Biography: Sidney Blackmer |
Sidney Blackmer had planned to study law at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, but football and amateur theatricals held more interest for him. Heading east to make his fortune as an actor, Blackmer accepted day work at various film... more
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Cast: Sidney Blackmer Norman Willis Robert Kent
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: Barbara Stanwyck Robert Taylor William Seiter
Tags: Romance Musical Crime Drama
Length: 101min
Based on fact, this turn-of-the-century crime drama stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck (husband and wife at the time). Taylor plays a seemingly disreputable young man who joins a gang of murderous bank robbers, headed by Victor McLaglen....
Cast: Sidney Toler
Length: 72min
If not the best of the Hopalong Cassidy films, Law of the Pampas is certainly one of the better-known entries. This time around, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pal Lucky (Russell Hayden) head to South America to look after a herd of cattle sold by...
Cast: Peter Lorre
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 67min
The second of eight 1930s films based on J. P. Marquand's Japanese detective, Thank You, Mr. Moto finds Moto (Peter Lorre) coming to the aid of Chinese royalty. The last remaining members of an ancient Chinese clan (Pauline Frederick and Philip Ahn)...
Cast: Fredric March Ann Sothern Ralph Bellamy Tay Garnett
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 90min
Joan Bennett plays a young woman who believes she's killed bigtime crook Sidney Blackmer. She changes her hair color from blonde to brunette and escapes from San Francisco to parts unknown. Police detective Fredric March is hired to track down...
Tags: Mystery
Length: 70min
A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled hriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp., a remake of the company's first talkie. After rescuing a pretty girl from a brute while crossing the English channel, Barry...
Cast: Jane Darwell Darryl F. Zanuck Loretta Young Walter Lang
Tags: Comedy
Length: 85min
Loretta Young is the wife, Warner Baxter the doctor and Virginia Bruce the nurse in this 20th Century-Fox trifle. Society gal Young marries Park Avenue medico Baxter, little guessing that humble nursie Bruce also loves the doc. Young raises vociferous...
Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes
Tags: Traditional Western Western Action
Length: 70min
Based on Clarence E. Mulford's ~Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the hitherto free range. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and Johnny Nelson (James Ellison) have been hired to head a cattle...
Tags: Crime Crime Drama Detective Film
Length: 70min
Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by Larry Darmour. Arrested in a raid on a Chinese gambling joint, judge's daughter Viola Avery (Esther Ralston) is rescued from disgrace by...
Cast: George Murphy Josephine Hutchinson
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 60min
In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is messing around with his managing editor. When he finds out, he leaves them and begins his own affair with the female...
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