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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Tags: Family
Length: 57min
Harold Gray's long-running comic strip Little Orphan Annie was first brought to the screen in 1932, with Mitzi Green as Annie. This 1938 version was produced by Paramount, with Ann Gillis (best known for her performance as Becky Thatcher in Selznick's...
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 63min
In this fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series, a beautiful young aviatrix (Rochelle Hudson) on a secret diplomatic mission crash-lands in a remote Indochinese jungle province ruled by a despotic potentate (J. Edward Bromberg). Japanese...
Tags: Gangster Film Drama Crime
Length: 62min
Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as I Am a Criminal, Convict's Code and Federal Bullets. Morgan Wallace plays a Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out...
Tags: Crime
Length: 59min
Diminutive Danny (Frankie Darro) is Wanted by the Police in this Monogram actioner. Danny is basically a good boy, but he's fallen into bad company-specifically, a gang of toughs who have a habit of taking automobiles that belong to others. The hero's...
Cast: Arthur Treacher Fred Allen
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 67min
Step Lively, Jeeves was the second 20th Century-Fox programmer to star Arthur Treacher as P.G. Wodehouse's resourceful butler Jeeves. In the first film, Thank You, Jeeves (36), the faithful family retainer extricated his boss Bertie Wooster (David...
Cast: James Ellison
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 78min
Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when both are thrown in jail for vagrancy. Dan's legal problems are quickly done away with but his pretty boarder, Shirley Haddon...
Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
Cast: Peter Lorre Walter Connolly Jane Darwell Victor McLaglen George Marshall John Carradine
Length: 86min
Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the magnate's support of WW I. This drama provides a sympathetic portrait of the kidnapper who leaves the baby with two close...
Cast: Jane Withers Robert Kent Lon Chaney, Jr. Harold Huber
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 74min
Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick...
Tags: Crime
Length: 70min
In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After three years, he is released. The criminals again force him to do more crimes. He does, but as soon as the crooks no longer need...
Cast: Harry Carey Malcolm St. Clair Brian Donlevy Rochelle Hudson
Length: 60min
In this actioner, an auto racer becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by avaricious gangsters trying to gain control of all of the city's taxi companies. Anyone opposing them is framed, but the brave racer isn't so easily...
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