Adele Palmer

Nascimento : 1915-10-22, Santa Ana, California, USA

Morte : 2008-07-01

História

Adele Palmer (October 21, 1915 – July 1, 2008) was an American costume designer who worked on more than 300 films during her long career. She was nominated for one Oscar. This was for the film The Best of Everything, in the category of Best Costumes-Color during the 32nd Academy Awards.

Filmes

Sob o Signo do Sexo
Costume Design
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
A História do FBI
Costume Designer
O veterano agente do FBI, John Michael "Chip" Hardesty, narra a história da organização, iniciando com o caso de Jack Graham, psicopata que explodiu o avião que viajava a mãe dele, em um voo de Denver para Portland para ficar com o prêmio do seguro de vida dela. A solução do caso após minuciosa investigação é mostrada como um exemplo da evolução técnica daquele órgão policial norte-americano.
O Céu por Testemunha
Costume Design
Padre Conroy (Crosby) tem uma paróquia que atende a comunidade de atuação e performance. Quando um de seus paroquianos fica doente demais para trabalhar, sua filha Holly (Reynolds) encontra um emprego trabalhando para uma boate de caráter questionável, dirigida por Tony Vincent (Wagner). Vincent nunca teve um grande momento, e o padre Conroy tenta cuidar de Holly. Existem muitos números musicais, e a conclusão é um show beneficente televisionado apresentado pelo Padre Conroy, e Tony deve escolher entre Holly e a fama nacional.
O Mercador de Almas
Costume Design
Ben Quick chega em Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, depois de ser expulso de outra cidade por supostamente queimar um celeiro por vingança. Will Varner é dono de quase tudo em Frenchman's Bend e contrata Ben para trabalhar em sua loja. Will acha que seu próprio filho, Jody, que administra a loja, não tem ambição e se desespera ao conseguir que sua esposa, Eula, fique grávida. Will acha que sua filha, Clara, professora de escola, nunca vai se casar. Ele decide que Ben Quick poderia ser um bom marido para Clara trazer sangue novo para a família.
A Caldeira do Diabo
Costume Design
Enquanto Constance e os outros pais da arrumadinha e perfeita cidade de New Hampshire lutam para manter seus filhos adolescentes na linha, escândalos acontecem ao seu redor, resultando na revelação de que nada nesta pequena cidade realmente é o que parece ser.
A Woman's Devotion
Costume Supervisor
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
Lisboa
Costume Design
For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems challenging enough, but when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife, Sylvia, he realizes his mission comes with a startling catch: Not only must he rescue this man, he must bring him back from the dead.
Dakota Incident
Costume Design
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.
Stranger at My Door
Costume Design
Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby farm. He soon discovers that the place belongs to local preacher Hollis Jarret, his new wife, and a son from a previous marriage. Clay, posing as a weary traveler, tries to insinuate himself into a secure hideout, but the reverend isn't fooled. He agrees to allow Clay to remain at the farm for a few days, but his motive isn't the preservation of his family's safety. Hollis reasons that, with time, patience and a lot of faith, he can convince the outlaw to turn over a new leaf. But Clay's criminal tendencies may run deeper than the preacher had imagined
Quando a Primavera Voltar
Costume Design
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
Um Homem Solitário
Costume Design
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
The Last Command
Costume Design
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
Renegado Impiedoso
Costume Design
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
Corrompidos pelo Crime
Costume Design
Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a visit from his twin brother John, a divinity student soon to be ordained as a priest. Aware that Gunner plans to resume his criminal career, John decides to stop him.
Massacre Traiçoeiro
Costume Designer
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.
Gigante dos Mares
Costume Supervisor
Biografia do contra-almirante John M. Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) focada em sua luta para continuar na ativa depois de perder uma perna em um acidente num porta-aviões na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Carolina Cannonball
Costume Design
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
Shanghai - Cidade Maldita
Costume Designer
Xangai, China. Os últimos expatriados ocidentais que ainda vivem na cidade são mantidos em um hotel pelas autoridades comunistas a fim de encontrar o espião escondido entre eles.
Hell's Half Acre
Costume Supervisor
A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Make Haste to Live
Costume Design
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
Trader Tom of the China Seas
Wardrobe Supervisor
In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.
Flight Nurse
Costume Design
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
Bandits of the West
Costume Design
Marshal Rocky Lane learns of a plan to obstruct the promotion of natural gas in his town.
Sweethearts on Parade
Costume Design
Cam Ellerby brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend.
A Cidade que não Dorme
Costume Supervisor
Johnny Kelly, que planeja se demitir da força policial e deixar sua esposa no dia seguinte, tem uma noite muito movimentada no plantão. O policial de Chicago Johnny Kelly, insatisfeito com seu trabalho e casamento, gostaria de fugir com sua namorada de strip-tease, Angel Face, mas está sempre com medo. Numa noite cheia de gente, Angel Face decide que chega de tanta vacilação, e o advogado corrupto Biddel arranja uma missão ilegal para Johnny que poderia colocá-lo em uma boa condição financeira para agir. Mas outros esquemas conflitantes também estão em andamento ...
The Sun Shines Bright
Costume Design
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.
Fair Wind to Java
Costume Design
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Jungle Drums of Africa
Wardrobe Supervisor
In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before long, she finds herself in danger from crooks and a local witch doctor.
Ride the Man Down
Costume Design
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
Depois do Vendaval
Costume Design
Sean Thornton voltou da América para a Irlanda onde pretende recuperar sua herdade e escapar de seu passado. Mas a atenção de Sean é capturada por Mary Kate Danaher, uma bela mas pobre donzela, e irmã mais nova do mal-humorado "Red" Will Danaher. O relacionamento turbulento que se forma entre Sean e Mary Kate, pontuado por tentativas belicosas de Will para mantê-los separados formam a trama principal, com o passado de Sean como boxeador atrapalhando um pouco.
Colorado Sundown
Costume Supervisor
The Hurley's own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Forester and substitute their brother Dusty in his place. Dusty then says all the trees are infected and must be cut down. But Rex Allen is suspicious and writes to the Forestry Department and gets involved with the murders.
Lady Possessed
Costume Supervisor
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?
Honeychile
Costume Design
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
Insurance Investigator
Costume Supervisor
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
California Passage
Costume Design
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
Under Mexicali Stars
Costume Design
Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.
North of the Great Divide
Costume Design
An Indian agent comes to the rescue when a local tribe's fishing rights are threatened by a greedy cannery owner.
Rio Bravo
Costume Design
Rio Bravo se passa após a Guerra Civil, quando a União volta sua atenção para os Apaches. O oficial da união Kirby Yorke está no comando de um posto avançado no Rio Grande no qual ele é responsável pelo treinamento de novos recrutas, um dos quais é o seu filho a quem não vê há 15 anos. Ele é tratado severamente para ficar em forma e enfrentar os Apaches, mas não antes de sua mãe aparecer para levá-lo embora. A decisão é deixada para o Soldado Yorke que decide ficar e lutar. Em meio a tudo isso Kirby e Kathleen apesar de separadas por anos voltam a se apaixonar e decidem que é hora de fazer uma nova tentativa. Atenção, não confunda com o filme homônimo em inglês "Rio Bravo" (1959) que no Brasil tem o título de "Onde Começa o Inferno".
The Showdown
Costume Design
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.
Rock Island Trail
Costume Design
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Harbor of Missing Men
Costume Design
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
Maldição
Costume Design
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
Twilight in the Sierras
Costume Design
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song.
Bells of Coronado
Costume Design
An insurance investigator must track down thieves before they take off in a plane with stolen uranium ore.
Estranha Caravana
Costume Design
John Breen (John Wayne), um miliciano do Kentucky se apaixona pela exilada francesa Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). Ele descobre que planejam roubar as terras que os exilados de Fleurette planejam se instalar e resolve acabar com os bandidos. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Brimstone
Costume Design
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Lágrimas Tardias
Costume Designer
Uma noite, em uma estrada solitária, um carro em alta velocidade joga uma bolsa de dinheiro, destinada a outra pessoa, no banco de trás de Jane e Alan Palmer. Alan quer entregá-lo à polícia, mas Jane o convence a ficar 'por um tempo'. Logo, os Palmers são descobertos por um Danny Fuller, um personagem desprezível que afirma que o dinheiro é dele.
Hellfire
Costume Design
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Streets of San Francisco
Costume Design
A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.
O Vale da Ternura
Costume Design
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.
Angel on the Amazon
Costume Design
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
Ao Cair da Noite
Costume Design
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Train to Alcatraz
Costume Design
Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.
I, Jane Doe
Costume Design
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
The Gallant Legion
Costume Design
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
Balas Traiçoeiras
Costume Supervisor
On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
The Bold Frontiersman
Costume Design
Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack must protect the gold which drought bedeviled ranchers have raised to build a dam from bad guy Smiling Jim.
Lightnin' in the Forest
Costume Design
Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...
Driftwood
Costume Design
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
O Anjo e o Malvado
Costume Design
Buscando refúgio numa fazenda no velho oeste, o matador Quirt Evans (John Wayne), conhece a filha de um fazendeiro e se apaixona. Aconselhado por sua amada, ele decide abandonar sua vida de pistoleiro e recomeçar a vida ao lado dela. Mas Quirt perde a paz, quando passa a ser perseguido pelo pistoleiro rival Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot) e pelo Xerife Federal.
Heldorado
Costume Design
Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker who originated the idea (at least, in this film).In Las Vegas, Roy meets heiress Carol Randall, who has been selected as the Queen of the Heldorado. Roy is informed that the F.B.I. wants an immediate investigation of the counterfeit thousand dollar bills that are being passed over the gambling tables at the casino.
Affairs of Geraldine
Costume Design
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
The Plainsman and the Lady
Costume Design
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
The Magnificent Rogue
Costume Design
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Costume Design
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Costume Design
An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
The Last Crooked Mile
Costume Supervisor
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Red River Renegades
Costume Design
Postal Inspectors Carson and Underwood have been sent to investigate a series of robberies where both the driver and stagecoach disappear. They team up with Pinkerton agent Bennett who has found some of the stolen money in the possession of Stevens.
Rendezvous with Annie
Costume Design
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
Night Train to Memphis
Costume Design
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
Specter of the Rose
Costume Design
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Man from Rainbow Valley
Costume Design
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him a show horse, his niece Kay North tricks Monte into believing she is a writer assigned to do an article on the real horse.
One Exciting Week
Costume Design
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
Valley of the Zombies
Costume Supervisor
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
Passkey to Danger
Costume Design
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
The Catman of Paris
Costume Design
When author Charles Regnier (Carl Esmond) returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour, Marie (Lenore Aubert), and best friend, Henry (Douglass Dumbrille), believe he's innocent ... until the creature begins to stalk Marie (from Netflix description).
Home on the Range
Costume Design
Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. Trouble lies ahead.....
Murder in the Music Hall
Costume Design
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Dakota
Costume Design
John Waine estrela como Devlin, um jogador, que com sua nova esposa, Sandy (Vera Ralston), se muda para o Dakota do Norte, onde espera tirar um tremendo proveito da terra, graças a expansão da via férrea. Quando viajam para o oeste, eles conhecem dois malfeitores, Bender (Ward Bond) e Collins (Mike Mazurki), que vivem saqueando fazendas e expulsando fazendeiros de suas terras. Os dois trapaceiros roubam numa perigosa perseguição de barca rio abaixo. Os criminosos tentam fugir a qualquer preço. Devlin desesperado, junta um grupo de fazendeiros para tentar recuperar sua poupança e colocar Bender e sua gang na cadeia. Ação do começo até um emocionante e imprevisível final.
The Cherokee Flash
Costume Design
Lawyer Butler, wanting Jeff Carson's ranch, has the Sheriff and his gang frame the bank holdup on him. Then they kill a witness that could free Carson and blame the murder on his son Sunset. But Sunset escapes, frees his father, and then sets a trap to catch the real killers.
Scotland Yard Investigator
Costume Supervisor
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Along the Navajo Trail
Costume Design
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
Love, Honor and Goodbye
Costume Design
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Costume Design
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Tell It to a Star
Costume Design
Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
Os Farsantes
Costume Supervisor
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.
Steppin' in Society
Costume Design
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Man from Oklahoma
Costume Design
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
Bells of Rosarita
Costume Design
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.
Um Dia Voltarei
Costume Design
Duke se apaixona por Flaxen, na costa de Barbary, na San Francisco da virada do século. Ele perde dinheiro para o tio jogador Tito, volta para casa e aprende a jogar. E retorna. Depois que faz uma fortuna, ele abre seu próprio lugar com Flaxen como a artista.
Three's a Crowd
Costume Design
What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?
The Phantom Speaks
Costume Design
A reporter learns that an executed killer has taken over a scientist's mind.
Utah
Costume Design
A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heiress (Dale Evans) not to sell the property.
The Big Bonanza
Costume Design
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
Brazil
Costume Design
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
Faces in the Fog
Costume Design
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
San Fernando Valley
Costume Design
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
Atlantic City
Costume Design
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Forasteiro da Noite
Costume Design
O sargento Meadows (William Terry) volta da II Guerra e vai até a Califórnia para se encontrar com mulher com quem ele se correspondia, sem conhecê-la nem sequer por fotos. Durante a viagem de trem, conhece a médica Lesley Ross (Virginia Grey) por quem passa a nutrir um grande apreço. Ao chegar na casa onde era esperado, ele não encontra a mulher, somente a mãe dela, a senhora Hilda. Hilda diz ao sargento para ficar e esperar pela filha, que deve retornar dentro de alguns dias. Meadows não sabe mas Hilda esconde um segredo sobre sua filha conhecido também pela empregada que vive com ela. E quando a empregada quer contar o segredo, é ameaçada por Hilda.
The Port of 40 Thieves
Costume Design
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
Costume Design
Country radio singers of the '40s appear in this tale about a lothario who poses as a professor to seduce coeds.
The Girl Who Dared
Costume Design
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
Three Little Sisters
Costume Design
The three Scott sisters, Susie, Hallie and Lily, live in the small town of Riverdale with their father Tom, a handyman whose laziness is legendary. The high-spirited sisters relieve the tedium by collaborating on Lily's correspondence with Pvt. Robert Mason, who is stationed in Arizona....
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Costume Design
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.
Goodnight, Sweetheart
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A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
Man from Frisco
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Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
Jamboree
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A trio of competing bands vie for a spot on a rural radio program.
A Dama e o Monstro
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A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
My Best Gal
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A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
Casanova em Apuros
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A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.
Romance dos Sete Mares
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Na WW2 no Pacífico trabalhadores da construção civil são necessários para construir instalações militares, mas o trabalho é perigoso e eles duvidam da capacidade da Marinha para protegê-los. Depois de uma série de ataques por parte dos japoneses algo novo é tentado, os Batalhões de Construção, em inglês Construction Battalions (CBs = Seabees) Abelhas do Mar. O novo batalhão tem tanto que construir quanto estar pronto para lutar.
Whispering Footsteps
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An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
Mystery Broadcast
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A radio-show mystery writer and her rival solve real murders.
Um Grito no Escuro
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A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
Nobody's Darling
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Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Wagon Tracks West
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Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
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An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Hit Parade of 1943
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When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Johnny Doughboy
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As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Moonlight Masquerade
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Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
The Girl from Alaska
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A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
Yokel Boy
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A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
A Tragedy at Midnight
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The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Remember Pearl Harbor
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A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
Gangs Of The City
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Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story to energetic reporter Bill Raymond, who has frequently pestered her for a scoop. When Bill is dismissed for the phony item, Bonnie realizes that she carried the prank too far.....
Mercy Island
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The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
Sailors on Leave
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If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Doctors Don't Tell
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Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
Ice-Capades
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Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Rags to Riches
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A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
Hurricane Smith
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Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
Mountain Moonlight
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A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.
Puddin' Head
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On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders.....
The Gay Vagabond
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Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Country Fair
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Johnny Campbell isa glib campaign manager for gubenatorial candidate Stogie McPhee. Having impulsively promised Johnny that she'll marry him if McPhee wins, heroine Pepper Wilson begins canvassing the voters on behalf of rival candidate Gildersleeve. But the race is won by a dark horse, blacksmith Gunther Potts, who single-handedly cleans out the corrupt element in the local government.
Sis Hopkins
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An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
The Great Train Robbery
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Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
Arkansas Judge
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Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
Bowery Boy
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Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
Behind the News
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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).
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
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When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Hit Parade of 1941
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Girl from God's Country
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Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
Scatterbrain
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A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Grand Ole Opry
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Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Wagons Westward
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David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother. The grown Tom becomes an outlaw while brother David becomes a government lawman. David is charged with apprehending Tom...
Women in War
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A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
The Crooked Road
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A blackmail threat from an old prison buddy compels a man who has gone straight to consider yet another crime.
Comando Negro
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No Kansas, durante a Guerra Civil, os partidários pró-União e pró-Confederados se opõem e a visita do texano Bob Seton detona o conflito com os Vigilantes de William Cantrell.
Forgotten Girls
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A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
Village Barn Dance
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Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
Wolf of New York
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A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Jeepers Creepers
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Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.
Sabotage
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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.....
Calling All Marines
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Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Flight at Midnight
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Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
Smuggled Cargo
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When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Should Husbands Work?
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Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
She Married a Cop
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Mickey the Kid
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A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
The Zero Hour
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A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
Man of Conquest
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The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
The Girl from Havana
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Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves.