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Eugene Forde
Eugene Forde (1898–1986) was an American film director. Selected filmography * ''Daredevil's Reward'' (1928) * ''Painted Post (film), Painted Post'' (1928) * ''Son of the Golden West'' (1928) * ''Charlie Chan's Courage'' (1934) * ''Charlie Chan in London'' (1935) * ''The Great Hotel Murder'' (1935) * ''Your Uncle Dudley'' (1935) * ''36 Hours to Kill'' (1936) * ''The Lady Escapes'' (1937) * ''Step Lively, Jeeves!'' (1937) * ''Charlie Chan on Broadway'' (1937) * ''Midnight Taxi (1937 film), Midnight Taxi'' (1937) * ''Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo'' (1938) * ''International Settlement (film), International Settlement'' (1938) * ''Inspector Hornleigh (film), Inspector Hornleigh'' (1938) * ''Pier 13'' (1940) * ''Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise'' (1940) * ''Dressed to Kill (1941 film), Dressed to Kill'' (1941) * ''Sleepers West'' (1941) * ''Berlin Correspondent'' (1942) * ''The Crimson Key'' (1947) * ''Backlash (1947 film), Backlash'' (1947) * ''Jewels of Brandenburg'' (1947) * ''The Invi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan At Monte Carlo
''Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo'' is a 1937 American movie directed by Eugene Forde. The main character is Charlie Chan, a Chinese-Hawaiian detective. This was the sixteenth and final Charlie Chan film with Warner Oland portraying Chan. The film features Keye Luke as Charlie's son Lee and character actor Harold Huber as a French police inspector. Warner Oland contracted bronchial pneumonia during his visit to Sweden and died there on August 6, 1938, at age 57. The series continued at Fox for another eleven entries with Sidney Toler. In 1942 Fox sold it to Monogram Pictures, and it continued on even after Toler's death in 1947 with Roland Winters in the role through six films into 1949. Plot summary Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder. The messenger for millionaire Victor Karnoff is ambushed and murdered, and $200,000.00 worth of bonds are missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisible Wall (1947 Film)
''The Invisible Wall'' is a 1947 American film noir directed by Eugene Forde starring Don Castle, Virginia Christine and Richard Gaines. The movie features an early performance by Jeff Chandler as a gangster. Plot Told in flashback, the film recounts how gambler Harry Lane (Castle) ended up accused of murder: Returned from the war he took up his old job working for bookmaker Marty Floyd (Keane). Dispatched by his boss to deliver $20,000 to a contact in Las Vegas, he foolishly loses some of the money at the gambling tables, then loses the rest of it to a conman (Gaines). His attempts to recover the money result in him accidentally killing the conman. In the end Lane is cleared when it is revealed that the victim was no victim after all. Cast * Don Castle as Harry Lane * Virginia Christine as Mildred Elsworth * Richard Gaines as Richard Elsworth * Arthur Space as Roy Hanford * Edward Keane as Marty Floyd * Jeff Chandler as Al Conway * Mary Gordon as Mrs. Bledsoe * Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewels Of Brandenburg
''Jewels of Brandenburg'' is a 1947 American crime film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Irving Cummings Jr. and Robert G. North. The film stars Richard Travis (actor), Richard Travis, Micheline Cheirel, Leonard Strong (actor), Leonard Strong, Carol Thurston, Lewis Russell and Louis Mercier. The film was released on May 27, 1947, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast *Richard Travis (actor), Richard Travis as Johnny Vickers *Micheline Cheirel as Claudette Grandet *Leonard Strong (actor), Leonard Strong as Marcel Grandet *Carol Thurston as Carmelita Mendoza *Lewis Russell as Roger Hamilton *Louis Mercier as Pierre Dijon *Fernando Alvarado as Pablo Mendoza *Eugene Borden as Miguel Solomon *Ralf Harolde as Koslic References External links * 1947 films 1940s English-language films 20th Century Fox films American crime films 1947 crime films Films directed by Eugene Forde American black-and-white films 1940s American films English-language crime films {{1940s-crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backlash (1947 Film)
''Backlash'' is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Eugene Forde. The drama features Jean Rogers, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge and Richard Travis. Plot Los Angeles police detective Jerry McMullen (Larry J. Blake) stops a car driven by lawyer John Morland (John Eldredge) to tell him of client Red Bailey's ( Douglas Fowley) jail escape. Shortly thereafter, an armed Bailey flags down Morland's car, which police find wrecked, its driver's face beyond recognition. McMullen breaks the news to the lawyer's wife, Catherine (Jean Rogers), who identifies a ring on the body as her husband's. She soon becomes a suspect. Morland's law partner O'Neil (Robert Shayne) believes that Catherine and district attorney Conroy (Richard Travis) have been having a secret affair, while his doctor says Morland once swallowed poison that his wife tried to give him. Conroy is found at the Morlands' weekend getaway cabin, which is maintained by a caretaker named Willis ( Leonard Strong). The evide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crimson Key
''The Crimson Key'' is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Irving Elman, starring Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling and Dennis Hoey. It was released on July 2 by 20th Century Fox. Plot Private detective Larry Morgan is hired by a Mrs. Swann to investigate her husband, who is soon found dead in the studio of Peter Vandaman, an artist. Mrs. Swann is concerned about a missing key belonging to her husband. Morgan encounters a receptionist, Miss Phillips, who was in love with Swann, and a man, Steven Loring, who suspected his wife and Swann of having an affair. Loring's alcoholic wife, Margaret, mentions a Key Club with a special red key to a locker, but before he can check it out, Mrs. Swann is murdered and Morgan is beaten by thugs and nearly drugged by a woman named Heidi. He eventually discovers Loring's wife to be the murderess. Cast *Kent Taylor as Lawrence 'Larry' Morgan *Doris Dowling as Margaret Loring *Dennis Hoey as Steven Loring *Louise Curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Correspondent
''Berlin Correspondent'' is a 1942 American film. Plot Dana Andrews portrays an American radio correspondent reporting from within Nazi Germany, whose principal source of information is an elderly philatelist. His reports prove so embarrassing to the regime that Captain von Rau sends his own fiancée, Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore), to compromise the reporter. As the philatelist is sent off to a concentration camp, it develops that she and the reporter are falling for each other, and the elderly source was actually her own father. Cast * Virginia Gilmore as Karen Hauen * Dana Andrews as Bill Roberts * Mona Maris as Carla * Martin Kosleck as Captain von Rau * Sig Ruman as Dr. Dietrich * Kurt Katch as Weiner * Erwin Kalser as Mr. Rudolph Hauen * Torben Meyer as Manager * William Edmunds as Hans Gruber * Hans Schumm as Gunther * Leonard Mudie as George, English Prisoner * Hans von Morhart as The Actor * Curt Furburg as Doctor * Henry Rowland as Pilot * Christian Rub Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleepers West
''Sleepers West'' is a 1941 American mystery drama film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari and Mary Beth Hughes. This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's ''Michael Shayne'' series was a remake of the 1934 Fox romantic drama ''Sleepers East'' from the novel ''Sleepers East'' (1933) by Frederick Nebel. The film ''Michael Shayne - Private Detective'' (1940) was the first in a series of 12 films. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century-Fox and picked up by PRC. In the PRC series, Hugh Beaumont played Shayne. Plot summary On a fateful weekend, private detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) secretly escorts murder-trial witness Helen Carlson (Mary Beth Hughes) by train from Denver to San Francisco. Helen's testimony will free a man falsely accused of murder. His acquittal will also effectively destroy the election chances of a crooked politician. By coincidence, Shayne is shadowed by his ex-fiancee, Denver newspaper repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dressed To Kill (1941 Film)
''Dressed to Kill'' is a 1941 crime mystery starring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes and Sheila Ryan. The film is based on ''The Dead Take No Bows'', a mystery novel by Richard Burke. Plot summary Private investigator Michael Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a woman screaming from a room in their hotel. The hotel maid Emily has discovered two dead people: producer Louis Lathrop, owner of the hotel and the adjoining theater, and Desiree Vance, one of Lathrop's actresses. Both are dressed in medieval costumes, and Lathrop is wearing the head from a dog costume. Police investigator Pierson arrives at the scene and learns from hotel manager Hal Brennon that the costumes are from Lathrop's only successful show, ''Sweethearts of Paris'', from many years earlier. Desiree had been the show's leading lady, and Carlo Ralph played Beppo the Dog. Shayne suspects Carlo because of the dog-costume head on Lathrop. David Earle, also an actor in Lathrop's show, tells the police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
''Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise'' is a 1940 murder mystery film starring Sidney Toler in his fifth of many performances as Charlie Chan. It is based on the Earl Derr Biggers 1930 novel '' Charlie Chan Carries On''. Plot The famed detective seeks to unmask a killer on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. As has been mentioned elsewhere, this story is primarily a remake of the (now) lost movie, ''Charlie Chan Carries On'', (1931) starring Warner Oland. The story has been updated to include more Charlie, but it would be nice to have the missing movie to compare against. Cast *Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan *Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung) * Robert Lowery as Dick Kenyon *Marjorie Weaver as Paula Drake *Lionel Atwill as Dr. Suderman *Don Beddoe as Fredrick Ross * Leo G. Carroll as Prof. Gordon (as Leo Carroll) *Cora Witherspoon as Susie Watson * Leonard Mudie as Gerald Pendleton *Harlan Briggs as Coroner * Charles Middleton as Jeremiah Walters *Claire Du Brey as Sarah Walters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier 13
''Pier 13'' is a 1940 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Lynn Bari, Lloyd Nolan and Joan Valerie.Schlossheimer p.330 It is a remake of the 1932 film ''Me and My Gal'' with Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett in which a waterfront cop meets an attractive waitress whose sister turns out to be romantically involved with the criminal he is pursuing. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lewis H. Creber and Richard Day. Partial cast * Lynn Bari as Sally Kelly * Lloyd Nolan as Danny Dolan * Joan Valerie as Helen Kelly * Douglas Fowley as Johnnie Hale * Chick Chandler as Nickie * Oscar O'Shea as Skipper Kelly * Adrian Morris as Al Higgins * Louis Jean Heydt as Bill Hamilton * Frank Orth as Dead Pan Charlie * Stanley Blystone as Policeman * Charles D. Brown as Captain Blake * Maurice Cass as Howard * Frank Darien as Old Man in Car * Hal K. Dawson as Ticket Salesman * Edward Earle as Peters * Sherry Hall as Clerk * Hamilton MacFa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
