Biography: Douglas Dumbrille |
Silver-tongued actor Douglas Dumbrille played just about every type in his long screen career, but it was as a dignified villain that he is best remembered. Born in Canada, Dumbrille did most of his stage work in the United States, breaking into films... more
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Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Cast: Lou Costello Bud Abbott Walter Slezak Douglas Dumbrille
Tags: Odd Couple Film Comedy Military Comedy Slapstick
Length: 79min
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his home in Arabia. While scouring the desert in search of Davis, Bud and Lou inadvertently purchase slave girl Patricia Medina, and...
Length: 62min
The redoubtable Johnny Carpenter is producer, author and star of the low-budget western Lawless Rider. Exploiting his slight resemblance to Montgomery Clift to the hilt, Carpenter plays a taciturn sheriff who disguises himself as a notorious...
Tags: Drama
Length: 79min
Shot on location in and around Rome, this drama chronicles the tragic love affair between a frustrated artist and the troubled American woman who provides him with much-needed inspiration. The artist, who leaves the ancient city because he is...
Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)
Cast: Gene Autry Damian O'Flynn Clayton Moore Smiley Burnette
Tags: Western Musical Western
Length: 70min
Gene Autry's second 1949 release for Columbia was Riders of the Whistling Pines. As was customary for Autry, the title refers to one of the songs heard in the film, rather than the plotline at hand. The villains busy themselves destroying all the...
Tags: Melodrama Musical Drama Drama
Length: 83min
The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as the source for the Puccini opera La Boheme, and indeed, Her Wonderful Life is a modernized adaptation of the Puccini classic,...
Cast: Martha Vickers John Beal Hillary Brooke
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 71min
One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately familiar with. Martha Vickers plays a ruthless young woman who has hit upon a clever (if not original) method of fattening her bank account....
Cast: Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Bing Crosby Robert Benchley
Tags: Adventure Comedy Comedy Buddy Film
Length: 90min
The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold rush. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby play a pair of third-rate San Francisco entertainers, Chester Hooton and Duke Johnson, who are...
Cast: June Lockhart Una Merkel
Tags: Political Satire Comedy
Length: 67min
Radio actor Kenny Delmar created the character of bombastic Southern Senator Claghorn for a 1945 installment of The Fred Allen Show. The character immediately caught on with the public, spawning an overabundance of merchandising and thousands of...
Last of the Wild Horses (1949)
Tags: Western
Length: 86min
By the none-too-exacting standards of Screen Guild Productions, Last of the Wild Horses is practically an "A" picture. James Ellison plays Duke Barnum, an innocent soul who is set up as the fall guy for duplicitious horse-ranch foreman Riley (Reed...
Tags: Adventure Drama Jungle Film Adventure
Length: 62min
Blonde Savage was directed by one "S. K. Seeley"-who at closer examination turns out to be Steve Sekely hiding behind an alias. The story is the old saw about a blonde white woman who is raised from infancy by a savage jungle tribe. This time, it's a...
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