Biography: Robert Kent |
Before becoming a star of action movies in Hollywood, American actor Robert Kent, born Douglas Blackley, Jr., was an amateur boxer and adolescent lead in theatrical productions. In the mid-1930s he appeared frequently in Hollywood "B" movies as a... more
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Cast: Thomas Carr William "Wild Bill" Elliott
Length: 62min
Rebel City is a "B" western with "A" aspirations. Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers...
Cast: William Beaudine
Tags: Drama
Length: 67min
In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in desperate need of help. The kindly fellow takes her in and helps her to recover. He then discovers that she isn't sick at all; she...
Cast: Gene Lockhart Jerome Cowan Faye Emerson
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 55min
After years of faithful supporting-player service to Warner Bros., Jerome Cowan was rewarded with two starring vehicles, the first of which was Find the Blackmailer. Cowan is cast as private eyes D. L. Trees, who is hired by mayoral candidate John M....
Cast: Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Robert Kent George Cleveland
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 65min
Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western interludes. This time, Autry champions the cause of a group of ranchers who are being victimized by the apparent megalomania of...
Cast: Al St. John
Tags: Western
Length: 57min
Crooked mail clerk Charles Haney (Emmet Lynn), coveting his boss' stagecoach line, tips off a gang of outlaws whenever a new gold shipment is due. Hero Dave Gregory (Don "Red" Barry) suspects that the subsequent rash of the stage holdups are the work...
The Phantom Creeps [Serial] (1939)
Cast: Bela Lugosi
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction
Length: min
The bravura performance of Bela Lugosi is the main selling card for the 12-episode Universal serial The Phantom Creeps. Unhinged by the death of his wife, Dr. Alex Zorka (Lugosi) vows to avenge himself on the world with a variety of strange...
Cast: Sidney Blackmer Norman Willis
Length: 83min
Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star football player who is framed by gamblers on a robbery charge and sentenced to prison. Serving three years behind bars, Kent is...
Cast: June Lang
Tags: Comedy
Length: 67min
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble 50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending 44,000 of...
Cast: Don "Red" Barry
Length: 67min
In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps so he can pilfer the plans for a newly developed aerial torpedo. To get in, the crook steals an innocent young man's papers and...
Cast: Virginia Vale
Tags: Sports Drama Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 65min
PRC Pictures' final 1941 release was the auto-racing melodrama Blonde Comet. Virginia Vale stars as female race-car champion Betty Blake, the toast of the European racing circuit. Upon arriving in America, Betty finds she has a staunch rival in the...
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