Biography: Joan Barclay |
Perky, pretty, American leading lady Joan Barclay was first seen on screen as a chorus girl in Warner Bros.' Golddiggers of 1933. After a years' worth of bits at Warners, Barclay was signed by quickie producer Sam Katzman. From 1934 to 1942, she... more
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Cast: Sidney Toler Gene Roth Paul Newlan Mantan Moreland Benson Fong James Flavin
Tags: Whodunit Mystery Detective Film
Length: 64min
Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production values to his advantage in two Charlie Chan whodunits: The Shanghai Cobra (1945) and Dark Alibi (1946). Karlson added touches...
Length: 62min
In this follow-up to the successful Adventures of a Rookie, Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO Radio's hastily-teamed "answer" to Abbott and Costello, further mess up military protocol. Cast as Jerry Miles and Mike Strager (the character names they'd...
Cast: Bela Lugosi Clayton Moore
Tags: War Spy Film Spy Film
Length: 62min
After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot proper gets under way, wherein a group of six men conspire to undermine America's war effort. What is the connection between these...
Billy the Kid's Range War (1941)
Cast: Al St. John Bob Steele
Length: 60min
Small-but-wiry Bob Steele plays the title role in the PRC western Billy the Kid's Range War. Once again rewriting history, the script contrives to have honest Billy falsely accused of a series of killings. The actual murderers are trying to sabotage...
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino Renie Tom Conway
Length: 64min
The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out West. Amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, deduces that the victim was killed with rattlesnake venom. He...
Cast: Tim McCoy
Tags: Action Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film
Length: 62min
Tall-in-the-saddle Tim McCoy essays a dual role in the low-budget western Outlaw's Paradise. As luck would have it, government agent Lightnin' Bill Carson (McCoy) is the exact double of outlaw leader Trigger Mallory (also McCoy). While Trigger...
The Gentleman from Arizona (1940)
Cast: John W. Boyle
Tags: Sports Drama Romance Western Action
Length: 72min
Monogram hoped that The Gentleman From Arizona would be their "prestige" release for 1940, and to that end the film was lensed in Cinecolor. The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic...
Length: 60min
The first of six Ken Maynard Westerns produced on the cheap by the Alexander brothers, Max and Arthur, Whirlwind Horseman awarded Ken one of filmdom's least memorable sidekicks, Bill Griffith. En route to their friend Cherokee Jake's (Budd Buster)...
Cast: Ralph Peters Reed Howes Sam Newfield
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
Radio crooner Tex Fletcher was given a one-time-only chance at western stardom in Grand National's Six-Gun Rhythm. The plot offers a bit of novelty value, with Fletcher starting out as an eastern-seaboard football player who heads westward when his...
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
In this exciting western, a mysterious masked hero helps tired settlers protect their lands from the wicked land-grabbers. One of the grabbers attempts to kill the crusader by offering a substantial reward for his capture. He does this so he can grab...
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