Biography: Anne Nagel |

Sad-eyed, brunette American actress Anne Nagel was the daughter of one of the early Technicolor experts. Already a Hollywood habitue, Nagel made her film bow at age 21 in I Loved You Wednesday. She signed a contract with Warner Bros., appearing as... more
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Cast: Cecil Kellaway Victor McLaglen   
Tags: Western Adventure 
Length: 72min
Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter Regan. The villain's reign of terror as he searches for the precious gems is checked by Charles Clayton (John Loder), freshly...

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me (1940)
Cast: Jerome Cowan Fritz Feld   
Length: 60min
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he...

Cast: Huntz Hall Mary Carlisle   
Length: 65min
Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In this one, the Little Tough Guys (Hally Chester, Harris Berger, David Gorcey) cede most of the screen time to Dead Enders Billy Halop (as Jimmy Hogan) and...

Cast: Andy Devine William Christy Cabanne   
Tags: Drama Mystery Crime 
Length: 61min
Old stock shots are blended with freshly filmed material in the Universal programmer Hot Steel. Richard Arlen plays a metallurgist who brings his formula for super-strength steel to a mining town. The formula is promptly stolen, putting everyone under...

Cast: Sidney Blackmer Robert Kent Norman Willis   
Tags: Drama Crime Romance 
Length: 83min
Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star football player who is framed by gamblers on a robbery charge and sentenced to prison. Serving three years behind bars, Kent is...

Cast: Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Richard Arlen   
Tags: Family Adventure Romantic Adventure 
Length: 63min
Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a group of thematically unconnected B-pictures a "series"). This time, heroes Loop Gillian (Arlen) and Beff Brumley (Devine) are,...

Cast: Ann Sheridan William Hopper   
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime 
Length: 56min
Mystery House is a perfunctory Warner Bros. programmer which coasts along on the appeal of its stars. When a prominent banker is murdered while on a hunting trip, the dead man's daughter, Gwen Kingery (Anne Nagel), calls in private eye Lance O'Leary...

Cast: Warren Hull   
Tags: Melodrama Drama 
Length: 61min
Should a Girl Marry? never completely answers its own question, inasmuch as the story concentrates primarily on the male lead. Warren Hull stars as Dr. Robert Benson, so dedicated to his profession that he sorely neglects his ever-loving wife Margaret...

Cast: Harry Davenport   
Length: 65min
In this romance, a wealthy heiress decides that she wants a man who loves her for herself and not for her money. She finds herself a hard-working young man and they marry. Unfortunately, he is not wealthy and soon the couple struggles financially....

Cast: Karl Brown Marjorie Main   
Tags: Romantic Drama Showbiz Drama Drama 
Length: 63min
Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's Under the Big Top: slick and mildly entertaining, but not much more. Circus aerialist Penny (Anne Nagel) may be the queen of the...

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