Chubby Man in Phone Booth
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
Mr. Trayner
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Willie
Arizona, 1874. Link Jones, un antiguo pistolero dedicado al bandidaje, se ha redimido y es un hombre regenerado y respetado por sus vecinos. Tanto es así, que, depositando toda su confianza en él, le han entregado seiscientos dólares destinados a contratar a una maestra para la escuela que piensan inaugurar. Con esta misión Link emprende un viaje en tren, pero inesperadamente el destino lo devuelve a su pasado, poniendo en peligro su reputación.
Mike
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
Mr. Sampton (uncredited)
Guerra Fría. Desde que realizaron un vuelo de prueba en la guerra de Corea (1950-1953), el sargento Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden), mecánico de aviones, no le tiene ninguna simpatía al célebre piloto Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.). Pero Brennan tiene ahora un motivo más importante para detestarlo: Jim tiene un romance con su hija (Natalie Wood). Pero los conflictos personales o domésticos no pueden en modo alguno perturbar las relaciones entre hombres que tienen la obligación de estar preparados incluso en tiempos de paz. La puesta a punto de un nuevo avión: el Stratofortress B-52 de 200 toneladas, exige que el trabajo de equipo sea perfecto.
Mike Clancy
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
Shaving Man (uncredited)
Joe E. Lewis, un prometedor cantante, pierde la voz a causa del ataque de unos gángsteres Al verse obligado a cambiar de profesión, decide trabajar como humorista.
Tavern Keeper
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
Sheriff at End
Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they consider him and his music a negative influence on the youth. But with the help of disc jockey/publicist Alan Freed and fellow artists (including Bill Haley and the Comets and Little Richard), they hope to convince everyone that rock and roll is not as dangerous as the adults think.
Walter 'Wally' Stone
After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang.
Lumber salesman
Cuando el recién ordenado ministro William Macklin se muda a la ciudad del oeste donde fue asesinado su padre años antes, trata de reconstruir la vieja iglesia, pero el propietario del salón Marty Callahan y una banda de forajidos intentan socavar sus esfuerzos.
Happy Harry
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
Commander
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
Mayor
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Apartment Manager
Desde la ventana de su dormitorio Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwick) observa espantada que en el edificio de enfrente un hombre está estrangulando a una mujer. Cheryl avisa a la policía que no tarda en acudir al lugar del crimen. Allí reside el respetable Sr. Richter (George Sanders). Después de interrogarle y ante la falta de evidencias, la policía duda del testimonio de la testigo y decide cerrar el caso.
Jeptha Rideout - Banker
Belle Star es una joven de dudosa reputación que se relaciona con un pequeño grupo de forajidos, los hermanos Dalton. Precisamente la banda está pasando por un momento de dificultades económicas, por lo que planean atracar un banco.
Jeff Hudson
In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
Train Passenger
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a handsome biology professor. Comedy.
Kibbee (uncredited)
Will Kane (Gary Cooper), el sheriff del pequeño pueblo de Hadleyville, acaba de contraer matrimonio con Amy (Grace Kelly). Los recién casados proyectan trasladarse a la ciudad y abrir un pequeño negocio; pero, de repente, empieza a correr por el pueblo la noticia de que Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), un criminal que Kane había atrapado y llevado ante la justicia, ha salido de la cárcel y llegará al pueblo en el tren del mediodía para vengarse de Kane. El tiempo va pasando lentamente, pero nadie en el pueblo está dispuesto a ayudar al sheriff.
Storyteller (uncredited)
Un hombre en busca de venganza se infiltra en un rancho, oculto en una región inhóspita, donde su dueña, Altar Keane, da cobijo a los forajidos que huyen de la ley a cambio de un precio.
Kincaid
Es justo después de la Guerra Civil y Ben Shelby llega buscando a Johnny Tallon a quien planea matar. Shelby fue el único superviviente de una batalla debido a la cobardía de Tallon. Al pensar que Tallon murió, otro hombre que perdió a un hermano en la misma batalla llega para matar al hermano ciego de Tallon. Tallon llega para encontrar a Shelby y su hermano huyendo. Luego son atacados por los indios y Shelby y Tallon ahora deben luchar juntos posponiendo el inevitable enfrentamiento.
Happy (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Sheriff
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
Powerhouse Workman (uncredited)
A Joyce Willecombe le inspiran desconfianza dos hombres que viajan con ella en el tren; llama entonces a Calhoun (Holden), el jefe de policía de la Estación Unión. Aunque éste, al principio, se muestra escéptico, todo parece indicar que los sospechosos están implicados en un caso de secuestro, razón por la cual Calhoun pide ayuda al inspector de policía Donnelly, pero los secuestradores son muy escurridizos.
Rufus Downey
Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.
Thurman (uncredited)
Dos agentes de policía son encargados de desbaratar una organización de timadores. Los incautos son atraídos ante la posibilidad de ponerse en contacto con seres queridos ya fallecidos. Un experto timador reúne a una banda ante una víctima ideal: una viuda millonaria cuyo hijo murió en la guerra en Europa.
Martin, Railroad Conductor
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Sheriff
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.
Van Fleet Stooglehammer (as Richard Elliott)
The owner of a silver mine, having repeatedly been the victim of the Silver Bandit, sends his clerk Spade Cooley who can neither ride nor fight west to investigate. The Sheriff has been unable to catch the bandit but when Spade finds him he will have to both ride and fight to bring him in.
Man Fleeing Robbed Market (uncredited)
Bart Tare, un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), es un hombre emocionalmente desequilibrado que desde que era niño vive obsesionado con las armas. Cuando conoce a Annie, una mujer fatal, se deja arrastrar al mundo del crimen. Unidos por su afición a las armas, la relación de la pareja desemboca, entre atraco y atraco, en un torbellino de pasiones y situaciones peligrosas.
Editor Sullivan
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
Auto Court Manager
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
Tom Coyne (uncredited)
Intensa historia que mezcla con gran pericia los sentimientos más apasionados con las maquinaciones políticas. Las soberbias interpretaciones y el perfecto trabajo de dirección enganchan al espectador a la calle del éxito, Flamingo Road.
Doc Read
Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence that the now-prosperous Clark killed his own comrades to prevent their reporting of a deposit of uranium, which he is now mining with the intention of selling to a foreign power.
Doorman at Atwood Towers
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
Board Member (uncredited)
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
Mr. Miggs
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
Malt Shop Customer
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
Fred Appelby
A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
Sam Trotter
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
Roger Wingate
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
Townsman
Una niña (Natalie Wood) vive en el bosque con su abuelo en estado casi salvaje. Cuando éste muere, se dirige al pueblo y encuentra por el camino a un perro abandonado que ha caído de un avión. El médico del pueblo los acoge en su casa. Debido a su vestimenta y a su espontaneidad, la niña será objeto de las burlas de los demás niños y chocará con la hipocresía de una sociedad convencional.
Sheriff Hat Lewis (uncredited)
Steve Randall se acaba de casar y busca un nuevo trabajo como camionero, pero se da cuenta de que la carga del camión es robada y lo denuncia a la policía. El temible gangster Walt Radak jura venganza. Steve y su esposa empiezan a temer por sus vidas...
Conductor (uncredited)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Walter Harper - Newspaper Editor
A young man who wants desperately to become a newspaper reporter decides he can cinch his career by exposing a suspected diamond smuggler.
Mayor Hector Tillford
The adventures of a boy and his dog in a small town.
Edgar
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
Man on Porch (uncredited)
Es la vigilia de Navidad en Bedford falls, NY, y George Bailey está planeando suicidarse. Pero un ángel es enviado para detenerle en su intento. Él le enseñará a George las cosas maravillosas de su juventud, cómo salvó la vida de su hermano y la de otros que, gracias a haber conocido a George, son felices. Así, nuestro amigo descubrirá que... ¡La vida es realmente un tesoro maravilloso que debemos disfrutar!
P.T. Burke
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
Mayor Whitehead
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.
Party Guest
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Mayor Smith
With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his place as a private club. When Curt decides to run for Mayor, he is made to shut down the popular Warren medicine show. With Curt now out of favor the Warrens decide to run their daughter for Mayor and Brady has a plan to stop her also.
Yacht Captain Monroe
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to sabatoge Roy's entry. They fail, or course. Songs include the title song and "Smile for me, Senorita."
Squire Skimp
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
Chap (uncredited)
Un marinero que debe coger un autocar para volver con su compañía se ve implicado en el asesinato de una mujer que disfruta chantajeando a varias personas. Una muchacha y un taxista se unirán para demostrar la inocencia del joven en unas horas.
Man in Bus Depot (uncredited)
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Townsman
El sheriff Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott), que es la ley en Abilene, tiene la misión de mantener la paz entre dos grupos. Durante mucho tiempo la ciudad ha estado dividida entre ganaderos y vaqueros, que ocupan un lado del pueblo, y el resto de habitantes, que ocupan el otro lado. A Mitchel le gusta esta situación, porque evita que surjan problemas entre los dos bandos y le hace la vida fácil. Sin embargo...
George
Un marino mercante que lleva una vida bastante despreocupada se enamora de una dulce y sumisa bibliotecaria, pero muy pronto se da cuenta de que no puede seguir con ella porque su vida es el mar.
Judge Gilmenn
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
Felton
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Traveler (uncredited)
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
Mr. Michaelson
Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start. Edgar borrow's his neighbor's car (mistake no.2) to go haul in his stranded vehicle, and immediately wrecks it. He then goes to buy a replacement car for his neighbor from "Miracle Sam - The Used Car Man" (mistakes no.3 through no.8) and drives off without insurance. Meanwhile...Brother has gotten Edgar's car started, and anybody not anticipating the upcoming two-car wipeout collision between the cars driven by Edgar and Brother are watching their first Edgar Kennedy short.
Judge Crothers
Elizabeth Lane es una de las columnistas más famosas del país. En sus artículos se describe a sí misma como una mujer felizmente casada, con hijos, que vive apaciblemente en una granja y cuya pasión es la cocina. Pero todo es completamente falso: es una una mujer soltera, muy ajetreada que vive en Nueva York y que jamás ha entrado en una cocina. El problema surge cuando el propietario de la revista donde trabaja la invita a su granja el día de Navidad para que prepare una comida para sus invitados.
Police Chief Davis
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
New Jersey Man at Penn Station
Una chica conoce a un soldado en la Estación de Pennsylvania en Nueva York. El joven tiene un permiso de 48 horas, tiempo suficiente para enamorar a la muchacha y casarse con ella.
Mayor
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Bascom, Hotel Guest
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
MacLean (uncredited)
A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
Squire Skimp
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
Sam Prescott
Una mujer comienza a sospechar que su nuevo marido puede ser un asesino.
Pop
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
Binoculars Man
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
Matthews
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
Chief Joe Charters
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
Malcolm P. Carstairs
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic path of singer Rich Cleveland (Haymes) and his socialite wife Penelope (Lynn Merrick). The fly in the ointment is Dena Marshall (Janis Carter), who has set her sights on the handsome Rich.
Husband (uncredited)
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
Police Sergeant
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Smith (uncredited)
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
J.P. McCluskey
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
Mr. Potts - Justice of the Peace
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Promoter
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
Beauty Pageant Announcer (uncredited)
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Mr. Conklin
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
Ed Brandt (uncredited)
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
Meeker (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Mathew Quentin
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Mr. Willoughby (Uncredited)
A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.
Evans
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
Tim Miller
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Editor Elwin A. Jonas
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.
Husband of Losing Bidder (uncredited)
Gloves Donahue, un jugador de Broadway y truhán simpático, quiere encontrar al asesino del señor Miller, un anciano panadero. Donahue reconoce a Leda Hamilton, cantante de un club nocturno propiedad de Marty Callahan, a la que vio salir de la panadería. Joe Denning, el socio de Marty es asesinado, Leda desaparece de forma misteriosa. Donahue, a quien la policía considera sospechoso junto a Marty del asesinato de Joe Denning, sigue la pista de Leda hasta encontrarla, ésta le confiesa que se ve obligada a colaborar con agentes nazis para proteger a su padre prisionero en Alemania.
Pawnshop Owner (uncredited)
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Casper Cullenbaugh (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Magician Boarding Bus
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Garvey
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
Drunk Texan (uncredited)
Hank y Johnny trabajan como técnicos de una compañía de electricidad. Una noche, se encuentran en una reunión a la atractiva Fay, y la tensión aumenta porque ambos se disputan el favor de la chica.
Lieutenant Governor Cornelius Peabody
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.
Broker
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
Mr. Paddleford (uncredited)
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Detective in Café
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Ward Heeler (uncredited)
Lynn Hollister es un letrado que trata de averiguar lo que se oculta tras el asesinato de un amigo. Su principal sospechoso es Tom Cameron, pero Hollister pronto se enamorará de Sabra, la hija de éste.
Hotel desk clerk
La Hermosa Rae Smith y el atractivo Walter Saxel se encuentran, se enamoran y comienzan los preparativos para casarse. Lamentablemente, sus proyectos de matrimonio son saboteados cuando un galán celoso hace a Rae suspender la ceremonia. Los dos se encuentran años más tarde en Nueva York, sólo que ahora Walter está casado. Descartando perderlo de nuevo, Rae acepta ser su amante.
Ed (uncredited)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Foster
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
Marryin' Sam
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Elliott
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Sheriff Barstow
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
B. J. Hastings, Station Owner
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
Airport Agent
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
Range Leader (uncredited)
Larry Wilson, un hombre de negocios, se recupera de un episodio de amnesia y descubre que en realidad es un estafador; pero, además, vuelve a enamorarse de su esposa de la que estaba a punto de divorciarse.
Prendergast
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
Passport Official on Train
Victor Roth es un profesor universitario que vive tranquilamente con su familia en un pequeño pueblo del sur de los Alpes alemanes. Pero, cuando Hitler llega al poder (1933), los Roth, como todas las familias de origen judío, se ven obligados a separarse. Además Roth ve cómo su carrera se arruina y cómo sus hijos varones apoyan el nacionalsocialismo. En cambio, su hija Freya (Sullavan) y su prometido Martin (Stewart) ven con claridad meridiana que la única salida es huir del país.
Auctioneer
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Ice Rink Security Man (uncredited)
Dos hermanas entran a trabajar en un musical, una como bailarina y la otra vendiendo cigarrillos. El productor, novio de la bailarina, pronto se da cuenta de que está enamorado de la otra hermana.
Roomer
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Politician (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Justice of the Peace
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
Druggist (uncredited)
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Detective (uncredited)
A Nick y a Nora Charles, un matrimonio muy excéntrico, les apasiona ejercer de detectives aficionados. Un día, la familia Charles, después de pasar un fin de semana fuera, regresa a su casa en compañía de un industrial de Long Island que sospecha que alguien quiere matarle, e inmediatamente su temor se hace realidad. Lo peor es que Nick está entre los sospechosos, pero Nora tiene sus propias ideas sobre el caso y se escabulle dentro de un club para buscar pistas.
Booking Agent
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Carl Cook
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
McKeever
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Small-Town Doctor (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Drunk
En la bulliciosa ciudad minera de Tombstone, Ben Carter, el dueño de un saloon, intenta deshacerse de un competidor que ha traído hermosas chicas de Chicago, contratando a un pistolero. En vista de que el sheriff se niega a enfrentarse con él, decide hacerlo Wyatt Earp, un antiguo explorador del Ejército, que acaba aceptando el puesto de sheriff y empieza a limpiar la ciudad de maleantes. Mientras tanto, mantiene una peculiar relación de amistad/rivalidad con Doc Holliday, un jugador tísico.
Garrison - Henchman
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Man Laughing at Demo
Biopic sobre el inventor del teléfono -o considerado durante mucho tiempo como tal, pues parece ser que sólo fue el primero en patentarlo-. "El gran milagro" era una superproducción muy al gusto de Darryl F. Zanuck que comenzaba en el Boston de 1873 y culminaba con la invención del "artilugio de las palabras" tres años después. Entre medias había romance, superación personal y el juicio que se estableció entre la poderosa Western Union y Bell por los derechos de patente del invento.
Gambler
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Vernon Castle, que se gana la vida como actor cómico de segunda fila, conoce en una playa a Irene, quien ve en él grandes aptitudes como bailarín. Ambos se enamoran y poco después se casan. Irene convence a Vernon para formar juntos una pareja de baile. Un malentendido les lleva a París, donde en realidad sólo le querían a él para interpretar un grotesco número cómico de vaudeville. La suerte, sin embargo, les sonríe de inmediato: una empresaria pone sus ojos en ellos y les hace debutar en el Café de París. Vernon e Irene triunfan por todo lo alto en el mundo de la moda. Pero estalla la guerra y Vernon siente la necesidad de alistarse.
Rotarian Juror (uncredited)
Dos hombres inocentes son acusados injustamente de asesinato y condenados a muerte. La novia de uno de ellos convence a un detective de policía de su inocencia, y juntos tratan de encontrar al verdadero asesino antes de la fecha de ejecución de los hombres.
Patrol-Car Cop at Italian Restaurant
En Washington, el espía Gregory secuestra al ladrón Michael Lanyard para obligarle a robar los planes de los bombardeos del Departamento de Defensa.
Dr. Benshlager
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Henry
Narra las andanzas de una caprichosa y alocada heredera que, para salvar un escollo testamentario, decide encontrar marido, lo antes posible, aunque sea pagando... Con lo que no contaba es con que podría enamorarse.
Hank
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Slicker
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Gun salesman
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 robbery.
Man Carrying Violin Case
Un huérfano es adoptado provisionalmente por el gerente de un hotel poblado por gente de negocios. Al dueño del hotel no le gustan los artistas y quiere que la niña regrese al orfanato.
Haunted-house proprietor
Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house.
The Glenby Judge
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Sen. William P. Scully
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
Station Agent
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Ocean Liner Passenger
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Donald Graves
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Jeffrey Walker
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
Johnny Withers - Ticket Broker
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Bartender
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Stumpy Carter
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Philip Burton
Dos americanos, Tommy Baldwin y Joe Dugan, tienen que custodiar un fabuloso diamante en Shanghai pero rápidamente se lo roban. Saben que huyen en un barco de Shanghai a los Estados Unidos, y ellos también se embarcan n la intención de recuperar la joya. Sus esfuerzos les llevan a descubrir varios cadáveres pero también que a bordo hay una rubia, Jane Dunn, que es en realidad es un agente encubierto de la Agencia de Aduanas de EE.UU. Tommy y Jane, descubrirán el misterio y encontrarán el amor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
Arizona Sheepman (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Reporter (uncredited)
Mavis Arden (Mae West) es una estrella de cine. Su fama la precede por todo el mundo, y sus numerosas apariciones públicas dan fe de su popularidad. De camino a casa, volviendo de una de esas apariciones, su automóvil se avería. Da orden a su agente de publicidad (Warren William) de que le encuentre un lugar para alojarse, pues sospecha que él habría provocado la avería para mantenerla alejada de un hombre. Sin embargo, pronto se ve suspirando por un atractivo mecánico del pueblo (Randolph Scott) y escuchando sus ideas sobre la creación de equipos de cine.
Lowell
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Sundholm
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Townley (uncredited)
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
Gabby Citizen
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Editor
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Mayor Culpepper
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Perkins - Charley's Boss
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Police Captain
Edward Everett Horton plays radio celebrity Ned Farrar, "The Fireside Troubadour." Besieged by his adoring female fans, Ned hides out at the home of his wife Queena's (Peggy Conklin) imperious Aunt Min (Laura Hope Crews). He pretends to be Aunt Min's handyman, performing his tasks so well that the old lady refuses to let him leave! This hilarious movie even includes a slapstick car chase. Adapted from a play by Clare Kummer (which also starred Laura Hope Crews), Her Master's Voice represented another of Dore Schary's early screenwriting assignments.
Photographer
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Starke's Aide
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Max - Florist (uncredited)
El profesor Thalma presenta, en su casa, al prestigioso director de orquesta Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer) y a su alumna Constance Dane (Katharine Hepburn), la cual impresionará luego, con su belleza y su talento como compositora al notable director. Después de estar felizmente casados, comenzarán los problemas cuando, a la vida de Franz, regresa una atractiva amiga de los viejos tiempos.
Fred Green
La boda de su hija aporta muchas sorpresas, incluidos un cobrador de recibos muy decidido, un negocio fallido, una novia en fuga y dinero caído del cielo
Reporter
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Tom Brady
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
Sonny's Father
Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please”, “You’re Getting To be A Habit With Me” and “I Don’t Stand A Ghost of a Chance”.
Party Guest
Una estrella del vodevil anima a su hija a convertirse en una estrella del baile. Egoísmo, engaños y chantaje separan a madre e hija, pero al final se reconcilian.
Staff Editor (uncredited)
El ex-convicto Danny Kean decide alejarse de su anterior vida de gánster y se convierte en el fotógrafo de un periódico. Pero se enamora de Patricia, la hija del policía que lo arrestó...
Man Looking for Driver
El aviador Jim Blaine y su hermano Neil no sólo son rivales en sus temerarios vuelos, sino que además luchan por el amor de la paracaidista Jill Collins.
