Biography: Edward S. Brophy |
Born in New York City and educated at the University of Virginia, comic actor Edward Brophy entered films as a small part player in 1919. After a few years, he opted for the more financially secure production end of the business, though he never... more
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Cast: Hugh Beaumont Edward S. Brophy Mike Mazurki
Tags: Mystery Detective Film
Length: 57min
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur...
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Mystery Thriller
Length: 56min
This film features two mystery stories featuring Hugh "the Beaver's TV Dad" Beaumont. First, he is hired to go to an auction and buy a particular saxophone. Unfortunately, soon after he obtains it he is knocked unconscious and loses the instrument to...
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino Steve Brodie Tom Conway
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 61min
When a scientist discovers a way to create synthetic diamonds, a group of criminals kidnap his daughter Meredith (Louisa Braganza) in an attempt to ransom her for the valuable formula. Rescuing Meredith from her kidnappers, the Falcon (Tom Conway)...
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946)
Tags: Musical
Length: 76min
This musical is a remake of a 1933 film. Like the first, it is set on campus and chronicles the romantic travails of the school rowing champion who has recently come back from a military stint abroad. A young coed is mighty pleased to see him, but he...
Length: 64min
Robert Lowery stars in the 65-minute actioner Arson Inc. Lowery plays a fireman in search of a seemingly random arsonist--or arsonists. Putting two and two together, our hero figures out that culprits are a gang of thieves who've been torching...
Cast: Gloria Jean Milburn Stone Kirby Grant
Length: 63min
In this drama, a goodie-two-shoes singer tries to save her bankrupt family by getting a radio job. She is soon entangled in a fight between rival radio commentators that culminates in a mysterious murder that she soon solves. Songs include: &"Hittin'...
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
Cast: Joseph H. Lewis
Tags: Crime Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 66min
Filmed extensively on location, The Falcon in San Francisco is one of the best of RKO Radio's "Falcon" series. This time around, amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, comes to the aid of 10-year-old Annie Marshall (Sharyn Moffet)....
Cast: Dick Powell Jack Oakie Linda Darnell René Clair Edgar Kennedy
Tags: Romance Fantasy Comedy Romantic Fantasy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 84min
On the eve of their 50th anniversary, a couple argue about whether or not to reveal a story from the husband's past that explains how they met and came to be married. We flashback to the mid-1890's and Larry Stevens' (Dick Powell first day on the job...
Tags: Mystery
Length: 54min
No relation to the 1935 Lon Chaney Jr. vehicle of the same name, Republic's A Scream in the Dark is based on The Morgue is Always Open, a novel by Jerome Odlum. Robert Lowery plays Mike Brooker, a police reporter and amateur sleuth. Mike finds himself...
Length: 70min
In this drama, a remake of Hat, Coat and Glove (1934), a hard working attorney is upset when he learns that his long-suffering, neglected wife is having an affair with an accused murderer. This does not prevent the highly principled lawyer from...
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