Biography: Elizabeth Risdon |
Inaugurating her acting career in her native London, Elizabeth Risdon studied at the RADA, and later taught there. She made her Broadway bow in the 1912 production Fanny's First Play. She then returned to England, where she was voted 1915's most... more
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Cast: Mickey Rooney Elizabeth Risdon
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Drama Docudrama
Length: 67min
Mickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first appeared in the pages of True Story magazine. Jewel thief Ann Martin (Helen Walker) is paroled thanks to some string-pulling by...
Cast: Rex Allen
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 67min
In his second starring vehicle, singing cowboy Rex Allen plays the head of a frontier cattlemen's association. The villain is dishonest meat packer Charles Stevens (Robert Emmet Keane), who has been trying to fix cattle prices to his advantage. When...
Tags: Crime Mystery Detective Film
Length: 67min
RKO's Bunco Squad stars Robert Sterling as Sgt. Steve Johnson, a big-city detective dedicated to tracking down con artists. His current target is a gang of slicksters who are running a successful seance racket. Wealthy Jessica Royce (Elizabeth Risdon)...
Cast: Robert Altman Richard Fleischer Lawrence Tierney Priscilla Lane
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 62min
Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police, short-tempered Mike Carter (Tierney) hires on to protect wealthy dowager Eugenia Dyson (Elizabeth Risdon). Before the film has...
Cast: Dale Evans Roy Rogers
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 67min
In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan)...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 61min
A loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name, Mama Loves Papa stars Elisabeth Risdon in the title role. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie (Risdon), furniture store employee Wilbur Todd (Leon...
Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr.
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 64min
The second of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" hrillers, Weird Woman stars Lon Chaney Jr. as Norman Reed, a college professor worried about the sanity of his new bride, Paula (Anne Gwynne), who was raised in Hawaii with all manners of superstitions,...
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Tags: Spy Film Farce Action Comedy
Length: 70min
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost looks more like a Columbia two-reel comedy than an RKO feature film. Star Lupe Velez, her conservative ad-man husband (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) and good old Uncle Matt (Leon Errol) find themselves in a supposedly haunted...
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)
Cast: Leon Errol Lupe Velez Hugh Beaumont Albert S. D'Agostino
Length: 63min
RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe Velez is back again in the leading role, as is Leon Errol as disguise-happy Uncle Matt, but Velez's husband is now played by...
Length: 54min
The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions. A coterie of disreputable-looking heirs are gathered in the home of the wealthy man (Robert H. Barrat). A murder is...
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