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Cay Forrester
Cay Forrester (born Mila Patricia Crosby; December 26, 1921 – June 18, 2005) was an American film and television actress. She appeared predominantly in minor films with some exceptions, such as ''Advise and Consent'' and the Susan Hayward hit '' Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman''. Biography Forrester made her debut as "Kay Forrester" in a 1943 Western called ''Blazing Guns''. Her biggest role was in the 1950 cult classic '' DOA'', where Forrester played a married woman who tempts Edmond O'Brien. Shortly after this film, she married producer Ludlow Flower Jr and retired from the big screen. Forrester went on to write and co-star in the 1961 thriller '' Five Minutes to Live'' produced by her husband that was notable for the rare big-screen appearance of Johnny Cash. The film was re-released in 1966 under the title ''Door-to-Door Maniac''. Forrester was guest-starring on television shows up to the early 1970s. Her final films were two major disaster films with Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Minutes To Live
''Five Minutes to Live'' is a 1961 American neo-noir crime film directed by Bill Karn. It was re-titled ''Door-to-Door Maniac'' for an American International Pictures re-release in 1966. The film stars Johnny Cash, who wrote and sang the title song, and Cay Forrester, who wrote the screenplay and whose husband, Ludlow Flower, produced. ''Five Minutes to Live'' was one of only two theatrical film roles in which Cash performed on-screen in his career (while he appeared in ''The Road to Nashville'' six years later, it was as himself in a musical; ''A Gunfight'', ten years later, was the other); he would appear in several made-for-television films and do some voice-over work in film later in his career. Plot Fred sits in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he teamed up with hardened criminal Johnny Cabot to execute his plan. Cabot is about to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. He holds her until he receives a call from Fred, info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Starr, Reporter (film)
''Brenda Starr, Reporter'' (1945) was the 25th film serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was inspired by '' Brenda Starr, Reporter'', a popular comic strip created by Dale Messick. The title role was played by Joan Woodbury, who had similar roles in feature films for Columbia and Monogram. Plot ''Daily Flash'' newspaper journalist Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), are assigned to cover a fire in an old house, where they discover the wounded Joe Heller (Wheeler Oakman), a mobster suspected of stealing a quarter-million-dollar payroll. The dying Heller tells Brenda that someone took his satchel of stolen money and he gives her a coded message. Kruger (Jack Ingram), the gangster who shot Heller, escapes to his gang's hideout with the bag, but discovers it is filled with paper rather than money. The gang, knowing Heller gave Brenda a coded message, makes many attempts on her life to get her to reveal where Heller hid the payroll money, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canon City (film)
''Canon City'' is a 1948 American film noir crime film written and directed by Crane Wilbur. The drama features Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, and Whit Bissell, along with prison warden Roy Best playing himself. The film takes its name from Canon City, Colorado. Plot This account of a violent prison break is a semi-documentary that opens with a newsreel-type tour of the prison. Led by Carl Schwartzmiller (Jeff Corey), 12 convicts plan their escape but prisoner Jim Sherbondy (Scott Brady) is reluctant to go along with the group. Cast * Scott Brady as Sherbondy * Jeff Corey as Schwartzmiller * Whit Bissell as Heilman * Stanley Clements as New * Charles Russell as Tolley * DeForest Kelley as Smalley * Ralph Byrd as Officer Gray * Mabel Paige as Mrs. Oliver * Roy Best as Himself (as Warden Roy Best) Background The film is based on a prison break that occurred at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility at Canon City, Colorado, on 30 December 1947. Within a week, all escapees were ... [...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 |
Blonde Savage
''Blonde Savage'' is a 1947 American adventure film directed by Steve Sekely and written by Gordon Bache. The film stars Leif Erickson, Gale Sherwood, Veda Ann Borg, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank Jenks, and Matt Willis. It was released on November 22, 1947 by Producers Releasing Corporation. Plot Explorers Steve Blake and Hoppy Owens are hired to lead an expedition into the deep jungle. Their first day of exploration uncovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman who was raised by the tribe after her parents were mysteriously killed years earlier. Cast * Leif Erickson as Steve Blake *Gale Sherwood as Meelah *Veda Ann Borg as Connie Harper *Douglass Dumbrille as Mark Harper *Frank Jenks as Hoppy Owens *Matt Willis as Berger *Ernest Whitman as Tonga *Cay Forester as Mary Comstock *John Dehner as Joe Comstock *Art Foster as Stone *Alex Frazer as George Bennett *Eve Whitney as Clarissa *James Logan as Inspector Gallery File:Gale Sherwood in Blonde Savage (1947).jpg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pretender (film)
''The Pretender'' is a 1947 crime drama film noir directed by W. Lee Wilder starring Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake and Alan Carney. Plot The story tells of Kenneth Holden (Dekker), a crooked investment businessman who embezzles a large sum of money from an estate. He hopes to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress Claire Worthington (Craig). However, Worthington is already engaged, so Holden arranges for her fiancé to be killed. The hired hit man's only means of identifying the victim is the picture in the society columns. When Claire Worthington changes her mind and agrees to marry Holden, however, it means that it is his picture that will appear in the newspaper, thereby condemning him to death. Desperately trying to contact the hit man, Holden discovers that the man is dead, but his successor is still at large. Cast * Albert Dekker as Kenneth Holden * Catherine Craig as Claire Worthington * Charles Drake as Dr. Leonard Koster * Alan Carney as Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violence (1947 Film)
''Violence'' is a 1947 American drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ... film noir directed by Jack Bernhard and starring Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea (actor), Michael O'Shea and Sheldon Leonard.. Plot Undercover reporter Ann Mason develops amnesia after infiltrating a neo-fascist group. Cast * Nancy Coleman as Ann Dwire, alias Ann Mason * Michael O'Shea (actor), Michael O'Shea as Steve Fuller * Sheldon Leonard as Fred Stalk * Peter Whitney as Joker * Emory Parnell as True Dawson * Pierre Watkin as Ralph Borden * Frank Reicher as Pop, apartment concierge * Cay Forrester as Sally Donahue * John Hamilton (actor), John Hamilton as Doctor in Chicago * Richard Irving as Protest Rally Orator * Carole Donne as Beth Taffel, Borden's secretary * Jimmy Clark as Joe Donahue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of The Amazons
''Queen of the Amazons'' is a 1946 adventure film produced and directed by Edward Finney and featuring Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison and J. Edward Bromberg.. Plot Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is determined to find her fiancé, Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards), who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones (John Miljan), who also narrates the film, together with Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge). She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays. Although the clerk acts like he knows nothing of Jones, he immediately makes a suspicious phone call when the group leaves the lobby. While Jean unpacks in her room, a native woman named Tondra (Vida Aldana), who spied on the group in the hotel lobby earlier, knocks on the door. She tells Jean that her husband, Moya (Hassam Kayyam), spoke to her of a safari that suffered a tiger attack. Jean asks Tondra to spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Brennan Girl
''That Brennan Girl'', also known as ''Tough Girl'', is a 1946 Melodrama#Film, melodrama film produced and directed by Alfred Santell and starring James Dunn (actor), James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall (bandleader), William Marshall, and June Duprez. The story concerns a young woman raised in an unwholesome environment who joins a Confidence trick, confidence racket run by one of her mother's friends. She agrees to marry the victim of one of her scams, becomes a war widow, and is left to raise a baby, but abandons it each evening to go out dancing. After the child suffers an accident in her absence, she is charged with child neglect and loses custody. She mends her ways by devotedly caring for an abandoned infant and meets up again with the con man, who has also reformed after a prison stint, and together they build a new life. The film was the last work of director Santell and the last leading role for actor Dunn. In 2018 a re-mastered and restored print by Paramount Pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Below The Deadline (1946 Film)
''Below the Deadline'' is a 1946 American crime film directed by William Beaudine and starring Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames and Jan Wiley.Spicer p.404 Main cast * Warren Douglas as Joe Hilton * Ramsay Ames as Lynn Turner * Jan Wiley as Vivian Saunders * Paul Maxey as Arthur Brennan * Philip Van Zandt as Oney Kessel * John Harmon as Pinky * Bruce Edwards as Samuel P. Austin * George Meeker as Jeffrey Hilton * Clancy Cooper as Nichols * Cay Forrester as Blonde * Al Bridge as Turner * George Eldredge as James S. Vail * William Ruhl William Harris Ruhl (October 25, 1901 – March 12, 1956) was an American character actor of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. Early life Born on October 25, 1901, in Colfax, Washington, Ruhl entered films in the small role of a shopper i ... as Welsh * Vera Pavlovska as Russian Singer * Charles Sullivan as Charlie - Kessel Henchman * Meyer Grace as Kessel Henchman * George Lloyd as Kane - Club Owner Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline For Murder (film)
''Deadline for Murder'' is a 1946 American crime film directed by James Tinling and written by Irving Cummings Jr. The film stars Paul Kelly, Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, Jerome Cowan, Renee Carson and Marion Martin. The film was released on August 1, 1946, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast * Paul Kelly as Lt. Jerry E. McMullen *Kent Taylor as Steve Millard *Sheila Ryan as Vivian Mason *Jerome Cowan as Lynch *Renee Carson as Zita Louise Duvalle *Marion Martin as Laura Gibson *Joan Blair as Helen Blanchard *Leslie Vincent as Paul Blanchard *Eddie Marr as Keller *Matt McHugh as Johnny *Jody Gilbert as Tiny *Emory Parnell Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. Early years Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Parnell trained as a musician at Morningside ... as Masseur References External links * {{IMDb title, 0038459, Deadline for Murder 1946 films American crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Gamble With Strangers
''Don't Gamble with Strangers'' is a 1946 film about two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, who clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint. Cast *Kane Richmond as Mike Sarno *Bernadene Hayes as Fay Benton *Peter Cookson as Bob Randall *Gloria Warren as Ruth Hamilton *Charles Trowbridge as Creighton *Frank Dae as John Randall * Anthony Caruso as Pinky Luiz *Philip Van Zandt Philip Van Zandt (October 4, 1904 – February 15, 1958), sometimes billed as Phil Van Zandt, was a Dutch-American actor of stage, film, and television. He made nearly 250 film and television appearances between 1939 and 1958. Life and career ... as Morelli External links * 1946 films 1940s English-language films Films directed by William Beaudine 1946 drama films American drama films American black-and-white films Monogram Pictures films 1940s American films {{1940s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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