Biography: Don Beddoe |
Dapper, rotund character actor Don Beddoe was born in New York and raised in Cincinnati, where his father headed the Conservatory of Music. Beddoe's professional career began in Cincinnati, first as a journalist and then an actor. He made his Broadway... more
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Cast: Henry Mancini Sylvia Sidney
Tags: Escape Film Drama Crime
Length: 85min
Behind the High Wall is a remake of the 1937 Jackie Cooper-Victor McLaglen film The Big Guy. Tom Tully plays prison warden Frank Carmichael, who is kidnapped during a jail break in which a policeman is killed. In an ensuing car crash, all the escapees...
Cast: Rhonda Fleming Guy Madison
Tags: Western
Length: 80min
When seen today, Bullwhip seems to be a dry run for the 1975 Jack Nicholson-Mary Steenburgen western Goin' South. To save himself from being hanged on a trumped-up murder charge, frontiersman Guy Madison agrees to marry whip-wielding spitfire Rhonda...
Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958)
Cast: Don Beddoe George Montgomery
Length: 72min
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone, at least according to this film, as Arizona ranger Matt Sloane (George Montgomery). Working undercover, Sloane infiltrates an all-star outlaw gang consisting of Johnny Ringo (Jim Davis), Ike Clanton (Gerald Milton),...
Tags: Biopic Adventure Western
Length: 71min
Young David Bruce plays Young Daniel Boone in this above-average Monogram actioner. Taking time off from hunting and settling, Young Daniel attempts to rescue two white girls from their Indian captors. He also hopes to expose a French spy on behalf of...
Cast: Edward Bernds Scotty Beckett Jimmy Lydon
Tags: Comedy
Length: 76min
Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service station owner Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his adopted son Skeezix (James Lydon), take a back seat to newlyweds Corky (Scotty...
Beyond the Purple Hills (1950)
Cast: Gene Autry
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 69min
Gene Autry and his horse Champion play "themselves" in Columbia's Beyond the Purple Hills. This one finds Autry serving as a cattle-town sheriff. When his best friend is accused of murder, Gene does his duty and arrests the man--then conducts his own...
Length: 90min
The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in which a major gambling syndicate can so insinuate itself in "respectable" business circles that it becomes virtually impossible...
Cast: Randolph Scott Raymond Massey Richard Webb
Tags: Traditional Western Western
Length: 86min
When a final tally is made, it may turn out that Andre De Toth directed as many superior Randolph Scott westerns as the more celebrated Budd Boetticher. In De Toth's Carson City, Scott is cast as a railroad construction engineer known only as Silent...
Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951)
Length: 80min
Corky of Gasoline Alley was the second and last Columbia "B"-picture inspired by Frank King's popular comic strip -Gasoline Alley. As in the first film, the emphasis is on young gas jockey Corky (Scotty Beckett), who must put up with Elwood Martin...
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald Bing Crosby Hans Dreier Edith Head
Tags: Romance
Length: 107min
A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially dismayed by the new doctor's tendency to sing, a behavior the older fellow deems inappropriate. When the new doc meets a pretty...
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