Charlie (segment "Walking Distance")
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Member of Town Council
Año 1883. Un grupo de condenados ingresa en la prisión federal de Arizona. Entre ellos está Paris Pitman (Kirk Douglas), un hombre que ha enterrado un botín de medio millón de dólares en el desierto y vive con la obsesión de fugarse para recuperarlos. Con este fin trata de convencer a varios presos para que lo secunden y, al mismo tiempo, intenta ganarse la confianza del nuevo alcaide (Henry Fonda).
Reverend Marshall
Debido a una situación muy embarazosa, el herrero Charley ha decidido emigrar; sin embargo, nadie le ayuda porque es el único herrero del pueblo.
Will
Dos razas diferentes de extraterrestres están en guerra. Representantes de cada raza han aterrizado en la Tierra para continuar luchando aquí, han tomado forma humana y solo pueden ver a otros extraterrestres mediante el uso de unas gafas especiales.
Funeral Director (uncredited)
Peter (Jerry Lewis) está casado con la encantadora Nancy (Anne Francis) y tiene dos hijos. Tras una visita rutinaria, su médico (Peter Lawford) le comunica que padece una enfermedad terminal. Ante esta perspectiva, Nancy y él deciden disfrutar al límite del tiempo que le queda y gastan el dinero a manos llenas. Estando de viaje, el médico llama a Peter para comunicarle que el diágnóstico es erróneo. Con unas facturas que ascienden a 100.000 dólares, Peter y Nancy tendrán que buscar una solución que les permita salir del atolladero en que se han metido.
Mr. Harrison
El fantasma del pirata Barbanegra está condenado a vivir en el limbo hasta que haga una buena acción. Finalmente un día encuentra la oportunidad de redimirse cuando puede ayudar, con sus poderes mágicos, a un equipo de atletismo... que no tiene la más mínima oportunidad de ganar
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Unos niños acuden de excursión a un bosque con su abuelo. Al realizar una parada para merendar, descubren unos habitantes del bosque que hasta el momento habían pasado desapercibidos ante los seres humanos. Se trata de unos pequeños gnomos que enseguida se hacen amigos de los niños y del abuelo.
Drug Store Owner (uncredited)
When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Court Clerk (uncredited)
La periodista Kelly Olsson posa como bailarina para impresionar al rijoso director de una revista para hombres, con el fin de conseguir que publique un relato suyo.
Mr. Bruno (uncredited)
Después de veinte años de matrimonio, la rutina está poniendo en peligro la relación de Dan (Frank Sinatra) y Valerie Edwards (Deborah Kerr). Deciden intentar solucionar sus problemas maritales pasando una segunda y romántica luna de miel en México pero, tras una fuerte discusión, se divorcian.
Bit Part (uncredited)
Jaime McPhesters, un chico de doce años, viaja en un tren hacia el Oeste de Estados Unidos. Los compañeros de trayecto son muy pintorescos: unos individuos que huyen porque deben dinero.
Sale Department Manager (uncredited)
Barbara, hija de Phoebe Tuttle, una millonaria propietaria de una importante cadena de grandes almacenes, se ha enamorado de un personaje honrado pero un tanto alelado llamado Raymond Philler. Para que su hija pueda darse cuenta de tan mala elección, su adinerada progenitora empleará a Raymond en uno de sus establecimientos otorgándole los trabajos más difíciles y variados. Así pasará por la sección de deportes, zapatería, alimentación, mobiliario, etc.
Antiques Dealer
El invento del flubber no ha proporcionado al profesor Ned Brainard las riquezas que pensaba. El Pentágono ha declarado el invento top secret y el IRS acosa al profesor con enormes impuestos por el descubrimiento. Además, su mujer Betty está celosa por las atenciones que recibe Brainard de una antigua novia de universidad. Mientras tanto, el científico está creando el flubbergas, que entre otras cosas puede cambiar la atmósfera o hacer ganar partidos de fútbol...
Abner Samson (uncredited)
Dos antiguos pistoleros se asocian para escoltar un cargamento de oro. Uno intenta hacer un buen trabajo y volver a su casa. Pero la única intención del otro es robar la valiosa carga.
Lloyd (uncredited)
En la época de la Ley Seca (1920-1933), Dave es un contrabandista de alcohol que está a punto de cerrar un trato importante con un mafioso de Chicago. Como las manzanas de la mendiga Annie siempre le han dado suerte, envía a uno de sus hombres a buscarla para cerrar la operación. Pero Annie está completamente desesperada: su hija, a la que no ve desde hace muchos años, llega de Europa acompañada de su novio y de su suegro, unos aristócratas italianos, y Annie tendrá que convertirse en una gran dama para no defraudarla.
Papers
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
The Clerk
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Selby Gardner
After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.
Dr. Guelffe
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
Mr. Mathews
Marv needs money. His unemployed dad is so poor that he makes Marv give up half his last six bucks so they can both go on three-dollar dates; he's just lost his scholarship after getting caught writing a term paper for Betty, the prettiest (and only) girl in his class; and Betty herself has told him he doesn't stand a chance with her unless he can give her what she wants most: money, money, money. But Marv has mob ties and Marv knows where to find a million dollars cash.
Train Conductor
Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
A.B. Orcutt
A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch.
The Minister (uncredited)
George Hansen, un tranquilo pescador sueco, llega a la pequeña localidad tejana de Prairie City para ayudar con la nueva granja familiar y descubre que su padre ha sido misteriosamente asesinado. Dispuesto a dar con el asesino él mismo, Hansen descubre que un magnate del petróleo sin escrúpulos y sus peligrosos hombres están detrás del crimen. Hansen irá a por ellos a pesar de los representantes de ley corruptos, las emboscadas y el temor de los propios vecinos.
Harris (uncredited)
Tras ser expulsado de una población acusado de haber provocado un incendio, Ben Quick llega a un pueblo y es contratado por Will Varner, dueño y señor del lugar. Melodrama sureño, basado en relatos de William Faulkner, que permitió a un jovencísimo Paul Newman demostrar que era mucho más que una cara bonita. En efecto, gracias a este papel consiguió ganar el prestigioso premio al mejor actor en el Festival de Cannes.
Will Potter (uncredited)
Un vaquero se ve obligado a hacer frente a un grupo de rancheros que pretende sabotear el ferrocarril.
George Potter
Two high-school students keep their marriage a secret from their family and friends, but they're forced to confess when the teenage wife learns she's pregnant.
Satan
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.
Carson
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
Latham
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Claim Clerk Kelso
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Floyd Barry (as Byron K. Foulger)
Después de acumular un substancioso botín, un ladrón de bancos planea huir a México con la intención de retirarse. Para burlar la vigilancia de las autoridades fronterizas, contrata a un guía que lo lleve por las montañas. Lo malo es que el guía es el marido de la mujer que siempre ha amado y a la que no ve desde hace tiempo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jed
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
Mr. Fenshaw (uncredited)
A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible.
School Principal
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas station attendant in an aborted hold-up attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. With the aid of some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice.
Mr. Doyle (uncredited)
The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble.
Jim Day
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
Billings, Andrews' Secretary
Ellen (June Allyson) es una rica heredera que, tratando de escapar de su padre (Charles Bickford), un hombre autoritario que no aprueba su matrimonio, atravesará el país para reunirse con el hombre que ama. Durante el viaje conocerá a un periodista (Jack Lemmon) que se presta a ayudarla, a cambio de la exclusiva de su interesante historia.
Undertaker
El protagonista es Tim Mallory, un vaquero tolerante que es confundido con un pistolero famoso. Antes de que pueda aclarar el malentendido, Tim ha caído en manos de un grupo de funcionarios locales corruptos, que tienen la intención de arrebatar el control de una mina de plata valiosa de su legítima dueña, Fay Warren. Durante un tiempo, parece como si el "bueno" es en realidad uno de los villanos, pero las apariencias engañan
Larry, Bank Teller
El dueño de una tienda (Fred MacMurray), por un golpe de suerte, mata al jefe de una banda de peligrosos ladrones y se convierte en un héroe para sus conciudadanos, pero, ante la perspectiva de que regresen para vengarse, se verá abandonado de todos.
Montrose
A finales del siglo XIX, en plena fiebre del oro, un delegado del gobierno está expropiando, de forma irregular, varias minas cercanas a una pequeña población de Alaska. Entre ellas, se encuentra la de Roy Glennister, un apuesto galán, amante de Cherry Malotte, la hermosa dueña del saloon "El Norteño".
Henry Hooper
A short feature western comprised of two episodes of the TV series 'Wild Bill Hickok': "A Close Shave for the Marshal" (6/16/1952) and "Ghost Rider" (4/7/1952).
(archive footage)
"Trouble on the Trail" is two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" television series edited together and released as a feature film by Allied Artists.
Land Office Clerk
Sierra Nevada Jones es la joven e intrépida heredera de un rancho en el territorio de Montana. Tras la muerte de su padre en un enfrentamiento contra unos indios y unos blancos que pretendían apoderarse del terreno, Sierra Nevada debe luchar con todas sus fuerzas para conservar la propiedad del lugar. Por suerte para ella, contará con la inesperada ayuda de Farrell, un policía encubierto.
Prescott (uncredited)
En la pequeña ciudad de Silver Lode, el sheriff McCart interrumpe bruscamente la boda entre Dan y Rose para detener al novio.
Card Player Wearing Glasses (uncredited)
Wacky complications ensue when a little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. He uses it to prevent his orphanage from being shut down by creditors and to help a cute couple fall in love.
Ernest Boggs
Relatos breves sobre diversas mujeres que compran una copia del mismo vestido parisino.
A. Horace Pender
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire.
Mr. Gurley (uncredited)
A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!
Eric Strikler
Marshal Rocky Lane learns of a plan to obstruct the promotion of natural gas in his town.
Ben Fisher (uncredited)
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
The Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
El pistolero Billy Ringo decide colgar las armas, comprar un rancho y casarse con con Arlene Reach. Antiguos compañeros de armas le tienden una trampa para que se una a un atraco con ellos, pero Ringo informa a Wyatt Eearp del plan para robar la caravana de la Wells Fargo...
Book Shop Owner
1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
Mr. Simpson
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
Martin, Desk Clerk
A ship of women embarks on a voyage to California. Director R. G. Springsteen's 1953 adventure drama stars Vera Ralston, David Brian, Virginia Grey, Charles Winninger, Veda Ann Borg and Hope Emerson.
Prof. Rosenberg (uncredited)
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Mr. Simon
Narra la historia de un sabio que crea, a partir de un experimento fallido, un isótopo radioactivo que comienza a magnetizar todo lo que le circunda, creciendo de tamaño, emitiendo energía y absorbiendo hidrógeno. Un pequeño planeta que implosiona cada once horas para ver aumentada su masa.
Du Verge, De Treville's Aide
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
Marriage License Bureau Clerk (uncredited)
El juez de paz Melvin Bush casa a varias parejas antes de que su ingreso en la magistratura sea oficial. Años después, esos matrimonios se enteran de que sus bodas no son válidas.
Hawkins (uncredited)
El descubrimiento de minas de oro en un remoto territorio del Oeste hace que el lugar se llene de delincuentes y pistoleros que intentan apropiarse del dinero de los propietarios de las minas. Un sheriff se infiltrará en una de las bandas de forajidos para desenmascarar a sus jefes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Watchman
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
Secretary Bartlett (uncredited)
A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities' attention from their own activities.
Tearoom Manager (uncredited)
Tres señoritas se inscriben en una especie de entrenamiento en una base naval. Sin embargo, su mayor problema no son las largas marchas o varias semanas en un barco pequeño, sino su vida amorosa.
Peter Eureka
En San Francisco, Eddie Miller, un modesto empleado, armado con un fusil de precisión mata desde un tejado a cuatro mujeres. A continuación se quema una mano para poder ingresar en un hospital y atraer la atención de los médicos sobre su estado mental.
Mathematics Professor Grog (uncredited)
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Dr. Brint, Dentist
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Chairman Parson's Secretary (uncredited)
Durante la guerra de Independencia de las colonias americanas contra Inglaterra , un oficial americano (Mark Stevens) recibe la orden de embarcar en Le Havre (Francia) un importante cargamento de oro destinado a financiar la guerra contra la metrópoli. Pero, cuando la tripulación se entera, se amotina.
Coroner
Una joven blanca que ha sido criada por los indios Cherokees, quiere vengarse de los enemigos blancos que mataron a sus parientes indios. Para ello, necesitará la ayuda de un hombre blanco, el marshal Hollister. (FILMAFFINITY)
Professor Kardin
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
Jeff Reagan (uncredited)
Los reporteros Clark Kent y Lois Lane llegan a la pequeña ciudad de Silsby para presenciar la perforación del pozo de petróleo más profundo del mundo. El taladro, sin embargo, ha penetrado en la casa subterránea de una raza de personas pequeñas y peludas que luego salen a la superficie por la noche para mirar a su alrededor. El hecho de que brillen en la oscuridad asusta a la gente de la ciudad, que forma una mafia, dirigida por el vicioso Luke Benson, decidido a matar a las personas extrañas. Solo Superman tiene la oportunidad de prevenir esta tragedia.
Clerk
Un submarinista empieza a sospechar que un barco hundido desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial contiene algo más que metal oxidado, sobre todo desde que un colega muere cuando intentaba volarlo.
Morgue Clerk
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
Clerk (uncredited)
National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.
Judge (uncredited)
Jeff Clanton, un ex oficial de la Unión, persuade a un grupo de guerrilleros pro-Confederación para deponer las armas y llevar una vida honrada; mientras tanto, un hombre de Pinkerton quiere cobrar las recompensas por las cabezas de los guerrilleros. Para ese fin, encierra a Jeff por asesinato, pero Jeff conseguirá escapar y se convertirá en uno más de los guerrilleros a los que había querido volver al buen camino.
Berny Miles
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.
Hummel
Una actriz de teatro se dirige a un pueblecito, cerca de la frontera con México, con el fin de descansar y tomar el sol. Allí se enamora de un hombre que ha sido condenado por el asesinato de su esposa y está en libertad bajo fianza. Aunque ella cree que es inocente, no puede evitar que le inspire miedo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Charles D. Haven
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Jim Carlton, Realtor
Un científico decide probar una vacuna contra una grave enfermedad, realizada con isótopos radioactivos, aplicándosela a unos presidiarios, con la promesa de que serán puestos en libertad tras el experimento. Desgraciadamente, los efectos de la vacuna son imprevisibles y provocan los instintos asesinos de uno de ellos, el cuál mata a un compañero. Aún así, el doctor hará todo lo posible por continuar con el experimento, a pesar de la oposición del gobierno.
Motel Manager (uncredited)
Primera película de Charlton Heston en Hollywood, es un relato de cine negro, ayudado por las sombras callejeras y ese inhóspito ambiente en que viven aquellos que bordean el delito. Charlton lidera un grupo de estafadores que despluman a un hombre de negocios (Don DeFore), que se sume en la desesperación y se ahorca. Ahí es donde toma partido el hermano psicótico del fallecido (Mike Mazurki), que inicia un raid para cazar y asesinar a los cuatro jugadores (Jack Webb, Ed Begley y Harry Morgan). Para completar el cuadro aparece la novia del protagonista (Lizabeth Scott) que es cantante de cabaret.
Shoe Fitter (uncredited)
Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) es un arrogante corredor de coches que despierta el odio o la admiración del público. Su mala reputación se la ganó tras ser acusado de provocar un accidente fatal durante una carrera. Decidida a comprobar qué hay de cierto en todo ello, la dura columnista Regina Forbes (Barbara Stanwyck) trata de entrevistarlo, pero él se niega.
Horace - Baggage Clerk (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.
Gary and his dog Pal are having fun working on make-believe crime cases, though Gary's father, a city detective, disapproves. Gary and Pal soon find themselves involved in a real case involving fur thieves.
Rufe Dakin
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Gerald
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
Lawyer John Sutton
A man is sent to jail for murder escapes while being transferred, Rocky is sent to bring him in. When he catches him in a ghost town the man claims to be innocent and was trying to clear himself by finding the stolen money that was never recoveded at the time of the killing. But then they find themselves prisoners of an outlaw gang that is also after the money.
Maitre d' (uncredited)
Un entrenador de hípica que pasa por una mala racha pone toda su confianza en su caballo para la próxima competición. No obstante, éste se escapa de su cuadra. Los problemas se complican cuando el sheriff del condado reclama a Dan su caballo al no haber hecho frente al pago de unas facturas. A medida que se acerca la hora del Derby, cuando tenía previsto competir su caballo "Broadway Bill", los nervios atenazan a Dan Brooks, quien una vez que ha recuperado a su caballo se encuentra con un nuevo imprevisto.
Ross, station agent
Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.
Custodian (uncredited)
Durante una convención de alcaldes de ciudades norteamericanas celebrada en San Francisco, dos de estos mandatarios acaban enamorados, con un pequeño problema: mientras que Clarissa gobierna en una pequeña localidad de Maine, Steve es el alcalde de otra comunidad al norte de California. Así que, cuando acaba el congreso, ambos parten para sus respectivos lugares...
Burbis (uncredited)
Siendo Napoleón emperador de Francia, a un estafador de poca monta lo confunden con el temible Inspector General, un enviado oficial de Bonaparte para controlar y acabar con la corrupción generalizada en los vastos territorios del imperio.
(uncredited)
Adaptación del famoso relato bíblico del forzudo Sansón y la bella Dalila, ambientado en la Palestina del año 1000 A.C.
Sparky Jackson
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.
Stephen
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Greer Pharmacy Druggist
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
Lambert
El joven Bowie acaba de escapar de prisión con otros dos reclusos. En la guarida donde se refugian vive Keechie, una joven que pronto se siente atraída por él. Poco después de atracar un banco con sus compinches, sufre un accidente de tráfico que complica la situación: uno de sus colegas se da a la fuga después de disparar a un policía que acudía a socorrerlos. En el coche accidentado la policía encuentra la pistola de Bowie, que se ve obligado a emprender una huida sin rumbo fijo en compañía de Keechie. Una noche, viajando en autobús, aprovechan una parada para casarse. Más tarde alquilan una cabaña en la montaña con la esperanza de poder vivir en paz.
Amos Boling
Deputy Marshall Larry West goes undercover to find out who has been terrorizing the territory, Navajos or the Dalton Gang.
Henry Lane,The Preacher
Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.
Jones (uncredited)
En un viaje a África, un empresario del mundo del espectáculo descubre un enorme gorila de diez pies de altura, junto al que vive una hermosa joven que lo tiene de mascota. El empresario le convence para que vayan a Hollywood y allí presenta al gorila como "Míster Joseph Young de África". Obtiene un gran éxito como atracción de un club nocturno, pero algunos espectadores desaprensivos emborrachan al gorila, lo que da lugar a una serie de conflictos.
Thomas Peyson
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
Artist Who Draws Reming (uncredited)
Texas, año 1878. Jim, Lorn y Wahoo son asaltantes de diligencias. Huyendo de sus perseguidores, se separan durante algún tiempo, pero Jim y Wahoo no consiguen dar con su amigo. En un intento por encontrarle se alistan en los rangers, donde les admiten sin preguntarles por su pasado. Pero ya no son los mismos...
Elkins (uncredited)
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
Silver King Room Clerk
Esta no es la historia de Jesse James, sino la caída en desgracia de su asesino, el tristemente famoso Bob Ford, que traicionó a su amigo para conseguir el indulto del gobierno y casarse con su novia Cynthy. En lugar de ello, se vió condenado al ostracismo y al desprecio incluso por parte de la mujer amada.
Freddie (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.
O'Rourke (uncredited)
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
Hopkins
Un agente publicitario, después de vivir unas extrañas relaciones con una psiquiatra, decide casarse con ella. Pero en el mismo altar donde se va a celebrar la ceremonia religiosa se encuentran con sus antiguos novios.
Grandee (uncredited)
A Ricardo le gusta la vida tranquila de su Boston natal. Pero, en contra de sus deseos, su familia prefiere que siga los pasos de su padre y se convierta en un bandolero.
Jonathan Grant
Tierna y simpática comedia al más puro estilo norteamericano, que narra cómo una encantadora jovencita está totalmente convencida de que su caballo es en realidad la reencarnación de su tío Willie.
Bonacieux (uncredited)
Francia, siglo XVII. D'Artagnan, un joven y valeroso gascón, viaja a París con la intención de ingresar en la compañía de los mosqueteros del rey, a cuyo frente está el señor de Treville. En el camino tiene un mal encuentro con el conde de Rochefort y Milady De Winter, ambos colaboradores del cardenal Richelieu, primer ministro de Luis XIII (1610-1643). Una vez en la capital, tiene la mala suerte de enfrentarse a los más valerosos y fieles mosqueteros del Rey: Athos, Porthos y Aramis.
George Rogers
Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as "Patty Hart." Patty's father Russ is dismissed from his radio-station job, and the disc jockey selected to replace him is Al Tyler. Patty rushes home to keep Russ company on the air for the final few days, and Al wonders why she suddenly walked out on him. The new "Patty and Russ" radio show catches on, causing complications with Al and the radio-station bosses.
Al Weinstock
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
Mr. Duncan (scenes deleted)
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
Mike the Bartender (uncredited)
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
Assayer (uncredited)
Acusado de asesinato, Nick Buckley debe encontrar al único hombre que le puede ayudar, mientras una jauría de perros sigue su rastro.
Max (uncredited)
Un mujeriego autor de libros infantiles toma prestado un niño para seducir a su ilustradora.
Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
París, 1938. El doctor Ravic (Charles Boyer) es un médico austriaco que, huyendo del nazismo, se ha refugiado en la capital francesa. Allí entabla amistad con Boris Morosov (Louis Calhern), que trabaja como portero de un local ruso. Una noche, Ravic tropieza en la calle con una mujer, Joan Madou (Ingrid Bergman), que está a punto de desvanecerse, la socorre y la lleva a su casa.
Armstrong
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
Bookshop Owner
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
Townsman (uncredited)
Inglaterra, 1763. Después de ser condenada por un crimen, la joven y hermosa Abigail Hale acepta, con el fin de escapar de la horca, servir catorce años como esclava en la colonia de Virginia, cuyos habitantes comienzan a escuchar y temer el siniestro canto de los amenazantes tambores de guerra que resuenan en el salvaje valle del río Ohio.
Bailiff (uncredited)
Desoyendo los consejos de su familia y amigos, Clara Wieck, una prometedora pianista, decide casarse con Robert Schumann, un compositor con muy poco futuro. Tras su matrimonio, Clara deja su carrera como concertista de piano para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a su marido y a los sietes hijos que ha tenido con él.
Mr. Porter
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Emery (uncredited)
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Henry Bascombe (uncredited)
Cine negro a cargo del realizador Irving Pichel con un atractivo reparto encabezado por Robert Young (que carga un tanto las tintas en su interpretación antipática) y la estupenda Susan Hayward. A partir de un juicio iniciado en contra de un hombre acusado del asesinato de la que fuera su amante, salen a relucir las infidelidades y los intereses económicos sobre los que descansa su matrimonio y que serán determinantes en su situación legal.
Little Thin Man (uncredited)
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Man with Bike (uncredited)
Joe Adams es un soldado que acaba de regresar del frente a un pueblo de Pennsylvania. Allí conoce a una chica, Jo Ann, y pronto surgirá el amor entre ellos. Pero Joe se entera de que Jo Ann está visitando a un vidente, Maximilian, que resulta ser un apuesto seductor que trata de interponerse entre los amantes por medio de intrigas. Así las cosas, visita a Joe para advertirle que el espíritu del padre de su novia no aprueba su relación.
Ben Edwards / Claude Bates
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Man at Lunch Counter (Uncredited)
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Prof. Quizard
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
Henry Felton
Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and Sancho meet her surly, younger brother Ted who is wanting Maggie to sell their cattle herd to pay off a bank loan before they lose the ranch. But when they try to drive a herd to market, a gang led by Big Foot Ferguson drives off their cowhands.
The Bridegroom (uncredited)
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Sporting Goods Shop Owner
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Francisco Garcia, Mission Blacksmith
In the New Spain era, a tyrant ruling the San Fernando Valley attempts to wrestle a blacksmith’s daughter from the arms of her Irish sailor fiancé.
Groceryman
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
Dixon (uncredited)
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Politician
Biografía de Dolly Payne (Ginger Rogers), la esposa de James Madison, el cuarto Presidente de los Estados Unidos. A Dolly la cortejan dos líderes políticos: Madison (Burgess Meredith) y Aaron Burr (David Niven). Ella coquetea con los dos, llegando incluso a enfrentarlos, no sólo por motivos sentimentales, sino porque desea contribuir a la construcción del país. Tras ejercer su influencia sobre Burr, ayudará a Thomas Jefferson a llegar a la presidencia de Estados Unidos (1801-1809). Cuando Madison (1809-1817) gana las elecciones presidenciales se convierte en la Primera Dama.
Frohman's Secretary (uncredited)
Biografía del compositor Jerome Kern a través de distintos números musicales, que van recreando su trayectoria profesional desde sus duros inicios en Nueva York, hasta su triunfo en 1927.
Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
Simon Little, Sparkle's Diamond Cutter
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Simmons
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
Dr. Coleman (uncredited)
Lassie es llamada a filas cuando estalla la II Guerra Mundial, y tras un duro entrenamiento realiza acciones heroicas en el frente. Pero su carácter ahora es diferente...
Jorgensen (uncredited)
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
Wetherby
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.
Cab Driver at Lodge (uncredited)
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
Recording Technician (uncredited)
Dos muchachas de Boston deciden trasladarse a Nueva York. Una de ellas trabaja como cantante en el local de un viejo amigo de la familia, mientras que la otra se enamora del hijo de un importante mecenas de la ópera.
Peabody
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Picnic Manager (uncredited)
Durante la Gran Depresión, Frank Chambers, un hombre sin rumbo, comienza a trabajar en un bar de carretera, regentado por un hombre mayor y por Cora, su joven, bella e infeliz esposa.
J. Cornwall Travers (uncredited)
Después de servir en el ejército durante la I Guerra Mundial, el reportero Terry O'Neill vuelve a casa. Descubre que es más difícil encontrar empleo de lo que había pensado.
Mr. Samuels
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Night Attendant (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.
Harris, Makeup Man (uncredited)
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
Mr. Tweedy (uncredited)
Imposibilitados para tener hijos, Julie (una actriz), y su marido, Bill (productor de Broadway), adoptan una niña huérfana. Pero Julie muere al poco tiempo y Bill debe ocuparse de la niña, con quien no le resulta nada fácil entenderse.
Wilson (Uncredited)
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Mr. Henderson (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.
Mr. Button (uncredited)
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Littleton (uncredited)
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.
Jones - Apartment Manager (uncredited)
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
Orville (uncredited)
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Don Birnam es un escritor fracasado a causa de su adicción al alcohol, adicción que lo ha destruido física y moralmente y lo ha convertido en un hombre desprovisto de voluntad. Con tal de seguir bebiendo es capaz de todo, incluso de robar. Tanto su novia como su hermano intentan por todos los medios regenerarlo, pero sus esfuerzos parecen estériles.
Hotel Night Clerk (uncredited)
Cuando es desmovilizado al terminar la guerra, el aviador canadiense Laurence Gerard vuelve a Francia para descubrir quién ordenó matar a un grupo de resistentes entre los cuales estaba su novia. Identifica a un colaborador del gobierno de Vichy y le sigue la pista hasta Argentina, donde el nazismo está lejos de haber desaparecido.
Phil Ford
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
Dr. Laren aka Dr. Dibson
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.
Georgie (uncredited)
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Mark Rogers
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Joe (uncredited)
Un famoso corresponsal de guerra se introduce en la habitación de una estrella de cine; un soldado se enamora de una joven taquígrafa a la caza de un hombre rico; un estafador quiere hacer negocio con un jeque millonario; un periodista busca una exclusiva; un director de orquesta pierde a su cantante principal... Nada más normal un fin de semana en el más prestigioso de los hoteles de Nueva York, el Waldorf Astoria.
Amos Baxter
Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.
Burton Lorrison
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Process Server (uncredited)
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Harvey (uncredited)
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.
Dr. Spenser, DDS (uncredited)
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Prof. Elwood Henderson
Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
Mr. Teckler (uncredited)
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Bolger
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Attorney Lyons (uncredited)
La única condición que se le impone a un joven para heredar ocho millones de dólares es que sea capaz de gastar uno en tan sólo dos meses. Esta disparatada situación provocada por el testamento de un loco millonario americano le dará al joven muchos quebraderos de cabeza.
Roberts
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
Fred Palmor
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
Waldemar Oates
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
Deli Customer (uncredited)
Edgar, un tímido bibliotecario es persuadido por el fantasma de su extrovertido hermano gemelo Buzzy Bellew, asesinado por un jefe mafioso, para que ocupe su lugar como showman de un nightclub y vengue su muerte
Mr. Perkins (uncredited)
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Historia de dos hermanas. Una de ellas, que está embarazada y forma parte de una orquesta, se preocupa por el destino de su marido en el frente.
Clerk (uncredited)
Emily Blair es una acaudalada joven que sufre sordera. El doctor Vance, un hombrede origen muy humilde, está desarrollando un suero para curarla, pero no funciona.
Dr. Hartman [Ch. 1]
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
Oscar - Hotel Proprietor (uncredited)
Dos intérpretes de vodevil de poco éxito deciden buscar oro durante la Fiebre de 1849. Llegan a una ciudad en la que no vive ninguna mujer, por lo que sus habitantes les prometen una gran cantidad de oro si les traen algunas mujeres.
Norman Vance (uncredited)
Una mujer ambiciosa, que se ha propuesto entrar a toda costa en la alta sociedad, contrae matrimonio con un hombre rico.
Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
La tranquilidad de un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos se ve alterada después de un baile al que asistieron algunos soldados. Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), una hermosa chica, aparece al día siguiente borracha, con un anillo de casada en el dedo y embarazada de un hombre del que sólo conoce el apellido. Había seis soldados, pero no recuerda quién es el afortunado.
Henley, the Druggist (uncredited)
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)
H.E. Holcomb - Assayer (uncredited)
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Harvey Bates
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
Fletcher (uncredited)
Casanova Q. Brown, profesor de historia de una pequeña ciudad, está a punto de casarse con Magde Ferris, cuando recibe noticias de Isabel, su anterior esposa, que le comunica que es padre de un niño.
Ned Bolton
Una chica rica y mimada no está dispuesta a que el matrimonio se entrometa en su afición a perseguir a los hombres.
Albert Foster
Una mujer comienza a sospechar que su nuevo marido puede ser un asesino.
Dr. Joe Carter (Uncredited)
Maisie está agobiada y su jefe le ordena tomar dos semanas de vacaciones. Al ir a subir al autobús con destino a Reno, donde cantará en una banda, conoce a una chica y un soldado, que le da una carta para su mujer, quien ha ido a Reno para pedir el divorcio. Pero la mujer no es la verdadera, y Maisie se pone a investigar.
Sheriff Mort Tucker
In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Clerk in Newspaper Office (uncredited)
Ambientada en Rusia tras la revolución bolchevique (1917). El anciano Conde Wolsky (Edward Everett Horton) va a la editorial que dirige la joven Nadena Kalenin (Anna Lee), pero ella, en un principio, se niega a recibirlo. Sin embargo, accede a hablar con él cuando se entera de la tentadora oferta que quiere hacerle: la publicación de las memorias de Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff (George Sanders).
Theatregoer (uncredited)
Jerry Flynn es un famoso empresario teatral de Broadway que está a punto de perder su teatro si no salda en breve una deuda de cien mil dólares. Paseando por la calle encuentra a un niño que juega con una oruga amaestrada llamada Curly. Si convence al niño para que se asocie con él, sus problemas pueden estar resueltos
Bill Collector
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Glove Expert (uncredited)
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
Technician (uncredited)
La historia vuelve a centrarse en la elección de Gillespie por uno de los dos asistentes, el Dr. Red o el Dr. Lee. Para ello tendrán que afrontar otro caso y decidir el diagnóstico: se trata de una niña que se pone enferma cada vez que come dulces.
Mr. Barker (uncredited)
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
The new boarder at a Washington, D.C. rooming house for women likes the fast life, but her recreational activities lead to her involvement in murder.
Mr. Newby (uncredited)
Tras dos años de reclusión, Stephen Neale abandona el sanatorio mental de Lembridge. Se encuentra entonces con un mundo distinto que nada tiene que ver con lo que él conocía. A su alrededor todo resulta inexplicable, sobre todo, el ser víctima de una persecución por parte de agentes del nazismo. Pero, cuando Stephen decide contarle a otras personas lo que le sucede, lo único que consigue es que piensen que está loco.
Phony Robbery Victim (uncredited)
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
High School Principal (uncredited)
Stefan Dubechek (Brian Dennehy) es un campesino checo que emigra a los EEUU, donde un primo le consigue trabajo en una mina... pero, las aspiraciones de Stephen Dangos -como comenzará a llamarse en la tierra del tío Sam- son ilimitadas y con una fuerte voluntad se puede llegar muy lejos.
Flophouse Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
Avery
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
Maxwell McKay
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
Buxton Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
Wilkins
El vaquero Dan Somers y el magnate del petroleo Jim "Hunk" Gardner compiten por obtener los derechos sobre el petróleo en tierra india en Oklahoma, así como por los favores de la maestra Cathy Allen
Ed Tracy
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Larson (Uncredited)
Un grupo de enfermeras del Ejército de los Estados Unidos se dirige a Hawaii en diciembre de 1941. El ataque a Pearl Harbor cambiará su destino y sus vidas. Enviadas a Bataan, Filipinas, las enfermeras estarán bajo el mando de la teniente Janet Davidson, que tendrá que enfrentarse con enfermeras novatas que esperaban una agradable estancia en Hawaii, pero tendrán que convertirse rápidamente en veteranas si quieren salvar las vidas de numerosos heridos y con suministros cada vez más escasos.
Mr. Linden (uncredited)
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.
Justice of the Peace
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
Watson
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Norwegian Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Herr Van Leyden (uncredited)
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
Church Organist
Eddie Johnson va a Coney Island para encontrarse con Joe Rocco. Eddie está decidido a obtener una participación en el nuevo local de Joe, en el que actúa Kate Farley. Eddie convence a un amigo para convertir su local en un "harén turco" con bailarinas. Su idea es un éxito y aleja a los clientes de Joe. Eddie envía a sus matones a destruir el local
Horace Weatherby
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
Father (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Politician (uncredited)
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Bartos
El 27 de mayo de 1942 murió víctima de un atentado Reinhard Heydrich, jefe del gobierno nazi de Praga. El doctor Franz Svoboda, miembro de la Resistencia y autor material del atentado, se esconde en casa del profesor Novotny.
Argyle, Hotel Desk Clark (uncredited)
El Halcón es inculpado por el asesinato de un banquero y el robo de bonos de guerra. Escapa a las montañas, donde se esconde en una cabaña rústica. Desde allí descubre una operación de bonos de guerra falsos.
Edmund Walpole
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Danvers
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
Secretary
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Pharmacist
Moe Finkelstein es un policía judío de Brooklyn asignado para proteger el cónsul nazi Karl Baumer en Nueva York, antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Baumer no es sólo un violento antisemita, pero es también un sinvergüenza, que desvía fondos del consulado alemán para un uso propio. Su perfidia es conocida por su mujer Sophie, que se casó con Baumer sólo para salvar a su familia de los campos de concentración, y por el asistente de Baumer, el Barón de Alvenstor. Por lo tanto, cuando Baumer es encontrado muerto, Sophie y el Barón son los primeros sospechosos del crimen.
Pharmacist's Mate 'Doc' Miller
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Pelly, Stregel's Henchman (uncredited)
An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.
Mission Worker
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
Collector (uncredited)
Mientras el Ranger Don Stuart se enfrenta a un peligroso incendio en un bosque, descubre que ha sido provocado. Sus sospechas recaen sobre una persona, pero no consigue encontrar ninguna prueba que lo vincule con el escenario del crimen.
Man at Auction (uncredited)
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Clerk (uncredited)
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Jewelry Salesman (uncredited)
Inexplicablemente, un novio y una novia no pueden asistir a su propia boda porque se lo impiden sus dobles, que son los que se casan. Seis años más tarde, el administrador del piso de Park Avenue de Tom y Gerry Jeffers enseña la casa, aunque todavía viven en ella, a otros posibles inquilinos, ya que ellos se han retrasado en el pago del alquiler. Gerry se siente frustrada porque su marido, un arquitecto que intenta sacar adelante sus proyectos, no permite que ella utilice su belleza para conseguir que alguien se los financie. Entonces, Gerry conoce accidentalmente a John D. Hackensacker III, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo.
Bomber
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
Randall
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Decoder
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Freddy Froelich
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Bird Man (uncredited)
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
George
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Bixby (uncredited)
Los cayos de Florida en 1840, donde gritan los implacables huracanes del Caribe, donde los rescatadores de Cayo Hueso, como la intrépida y bella Loxi Claiborne y su tripulación, recogen, a bordo de frágiles goletas, la cosecha del viento salvaje, enfrentándose a los dientes de tiburón de los arrecifes para rescatar a marineros y carga de los naufragios provocados por los carroñeros del mar.
Everett P. Digberry
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Smithers
Martin Eden quiere ser escritor pero para ganarse el pan opta por embarcarse como marino en un barco mercante. Una dura tormenta azota al navío que acaba naufragando. Martin consigue salvarse y decide poner por escrito la horrible experiencia que acaba de vivir. Algo que le traerá problemas con muchas personas.
Hotel Manager Clark
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.
Dr. Bradden
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
First Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Mr. Blanton - Photographer
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Jackson
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Professor Alvin
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
Frank Adams
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
Curtis Cole (uncredited)
Harry Pulham, miembro de una destacada y aristocrática familia de Boston, pasa sus primeros años en la Universidad de Harvard. Tras el paréntesis de la guerra, Harry acepta un trabajo en una importante agencia de publicidad de Nueva York, donde conoce y se enamora de la bella Marvyn Miles, pero la muerte repentina de su padre le hace volver a Boston. Decide quedarse a vivir, pero Marvyn no puede soportar el ambiente de puritanismo que se respira en esa ciudad.
Johnny Valdelle
Estrenada primero en Portugal el 5 de Diciembre 1941. Obsesionado con la idea de rodar una película sobre la miseria y el sufrimiento, el director de cine John L. Sullivan convence a los ejecutivos del estudio para que le permitan recorrer el país disfrazado de vagabundo antes de empezar a rodar. Después de trabajar como peón para una viuda que espera de él algo más que cortar leña, huye de su casa, pero el camión que lo recoge lo lleva de vuelta a Hollywood. Sintiéndose completamente frustrado, Sully entra en una cafetería, donde conoce a una actriz rubia, que, entusiasmada con su proyecto, decide acompañarlo en su aventura.
Jeweler
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner (Nils Asther), Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle (Robert Preston), who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack. There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.
Offbeat Otto, Musician
In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.
Attorney Arthur Prince (uncredited)
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all the parents to a special meeting. There the gang stage a melodrama, with Mr. Pratt portrayed as Simon Legree. The parents react by demoting Mr. Pratt to janitor. They appoint kindly Mr. Swanson, the current janitor, to head the school board. And of course they reinstate Miss Pipps as school teacher. Sometime later, in an act of forgiveness, Miss Pipps and the gang hold a birthday party for Pratt who is then humbled by the experience.
Delaney (uncredited)
Peter Kirk es un atractivo playboy que se ha casado con una atractiva doctora, Helen Hunt. Al poco tiempo los celos van a hacer que Peter sospeche de todos los pacientes masculinos de su mujer, para desesperación de ella.
Teacher (uncredited)
Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.
Head of the civilian counsel
Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
Wasserman
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
Motel Manager
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
Presidente Judge (uncredited)
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
Dr. Bailey
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.
Man in the Elevator (uncredited)
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.
Vogel
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Downey
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
Eddie Tate
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Joe
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Alienist #2
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Bank Manager (uncredited)
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
Blind Man (uncredited)
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Hutchins' Associate (uncredited)
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Matt 'Pop' Evans
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
Pete Kitchen
Phoebe (Jean Arthur) transforma ella sola un triste almacén en lo que ahora se conoce como Tucson, en Arizona, el orgullo del Oeste americano. Allí construye su rancho, que pronto será el más grande del territorio. Recién llegado de la ciudad, Peter Muncie (William Holden) comienza a trabajar en la propiedad de Phoebe entablándose entre ellos una relación que culmina con planes de boda. Pero el éxito del negocio de Phoebe no tarda en generar envidias y se cruza en su camino Jefferson Carteret (Warren William), un vecino que planea estafar a Phoebe y asesinar a Peter el día de su boda.
John - Alcoholic Father
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).
Melloney
A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana. Legal technicalities, however, halt the adoption proceeding and Stony, Rusty, and Rico can only watch as the little girl is placed in the county orphanage.
Amos
Ellery Queen (Ralph Bellamy) investiga la enigmática muerte de un millonario que administraba un centro de vacaciones.
Orderly at Emergency Switchboard
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Nels
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Kuse
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Secretary
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Mr. Stephens (uncredited)
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
Geologist
Dos amigos que pretenden hacerse ricos con el negocio del petróleo en los campos de Oklahoma, comienzan a tener problemas cuando se enamoran de la misma mujer.
Hemingway (uncredited)
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Estados Unidos, años 30. Durante la Gran Depresión, un vagabundo es reclutado por un partido político de su ciudad para colaborar en un fraude electoral.
Joe Stebbins
El Dr. Braun, cirujano vienés, y su hija Leni llegan a un pequeño pueblo de Dakota del Norte como refugiados escapando de Hitler. Cuando los vientos del Dust Bowl amenazan el pueblo, John Phillips lidera a sus habitantes en su viaje a Oregon en busca de pastos más verdes. Philips se enamora de Leni, pero ella ya está comprometida con el hombre que los ayudó en su huida del Tercer Reich. Leni tendrá que optar por uno de los dos.
Roger Weatherby (uncredited)
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Edwin Hall
Mediante flashback, un Edison de 82 años narra su vida desde su llegada a Nueva York con 22 años, cuando ya empezó a hacer sus pinitos en el mundo de la invención.
Director of Medbury Theatre Group
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
Dr. Bassett
Un científico busca la cura para el cáncer con una serie de experimentos que consisten en congelar y descongelar seres humanos. Uno de sus pacientes es un adinerado tío, cuyo sobrino exige saber sobre su salud, debido a que si muere, será beneficiario de una generosa herencia. El comisario sospecha que Karloff ha asesinado al viejo para quedarse con el dinero y junto con un doctor y un fiscal de distrito, marchan a la mansión de Karloff. Ahí las cosas se complican y Karloff termina congelado, junto con estos cuatro hombres, por el lapso de... ¡10 años! La llegada de un joven doctor y su novia permite el despertar de estos personajes, y la trama se complica.
Professor Drok
Miniserie de TV. 12 episodios. En el planeta Mongo, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden y el Dr. Zarkov batallan contra la Plaga de la Muerte Púrpura, intentando reestablecer en el poder al príncipe Barin. Tercero y último serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond. Los dos previos eran "Flash Gordon" (1936) y "Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars" (1938).
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.
Florist (uncredited)
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Ephraim Byrd (uncredited)
El Santo va trás la pista de un sofisticado ladrón de joyas que trafica diamantes dentro de una momia que viaja del El Cairo a Philadelphia, con la aparición de un cadaver en el jardín de la casa de un amigo suyo, Simon Templar decide hacerse pasar por el asesino ya que cuenta con un gran parecido fisico, de esta manera intentará resolver el caso.
Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
New Sentinel editor (uncredited)
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Bank cashier (uncredited)
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
William Sheldon
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
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.
(uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Ballistic Expert (uncredited)
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
Evans (uncredited)
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
Owen the Clerk (uncredited)
Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), una joven viuda que tiene una hija, trabaja como dibujante publicitaria. Un día, conoce al rico y apuesto Alec Walker (Cary Grant), que está unido a la pérfida Maida (Kay Francis) por un matrimonio de conveniencia que lo hace muy desgraciado. La felicidad de Alec depende de conseguir el divorcio y casarse con Julie.
Lang
Un brillante científico inventa un corazón artificial. Tras intentar realizar un arriesgado experimento con un hombre, es acusado por la novia de éste y es condenado a la horca. Después de su ejecución y gracias a su ayudante, regresará a la vida para vengarse de aquellos que lo enviaron a la muerte.
William Wilson
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
Coombs - a Sailor
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
J.J. Henkins, Auditor (Uncredited)
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Mark Hansen (uncredited)
Andy Hardy se enamora de su profesora de teatro. Cuando eligen su obra para ser interpretada en el instituto, aprovecha la oportunidad para estar el máximo de tiempo posible con ella. Entretanto, el juez Hardy tiene problemas cuando se ve obligado a formar una compañía de aluminio falsa.
Frederick Day, Dean Wixby's Secretary (uncredited)
En la universidad de Middleton, controlada por un rico donante, el presidente de los estudiantes ha de destacar en algún deporte para conquistar el corazón de su amada. El problema es que todos son de pago.
Delivery Entrance Guard (uncredited)
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Delivery Entrance Guard
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Serge
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Nicky es un buscavidas de poca monta, con un grupo en la calle que toca jazz, hasta que el propietario del lugar les echa por no pagar el alquiler. Después, Nicky conoce a una cantante prometedora, quien le convence de hablar con el director de una emisora de radio para promocionarla.
Andrew Whipple (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
'Murderer' in Classroom (uncredited)
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
Defense Attorney (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.
The Coroner
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Banker
This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication.
Schuster aka Quirk (uncredited)
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
Ed Harper
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
Swedish Janitor
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
District Attorney's Secretary
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Second Cripple
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Assistant News Editor (uncredited)
Melsa Manton, una jovencita de clase alta, descubre una noche, en una casa deshabitada, un cadáver. Pero cuando llega la policía, el cuerpo ha desaparecido. Al día siguiente, un diario publica la noticia, tomando por una bromista contumaz a Melsa, quien no duda en poner un pleito al autor del artículo, Peter Ames. Deseando demostrar la verdad, Melsa y su grupo de inseparables amigas empiezan a investigar el caso. Un segundo cadáver, éste nada escurridizo, no tarda en aparecer. Los meandros de la investigación son cada vez más espesos. Y entre dudas, sospechas y amenazas, Peter Ames y Melsa Manton empiezan a constatar que del odio al amor hay sólo un minúsculo paso.
Allen Roberts
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Bank Teller (uncredited)
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Kirby's Assistant (uncredited)
Alice Sycamore, la única persona con un poco de cordura en una familia llena de lunáticos, se enamora de su jefe, Tony Kirby, que pertenece a una familia muy rica y muy cursi. La diferencia entre el estilo de vida y la mentalidad de ambas familias se agudizan cuando los padres de él van a cenar a casa de ella, y la cena termina con la llegada de la policía y la detención de todos los presentes, acusados de anarquistas.
Simpson (uncredited)
Un profesor de leyes, John Lindsay, es nombrado fiscal en un proceso contra una banda de chantajistas. Se hace ayudar por uno de sus alumnos, Paul Ferguson, cuyo padre es el cabecilla de los acusados. La investigación avanza de forma traumática.
Dr. Belknap
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.
Alverson - Chemist
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Herbert Ellis
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
George Myles
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Senator
During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the Tennessee River. This proved to be a vital action for the North in its push south...
Al Horn (uncredited)
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Designer (uncredited)
Jim es un piloto de pruebas. Tanto su mujer Ann como su mejor amigo Gunner intentan que vuele con prudencia, pero la vida de esta clase de pilotos es cualquier cosa menos segura.
Wilbur Crane
Wilbur Crane is a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper who no longer finds his wife, Martha, attractive and sets out for a little fling among the fast crowd while looking for love in all the wrong places. Dorothy, a gold-digger first class, and her business-manager friend, Danny, oblige him. Through camera angles,"art" photos, some semi-nudity, special camera-effects (by Ray Mercer), and strange interludes in Wilbur's mind, and off-screen voices, long-time poverty-row b-western director Bernard B. Ray embarks on the exploitation trail.
Gazette Owner (uncredited)
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Husband
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Ballistic Expert (uncredited)
Enloquecida comedia sobre una mentirosa patológica que se acusa del asesinato de su jefe. Mientras tanto, su recto marido, que es abogado, tiene que defenderla.
Peters the butler
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
Kentuck
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
Chet
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Johann (uncredited)
En un imaginario país, la víspera de su coronación, Rodolfo V, es secuestrado por su ambicioso hermano que desea arrebatarle el trono. Los súbditos más leales convencen a un turista, que se parece asombrosamente al rey, para que lo suplante por unas horas. Al día siguiente, se prepara una expedición para rescatar al rey, que está encerrado en el Castillo de Zenda. El turista, enamorado de una princesa de la corte, participará activamente en la lucha.
Grocer (uncredited)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Mr. Muller (uncredited)
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
El doctor Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho), Tony (Chico), y Stuffy (Harpo) intentan salvar el hospital de Judy con el dinero de una paciente millonaria. Para hacerlo, el Dr. Hackenbush se hace pasar por médico, aún cuando es sólo veterinario, y no permite que den el alta a la millonaria. Paralelamente deciden también intentar ganar una carrera con el caballo de Judy
Mr. Dale (uncredited)
Un anciano matrimonio reúne a sus dos hijos para comunicarles que están arruinados y los van a desahuciar en un plazo muy breve. Sus vidas tomarán un nuevo rumbo.
Vail Employee Reading from Newspaper (uncredited)
Un maître de hotel conoce a una joven multimillonaria norteamericana y vive con ella una extraña aventura a bordo de un trasatlántico que va de París a Nueva York.
Korvitch [Chs. 1, 12]
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
Ole
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Pete Andorka
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
Supporting Role
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Villager at Stabbing
Los feligreses de una pequeña parroquia escocesa tratarán de impedir por todos los medios, las relaciones entre su clérigo y una bella joven de raza gitana. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Baby / Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Dr. Edwards
When her newlywed husband, Bob, mistakenly follows the diet prescribed for their dog and starts eating grass, Betty calls for a psychiatrist. To complicate their martial-bliss even more, Betty's parents comes for a visit and her father, a retired insurance salesman, forces an unneeded policy on Bob.
