Biography: Lionel Atwill |
British actor Lionel Atwill was born into wealth and educated at London's prestigious Mercer School, where he planned to pursue a career as an architect; instead, he became a stage actor, working steadily from his debut at age 20, most often in the... more
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Cast: Bela Lugosi
Tags: Detective Film Comedy Mystery
Length: 61min
RKO's prefabricated comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney came to an abrupt end with Genius at Work. A slapsticky remake of 1937's Super Sleuth, the film casts the stars as Jerry and Mike, the stars of a weekly radio "unsolved mysteries" series....
Cast: Leo Carrillo
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Drama
Length: 82min
More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney. Drawing from his own experiences, Mooney has concocted a tale of a newspaper journalist who faces a prison term because he refuses...
Tags: Horror Creature Film
Length: 67min
This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed as the final entry in the studio's B-horror cycle. Onslow Stevens plays psychiatrist Dr. Edelman, who suddenly has a thriving...
Cast: Boris Karloff Lon Chaney, Jr. John Carradine
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 71min
In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within its 70-minute time span to make room for Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), Dracula (John Carradine) the Wolf Man (Lon...
Tags: Action Adventure Horror Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 72min
An early low-budget spin on Ten Little Indians, this cheap but entertaining PRC production features a wonderful cast of familiar B-movie faces, particularly George Zucco and Lionel Atwill. Zucco plays a man wrongfully imprisoned after being framed for...
Lady in the Death House (1944)
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 57min
Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the void of Public Domain once better-quality films were made available to TV. Actually, this women-in-prison low-budget attempt at...
Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
Length: 68min
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a...
Cast: Ernst Lubitsch Carole Lombard Jack Benny Robert Stack
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Satire Farce Comedy
Length: 90min
Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform...
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1942)
Cast: Lionel Atwill
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 73min
The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the studio's star monsters. We all thought that Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), alias The Wolf Man, had been shot dead in his own...
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Tags: Mystery Action Detective Film Spy Film
Length: 68min
The second of Universal's "modernized" Sherlock Holmes films pits the Great Detective (Basil Rathbone, of course) against that "Napoleon of Crime," Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill). Surpassing his previous skullduggery, Moriarty has now aligned...
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