Biography: Eric Blore |
Most often cast as a snide gentleman's gentleman or dissipated nobleman, British actor Eric Blore abandoned the business world for the theatre when he was in his mid-twenties. Established in both London and New York, Blore began adding movies to his... more
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Cast: Lucille Ball Bob Hope Bruce Cabot
Length: 92min
Fancy Pants is a musicalized remake of the oft-filmed Harry Leon Wilson story Ruggles of Red Gap, tailored to the talents of "Mr. Robert Hope (formerly Bob)". The basic plotline of the original, that of an English butler entering the service of a...
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Cast: Bing Crosby Walt Disney Basil Rathbone
Tags: Fantasy Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 68min
Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's -The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod...
Length: 71min
Though Republic's Winter Wonderland sounds like a vehicle for the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston, she's nowhere to be seen in this 71-minute comedy. Instead, Lynne Roberts plays heroine Nancy Wheeler, the daughter of a farmer (Roman...
The Lone Wolf in London (1947)
Length: 68min
Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, ventures into Sherlock Holmes territory in this series entry. When a cache of internationally famous diamonds is stolen, Scotland Yard automatically suspects Lanyard (Gerald Mohr). While trying to prove his...
Cast: George Sanders Herbert Marshall
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Film a Clef
Length: 89min
-The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham's account of the life of artist Paul Gauguin, was brought to the screen as a labor of love by writer/director Albert Lewin. George Sanders plays Charles Strickland, a staid London broker who kicks over the...
Cast: J. Edward Bromberg Gloria Jean George Dolenz Kirby Grant
Length: 65min
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a...
The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 64min
Three years after its previous "Lone Wolf" entry Passport to Suez, Columbia Pictures revitalized the B-picture series with The Notorious Lone Wolf. Gerald Mohr succeeds Warren William in the role of jewel thief-turned-detective Michael Lanyard, while...
Tags: Musical
Length: 60min
If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was Mack Sennett alumnus Eddie Cline. Kirby Grant, Lois Collier, Judy Clark and Edward Norris play Dick, Linda, Patty and Junior, young...
Cast: Jon Hall Buster Keaton Edward Everett Horton Eric Blore Louise Allbritton
Tags: Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 83min
Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family. Papa (Edward Everett Horton) is an erstwhile inventor working on a collapsible life raft, which Allbritton tries to promote to a...
Cast: Warren William Sheldon Leonard
Length: 72min
Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series. Warren William returns as amateur sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, while Eric Blore is his faithful valet Jamison. In...
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