Biography: Ben Alexander |
Fans of the 1950s TV series Dragnet were usually taken aback to discover that Jack Webb's co-star, the rumpled, balding Ben Alexander, had once been a golden-haired child actor. Born in Nevada and raised in California, Alexander made his screen debut... more
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Cast: Orson Welles William Schallert
Tags: Modern Western Detective Film Crime
Length: 84min
Man in the Shadow is a better-than-usual Albert Zugsmith production starring Jeff Chandler as the newly appointed lawman in a corrupt southwestern town. A Mexican laborer has been murdered, a crime which powerful land baron Orson Welles wants the...
Length: 76min
Another of RKO's movie vehicles for radio comic Joe Penner ("You na-a-a-asty man!"), Mr. Doodle Kicks Off stars Penner as the son of a wealthy and influential businessman. Penner's dad is disappointed at how sonny has turned out (we can't blame him),...
Tags: Western
Length: 57min
Former nightclub crooner Smith Ballew made his singing-cowboy debut in Western Gold. Set during the Civil War, the story finds Union soldier Bill Gibson (Ballew) heading West to prevent valuable Northern gold shipment from being systematically stolen...
Cast: Ralph Morgan
Length: 62min
In this drama, a bookkeeper ignores his employer's disapproval and continues to see the boss' daughter. Later the boss ends up accusing him of theft and gets him jailed. Upon his eventual release the bookkeeper endeavors to get his revenge. He ignores...
Cast: Richard Boone Jack Webb Ann Robinson Dennis Weaver
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 88min
At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to direct several feature films--the first of which, but of course, was 1954's Dragnet. This time around, the "true story" in...
Tags: Drama
Length: 60min
Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain access to haughty heroine Edith Adams (Judith Allen), Speed poses as a reporter and for a long while gets away with it. He also...
Tags: War Adventure Action Adventure
Length: 62min
Legion of Missing Men was one of three Monogram "specials" produced in 1937 by I. E. Chadwick. Foreign legion officer Bob Carter (Ralph Forbes) and his younger brother Don (Ben Alexander) vie for the attentions of sexy cabaret singer Nina (Halla...
Cast: Jane Wyman Ben Alexander Esther Ralston Leon Ames
Length: 61min
Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as Captain Todd Hayden, star player of an army-camp polo team. What Hayden doesn't know is that some of his polo cronies are enemy...
Cast: William Wyler Alan Ladd Tyrone Power Andy Devine
Length: 82min
William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old man wasn't all he claimed to be. Tom Brown (played, as coincidence would have it, by an actor named Tom Brown) is a boy who...
Cast: Cecil B. DeMille George Bancroft
Tags: Urban Drama Crime Drama
Length: 85min
Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle. Richard Cromwell heads a group of civic-minded teenagers in a small midwestern town. When a lovable old tailor (Harry Green) is...
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