Biography: Astrid Allwyn |
There was always something calculating about Astrid Allwyn. "Scratch a chilly 'other woman' and if she were not Helen Vinson, she usually turned out to be Astrid Allwyn," as one commentator put it. Allwyn was certainly "chilly" toward little... more
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Cast: Chester Morris
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 76min
Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel room, whence Morris conducts his investigation of a kidnap case. It appears that the abduction has some tenuous connection with a recent bank robbery. As...
Cast: Judy Canova
Tags: Comedy
Length: 80min
In this cornball musical comedy, a hillbilly gal and her uncle struggle to keep sly city slickers from getting their land. It is an uphill battle as their farm is located on Fifth Avenue, New York City. The slickers then resort to trickery by offering...
Cast: Boyd Irwin H.B. Warner
Tags: Mystery Drama Detective Film
Length: 73min
A girl reporter discovers that her own father runs a shady "school of fine arts" (read brothel) in this independently made potboiler directed by former silent screen actor Elmer Clifton. When several naive young girls turned "nightclub entertainers"...
Cast: Lloyd Nolan Alan Ladd Ray Middleton Barton MacLane
Length: 66min
In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most of his clients are criminals and he soon finds himself involved with a mob boss. Together they build a new crime syndicate....
Cast: Andy Devine Douglas Fowley John Rawlins
Tags: Sports Drama Comedy
Length: 64min
In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who is training Andy Grogan to wrestle, really packs a wallop, he suggests that Dick try boxing. Slick, the promoter then fixes...
Cast: Rod La Rocque
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 62min
International Crime is the second of two Grand National programmers inspired by the popular "Shadow" pulp novels by Maxwell Grant. Rod La Rocque plays Lamont Cranston, famed criminologist and (in this film at least) radio crime reporter. This time...
Cast: Irene Dunne Leo McCarey Charles Boyer Lee Bowman
Tags: Romance Romantic Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 87min
Leo McCarey's classic tale of romance stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer as two strangers who fall in love on an ocean voyage. Charles Boyer is Michel Marnet, engaged to be married to Lois Clarke (Astrid Allwyn). Irene Dunne is Terry McKay, also...
Cast: Warren William
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 57min
In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl necklace has been stolen by other thieves. Using his consummate skill, the Wolf pulls a deft switcheroo and substitutes the real ones...
Cast: Bruce Cabot
Tags: Drama
Length: 70min
Though he would later dismiss it as "just a ten-day job," actor Conrad Nagel made a remarkably smooth directorial debut with Grand National's Love Takes Flight. Bruce Cabot stars as Neil Bradshaw, an egotistical commercial pilot in love with...
Cast: Marsha Hunt Larry "Buster" Crabbe
Length: 67min
A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide with higher learning. When the titular murder occurs, detective Hank Hyer (Lynne Overman) shows up to investigate, with...
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