Biography: Jason Robards, Sr. |
He studied theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After establishing himself prominently on the American stage, he began appearing in silents beginning with The Gilded Lily (1921). He appeared in more than 100 films, the last of which was... more
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Cast: Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Tags: Western
Length: 61min
Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody. Not much happens plotwise: Acuff, playing "himself," is a tenderfoot who somehow manages to come out on top when he heads...
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Cast: Cary Grant Myrna Loy Melvyn Douglas Reginald Denny Lex Barker
Tags: Slapstick Parody/Spoof Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 93min
Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house in the country. Armed with more enthusiasm than common sense, Blandings causes many a headache for his lawyer/business manager...
Cast: Raymond Burr Steve Brodie
Tags: Film Noir Crime Psychological Thriller
Length: 73min
With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director Anthony Mann entered the ranks of class-A directors, though he'd still have to spend a few more years in "B" pictures. In his first...
Cast: Tim Holt
Length: 61min
RKO Radio's "Zane Grey" western series came to an end with the eighth entry, Wild Horse Mesa. Tim Holtstars as a cowboy who earns his keep by rounding up wild mustangs. When his boss is murdered after selling the horses, our hero and his Irish-Mexican...
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino Phil Rosen George Cleveland
Length: 62min
In this espionage drama, a WW II veteran teams up with a government secretary and begins hunting a gang of Nazi agents who are seeking the secret documents carried by the G-man they killed. The two heroes are hindered on their hunt by fellow...
Cast: Mark Robson
Tags: Horror
Length: 72min
Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations between RKO producer Val Lewton and British genre star Boris Karloff. Set during the 1912 Balkan Wars, Isle of the Death...
Cast: Leon Errol
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 18min
After a beauty parlor makeover, a housewife (Dorothy Granger), has a chance encounter with her husband's identical twin brother. Because she's never met the twin brother, she mistakes his behavior for infidelity by her husband and begins plotting...
Cast: Boris Karloff
Tags: Drama Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 79min
Bedlam is one of the costlier psychological-horror efforts from RKO producer Val (Curse of the Cat People) Lewton. Boris Karloff stars as the supervisor of the notorious 18th century British insane asylum St. Mary's of Bethlehem, better known as...
Cast: Robert Wise
Tags: Adventure Action Action Thriller
Length: 72min
RKO Radio's A Game of Death was the first official remake of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, given a contemporary WW2 twist. Novelist Rainsford (John Loder) and brother-and-sister shipwreck victims Ellen (Audrey Long) and Robert (Russell...
Tags: Adventure Family Juvenile Delinquency Film
Length: 61min
A fearless young pilot helps turn around the lives of some young punks in this exciting episode of the "Tailspin Tommy" trio of films. Tommy helps them get off the street and into building working model airplanes. He and the kids then figure out how...
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