Miles Mander
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The son of an English manufacturer, Miles Mander had dabbled in several careers before making his screen bow as an extra in 1918. He'd been a farmer, a novelist, a playwright, a stage director and a cinema exhibitor -- and, if all the stories can be... more
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Cast: William Castle John Litel Warner Baxter Miles Mander Rudolph C. Flothow   
Length: 69min
In this episode of the "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Orday, the sleuthing shrink, cares for a patient who suffers from blackouts. The patient, an artist from New York's Latin Quarter, cannot remember a thing from these episodes. What is most disturbing...

Cast: June Duprez Leigh Harline Miles Mander John Loder Rose Hobart   
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller 
Length: 67min
John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed by the Nazis, Loder suffers a head injury. Thereafter, he cannot separate fact from fiction, and periodically becomes the...

Cast: Basil Rathbone Roy William Neill Dennis Hoey Evelyn Ankers Nigel Bruce   
Tags: Detective Film Mystery 
Length: 69min
This above-average entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series is loosely based on the Conan Doyle story -The Six Napoleons. On this occasion, Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) are assigned to guard the priceless Borgia Pearl, a...

The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Cast: Bela Lugosi Lionel Banks Nina Foch Lew Landers Ottola Nesmith   
Tags: Creature Film Horror 
Length: 69min
He looks like Dracula, talks like Dracula and dresses like Dracula; but since the movie rights to Dracula were controlled by Universal, Bela Lugosi's character name is Armand Tesla in Columbia's Return of the Vampire. Bringing the Old Legend up to...

Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945)
Cast: John Cromwell Harold Kress Grant Mitchell Lionel Stander Jonathan Hale   
Length: 15min
Though running a mere 15 minutes, Watchtower Over Tomorrow boasts some very impressive credits. Written by Ben Hecht, this paean to the newly-formed United Nations does its best to explain the importance of the organization and the Dubarton Oaks...

Cast: Basil Rathbone Laraine Day Charles Lederer Lew Ayres Harry Stradling   
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Mystery Thriller 
Length: 80min
A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of hrillers, this murder mystery benefits from good performances by the leads. The plot involves a series of axe murders in Chicago being perpetrated by the...

Secrets of the Underground (1943)
Cast: Lloyd Corrigan John Hubbard Neil Hamilton Joey Ray Dick Rich   
Tags: Spy Film War Spy Film War 
Length: 70min
In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but inside it is really a counterfeiting operation in which the leader and his henchman make fake savings stamps in the hope of...

Cast: Glenn Ford Charles Barton Rochelle Hudson Edwin Stanley John Qualen   
Length: 65min
Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale was another stepping-stone on Glenn Ford's road to stardom. The story concerns a crooked adoption racket, operating out of a supposedly charitable maternity...

Cast: Heather Angel David Ross Lederman Miles Mander Frieda Inescort Paul Cavanagh   
Tags: Mystery Whodunit 
Length: 63min
Shadows on the Stairs is a slimmed-down adaptation of Frank Vosper's stage play Murder on the 2nd Floor. There's dirty work afoot at the London boarding house managed by Mr. and Mrs. Armitage (Miles Mander, Frieda Inescourt): several mysterious...

Cast: Ginger Rogers Joel McCrea Renie Henry Travers Gregory La Cava   
Tags: Melodrama Drama 
Length: 93min
In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen image by playing the daughter and granddaughter of prostitutes. Determined not to pursue the "family business", Ellie May Adams...

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