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John Ridgeley
John Ridgely (born John Huntington Rea, September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968) was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits. Early years Ridgely was born in Chicago, Illinois,Katz, Ephraim (1979). ''The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume''. Perigee Books. . P. 973. the son of John Ridgely Rea. Ridgely's elementary schooling was in Hinsdale, Illinois, and he attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. He also attended Stanford University before his debut in movies. Film He appeared in the 1946 Humphrey Bogart film '' The Big Sleep'' as blackmailing gangster Eddie Mars and had a pivotal role as a suffering heart patient in the film noir ''Nora Prentiss'' (1947). His most prominent other roles were his top-billed part as the bomber captain in Howard Hawks's ''Air Force'' and as real-life fighter pilot Tex Hill in 1945's '' God is My Co-Pilot''. The Chicago-born actor appeared in a large numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trailer (promotion)
A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and technical work. Movie trailers have now become popular on DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as on the Internet and mobile devices. Of some 10 billion videos watched online annually, film trailers rank third, after news and user-created video. The trailer format has been adopted as a promotional tool for television shows, video games, books, and theatrical events/concerts. History The first trailer shown in an American film theater was in November 1913, when Nils Granlund, the advertising manager for the Marcus Loew theater chain, produced a short promotional film for the musical ''The Pleasure Seekers'', opening at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. As reported in a wire service story carried by the Lincoln, Nebraska ''Daily Star'', t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streamline Express
''Streamline Express'' is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by Leonard Fields, starring Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable and Esther Ralston, distributed by Mascot Pictures. The film is an adaptation of ''Twentieth Century'', released the previous year, in which Ralph Forbes appears in a similar role. Plot Broadway star Patricia Wallace (Evelyn Venable) quits her Broadway show to run off with wealthy Fred Arnold (Ralph Forbes). Her director Jimmy Hart (Victor Jory) follows them aboard a futuristic super-speed monorail, the ''Streamline Express''. In its non-stop trip from New York City to Los Angeles in 20 hours, the double-decker ''Express'' can reach speeds up to 160 miles per hour. Meanwhile, also aboard is John Bradley (Clay Clement) and his mistress Elaine Vincent (Esther Ralston), but Bradley's wife Mary (Erin O'Brien-Moore) ends up on the train as well. When Elaine gives her crooked pal Gilbert Landon (Sidney Blackmer) a diamond pendant given her by Bradley, in orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Trails
''Western Trails'' is a 1938 American Western (genre), Western film directed by George Waggner and written by Norton S. Parker. The film stars Bob Baker (actor), Bob Baker, Marjorie Reynolds, John Ridgely, Carlyle Moore Jr., Forrest Taylor, Franco Corsaro and Bob Burns. The film was released on June 1, 1938, by Universal Pictures. Plot While pursuing his father's killers, Bob Mason gets a gunshot wound, while recovering he is assisted by nurse Alice with whom his friend Ben is in love with. Bob discovers that the killer is Alice's brother Rudd and confronts him, however Rudd convinces Ben that Bob is stealing Alice for himself, so Ben removes the bullets from Bob's gun right before he faces off against Rudd. Cast *Bob Baker (actor), Bob Baker as Bob Mason *Marjorie Reynolds as Alice Gordon *John Ridgely as Ben McClure *Carlyle Moore Jr. as Rudd Gordon *Forrest Taylor as Williams *Franco Corsaro as Indian Joe *Bob Burns as Dan 'Dad' Mason *Jack Rockwell as Bartender *Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime School
''Crime School'' is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart. Plot A junkman does business with the Dead End Kids: Frankie, Squirt, Spike, Goofy, Fats, and Bugs. When the boys ask for a $20 payoff, "Junkie" says "Five is all you'll get. Now take it and get out of here." In a rage, Spike strikes the man in the back of the head with a hard object, and the junkman falls to the floor and doesn't move. When Judge Clinton cannot convince the boys to divulge which one struck the damaging blow, they are all sent to reform school. The harsh warden of the reformatory, Morgan, inflicts discipline at the school and flogs Frankie after he tries to escape. The superintendent of the state reformatories, Mark Braden, visits the school and finds evidence of Morgan's subtle cruelty, as in feeding his new inmates poor-quality food. He then visits Frankie in the hospital ward, finding him untreated and the doctor inebriated. As a way of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torchy Blane In Panama
''Torchy Blane in Panama'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by William Clemens (film director), William Clemens and starring Lola Lane, Paul Kelly (actor), Paul Kelly, and Tom Kennedy (actor), Tom Kennedy. Released on May 7, 1938, the fifth film in a series of Torchy Blane movies by Warner Bros. It is followed by ''Torchy Gets Her Man'' (1938). Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York City, New York to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. Plot When policeman Gahagan (Tom Kennedy (actor), Tom Kennedy) witnesses a bank robbery during a parade of the Loyal Order of Leopards, he rushes off to call his boss, Steve McBride (Paul Kelly (actor), Paul Kelly). Moments after Steve arrives at the bank, reporter Torchy Blane (Lola Lane), Steve's girlfriend, arrives and does her own investigating. She is miffed to find another reporter there ahead of her. When Steve ignores her after she finds a lodge button wedged in a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Couldn't Say No
''He Couldn't Say No'' is a Warner Bros. romantic comedy film released on March 18, 1938. It stars Frank McHugh as a timid advertising man who is dominated by everyone, including his girlfriend, played by Jane Wyman. It is based on the play ''Larger than Life'' by Joseph Schrank and the short story of the same name by Norman H. Matson. Plot Lambert T. Hunkins (Frank McHugh) works at a linoleum company. When his boss, Oxnard O. Parsons (Ferris Taylor), gives him a raise from $30 a month to $40, his girlfriend Violet's (Jane Wyman) mother, Mrs. Coney (Cora Witherspoon), decides that it is time for the two to get married. Lambert is too meek to object. They go to an auction to buy some furniture, but when he sees a statue that resembles socialite Iris Mabby ( Diana Lewis), the woman he adores from afar, he buys it, over the Coneys' objections. As Lambert is leaving, Iris's father, Senator Mabby (Berton Churchill), tries to buy the statue from him, but Lambert refuses to sell at any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondes At Work
''Blondes at Work'' is a 1938 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank McDonald (director), Frank McDonald and written by Albert DeMond. The film stars Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane. It is the fourth film in a series of Torchy Blane movies by Warner Bros. Released on February 6, 1938, it is followed by ''Torchy Blane in Panama'' (1938). The film focuses on the actions undertaken by Torchy to evade the efforts of Lieutenant Steve McBride to keep her from using inside information to "scoop" rival newspapers on the progress of police investigations. Plot Lieutenant Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is in trouble with his boss, Captain McTavish, who suspects him of leaking police information to his girlfriend reporter Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), which has resulted in complaints to the police department from rival newspapers. Torchy and Steve have an argument about this, and they agree that they will not exchange information about any police cases in the future. And Torchy is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Banners
''White Banners'' is a 1938 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson. Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis, the screenplay was adapted by Lenore J. Coffee, Abem Finkel and Cameron Rogers from the 1936 novel of the same title by Lloyd C. Douglas. Plot On a dreary, cold and snowy day in a small town in 1919 Indiana, a peddler named Hannah Parmalee (Bainter) appears at the door of a kind couple, Paul Ward (Rains) and his wife, Marcia (Johnson), selling apple peelers. Asked by Mrs. Ward to come inside and warm up, Hannah sees they are struggling financially and are in need of some domestic help. She offers her services and becomes their cook and housekeeper for room and board. Mr. Ward, a science teacher by day, is an inventor by night attempting to create something that will provide sufficient money for Marcia, their teenaged daughter Sally (Granville) and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invisible Menace
''The Invisible Menace'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff. It was also known as ''Without Warning''. Plot An army private (Craven) and his new bride (Wilson) are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer. Cast * Boris Karloff as Mr. Jevries, aka Dolman * Marie Wilson as Sally Wilson Pratt * Eddie Craven as Pvt. Eddie Pratt * Regis Toomey as Lt. Matthews * Henry Kolker as Col. George Hackett * Cy Kendall as Col. Bob Rogers * Charles Trowbridge as Dr. Brooks * Eddie Acuff as Cpl. Sanger * Frank Faylen as Al (private of the guard) * Phyllis Barry as Mrs. Aline Dolman * Harland Tucker as Ted Reilly * William Haade as Pvt. Ferris * John Ridgely as Pvt. Innes (scenes deleted) * Jack Mower as Sgt. Peterson * Anderson Lawler as Pvt. Abbott (as Anderson Lawlor) * John Harron as Pvt. Murphy Production The film was based on a play ''Without Warning'' by Ralph Spencer Zink which had a short run on Broadway in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patient In Room 18 (film)
''The Patient in Room 18'' is a 1938 American mystery romantic comedy film directed by Bobby Connolly and Crane Wilbur. It stars Patric Knowles and Ann Sheridan. The screenplay written by Eugene Solow and Robertson White was based on a 1929 novel of the same name by author Mignon G. Eberhart. Plot Private investigator Lance O'Leary (Patric Knowles) suffers a nervous breakdown from being unable to solve a case and his doctor has him hospitalized for rest. It just happens to be the same place where his lady friend, Sara Keate (Ann Sheridan), is the head nurse. The first night there a murder takes place as wealthy Mr. Warren is killed in his room and $100,000 worth of medicinal radium on his chest is stolen. Also, head doctor Dr. Lethany is murdered as well. Everyone on the staff seems to have a motive and O'Leary must work with combative Inspector Foley (Cliff Clark) to solve the crime. Cast *Patric Knowles as Lance O'Leary *Ann Sheridan as Nurse Sara Keate *Eric Stanley as Seym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spy Ring
''The Spy Ring'' is a 1938 American adventure film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by George Waggner. The film stars William Hall, Jane Wyman, Esther Ralston, Robert Warwick, Leon Ames and Ben Alexander. The film was released on January 8, 1938, by Universal Pictures. Plot Two army officers are working on an invention that will guarantee accuracy on artillery and large weapons, but there is a gang of spies that is after the device, when one of the officers is murdered, the other one swears to catch the spies that did it. Cast *William Hall as Capt. Todd Hayden *Jane Wyman as Elaine Burdette *Esther Ralston as Jean Bruce * Robert Warwick as Col. Burdette *Leon Ames as Frank Denton * Ben Alexander as Capt. Don Mayhew * Don Barclay as Private Timothy O'Reilly *Egon Brecher as General A. R. Bowen *Paul Sutton as Charley *Jack Mulhall as Capt. Tex Randolph *LeRoy Mason as Paul Douglas * Harry Woods as Capt. Holden *Phillip Trent Phillip Trent (October 16, 1907, Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Hotel (film)
''Hollywood Hotel'' is a 1937 American romantic musical comedy film, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Ted Healy, Glenda Farrell and Johnnie Davis, featuring Alan Mowbray and Mabel Todd, and with Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell and Edgar Kennedy. The film was based on the popular ''Hollywood Hotel'' radio show created by gossip columnist Louella Parsons, where Hollywood stars recreated scenes from their latest movies. It was broadcast weekly from the hotel of that name."Notes" on The film's recreation of the program features Louella Parsons, |
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