Ray McCarey
Biography: Ray McCarey |
The younger brother of director/writer/producer Leo McCarey, McCarey began working in films as a prop boy in the mid '20s, and soon gained experience as an editor, assistant director, and scriptwriter. He began directing short comedies with the Hal... more
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Cast: John Emery Leif Erickson Virginia Gregg Roy Roberts Ray McCarey
Tags: Comedy
Length: 68min
This "B" effort from the 20th Century-Fox stable stars John Emery and Tamara Geva as John Newberry and Maria Ivar, a pair of quarrelsome stage stars. Realizing that their constant bickering is ruining their professional and personal lives, John and...
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino Jane Greer Elisha Cook, Jr. Tom Conway Michael Lally
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Mystery Crime
Length: 62min
A loose remake of 1941's The Gay Falcon, The Falcon's Alibi is one of the better entries in RKO's "Falcon" series, and one of the few that can stand on its own merits as a "film noir." This time, amateur detective Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka the...
Cast: Alan Mowbray Ray McCarey Minerva Urecal Harry J. Wild Matt McHugh
Tags: Screwball Comedy Buddy Film Comedy
Length: 70min
So This is Washington is one of the better entries in the "Lum 'N' Abner" film series. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff recreate their popular radio characters of Lum and Abner, folksy general-store proprietors in the village of Pine Bluff, Arkansas....
Cast: Fritz Feld Albert S. D'Agostino Elsa Lanchester Lloyd Corrigan Lionel Royce
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 65min
Originally titled Passport to Destiny, RKO's Passport to Adventure manages to be both whimsical and melodramatic all at once. Elsa Lanchester stars as a Cockney charwoman who sneaks into wartime Berlin, fully intending to kill Adolf Hitler. Lanchester...
Cast: Preston S. Foster Roy Roberts Signe Hasso Emil Newman James Basevi
Tags: Drama
Length: 65min
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank...
Cast: Jerry Colonna Dorothy Dandridge Charles Grapewin Constance Moore Al Shean
Tags: Drama Musical Showbiz Drama Musical Drama
Length: 86min
Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not quite an "A" picture but certainly not a "B". Brad Taylor (who formerly acted at Columbia under the name of Stanley Brown)...
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
Cast: Lloyd Nolan William Frawley Carole Landis Emil Newman Robert Armstrong
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 80min
It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays an ace ballplayer who was disgraced while still in college and is only able to secure work as a team manager. He takes charge...
Cast: Alan Ladd Fred Allen William Tracy Carole Landis George Montgomery
Length: 69min
America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama Cadet Girl. The title character is nightclub songstress Gene Baxter (Carole Landis), but the weight of the film rests on the...
Cast: Dan Duryea James Ellison Janis Carter Paul Fix Alma Kruger
Length: 75min
That Other Woman in this 20th Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily (Virginia Gilmore), faithful secretary to master architect Henry Summers (James Ellison). Hoping to trap her boss into marriage, Emily begins sending "mash notes" to Henry,...
Cast: Milton Berle Cesar Romero Emil Newman J. Carrol Naish Carole Landis
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 66min
Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an art shop proprietor who introduces her raffish romeo into the world of fine art. Utilizing his gambling skills, he amasses an...
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