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As a child actress, Marjorie Goodspeed was featured in such silent films as Scaramouche (1923). As a preteen, she acted and danced under the name Marjorie Moore in musicals like Collegiate (1935). Billed as Marjorie Reynolds from 1937 onward, she... more
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Cast: Jim Backus
Length: 72min
William Eythe is the Customs Agent in this brisk Columbia programmer. The plot finds Bert Stewart (Eythe) stationed in China, where he goes undercover to join a gang of dope smugglers. His plan is to stop the wholesale stealing of valuable...
Cast: Howard Duff Marjorie Reynolds
Length: 73min
The direction of Reginald LeBorg and the cinematography of Stanley Cortez go a long way to dissipate the essential tawdriness of Models, Inc. Colleen Gray stars as seductive Rusty Farraday, who maneuvers model-agency owner John Stafford (John Howard)...
Cast: Richard Quine
Tags: Drama
Length: 63min
Former sailor Joe Blake (Bill Williams) is the Rookie Fireman in this Columbia quickie. Though fiercely independent, Blake learns how to be a team player as he goes through the firefighters' training process. Occasionally, he has second thoughts about...
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Adventure Crime
Length: 91min
The Great Jewel Robber is based on the true story of Gerard Dennis, who during a 12-month period managed to steal more than a million dollars' worth of gems. As played by David Brian, Dennis is an incorrigible ladies' man, who uses women to help him...
Cast: Robert Cummings
Tags: Fantasy Hybrid Western Western
Length: 95min
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel...
Cast: Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall
Tags: Comedy
Length: 65min
This "Bowery Boys" entry is an on-target satire of TV wrestling (which, if anything, is even sillier in the 1990s than it was in 1952). Through a freak of nature, Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) develops a cranium so hard that it is impervious to pain....
Cast: Marilyn Monroe Donald Crisp
Tags: Melodrama Propaganda Film Drama
Length: 61min
Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a mildly leftist newspaperman, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Returning to his home town, Washburn turns his journalistic vitriol upon...
Cast: Bob Hope Cecil Kellaway George Marshall
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 93min
-Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was the surprising source for this Grade-A Bob Hope comedy. While in the original novel the tonsorial hero pretended to be...
Cast: Broderick Crawford Barry Sullivan Fortunio Bonanova
Tags: Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film
Length: 74min
Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a pocket western in Bad Men of Tombstone. Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford head the cast as a pair of gunslingers who hold no...
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Cast: Lou Costello Gale Sondergaard Bud Abbott Binnie Barnes
Tags: Comedy Haunted House Film Parody/Spoof
Length: 82min
While perhaps not Abbott & Costello's best film, The Time of Their Lives is certainly their most unusual. Lou Costello plays a Revolutionary War-era tinker, whose prized possession is a letter from George Washington, commending Costello as a loyal...
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