Biography: Thurston Hall |
The living image of the man on the Monopoly cards, Thurston Hall began his six-decade acting career on the New England stock-company circuit. Forming his own troupe, Hall toured America, Africa and New Zealand. On Broadway, he was starred in such... more
Find videos of Thurston HallFree Thurston Hall videosCast: Mary Anderson
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 80min
Filmed on location in Mexico (one of several Hollywood-financed films of the 1950s to take advantage of the lower production and labor costs south of the border), One Big Affair stars Evelyn Keyes as Jean Harper, a scatter-brained American...
Night Stage to Galveston (1952)
Cast: Clayton Moore
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 61min
Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the wild-and-wooly days when the Texas Rangers were supplanted by various local corrupt police officials, the story finds Gene at...
Length: 61min
Peggy Donovan (Joyce Reynolds) inherits a tidy sum of ill-gotten gains from her gambler father. Fearing that her late father's partner means to do her harm to claim the money for himself, Peggy takes the loot and hides out in an exclusive girl's...
Length: 60min
The federal agent "at large" in this Republic programmer is played by Kent Taylor. On the trail of gold smugglers in Mexico, Matt Reedy (Taylor) crosses the path of hard-boiled lady criminal Solitare (Dorothy Patrick). Her criminal tendencies softened...
Cast: Gene Autry Jock Mahoney Alan Hale, Jr.
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 70min
Gene Autry plays a dual role in the above-average Columbia oater Rim of the Canyon. Our hero plays "himself" and his own father, a famed sheriff. Twenty years ago, Autry Sr. threw a trio of outlaws (Walter Sande, Jock Mahoney and Francis McDonald)...
Cast: Smiley Burnette Harry Lauter Gail Davis
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 70min
Gene Autry stars in the 1951 sagebrusher Whirlwind. In this outing, Autry plays a frontier postal inspector known for his lightning speed in the saddle (hence the title). Travelling incognito, Autry and his sidekick Smiley Burnette endeavor to get the...
Cast: Fritz Feld
Length: 70min
After several supporting and guest appearances, Latino singer-actress Estelita Rodriguez was given her own Republic starring vehicle, Belle of Old Mexico. The plot wasn't new in 1950--for that matter it wasn't new in 1920. Wealthy Kip Artmitage III...
Cast: Tim Holt Jeff Donnell
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
While searching for a stolen gold shipment, partners in a stagecoach line attempt to keep crooked ranch hands from stealing their employer's land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Thurston Hall Marjorie Lord
Tags: Melodrama Prison Film Drama
Length: 70min
Columbia's Chain Gang combines biting social commentary with good old-fashioned melodrama. Reporter Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy) intends to expose political corruption by posing as a convict and joining a prison chain gang. While a "guest of the...
Cast: Gloria Jean
Tags: Musical
Length: 68min
A rapidly maturing Gloria Jean is the star of the Columbia musical Manhattan Angel. She's cast at Madison Avenue copywriter Gloria Cole, at present striving to save a youth center for underprivileged children from being demolished to make way for a...
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