Herb Vigran

Herb Vigran

Nascimento : 1910-06-05, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

Morte : 1986-11-29

História

A well known character actor, Vigran was originally a law school graduate. He later chose to pursue acting, and performed in hundreds of radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante. He appeared frequently as various villains on the television series Adventures of Superman (1952), and made several guest appearances on television series like The Brady Bunch (1969) and I Love Lucy (1951).

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Herb Vigran

Filmes

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
Hopps
Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that only he can master. Escaping the planet, he runs into the rogue smuggler Dagg and a pair of helpful droids and the princess, who all team up to return to the Mine-World with a plan to defeat Zygon and free Orin's enslaved people.
I Was a Mail Order Bride
Casey
On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assignment, and then makes another bet that he can keep the relationship platonic for two weeks.
Um Juiz Muito Louco
Justice Ambrose Quincy
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
The Flintstones: Little Big League
Judge Shale (voice)
Fred manages a little league baseball team that seems absolutely hopeless, except for a player that he blindly refuses to recognize.
Every Girl Should Have One
Ambrose
A merry who-done-it diamond caper unfolds after a woman's million dollar necklace is stolen while she is having her portrait done.
The Loneliest Runner
Guard
A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.
Benji
Lt. Ted Samuels
Em sua primeira aventura, o cãozinho Benji, ajuda a resgatar duas crianças das mãos de cruéis raptores.
As Novas Aventuras do Fusca
Window Washer
Quando um ambicioso milionário decide construir um arranha-céu no terreno de uma bondosa senhora, Herbie, o fusquinha com personalidade própria, decide ajudá-la.
Chase
A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.
A Menina e o Porquinho
Lurvy
Charlotte, é uma pequena aranha que tenta salvar a vida do porquinho Wilbur, tecendo cinco palavras milagrosas em sua teia, e ensinando a ele e a outros animais lições sobre a amizade, confiança e o amor. Ao mesmo tempo, acompanhamos a entrada da garota Fern, de 10 anos, na adolescência.
Emergency! [Pilot]
Committee Chairman
The pilot movie to the hit series about Los Angeles paramedics and their interaction with the fire department and hospital system.
Latigo, o Pistoleir‪o‬
Fat
Garner está fugindo de problemas com mulheres, mas precisa de dinheiro para viajar. Então, ele chega a uma cidade e se passa por um famoso pistoleiro. O plano é faturar uma grana, pagar as dívidas e ir embora antes do verdadeiro pistoleiro aparecer.
The Day of the Wolves
The Realtor
A group of six thieves selected from different areas are sent a letter that promises them a minimum of $50,000 and includes a plane ticket. The letter instructs them to grow a beard. After being given a blindfolded ride from the airport, they arrive at a ghost town and meet with the boss (Number #1, Jan Murray). All of the "Wolves" are assigned a number, wear identical overalls and instructed never to take off the gloves that they are given. They are only to address eachother by their numbers; in that way, if one is caught, he can't rat-out the others. Number #1 reveals to them that they will take over a town, and clean it out. Using the ghost town for training, they develop their tactics to fleece the town.
Meu Cão, o Ladrão
Helicopter Mechanic
Um repórter descobre que seu cão acidentalmente roubou um colar inestimável de uma quadrilha de contrabandistas de jóias.
O Fantasma do Barba Negra
Danny Oly
Nesta deliciosa comédia, o premiado e talentoso ator Peter Ustinov interpreta o fantasma do lendário pirata Barba Negra. Condenado a vagar pela eternidade até que pratique uma boa ação, o malvado Barba Negra aparece em uma cidadezinha da Nova Inglaterra. Sua grande oportunidade de livar-se desta maldição surge quando ele decide ajudar uma equipe de atletas da faculdade local... que não tem a menor chance de vencer! Usando seus poderes sobrenaturais, este fantasma brincalhão e irreverente apronta as maiores trapalhadas, nesta comédia que vai fazer você morrer de rir!
The Reluctant Astronaut
NASA Doctor
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Não Me Mandem Flores
TV Announcer (uncredited)
Em uma de suas muitas visitas ao médico, o hipocondríaco George Kimball (Rock Hudson) confunde como sendo seu um diagnóstico de outro paciente que está para morrer. E acredita que só tem mais duas semanas de vida. Querendo cuidar da sua esposa Judy (Doris Day), ele não conta nada para ela e tenta encontrar um novo marido para garantir seu futuro. Quando ele finalmente decide contar tudo, ela descobre que ele não está morrendo e acredita que é apenas uma desculpa esfarrapada para esconder um caso.
Um Gênio Entrou Lá em Casa
Eddie
Gênio saido de uma lâmpada tenta ajudar o seu amo, apenas o colocando em muitas confusões.
Gypsy
Announcer at Minsky's (voice) (uncredited)
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Contramarcha Nupcial
Christmas Caroler (uncredited)
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
Mocinho Encrenqueiro
Cigar Smoker in Elevator
Em um dos grandes estúdios de Hollywood, a Paramutual Pictures, o big boss da companhia, T.P. (Brian Donlevy), está muito irritado, pois a empresa dia a dia está perdendo dinheiro. Porém isto não acontece na bilheteria, e sim dentro do próprio estúdio. Durante uma reunião de diretoria, onde o assunto é levantado, T.P. apresenta para os diretores um técnico em eficiência, mas Irma (Isolbel Elsom), uma das sócias da companhia, se indispõe com ele, dizendo que isto não ira funcionar. O técnico se retira irritado, então T.P. e a diretoria concluem que precisam de uma pessoa totalmente desconhecida para fazer esta inspeção. Eles acabam escolhendo um colocador de cartazes, Morty S. Tashman (Jerry Lewis), que é uma pessoa muito boa e honesta, mas com uma incrível capacidade de arrumar confusões.
What's My Lion?
Narrator (voice)
It's open season for hunting, and Rocky the Mountain Lion takes refuge from gunfire by sneaking into a cabin owned by Elmer Fudd.
Essa Loira Vale Um Milhão
Barney Lampwick
Ella Peterson é uma operadora de serviço de atendimento telefônico do Brooklyn, uma espécie de "Secretária Eletrônica" analógica, que tenta melhorar a vida de seus clientes, passando algumas dicas de informação que ela ouve de outros clientes. Ela se apaixona por um de seus clientes, o dramaturgo Jeffrey Moss, e está determinada a conhecê-lo. O problema é que, ao telefone com ele, ela sempre finge ser uma mulher velha que ele chama de "mãe". e Livre (estimado Livre)
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
Mr. McCloy (voice)
Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.
Go, Johnny, Go!
Bill Barnett
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Mr. Perry
To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
A Bela dos Bas-Fond
Bailiff / Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
The Cry Baby Killer
John Lawson - Gambelli's Lawyer (uncredited)
A teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.
Contrabando de Armas
Freddy (uncredited)
Baseado em conto de Ernest Hemingway, o filme mostra um capitão de barco que se envolve com contrabando de armas, durante a Revolução Cubana, em busca de dinheiro para saldar suas dívidas.
The Case Against Brooklyn
Sergeant
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
The Notorious Mr. Monks
Bartender (uncredited)
A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder.
The Edge of Innocence
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
Com Lágrimas na Voz
Finney
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
The Wayward Girl
Used-Furniture Buyer (uncredited)
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
Gunsight Ridge
R.B. Davis - Justice of the Peace
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
Os Olhos do Padre Tomasino
Charlie Cuneo
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
Cárcere Sem Grades
Man in Elevator (uncredited)
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
The Vampire
Sgt. George Ryan
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
Public Pigeon No. 1
Club Manager
Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
You Can't Run Away from It
Detective
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
Calling Homicide
Ray Engel
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
A Cry in the Night
Jensen
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Three for Jamie Dawn
Mr. Robbins
An unscrupulous attorney attempts to rig the jury vote in a murder trial. Released in 1956.
That Certain Feeling
TV Director
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.
Our Miss Brooks
Herb
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
World Without End
Reporter (uncredited)
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
Uranium Boom
Hotel Desk Clerk
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.
At Gunpoint
Matt, a Saloon Patron
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Morrendo a Cada Instante
Art (uncredited)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Last of the Desperados
Coroner (bit)
After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang.
Dançando nas Nuvens
Nashby (uncredited)
Ted, Doug, and Angie são três ex-G.I.s (soldados) que resolveram marcar um encontro 10 anos depois num bar de Nova Yorke em 11 de outubro de 1955. Todos apareceram no dia marcado, mas rapidamente percebem que a amizade não é a mesma de antes. Um diretor de programa quer levar os três amigos para um Live TV show. As circunstâncias ficam ainda mais complicadas porque um grupo de gângster está atrás te Ted. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Vinte Mil Léguas Submarinas
Reporter for the Globe (uncredited)
Quando vários navios são abalroados e afundados por um misterioso monstro marinho nas águas do Pacífico, um professor de biologia marinha francês é convidado pelo governo americano a integrar a tripulação de um navio que irá tentar caçá-lo. Mas o que ninguém sabe é que o monstro é um submarino com um misterioso capitão, senhor de um notável saber que não está disposto a partilhar.
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Rocco McDoakes (uncredited)
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Natal Branco
Novello (uncredited)
Um dos clássicos absolutos do Natal, este musical conta com os insuperáveis Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen e Rosemary Clooney que cantam temas de Irving Berlin como Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep ou o lendário White Christmas. O filme, sobre dois ex-soldados que tentam montar um espetáculo de Natal na estância de férias de um antigo general, é um semi-remake de Michael Curtiz do também natalício Holiday Inn, de 1942, para o qual foi criado o tema do título e que ganhou então o Óscar de Melhor Canção.
Romance de Minha Vida
Sergeant Sam Hanlon
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
So This Is Love
Club M.C.
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Never Wave at a WAC
Photographer
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Lágrimas Amargas
Roy
Uma ex rainha do cinema encontra romance, mas continua a desejar um retorno ao estrelato.
Filhos Esquecidos
George - Jordan's Chauffeur (as Herbert Vigran)
Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?
Somebody Loves Me
Lipscott
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
Páginas da Vida
Poker Player (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
Em "O Policial e o Hino" um sem-teto fica frustrado pelas inúmeras tentativas de ser preso e encarcerado por 90 dias em uma cela quente ao invés de enfrentar os rigores de um inverno de Nova York. Em "O Toque do Clarim" um detetive da Policia de NY tem uma crise de consciência quando fica dividido entre o dever de prender um amigo de infância por um crime que só ele sabe e a dívida de honra que ainda tem para com o amigo. Em "A Última Folha" uma jovem ingênua pega pneumonia depois de ser seduzida e abandonada por ator venal. Quando perde a vontade de viver, sua irmã e um excêntrico artista de Greenwich Village tentam ajudá-la a sobreviver. Em "O Resgate do Chefe Vermelho" 2 vigaristas trapalhões sequestram o filho de um xerife rural, mas começam a achar que pegaram mais do que podem lidar. Finalmente, em "O Presente dos Magos" um jovem casal pobre luta para pagar Presentes de Natal dignos de seu amor.
Oklahoma Annie
Otto
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
A Estrada dos Homens Sem Lei
Paradise Club Manager (uncredited)
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
Temido e Desejado
Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
Night Into Morning
Joe - the Bartender
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Bedtime for Bonzo
Lt. Daggett
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Hunt the Man Down
Collins' Aide (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Na Boca do Lobo
Policeman
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Pecado Sem Mácula
News Photographer
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
And Baby Makes Three
Woodley
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
Sangue do Meu Sangue
Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson) é um banqueiro ítalo-americano que trata sem muita consideração seus quatro filhos, que já são adultos. Gino participou de várias atividades ilegais para construir seu negócio e agora está preso. Embora os filhos sempre estivessem sabendo dos negócios questionáveis do pai, eles lhe recusam ajuda para ficar fora de prisão. Liderados por Joe Monetti (Luther Adler), o filho mais velho, três dos filhos assumem o negócio. Apenas Max Monetti (Richard Conte) se mantém leal ao seu pai, em razão disto seus três irmãos conspiram e Max também é mandado para a cadeia. Max promete ao agonizante Gino que irá se vingar dos seus traiçoeiros filhos, mas quando ele é libertado não consegue se vingar, nem mesmo depois que um dos seus irmãos, Tony (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), tenta matá-lo. Max deixa seus irmãos e ruma para a Califórnia para ter uma nova vida com Irene Bennett (Susan Hayward), sua noiva.
The Judge
Reporter with pipe
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Man in Subway (uncredited)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Resgate de uma Consciência
Wertheimer (uncredited)
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
The Noose Hangs High
Coat Thief (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.
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Reporter
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Monsieur Verdoux
Reporter (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) é um assassino em série golpista. Ele casa com senhoras ricas e logo depois as mata para ficar com toda a herança. Esse dinheiro ele usa para sustentar sua verdadeira família, que se encontra em dificuldades financeiras desde que Verdoux se deu mal nos negócios.
The Burning Cross
Jim Todd
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.
Her Adventurous Night
Cop #2 (uncredited)
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
The Ghost Ship
Chief Engineer
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
A Volta da Noiva
Orderly (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.
Alta Malandragem
Man in Microphone Room (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.
The Great Gildersleeve
George, the jeweller
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
Secrets of a Co-Ed
Soapy
An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.
Pardon My Sarong
Wise Guy at Gas Station (uncredited)
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Night in New Orleans
Player (Uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
New York Town
Barker (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Reg'lar Fellers
Mr. Hall, Radio Announcer
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.
Murder by Invitation
Eddie Stats, photographer
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Redhead
Morocco Club bartender
A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of convenience, and end up falling in love.
City of Missing Girls
Danny Mason
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
Behind the News
Reporter #1 on Phone
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).
O Homem de Olhos Esbugalhados
Reporter Who Wins Cardgame (uncredited)
No julgamento de um assassinato, um repórter é a testemunha-chave e acaba sendo responsável pela condenação de um homem inocente. Aos poucos, ele começa a se sentir culpado e acaba sendo perseguido por pesadelos e pelas lembranças das juras de inocência do homem que ajudou a condenar.
The Golden Fleecing
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Cross-Country Romance
Omaha Reporter
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Hold That Woman!
Furniture Company Repossessor
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Conquistadoras da Broadway
Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
Um Sonho Para Dois
Monks
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Skybound
Grant the Mechanic
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.
Redhead
Factory Worker (uncredited)
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
Happy Landing
Radio Operator
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.