Biography: Charles Barton |
Charles T. Barton spent his first two decades as an actor in stock, vaudeville and movies. He learned the production end of the business under the exacting guidance of director James Cruze, finally graduating to director himself with the 1934 "Zane... more
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Cast: Ub Iwerks
Tags: Childhood Drama Family Adventure Action Animal Picture
Length: 93min
Child star Kevin "Moochie" Cocoran shares his top billing with a chimp, Mr. Stubbs, in this story about a forlorn lad who runs away from his foster parents believing he is unloved. Little Toby and his pet chimp leave home and end up at the circus as...
Cast: Fred MacMurray Walt Disney
Tags: Comedy Slapstick Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 101min
This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is assuming there would be opportune moments. Young Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) finds a magic ring that used to belong to the...
Length: 74min
Bungling courier Freddie Merkel (Tommy Noonan) dreams of creative success but always manages to botch things up at crucial moments. Shortly after destroying his motorcycle, he decides to become a songwriter. This gives con man Duke (Peter Marshall)...
Cast: Charles Barton
Tags: Comedy Buddy Film Crime Comedy Slapstick
Length: 90min
Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes place in Kiddieland, an amusement park owned by soft-hearted Lou Henry (Costello). An inveterate collector of strays, Lou has...
Tags: Adventure
Length: min
In this feature-length episode of the popular comic-strip saga, the dashing Spanish avenger (played by the definitive movie-Zorro, Guy Williams) and his father are tossed into jail after they discover a political conspiracy amongst the rulers of Old...
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Cast: Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy
Length: 78min
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away nothing to reveal that Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride once more assume the title roles. The plot is motivated by Ma's desire to...
Cast: Jimmy Durante Piper Laurie William Conrad Jerry Lewis
Length: 87min
The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man. Donald O'Connor plays Roger Bradley, who hopes to become a top-flight milkman to please his father (Henry O'Neill), the...
Cast: Donald O'Connor
Tags: Satire Adventure Comedy Musical
Length: 75min
Double Crossbones is an unusually elaborate comedy vehicle for Donald O'Connor. Set in the Carolinas in the 18th century, the film casts O'Connor as Davy Crandall, a bumbling shopkeeper's apprentice. Davy's boss (Hayden Rourke) is in cahoots with the...
Cast: Lou Costello Bud Abbott Buddy Baer
Tags: Adventure Comedy Adventure Slapstick Comedy Jungle Film
Length: 79min
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello temporarily leave their usual Universal stamping grounds to star in the Huntington Hartford production Africa Screams. Costello plays the colorfully inept Stanley Livingstone, a meek book salesman who poses as a big-game...
Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Cast: Boris Karloff
Tags: Slapstick Detective Film Comedy Mystery
Length: 84min
This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly evenly divided between Bud Abbott, as hotel house detective Casey Edwards, and Lou Costello, as bumbling bellhop Lou Costello. When...
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