Biography: Milburn Stone |
Milburn Stone got his start in vaudeville as one-half of the song 'n' snappy patter team of Stone and Strain. He worked with several touring theatrical troupes before settling down in Hollywood in 1935, where he played everything from bits to full... more
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Cast: Piper Laurie Dana Andrews Henry Mancini William Talman William Schallert
Tags: Western
Length: 88min
Dana Andrews plays Cavalry deserter Brett Halliday in the compact Universal western Smoke Signal. Cavalry captain Harper (William Talman) is determined to bring Halliday to justice, but first he must lead his men and a handful of Indian-massacre...
Cast: Edward G. Robinson Peter Graves
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 80min
On the eve of his execution, killer Edward G. Robinson busts out of prison with the help of his girlfriend (Jean Parker) and a crook posing as a reporter (Warren Stevens). Robinson takes along five hostages, including the daughter of the murdered head...
Cast: Richard Boone Van Johnson Rudolph Maté
Tags: Western Crime Action Hybrid Western Crime Drama
Length: 81min
Siege of Red River stars Van Johnson as a Confederate officer, who "appropriates" a shipment of gatling guns from the Northern troops in the waning days of the Civil War. Posing as a medicine show entrepreneur, Johnson smuggles the guns through enemy...
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino
Length: 73min
An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the ingredients in this low-budget but highly engrossing film noir. Charles McGraw and Louis Jean Heydt are tough insurance agents but...
Cast: Charles Barton
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 64min
Charles Barton took a break from his Abbott and Costello assignments at Universal to direct the second-feature thriller Smooth as Silk. Kent Taylor plays a slick criminal lawyer adept at all sorts of sneaky legalistic tricks. Taylor's girl friend...
Cast: Irene Ryan Stuart Erwin
Length: 65min
In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already hyper-nervous man is therefore convinced that he will die. Later some of his clothing is recovered from a local creek and his family...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 64min
Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's not quite as bad as its reputation would indicate. True, star Roland Winters steadfastly refuses to take his characterization...
Cast: Milburn Stone
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 69min
The terrible consequences of perverting the legal system are spelled out in The Judge. In one of his rare starring roles, Milburn Stone plays criminal lawyer Martin Strang. Suspecting his wife Lucille (Katherine de Mille) of infidelity, Strang schemes...
Cast: Don Porter Patricia Morison
Length: 59min
Stalwart Universal contractees Don Porter and Brenda Joyce are afforded rare starring roles in Danger Woman. Porter plays scientist Claude Ruppert, who hopes to harness atomic energy for commercial purposes. Ruppert is in love with secretary June...
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
Cast: Gale Sondergaard
Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Crime Horror Thriller
Length: 59min
Gale Sondergaard more or less recreates her role as the homicidal "Spider Woman" that she first essayed in the 1943 Sherlock Holmes film of the same name. This time Ms. Sondergaard plays a wealthy rancher who advertises for a young woman to serve as...
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