Biography: Charles B. Middleton |
To six decades' worth of filmgoers, Kentucky-born character actor Charles B. Middleton was Ming the Merciless, the megalomaniac ruler of the planet Mongo in three 1930s serials based on Alex Raymond's comic strip Flash Gordon. Beginning his career in... more
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Original Flash Gordon Collection (1991)
Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe
Tags: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 366min
Universal's three Flash Gordon serials have, over the years, been edited down to feature-length form. In 1991, these various abridgements were further whittled down into a six-hour-and-six-minute videotape compendium, titled The Original Flash Gordon...
Cast: Dick Curtis William Beaudine
Tags: Drama Adventure Action Prison Film Melodrama Adventure Drama
Length: 80min
Director William "One Take" Beaudine puts his all-character-actor cast through their paces in Men of San Quentin. J. Anthony Hughes plays a prison guard who tries to put new reforms into effect when he becomes a warden. Naturally, Hughes' efforts are...
Cast: Blake Edwards
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 58min
In this low-budget thriller, a ferry captain named Douglas (Charles Middleton) is accused of a murder he did not commit and is eventually executed for the crime. Douglas' ghost begins to walk the marshlands he once called home, searching for revenge...
Cast: Oliver Hardy Stan Laurel Reginald Gardiner Charles B. Middleton James Finlayson Edward Sutherland
Length: 65min
In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with innkeeper's...
Cast: Duncan Renaldo
Length: 54min
In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle their differences. The story is set in 1906, and the rivals are homesteaders trying to take advantage of Roosevelt's...
Dick Tracy Returns [Serial] (1938)
Cast: William Witney Ralph Byrd
Tags: Superhero Film Action Mystery
Length: min
The 15-chapter Republic serial Dick Tracy Returns also represents the return of Ralph Byrd in the role of Chester Gould's stalwart comic-strip detective. For the purposes of the film, Tracy has joined the G-Men in pursuit of criminal mastermind Pa...
Cast: Charles Starrett Edward J. Le Saint
Length: 58min
Two Gun Law perpetuated the cinematic winning streak established early in 1937 by western star Charles Starrett and director Leon Barsha. The action never lets up as hero Bob Larson (Charles Starrett) takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains...
Cast: Louise Brooks
Length: 65min
Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn it into a profitable dude ranch, drifter Buck Devlin (Buck Jones) purchases the Ranch of Empty Saddles, the former site of a...
Tags: Action Science Fiction
Length: 70min
This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ All Movie Guide
Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937)
Cast: Gene Autry
Tags: Traditional Western Western Musical Western
Length: 59min
The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly suffered cuts after censors found it too violent. Gene, as usual, plays Gene Autry, this time the son of a Georgian cattleman...
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