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List Of Republic Pictures Films
This is a list of films produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. Republic Pictures was an American independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1935 through 1959, and was best known for specializing in westerns, serials, and B films emphasizing mystery and action. 1930s 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1980s 1990s 2020s All titles listed here have been acquired and co-distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution unless mentioned otherwise. Upcoming All titles listed here have been acquired and co-distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution Paramount Global Distribution Group or Paramount Global Content Distribution is the international television distribution arm of American media conglomerate, Paramount Global, originally established in 1962 as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles. It had studio facilities in Studio City and a movie ranch in Encino. It was best known for specializing in Westerns, serials, and B films emphasizing mystery and action. Republic was also notable for developing the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. It was also responsible for the financing and distribution of a few A films directed by John Ford during the 1940s and early 1950s and one Shakespeare film, ''Macbeth'' (1948), directed by Orson Welles. Under Herbert J. Yates, Republic was considered a mini-major film studio. Company history Created in 1935 by Herbert J. Yates, a longtime investor in film (having invested in 20th Century Pictures at its founding in 1933) and owner of the film processing laboratory Consolidated Film Industries, Republic was initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Trail
''Melody Trail'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette.Magers 2007, p. 35. Written by Sherman L. Lowe and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes after the men who kidnapped the baby he should have been babysitting. The film features the songs "On the Melody Trail", "A Lone Cowboy on the Lone Prairie", and "Western Lullaby". Plot A radio and music star, Gene Autry ( Gene Autry), and his friend, comedian Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), attend a rodeo where Gene falls in love with one of the spectators, Millicent Thomas (Ann Rutherford). Millicent, who is being harassed by her father's former ranch hand, Matt Kirby (Al Bridge), is delighted when Gene sings for the crowd, then later beats Matt in a bucking bronco competition. That night, while Gene dreams about Millicent, his $1,000 in rodeo winnings are stolen by a gypsy named Frantz (Willy Castello), the husband of a fortune-tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leathernecks Have Landed
''The Leathernecks Have Landed'' is a 1936 American adventure film directed by Howard Bretherton and written by Seton I. Miller. The film stars Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell, James Ellison, James Burke, J. Carrol Naish and Clay Clement. The film was released on February 17, 1936, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Lew Ayres as Woodruff 'Woody' Davis * Isabel Jewell as Brooklyn * James Ellison as Mac MacDonald * James Burke as Corrigan *J. Carrol Naish as Irenov *Clay Clement as Capt. Halstead *Maynard Holmes as Pvt. 'Tubby' Waters *Ward Bond as Tex * Paul Porcasi as Enrico 'Rico' Venetzi *Claude King Claude King (February 5, 1923 – March 7, 2013) was an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for his million selling 1962 hit, "Wolverton Mountain". Biography King was born in Keithville in southern Caddo Parish south ... as British Agent in Shanghai * Christian Rub as Schooner Captain * Joe Sawyer as Sgt. Regan *Henry Mowbray as British Army Major * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawless Nineties
''The Lawless Nineties'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Lane Chandler as federal agents in Wyoming. The film also stars a 19-year-old Ann Rutherford as well as George Hayes. The film's copyright was renewed in 1963. Plot In the 1890s, undercover federal agents John Tipton and Bridger head for Crocket City, Wyoming. One group of local outlaws organized by Charles Plummer is using dynamite to terrorize the populace and ensure that the vote fails. In the chaos, Tipton and Bridger are separated and Tipton befriends a trio of settlers harassed by outlaws. They are Major Carter, his daughter Janet, and their servant Moses. Carter has recently become the new editor and publisher of the local newspaper, the ''Crocket City Blade'', and when he announces plans to use the power of the press to fight lawlessness and aid the statehood cause, he is threatened by Plummer and subsequently shot and murdered by one of his men in a staged f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leavenworth Case (film)
''The Leavenworth Case'' is a 1936 American mystery film directed by Lewis D. Collins and written by Albert DeMond and Sidney Sutherland. It is based on the 1878 novel ''The Leavenworth Case'' by Anna Katharine Green. The film stars Donald Cook (actor), Donald Cook, Jean Rouverol, Norman Foster (director), Norman Foster, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Maude Eburne and Warren Hymer. The film was released on January 20, 1936, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Donald Cook (actor), Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Harwell *Jean Rouverol as Eleanore Leavenworth *Norman Foster (director), Norman Foster as Detective Bob Grice *Erin O'Brien-Moore as Mrs. Silas (Gloria) Leavenworth *Maude Eburne as Phoebe Leavenworth *Warren Hymer as Detective O'Malley *Frank Sheridan (actor), Frank Sheridan as Silas Leavenworth *Gavin Gordon (actor), Gavin Gordon as Henry Clavering *Clay Clement as Inspector Holmes *Ian Wolfe as Hudson *Peggy Stratford as Miss Owens *Archie Robbins as Duke *Bess Staffor as The Bulldog Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing Feet (film)
''Dancing Feet'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Jerome Chodorov, Olive Cooper and Wellyn Totman. It is based on the 1931 novel ''Dancing Feet'' by Rob Eden. The film stars Ben Lyon, Joan Marsh, Edward Nugent, Isabel Jewell, James Burke and Purnell Pratt. The film was released on January 20, 1936, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Edward Nugent as Jimmy Cassidy *Joan Marsh as Judy Jones *Ben Lyon as Peyton Wells *Isabel Jewell as Mabel Henry * James Burke as Phil Moore *Purnell Pratt as Silas P. Jones *Vince Barnett as Willoughby *Nick Condos as Speciality Dancer *Herbert Rawlinson as Oliver Groves *Lillian Harmer as Aggie *Herbert Corthell as Jenkins *James P. Burtis as Stupe (as Jimmy Burtis) * Harry C. Bradley as Hotel Assistant Manager *Cy Kendall as Hotel Detective *Lynton Brent as Hotel Clerk *Wilson Benge George Frederick "Wilson" Benge (1 March 1875 – 1 July 1955) was an English actor who mostly featured in American fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oregon Trail (1936 Film)
''The Oregon Trail'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Scott Pembroke for Republic Pictures and starring John Wayne. It is a lost film with no known prints remaining. In 2013, film collector Kent Sperring discovered 40 photographs that were taken during the making of the film. ''The Oregon Trail'' started production on November 29, 1935, and was filmed at Alabama Hills. Plot John Wayne plays retired army captain John Delmont, who discovers from his father's journal that he was left to die by a renegade, and vows to hunt down the killer. Cast *John Wayne as Capt John Delmont *Ann Rutherford as Anne Ridgeley *Joseph W. Girard as Col. Delmont *Yakima Canutt as Tom Richards * Frank Rice as Red *E. H. Calvert as Jim Ridgeley *Ben Hendricks Jr. as Maj. Harris * Harry Harvey as Tim *Fern Emmett as Minnie * Jack Rutherford as Benton *Marian Ferrell as Sis *Roland Ray as Markey *Gino Corrado as Forrenza *Edward LeSaint as Gen. Ferguson *Octavio Giraud as Don Miguel See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitch Hike Lady
''Hitch Hike Lady'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Aubrey Scotto and written by Gordon Rigby and Lester Cole. The film stars Alison Skipworth, Mae Clarke, Arthur Treacher, James Ellison, Warren Hymer and Beryl Mercer. The film was released on December 28, 1935, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast * Alison Skipworth as Mrs. Amelia Blake *Mae Clarke as Judith Martin *Arthur Treacher as Mortimer Wingate *James Ellison as Jimmy Peyton *Warren Hymer as Cluck Regan *Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Bayne *J. Farrell MacDonald as Judge Hale *Christian Rub as Farmer *Harold Waldridge as Oswald Brown * Irving Bacon as Ed Simpson *Lionel Belmore as Mr. Harker *George "Gabby" Hayes as Miner * Dell Henderson as Williams *Clay Clement Clay Clement (May 19, 1888 – October 20, 1956) was an American stage, film, and TV actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1918 and 1947. Clement was one of the earliest members of the Screen Actors Guild. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Singing Vagabond
''The Singing Vagabond'' is a 1935 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Carl Pierson and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Oliver Drake (filmmaker), Oliver Drake and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a cowboy who rides to the rescue when badguys kidnap a beautiful woman. Plot At a St. Louis opera house in 1860, a singer in blackface named Jerry Barton, known as "King of the Minstrels", comes backstage and asks his sweetheart, Lettie Morgan (Ann Rutherford), to elope. Lettie's Aunt Hortense, fearing that Barton is a fortune hunter, tells Lettie she is not the heiress she thought she was and that she has been living off her aunt's charity. With no fortune to hunt, Barton informs Lettie that an artist cannot be burdened with the responsibility of a wife. Outside the opera house, Lettie meets a chorus girl named Honey (Barbara Pepper), who is preparing to leave with her theatrical troupe in a caravan heading West. When the troupe's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frisco Waterfront
''Frisco Waterfront'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and Joseph Santley and starring Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees and Rod La Rocque. Plot Gubernatorial candidate Glen Burton hates newspaper editor Dan Elliott, who married Glen's former wife, Alice. On election day in San Francisco, Glen and Dan are both voting in a tent when a truck runs into it. As Glen is taken to the operating room, political boss Corrigan tells him that he is wrong to hate Dan. In the operating room, Glen relives his life. In 1917 Glen and Alice were engaged, but Glenn is shipped out to serve in World War One and is reported as missing in action. Dan proposes marriage to Alice and she accepts but then Glenn appears, accusing Dan of being a war coward and trying to steal Alice. Glen and Alice get married and Glen studies to be a lawyer but is unable to find a job. Dan offers him one but Glen refuses. Glen gets a job on the waterfront and becomes foreman, but Alice is upset at his lack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sagebrush Troubadour
''The Sagebrush Troubadour'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Barbara Pepper, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Oliver Drake and Joseph F. Poland, the film is about two Texas Rangers traveling undercover as western troubadours in search of the killer of an old, half-blind man. Plot Texas Rangers Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) are traveling undercover as western troubadours in search of the killer of old, half-blind Frank Martin. Their only clues are a guitar string (the murder weapon) and Martin's horse Swayback that hold the key to finding the dead man's lost goldmine. Following Frank Martin's funeral, Martin's granddaughter, Joan (Barbara Pepper), meets her uncle, John Martin, and Lon Dillon, who flirts with her. Lawyer Henry Nolan reads Martin's will, revealing that the deceased left John $5,000 and the remainder of the estate to Joan. John tells Joan that he suspects Gene of her grandfather's murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forced Landing (1935 Film)
''Forced Landing'' is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Melville W. Brown and written by William Scott Darling. The film stars Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing, Edward Nugent and Barbara Pepper. ''Forced Landing'' was released on November 2, 1935, by Republic Pictures. Plot Al Talcott (Arthur Aylesworth) is released from prison after serving 15 years for helping to kidnap Jimmy Stafford ( Kane Richmond), now an adult and in college. The warden assigns FBI agent Farraday ( Onslow Stevens) to follow Al, the only member of the gang to know where the still-missing ransom money is found. Farraday suspects that Al's old gang, headed by Tony Bernardi (Sidney Blackmer), also after Al. Bernardi calls Al's old girl friend, cabaret singer Ruby Anatole ( Esther Ralston), who does not want anything to do with either of them. Ruby's lover, banker Martin Byrd ( Willard Robertson), is going on a year-long second honeymoon with his wife and wants to end their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
