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List Of Films Based On Radio Series
Radio comedy and drama was at its peak during the 1940s, and most of the films on this list were produced during that period. The list includes features, short subjects and serials. United States * ''The Aldrich Family'' ** '' What a Life'' (1939) ** ''Life with Henry'' (1941) ** ''Henry Aldrich for President'' (1941) ** ''Henry Aldrich, Editor'' (1942) ** ''Henry and Dizzy'' (1942) ** ''Henry Aldrich Swings It'' (1943) ** ''Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour'' (1943) ** ''Henry Aldrich Haunts a House'' (1943) ** ''Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout'' (1944) ** ''Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid'' (1944) ** ''Henry Aldrich's Little Secret'' (1944) * ''Jack Benny'' ** ''Buck Benny Rides Again'' (1940) * ''Big Town'' ** ''I Cover Big Town'' (1947) ** ''Big Town'' (1947) ** ''Big Town After Dark'' (1947) ** ''Big Town Scandal'' (1948) * ''Breakfast in Hollywood'' (1946), based on radio's ''Breakfast in Hollywood'' * ''Candid Microphone'' (1947), theatrical film shorts based on Allen Funt' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Subject
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsor, or personal funds. Short films are generally used for industry experience and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Cover Big Town
''I Cover Big Town'' is a 1947 American drama film directed by William C. Thomas and written by Maxwell Shane. The film stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Robert Shayne, Mona Barrie and Vince Barnett. It was released on February 27, 1947 by Paramount Pictures and was the second in the ''Big Town'' series of films. Plot ''Illustrated Press'' society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to a police case. Her crusading newspaper editor Steve Wilson suspects that hard-luck suspect Harry Hilton has been framed on a murder rap. Lorelei and Steve proceed to help the police solve the crime, at the same time uncovering a conspiracy to bring a building firm to bankruptcy. Cast *Phillip Reed as Steve Wilson *Hillary Brooke as Lorelei Kilbourne * Robert Lowery as Pete Ryan *Robert Shayne as Chief Tom Blake *Mona Barrie as Dora Hilton *Vince Barnett as Louis Murkil *Louis Jean Heydt as John Moulton *Frank Wilcox as Harry Hilton *Leonard Penn as Norden Royal Critical rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Doctor (radio Program)
''Crime Doctor'' is a radio crime drama in the United States. Sponsored by Philip Morris cigarettes, it was broadcast on CBS August 4, 1940 – October 19, 1947. Premise ''Crime Doctor'' featured two premises that were unusual—if not unique—in radio crime drama. The first was that the central figure, Dr. Benjamin Ordway, had survived amnesia. Radio historian John Dunning described the situation as follows:Originally a criminal himself, he got zapped on the head and lost his memory. With the help of a kind doctor, he began to build a new life and identity, studying medicine and eventually going into psychiatry. ... He decided to specialize in criminal psychiatry because of his intense interest in, and understanding of, the criminal mind.Dunning, John. (1976). ''Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976''. Prentice-Hall, Inc. . P. 149. A photographic story about the program in a 1946 issue of ''Radio Mirro''r magazine contained the following co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
''Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard'' is a 1950 American film noir B movie directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Howard St. John, Ron Randell and Amanda Blake. Plot When enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile system, an American spy and a British investigator are teamed together to find the source. Cast *Howard St. John as David Harding *Amanda Blake as Karen Michele *Ron Randell as Simon Langton *June Vincent as Barbara Taylor *Fred Sears as Peters *John Dehner as Robert Reynolds * Lewis Martin as Dr. Victor Gilbert, also known as Hugo Boren *Rick Vallin as McCullough *Jimmy Lloyd as Burton *Ted Jordan as Brown *Gregory Gay as Professor Schuman *Douglas Evans as Colonel Kilgore *John Doucette as Larry, a thug *Don Brodie as Jimmy, a thug References External links *''Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard''at TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harding, Counterspy
''David Harding, Counterspy'' is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Willard Parker. It was based on the radio series '' Counterspy''. Plot An American spy is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend Jerry Baldwin, a naval commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory. Cast * Willard Parker as Lt. Comdr. Jerry A. Baldwin * Audrey Long as Betty Iverson * Raymond Greenleaf as Dr. George Vickers * Harlan Warde as Hopkins * Alex Gerry as Charles Kingston * Howard St. John Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television. Among his best-remembered roles are the bombastic General Bullmoose i ... as David Harding References External links * 1950 films Films based on radio series American crime films 1950 crime films American black-and-white films 1950s English-languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterspy (radio Series)
''Counterspy'' was an espionage drama radio series that aired on the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) and Mutual from May 18, 1942, to November 29, 1957.Dunning, John. (1998). ''On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio''. Oxford University Press. . P. 181. David Harding (played by Don MacLaughlin) was the chief of the United States Counterspies, a unit engaged during World War II in counterintelligence against Japan's Black Dragon and Germany's Gestapo.Reinehr, Robert C. and Swartz, Jon D. (2008). ''The A to Z of Old-Time Radio''. Scarecrow Press, Inc. . Pp. 69-70. United States Counterspies was a fictional government agency devised by the program's creator, Phillips H. Lord after Lord "had a certain amount of difficulty with J. Edgar Hoover over story content in Gang Busters."Erickson, Hal (2014). ''From radio to the big screen: Hollywood films featuring broadcast personalities and programs''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . Pp. 253-255. Mandel Kramer played Peters, Harding's ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Midnight
''Captain Midnight'' (later rebranded on television as ''Jet Jackson, Flying Commando'') is a United States, U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. The character's popularity throughout the 1940s and into the mid-1950s extended to serial films (1942), a television show (1954–1956), a syndicated newspaper strip (1942 – late 1940s), and a comic book title (1942–1948). Radio origins Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the Captain Midnight radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M. Burtt, who had previously scored a success for Skelly with their boy pilot adventure serial ''The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen''. Developed at the Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Blackett, Sample and Hummert advertising agency in Chicago, ''Captain Midnight'' began as a syndicated show on October 17, 1938, airing through the spring of 1940 on a few Midwest stations, including Chicago's WGN (AM), WGN. In 1940, Ovaltine, a produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Midnight (serial)
''Captain Midnight'' is a 1942 American serial film. It was Columbia Pictures 17th released serial and was based upon the radio adventure serial of the same name, broadcast from 1938 to 1949. ''Captain Midnight'' was only one of the many aviation serials released during World War II, whose leading characters were derived from early pulp magazines and radio show favorites. Plot Captain Albright is an extremely skilled aviator, better known by his alter ego as Captain Midnight. He is assigned to neutralize the sinister Ivan Shark, an evil enemy scientist who is aerial bombing major American cities with his unmarked aircraft. Captain Midnight leads the Secret Squadron, whose staff includes Chuck Ramsay, Midnight's ward, and Ichabod 'Icky' Mudd, the Squadron's chief mechanic. Shark has developed a highly efficient mercenary organization. He is aided by his daughter, Fury, his highly intelligent second in command, and Gardo the henchman, and Fang, an Asian ally. Shark is after a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candid Camera
''Candid Camera'' is a popular and long-running American hidden camera reality television series. Versions of the show appeared on television from 1948 until 2014. Originally created and produced by Allen Funt, it often featured practical jokes, and initially began on radio as ''The Candid Microphone'' on June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled ''Candid Microphone'', Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued into the 1970s. Aside from occasional specials in the 1980s, the show was off air until 1991, when Funt reluctantly authorized a syndicated revival with Dom DeLuise as host and Vin Di Bona producing; it ran for one year. The show made a comeback on CBS in 1996 before moving to PAX TV in 2001. This incarnation of the weekly series ended on May 5, 2004, concurrent with the selling of the PAX network itself. Beginning on August 11, 2014, the show returned in a new series with hour-long episodes on TV Land, but this incarnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Funt
Allen Albert Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999) was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality best known as the creator and host of '' Candid Camera'' from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS. Early life and education Funt was born into a Jewish family in New York City, New York. His father Isidore Funt was a diamond wholesaler, and his mother was Paula Saferstein Funt. Allen graduated from high school at age 15. Too young to attend college on his own, he studied at Pratt Institute (also located in Brooklyn). He later earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Cornell University, studied business administration at Columbia University, then returned to Pratt for additional art instruction. Career Radio and television Trained in commercial art, Funt worked for an advertising agency in their art department, but he eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakfast In Hollywood
''Breakfast in Hollywood'' is a morning radio show created and hosted by Tom Breneman broadcast from 1941 to 1948 on three different radio networks: NBC Radio, NBC, Citadel Media, ABC and Mutual Broadcasting System, Mutual. These unscripted shows were spontaneous and involved much audience participation. Breneman's many guests included such stars as Jimmy Durante, Andy Devine and Orson Welles. Radio personality Breneman was in Hollywood having lunch in 1940 with friends at Sardi's Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard when he realized the location's potential for a radio program. He quickly found an audience when he began broadcasting his ''Breakfast on the Boulevard'' January 13, 1941, on KFWB Los Angeles. Newspaper radio schedules indicate that West Coast stations were broadcasting the program as "''Breakfast at Sardi's''" as early as September 1941. The program was limited to radio stations in California, Oregon, and Washington State until ''Breakfast at Sardi's'' aired on the Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakfast In Hollywood (film)
''Breakfast in Hollywood'', also known as ''The Mad Hatter'', is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Harold D. Schuster and written by Earl Baldwin. The film stars Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Edward Ryan, Raymond Walburn, Billie Burke, ZaSu Pitts, Hedda Hopper, Andy Russell, Spike Jones and Nat King Cole. The film was released on February 26, 1946, by United Artists. Plot A woman comes to Hollywood to meet her fiancé, who does not show up. Given a ticket to a radio show, she meets a sailor who was a friend of her fiancé. The sailor falls in love with the girl, before he tells her that her fiancé had married someone else. The girl, angry with the boy's advances, leaves on a bus to return to her home in Minnesota. The radio program host plays a fairy godmother role, having the police arrest the girl, and reunite the couple, who decide to get married. Cast *Tom Breneman as Tom Breneman *Bonita Granville as Dorothy Larson *Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Annie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
