Biography: Phil Rosen |
Born in Russia, director Phil Rosen emigrated to the U.S. as a child. Entering movies as a cameraman, Rosen turned the crank on several of the Theda Bara vehicles of the teens. His silent film credits are fitfully impressive, including the Rudolph... more
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Cast: Phil Rosen
Length: 96min
The very real dangers of venereal disease provide the framework of this informational Canadian docu-drama. The basic story concerns a hard-working health officer who tries to keep his town morally and physically clean. Meanwhile a corrupt town...
Tags: Escape Film Adventure
Length: 75min
Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret of St. Ives, Ney plays Anatole de Keroual, the unofficial head of a group of French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars....
Cast: Lawrence Tierney Anne Jeffreys Renie Albert S. D'Agostino
Length: 62min
In this espionage drama, a WW II veteran teams up with a government secretary and begins hunting a gang of Nazi agents who are seeking the secret documents carried by the G-man they killed. The two heroes are hindered on their hunt by fellow...
Cast: Kane Richmond
Tags: Mystery
Length: 61min
The Shadow Returns was the first of three above-average Monogram features based on the popular radio melodrama The Shadow. Kane Richmond stars as wealthy man-about-town Lamont Cranston, who years ago in the Orient had learned the hypnotic power to...
Cast: Jane Darwell Edgar Kennedy Fritz Feld
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 70min
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child...
Charlie Chan: The Scarlet Clue (1945)
Cast: Sidney Toler
Tags: Police Detective Film Whodunit Mystery
Length: 65min
Birmingham Brown joins pal Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) in solving this missing government documents mystery, set at a New York City radio station. Various media types are satirized in this unorthodox entry in the Monogram Pictures series. ~ Michael...
Cast: Vincent Price Duncan Renaldo
Length: 60min
The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Martin Garralaga as Pancho. The plot concentrates on heroine Ellen (Gwen Kenyon), a nurse accused of murder. Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" Ellen...
The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)
Length: 63min
With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with projects like The Strange Mr. Gregory. The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death --...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 64min
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official Luis (Fortunio Bonanova), Chan looks high and low for a stolen atomic-bomb formula. The oriental detective is also "aided" by...
Cast: Mantan Moreland
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 65min
More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that, rather fortuitously, is located in the same building as a government research lab. It's wartime, and the Chinese master detective...
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