Biography: Don "Red" Barry |
A football star in his high school and college days, Donald Barry forsook an advertising career in favor of a stage acting job with a stock company. This barnstorming work led to movie bit parts, the first of which was in RKO's Night Waitress (1936).... more
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Cast: Judy Canova Charles Lamont
Tags: Musical
Length: 70min
Judy Canova is right in her element in the rowdy Republic musical Untamed Heiress. Canova plays Judy, the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton (George Cleveland). Now Clayton hopes to repay the...
Tags: Drama
Length: 88min
In this exploitation drama, an angry young man tries to maintain a peaceful demeanor, but finds it difficult because he must constantly defend himself from racially inspired attacks (one of his parents was a Native American). He soon finds himself in...
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Cast: Jackie Coogan Don Knotts Ruth McDevitt Barbara Rhoades
Tags: Comedy Western Comedy Western
Length: 101min
This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on the western frontier. The hapless dentist is saved by the expert gun handling of Penny (Barbara Rhoades), a reformed bandit...
Cast: Don "Red" Barry
Tags: Romantic Drama Western Romance
Length: 83min
Moving up ever so slightly from Lippert Pictures to United Artists, Donald Barry is both star and director of Jesse James' Women. According to D. D. Beauchamp's screenplay, there were four women in Jesse's life. One was saloonkeeper Waco Gans (Peggie...
Cast: Dale Evans
Tags: Drama
Length: 65min
A safecracker risks his own life to save an endangered child from an oncoming truck and finds his life changes forever in this drama. During the rapid rescue, the crook breaks his leg and while he heals, he is befriended by a good-hearted priest who...
Cast: Boris Karloff Howard W. Koch
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Horror Science Fiction Creature Film
Length: 83min
This is one of the more off-beat entries into the Frankenstein sub-genre, in that it features the original Creature, Boris Karloff (who really hams it up) playing the disfigured grandson of the famed mad baron in a style that combines gothic horror...
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 60min
This prison drama is told via flashback and follows a group of prisoners bound for Alcatraz. En route, the group plans their escape. One of the convicts is innocent and ends up falling in love with a pretty passenger. Later romance really blooms after...
The Plainsman and the Lady (1946)
Cast: Fred Allen Joe Kane
Length: 87min
The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western. William Elliot (formerly and latterly "Wild Bill" Elliot) stars as cattleman Sam Cotten, who offers his services-and his six-guns-to...
Length: 66min
In this musical comedy, a gang of con artists swindle a group of naive, starstruck investors into backing a dreadful musical that has no hope of succeeding. This garners the crooks a nice chunk of change until one of the investors dies and his lovely,...
Cast: Roy Barcroft Sheldon Leonard
Length: 60min
Its poetic title aside, Republic's Madonna of the Desert is a formula murder mystery with an occasional surprise or two. The titular madonna is a priceless statue owned by wealthy rancher Joe Salinas (Don Castle). Crooked Nick Julian (Sheldon Leonard)...
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