Hugh Beaumont

Un gigantesco ser extraterrestre aterriza en nuestro planeta y comienza a construir clones de los líderes del Mundo Libre, reemplazando a los verdaderos con sus gemelos androides.

Los trabajadores del ferrocarril no han cobrado su sueldo desde hace meses, y todo por culpa de los robos de Whitey y su banda, a la que pertenece el peligroso pistolero Utica Kid. La compañía ferroviaria contrata los servicios de Grant para evitar que continúen los robos.

En unas ruinas sumerias, unos arqueólogos caen por una hendidura causada por un terremoto y se encuentran atrapados en un mundo subterráneo habitado por una raza albina y unos topos humanoides a los que utilizan como esclavos. Al principio, los albinos creen que los intrusos son dioses, pero cuando su líder Elinu sospecha que no son lo que parecen, deciden que deben ser ejecutados.

Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in attempting a robbery; a racketeer fleecing a book publisher on a Trans-Atlantic voyage, and the tripping up of the plans of a phony land syndicate.

The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.

La boda del joven Jarvis hace que Frankie, su hermana pequeña, experimente una sensación de abandono casi insoportable. Afortunadamente, la niña cuenta con el cariño de Berenice, el ama de llaves negra, que hará todo lo posible por consolarla y enseñarle a afrontar la vida con madurez. (FILMAFFINITY)

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.

Guerra Civil americana (1861-1865). Después de una grave disputa entre el coronel Kern Shafter y el capitán Edward Garnett, el primero abandona la Caballería y se va al Oeste para alistarse en el Ejército. Diez años más tarde, Shafter es destinado a un cuartel de Dakota, bajo el mando de Garnett, el cual, abusando de su autoridad, le encomienda las misiones más peligrosas, con la esperanza de que no regrese. Cuando ambos se enamoran de la misma mujer, la situación se hará mucho más tensa.

Durante un vuelo con destino a Los Ángeles, traban amistad cuatro pasajeros que tienen problemas muy diferentes. A causa de una fuerte tormenta, el avión intenta aterrizar en Las Vegas, pero acaba estrellándose. El único superviviente del grupo decide visitar a las familias de los tres fallecidos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately named Tim Holt. In order to hinder the construction of a new telegraph line for his own financial gain, scheming shopkeeper Paul Manning (George Nader) enlists the assistance of a gang of outlaws led by Brad Roberts (Hugh Beaumont in one of his many pre-Leave it to Beaver roles). Unfortunately for the bad guys, Holt and his cohort Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) sense that there's foul play afoot and embark on an investigation.

Dos personas avispadas del mundo del marketing resucitan algunas viejas películas protagonizadas por el vaquero Smoky Callaway y las pasan en la televisión. Las películas son un gran éxito y la estrella está muy solicitada. Desafortunadamente, nadie le puede localizar. Cuando una persona que se parece a él envía una foto suya, el equipo de marketing lo contrata para hacerse pasar por Callaway. Las cosas se complican cuando el verdadero Callaway finalmente aparece.

Un grupo de científicos formado por el Profesor Rostov, el Doctor Philips y el Doctor Briggs, están realizando pruebas con uno de sus valiosos cohetes sobre Nueva Guinea. El cohete desaparece durante las pruebas y el gobierno recluta a un piloto de excepción, el Mayor Nolan, para que lleve una expedición de rescate a recuperarlo. Al volar sobre una isla selvática de la zona, una onda radioactiva inutiliza los controles del avión haciendo que se estrelle en lo más profundo de la selva. Allí descubrirán algo que podría cambiar el futuro de nuestro mundo...

Mr. Belvedere (Clifton Webb) se ha vuelto un experto en "cómo conservarse joven" y, queriendo probar su teoría, se infiltra en una residencia de ancianos donde se propone levantar el ánimo de sus ocupantes.

Después de haber ocupado el cargo de senador durante dos años, Blake Washburn pierde su puesto tras las elecciones, pero parece que tras su fracaso se esconde algún asunto de turbias intenciones a cargo de los grandes hombres de negocios de la ciudad, en concreto de John McFarland, padre del candidato triunfador. Blake hará uso de su trabajo de editor del Herald, el periódico más influyente de la ciudad, para emprender una cruzada contra las grandes empresas, buscando con empeño cualquier irregularidad que le permita denunciarlas y mostrar a la sociedad su bondad como ciudadano y su capacidad para gobernar y hacer justicia.

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.

A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.

Dos hermanos que combatieron durante la Guerra Civil (1861-1865) en distintos bandos no tienen más remedio que aliarse para hacer frente a un ataque de los indios. (FILMAFFINITY)

World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.

El oficial Talbot está decidido a usar misiles teledirigidos en su submarino. La marina todavía no ha dado el visto bueno, por lo que él decide saltarse a la torera las órdenes de sus superiores y comienza a probarlos. La iniciativa no puede resultar peor pues en las pruebas mueren varios de sus hombres, lo que le acaba provocando un colapso mental.

A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage.

Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison. The film's two-part structure leads to repetition and predictability, but it's fun to watch TV's "Ward Cleaver" making like Philip Marlowe.

Joe Wilding is the hotshot car salesman at the local Ford dealer. The year is 1950 and the new Fords have just come out. He's assigned to teach the new salesman how to sell cars. The movie follows Joe thru a typical day of calling leads, dropping off business cards, fishing for new prospects, talking to potential buyers in the showroom and working a deal. The new guy starts to get the idea and by the end is sufficiently confident and motivated he proposes to his girlfriend. She accepts.

Educational short showing how you should never show any emotions at the dinner table.

Al finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el piloto Joe Barrett vuelve a Tokio buscando las raíces de su pasado. Una enorme sorpresa le aguarda: la novia que daba por muerta está viva y casada con otro hombre, y un siniestro criminal ha decidido chantajear a Joe para que pilote un vuelo clandestino transportando a unos peligrosos fugitivos de la ley. (FILMAFFINITY)

Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.

A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

Duke Martin es un gánster que planea atracar, con la ayuda de su amante, la peluquería donde ella trabaja. El local no es más que la tapadera de una casa ilegal de apuestas. Durante el atraco, algo sale mal y un policía es asesinado. Duke se las ingenia para que la policía sospeche de Steve Ryan. Será la hermana de Steve quien decida investigar por su cuenta para desenmascarar al verdadero culpable.

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.

El marido de Janet Ames (Rosalind Russell) muere durante la II Guerra Mundial tratando de salvar la vida de cinco de sus compañeros. En cierto modo Janet culpa a estos cinco hombres de la muerte de su esposo, por lo que trata de vengarse de alguna manera, pero la mujer es atropellada por un camión quedando paralítica. Smithy Cobb (Melvyn Douglas), un periodista con cierta tendencia al alcohol, cree que ella podrá volver a caminar con ayuda psicológica. Lo que Janet no sabe es que Smithy es uno de los cinco hombres que se salvaron cuando murió su marido.

Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.

Cuando Johnny, terminada la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), vuelve a su casa, descubre que Helen, su mujer, ha encontrado un nuevo amor, Eddie, el dueño de un night club llamado 'La dalia azul'. Al principio se siente tan anonadado que piensa en vengarse, pero inmediatamente abandona la idea y se va. Cuando, al día siguiente, su mujer aparece muerta, él se convierte en el principal sospechoso. No tendrá entonces más remedio que buscar al asesino, y Joyce, la esposa de Eddie, le ayudará a encontrarlo

Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.

Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en San Francisco, Eve Morgan y sus amigas trabajan durante el día en unos astilleros y por la noche bailan con soldados y marineros que serán enviados al frente al día siguiente. Eve está decidida a no enamorarse para no aguardar noticias del frente, pero no sabe que un soldado está dispuesto a hacerla cambiar de opinión.

A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee. Comedy.

An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial, el Mayor Nelson y sus hombres son lanzados en paracaídas sobre la jungla birmana, tras las líneas enemigas, para destruir una estación de radar japonesa. La angustiosa y extenuante expedición a través de la jungla y los pantanos repletos de soldados enemigos se convertirá en un juego mortal en el que tan importante será cumplir con éxito la misión como poder ser rescatados...

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

Un piloto de la armada (Fred MacMurray) está a punto de ser derribado al participar en una arriesgada misión. Finalmente cae en la propiedad de una muchacha llamada Peggy (Claudette Colbert), estableciéndose una divertida confusión entre el nombre de su perro 'Piggy' y el de la chica. Esto lleva al novio de Peggy a creer que el piloto está enamorado de ella.

After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.

En los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), siete prisioneros consiguen escapar de un campo de concentración nazi. El comandante del campo ordena que se claven siete cruces en siete árboles para enterrarlos cuando sean capturados.

El Sr. Winkle es un hombre apocado que es reclutado para luchar en la segunda guerra mundial. Su esposa y vecinos no pueden creer que vuelve convertido en un héroe.

A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

Mary (Kim Hunter), una joven provinciana, decide ir a Nueva York para buscar a su hermana Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), que ha desaparecido. Con la ayuda de su ex marido (Tom Conway) y de un prestigioso psiquiatra, Mary descubre horrorizada que la desaparición de su hermana está relacionada con una secta satánica. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un antiguo prisionero de la Guerra Civil Española, John McKittrick, llega a Nueva York con la intención de investigar la muerte de su amigo Louie Lepetino, pues sospecha que no ha sido un suicidio.

Un tipo adinerado se enamora de la artista de un club nocturno, que a su vez ama a un bailarín. Ante el dilema de casarse por dinero o por amor, ella opta por lo primero. Pero el millonario sufre un accidente, y sueña que se encuentra en la época de Luis XV, y que él es monarca que persigue a madame Du Barry, que, claro está, tiene el rostro de su amada. Simpática comedia musical rodada en technicolor, que combina la época actual con de la Francia cortesana. Cuenta con buenos trabajos de Lucille Ball y Gene Kelly, éste cantando los temas musicales "Do I Love You" y "Song of the Rebellion".

Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

El Mayor Chick Davis demuestra ante el ejército de los EEUU la superioridad de los bombarderos de precisión a gran altitud y lo destinan a enseñar sus conocimientos en una escuela para bombarderos. Al estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los métodos utilizados por el Mayor Davis y sus alumnos serán ratificados durante un ataque en Tokio.

Tonie Carter trabaja tenazmente durante años para convertirse en una gran piloto. Numerosas carreras aéreas y hazañas memorables la convierten en la aviadora más importante del mundo, llenando su vida de éxito y popularidad. Una fama que la llevará hasta el departamento naval estadounidense, que requerirá sus servicios para una misión de máxima importancia.

A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.

An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Un veterano piloto se da cuenta en el ocaso de su carrera de que quiere recuperar el contacto con su hijo. Su vástago es ahora piloto de pruebas del ejército y en su día su compañero de vuelo. Pero las cosas no serán tan sencillas como para pretender que todo saldrá bien simplemente con irrumpir en su vida.

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.

With Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, and Eugene Pallette. This sublime film exemplifies La Cava’s gift for creating comedies that contain a profound depth of feeling. Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between Irene Dunne, a small-town girl in the big city, and Robert Montgomery, the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her. Their love affair is all the more affecting for taking place against a backdrop of heartbreak and alcoholism, all conveyed under the guise of comedy. UNFINISHED BUSINESS is truly one of the most remarkable Hollywood films of the 1940s.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.

Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.