Biography: Felix E. Feist |
Though not an especially inspired director, Felix E. Feist possessed an unerring eye for bankable story material. Educated at Columbia University, Feist was the son of an MGM sales manager; he tried to follow his father's footsteps until he became... more
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Cast: Paul Henreid Felix E. Feist Patricia Medina
Length: 72min
Paul Henreid was light-years removed from Now Voyager and Casablanca when he starred in the Columbia costume cheapie Pirates of Tripoli. Henreid is cast as Edri-Al-Gadrian, a bold buccaneer who comes to the rescue of Princess Karjan (Patricia Medina)....
Cast: Gene Evans
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 85min
Felix E. Feist directed this second adaptation of the novel by Curt Siodmak (filmed previously in 1944 as The Lady and the Monster and later in 1963 as The Brain), which tells the story of a brilliant brain specialist (Lew Ayres) whose attempts to...
Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr. Roy Roberts Lex Barker
Tags: Western Indian Western
Length: 71min
Some sources have indicated that Battles of Chief Pontiac was originally intended as the pilot for a TV series. Erstwhile Tarzan Lex Barker stars as 18th-century frontiersman Kent McIntyre, while Lon Chaney Jr. essays the title role of Chief Pontiac....
Cast: Edgar Buchanan Kirk Douglas Alan Hale, Jr.
Length: 95min
Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the most accessible and oft-televised of Kirk Douglas' pictures. Douglas plays an unscrupulous lumberjack who covets the land owned by a religious sect. All that's saving him from...
Cast: Randolph Scott Robert Buckner
Length: 85min
Man Behind the Gun is a standard-issue Randolph Scott western elevated by good performances and exciting action sequences. Scott plays Callicut, newly arrived in the bustling mid-19th century metropolis of Los Angeles. Outwardly just another soldier...
Cast: Marshall Thompson
Tags: Sports Drama Drama
Length: 65min
The title tells all in Realart's Basketball Fix. Talented young basketball star Johnny Long (Marshall Thompson) allows success to go to his head. To keep on living in the manner to which he is accustomed, Johnny agrees to shave a few points here and...
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
Cast: Joan Crawford Dennis Morgan
Length: 100min
Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth Austin, the lady friend of dangerous gangster Matt Jackson (David Brian). After being caught in the crossfire of a robbery...
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Cast: Lee J. Cobb Jane Wyatt
Tags: Crime Psychological Thriller Film Noir
Length: 81min
Lee J. Cobb stars as Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police lieutenant, embroiled in a clandestine romance with married socialite Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt). When Lois kills her husband Howard (Harlan Warde), the flustered Cullen vows to cover for her. He...
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
Length: 90min
When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The 1951 film of that title has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind, as will be obvious before the credits fade. Steve Cochran...
The Golden Gloves Story (1950)
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 76min
The Golden Gloves Story is the sort of heartwarming fare that MGM used to turn out once a week in the 1930s. Though this 1950 film was produced by pinchpenny Eagle Lion Studios, director Felix E. Feist manages to perform miracles on a tiny budget....
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