John Rawlins

Nacimiento : 1902-06-09, Long Beach, California, USA

Muerte : 1997-05-20

Películas

Lost Lagoon
Adaptation
Saddled with a loveless marriage and three ungrateful children, Charlie Walker (Jeffrey Lynn) dreams of escape. When he falls overboard on a boating trip and is presumed dead, his fantasy comes true. He washes up on a Caribbean island and meets a lovely local (Leila Barry). He gets a fresh start at life, opening a resort on his island home. But guilt and a few insurance agents may cut Charlie's dream short.
Lost Lagoon
Director
Saddled with a loveless marriage and three ungrateful children, Charlie Walker (Jeffrey Lynn) dreams of escape. When he falls overboard on a boating trip and is presumed dead, his fantasy comes true. He washes up on a Caribbean island and meets a lovely local (Leila Barry). He gets a fresh start at life, opening a resort on his island home. But guilt and a few insurance agents may cut Charlie's dream short.
Shark River
Story
Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Parker (Robert Cunningham) hack their way through the Florida swampland. With the help of Clay's brother Dan (Steve Cochran), Clay is able to elude the authorities, but Parker dies of a snakebite. Subsisting on alligator meat, Dan and Clay make their way to the tiny cabin inhabited by widowed Jane Daughterty (Carole Mathews), her mother-in-law, and her son Johnny (Spencer Fox). The brothers rest here awhile, formulating plans to cross the Gulf of Mexico and head for Cuba.
Shark River
Director
Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Parker (Robert Cunningham) hack their way through the Florida swampland. With the help of Clay's brother Dan (Steve Cochran), Clay is able to elude the authorities, but Parker dies of a snakebite. Subsisting on alligator meat, Dan and Clay make their way to the tiny cabin inhabited by widowed Jane Daughterty (Carole Mathews), her mother-in-law, and her son Johnny (Spencer Fox). The brothers rest here awhile, formulating plans to cross the Gulf of Mexico and head for Cuba.
Fort Defiance
Director
Es justo después de la Guerra Civil y Ben Shelby llega buscando a Johnny Tallon a quien planea matar. Shelby fue el único superviviente de una batalla debido a la cobardía de Tallon. Al pensar que Tallon murió, otro hombre que perdió a un hermano en la misma batalla llega para matar al hermano ciego de Tallon. Tallon llega para encontrar a Shelby y su hermano huyendo. Luego son atacados por los indios y Shelby y Tallon ahora deben luchar juntos posponiendo el inevitable enfrentamiento.
Rogue River
Director
The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy was in on the scheme.
The Boy From Indiana
Director
Happy-go-lucky aspiring sportswriter Lon Decker from Indiana who has aspirations of becoming a sportswriter meets the shrewd and larcenous old man, "Mac" Dougal during his wandering. Mac likes to ensure his bets on Quarter-Horse races by doping a horse or two here and there. When Lon finds out Mac intends to fleece wealthy rancher Zelda Bagley he sets out to stop him.
Massacre River
Director
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
Michael O'Halloran
Director
A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
Los vigilantes de Arizona
Director
Un veterano deshonrado deambula solo por Occidente hasta que decide ayudar a una mujer maltratada.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Director
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Director
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
Her Adventurous Night
Director
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Strange Conquest
Director
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Sudán: La Reina del Nilo
Director
Nuevo espectáculo oriental de aventuras al servicio de la espectacular Maria Montez que esta vez encarna a una reina del desierto victima de un complot del hombre de confianza de su padre el rey que pretende hacerse con el poder. Con la ayuda de un forajido que le salva la vida, y del que se enamorará, Naila llegará a sospechar que él es el autor de todo incluso de la muerte de su padre.
Ladies Courageous
Director
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Nunca nos han vencido
Director
Un estudiante de la escuela militar se ve mezclado con espías japoneses que pretenden robar un producto químico secreto.
Las mil y una noches
Director
El califa Harum es derrocado y perseguido por su ambicioso hermano Kamar. Malherido, se refugia en el circo donde trabaja la bailarina Sherezade, que le ayudará a recuperar el trono
The Great Impersonation
Director
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Overland Mail
Director
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Half Way to Shanghai
Director
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Sherlock Holmes y la voz del terror
Director
La historia traslada a una época en la que el conflicto con la Alemania nazi es la orden del día. En esos días, una serie de emisiones de radio llegan de parte del bando alemán, en la que se relatan operaciones recientes de estos en contra del ejército británico, muchas de estas acciones se llevan a cabo a misiones de alto secreto británico, por lo que hay algo que no funciona bien en el alto mando, así que solicitarán la ayuda del gran detective para poder llegar al fondo del asunto.
Mississippi Gambler
Director
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
Unseen Enemy
Director
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
Torpedo Boat
Director
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
Bombay Clipper
Director
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Secret of the Wastelands
Williams
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
Sea Raiders
Director
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
A Dangerous Game
Director
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Raiders of the Desert
Director
Two American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in the fighting in a brutal civil war
Men of the Timberland
Director
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
Mutiny in the Arctic
Director
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
Mr. Dynamite
Director
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Director
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Director
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Junior G-Men
Director
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Director
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!
The Leather Pushers
Director
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Whispering Enemies
Story
Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket...
The Missing Guest
Director
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
Young Fugitives
Director
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
Air Devils
Director
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
State Police
Director
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Let Them Live
Editor
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Pennies from Heaven
Editor
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
The Final Hour
Editor
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
You May Be Next!
Editor
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Death Flies East
Editor
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
Mills of the Gods
Editor
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Fugitive Lady
Editor
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Among the Missing
Editor
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
The Hell Cat
Editor
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Above the Clouds
Editor
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
They're Off
Director
'The well-known crosstalk music hall comedians [Flanagan and Allen] presented in an amusing trifle which enables them to gag in that inimitable manner which has brought them popular success.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
Lucky Ladies
Director
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
High Society
Director
A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
Murder at Midnight
Editor
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
The Bargain
Editor
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
Too Young to Marry
Editor
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
Sweethearts and Wives
Editor
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
El traje de etiqueta
Editor
Skinner es un humilde oficinista cuya mujer fantasea con que consiga un esperado aumento de sueldo que les permitiría mejorar su nivel de vida. Cuando un día llega a casa y se encuentra con que ella ya da por hecho que lo ha logrado, éste se siente demasiado mal como para confesarle la verdad y le sigue la corriente. El problema es cuando ella en consecuencia empieza a gastar cada vez más hasta prácticamente acabar con sus ahorros.