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Insurance Investigator (film)
''Insurance Investigator'' is a 1951 American crime film directed by George Blair and written by Gertrude Walker. The film stars Richard Denning, Audrey Long, John Eldredge, Hillary Brooke, Reed Hadley and Jonathan Hale. The film was released on March 23, 1951, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Richard Denning as Tom Davison *Audrey Long as Nancy Sullivan *John Eldredge as John Hammond *Hillary Brooke as Addie Wilson *Reed Hadley as Chuck Malone *Jonathan Hale as Russell James *Roy Barcroft as Duke Wallace * Wilson Wood as Jimmy Marshall *William Tannen as 1st Hood *Phillip Pine as 2nd Hood *Crane Whitley as Chief Meyers *Ruth Lee Ruth Lee (September 14, 1895 – August 3, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Early life and career Lee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and she graduated from a dramatic school there. Lee acted in stock theater with the Natio ... as Miss Pringle *Patricia Knox as Hat Check Girl *M'liss McClure as Cigarette Girl *Maurice Samu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Blair (director)
George Blair (December 6, 1905 – April 19, 1970) was an American film director who worked generally on supporting features including many B-Westerns. Two of his earliest films were British-set thriller films starring C. Aubrey Smith, made for Republic Pictures. Selected filmography Director * ''Secrets of Scotland Yard'' (1944) * ''A Sporting Chance (1945 film), A Sporting Chance'' (1945) * ''Scotland Yard Investigator'' (1945) * ''Gangs of the Waterfront'' (1945) * ''Affairs of Geraldine'' (1946) * ''That's My Gal'' (1947) * ''The Trespasser (1947 film), The Trespasser'' (1947) * ''Exposed (1947 film), Exposed'' (1947) * ''Madonna of the Desert'' (1948) * ''Lightnin' in the Forest'' (1948) * ''King of the Gamblers'' (1948) * ''Daredevils of the Clouds'' (1948) * ''Homicide for Three'' (1948) * ''Rose of the Yukon'' (1949) * ''Duke of Chicago'' (1949) * ''Streets of San Francisco (film), Streets of San Francisco'' (1949) * ''Under Mexicali Stars'' (1950) * ''Silver City Bonanza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By George Blair
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Pictures Films
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1951 Crime Films
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel ''Journey Through the Night'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Crime Films
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1950s English-language Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Films
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events * February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge. * April – French magazine '' Cahiers du cinéma'' is first published. * July 26 – Walt Disney's '' Alice in Wonderland'' premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Lee
Ruth Lee (September 14, 1895 – August 3, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Early life and career Lee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and she graduated from a dramatic school there. Lee acted in stock theater with the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Her other activities on stage included three years with the Shubert Theater in Minneapolis. She also acted in New York, including performing on Broadway. Her Broadway debut was as a member of the chorus in ''Apple Blossoms'' (1919), and her final Broadway role was Muriel Payne in ''Your Loving Son'' (1941). Death Lee died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. She was married to the actor Grandon Rhodes. Partial filmography * ''The Rich Are Always with Us'' (1932) - Second Gossiper in 1920 (uncredited) * ''Sued for Libel'' (1939) - Radio Actress (uncredited) * ''The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair'' (1939) - Mother * ''Not a Ladies' Man'' (1942) - Jennie Purcell * ''Get Hep to Love'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Pine
Phillip Pine (July 16, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American film and television actor, writer, film director, and producer. Despite incorrect biographical information repeated on many entertainment sites, he was not related to Robert Pine or Chris Pine. In a career that spanned seven decades, Pine in 1955 portrayed the outlaw John Wesley Hardin in the ninth episode "John Wesley Hardin" of the ABC/Desilu Western television series, ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', starring Hugh O'Brian in the title role. In a 1957 episode of the same series, Pine again played Hardin. Later that year, he appeared on ''Gunsmoke'', as “Vint” - a cheating card dealer turned murderer in the episode “Moon”. Pine appeared in two episodes of '' Adventures of Superman'' titled "The Mystery of the Broken Statues" and "The Case of the Talkative Dummy". In the latter, he played a theater usher who was part of a robbery gang (see picture in infobox). He appeared in two episodes of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tannen (actor)
William Tannen (November 17, 1911 – December 2, 1976) was an American actor originally from New York City, who was best known for his role of Deputy Hal Norton in fifty-six episodes from 1956 to 1958 of the ABC/Desilu western television series, ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.'' During the 1930s and 1940s, he was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Personal life Tannen was the son of actor Julius Tannen. He became active in drama — both acting and writing — while a student at Lawrenceville School. Stage Tannen made his stage debut in a production of ''The Honor of the Family'' with the National Theatre troupe in Washington, D.C. Filmography *''The Band Plays On'' (1934) - Rosy Rosenberg *''Murder in the Fleet'' (1935) - Pee Wee Adams (uncredited) *''She Couldn't Take It'' (1935) - Cesar *''It's in the Air'' (1935) - Pilot (scenes deleted) *''Exclusive Story'' (1936) - Kent (uncredited) *''Tough Guy'' (1936) - Heming (uncredited) *'' Small Town Girl'' (1936) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Wood (actor)
Wilson Wood (born Charles Woodrow Tolkien, February 11, 1915 – October 23, 2004) was an American character actor during the middle of the twentieth century. Born in Huron, North Dakota on February 11, 1915, he made his film debut with a small role in 1946's '' Two Sisters from Boston'', directed by Henry Koster. During his 17-year career he would appear in over 100 films, usually in smaller roles. In 1952 he would star in a serial for Republic Pictures. The 12 part series was titled, ''Zombies of the Stratosphere'', which would be edited down and released in 1958 as a feature film, called ''Satan's Satellites''. His final appearance would be in the 1962 film, ''Jumbo'', starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd and Jimmy Durante, in which Wood had a featured role. Wood died on October 23, 2004, in Culver City, California. Filmography (Per AFI database) * ''Faithful in My Fashion'' (1946) * '' No Leave, No Love'' (1946) * ''The Show-Off'' (1946) * '' Two Sisters from B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
