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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Length: 75min
Three confidence men set up in a luxury hotel, but wind up as their own victims when several swindles backfire. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Length: 68min
Three of a Kind was also released as Mistaken Identity, which pretty much says it all. Chick Chandler, Berton Churchill and Richard Carle star respectively as confidence tricksters Jerry Bassett, Con Cornelius and F. Thorndyke Penfield. Each of the...
Cast: Phil Rosen Sidney Blackmer Ann Doran
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 66min
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen. Runaway Ann Jason (Ann Doran) finds shelter in big, bad New York City with the Traveler's Aid...
The Calling of Dan Matthews (1936)
Cast: Charlotte Wynters Douglas Dumbrille Richard Arlen
Length: 65min
The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen) wants to rid his community of its seamy "Old Town" district, a breeding ground for prostitution and other...
Length: 66min
Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are brothers who are "cursed" by their family's gambling bug. All four try to overcome the urge to speculate: only one, the...
Cast: Frank Morgan Ralph Morgan
Tags: Drama
Length: 84min
This follow-up to RKO Radio's near-perfect adaptation of Little Women was produced by small but enterprising Mascot Pictures (the forerunner to Republic). Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ralph Morgan star as Jo March and Professor Bhaer, the characters played...
Cast: Jack Holt
Tags: Sports Drama
Length: 64min
This racetrack drama centers upon a horse breeder with a strong aversion to orphans. Howard Chamberlain, himself an orphan, firmly believes that foundlings are bad luck and he allows none, neither man nor beast, upon his spread. One day, adorable...
Cast: Richard Dix
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 68min
RKO Radio's first official 1935 release was the Zane Grey adaptation West of the Pecos. Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling. He spends half of the film proving his innocence, and the other half...
Cast: Melvyn Douglas Betty Furness Virginia Bruce Max Steiner Conrad Nagel
Tags: Mystery
Length: 66min
Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by telling the unvarnished truth. A burned-out radio tube is the catalyst for a series of painful and potentially dangerous...
Tags: Crime Mystery Crime Thriller
Length: 65min
Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia Pictures. The latter plays Evelyn Vail, a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to...
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