Biography: Frank Albertson |
Some actors can convey wide-eyed confusion, others are adept at business-like pomposity; Frank Albertson was a master of both acting styles, albeit at the extreme ends of his film career. Entering movies as a prop boy in 1922, Albertson played bit... more
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Cast: Frank McDonald
Tags: Comedy
Length: 70min
In this comedy, a hapless army lieutenant is ejected from his plane during a training maneuver and ends up deep in the Ozarks. There he is taken in by the friendly Weaver family. A beautiful young girl becomes his special friend. Upon the Weaver's...
Cast: June Lang
Tags: Drama
Length: 64min
City of Silent Men comes so close to being a "model" "B" picture that it's a downright shame it just misses the mark. The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The...
Cast: Jean Yarbrough Dick Elliott
Tags: Crime Mystery Drama Detective Film
Length: 64min
This Monogram "special" stars Frank Albertson as the title character, a police reporter named Larry Doyle. Our hero solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the...
Cast: Lionel Atwill Lon Chaney, Jr.
Tags: Creature Film Science Fiction Horror
Length: 68min
Originally slated as a Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi vehicle, Man Made Monster emerged on screen as a tour de force for Lon Chaney Jr. (in his first horror-film starring role) and Lionel Atwill. Chaney plays Dynamo Dan the Electric Man, a sideshow...
Junior G-Men of the Air [Serial] (1942)
Tags: Adventure Drama War Adventure Action Adventure
Length: 215min
The Dead End Kids take on a sinister gang of Japanese terrorists in this 12-chapter followup to the 1940 Universal serial Junior G-Men. When Eddie Holden (Gene Reynolds), the inventor brother of street-gang leader Billy Holden (Billy Halop), is...
Cast: Cecil Kellaway John W. Boyle Evelyn Ankers Charles Bickford
Tags: Mystery Adventure Action Combat Films Spy Film
Length: 59min
This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who must investigate the mysterious death of his younger brother. The trucker had been driving in convoys along the dangerous Burma Road between Rangoon and...
Cast: Robert Armstrong Sidney Blackmer Jerome Cowan
Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Crime
Length: 60min
Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ All Movie Guide
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 58min
Citadel of Crime was the original title of the Republic John Wayne vehicle which eventually emerged as A Man Betrayed (TV title: Wheel of Fortune). Never a studio to let anything go to waste, Republic redirected the cognomen Citadel of Crime to one of...
Cast: Lloyd Nolan Paul Harvey
Tags: Social Problem Film Drama
Length: 75min
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh...
Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940)
Cast: Jean Hersholt Rod La Rocque Edgar Kennedy
Tags: Crime Drama Medical Drama
Length: 63min
The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets the Women once more stars Jean Hersholt as the kindly eponymous medico. In this entry, the tiny community of River's End is invaded by Professor Kenneth...
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