Biography: Stanley Brown |
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Cast: Jerry Colonna Charles Grapewin Dorothy Dandridge
Tags: Drama Musical Showbiz Drama Musical Drama
Length: 86min
Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not quite an "A" picture but certainly not a "B". Brad Taylor (who formerly acted at Columbia under the name of Stanley Brown)...
Length: 58min
In this western, a lonesome cowpoke trots into a town and helps clear his pardner's name. The trouble began when the friend was framed by the leader of the Cattlemen's association who made it seem like he was a rustler. Because the friend was an...
Cast: Charles Starrett Arthur Hunnicutt
Length: 57min
Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport...
Cast: Marie Wilson "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom Don Beddoe
Tags: Comedy
Length: 64min
Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that he consistently proved otherwise in vehicles like Harvard, Here I Come. This little masterpiece finds Rosenbloom, playing...
Thunder over the Prairie (1941)
Cast: Cliff Edwards
Tags: Western
Length: 61min
Thunder Over the Prairie was the second of Charles Starrett's "Dr. Steve Monroe" westerns. The unorthodox plot is set in motion by an evil land baron (Donald Curtis) who uses the local Indians as laborers, then finds legal methods to cheat them of...
Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)
Length: 59min
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star...
Cast: Dub Taylor
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
Wild Bill Hickok is once more impersonated by Will Bill Elliot in the Columbia western Wildcat of Tucson. This time, Hickok is saddled with an irresponsible brother named Dave (Stanley Brown). Falling in with a bad crowd, Dave ends up victimized by...
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff Karl Brown
Tags: Psychological Thriller Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Length: 73min
Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series starring Boris Karloff. This time, Boris is obsessed with the notion that he can come up with a cure for cancer. To do this, it is...
Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)
Cast: Dick Curtis
Length: 58min
The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the title character who discovers that his uncle Mort (Lafe McKee) has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt...
Outpost of the Mounties (1939)
Length: 63min
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupulous trader whose price mark-ups are beginning to hurt the community. They fight so frequently that when the avaricious proprietor is killed, the young...
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