (William Conrad) is rather touched by Rene's naivete, and is certain that Kitty will be able to keep the girl on the straight and narrow. What Matt doesn't Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Great Mojave Chase

Synopsis: Crooked "sportsman" Billy Joe Kane (Lawrence Dobkin) is promoting a race in the Mojave desert, in which he is wagering that his posse will be able to track down any contestant before reaching the finish line. Accepting the challenge, Paladin (Richard Boone) enters the race--and, confirming his Read More

Slim Carter

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey, William Hopper, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: This parody of Hollywood westerns centers on a boorish hellion of a cowboy star who makes life for the studio people around him a waking nightmare. His press agent is particularly beleaguered as she has been assigned to try to keep the errant star in line. She really has her work cut out for her Read More

The Lawless Eighties

Synopsis: In this western, a circuit rider endeavors to warn the cavalry after he sees masked men cruelly abusing an Indian band. En route, the brave rider is shot and left to die. Fortunately, a gunfighter comes upon him and saves his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Annie Oakley: The Dutch Gunmaker

Dance with Me, Henry

Actors: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes place in Kiddieland, an amusement park owned by soft-hearted Lou Henry (Costello). An inveterate collector of strays, Lou has adopted orphaned kids Shelley (Gigi Perreau) and Read More

Emergency Hospital

Actors: Margaret Lindsay, Walter Reed, Byron Palmer, Rita Johnson, John Archer

Synopsis: This 62-minute quickie takes place during a single 12-hour shift at Los Angeles' Emergency Hospital. In anticipation of such contemporary TV dramas as Chicago Hope and ER, several subplots are developed at once. Dr. Janet Carey (Margaret Lindsay) is romanced by wealthy Ben Caldwell (Byron Palmer) Read More

Seven Men from Now

Actors: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, John Larch

Synopsis: Ben Stride (Randolph Scott, in a role originally slated for John Wayne) trudges stoically through the West, hunting down the seven men responsible for the murder of his wife in a Wells Fargo station holdup. As the film opens, we see him dispatching two of the miscreants during a driving rainstorm. Read More

Rock, Pretty Baby

Actors: Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Edward Platt, Fay Wray

Synopsis: A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the rock 'n' roll craze. John Saxon plays 18-year-old high schooler Jimmy Daley, who intends to pursue a musical career despite the objections of his physician father (Edward Read More

The Far Horizons

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, William Demarest

Synopsis: The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-06 stars Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis and Charlton Heston as Bill Clark. The film doesn't delve much into the real-life animosity Read More

Dragnet: The Big Look

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) will not rest until they catch up with the sadistic prowler who has been beating up women in their own homes. The evidence suggests that the perpetrator always makes a thorough surveillance of the victim and her neighborhoods before he makes his Read More

Hell's Island

Actors: John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot partially on location in the Caribbean. Mike Cormack (John Payne) was once a District Attorney, until his fiancée, Janet Martin (Mary Murphy), left him to marry another man. Read More

Bobby Ware Is Missing

Synopsis: This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The police are contacted, and a ransom letter is received. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Return from the Sea

Actors: Jan Sterling, Neville Brand, John Doucette, Paul Langton, John M. Pickard

Synopsis: Neville Brand plays one of his earliest good-guy roles in Return from the Sea. Brand plays a sailor named Maclish, who is a boisterous, love 'em and leave 'em type--until he meets a lonely waitress named Frieda (Jan Sterling). Through her example, Maclish realizes that he too has been lonesome all Read More

The Yellow Tomahawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery, Jr., Warner Anderson, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The Yellow Tomahawk stars Rory Calhoun as a Wyoming Indian scout who forms a strong friendship with Cheyenne warrior Lee Van Cleef. Their relationship is sorely tested when martinet army major Warner Anderson inaugurates a vicious anti-Indian policy, targetted at the Cheyenne women and children. Read More

Dangerous Mission

Actors: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price

Synopsis: The 3D melodrama Dangerous Mission starts off with a bang when innocent Piper Laurie inadvertently witnesses the murder of her gangster boss. Though she doesn't get a particularly good look at the killer, she knows she's dead meat if she remains in town. Thus, Laurie skeedaddles to Montana's Read More

Dragnet: The Big Hit-Run Killer

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) swing into action to find the hit-and-run driver who killed an old woman and her grandson. The owner of the bakery truck driven in the accident swears that he is innocent, and that he lent the vehicle to a casual acquaintance named Paul. The detectives Read More

Those Redheads from Seattle

Actors: Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit takes the plunge into the 3-D craze in Those Redheads from Seattle. The titular carrot-tops are played by Rhonda Fleming, Teresa Brewer and Cynthia and Kay Bell, as members of a singing-sister act. Arriving in the Yukon during the Gold Rush days in the Read More

The Clown

Actors: Red Skelton, Tim Considine, Jane Greer, Loring Smith, Philip Ober

Synopsis: An unofficial remake of The Champ, The Clown concerns Dodo Delwyn (Red Skelton), a down-and-out performer with abundant and obvious talent, but also a self-destructive tendency to overindulge his drinking and gambling habits. Once a Ziegfeld headliner, Dodo is now lucky to get jobs playing a clown Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Unknown People, Part 1

Synopsis: This first episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. Reporters Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) arrive in the town of Silsby, there to cover the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. Unfortunately, the digging has Read More

War Paint

Actors: Robert Stack, Joan Taylor, Charles McGraw, Keith Larsen, Peter Graves

Synopsis: War Paint stars Robert Stack as a courageous U.S. Cavalry lieutenant, assigned to deliver a peace treaty to a powerful Indian chief. Unfortunately, a band of bloodthirsty renegades have vowed to kill the officer before he completes his mission. Will our hero be able to deliver the treaty at the Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Unknown People, Part 2

Synopsis: This concluding episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. The digging of an oil well in the town of Silsby has caused a race of subterranean "Mole Men" to escape to the earth's surface. All the Mole Men want is to be left in peace, but their Read More

Seminole

Actors: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in Seminole as 19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell. Born and raised in Florida, Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade (Richard Carlson), Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. Read More

Forever Female

Actors: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Jesse White

Synopsis: Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a veteran Broadway star who has optioned a play written by William Holden. Though on the less sunny side of 40, Rogers expects to play the leading role, that of a 19 year old Read More

Dragnet: The Big Cop

Synopsis: Investigating a series of robberies, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) find out that off-duty patrolman Paul Eastman (Don Gibson) was spotted at the scene of the most recent crime--several minutes before it took place. Sure enough, it turns out that Eastman, a married man with children Read More

Caribbean

Actors: John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke, Francis L. Sullivan, Willard Parker

Synopsis: Caribbean was another box-office winner from Paramount's "two dollar bills," producers William H. Pine and William Thomas. Set in the 18th century, the film stars John Payne as adventurer Dick Lindsay, hired by pirate leader Charles Barclay (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) to pose as the long-lost nephew of Read More

Horizons West

Actors: Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, John McIntire, Judith Braun, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to return home after the cessation of hostilities. While his brother Neal (Rock Hudson) and his friend Tiny (James Arness) decide to become ranchers, Dan opts for a more Read More

Target

Actors: Tim Holt, Linda Douglas, Walter Reed, John Hamilton

Synopsis: Tim Holt and Richard Martin ride again in the RKO budget western Target. The story is nothing new: Tim (Holt) and Chito (Martin) take on a band of criminals who've been flummoxing local ranchers out of their land. The film's novelty value is the presence of a lady marshal, played by Linda Douglas. Read More

The Blazing Forest

Actors: John Payne, William Demarest, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Arlen, Susan Morrow

Synopsis: Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively in the 1952 Pine-Thomas production The Blazing Forest. John Payne plays troubleshooting logger Kelly Hanson, who is hired by timber baroness Jessie Crain (Agnes Moorehead). Hanson is promised a Read More

Desert Passage

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed, Dorothy Patrick, John Dehner

Synopsis: Director Leslie Selander pulls out all the stops in this the last of RKO's Tim Holt Westerns. A wounded parolee, Carver (Walter Reed), hires stagecoach operators Tim and Chito (Richard Martin) to drive him to Mexico. En route, they encounter Emily (Joan Dixon), the local schoolmarm, who recognizes Read More

Thunderbirds

Actors: John Derek, John Drew Barrymore, Mona Freeman, Gene Evans, Eileen Christy

Synopsis: Not to be confused with a 1942 20th Century-Fox aviation actioner with the same title, Thunderbirds is a Republic Pictures war flick. John Derek and John Barrymore Jr. play two handsome flyboys with the Oklahoma National Guard who are pressed into service at the outbreak of World War II. They Read More

Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion [Serial]

Synopsis: Walter Reed, who also starred in Flying Disc Man from Mars that year, played a government agent looking into a series of truck hijackings in this Republic Pictures action serial. The hijackers are after critical Government material and are led by "The Voice," one of those mystery men so popular in Read More

Superman and the Mole Men

Actors: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey, Walter Reed

Synopsis: Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in Lippert's Superman and the Mole Men. The story takes place in the small town of Silsby, where the local oil company is drilling what will become the world's deepest well. When Read More

Submarine Command

Actors: William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Submarine Command reunites the romantic leads from Sunset Boulevard, William Holden and Nancy Olsen. Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction. Though his action saves his crew, it results in the death of the machine-gunner Read More

Go for Broke!

Actors: Van Johnson, Kane Nakano, Gianna Maria Canale, George Miki, Akira Fukunaga, Ken K. Okamoto

Synopsis: Robert Pirosh wrote and directed this little-known World War II drama from MGM that commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a combat unit composed of Japanese-Americans who fought valiantly during World War II, with many of the actual veterans of the combat unit appearing as actors in the Read More

Wells Fargo Gunmaster

Actors: Allan Lane, Chubby Johnson, Mary Ellen Kay, Michael Chapin

Synopsis: Allan "Rocky" Lane plays the title role in the Republic oater Wells Fargo Gunmaster. Lane is sent westward by his employers to stem a series of stagecoach holdups. To bring the crooks out into the open, Lane pretends to turn bandit himself. One by one, the minor crooks are bumped off as they try Read More

Young Man With a Horn

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene Read More

The Sun Sets at Dawn

Actors: Sally Parr, Philip Shawn, Walter Reed, Houseley Stevenson, Sr.

Synopsis: The Sun Sets at Dawn is a crime melodrama with strong religious overtones. The Boy (Philip Shawn) is about to be executed in the State's brand-new electric chair. On this momentous occasion, dozens of reporters gather around as The Boy tells his sad life story. While this is going on, the person Read More

The Eagle and the Hawk

Actors: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis O'Keefe, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Paramount producing team William H. Pine and William Thomas weren't known as the "Two Dollar Bills" for nothing. Like their medium-budget adventure yarns of the 1940s, their "A" western The Eagle and the Hawk proved a moneyspinner for Paramount's distribution channels. In his first western, John Payne Read More

The Lawless

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Gail Russell, Lalo Rios, Johnny Sands, John Hoyt, Lee Patrick

Synopsis: The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant workers who are subjected to all sorts of abuse and intolerance by their California bosses. A violent clash between whites and Latinos at a dance results in a torrent of Read More

Tripoli

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers

Synopsis: The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of films. Tripoli stars John Payne as two-fisted marine lieutenant O'Bannon, though top billing is bestowed upon Maureen O'Hara as Countess D'Arneau, who has come to Tripoli Read More

The Torch

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed, Julio Villareal

Synopsis: The Torch was originally released in Mexico as La Malquerida. It also bore several other titles, including Duelo en las Montanas, Del Odio Nacio el Amor and The Beloved. By any name, this is the story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general (Pedro Armendariz) who develops a passion for the Read More

Return of the Bad Men

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Walter S. Baldwin, Lex Barker, Robert Bray, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen. Randolph Scott plays US marshal Vance, assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws. This proves to be quite a challenge, inasmuch as virtually every frontier bad guy has Read More

Western Heritage

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Lois Andrews, Tony Barrett

Synopsis: Western Heritage was Tim Holt's first western vehicle for the 1947-48 season, discounting his previous appearances in RKO Radio's "Zane Grey" series. Together with his new saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), Holt mediates a feud between ranchers and land barons. The villains use a forged Read More

Fighter Squadron

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Tom D'Andrea, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of the cliché-ridden Fighter Squadron. Set in the months just prior to D-Day, the plot zeroes in on Marjor Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien) leader of a squadron of fearless combat pilots. In keeping with the Read More

Mystery in Mexico

Actors: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez, Tony Barrett, Jacqueline Dalya

Synopsis: Much of Mystery in Mexico was filmed on location through the facilities of RKO Radio's Churubusco Studios. William Lundigan plays Steve an insurance investigator sent to Mexico City to ascertain the whereabouts of a missing colleague. Also concerned for the missing man's welfare is his sister Read More

Angel on the Amazon

Actors: George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova

Synopsis: Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been produced by Republic Pictures. Vera Ralston stars as huntress Christine Ridgeway, who embarks on one of her many hunting expeditions in the company of her husband Anthony Brian Aherne Read More

Night Song

Actors: Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore, Hoagy Carmichael, Jacqueline White

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a brilliant pianist is struck blind in an accident and stops working on his equally brilliant concerto. A wealthy woman pretends to be poor and blind to help him regain his confidence, and holds a contest with a large prize for the best musical composition. She, as the blind Read More

Banjo

Actors: Sharyn Moffett, Jacqueline White, Walter Reed, Una O'Connor, Herbert Evans

Synopsis: In this sentimental children's yarn, a little girl is orphaned when her father, a Georgia plantation owner, is trampled by a frightened horse. Now the child and her beloved dog Banjo must reside with her cold, unfriendly aunt in Boston. The proper old woman will not allow the dog in her house and Read More

The Bamboo Blonde

Actors: Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Richard Martin

Synopsis: In this WW II romance, a small-time nightclub singer who works in a little Manhattan nightclub has a one-night stand with a handsome fly-boy. The next day, the B-29 pilot is sent to the Pacific and once there, his crew mischievously paints the picture of the singer upon his plane with the words Read More

Child of Divorce

Actors: Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Madge Meredith, Walter Reed, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: A remake of 1934's Wednesday's Child (itself based on a play by Leopold L. Atlas) RKO's Child of Divorce stars 11-year-old Sharyn Moffett in the title role. When her parents (Regis Toomey and Madge Meredith) break up, Sharyn finds herself in the middle of a bitter custody battle. It soom becomes Read More

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

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

Bombardier

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, Walter Reed

Synopsis: A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots. O'Brien and Scott argue over teaching methods, while their students vie for the affections of Anne Shirley. O'Brien's methods prove sound during a bombing raid over Tokyo. Scott Read More

Petticoat Larceny

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

Seven Days Leave

Actors: Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Harold Peary, Mapy Cortes, Ginny Simms

Synopsis: Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an eternally smiling GI who suddenly falls heir to $100,000. There's just one catch: Johnny must marry heiress Terry (Ball), whom he's never met, within a seven-day period. Once this Read More

The Mayor of 44th Street

Actors: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan, Richard Barthelmess, Joan Merrill

Synopsis: In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns Read More

Army Surgeon

Actors: James Ellison, Jane Wyatt, Kent Taylor, James Burke

Synopsis: RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe, middle-aged Army nurse Jane Wyatt flashes back to her experience in the first world conflict. Foremost in her recollections is the romantic triangle involving Wyatt Read More

My Favorite Spy

Actors: Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who resembles Lloyd more than somewhat. Just before embarking on his honeymoon with new bride Terry (Ellen Drew), Kyser is drafted into the Army. Proving to be a monumentally Read More

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Actors: Lupe Velez, Walter Reed, Elizabeth Risdon, Lydia Bilbrook

Synopsis: This raucous series entry reunites Lupe Velez as Carmelita (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt, with Walter Reed taking over from Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Carmelita's staid American husband Dennis Lindsay. The titular elephant is a tiny glass figurine, brought back from a Read More