Biography: Frances Robinson |
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Cast: Jeanette MacDonald Ian Hunter Brian Aherne
Tags: Romance Musical Drama Melodrama
Length: 101min
Adapted from the warhorse stage tearjerker by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, this 1941 film version of Smilin' Through is even hokier than two earlier movie adaptations, but it works beautifully thanks to the sensitive direction of Frank Borzage. Brian...
Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)
Cast: Charles Starrett Ray Teal Norman Willis
Length: 59min
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star...
Cast: John Bright Don Beddoe Anita Louise
Tags: Drama Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 57min
The vice squad takes on escort services in this crime drama. Two services are depicted. One escort agency is legitimate, offering fine upstanding girls with no funny business. The other agency has a more tawdry reputation (though the none of the women...
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)
Cast: Warren William Thurston Hall Lionel Banks
Length: 65min
Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date. Freshly arrived at the Miami airport after a sojourn in Havana, Lanyard and his general factotum Jamison (Eric Blore)...
Cast: Ray Taylor
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 56min
Worth seeing for its title alone was the Johnny Mack Brown western Riders of Pasco Basin. This time, Brown plays the head of a group of vigilantes (the peace-keeping variety) who take on a gang of clever villains. With the law on their side, the bad...
Cast: Joe E. Brown Tom Dugan
Length: 69min
In this comedy of mistaken identity, a bookish literary reviewer bows to the desires of his lover and shaves off his whiskers. Suddenly he finds himself in trouble, for without the mustache, he is the spitting image of a gangster who has just been...
Tags: Western Adventure Action
Length: 58min
With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal. Brown and comic sidekick Fuzzy Knight are cast as Steve Hayden and Cousin Willie, on the trail of cattle rustlers. The action...
Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe
Tags: Adventure Drama Detective Film Adventure Drama Mystery
Length: 21min
Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role. Detective Barry is galvanized into action when 2,000,000 worth of bonds is stolen from an unnamed Asian country. Among the...
Cast: Fred Kohler Noah Beery, Jr.
Length: 68min
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman....
Tim Tyler's Luck [Serial] (1937)
Cast: Frankie Thomas Al Shean
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: min
The 12-episode Universal serial Tim Tyler's Luck was based on the comic strip of the same name by Lyman Young (the brother of "Blondie" creator Chic Young). Frankie Thomas stars as youthful adventurer Tim Tyler, who heads to Africa in search of his...
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