Edward J. Kay

Nacimiento : 1898-11-27, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1973-12-22

Películas

La creación de los humanoides
Original Music Composer
Años después de la guerra atómica, los seres humanos están por ser relevados como raza viviente por los robots. Un hombre descubre un complot para reemplazar a los humanos por androides.
La creación de los humanoides
Producer
Años después de la guerra atómica, los seres humanos están por ser relevados como raza viviente por los robots. Un hombre descubre un complot para reemplazar a los humanos por androides.
Johnny Rocco
Original Music Composer
Gangster and police look for a gangster's son who witnessed a murder.
The Big Tip Off
Original Music Composer
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
Cow Country
Original Music Composer
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
Tangier Incident
Music Director
Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic-scientists who are there to pool their secrets and sell them in a package to the Communists.
Feudin' Fools
Music Supervisor
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.
Sea Tiger
Music Director
Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Japanese freighter left lying in anchor in a New Guinea cove at the end of WW II.
The Steel Fist
Original Music Composer
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
Crazy Over Horses
Music Director
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
Let's Go Navy!
Music Director
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Musical
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Ghost Chasers
Music Director
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
I Was an American Spy
Music
An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story.
Man from Sonora
Music Director
Someone stole Johnny Mack Brown's horse. If he can locate his missing horse, then he can prove they are also robbing the stagecoach.
Bowery Battalion
Music Director
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
Short Grass
Original Music Composer
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
Father's Wild Game
Music Director
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
Blues Busters
Music Director
The Bowery Boys (Bowery Boys) open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
Cherokee Uprising
Original Music Composer
The title insurrection in this low-budget Whip Wilson Western consists mainly of Iron Eyes Cody, who is conspiring to raid the wagon trains with crooked sheriff Marshall Reed and nefarious Indian agent Forrest Taylor.
El almirante era una dama
Original Music Composer
Cuatro ex-aviadores, que sirvieron en el Ejército durante la II Guerra Mundial, y que se niegan a trabajar en serio, manteniéndose gracias a diversos trapicheos, conocen a una chica, otra ex-soldado, que pretende reunirse con su prometido. Todos ellos emprenderán la búsqueda del desaparecido novio pero ésta resultará más complicada de lo que suponían porque el prometido ha caído en las garras de una vampiresa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lucky Losers
Music Director
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Fence Riders
Music
Whip Wilson and Andy Clyde are back and Monogram's got 'em in Fence Riders. The Whipster comes to the aid of beautiful ranch owner Reno Browne, who is being victimized by rustlers Myron Healey and Riley Hill. To get Wilson out of the way, the villains frame him on a murder rap.
Bomba on Panther Island
Music Director
In this second film in the "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.
Master Minds
Music Director
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Music Director
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Estampida
Original Music Composer
Los hermanos Mike y Tim McCall son propietarios de un gran rancho en Arizona, que utilizan las tierras circundantes para el pastoreo del ganado. Stanley Cox y LeRoy Stanton venden estas tierras a los colonos que llegan para encontrarlas totalmente secas, ya que una presa en el rancho de los McCall controla el agua. Entre los colonos están John Dawson y su hija Connie. Este último va al pueblo más cercano para tomar medidas, pero el sheriff Ball le dice que no puede hacer nada. Tim se enamora de Connie pero Mike no se deja impresionar por sus encantos. Cuando regresa de un baile del pueblo, Tim descubre a Stanton intentando dinamitar la presa, y muere en el tiroteo que se produce. Más tarde, Stanton manda a sus hombres a provocar una estampida de ganado mientras él y Cox vuelan la presa. A pesar de los esfuerzos de Mike y del sheriff Ball, el ganado es aniquilado y Mike corre hacia la presa y mata a Stanton en un tiroteo.
Tuna Clipper
Music
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
Music Director
George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.
Kidnapped
Music
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Smuggler's Cove
Music Director
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Music Director
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
Cowboy Cavalier
Music Director
Jimmy Wakely and "Cannonball" Taylor protect shipments along a stage and freight line from villainous bandits.
Campus Sleuth
Music Director
A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to another on the campus by a night watchman, who is an ex-convict.
Crossed Trails
Music Director
A cowboy frees a rancher framed for murder by outlaws after his ranch.
The Hunted
Original Music Composer
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Music Director
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Song of My Heart
Music Director
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Music Director
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Bowery Buckaroos
Music Director
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
Black Gold
Music Director
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
Sarge Goes to College
Music Director
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
Violence
Original Music Composer
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Music Director
A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Original Music Composer
A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
High School Hero
Music
The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.
Spook Busters
Music Director
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.
Bowery Bombshell
Music Director
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
Allotment Wives
Music Director
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Divorce
Music Director
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Divorce
Original Music Composer
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Music
Reporter Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury) and her photographer Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor) get involved in a search for the loot from a payroll robbery. Cliffhanging action and adventure and a fair amount of comic relief follow them at every turn.
Oh, What a Night!
Music Director
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
Return of the Ape Man
Music Director
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
Law Men
Music Director
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Music Director
Murders result from an uncle's wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will.
Revenge of the Zombies
Music Director
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion, her relations suspect murder. They little suspect he's turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own. Meanwhile, Lila's brother Scott and his friends are increasingly alarmed by the eerie events.
Melody Parade
Music Director
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
La casa encantada
Music Director
La hermosa hermana de Glimpy se casa con Jack, un ingeniero joven, y deciden mudarse a una casa suburbana que ninguno de los dos había visto hasta entonces. Durante la luna de miel, los niños del barrio este de Nueva York deciden arreglar la casa para los recién casados, pero erróneamente adornan la casa "encantada", que está justo al lado de su casa, y que a su vez es ocupada por algunos hombres misteriosos. Al llegar de la luna de miel, los recién casados se meten en la casa adornada pensando que es la suya...
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Music Director
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
Bowery at Midnight
Original Music Composer
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Klondike Fury
Music Director
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
Man From Headquarters
Original Music Composer
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader (Max Hoffman Jr.) against whom he is scheduled to testify.
Road to Happiness
Music Director
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Let's Go Collegiate
Original Music Composer
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
King of the Zombies
Music
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
Phantom of Chinatown
Music
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Music
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper. Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper sends his attorney Baker to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy's dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty's plans to see her father and the widow get married. Written by Les Adams
The Ape
Music Director
El Dr. Bernard Adrian es un científico amable que busca curar la polio de una mujer joven. Necesita líquido cefalorraquídeo humano para completar la fórmula de su suero experimental. Mientras tanto, un simio de circo vicioso ha escapado de su jaula y está aterrorizando a la gente del pueblo. ¿Puede haber una conexión?
The Ape
Original Music Composer
El Dr. Bernard Adrian es un científico amable que busca curar la polio de una mujer joven. Necesita líquido cefalorraquídeo humano para completar la fórmula de su suero experimental. Mientras tanto, un simio de circo vicioso ha escapado de su jaula y está aterrorizando a la gente del pueblo. ¿Puede haber una conexión?
Sentenciado a muerte
Music
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Haunted House
Music
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
Hidden Enemy
Music Director
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
The Fatal Hour
Music
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Gangster's Boy
Original Music Composer
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.