Rex Downing

Rex Downing

Nacimiento : 1925-04-21, San Francisco, California, USA

Perfil

Rex Downing

Películas

Orden: caza sin cuartel
Young Hoodlum (uncredited)
Película rodada en estilo casi documental que relata la caza de un ladrón que asesina a sangre fría a un policía y que es perseguido por las calles de Los Ángeles. Los policías siguen su rastro hasta las mismas alcantarillas de la ciudad.
Yo creo en ti
Copy Boy (uncredited)
Basado en una historia real. En 1932, Frank Wiecek fue condenado a 99 años de prisión por un crimen que no cometió. Doce años después, su madre, que limpiando pisos ha ahorrado 5.000 dólares, centavo a centavo, publica un anuncio ofreciendo ese dinero como recompensa para quien le dé la información que permita descubrir al verdadero criminal. Un escéptico periodista inicia una investigación.
The Mayor of 44th Street
Bits McKarg
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
Sangre y arena
Juan (as a child)
Después de muchas dificultades, Juan Gallardo (Tyrone Power) se convierte en la primera figura del toreo. A continuación se casa con Carmen (Darnell), su novia de toda la vida. Pero, cuando todo parecía ir bien, Juan conoce a Sol (Hayworth), una joven, bella y frivola aristócrata con la que mantiene una apasionada relación. A partir de entonces comenzará su declive
Mandrake the Magician
Tommy Houston
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.
The Escape
Tommy Rogers
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Nurse Edith Cavell
François Rappard
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Mandrake the Magician
Tommy Houston
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Cumbres borrascosas
Heathcliff as a Child
Perdido en medio de una tormenta de nieve en un rocoso páramo inglés, un extranjero se topa con Cumbres Borrascosas, la lúgubre mansión del misterioso Heathcliff, un hombre tan torturado por un amor frustrado que ha perdido el deseo de vivir. Mientras la tormenta ruge en el exterior, el fatigado caminante escucha fascinado la triste historia del desesperado amor de Heathcliff y Cathy. Cuando Heathcliff volvió a buscarla, después de una larga ausencia intentando hacer fortuna, Cathy ya se había casado con un joven de la alta sociedad. El desengaño destrozó el alma de Heathcliff, pero no logró apagar el fuego de una pasión inextinguible que arderá en sus entrañas por toda la eternidad.
Black Bandit
Twin brothers Bob and Don Ramsay are on opposite sides of the law. Bob is the Sheriff and Don is the famous outlaw the Black Bandit. When the Black Bandit strikes, he is seen and his look-alike brother Bob arrested. Refusing to implicate his brother, Bob escapes and heads after Don.
Bravest of the Brave
Ney's Older Son (uncredited)
This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.
Una nación en marcha
Child
Historia sobre el desarrollo de las comunicaciones terrestres en los EE.UU. durante su rápida expansión en el siglo XIX. La película se centra en la vida de Ramsey McCay, empleado de la recién creada asociación entre Henry Wells y William Fargo, y de cómo gracias a su especial dedicación, la Wells-Fargo llega a convertirse en una gran empresa de correos y transporte de mercancías hacia el Oeste, presente en los mayores acontecimientos de la época.
General Spanky
Kid Army Member
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Pay As You Exit
Audience
The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.
Little Miss Nobody
Orphan
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
The Pinch Singer
Our Gang Member
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
Branded a Coward
Young Billy Hume
Safely from behind some shrubbery, Johnny Hume, a boy of 6 or 7, witnesses the slaughter of his mother, father and brother by the guns of a gang led by "the Cat". Twenty years later finds Johnny grown to manhood, an expert bronc rider and target shooter - but paralyzed with fearful memories in an actual gunfight. This is brought home to him when some outlaws stick up the local saloon and Johnny ends up cowering behind the bar.
Teacher's Beau
Our Gang Member
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married.