Lucien Prival
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In films from 1929 to 1943, character actor Lucien Prival was able to parlay his vocal and physical resemblance to Erich von Stroheim into a sizeable screen career. Prival was at his most Stroheim-like in war films, notably Hell's Angels (1930), in... more
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Cast: Hugh Beaumont Duncan Renaldo Virginia Vale Sidney Sheldon Jean Yarbrough
Length: 68min
Panama Menace is the reissue title of PRC's South of Panama. Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible. Enemy...
Hitler -- Beast of Berlin (1939)
Cast: Alan Ladd Greta Granstedt Fredrik Vogeding Paul Panzer Crane Whitley
Tags: Political Drama War Drama Propaganda Film Drama War
Length: 87min
Also known as Beasts of Berlin and Hitler: Beast of Berlin, this was the inagural effort of Producers Distributing Corporation-later to become famous (or infamous) as PRC Pictures. Set in Germany, the story concerned a dedicated group of anti-Nazis...
Cast: Boris Karloff Evelyn Brent Scott R. Dunlap John St. Polis Wilbur Mack
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 69min
The first of six Mr. Wong whodunits, Mr. Wong Detective presented Boris Karloff as pulp writer Hugh Wiley's Oxford-educated Oriental sleuth. Wong is visited by Simon Dayton (John Hamilton), an industrialist fearing for his life. Dayton and his...
Cast: Pat O'Brien Edward N. Buzzell Genevieve Tobin Norman Krasna Jo Swerling
Tags: Showbiz Drama Drama Crime
Length: 71min
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business. He writes of starlets abused by directors on the casting couch, and of mob involvement...
Cast: William Christy Cabanne Estelle Taylor Gertrude Astor Eddie Kane James P. Burtis
Tags: Mystery
Length: 65min
Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at a Los Angeles society function, gentleman thief Edmund Burns boards a train bound for Chicago. A murder occurs during the...
Cast: Jean Harlow Howard R. Hughes Marshall Neilan Ben Lyon William Von Brincken
Tags: War Adventure Combat Films War
Length: 135min
No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like Hell's Angels. Given Hughes' comparative inexperience as a moviemaker, however, everyone was taken slightly aback that the finished...
The Last of the Lone Wolf (1930)
Cast: Richard Boleslawski Patsy Ruth Miller Henry Daniell Ben Kline Lucien Prival
Tags: Adventure
Length: 70min
In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large...
Cast: Richard Wallace Billie Dove Al St. John Margaret Livingston Alice White
Length: 7rlmin
The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of Millicent Howard (Dove), who banks upon her good looks to achieve wealth and luxury. Her efforts reach a pinnacle when...
Cast: Mary Brian Sam Hardy Ben Lyon Lucien Prival James Ashmore Creelman
Length: 65min
Busy character actor Sam Hardy was afforded a rare starring role when he played the title character in High Hat. Despite his ritzy nickname, High Hat is a mere movie dress extra at First National Pictures (where the film was shot). Even so, he regards...
Cast: Wesley Ruggles Brian Donlevy Lucien Prival Ruth Dwyer George Walsh
Length: 56min
The brother of director Raoul Walsh, George Walsh starred in this low-budget gangster melodrama directed by Wesley Ruggles. Walsh plays Jack Banning, a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson,"...
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