Biography: Richard L. Bare |
American writer/director Richard L. Bare was running a small movie theatre in Carmel, California in the 1930s when he decided to become a moviemaker himself. He wrote the script for a one-reel comic documentary called So You Want to Quit Smoking and... more
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Tags: Detective Film Mystery Thriller Whodunit
Length: 95min
Set on a coastal resort in California, the thrills in this mystery begin as a strange killer chops up three blonde beauties forcing the house detective to work overtime to figure out that the killer is right under his nose. The film was shot in...
I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew (1969)
Tags: Adventure Comedy Comedy
Length: 95min
It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other 20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. The...
Cast: Rita Moreno
Tags: Police Detective Film Drama Melodrama
Length: 90min
Race hatred and drug trafficking threaten to tear apart a California high school in this een drama. Frank White (Mark Damon) and Don Walters (Doug Hume) are a pair of undercover police officers who are sent to a high school dominated by three gangs....
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Cast: Angie Dickinson James Garner Randolph Scott
Tags: Comedy Western Western
Length: 87min
A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph Scott's long-term contract with Warner Bros. and sat on the shelf for nearly two years before being dumped on the double-bill...
Prisoners of the Casbah (1953)
Cast: Cesar Romero
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 78min
When Gloria Grahame signed her contract at Columbia Pictures, she had no idea the studio would require her to appear in anything available. Rather than go on suspension, she consented to star in the "Arabian nights" fiasco Prisoners of the Casbah, ...
Cast: Viveca Lindfors
Tags: Drama
Length: 74min
This Side of the Law stars Kent Smith as David Cummins, a man caught up in an epic subterfuge. At the behest of attorney Philip Cagle (Robert Douglas), Cummins poses as a man who has been missing for seven years and is presumed dead. Cagle insists...
Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
Cast: Gordon MacRae Jack Holt Julie London
Tags: Traditional Western Western Action
Length: 74min
With Return of the Frontiersman, Warner Bros. continued to test the acting abilities of their singing star Gordon MacRae. While he does get to warble two songs, MacRae plays it straight for the most part in his role as Logan Barrett, the son of...
Cast: Richard L. Bare
Tags: Chase Movie Crime Drama Drama Mystery Thriller
Length: 86min
Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially when she's around criminal attorney Walter Colby (Zachary Scott). When Colby begins to have second thoughts about his gangster...
The House Across the Street (1949)
Tags: Crime Drama Detective Film
Length: 69min
House Across the Street was the second remake of the 1933 Paul Muni starrer Hi, Nellie. The original's satirical jibes against columnist Walter Winchell are downplayed in favor of undistilled concentration on the plot. Crusading newspaperman Dave...
Cast: Virginia Mayo
Tags: Gangster Film Mystery Crime
Length: 81min
Despite the film's title, socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) isn't smart enough to steer clear of the gambling den operated by gangster Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett). Forced to join Fain's operation, Linda gets mixed up with duplicity and murder-not...
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