Biography: Conrad Nagel |
In 1914 Nagel began acting professionally onstage. He broke into films in 1918 and soon became one of the top (and most suave) matinee idols of the silent screen. After an extremely busy career in silents, he starred in one of the first talkies,
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Cast: John Payne Alexander Knox André De Toth
Length: 83min
Filmed on location in Copenhagen, Hidden Fear stars John Payne as an American lawman whose Denmark-based sister Natalie Norwick is in big, big, trouble. Arrested for the murder of her music hall partner, Natalie hopes that Payne can clear her name....
Tags: Crime
Length: 71min
Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's Stage Struck. Double-dyed villain Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) manages to make a good living by preying on young girls who've...
Cast: Rock Hudson Jane Wyman Agnes Moorehead Ross Hunter
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama Melodrama
Length: 89min
One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably...
Cast: Margaret Lindsay Conrad Nagel
Tags: Family Adventure Action Animal Picture
Length: 69min
Just when it didn't seem possible that Columbia had any room left for another B-picture series, along came The Adventures of Rusty. The title character is a German police dog, trained to be a vicious killer. Lonlely little Danny Mitchell (Ted...
Cast: Gale Storm C. Aubrey Smith Frank Craven
Length: 75min
Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical favorite Gale Storm goes dramatic as Joan Randall, a young debutante who is confined to a wheelchair after contracting infantile...
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Docudrama
Length: 135min
Released by 20th Century-Fox, Dangerous Journey is a feature-length documentary of the famed Armand Denis-Leila Roosevelt expedition of the mid-1930s. Much of the footage was culled from such previously released short subjects as Wheels Across Africa...
Tags: Detective Film Crime Drama Crime
Length: 64min
Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as Federal agents Alan O'Connor and Bobbie Reynolds. On this occasion, the two G-people are on the trail of a gang of desperate bank...
Cast: Fuzzy Knight
Tags: Action Thriller Thriller
Length: 66min
Two government agents are assigned to bust up a gold smuggling ring located on the Mexican border. One of the agents, a beautiful, talented singer, goes undercover as a singer in one of the Mexican clubs. Using her considerable wiles she then begins...
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: Lionel Atwill Duncan Renaldo
Tags: Melodrama Biopic Drama Historical Film
Length: 72min
In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their brief reign as figureheads for Napoleon III. The two doomed rulers were terribly naive and had no idea that they were...
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