Matt Willis
출생 : 1913-10-16, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
사망 : 1989-03-30
약력
After a long film career, he lived a quiet, sober life, returning to his boyhood home area. In 1965 he was employed as an advertising salesman for WQVA, a radio station in Quantico Va. under the supervision of Rick Miller, Sales Manager/Sports Director. He lived with his wife and son Hunter in a beautiful house overlooking the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Bigfoot-Harry
When an ignored little boy bonds with Bigfoot and discovers the human-like ape is in danger, he has to find the courage to stand up to those bigger than him to save the legendary creature and set him free.
Mate Toby Jarmin
Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.
Jewel Thief Thorg
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
George
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
Mr. Burns - Horse Trainer
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.
Gangster (uncredited)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Harry gets a job at a radio station as an "advice to the lovelorn" host and winds up getting involved in a young woman's marital problems.
Berger
An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman.
Mort Dauson
Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
Luther Hebble
The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran comes to town, and Danny and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an infraction of a regulation. Danny's friends spread the story all over town. The seriousness of the minor infraction grows with each telling. As a sidebar, Rusty finds a mate and becomes a father.
Ace
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.
Hank
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Dan Prichard
In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-lookalike Dusty Anderson. She played Helen Wyatt, whose father (the rotund Guy Kibbee) loses his ranch to the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, the Hot Shots have been swindled by a couple of Eastern crooks (Ian Keith and Matt Willis) and consider themselves the lawful owners. Chased by the irascible Wyatt, the band members seek protection from aspiring singer Curt Stanton (Curtis), who they mistake for a gunslinger.
The Hammer
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
Ole Margarine (uncredited)
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
Detective Lane (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.
Sgt. Pete Halverson
1943년 이탈리아의 침공에, 미국의 한 소대는 땅을 파기 시작했다. 그것은 국내 농가의 방어를 강화하기 위해서 시도된 것이다. 점차 불안과 긴장감은 고조되고 희생자는 늘어만 간다.
Policeman in Hogarth's Office (uncredited)
25살의 출납원 크리스토퍼 크로스는 금시계와 약간의 귀중품이 있다. 비가 오는 밤, 그는 키티의 남자친구 자니로부터의 학대에서 그녀를 구한다. 아마추어 화가인 크리스를 그녀는 부자로 생각하게 된다. 키티는 크리스와 자니의 아파트에 살게 되고 크리스는 걸작을 그려내게 되는데...
Alabam
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
Perry Donnelly
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
Jeb Crocker
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
Tom Walker
Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.
Lt. Hunter
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
Andreas Obry
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Roger
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Sergeant on Train (uncredited)
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
'One Round' Beasley
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
Bouncer (uncredited)
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Bart Redmond
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Bouncer
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Link Wyman
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert.
Henchman Red Larson
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
Poker Player (uncredited)
레이 글레니스터는 덕망있고 지혜로운 광산의 소유주이지만 그의 광산에서 캐낸 금과 돈을 노리는 이들의 음모에 휘말려드는 인물이다. 디트리히는 이 도시의 매력적인 술집 주인으로 멋있지만 악한 품성을 가진 악당 두목(랜돌프 스콧이 연기한 알렉산드라 멕나마라 역)과 정직한 광산주 존 웨인 사이에서 갈등하며 선택의 기로에 서게 된다.
불굴의 미국인을 상징하는 서부 영화의 영원한 영웅 존 웨인과 독일 출신의 매력적인 여배우 마를린 디트리히가 함께 출연하여 골드러쉬가 최고조에 달했던 1890년대 미국 서부를 배경으로 벌어지는 사나이들의 결투와 사랑을 그려낸 작품. 존 웨인과 랜돌프 스콧은 영화의 결말 분, 술집에서 격투를 벌이는데 이 장면은 당시로서는 찾아볼 수 없었던 스펙터클한 액션씬 중의 하나라는 평을 받았던 바 있다. 영화는 서부 영화가 갖는 와일드하고 힘찬 성격을 고스란히 표현하고 있는 확실한 모험극이다.
Joker at Bar in San Francisco
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Soldier with Daisy (uncredited)
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Sailor
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Miles Tonkin
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.