William Bendix

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.

A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. The leader's father is an infamous ex-gunfighter, and he straps his guns on one more time.

A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.

A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South. Along the way they are aided by a young Korean boy and his adopted dog, a US trained German Shepherd named Lobo.

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...

Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically, the hostage takers become the hostages as they pay through the nose becoming the butts of the kid's stunts.

The struggle between two friends: one, symbolizes the deepest incredulity about religion; the other, priest Manuel, endures insults with stoic resignation, but doesn't give up on installing words of faith in the hope of recovering his soul for God. In a pathetic atmosphere, in which everyone defends the primacy of their beliefs, they feel surrounded by a bundle of circumstances linked to a secret of love, with an unexpected and disconcerting outcome ...

A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind that the plane turns out to be one of ours). To prove that he's worthy of command, Austin volunteers for a dangerous mission: the rescue of a group of US pilots on a Japanese-held island. The ubiquitous William Bendix costars as Frenchy Shapiro (!), Austin's Jewish petty officer and severest critic. If the film has a villain, it is Keenan Wynn as ambitious Lt. Commander Edge, who seems to despise anyone who isn't a mainline WASP.

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

Шестеро заключённых, сбежавших из тюрьмы, предпринимают попытку добраться до «больших денег», отчаянно «прокладывая путь» на свободу.

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Легендарного пирата по прозвищу "Чёрная Борода" никак не могут поймать все объединённые силы правопорядка, он с лёгкостью ускользает от погонь, а потом с такой же лёгкостью проникает в нужные ему порты, невзирая на мощную заградительную артиллерию и огромные гарнизоны. И тогда против него решает на свой страх и риск начать спецоперацию молодой, сильный, но немного романтичный доктор медицины. Да-да, всего лишь какой-то доктор...

Макао — колония Португалии, одно из самых старых поселений европейцев в Азии и туристическая Мекка. Из-за обилия казино и игорных домов ее называли «Монте-Карло Востока». В этот райский уголок прибывают три гражданина Америки — Джулия Бенсон — циничная и довольно болтливая певичка, Ник Кохран — бывший военнослужащий, сбежавший после несерьезной огнестрельной раны и Лоуренс Трамбл — коммивояжер. На самом деле он детектив из Нью-Йорка, которому поручено вернуть в Штаты Винсента Хэллорана, местного короля игорного бизнеса. Винсент нанимает Джулию петь в его клубе и заигрывает с ней, чем крайне недовольна его подружка Марджи. Считая, что Ник и есть коп из Нью-Йорка, мафиози Винсент неудачно пытается его подкупить, чтобы он уехал с острова, но натыкается на непонимание и вынужден принять другие меры к воздействию...

After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.

Фильм рассказывает о детективе МакЛеоде, который жесток и бескомпромиссен по отношению ко всем нарушителям закона. Он даже готов пойти на крайние меры и выбить из подозреваемых признание, если на них не набирается достаточно улик. Нелегально занимающийся врачебной практикой Шнейдер долгое время ходит у МакЛеода в подозреваемых. Несмотря на отсутствие серьезных улик и свидетелей, детектив мечтает посадить доктора в тюрьму.

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.

A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.

Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim

Дело было в начале двадцатого века — жил, не тужил в штате Коннектикут, на американском континенте простой и не амбициозный кузнец по имени Хэнк Мартин, трудился себе спокойно в собственной мастерской, да заодно изучал устройство сногсшибательной новинки автомобиля. И вот как-то он очень торопился и выехал из дома на лошадке в жуткую грозу. Скакал он быстро, поторапливал кобылку, но тут ударила молния, наш герой упал, потерял сознание. Очнулся и…

Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.

Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.

A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term but high-paid job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.

Жена Джонни не сильно ждала мужа с фронта и давно уже пошла по рукам. После короткой, но яростной ссоры он уходит из дома, оставив свой пистолет, а вскоре Хелен находят убитой. Мучимый провалами памяти, вызванными фронтовой контузией, Базз признается в убийстве, хотя полиция подозревает самого Джонни. Поиск истины осложняется непрекращающимися разборками с гангстерами, нарастающей амнезией Базза, чередой новых убийств. Подозреваемые меняются как в калейдоскопе, напряжение нарастает. Поможет ли Джойс — жена таинственного владельца ночного клуба «Синий Георгин», любовника убиенной Хелен — найти подлинного убийцу или она ведёт свою игру, смертельную для друзей?

Частный сыщик Брэд Голт в прошлом имел проблемы с законом из-за происков своего бывшего партнёра Джардена. Отсидев в тюрьме, Голт клянётся быть порядочным и законопослушным, вот только работа и буйный нрав тому не слишком способствуют. К тому же детектив обнаруживает за собой слежку, которую, судя по всему, финансирует тот самый Джарден, ставший адвокатом-шантажистом. Однако Голту предстоит убедиться, что всё гораздо сложнее, и что он должен стать пешкой в игре, разыгрываемой совсем другим человеком, имеющим насчёт Голта и Джардена свои планы.

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.

Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.

Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.

Вторая мировая война. Немецкая подводная лодка торпедирует корабль. В результате оба судна тонут. Оставшиеся в живых пассажиры корабля оказываются в небольшой спасательной шлюпке. Последним к переполненной лодке подплывает капитан немецкой субмарины. Его берут на борт в надежде, что он, как опытный моряк сможет привести шлюпку в безопасную гавань.

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

В ходе кампании за переизбрание, Пол Мэдвиг решает порвать с прошлым и отказаться от поддержки гангстеров, присоединившись к респектабельному реформисту Ральфу Генри. Вскоре сына мистера Генри находят мертвым. Между тем босс мафии использует свое влияние, чтобы вызвать у общественности подозрения в виновности Мэдвига.

Декабрь 1941. Без всякой надежды на помощь, небольшой гарнизон на островах Уилкс, Уэйк и Пил, в течение двух недель отражал яростные атаки японского флота.

Уильям Уэбстер, бывшая звезда вестернов, известный как "Бронко Билли", с возрастом был вынужден оставить карьеру актера и пойти работать вахтером на киностудии Paramount Pictures. Тем не менее, он сказал своему сыну Джонни, который служит на флоте, что является исполнительным вице-президентом студии, ответственным за кинопроизводство. Когда Джонни во время очередного увольнения на берег вместе со своими друзьями-моряками прибывает в Голливуд, Вебстер, не желая, чтобы сын узнал правду, решает разыграть перед ним небольшой «спектакль».

В центре истории соперничающие репортеры Сэм и Тесс, которые влюбляются в друг друга и женятся. Однако брак совершенно не успокаивает их накаленные отношения…

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

Джо и Пол Фабрини — братья-дальнобойщики, работающие за небольшие деньги на контору-перевозчика, и при этом постоянно скрывающиеся от кредиторов, у которых заложен их автомобиль. Но они живут мечтами о лучшей жизни — Джо хочет работать сам на себя, а Пол хочет оставить водительское ремесло, чтобы больше времени проводить с женой. Работа братьев и их коллег-дальнобойщиков зачастую связана с определенным риском — ради того, чтобы доставить груз вовремя, многие вынуждены ездить сутками почти без сна, что приводит к несчастным случаям. Героям наконец выпадает шанс заработать и встать на ноги, но на обратном пути случается авария…