Walter SandeFilmography

Adam-12: Extortion

Synopsis: Moving to a new Wednesday-night slot for its fourth season, Adam-12 wastes no time getting down to business. This time, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are working the waterfront beat, where a nasty gang of extortionists specializes in targeting elderly Jewish Read More

Bonanza: Abner Willoughby's Return

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, John Astin

Synopsis: John Astin and Emmaline Henry, who back in 1962 played husband and wife in the short-lived sitcom I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, were reunited in the December 21, 1969 Bonanza episode "Abner Willoughby's Return." Astin is cast as ex-miner Abner, who after 17 years at sea comes back to Virginia City to Read More

Death of a Gunfighter

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western drama concerning Marshal Frank Patch (Richard Widmark), who, even though he has kept the peace in Cottonwood Springs for over twenty years, is now considered a local joke by Read More

Bewitched: Hippie, Hippie, Hooray

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy

Synopsis: Elizabeth Montgomery appears in the dual role of Samantha Stephens and Sam's lookalike cousin, Serena. When the footloose and fancy-free Serena is arrested at a hippie love-in, her picture is splashed all over the front page, and everyone assumes that it was Sam who ended up in the slammer. Read More

Family Affair: The Baby Sitters

Synopsis: Cissy (Kathy Garver) has been assigned to babysit the twins while Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) is in Hong Kong on business and Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) is likewise occupied elsewhere. But when Cissy has a chance to go to a concert, she prevails upon her friend Sharon (Sherry Alberoni) to look Read More

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Pamela Mason, Billy Gray, Bobby Van

Synopsis: Monstrous carnivorous trees with dangerously acidic saliva set off from their secret tropical paradise home in Antarctica to eat every human on Earth. Fortunately, the U.S. Navy isn't about to let that happen. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Take Sweden

Actors: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Jeremy Slate

Synopsis: Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy. He doesn't care much for JoJo's boyfriend Kenny (Frankie Avalon) because the smooth operator has a motorcycle and some money. Bob manages to get his company to transfer him Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Human Computer

Synopsis: The Seaview is assigned for tests of a new super-computer, with Crane (David Hedison) as an observer, alone aboard the ship. But once underway, he discovers that he's not alone on the submarine, and that something is terribly wrong with the computer and the test. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide Read More

Young Dillinger

Actors: Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, John Ashley, Dan Terranova, Victor Buono

Synopsis: This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the most ruthless mobsters of the 1930s. The tale begins as Dillinger and his girlfriend try to rob her daddy's safe and get caught red-handed. Dillinger takes the fall and goes to Read More

Lost in Space: Return from Outer Space

Synopsis: Although John (Guy Williams) has warned his son Will (Bill Mumy) to stay away from the matter-transfer "maser beam" left behind by the Taurons in the earlier episode "The Sky is Falling", Will activates the device to keep Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) from messing with it. Instantly, the beam Read More

Bonanza: The Dilemma

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tom Tully, Anthony Call

Synopsis: Acting magistrate Ben Cartwright is dismayed when Sundown (Tom Tully), an old reprobate whom he'd helped parole, is suspected of robbing the Virginia City bank. Magnanimously, Sundown offers to tell Ben where the stolen money is in exchange for his freedom. Ben refuses this offer, whereupon the Read More

The Quick Gun

Actors: Audie Murphy, Merry Anders, James Best, Ted de Corsia, Walter Sande

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy finally returns to his home after a long absence precipitated by his killing a wicked rancher's son in a forced duel. The cowboy wants to live peacefully on his daddy's ranch and be with the woman that he loves. While on the trail home, he encounters a ruthless outlaw Read More

Bonanza: The Decision

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, DeForest Kelley

Synopsis: Seriously injured in a fall, Hoss Cartwright is in desperate need of medical attention. Alas, the only available doctor is a man named Jones (DeForest Kelley), who has been sentenced to hang for murder. Ben Cartwright's pleas to Judge Grant (John Hoyt) to temporarily release Dr. Jones so that he Read More

Maverick: Substitute Gun

Synopsis: Owing his life to Sheriff Coleman (Walter Sande), Bart (Jack Kelly) repays the debt by agreeing to help prevent a murder. It seems that saloon owner Tom Blauvelt (Robert Rockwell) has sworn to kill the man who has fallen in love with Blauvelt's wife Greta (Coleen Gray). Taking a job as the Read More

Sunrise at Campobello

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker

Synopsis: One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that attempts to illustrate the statesman's courageous battle against infantile paralysis and his political foes. While in the prime of his life Read More

Oklahoma Territory

Actors: Bill Williams, Gloria Talbott, Ted de Corsia, Grant Richards, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Predictable and a little slow and labyrinthian, this western features Bill Williams as Temple Houston, a gun-toting D.A. whose heart lies with the cause of justice but whose actions toward that end can be controversial. Bigelow (Grant Richards) is a railroad agent who frames a Cherokee chief (as Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Clumsy Clown

Synopsis: Judson Curtis (Walter Sande) hopes to gain full control of the circus he co-owns with Jerry Franklin (Robert Clarke) by threatening to reveal that Franklin's wife Lisa (Chana Eden) is still legally married to circus clown Felix Heidemann (Douglas Henderson). Unfortunately for Curtis, he is shot to Read More

The Gallant Hours

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne, James T. Goto

Synopsis: The "mutual admiration society" consisting of actor James Cagney and actor/director Robert Montgomery culminated in the 1960 film The Gallant Hours. Cagney stars as war hero Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. On the verge of retirement, Halsey recalls his most fateful wartime experience: his Read More

Maverick: The People's Friend

Synopsis: Anticipating the real-life political career of Maverick star Jack Kelly, who would serve two terms as mayor of Huntington Beach, California, in the 1980s, this episode finds Bart Maverick (Kelly) running for a State Senate seat on the Reform Party ticket. He has agreed to throw his hat in the ring Read More

Noose for a Gunman

Actors: Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas, Ted de Corsia, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Jim Davis was light-years away from his role as Larry Hagman's dad on Dallas when he starred in Noose for a Gunman. In this 1960 B oater, Davis is a gunslinger who is appointed town marshal to clean out the criminal element. It isn't long before Davis is kicked out of town on a trumped-up murder Read More

Last Train From Gun Hill

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), the town marshal, has only two clues to their identity, a fancy saddle with the initials "C.B." that one of the men left behind, and Read More

Drango

Actors: Jeff Chandler, John Lupton, Joanne Dru, Morris Ankrum, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War. Despite his best intentions, Drango has trouble combatting the hatred and resentment of the townsfolk. In particular, Clay Allen (Ronald Howard), the hotheaded son of Judge Read More

The Iron Sheriff

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie (Darryl Hickman). Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see Read More

Johnny Tremain

Actors: Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot, Richard Beymer

Synopsis: This Walt Disney filmization of Esther Forbes' Revolutionary-War novel Johnny Tremain was appropriately released on July 4, 1957. New Disney discovery Hal Stalmaster plays the title character, an apprentice silversmith in 1773 Boston. An on-the-job injury prevents Johnny from finding a job, but he Read More

Canyon River

Actors: George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves, Richard Eyer, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Canyon River stars George Montgomery as trail boss Steve Patrick. Reversing the procedure usually depicted in westerns of this nature, Patrick is assigned to guide a cattle drive from the west-coast state of Oregon to the wilds of Wyoming. En route, our hero must fend off attacks from both Read More

Texas Lady

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, John Litel, James Bell, Horace McMahon

Synopsis: Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than her 50 years, Ms. Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major Read More

Anything Goes

Actors: Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on Cole Porter's hit 1934 Broadway musical. The 1956 bears little relationship plotwise to its predecessors, except for the fact that most of the story takes place aboard a luxury Read More

Dragnet: The Big Set

Synopsis: The higher-ups exert a great deal of pressure on Sgt. Friday's boss Captain Donahoe (Walter Sande) to nab the two men who beat city councilman Jeffrey Hanks to death outside a bar. Working on a tip provided by a drunken witness, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) take into custody one Read More

Gun Brothers

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ann Robinson, Neville Brand, Michael Ansara, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Gun Brothers is a rehash of the "Cain and Abel" motif that has been popular amongst screenwriters since time immemorial. Buster Crabbe and Neville Brand star as brothers Chad and Jubal. While Chad remains on the straight-and-narrow and becomes a rancher, Jubal opts for the life of an outlaw. The Read More

Bad Day at Black Rock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for Read More

Dragnet: The Big Key

Synopsis: A number of drugstores have been robbed of money and narcotics. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) step up their manhunt after the bandit vicious beats up his latest victim, an elderly pharmacist. The two detectives get a big break in the case when, while following up a Read More

Wichita

Actors: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on the Wyatt Earp legend. Joel McCrea does his usual smooth, underplayed job as Earp, who aims to bring law and order to the wide-open cow town of Wichita. His least popular Read More

Dragnet: The Big Mailman

Synopsis: Working in cooperation with a US Postal Service inspector (Douglas Kennedy), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) search for a forger who has been stealing checks and bank statements from mailboxes. After interrogating a first-time offender who turns out not to be the man they're looking Read More

The Maverick Queen

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Howard Petrie

Synopsis: Based on a Zane Grey novel published over a decade after the author's death, The Maverick Queen stars Barbara Stanwyck in the title role. As head of the outlaw gang called The Wild Bunch, Kit Banion (Stanwyck) wreaks havoc on the banks and railroads of the West. Pinkerton detective Jeff (Barry Read More

Dragnet: The Big Mask

Synopsis: Several large markets have been robbed by a bandit who hides his features with something resembling a black mask. After several frustrating weeks of false leads, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) think they have their man in the form of lifelong scofflaw Leonard Clark (Herbert Vigran) Read More

Apache

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Charles Buchinsky, John Dehner

Synopsis: Apache was based on Paul I. Wellman's novel Broncho Apache, which in turn was inspired by a true story. Burt Lancaster plays Massai, a lieutenant of the great Apache warrior Geronimo (here depicted as an old man, played by Monte Blue). Though his tribe has signed surrender terms with the Read More

Dragnet: The Big Fraud

Synopsis: Working out of the Bunco division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) make it their personal mission to capture two con artists posing a police officers. In an elaborate scam targetting out-of-town businessmen, the phony cops, working with an accomplice who pretends to be a drug addict Read More

Dragnet: The Big Check

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when 33 small businessmen have been victimized by forged checks within a two-month period. The main suspect is veteran forger Stanley Bubeck, but Bubeck was in jail at the time the bogus checks were passed. Further evidence suggests that the Read More

Dragnet: The Big Gangster, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) rush to the small sanitarium where hoodlum Gus Valentine, recuperating from two previous attempts on his life, has been shot and killed. Normally, this would be a case of "good riddance to bad rubbish"--except that Read More

Dragnet: The Big Bar

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go on the prowl for a holdup man who has hit several bars in a period of a few days. The felon's MO is identical in each case: he orders a scotch and water and turns on the same jukebox song before pulling out his gun. The detectives intensify their Read More

Dragnet: The Big Bindle

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) receive a tip that the Plaza Royale, a fancy downtown hotel, is being used as a clearing house for "high grade" merchandise from an Eastern heroin ring. Going undercover, Friday poses as "Joe Edwards", a potential buyer from Phoenix. Though it appears Read More

Dragnet: The Big Drink

Synopsis: Claude Akins is cast as Mr. Ellis, whose wife's dead body has been found in a vacant lot. As Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) try to get "just the facts", the grieving Ellis tries to drown his sorrows in liquor. But the more Ellis drinks, the more convinced the detectives become that Read More

Dragnet: The Big Gangster, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) zero in on Gus Valentine (Harlan Warde), a young hoodlum on the way up. Unfortunately, he may simultaneously be on the way down: two attempts have already been made on Valentine's life. If the detectives think Read More

The Kid from Left Field

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released, The Kid from Left Field is not a comedy. The title character is young Christy Mathewson Cooper (Billy Chapin), the son of former big-league ballplayer Larry Cooper (Dan Dailey), who is now Read More

Powder River

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, Cameron Mitchell, Penny Edwards, Carl Betz

Synopsis: A climactic donnybrook between hero Allan Lane and ace Republic villain Roy Barcroft is the highlight of this otherwise routine B-Western effort directed by John Ford's nephew Philip Ford. The railroad is coming to El Dorado on the Powder River and a phony agent, Devereaux (Douglas Evans) Read More

The Great Sioux Uprising

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Peter Whitney, Stacy Harris

Synopsis: Several genuine Native Americans dot the cast of Universal's The Great Sioux Uprising. The scene is the frontier outpost of Laramie Junction, where livery stable owner Joan Britton (Faith Domergue) and rancher Stephen Cook (Lyle Bettger) carry on a friendly rivalry while trading horses with the Read More

A Blueprint for Murder

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen

Synopsis: Joseph Cotten stars in A Blueprint for Murder as Whitney Cameron, a man who harbors a deep and abiding affection for his pretty sister-in-law Lynne Cameron (Jean Peters). When one of Lynne's stepchildren dies, the autopsy indicates that the child was poisoned. Despite his feelings for Lynne Read More

Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

Synopsis: In one of the most famous Dragnet episodes of all time, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the theft of a statue of the Baby Jesus from a Catholic church, just before the first Christmas Mass. Father Rojas (Harry Bartell) explains that the doors of the church are Read More

The War of the Worlds

Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin, Henry Brandon, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio

Synopsis: H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds had been on Paramount Pictures' docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a potential Cecil B. DeMille production. When Paramount finally got around to a filming the Wells novel, the property was firmly in the hands of special-effects maestro George Pal. Read More

Dragnet: The Big Kill

Synopsis: There's no obvious motive when a police officer is killed in a drive-by shooting on the steps of his own house. But after Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) trace the "murder car" to a man named Hymie Flores (Paul Picerni), it becomes obvious that the killer was ex-con Jake Carver (Tony Read More

Dragnet: The Big Fake

Synopsis: Rookie officer Russell Clark (Todd Karns) is accused of robbing and assaulting a drunken man at a prizefight arena. The alleged victim insists that Clark be prosecuted, threatening to go to the newspapers if justice isn't done immediately, With Clark on suspension and in police custody, detectives Read More

Invaders From Mars

Actors: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke

Synopsis: Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that holds up reasonably well. David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) is a 12-year-old astronomy buff who is stunned to see a flying saucer landing in the sand pit beyond his backyard. His Read More

The Witness

Synopsis: A video of two television dramas: "One Way Out" and "Witness." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dragnet: The Big Pill

Synopsis: It's business as usual for police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) when two AWOL marines are robbed and poisoned (one fatally) in a cheap hotel. The chief suspect is an elusive fellow Marine known only as "Stubby", who'd provided what he referred to as "hangover pills" to Read More

The Duel at Silver Creek

Actors: Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot, Gerald Mohr

Synopsis: A group of vicious claim-jumpers is killing the miners in a Western settlement. Their latest victim is Cromwell (Harry Harvey), who is shot to death at his mine just after his son Luke (Audie Murphy) leaves for town. Luke has three passions in life -- poker, guns, and the silver ornamentation he Read More

The Steel Trap

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Eddie Marr, Aline Towne, William Hudson

Synopsis: Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. He plans to fly to Brazil with his wife (Teresa Wright) and child. They get as far as New Orleans; the wife finds out about the robbery and walks out on Cotten. Stricken by guilt, Cotten must now Read More

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Synopsis: The first three episodes of the popular Lone Ranger television series are edited together to form this Wild West adventure detailing the origins of the eponymous do-gooder. The notorious Cavendish Gang has ambushed an entire squad of Rangers, shooting every man in sight in an attempt to kill as Read More

Bomba and the Jungle Girl

Synopsis: Jungle Girl was the 7th entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series, based on the pulp novels by Roy Rockwood. This time, Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) tries to find the long-lost remains of his parents. He discovers that the person responsible for mom and dad's deaths was evil native chieftain Martin Wilkins Read More

Mutiny

Actors: Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Gene Evans, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of programmers before being restored to "A" pictures. Dmytrk's Mutiny is set during the War of 1812. Mark Stevens, captain of the American ship Concord, finds himself at the mercy of Read More

Red Planet Mars

Actors: Peter Graves, Andrea King, Orley Lindgren, Walter Sande, Marvin Miller, Herbert Berghof

Synopsis: A husband-and-wife scientist team (Peter Graves, Andrea King) are experimenting with a "hydrogen tube" invention (which he got from a missing German scientist, lost in the collapse of the Reich), when they get signals back from what appears to be Mars. The culture-shock of that event is serious Read More

A Place in the Sun

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Anne Revere, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a Read More

Overland Pacific

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens, William Bishop, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Billed "Jack Mahoney" for the occasion, former stunt man Jock Mahoney steps up to the plate as a leading man in this average Western originally released in an inexpensive color process. Mahoney plays Ross Granger, a railroad agent masquerading as a telegrapher and looking into a series of Comanche Read More

Rawhide

Actors: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Rawhide is a westernized remake of the 1936 crime melodrama Show Them No Mercy. Tyrone Power stars as Tom Owens, the assistant manager of a remote stagecoach way station. A coach arrives, bearing Vinnie Holt (Susan Hayward), who carries her baby niece in her arms. Having learned that an outlaw Read More

Payment on Demand

Actors: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Betty Lynn, Frances Dee

Synopsis: Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays the wife of Barry Sullivan, who one fine morning demands a divorce. Most of the film is in flashback, recounting the events leading up to the marital schism. After Sullivan takes up with Frances Dee Read More

The Racket

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins

Synopsis: The Racket was based on a play by Bartlett Cormack, first filmed as a silent in 1928. The storyline was updated to include references to Estes Kefauver's Senate Crime Investigating Committee: otherwise, the plot (and much of the dialogue) was lifted bodily from the Cormack play. Racketeer Robert Ryan Read More

Fort Worth

Actors: Randolph Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena Carter, Dick Jones

Synopsis: Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Ned Britt. Setting up shop in the eponymous Texas town, Britt tries to expose the crooked machinations of cattle baron Gabe Clevinger (Ray Teal). This brings him into conflict with his old friend Blair Lunsfold (David Brian), who Read More

I Want You

Actors: Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger, Peggy Dow, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Upon beginning production on his Korean-war drama I Want You, producer Sam Goldwyn lamented "I've just brought those boys back from the war, and now I have to send them out again!" Goldwyn, of course, was referring to his Oscar-winning "homecoming" drama Best Years of Our Lives. He'd hoped that I Want You Read More

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The 1951 film of that title has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind, as will be obvious before the credits fade. Steve Cochran plays an ex-convict who thinks he killed Read More

The Basketball Fix

Actors: John Ireland, Marshall Thompson, Vanessa Brown, William Bishop, Hazel Brooks

Synopsis: The title tells all in Realart's Basketball Fix. Talented young basketball star Johnny Long (Marshall Thompson) allows success to go to his head. To keep on living in the manner to which he is accustomed, Johnny agrees to shave a few points here and there at the behest of gambling boss Mike Taft (William Bishop Read More

Warpath

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Charles Stevens, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker, Polly Bergen, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He finds the first and kills him. The second he finds has become a sergeant in the Seventh Cavalry. The third has become a storekeeper. Unfortunately, before he can kill them, they Read More

Red Mountain

Actors: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who sets off to join Captain Quantrill's raiders. Along the way, the rebel kills a Union supporter who had stolen the rebel's land. Unfortunately, he leaves a different Confederate Read More

Dark City

Actors: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore

Synopsis: Though he had previously appeared in David Bradley's film adaptation of Julius Caesar, Dark City marked Charlton Heston's first role in a major Hollywood production. Danny (Heston) and his pals Augie (Jack Webb), Soldier (Henry Morgan), and Barney (Ed Begley Sr.) set up a poker game to take Arthur Read More

The Kid from Texas

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gale Storm, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast as a relatively benign Billy. Hoping to put down his guns and go straight, the Kid takes a job as a ranchhand. When his kindly boss is murdered, however, all bets are off Read More

Dakota Lil

Actors: George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads George Montgomery and Rod Cameron. Montgomery is cast as a secret service agent Tom Horn, sent West to round up a gang of counterfeiters. He starts by gaining the confidence of Read More

A Woman of Distinction

Actors: Ray Milland, Rosalind Russell, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Carter, Mary Jane Saunders

Synopsis: A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly respected college dean. As can be expected, Susan is too busy for romance -- at least until handsome professor Alec Stevenson (Ray Milland) enters the picture. At first, the Read More

Miss Mink of 1949

Actors: Jimmy Lydon, Lois Collier, Richard Lane, Barbara Brown, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads the cast as Alice Forrester, an office clerk who wins a $10,000 mink coat in a radio contest. This windfall proves disastrous to Lois' husband Joe (Jimmy Lydon), who goes Read More

Strange Bargain

Actors: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Katherine Emery, Richard Gaines

Synopsis: Jeffrey Lynn plays a bookkeeper who fails in his attempt to get a raise from his employer (Richard Gaines). The boss explains that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and that he is planning to kill himself. He offers Lynn $10,000 if Lynn will make the suicide look like murder so that the Read More

Tucson

Actors: Jimmy Lydon, Penny Edwards, Charles Russell, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: Former "Henry Aldrich" Jimmy Lydon had matured into a capable leading man by the time Tucson went before the cameras. Lydon plays Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father (Joe Sawyer) is more Read More

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch

Actors: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Elyse Knox, Marcel Journet, Sheila Ryan

Synopsis: Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch. Actually, Joe (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) goes no further than Monogram's cramped "ocean liner" standing set, but the audience doesn't really mind. The plot concerns a gang of Read More

Rim of the Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Thurston Hall, Clem Bevans, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Gene Autry plays a dual role in the above-average Columbia oater Rim of the Canyon. Our hero plays "himself" and his own father, a famed sheriff. Twenty years ago, Autry Sr. threw a trio of outlaws (Walter Sande, Jock Mahoney and Francis McDonald) into jail for stealing a large sum of money. When Read More

Canadian Pacific

Actors: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Nancy Olson

Synopsis: Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the Canadian Pacific railroad. Randolph Scott heads the cast as Tom Andrews, a rough-and-ready surveyor who meets and conquers all obstacles in the railroad's path. The biggest fly in Read More

Blonde Ice

Actors: Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige, Walter Sande, John Holland, James Griffith

Synopsis: The film career of actress Leslie Brooks lasted long enough for her to contribute several mesmerizingly bitchy performances. In Blonde Ice, Brooks is cast as Claire, a society reporter who'll do literally anything for a story. She manages to keep herself in the headlines by marrying and romancing Read More

Bad Boy

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, Audie Murphy, James Gleason, Stanley Clements

Synopsis: In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl. The organization's 1949 film effort, Monogram's Bad Boy, is a bit on the grimmer side, but not too much so. Most of the film was lensed at the VCI's Boys Club Ranch at Read More

Wallflower

Actors: Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Janis Paige, Edward Arnold, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is also an utter fluffhead. Her sister is pragmatic and plain, but in the end, she gets the man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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 Prince of Thieves

Actors: Jon Hall, Patricia Morison, Adele Jergens, Alan Mowbray, Michael Duane

Synopsis: The daring Robin Hood and his loyal Merry Men attempt to save Maid Marian and her brother from the evil clutches of the Sheriff of Nottingham in this adventure aimed at younger audiences. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Public Prosecutor [TV Series]

The Red House

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts, Julie London

Synopsis: Delmer Daves directs the noirish thriller The Red House, based on the novel by George Agnew Chamberlain. Edward G. Robinson plays Pete Morgan, a farmer who harbors dark secrets and refuses to let anyone near the red house in the woods behind the house. In order to fend off trespassers, he hires Read More

Christmas Eve

Actors: George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field

Synopsis: This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her estate. Before he makes a final decision, a caring judge tells the spinster that she can rally together the three foster children she raised to help her keep the estate, he Read More

Wild Harvest

Actors: Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The animosity between Joe and Jim intensifies upon the arrival of duplicitous Fay Rankin (Dorothy Lamour). Choosing Jim, Fay demands that she be supported in the manner in which Read More

The Woman on the Beach

Actors: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie, Walter Sande

Synopsis: A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his Read More

Killer McCoy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn, Tom Tully

Synopsis: In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy, a dancer who performs in a going-nowhere nightclub act with his alcoholic father, Brian (James Dunn). Johnny Martin (Mickey Knox), a lightweight boxing champ who is Read More

Perilous Waters

Actors: Don Castle, Audrey Long, Peggy Knudsen, Samuel S. Hinds, Gloria Holden

Synopsis: Future TV writer/producer Don Castle heads the cast of Monogram's Perilous Waters. Most of the action takes place aboard the yacht owned by millionaire newspaper publisher Dana Ferris (Samuel Hinds Jr.) Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Ferris has been targeted for extermination by Read More

The Blue Dahlia

Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay, Raymond Chandler. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns from the war to find his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) having a party and in the arms of another man. Johnny and Helen have a Read More

No Leave, No Love

Actors: Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, Patricia Kirkwood, Marie Wilson, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is terribly excited about seeing his fiancée again. Unfortunately, she has fallen for another in his absence. He is later consoled by a lovely radio singer. Songs include "All the Read More

Nocturne

Actors: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no time getting started, with a caddish Hollywood composer (Edward Ashley) dropping dead right after the opening credits. The police think it's a suicide, but maverick lieutenent Read More

The Daltons Ride Again

Actors: Alan Curtis, Kent Taylor, Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Martha O'Driscoll

Synopsis: In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to Read More

What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

Actors: Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter, Chill Wills, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: This follow-up to the 1944 hit See Here, Private Hargrove suffers from that common movie malady known as Sequelitis, meaning that it's not quite as good as its predecessor. U.S. artillery corporal Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) finds himself at large in wartime France -- or at least the MGM Read More

Along Came Jones

Actors: Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea, Frank Sully

Synopsis: Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy (Cooper) who drifts into a small town with his sidekick (William Demarest). Naturally, he's mistaken for a notorious highway robber (Dan Duryea), although he can barely handle a Read More

The Spider

Actors: Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck

Synopsis: In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her long-lost sister who vanished a few years back. It is the partner who solves the mystery, but before she can tell her boss, she is killed. The detective is accused of the crime and arrested. He Read More

To Have and Have Not

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Dan Seymour, Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone is "Ever get stung by a dead bee?" While in port, Harry is approached by Free French activist Read More

A Guy Named Joe

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a tough, devil-may-care bomber pilot who's amassed an enviable record in combat, mostly by taking chances that give his C.O. (James Gleason) the shakes, much as he and the top Read More

I Love a Soldier

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Sande, Beulah Bondi, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Paulette Goddard and Sonny Tufts, two of the stars of director Mark Sandrich's wartime morale-booster So Proudly We Hail, were reunited in Sandrich's I Love a Soldiers. Looking gorgeous in bib overalls, Goddard plays defense-plant welder Eva Morgan, who avoids romance but gives generously of her Read More

The Singing Sheriff

Actors: Bob Crosby, Fay McKenzie, Fuzzy Knight, Iris Adrian, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Corvette K-225

Actors: Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys through treacherous Atlantic waters. Scott plays the officer in charge of a Royal Canadian corvette cruiser, dedicated to keeping the troops safe from enemy submarine attack. Read More

Gung Ho!

Actors: Randolph Scott, Grace McDonald, Noah Beery, Jr., Alan Curtis, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo. Randolph Scott plays Thorwald, a marine colonel assigned to assemble a crack squadron of fearless jungle fighters for the all-important raid on Japanese-held Makim Island (which Read More

Air Force

Actors: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, Charles Drake

Synopsis: On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the Read More

After Midnight With Boston Blackie

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Cy Kendall, George McKay

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the reformed crook meets his former lover who tells him that her father has just been freed from prison and that he is heading out to a safe deposit box where he hid a sack of diamonds. The good daughter wants her father to return the rocks and reform Read More

The Chance of a Lifetime

Actors: Chester Morris, Erik Rolf, Jeanne Bates, Richard Lane, George E. Stone

Synopsis: This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of ex-convicts. The plan is for the former inmates to redeem themselves by working in a defense plant. Only problem: some of the cons (Douglas Fowley, Arthur Hunnicutt et. al.) Read More

The Purple V

Actors: John Archer, Mary McLeod, Fritz Kortner, Rex Williams, Kurt Katch

Synopsis: Though technically a Republic "B", the 58-minute The Purple V has glossy production values commensurate to a top-of-the-bill A picture. German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with Read More

Son of Dracula

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Craven

Synopsis: Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother Curt. The story is set in the American south, where the mysterious Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr.) has recently taken up residence. Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton), a Read More

They Came to Blow up America

Actors: George Sanders, Anna Sten, Ward Bond, Dennis Hoey, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain double-agents. The hero works for the FBI, but was born in Germany and speaks the language like a native. First he assumes a dead spy's identity and in that guise, contacts the Nazi Read More

Reveille with Beverly

Actors: Ann Miller, William Wright, Dick Purcell, Franklin Pangborn, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the Read More

Salute for Three

Actors: Betty Jane Rhodes, MacDonald Carey, Cliff Edwards, Minna Gombell

Synopsis: In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her agent comes up with a sure-fire scheme to get her some publicity by announcing that she is the true love of a WW II hero who has just come home. Fortunately for her, the agent's Read More

Don Winslow of the Navy [Serial]

Actors: Don Terry

Synopsis: Lt. Com. Frank V. Martinek's widely circulated comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy was brought to the screen in this action-packed, 12-chapter Universal serial. The villain of the piece is The Scorpion (Kurt Katch), who has been sabotaging American military forces in the Pacific. Assigned to put Read More

Alias Boston Blackie

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the suave ex-thief returns to prison to see a Christmas show. There he is impressed by the talent of the inmates. One particularly talented fellow uses his magic act to break out of prison. Now Blackie must find him. Meanwhile the fugitive searches for Read More

Winslow of the Navy

Actors: Don Terry, Walter Sande, John Litel, Wade Boteler, Samuel S. Hinds

The Commandos Strike at Dawn

Actors: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a wartime morale-booster, largely set in coastal Norway. Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical and basically pacifistic Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into Read More

Tortilla Flat

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted anecdotes, all linked to a small California fishing village populated by poor but happy immigrants. The focus is upon Pilon (Spencer Tracy), a good-natured, charismatic freeloader Read More

To the Shores of Tripoli

Actors: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, William Tracy

Synopsis: One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WW2, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli was filmed with full the cooperation of the US Marine Corps. John Payne plays Chris Winters, a wealthy, wise-lipped young Marine recruit who learns the true meaning of Read More

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant, Florence Rice, Bruce Bennett, Hallene Hill

Synopsis: Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally amusing wartime comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. Jackie Gleason (the same!) and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who Read More

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Synopsis: Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his pal "The Runt" (George E. Stone) obey the film's title and head for Tinseltown. Blackie has been asked by a friend to transport $60,000 to California, but the L.A. cops assume that he's involved in the disappearance of the valuable Monterey Read More

Sweetheart of the Fleet

Actors: Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg, Joan Woodbury, Blanche Stewart, Elvia Allman

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages two popular USO singers to perform for the Navy. He hides the young women and keeps their looks a secret because the two singers are terribly unattractive. To keep the sailors Read More

Timber

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Dan Dailey, Marjorie Lord, Edmund MacDonald

Synopsis: Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films. Newly recruited from MGM, Dan Dailey Jr. stars as Kansas, a two-fisted troubleshooter from the U.S. Forestry Service. Kansas, his pal Arizona (Andy Devine) and mill owner Read More

My Sister Eileen

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Richard Quine, June Havoc, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her sister, Eileen (Janet Blair), an aspiring actress. The girls take a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, which becomes a gathering place for several oddball characters Read More

Freckles Comes Home

Actors: Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland, Bradley Page, Betty Blythe

Synopsis: The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff ever since the early 1930s. This cinemazation of Stratton-Porter's Freckles Comes Home stars Johnny Downs as the title character, who returns from college to his sedentary Read More

Sealed Lips

Actors: William Gargan, June Clyde, John Litel, Anne Nagel, Mary Gordon

Synopsis: There's something very odd about Romano (John Litel), a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee (William Gargan) suspects that something's amiss, and he's right Read More

Sing for Your Supper

Actors: Jinx Falkenburg, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Bert Gordon, Eve Arden, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg is cast as Evelyn Palmer, the gorgeous proprietor of a dime-a-dance emporium. Bandleader Larry Hays (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) is the official owner of the joint, but when he Read More

Parachute Battalion

Actors: Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien, Nancy Kelly, Harry Carey, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds jumping a kick. Another is a coward who eventually finds his courage. Finally there is a chronic bumbler. The coward and jock find themselves competing for the affections of Read More

Navy Blues

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, Jack Haley, Herbert Anderson, Jackie Gleason

Synopsis: The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates. In this vein, Warners' Navy Blues features several studio contractees (including Ann Sheridan and Jack Carson), a few borrowed comedians (Jack Oakie, Jack Haley Read More

Down in San Diego

Actors: Ray McDonald, Bonita Granville, Dan Dailey, Leo Gorcey, Charles Smith

Synopsis: Down in San Diego was previewed as Young Americans, which is why prints still exist bearing both titles. The film is essentially a gussied-up MGM version of an "East Side Kids" pictures, even unto casting Leo Gorcey in a major role. A gang of teenagers with too much time on their hands decide to Read More

Dive Bomber

Actors: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Herbert Anderson

Synopsis: Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are longtime US Navy flying buddies, about to be transferred to different posts when Larson suffers a blackout during high-altitude maneuvers and cracks up. Navy doctor Douglas Read More

Confessions of Boston Blackie

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Chester Morris makes his second screen appearance as crook-turned-detective Boston Blackie in this superior series entry. This time, Blackie gets into trouble when he attends an art auction with his millionaire pal Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). It so happens that the auction gallery is run by Read More

The Iron Claw

Synopsis: One of silent serial queen Pearl White's best efforts, The Iron Claw was remade by Columbia Pictures starring brunette Joyce Bryant as the imperiled heroine. Bryant, alas, was no Pearl White, and needed a strong male lead in order to defeat that master criminal, the Iron Claw. She found him in Read More

Citizen Kane

Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American Read More

Sergeant York

Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, Margaret Wycherly, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three conditions: (1) That the film contains no phony heroics, (2) that Mrs.York not be played by a Hollywood "glamour girl" and (3) That Gary Cooper portray York on screen. All three Read More

Angels over Broadway

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts, Ralph Theodore

Synopsis: In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter Fairbanks' high-stakes game, using Qualen as an Read More

Kitty Foyle

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest Cossart

Synopsis: Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph Read More

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Actors: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote, Virginia Vale, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home on her future TV series I Love Lucy. Feeling neglected by her husband Andrew (James Ellison), drab housewife Clara Hinklin (Ball) walks out on him, much to the delight of Read More

Eternally Yours

Actors: Loretta Young, David Niven, Billie Burke, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Anita's (Loretta Young) life seems to be progressing nicely. She's engaged to Don Barnes (Broderick Crawford), a wealthy man that will give her all the stability and comfort a woman could desire. But then she meets a magician with the unlikely name of The Great Arturo (David Niven), who performs a Read More

Sued for Libel

Actors: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lillian Bond, Morgan Conway, Richard Lane

Synopsis: Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan Conway) has been convicted of murder. When it turns out that Pomeroy has been acquitted, Steve, his radio station and the newspaper that owns it are slapped with libel Read More

Good Girls Go to Paris

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Alan Curtis, Joan Perry, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as ambitious college-campus waitress Jenny Swanson, who yearns to see the sights in Gay Paree. She gets her chance by latching onto British exchange professor Ronald Brooke (Melvyn Douglas Read More

Ladies in Distress

Actors: Alison Skipworth, Polly Moran, Robert Livingston, Virginia Grey, Max "Alibi" Terhune

Synopsis: When Marie Dressler died in 1934, the career of her frequent screen partner Polly Moran went into eclipse. Four years later, Republic Pictures tried to recapture the Dressler-Moran magic by casting Moran opposite the formidable Alison Skipworth in Ladies in Distress. Skipworth plays female mayor Read More

Dad for a Day

Actors: George "Spanky" McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Mickey Gubitosi, Leonard Landy

Synopsis: If not for the lachrymose presence of Our Gang member Robert Blake (still in his whiny, squeaky-voiced stage), the one-reel Dad for a Day might have been one of the series' better MGM entries. While planning to participate in the annual Fathers and Sons Day Picnic, the Our Gang kids are reminded Read More

Arson Gang Busters

Actors: Robert Livingston, Rosalind Keith, Jackie Moran, Warren Hymer, Jack LaRue

Synopsis: Arson Gang Busters was a slick little Republic programmer highlighted by several well-staged miniature sequences, courtesy of the talented Lydecker Brothers. Robert Livingston plays a firefighter who feels that the police aren't moving fast enough in tracking down an arson ring. Livingston decides Read More

Tenth Avenue Kid

Actors: Bruce Cabot, Beverly Roberts, Tommy Ryan, Ben Welden

Synopsis: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a Read More

The Goldwyn Follies

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Vera Zorina, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds

Synopsis: A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of The Ziegfeld Follies by producing an annual movie-musical revue. Goldwyn's dream began and ended with 1938's Goldwyn Follies, a film centering on Goldwyn-like movie producer Read More

The Mad Miss Manton

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles upon a dead body and a car fleeing the scene of the crime. She alerts the police but the corpse has disappeared by the time they arrive, and the lieutenant, knowing of her Read More

Anything Goes

Actors: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional songs by Hoagy Carmichael, among many many others. Set on a luxury liner, the story gets under way when Moonface Mullins (Charlie Ruggles), Public Enemy No. 13, slips on Read More