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John Rawlins entered movies as a stuntman and actor in action films and serials during the '20s. He moved into comedy writing during the '30s, and joined the editing department at Columbia Pictures. Late in the decade he went to Universal as a director of many of the studio's better B-pictures and serials. Among the most notable examples of his work are programmers and serials, such as The Green Hornet Strikes Again (co-directed with Ford Beebe) -- which is now considered a lost film (no copies are known to exist) -- and Junior G-Men (also with Beebe), starring the Little Tough Guys (an off-shoot of the Dead End Kids, featuring Billy Halop and Huntz Hall), and Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga, starring Leon Errol and Lupe Velez, all made during 1940-41. Rawlins did achieve one reasonably notable stylistic triumph, however, with Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), the first of the updated Sherlock Holmes pictures starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which put the Victorian detective into a World War II setting, battling Nazi saboteurs -- despite a somewhat hokey script and a low budget, the film has sections with very effective atmosphere, with a haunting conclusion drawn directly from the pages of Conan Doyle. Rawlins' later work included many of the Maria Montez Technicolor costume adventures, which he directed with efficient pacing (and with which he helped keep the teetering studio afloat in the mid '40s). During the late '40s, he went to RKO for lesser programmers such as Dick Tracy's Dilemma and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (co-starring Boris Karloff), and made the rounds of the B-studios such as Eagle-Lion and Allied Artists, making nicely paced, popular, if unexceptional fare such as The Boy from Indiana (1950), along with one interesting post-Civil War drama, Fort Defiance (1951), starring Ben Johnson, Dane Clark, and Peter Graves, about a beleaguered garrison whose troops are torn by lingering conflicts growing out of the War Between the States. From the early '50s onward, Rawlins worked in television, specializing in dramas. He passed away on May 20, 1997 after contracting pneumonia. Rawlins was 94. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide less

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Lost Lagoon (1958)
Cast: Peter Donat
Tags: Drama
Length: 79min
Unhappily married businessman Jeffrey Lynn dreams of escaping his troubles and drifting off to a desert island. Lynn's dreams come true with startling suddenness when he is lost at sea and presumed drowned. In fact, he has washed up on the shore of a...
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Shark River (1953)
Tags: Drama
Length: 80min
Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Parker (Robert Cunningham) hack their way through the Florida swampland. With the help of Clay's brother...
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Fort Defiance (1951)
Cast: Ben Johnson
Tags: Action Western
Length: 81min
Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his blind brother Ned (Peter Graves). All this changes when Ben Shelby (Ben Johnson), whose brother's death was caused by Johnny,...
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Boy from Indiana (1950)
Cast: George Cleveland
Tags: Sports Drama Romance Drama
Length: 66min
Lon McCallister is the Boy From Indiana in this pleasant horse-racing yarn. Lon Decker (McCallister) comes to the rescue of Texas Dandy, a champion quarter-mile racehorse who is being abused by his avaricious owner (George Cleveland). After various...
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Rogue River (1951)
Cast: Peter Graves
Tags: Drama Crime Western
Length: 81min
Rogue River stars Rory Calhoun as Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge (Frank Fenton). A 70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family...
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Michael O'Halloran (1949)
Tags: Drama Crime
Length: 76min
In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is injured. With a doctor's assistance, he helps the girl understand that her paralysis is hysterical, caused by her reactions to her...
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Massacre River (1949)
Cast: Guy Madison Cathy Downs
Tags: Western Action
Length: 85min
Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram sagebrusher Massacre River. Madison and Calhoun play Larry Knight and Phil Acton, fellow Army officers and rivals for the...
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
Cast: Ralph Byrd Albert S. D'Agostino Lyle Latell
Tags: Mystery Action Detective Film Superhero Film
Length: 60min
Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's immortal comic strip hero is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys (Charles Marsh), has just...
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The Arizona Ranger (1948)
Cast: Jack Holt Tim Holt Richard Martin John Rawlins
Tags: Psychological Drama Western Traditional Western
Length: 64min
In this western, a troubled, battle-weary youth must somehow put his life together after he is discharged from Roosevelt's Rough Riders. His father wants him to take over the family ranch, but the son is still too haunted by war's horrors to care....
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Cast: Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Skelton Knaggs
Tags: Superhero Film Action Mystery
Length: 66min
Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. To get in and out of the...
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