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Bernard Small
Bernard Small (September 7, 1918 - May 21, 2003) was an American film producer. He was the son of Elsie (née Wilson) and Edward Small. Selected credits *'' Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' (1947) *'' Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back'' (1947) *''13 Lead Soldiers'' (1948) *'' The Challenge'' (1948) *'' The Creeper'' (1948) *''Davy Crockett, Indian Scout'' (1950) *''The Iroquois Trail ''The Iroquois Trail'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Phil Karlson starring George Montgomery and Brenda Marshall. It is set during the French-Indian War. It is an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 work ''The Last of ...'' (1950) *'' The Texas Rangers'' (1951) *'' Indian Uprising'' (1952) External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Small, Bernard 1918 births 2003 deaths American film producers American people of Jewish descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Small
Edward Small (born Edward Schmalheiser, February 1, 1891, Brooklyn, New York – January 25, 1977, Los Angeles) was a film producer from the late 1920s through 1970, who was enormously prolific over a 50-year career. He is best known for the movies ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1934), '' The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1939), ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1941), '' Brewster's Millions'' (1945), '' Raw Deal'' (1948), ''Black Magic (1949)'', ''Witness for the Prosecution'' (1957) and ''Solomon and Sheba'' (1959). Early life and career Small was born on February 1, 1891 to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of Rose (née Lewin) and Philip Schmalheiser. His mother was born in Prussia and his father was born in Austria; he had three sisters and two brothers. He began his career as a talent agent in New York City. In 1917, he moved his agency to Los Angeles where his acting clients included a young Hedda Hopper. His first production appears to have been the wartime propaganda film, '' Who's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1947 Film)
''Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' is a 1947 American adventure crime mystery film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Ron Randell for the first time as the British sleuth and adventurer Bulldog Drummond. The cast also includes Anita Louise, Patrick O'Moore and Terry Kilburn. The film is loosely based on the novel '' Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' by H. C. McNeile. Plot When thieves rob his country estate, Bulldog Drummond uncovers a deadly jewel caper involving foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret British aircraft. Cast * Ron Randell as Bulldog Drummond * Anita Louise as Doris Hamilton * Patrick O'Moore as Algy Longworth * Terry Kilburn as Seymour * Holmes Herbert as Inspector McIvar * Lester Matthews as Shannon * Leonard Mudie as Meredith Production The Bulldog Drummond series had been popular B movies before the war. In June 1946 it was announced Venture Pictures, a Columbia producing unit headed by Lou Appleton and Bernard Small, had done a deal with the estate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947 Film)
''Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back'' is a 1947 American adventure crime mystery film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Ron Randell, Gloria Henry and Patrick O'Moore. The film is loosely based on the H. C. McNeile novel ''Knock-Out. It was the second of Randell's performances as Drummond following '' Bulldog Drummond at Bay''. Cast *Ron Randell as Bulldog Drummond * Gloria Henry as Ellen Curtiss *Patrick O'Moore as Algy Longworth *Anabel Shaw as Ellen Curtiss II *Terry Kilburn as Seymour *Holmes Herbert as Inspector McIver *Wilton Graff - Cedric Mason *Matthew Boulton - William Cosgrove *Barry Bernard - Vincent Cummings *Carl Harbord - Inspector Sanderson Production The Bulldog Drummond series had been popular B movies before the war. In June 1946 it was announced Venture Pictures, a Columbia producing unit headed by Lou Appleton and Bernard Small Bernard Small (September 7, 1918 - May 21, 2003) was an American film producer. He was the son of Elsie (née Wilson) and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13 Lead Soldiers
''13 Lead Soldiers'' is a 1948 American mystery film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Tom Conway as Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond. Plot Dr Stedman is murdered by an intruder in his study and two toy soldiers are stolen from his desk. The next day, Hugh Drummond reads about the murder in the newspaper. He is approached by a friend, Phillip Coleman, who tells him that he owns two similar figures and that he has received first offers, then threats to sell them. According to Coleman, the soldiers are 900 years old, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror. Coleman leaves the two painted lead figures with Drummond for safety and asks him to look into the affair. To flush out whoever is trying to get the figurines they plant a press story that Drummond has bought them from Coleman. When a woman, who introduces herself as journalist Estelle Gorday, visits Drummond's apartment, she recognizes the right figures out of a collection that Drummond has assembled on his mantle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Challenge (1948 Film)
''The Challenge'' is a 1948 American film starring Tom Conway as Bulldog Drummond. at Plot Vivian Bailey travels with Cliff Sonnenberg to visit his uncle, unaware that Capt. Sonnenberg has been flung from a cliff to his death. After a model of a schooner bought by Bulldog Drummond's friend Algy leads to a pursuit of a sunken treasure, Drummond helps bring the co-conspirators, including the captain's housekeeper Kitty Fyffe, to justice.Cast * as |
The Creeper (film)
''The Creeper'' is a 1948 American horror film directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film stars Onslow Stevens who plays a mad doctor whose serum turns a man into a catlike killer. Plot Two scientists on an expedition to the West Indies discover a serum which changes humans into cats, or. at least, to catlike killers. One believes they should continue with their experiments and the other does not, which disagreement costs him his life. Several deaths occur before the first scientist is halted in his mad plans. Cast Production Between 1947 and 1951, Hollywood studios made almost no horror films with ''The Creeper'' being the lone exception. It was developed under the working title ''The Cat Man'' and was in production from the beginning of March 1948 to the middle of the month. Release ''The Creeper'' was distributed theatrically by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. in September 1948. According to a March 1949 ''Hollywood Reporter'' article, radio writer Joseph Ruscoll sued Edward Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
''Davy Crockett, Indian Scout'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring George Montgomery and Ellen Drew. Wartime hero Johnny McKee had a small role in the film, as did Jim Thorpe. The film was shot at the Motion Picture Centre, with filming commencing June 1948. Much of the footage was taken from the 1940 film ''Kit Carson'', starring Jon Hall, Dana Andrews, and Clayton Moore. accessed 19 May 2013 Plot During the 1840s, a wagon train is headed west with ([...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iroquois Trail
''The Iroquois Trail'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Phil Karlson starring George Montgomery and Brenda Marshall. It is set during the French-Indian War. It is an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 work ''The Last of the Mohicans'', with significant alterations. As with the book, one of the major plot lines is based on the siege of Fort William Henry and the subsequent massacre. Plot In 1757 the French around Montreal are poised to move south. A young American volunteer in the British Army, Sergeant Tom Cutler, is sent northwards carrying a dispatch which orders the garrison of Fort Williams to reinforce the vulnerable Crown Point outpost. Cutler is murdered on the way by two men acting as British scouts, one of whom is an Ogane, a French-allied Huron posing as a Mohawk. Crown Point is not relieved in time and falls to the French Returning home after two years away, Sergeant Cutler's elder brother Nat "Hawkeye" Cutler and his companion, a Delaware ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Texas Rangers (1951 Film)
''The Texas Rangers'' is a 1951 American Western (genre), Western film shot in Cinecolor#SuperCinecolor, SuperCinecolor directed by Phil Karlson and starring George Montgomery (actor), George Montgomery and Gale Storm. Plot Outlaw Sam Bass (outlaw), Sam Bass terrorizes Texas. Johnny Carver and Buff Smith are released from jail by the head of the Texas Ranger Division, Texas Rangers to help capture him. The jailbirds appear to be planning a Betrayal#Double cross, double cross in league with the outlaws, until the big hold-up of a gold train when they play on the Rangers' side. Cast * George Montgomery (actor), George Montgomery as Johnny Carver * Gale Storm as Helen Fenton * Jerome Courtland as Danny Bonner * Noah Beery Jr. as Buff Smith * William Bishop (actor), William Bishop as Sam Bass * John Litel as Major John B. Jones, head of Texas Rangers * Douglas Kennedy (actor), Douglas Kennedy as Dave Rudabaugh * John Dehner as John Wesley Hardin * Ian MacDonald (actor), Ian Macdon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Uprising (film)
''Indian Uprising'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring George Montgomery, Audrey Long and Carl Benton Reid. Plot Arizona 1885 – Cavalry Captain Case McCloud (George Montgomery) tries to maintain the treaty between the Apache led by Geronimo ( Miguel Inclan – who had previously played Cochise in John Ford's ''Fort Apache'') and the government that keeps white prospectors off Apache territory. But local Tucson businessmen stir up trouble and when a new cavalry commander Maj. Nathan Stark (Robert Shayne) arrives, he recalls his troops and allows local prospectors back to their mines. McCloud does everything in his power to stop all out war. Cast * George Montgomery as Capt. Case McCloud * Audrey Long as Norma Clemson * Carl Benton Reid as John Clemson * Eugene Iglesias as Sgt. Ramirez * John Baer as 2nd. Lt. Whitely * Joe Sawyer as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh * Robert Shayne as Maj. Nathan Stark * Robert Foster Dover as Tubai (as Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Births
This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui people, Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. * January 15 ** The keel of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down. ** The Red Army (The Workers and Peasants Red Army) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Deaths
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
