Biography: John Qualen |
The son of a Norwegian pastor, John Qualen was born in British Columbia. After his family moved to Illinois, Qualen won a high school forensic contest, which led to a scholarship at Northwestern University. A veteran of the tent-show and vaudeville... more
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Revolt in the Big House (1958)
Tags: Drama Action Prison Film
Length: 79min
Revolt in the Big House stars Gene Evans as a prison "lifer" who rules the roost in his particular cell block. With the help of such loose cannons as prison psycho Timothy Carey, Evans engineers a jailbreak. As the cons and the cops sweat through a...
Cast: Sheldon Leonard
Length: 64min
River Gang was another of Universal's attempts to tap the dramatic potential of their young singing star Gloria Jean. The actress plays Wendy, the niece of pawnbroker Uncle Bill (John Qualen). Outwardly a loveable teller of tall tales, Uncle Bill is...
Cast: Paul Henreid Jack Webb
Tags: Film Noir Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 83min
John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst, believes that people are only interested in themselves and do not notice what is happening around them. Paroled from prison to a...
Cast: Thomas Mitchell Franchot Tone Merle Oberon Joan Harrison
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 93min
Adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial by Frank and Marian Cockrell, Dark Waters stars Merle Oberon as heiress Leslie Calvin, a woman with a neurotic aversion to water. This stems from the fact that in her childhood, Leslie was one of four...
Cast: Sabu Alexander Korda
Tags: Coming-of-Age Animal Picture Family-Oriented Adventure Jungle Film Adventure
Length: 109min
The Jungle Book isn't always faithful to the Rudyard Kipling original (in fact, it seldom is), but 1942 audiences swept up in the grandeur of the production values and the lush Technicolor photography didn't mind at all. Indian juvenile-star Sabu...
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1939)
Cast: Jack Holt Lewis D. Collins Noah Beery, Jr.
Tags: Drama
Length: 64min
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works...
Cast: Rita Hayworth Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Caper Crime
Length: 78min
In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter...
Cast: King Vidor
Tags: Drama
Length: 151min
Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been covered in The Big Parade, while Wheat was dispensed with in Our Daily Bread). Two years in production, the film cost nearly 3...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 87min
In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the swing shift in an airplane factory. Taking in a seemingly suicidal co-worker, Iris (Jean Rogers), Maisie can only watch as the...
Cast: Jane Darwell Ann Sothern Don Ameche
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 81min
Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides out at a country inn. A young girl (Ann Sothern) stumbles into Ameche's rural hideaway; she thinks he's an escaped gangster,...
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