Known for Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years. After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory. Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy! Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films. Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s. Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again. During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.
Born
July 1, 1903
Died
January 19, 1991 (age 87)
Birthplace
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Filmography
174 films, 51 shows


A Bewitched Christmas
1994 · 51m · US
Spend Christmas with everyone's favorite witch in this hilarious yuletide double feature.


Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991 · 59m · US
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.


Nickel Mountain
1984 · 1h 28m · US
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love and get married. All is going well until Willard is back from the road and wants the baby.


Our Town
1977 · 2h
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.


How Do I Love Thee?
1970 · 1h 50m · US
A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.


Generation
1969 · 1h 49m · US
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.


The Impossible Years
1968 · 1h 32m · US
The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.


Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967 · 1h 14m · US
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.


Texas Across the River
1966 · 1h 41m · US
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.


A Very Special Favor
1965 · 1h 45m · US
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.


Kilroy
1965
Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved in the affairs of the town and hilarity ensues. The mayor of the city, fearing Oscar Kilroy's popularity, schemes to discredit him by entrusting the management of the city dog pound to him. However, against all odds, Oscar Kilroy takes his work to heart at the pound and implements a plan to save the condemned dogs.


For Love or Money
1963 · 1h 48m · US
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.


Papa's Delicate Condition
1963 · 1h 38m · US
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.


Jack the Giant Killer
1962 · 1h 34m · US
Desiring control of the kingdom, evil wizard Pendragon devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting and forcing Princess Elaine to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer named Jack witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.


Saintly Sinners
1962 · 1h 17m · US
Ex-con Joseph Braden has his car temporarily stolen by a pair of bank robbers who hide their loot in the vehicle's spare tire. After the car is repossessed, it's sold to the kindly Rev. Daniel Sheridan, who immediately sets out on a fishing trip. Not knowing that his new automobile was recently used in a heist, Father Dan gets the surprise of his life when he's suddenly stopped by a police officer.


Boy Who Caught a Crook
1961 · 1h 12m · US
The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.


Pillow Talk
1959 · 1h 42m · US
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.


Warlock
1959 · 2h 2m · US
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.


Bullwhip
1958 · 1h 20m · US
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.


The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958 · 1h 12m · US
A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife.


The Joker is Wild
1957 · 2h 6m · US
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.


Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
1957 · 1h 27m · US
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.


Invitation to a Gunfighter
1957 · 1h 30m · US
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.


The Rawhide Years
1956 · 1h 25m · US
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.


Behind the High Wall
1956 · 1h 25m · US
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.


The Killer Is Loose
1956 · 1h 13m · US
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.


The Miracle on 34th Street
1955 · 46m · US
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.


The Night of the Hunter
1955 · 1h 33m · US
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.


Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 · 1h 12m · US
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.


The Steel Cage
1954 · 1h 20m · US
Drama set in San Quentin prison.


A Star Is Born
1954 · 2h 56m · US
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
A Fair Chance
A Fair Chance
1954 · 15m · US
A dramatization of the problems of a middle-aged man who, after being discharged from a tuberculosis hospital, encounters snubs, canceled social invitations, and job refusals from people who fear association with him. Explains that recovered tubercular patients are desirable as co-workers and companions, and emphasizes the responsibilities of the community toward former tubercular patients.


Jubilee Trail
1954 · 1h 43m · US
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home.


River of No Return
1954 · 1h 31m · US
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.


Loophole
1954 · 1h 20m · US
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.


Wyoming Renegades
1954 · 1h 13m · US
Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them. When Cassidy and his men rob the bank, he is blamed. Escaping from the townspeople, he once again joins up with Cassidy to wait for a chance to help bring him in.


The Band Wagon
1953 · 1h 52m · US
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.


Cow Country
1953 · 1h 22m · US
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.


The System
1953 · 1h 30m · US
A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.


The Clown
1953 · 1h 31m · US
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades "Uncle" Goldie, Dodo's agent in the good old days, to find a booking for Dodo. He can't, and Dink is sent to live with his remarried-and-wealthy mother, Paula. The unhappy Dink runs back to his father. His welcome return gives Dodo the courage needed to try a knockabout TV show offered by Goldie


Stop, You're Killing Me
1952 · 1h 26m · US
With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".


Blue Canadian Rockies
1952 · 58m · US
Montana ranch owner Cyrus Bigbee sends his foreman, Gene Autry, and Rawhide Buttram to his Canadian timber land to stop the marriage of his daughter Sandy to Todd Markey, whom he dislikes. Sandy wants to turn the property into a dude ranch, with Carolina Cotton and the Cass County Boys (Fred S. Martin, Jerry Scoggins and Bert Dodson) among the entertainers, and runs up against local timbermen who want it for cutting timber. When a Mountie is murdered, with suspicion pointing to Todd, Gene finds the real culprit and brings peace to the area.


The Iron Mistress
1952 · 1h 50m · US
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.


Don't Bother to Knock
1952 · 1h 16m · US
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.


Carrie
1952 · 1h 58m · US
In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.


Carson City
1952 · 1h 27m · US
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.


The Narrow Margin
1952 · 1h 11m · US
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.


Hoodlum Empire
1952 · 1h 38m · US
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.


Scandal Sheet
1952 · 1h 22m · US
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.


Room for One More
1952 · 1h 38m · US
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.


Man in the Saddle
1951 · 1h 27m · US
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.


The Unknown Man
1951 · 1h 26m · US
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.


The Racket
1951 · 1h 28m · US
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.


Behave Yourself!
1951 · 1h 21m · US
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.


Corky of Gasoline Alley
1951 · 1h 20m · US
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.


Rodeo King and the Senorita
1951 · 1h 7m · US
Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
The Bogus Green
The Bogus Green
1951 · 22m · US
Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circus' next stop. Returning to the circus, he learns that the Treasury Department suspects someone in the circus is responsible for the bogus dough appearing wherever the circus visits and suspicion falls on the show's newest employees. Meanwhile the alcoholic sideshow barker falls off the wagon when his beautiful daughter returns unexpectedly.


Million Dollar Pursuit
1951 · 59m · US
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.


The Enforcer
1951 · 1h 27m · US
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.


The Company She Keeps
1951 · 1h 22m · US
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.


Gasoline Alley
1951 · 1h 16m · US
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.


Blades of the Musketeers
1950 · 1h · US
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.


Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 · 1h 53m · US
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.


Southside 1-1000
1950 · 1h 13m · US
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its Treasury agents inside a criminal mob.


Emergency Wedding
1950 · 1h 18m · US
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.


Beyond the Purple Hills
1950 · 1h 9m · US
Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.


Caged
1950 · 1h 36m · US
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.


Young Daniel Boone
1950 · 1h 11m · US
Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian massacre.


The Great Rupert
1950 · 1h 28m · US
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.


Tarnished
1950 · 1h · US
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.


Gun Crazy
1950 · 1h 27m · US
Bart Tare, an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival alongside her. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, at Starr's behest, the couple embarks on a crime spree for cash.


Woman in Hiding
1950 · 1h 32m · US
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.


Dancing in the Dark
1949 · 1h 32m · US
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.


Easy Living
1949 · 1h 17m · US
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.


Flame of Youth
1949 · 1h · US
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.


Once More, My Darling
1949 · 1h 32m · US
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.


The Lady Gambles
1949 · 1h 39m · US
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.


Bride of Vengeance
1949 · 1h 32m · US
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.


The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949 · 1h 1m · US
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.


Hideout
1949 · 1h 1m · US
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.


Another Part of the Forest
1948 · 1h 47m · US
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.


Black Bart
1948 · 1h 20m · US
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.


If You Knew Susie
1948 · 1h 30m · US
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.


The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947 · 1h 35m · US
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.


They Won't Believe Me
1947 · 1h 35m · US
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.


Welcome Stranger
1947 · 1h 47m · US
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?


Blaze of Noon
1947 · 1h 30m · US
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.


Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · 1h 17m · US
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.


California
1947 · 1h 37m · US
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.


Calcutta
1946 · 1h 23m · US
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.


The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · 2h 51m · US
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.


O.S.S.
1946 · 1h 47m · US
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.


The Well Groomed Bride
1946 · 1h 15m · US
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.


Behind Green Lights
1946 · 1h 4m · US
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.


The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946 · 1h 4m · US
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.


Getting Gertie's Garter
1945 · 1h 12m · US
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.


Midnight Manhunt
1945 · 1h 4m · US
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.


Crime, Inc.
1945 · 1h 15m · US
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.


Winged Victory
1944 · 2h 10m · US
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.


Power of the Press
1943 · 1h 4m · US
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.


Junior Army
1942 · 1h 10m · US
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.


The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942 · 1h 7m · US
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.


Smith of Minnesota
1942 · 1h 6m · US
This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed by a screenwriter's interview with the famed halfback. In order to garner information, the scenarist is assigned to live with Smith. During the film, Smith shares his thoughts on football and anecdotes from his life.


Lucky Legs
1942 · 1h 4m · US
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.


Sabotage Squad
1942 · 1h · US
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.


The Talk of the Town
1942 · 1h 58m · US
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.


Meet the Stewarts
1942 · 1h 13m · US
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.


Not a Ladies' Man
1942 · 1h
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.


Shut My Big Mouth
1942 · 1h 11m · US
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.


Harvard Here I Come
1941 · 1h 4m · US
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.


Honolulu Lu
1941 · 1h 12m · US
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.


Sing for Your Supper
1941 · 1h 6m · US
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.


Unholy Partners
1941 · 1h 34m · US
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.


The Blonde from Singapore
1941 · 1h 9m · US
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.


Texas
1941 · 1h 33m · US
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.


Two Latins from Manhattan
1941 · 1h 5m · US
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.


Sweetheart of the Campus
1941 · 1h 10m · US
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.


They Dare Not Love
1941 · 1h 15m · US
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. After meeting a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving, he strikes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but quickly discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.


She Knew All the Answers
1941 · 1h 25m · US
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't approve of his sweetheart. She decides to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side, but complications ensue.


The Big Boss
1941 · 1h 10m · US
Two brothers are separated after the death of their father. One grows up to be a politician, while the other gets involved in corruption.


Under Age
1941 · 1h · US
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
Black Eyes and Blues
Black Eyes and Blues
1941 · 17m · US
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.


The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941 · 1h 14m · US
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.


The Face Behind the Mask
1941 · 1h 9m · US
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.


This Thing Called Love
1940 · 1h 38m · US
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.


The Phantom Submarine
1940 · 1h 10m · US
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.


Beyond the Sacramento
1940 · 58m · US
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.


The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940 · 1h 5m · US
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.


West of Abilene
1940 · 58m · US
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.


So You Won't Talk?
1940 · 1h 8m · US
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.


Glamour for Sale
1940 · 1h · US
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.


The Spook Speaks
1940 · 18m · US
A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.


Before I Hang
1940 · 1h 2m · US
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.


Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940 · 1h 4m · US
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.


The Secret Seven
1940 · 1h 2m · US
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.


Military Academy
1940 · 1h 6m · US
Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, and Sandy Blake, a pampered rich boy. Even though all three boys are potentially good lads, each has a handicap that he must overcome.


Girls of the Road
1940 · 1h 1m · US
The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, ne'er-do-wells, innocents, fugitives, the once-priviledged, and all down-trodden - either running from or toward something, but who find they must support each other as they hitch-hike their way across Great Depression-era America in search of an increasingly elusive decent life.


Manhattan Heartbeat
1940 · 1h 12m · US
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.


The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940 · 1h 11m · US
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.


Texas Stagecoach
1940 · 1h · US
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.


Men Without Souls
1940 · 1h 2m · US
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.


Escape to Glory
1940 · 1h 4m · US
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.


Island of Doomed Men
1940 · 1h 7m · US
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.


The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940 · 59m · US
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.


Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940 · 1h 17m · US
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.


The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · 1h 28m · US
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.


Blondie on a Budget
1940 · 1h 12m · US
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.


The Heckler
1940 · 20m · US
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.


Convicted Woman
1940 · 1h 5m · US
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.


The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940 · 1h 7m · US
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.


You Nazty Spy!
1940 · 18m · US
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.


Cafe Hostess
1940 · 1h 5m · US
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.


Mandrake the Magician
1940 · 3h 35m · US
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.


My Son Is Guilty
1939 · 1h 3m · US
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.


The Awful Goof
1939 · 20m
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.


Three Sappy People
1939 · 17m · US
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.


The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · 1h 25m · US
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?


Beware Spooks!
1939 · 1h 5m · US
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.


Scandal Sheet
1939 · 1h 6m · US
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.


Those High Grey Walls
1939 · 1h 20m · US
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.


Golden Boy
1939 · 1h 39m · US
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.


Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939 · 1h 5m · US
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.


The Man They Could Not Hang
1939 · 1h 4m · US
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.


Coast Guard
1939 · 1h 12m · US
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.


Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.


Missing Daughters
1939 · 59m · US
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.


Mandrake the Magician
1939 · 3h 35m · US
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.


Union Pacific
1939 · 2h 15m · US
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?


Outside These Walls
1939 · 1h · US
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.


Romance of the Redwoods
1939 · 1h 1m · US
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.


Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.


Flying G-Men
1939 · 4h 17m · US
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.


The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939 · 1h 11m · US
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.


There's That Woman Again
1938 · 1h 12m · US
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.