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James Sweeney (film Editor)
James Sweeney (1901–1957) was an American film editor. Sweeney was born in Illinois and started his Hollywood career in 1929. After starting as a film editor for Columbia, including a number of Three Stooges short subjects, Sweeney spent most of the rest of his career on Columbia features and programmers. He was active through 1957, and worked on about 100 films and some early television series. Filmography * '' Shadow Ranch'', 1930 * ''The Dawn Trail'' (1930) * ''The Lone Rider'' (1930) * ''The Lightning Flyer'' (1931) * ''Woman Haters'', 1934 (the first Three Stooges short) * ''Three Little Pigskins'', 1934 (Three Stooges short) * ''Horses' Collars'', 1935 (Three Stooges short) * ''Hoi Polloi'', 1935 (Three Stooges short) * ''Pop Goes the Easel'', 1935 (Three Stooges short) * ''Pardon My Scotch'', 1935 (Three Stooges short) * '' Killer at Large'' (1936) * '' Trapped by Television'', 1936 * ''Venus Makes Trouble'', 1937 * ''Smashing the Spy Ring'' (1938) * ''Parents on Trial'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria metropolitan area, Illinois, Peoria and Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois, Rockford, as well Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, its capital. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the List of U.S. states and territories by GDP, fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the List of U.S. states and territories by population, sixth-largest population, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 25th-largest land area. Illinois has a highly diverse Economy of Illinois, economy, with the global city of Chicago in the northeast, major industrial and agricultural productivity, agricultural hubs in the north and center, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south. Owing to its centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smashing The Spy Ring
''Smashing the Spy Ring'' is a 1938 American drama film, directed by Christy Cabanne. It stars Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, and Regis Toomey, and was released on December 29, 1938. Plot Undercover secret agents John Baxter and Ted Hall apprehend a foreign spy at a factory, but he is shot by Steve Corben. They are transferred to Washington D.C. to work with Phil Dunlap to break up a spy ring, but Phil is quickly killed. Phil's sister Eleanor agrees to help finish the work. During the testing of a new chemical weapon, Ted fakes his death while John impersonates the gas's inventor Professor Leonard and feigns a mental breakdown. John and Eleanor, who pretends to be Leonard's sisters, admit themselves into the spy ring's sanatorium to gather intelligence but are discovered and captured. They escape by throwing acid from the laboratory at their captors before the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department surrounds the building. John and Eleanor become engaged, and Ted begins writing a novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flame Of Stamboul
''Flame of Stamboul'' is a 1951 American thriller film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday and Norman Lloyd.Britton p.174 The film's sets were designed by the art director Cary Odell. Synopsis A gang of criminals plans to steal important details about the defense of the Suez Canal and sell them to enemy powers. Main cast * Richard Denning as Larry Wilson * Lisa Ferraday as Lynette Garay * Norman Lloyd as Louie Baracca * Nestor Paiva as Joe Octavian * George Zucco as The Voice * Donald Randolph Donald Randolph (January 5, 1906 – March 16, 1993) was a film, television, and radio actor. The actor, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Topaz'' (1969), acted in dozens of radio dramas, television programs and over thirty films. Randolph ... as Hassan References Bibliography * Wesley Alan Britton. ''Onscreen and Undercover: The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage''. Greenwood, 2006. External links * 1951 films 1950s thriller films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blazing Sun (1950 Film)
''The Blazing Sun'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by John English and starring Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, and Anne Gwynne. Plot Gene Autry is a private investigator for a banking association, on the trail of two bank robbers, Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas. Bartlett and Lucas waylay Larry Taylor, a doctor on his way to the town of White Water to treat a train engineer who was wounded by the bank robbers, and Taylor's assistant, Helen Ellis. Stealing the couple's horses, they leave them stranded. Autry rides out from White Water heading towards Los Robles, where the doctor was summoned from, to see what is keeping him. Coming upon the couple, he lets Larry ride Champion, Autry's horse, into White Water to get help, while he stays with Helen for protection. Larry returns shortly and the three ride into White Water. In Los Robles, Helen's father, a prospector, enlists the help of a local assayer, Ben Luber, to evaluate the quality of some ore he has extracted. Ben tells T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison Warden (film)
''Prison Warden'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Warner Baxter, Anna Lee and Harlan Warde.Blottner p.263 Main cast * Warner Baxter as Warden Victor Burnell * Anna Lee as Elisa Pennington Burnell * Harlan Warde as Albert Gardner * James Flavin as Guard Capt. Peter Butler * Charles Cane as Quarry Supervisor Captain Bill Radford * Reginald Sheffield as English Charlie / Watkins the Butler * Heinie Conklin Heinie Conklin (born Charles John Conklin; July 16, 1880July 30, 1959) was an American actor and comedian whose career began in the silent film era. Early years Conklin was born Charles John Conklin on July 16, 1880, in San Francisco, Califor ... as Toulouse, the Cook References Bibliography * Blottner, Gene. ''Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962''. McFarland, 2015. External links * 1949 films 1940s thriller drama films American thriller drama films Films directed by Seymour Friedman Columbia Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ryan, Detective
''Mary Ryan, Detective'' is a 1949 American crime drama, directed by Abby Berlin, which stars Marsha Hunt, John Litel, and June Vincent. Cast list * Marsha Hunt as Mary Ryan, also known as Mae Smith * John Litel as Captain Billings * June Vincent as Estelle Byron * Harry Shannon as Sawyer * Wm. "Bill" Phillips as Joey Gurney * Katherine Warren as Mrs. Sawyer * Victoria Horne as Wilma Hall * John Dehner John Dehner (DAY-ner) (born John Dehner Forkum, also credited Dehner Forkum; November 23, 1915February 4, 1992) was an American stage, radio, film, and television actor. From the late 1930s to the late 1980s, he amassed a long list of performan ... as Belden References External links * * * 1949 films 1949 crime drama films American crime drama films Columbia Pictures films American black-and-white films Films directed by Abby Berlin 1940s American films 1940s English-language films {{1940s-crime-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusty Leads The Way
''Rusty Leads the Way'' is a 1948 American drama film directed by Will Jason and starring Ted Donaldson, Sharyn Moffett and John Litel. It is part of the Rusty film series.Blottner p.286 Plot Cast * Ted Donaldson as Danny Mitchell * Sharyn Moffett as Penny Waters * John Litel as Hugh Mitchell * Ann Doran Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark (James Dean) in ''Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955). She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and serv ... as Ethel Mitchell * Paula Raymond as Louise Adams * Peggy Converse as Mrs. Waters * Flame as Rusty References Bibliography * Blottner, Gene. ''Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926-1955: The Harry Cohn Years''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1948 films 1948 drama films American drama films Films directed by Will Jason Columbia Pictures films American black-and-white films Rusty (film series) 1940s English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Man Wins
''Best Man Wins'' is a 1948 American historical drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee and Robert Shayne. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It it based on the story ''The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'' by Mark Twain. Plot The year is 1853 when inveterate gambler Jim Smiley (Edgar Buchanan) returns to his hometown of Dawson's Landing in Missouri after being away for a decade from his wife and son. He brings a jumping frog which he calls Daniel Webster with him, and immediately upon his arrival to the town hotel makes a bet with Sheriff Dingle (Stanley Andrews) and a few others, that the frog can jump when told to do so. He wins the bet and is able to pay for his stay at the hotel with the money. Next he visits his wife Nancy (Anna Lee), who turns out to be his ex-wife and is about to marry the town judge, Leonidas K. Carter (Robert Shayne). He still gets to meet his son, Bob ( Gary Gray), who he has never met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Of The Redmen
''Last of the Redskins'' (aka ''Last of the Redmen'') is a 1947 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Joh Hall and Michael O'Shea. The film was shot in Vitacolor but released in Cinecolor. Unlike other adaptations the film includes a boy brother of Cora and Alice Munro and does not feature Chingachgook nor does it feature a romance between Uncas and Cora. The battle of Fort William Henry is not shown and most of the characters in the film ride horses rather than moving by foot. Plot During the French and Indian War in 1757, the family of Colonel Munro, daughters Alice and Cora and son Davy come from England to visit their father who is commanding Fort William Henry in the American colonies. The French are masters of the military intelligence situation as they have their loyal Indian allies masquerading as scouts for the English and are able to intercept and kill all runners from the British outposts. General Webb, the commander of Fort Edward wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of Rusty
''The Return of Rusty'' is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Castle and starring Ted Donaldson, John Litel and Mark Dennis. It was the second in the eight part Rusty film series produced by Columbia Pictures.Blottnerp.280 Cast * Ted Donaldson as Danny Mitchell * John Litel as Hugh Mitchell * Mark Dennis as Loddy Bicek * Barbara Wooddell as Mrs. Mitchell * Robert Kellard as Sgt. Jack Beals * Mickey Kuhn as Marty Connors * Teddy Infuhr as Herbie * Dwayne Hickman as Bobby * Mickey McGuire as Porky * Gene Collins as Motor policeman * David Ackles David Thomas Ackles (February 20, 1937 – March 2, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and child actor. He recorded four albums between 1968 and 1973. Describing Ackles' style in 2003, critic Colin McElligatt wrote, "An unlikely ... as Peanuts * Donald Davis as Trailer boy * Pat O'Malley as Immigration Officer References Bibliography * Blottner, Gene. ''Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is Everybody Happy? (1943 Film)
''Is Everybody Happy?'' is an American black and white musical film released in 1943. The movie was in effect a biopic for Ted Lewis. The taglines for the film were: "''18 of the grand songs made famous by the High-Hatted Tragedian of Song'", "''A FAST-STEPPING MUSICAL JAMBOREE!''", "''GET HAPPY! – Here comes the sweetest show in town!''" and "''IT'S GAY IN A GREAT BIG WAY!''". Cast * Ted Lewis – Ted Lewis aka Tom Todd *Michael Duane – Tom Todd *Nan Wynn – Kitty O'Riley *Larry Parks – Jerry Stewart *Lynn Merrick – Ann * Bob Stanton – Artie (as Bob Haymes) *Dick Winslow – Joe *Harry Barris – Bob * Robert Stanford – Frank Stewart, Jr. *Fern Emmett – Mrs. Broadbelt, Landlady *Eddie Kane – Salbin * Ray Walker – Lou Merwin *Anthony Marlowe – Carl Muller * George Reed – Missouri Soundtrack *"Am I Blue?" :Music by Harry Akst :Lyrics by Grant Clarke :Sung by Nan Wynn *" Cuddle Up a Little Closer" :Music by Karl Hoschna :Lyrics by Otto Harbach *"On th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Convoy
''Atlantic Convoy'' is a 1942 American war film directed by Lew Landers. The story follows naval patrols based on the Icelandic coast battling the German U-boats during World War II, and the German efforts to infiltrate their operations with spies and saboteurs. Cast * Bruce Bennett as Captain Morgan * Virginia Field as Lida Adams * John Beal as Carl Hansen * Clifford Severn as Sandy Brown * Larry Parks as Gregory * Lloyd Bridges as Bert * Victor Kilian as Otto * Hans Schumm as Commander von Smith * Erik Rolf as Gunther * Eddie Laughton as Radio Operator * Wilhelm von Brincken Wilhelm von Brincken (May 27, 1881 – January 18, 1946), also known as Wilhelm L. von Brincken, William Vaughn, William von Brinken, and William Vaughan, was a German diplomat and spy during World War I, who went on to become an American charac ... as U-Boat Officer External links * 1942 films 1940s war films 1940s spy films American war films American spy films Columbia Pictures fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |