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: George Sanders Gail Patrick
Tags: Romance Crime Mystery Detective Film
Length: 70min
A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing in selling forgeries of rare books. In the company of phony policemen, Sanders enters the library unmolested and pilfers a...
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Cast: Erich Von Stroheim Richard Arlen
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Horror Science Fiction
Length: 86min
Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale -Donovan's Brain. The plot involves the brain of a famous but unscrupulous financier, recently deceased. The brain is kept alive artificially by...
Length: 70min
In this drama, a woman performs a mercy killing and ends up in jail. To clear her name, she escapes and ends up hiding out with a kindly country doctor who helps her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
Cast: John Carradine
Tags: Spy Film War Drama Action Drama War
Length: 76min
With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer. Dean Jagger stars as Lane, an imprisoned counterfeiter who is sprung from jail by a group of sinister-looking gentlemen. It soon...
Cast: Bruce Bennett Sidney Blackmer Don Beddoe
Tags: Spy Film Action Adventure
Length: 64min
Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season. Edward Norris stars as Eddie Miller, a brash Broadway bookie who stumbles upon a nest of Nazi saboteurs. Technically not the...
Cast: Gene Autry Smiley Burnette
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 78min
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson...
Cast: Edmund Gwenn Martha Scott
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years (from 19 to 69) in the course of the film. At a testimonial dinner on the occasion of her retirement, Miss Bishop's former...
The Officer and the Lady (1941)
Tags: Drama Crime Romance Police Detective Film
Length: 59min
Honest cop Bob Conlon (Bruce Bennett) is in love with Helen Regan (Rochelle Hudson),who begs off from a lasting committment because of the injuries incurred by her policeman father (Oscar O'Shea). Helen inaugurates a "safer" romance with Johnny Davis...
Cast: Herbert Rawlinson William Beaudine
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Whodunit
Length: 72min
Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942 courtesy of former investment broker Lester Cutler, veteran actor Sidney Blackmer, and cinematic hack William Beaudine (the latter...
Cast: Robert Armstrong Jerome Cowan
Tags: Crime Mystery Crime Thriller
Length: 60min
Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ All Movie Guide
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