Biography: Regis Toomey |
Taking up dramatics while attending the University of Pittsburgh, Regis Toomey extended this interest into a profitable career as a stock and Broadway actor. He specialized in singing roles until falling victim to acute laryngitis while touring... more
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Length: 60min
Adapted by Christopher Knopf from a short story by C.B. Gifford, Joy Ride is a fast-paced pocket variation of the Desperate Hours/Night Holds Terror school of suspense. When middle-aged Mr. Miles (Regis Toomey) picks up a quartet of young-punk...
Cast: Dale Robertson Linda Darnell
Tags: Western
Length: 88min
Some good performances overcome the scripted cliches in Dakota Incident. In the tradition of Stagecoach, the film offers a disparate group of travellers whose lives are imperiled when their coach heads deep into Indian territory. Linda Darnell plays...
Tags: Police Drama Drama
Length: 82min
In the tradition of Dragnet and The Lineup, this is devoted to a typically busy day at a police precinct station house. Despite the presence of such recognizable actors as Gary Merrill and Regis Toomey, the film successfully adopts a documentary...
Cast: Richard Widmark Joanne Dru Robert Parrish Audrey Totter
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 83min
Gus (George Winslow) is the young son of divorced industrialist Dave Jennings (Richard Widmark). Unable to cope with Gus' mischievous streak, Jennings places the boy in a day-care center. Gus' teacher Lydia Marble (Joanne Dru) manages to curb the...
Cast: Frank McDonald
Length: 75min
A heretofore unexplored chapter in the saga of female western desperado Belle Starr is detailed in this fanciful sagebrusher. Keith Larsen plays the title character, a young man forced into a life of crime because of his mom's reputation and because...
Length: 73min
Gunman Sterling Hayden rides into a small frontier town in search of his mother's killer. William Bishop is a wealthy ranch owner who has married Karin Booth, Hayden's former girl friend. Hayden has reason to suspect that Bishop is the man he is...
Cast: Regis Toomey Paul Landres
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 61min
Tuna fisherman Joe Morelli (Tom Neal) is Navy Bound in this Monogram programmer. While on board ship, Morelli becomes the fleet's boxing champion. He gives up pugilistic glory to return home, where he tries to help his family out of a financial...
Cast: Bette Davis Jack L. Warner King Vidor Joseph Cotten Minor Watson
Length: 96min
"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner Bros. effort of the 1940s. Some Davis devotees feel as though this vituperative utterance is the high point of an otherwise...
Tags: Crime Mystery Detective Film
Length: 70min
In this mystery, set within the newspaper industry, a detective is hired to protect the editor who believes that someone is out to kill him. The editor is the real villain having killed the publisher, the publisher's detective, and a friend so that he...
Cast: Rhonda Fleming William Conrad Dick Powell Emil Newman
Tags: Film Noir Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 80min
Dick Powell stars in this suspenseful melodrama, directed by Robert Parrish. Rocky Mulloy (Powell) has recently returned from prison, after being pardoned from a life sentence when new evidence clears him from a robbery conviction. Delong (Richard...
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