Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Cook Jr.

出生 : 1903-12-26, San Francisco, California, USA

死亡 : 1995-05-18

略歴

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr.  (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American character actor who made a career out of playing cowardly villains and weedy neurotics in dozens of films. He was perhaps most noted for his portrayal of the "gunsel" Wilmer, who tries to intimidate Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisha Cook, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Elisha Cook Jr.

参加作品

They Came from the Attic
Watson Pritchard (voice) (Archival)
A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Self (from Don't Bother to Knock [1952]) (archive footage)
Her story is well-known - the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars. And yet, in spite of the breakdowns, the failed marriages, the sordid rumors surrounding her life -- and her death.
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Pappy Glue
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Novatney
In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, the hippie "freaks" take on the town police "pigs" in a football game. On opposing sides of the fence are Frank, the police sergeant, and his son Neal. Also at odds are Neal and one time friend Doug, a returned Vietnam Vet who has joined the police force, who is also protective of his younger sister who prefers the hippie element. To make things even more intense, Mickey South, who has fled to Canada to avoid the war, returns to play for the Freaks football team. Tensions mount and all are challenged as the climax of the film approaches.
Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
Mr. Maps
A young woman follows clues across America, searching for a missing statuette of a golden horse. Viewers were invited to solve the film's mystery to find a real buried treasure hidden somewhere in the United States. No one solved the puzzle by the contest's deadline, and in 1989 the money was donated to charity.
This Girl For Hire
Eddie
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
Terror at Alcatraz
Hotel Desk Clerk
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.
Hammett
Eli the Taxi Driver
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Mousy ("Municipalians")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Leave 'Em Laughing
Jetter
Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children — 37 of them over the years — in the Chicago area, all of whom come back to visit when they discover he's terminally ill.
Harry's War
Sgt. Billy
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Carny
On-Your-Mark
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
トム・ホーン
Stable Hand
「荒野の七人」「ネバダ・スミス」などでスクリーンを飾り多くのファンを魅了した大スター、スティーブ・マックィーン主演による西部劇。開拓時代末期の実在の人物“トム・ホーン”をモデルに、その波乱に満ちた半生を綴る異色作。本作の後、間もなく亡くなったマックィーンの、最後の西部劇となった。 西部開拓時代末期のワイオミング州。大牧場主たちに家畜探偵として雇われたトム・ホーンは、牛泥棒たちを次々に退治してゆく。だが、容赦ないホーンのやり方に恐れを抱き始めた人々は、残酷な仕打ちを仕掛けて彼を葬り去ろうとする。
1941
The Patron (Dexter)
真珠湾攻撃直後のカリフォルニア沖に突如浮上する大日本帝国潜水艦。ただの田舎町をハリウッドと勘違いした潜水艦が攻撃を決定したことから、アメリカ陸軍と住民たちの大騒動が始まる。<「JAWS/ジョーズ」「未知との遭遇」に続くスピルバーグ監督のコメディ作品。本作のモチーフとなったのは、イ17によるカリフォルニア州サンタバーバラのエルウッド石油製油所攻撃や、イ26によるカナダのバンクーバー島攻撃など、太平洋戦争中に遂行された日本海軍潜水艦による一連のアメリカ本土砲撃、そして日本軍の攻撃に対するアメリカ人の恐怖が引き起こしたロサンゼルスの戦いである。>
The Champ
Georgie
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
Mad Bull
Sweeper
An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.
Dead of Night
Karel
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
St. Ives
Eddie
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
The Black Bird
Wilmer Cook
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Winterhawk
Finley
Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase...
Senior Power
Mr. Boyle
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan team up to teach senior citizens some useful tips on avoiding purse snatcher, burglars, and armed robbers.
The Phantom of Hollywood
Studio Engineer (uncredited)
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its backlot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm
The Outfit
Carl
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Emperor of the North
Gray Cat
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
ビリー・ザ・キッド 21才の生涯
Cody
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Electra Glide in Blue
Willie
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
メサイア・オブ・デッド
Charlie
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
Blacula
Sam
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
ミネソタ大強盗団
Bunker (as Elisha Cook)
1876年、コール・ヤンガーとジェシー・ジェイムズ率いる強盗一味が中西部を荒らし回っていた。そんな彼らに鉄道会社が追手を差し向けるが……。フィリップ・カウフマン監督が手掛けたニューシネマ実録西部劇。
The Night Stalker
Mickey Crawford
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He's hot on the trail, but nobody believes him. His editor thinks he's nuts and the police think he's a hindrance in the investigation, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hand.
The Scarecrow
Micah
Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
Night Chase
Proprietor
A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border.
Night Slaves
A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of town every night... he seems to be the only one unaffected. What is happening to the townsfolk? Who is the mysterious young women he keeps seeing? Why isn't he affected?
El Condor
Old Convict
Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen
The Movie Murderer
Willie Peanuts
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
The Great Bank Robbery
Jeb
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Cry for Poor Wally
After committing a crime, fugitive Wally takes a young woman hostage and determines not to return to prison at any cost.
ローズマリーの赤ちゃん
Mr. Nicklas
巨匠ロマン・ポランスキーが悪魔崇拝者たちに狙われたある主婦の恐怖を描いたオカルト・サイコ・ホラー。マンハッタンの古いアパートに、若い夫婦者が越してきた。やがて妻のローズマリーは身篭もり、隣人の奇妙な心遣いに感謝しながらも、妊娠期特有の情緒不安定に陥っていく。彼女は、アパートで何か不気味なことが進行している、という幻想にとり憑かれていた……。
The Movie Orgy
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Welcome to Hard Times
Hanson
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
The Spy in the Green Hat
Arnold
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Blood on the Arrow
Tex
In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been captured. The hero was a captured outlaw en route to his trial.
The Big Parade of Comedy
(archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Glass Cage
Ellen's father
Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.
Johnny Cool
Underworld Leader
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
怪談呪いの霊魂
Gideon Smith / Micah Smith
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Black Zoo
Joe
A deranged animal lover unleashes his toothy pets on anyone who stands in his way. Obsessed with big cats the owner of a private Los Angeles zoo is a member of a cult called the “true believers,” believing beasts and humans are soul mates and that animal souls can be transferred to one another. His wife is locked in a miserable marriage with this human hater. Also living with them is a mute son from the zoo owner’s first marriage. It's almost as if he is suppressing his latent homosexuality by madly channelling all his being into his private zoo, with the big cats (all with male names like King and Baron) as surrogate lovers.
Papa's Delicate Condition
Mr. Keith
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
片目のジャック
Carvey
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
College Confidential
Ted Blake
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
Platinum High School
Harry Nesbit
At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway - there to investigate the death of his son, who he had been told died in an accident.
無法の拳銃
Larry Teter (town barber)
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
地獄へつゞく部屋
Watson Pritchard
Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
Baby Face Nelson
Homer van Meter
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
Plunder Road
Skeets Jonas
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Chicago Confidential
Candymouth Duggan
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
The Lonely Man
Willie
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Voodoo Island
Martin Schuyler
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
Accused of Murder
'Whitey' Pollock
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.
現金に体を張れ
George Peatty
ジョニーは出所したばかりにも関わらず、競馬場の売上金強奪を企み仲間を集める。周到な準備の末、いよいよ決行の時が来るが、計画が成功したかに思えた瞬間、思わぬ展開がジョニーたちを待っていた……。
The Indian Fighter
Briggs (as Elisha Cook)
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
Trial
Finn
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Timberjack
Punky (as Elisha Cook)
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
Drum Beat
Blaine Crackel
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Outlaw's Daughter
Lewis 'Tulsa' Cook
Led astray by outlaw leader Jess, the "outlaw's daughter" Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Kate holds Dan responsible for her father's death. Only after most of the bad guys have been decimated by Dan does Kate discover the true identity of her dad's murderer. Having fallen in love with Kate, marshal Dan offers to let her escape prosecution, but she's made of sterner stuff than that.
Thunder Over the Plains
Joseph Standish
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
I, the Jury
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.
I, the Jury
Bobo
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.
シェーン
Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
Don't Bother to Knock
Eddie Forbes
Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
Behave Yourself!
Albert Jonas
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
The Great Gatsby
Klipspringer
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Flaxy Martin
Roper
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
The Gangster
Oval
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
The Long Night
Frank Dunlap
City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Born to Kill
Marty
Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.
Fall Guy
Joe
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
三つ数えろ
Harry Jones
レイモンド・チャンドラー原作『大いなる眠り』をハワード・ホークスが映画化したフィルム・ノワールの古典的名作。探偵フィリップ・マーロウを演じるのはハンフリー・ボガート。
Two Smart People
Fly Feletti
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
Joe Palooka, Champ
Eugene
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
The Falcon's Alibi
Nick
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
Cinderella Jones
Oliver S. Patch
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Blonde Alibi
Sam Collins
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.
Why Girls Leave Home
Jimmy Lobo
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.
Dillinger
Kirk Otto
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Dark Waters
Cleeve
Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
Dark Mountain
Whitey
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.
Up in Arms
Info Jones
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Phantom Lady
Cliff Milburn
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
Baptism of Fire
Bill (uncredited)
Baptism of Fire is a 1943 American documentary, meant to be an Army training film starring Elisha Cook Jr. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Kill or Be Killed
2 GI's about to go into battle in WW2 discuss how to deal with the mental issues of actual combat and how to cope with it. An honest portrayal of how hard it really is for men to kill each other.
Manila Calling
Gillman
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
Wildcat
Harold 'Chicopee' Nevins
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
A-Haunting We Will Go
Frank Lucas
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Sleepytime Gal
Ernie
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
A Gentleman at Heart
Genius
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
Hellzapoppin'
Harry Selby
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Ball of Fire
Waiter
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
I Wake Up Screaming
Harry Williams
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
マルタの鷹
Wilmer Cook
ダシール・ハメットのミステリー3度目の映画化で、J・ヒューストンの初監督作品。ばく大な価値を持つとされる“マルタの鷹”と呼ばれる彫像をめぐる争いに巻き込まれた私立探偵サム・スペード。警察から相棒アーチャーの殺害容疑をかけられ、あやしい人物たちの中で命の危険にさらされながら、真相に迫っていく。
ヨーク軍曹
Piano Player (uncredited)
第一次大戦で活躍した、実在の人物を描いた伝記的映画。テネシーの田舎町に生まれたヨークは、何物にも縛られない自由人だった。しかし、ある時から信仰に目覚めた彼は、真の自由を守るためには、戦争もやむなしという結論に達する。そして彼は、戦場で幾つもの武勲を立てるのだった……。
Man at Large
Hotel Clerk
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas Dayle is assigned by her editor to track down the enemy aviator and get an exclusive story. When she catches up with Grayson and Max, Dallas is under the impression that Grayson is a rival reporter and Max is the genuine fugitive.
Love Crazy
Joe (elevator operator)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
Tin Pan Alley
Joe Codd
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Public Deb No. 1
Communist
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Stranger on the Third Floor
Joe Briggs
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
He Married His Wife
Dicky Brown
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Grand Jury Secrets
Robert Austin / Norman Hazlitt
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Newsboys' Home
Danny
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Submarine Patrol
Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka 'The Professor'
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
My Lucky Star
Waldo
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
Three Blind Mice
Boy on Bench (uncredited)
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Life Begins in College
Oliver ("Ollie") Stearns Jr.
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
Danger - Love at Work
McBain, the chemist
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Glen Wylie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
They Won't Forget
Joe Turner
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
The Devil Is Driving
Tony Stevens
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.
Love Is News
Egbert Eggleston
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Pigskin Parade
Herbert Van Dyke
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. But the hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
Two in a Crowd
Skeeter
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
Honor Among Lovers
Office Boy
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Chills and Fever
Member of the Glee Club
An amateur theatrical society rehearses in a deserted house which is believed to be haunted by two travelers who have lost their way in the rain.