Biography: Ben Welden |
As a youth, Ben Welden was trained to be a concert violinist. He chose instead a stage career, heading to London rather than New York to realize his goal. During the early '30s, the bald, barracuda-faced Welden was a valuable British movie commodity,... more
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Tags: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery Crime
Length: 64min
William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a combination western and contemporary crime yarn, with Don Barry cast as Dan Reilly, a frontier journalist. With the help of his...
Cast: Regis Toomey Perc Westmore Milo Anderson Howard Da Silva
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Drama Docudrama
Length: 50min
Although Warner Bros. "officially" disbanded its B-picture unit in 1941, the studio continued to grind out lower-berth features for the next three years. One of these was Bullet Scars, which had the look of a 1930s gangster meller which somehow...
Cast: Robert Livingston
Tags: Crime Mystery Escape Film
Length: 64min
This prison film features an inventive escape from Alcatraz. They do it by planning a phony wedding in a prison chapel. The fugitives are soon captured by a brave hero who stops them by crashing his car into their getaway plane. ~ Sandra Brennan, All...
Cast: James Cruze Ben Welden Henry Wilcoxon
Tags: Prison Film Drama Romance
Length: 65min
The title character in Republic's Prison Nurse is a "woman in white" named Judy, played by Marian Marsh. Together with her friend Pepper (Bernardine Hayes), Judy hires on at a maximum-security prison smack dab in the middle of flood country. When...
Length: 63min
In this action-packed crime drama, an ace reporter declares war on the mobsters that killed his best friend, helps a disenchanted hit man steal back his brother's iron lung from gangsters by hiding inside it during transport, busts up two other gangs,...
Cast: Bruce Cabot Adele Buffington
Tags: Crime
Length: 60min
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the...
Cast: Joan Blondell Margaret Lindsay Pat O'Brien Hal B. Wallis Ray Enright
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 100min
In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband. The trouble begins when the reporter digs a little deeper and realizes that the showgirl is really innocent. Now, despite the...
The Man Who Changed His Name (1934)
Cast: Lyn Harding
Length: 71min
This British Edgar Wallace derivation was originally released as The Man Who Changed His Name. That ripe old barnstormer Lyn Harding plays Shelby Clive, who has been obliged to shorten his last name so that he won't be confused with a notorious (and...
Length: 58min
In this romance, a butler falls in love with his master's snooty daughter who will have nothing to do with him because he is but a commoner. The butler's life is about to dramatically change when he learns that he is to be the next Duke of Marlow. He...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 74min
Based on a play by George A. Birmingham, General John Regan is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name. Henry Edwards, who also directed, stars as Dr. O'Grady, general practitioner of a small Irish village. As a gag, O'Grady convinces a visiting...
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