Biography: Alan Hale, Jr. |
One look at Alan Hale Jr. and no one could ever assume he was adopted; Hale Jr. so closely resembled his father, veteran character actor Alan Hale Sr., that at times it appeared that the older fellow had returned to the land of the living. In films... more
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Tags: Comedy
Length: 98min
Not a medieval epic, The Iron Maiden is a contemporary comedy. Nor is the title object a torture device; instead, it's new sort of steam roller. The hero (Michael Craig) is an aircraft designer who neglects his work because of his fondness for machine...
Length: 61min
Talented action film director William Witney shows the depth of his skills in turning this one-week-in-production wonder into a passable, entertaining, one-hour western. The focus of attention is a trial in a town with no respect for the law, where...
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 92min
Hard Drivin' is a lively precursor to all those "on the road" flicks of the 1970s. Rory Calhoun, John Gentry and Alan Hale Jr. star as three hellraising Southern stock car drivers. The racing scenes themselves are well photographed, with the stars...
Cast: James Garner
Tags: Drama Combat Films
Length: 111min
Lt. (jg) Ken Braden (James Garner) is a US Navy frogman and underwater demolitions expert who is assigned to a vital mission, and to a submarine captained by Commander Stevenson Edmond O'Brien. But Stevenson is a CO who may have seen too many men die...
The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
Cast: Agnes Moorehead Robert Wagner Nicholas Ray Jeffrey Hunter
Tags: Biopic Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film
Length: 92min
Actually, this retelling of the life of outlaw Jesse James is only as true as its predecessor, the highly fanciful 1939 Tyrone Power-Henry Fonda starrer Jesse James. Generous chunks of stock footage from the earlier film are reused here, albeit...
Tags: Romantic Adventure Romantic Mystery Mystery
Length: 75min
Affair in Reno is an uneven Republic adventure from the later phases of the studio's history. Doris Singleton, usually cast as the heroine's next door neighbor or best friend (she's Caroline Appleby in the "Harpo Marx" episode on I Love Lucy), is here...
Cast: Joseph Cotten Rhonda Fleming Budd Boetticher
Tags: Police Detective Film Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 73min
In this hriller, "Foggy" (Wendell Corey) is a bank teller who got his nickname for the thick spectacles he must wear. Foggy is also an inside man for a gang of thieves planning to rob his bank. Unfortunately, their plan goes awry and he is arrested....
Cast: Robert Stack William Castle
Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama Romantic Adventure
Length: 77min
Robert Stack stars with Ursula Theiss (the wife of Robert Taylor) in the Columbia costumer The Iron Glove. Stack, an 18th century Scots adventurer, swashes and buckles on behalf of self-styled Prince James (Richard Stapley). Our hero insinuates...
The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954)
Tags: Western
Length: 73min
Scott Brady plays a decidedly mature Billy the Kid in this Columbia western programmer. According to this acount, Billy was just a mixed-up kid who was forced against his will to become a gunslinger. Billy's friendship with sheriff Pat Garrett (James...
The Spirit of West Point (1947)
Cast: Alan Hale, Jr.
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: 77min
This biopic highlights the illustrious careers of "the touchdown twins," Heisman Trophy winners Felix "Doc" Blanchard (Mr. Inside) and Glenn Davis (Mr. Outside) two football heroes from West Point. Featured in the story are actual archival clips of...
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