Biography: John Dilson |
With his silvery hair and dignified bearing, American actor John Dilson was a natural for "executive" roles. In films from 1935, Dilson was usually seen playing doctors, lawyers and newspaper editors. Occasionally, however, he played against type as... more
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Cast: Evelyn Keyes Art Mix Dub Taylor
Length: 58min
That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia Pictures. This time, sidekick Cannonball (Dub Taylor) discovers that two old enemies, swindlers Cord Crowley (Bradley Page) and...
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff Lionel Banks Karl Brown Hal Taliaferro Nick Grinde Bruce Bennett
Tags: Mystery Science Fiction Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 73min
Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series starring Boris Karloff. This time, Boris is obsessed with the notion that he can come up with a cure for cancer. To do this, it is...
Cast: Al St. John Warren Hull Isabel Jewell Sam Newfield Paul Bryar
Length: 66min
PRC's Marked Men gets under way when hero Bill Carver (Warren Hull) is thrown into jail for a crime he didn't commit. Breaking out, Carver hits upon a clever scheme to exact a confession from the genuine miscreants. Pretending to help five mobsters...
Cast: Otto Kruger Ona Munson Don Beddoe Eddie Marr Edward Norris
Length: 67min
The publisher of a popular gossip magazine causes a scandal of his own when he hires his bastard son as a reporter. The cub journalist does not realize that his new boss is his father. After only a week, the impetuous youth quits and starts working...
Cast: Tim McCoy
Length: 60min
A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not widely shown until 1936. McCoy, a rather stolid type of cowboy hero, is rather miscast as a rodeo performer competing for the...
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