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The son of a patent medicine manufacturer, American actor Alan Hale chose a theatrical career at a time when, according to his son Alan Hale Jr., boarding houses would post signs reading "No Dogs or Actors Allowed." Undaunted, Hale spent several... more
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The Adventures of Don Juan (1949)
Cast: Errol Flynn Raymond Burr Viveca Lindfors
Tags: Costume Adventure Swashbuckler Action
Length: 111min
Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The Adventures of Don Juan with a spirited, athletic performance. As fabled Spanish swashbuckler/lover Don Juan, Flynn spends the...
Cast: Lloyd Bridges Randolph Scott
Tags: Action Adventure Crime Western
Length: 74min
The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new title, Thundercloud, misleads the audience into expecting a Native American epic. Actually the film involves a gun salesman...
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
Cast: Milton Berle Virginia Mayo Bert Lahr
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Comedy Drama Slapstick
Length: 115min
Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them Laughing hit the screens. Though his character name is Kip Cooper, Uncle Miltie more or less plays himself: an ambitious...
The House Across the Street (1949)
Cast: Richard L. Bare
Tags: Crime Drama Detective Film
Length: 69min
House Across the Street was the second remake of the 1933 Paul Muni starrer Hi, Nellie. The original's satirical jibes against columnist Walter Winchell are downplayed in favor of undistilled concentration on the plot. Crusading newspaperman Dave...
Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
Tags: Adventure Historical Film
Length: 80min
Decked out with leftover sets and stock footage from 1946's Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Columbia's Rogues of Sherwood Forest stars John Derek as the son of legendary do-gooder Robin Hood. When King John (George Macready) revives his old cycle of...
Cast: Edgar Buchanan Ruth Warrick Pat O'Brien
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 89min
Pat O'Brien makes the casual acquaintance of fellow American Ruth Warrick while on vacation in Mexico City. What Warrick doesn't know is that O'Brien is a treasury agent, out to get expatriate counterfeiters Alan Hale and Edgar Buchanan. What O'Brien...
Tags: Crime Adventure War Drama
Length: 81min
Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Cynical Dutch pilot Philip Artveld (Philip Dorn) pays a visit to the American desert before being shipped off to the Front. He wanders into a...
Cast: Raymond Massey
Tags: War Drama Combat Films Drama Historical Film War
Length: 90min
Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light in the sky and several scenes of enemy pilots spitting up blood when shot down by American bullets. The film was based on the...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Raoul Walsh Judith Anderson Teresa Wright
Tags: Western Psychological Western
Length: 101min
Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the arrival of the men tracking them, as they try to reason out what has gone wrong in their lives. Jeb can't remember anything...
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
Cast: Fredric March C. Aubrey Smith Donald Crisp
Length: 130min
Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today, cliches notwithstanding. Fredric March, 47 at the time, convincingly plays American author Sam Clemens, aka Mark Twain, from his...
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