Biography: Karl Brown |
The son of stage actors, Pennsylvania-born Karl Brown was far more intrigued by the technical end of show business; while in his teens he became a lab assistant, then a still photographer. Brown's celebrated association with D.W. Griffith began when... more
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Cast: Marjorie Main George Cleveland
Tags: Romantic Drama Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 63min
Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's Under the Big Top: slick and mildly entertaining, but not much more. Circus aerialist Penny (Anne Nagel) may be the queen of the...
Cast: Harry Carey Betty Compson
Tags: Adventure Drama Action Adventure Drama
Length: 56min
Less lurid than its title, Port of Missing Grils was one of several directorial efforts by screenwriter/cinematographer Karl Brown. After being framed for murder, heroine Della (Judith Allen) eludes both the police and the reel killer by stowing away...
Cast: Claire Windsor
Length: 60min
Barefoot Boy is a throwback to the sort of bucolic family fare in which Monogram Pictures specialized in the early 1930s. Loosely inspired by the John Greenleaf Whittier poem of the same name, the film stars Jackie Moran as Billy Whittaker, a country...
Tags: Melodrama Adventure Drama
Length: 68min
In this tearjerker, a 10-year old orphan and his crippled sister struggle to survive. The newsboy is devoted to his little sister and will do anything to help her. After their parents die, a local woman, embroiled in a messy divorce, endeavors to help...
Tags: Medical Drama Drama
Length: 81min
As the Panama Canal is under construction, a group of doctors try to find a cure for yellow fever, or "Yellow Jack," a deadly disease taking its toll on the canal workers. A pet monkey accidentally frees disease-bearing mosquitoes, resulting in the...
Tags: Adventure Drama Action Adventure
Length: 63min
Johnny Mack Brown stars in Flames as a cocksure young firefighter named Charlie. After rescuing a cat from a burning building, Charlie and his pal Fishy (George Cooper) try to make time with the cat's pretty owners, Pat (Noel Francis) and Gertie...
Tags: Rural Drama Romance Drama Marriage Drama
Length: 78min
Adapted by director Karl Brown from a novel by Charles M. Sheldon, In His Steps was the first release from the newly formed Grand National Pictures. Eric Linden and Cecilia Parker, a popular screen team of the era, are cast as wealthy young couple Tom...
Cast: Karl Brown Milburn Stone William Harrigan
Tags: Mystery Crime Police Drama
Length: 61min
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Harrigan, investigates a seemingly respectable charitable organization. In fact, the enterprise is a...
Cast: Gene Markey
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 67min
The title character, played by Ian Keith, is wealthy diamond merchant Rupert Endon. Falling in love with gorgeous Eve Marlay (Aileen Pringle), Endon battles over her affections with far-from-wealthy squire Lord Adrian (Tyrrell Davis). Though Eve is...
Cast: Adele Buffington Wynne Gibson
Length: 67min
In this four-hanky drama, a young wife is desperate to save her foundering marriage and so takes in two adorable foundlings, a boy and his paralyzed sister. The woman arranges for the poor little girl to have an operation. At first, the woman only...
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