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Thomas Carr (director)
Thomas Howard Carr (July 4, 1907 - April 23, 1997) was an American actor and film director of Hollywood movies and television programs. Often billed as "Tommy Carr", he later adopted his more formal "Thomas Carr" birth name as his billing name. Biography Carr was born into an acting family on July 4, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was the actor William Carr and his mother was the actress Mary Carr. Thomas Carr followed the family profession, and in 1915 began acting in silent films. From 1915 through 1953, Carr played small supporting roles in a number of low budget Hollywood films. However, Carr's star as an actor did not rise. In 1945, he turned to directing, and from 1945 through 1951 Carr directed numerous B movies for Hollywood's poverty row. Most of Carr's films were Western (genre), Westerns; however, in 1948 he was co-director (along with Spencer Gordon Bennet) of the live-action Superman (serial), ''Superman'' serial. From 1951 to 1968, Carr's direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Without Law
''Men Without Law'' is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film directed by Louis King and starring Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty, Thomas Carr, Lydia Knott, and Harry Woods. The film was released by Columbia Pictures on October 15, 1930. Cast *Buck Jones as Buck Healy * Carmelita Geraghty as Juanita del Rey * Thomas Carr as Tom Healy (as Tommy Carr) *Lydia Knott as Mrs. Healy * Harry Woods as Murdock *Fred Burns as Sheriff Jim *Syd Saylor as Hank *Fred Kelsey as Deputy Sheriff Jeff *Ben Corbett as Pug - Henchman * Donald Reed as Ramon del Rey * Hector V. Sarno as Francisco del Rey (as Hector Sarno) *Silver as Silver - Buck's Horse *Tom Bay as Tom - Henchman (uncredited) *Bob Burns as Posse Rider (uncredited) *Bob Card as Soldier on Train (uncredited) * Lafe McKee as Townsman (uncredited) *Art Mix as Henchman (uncredited) *Bill Nestell Bill Nestell (March 3, 1893 – October 18, 1966) was an American film actor and stuntman. He appeared in more than 100 films between 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tall Stranger (film)
''The Tall Stranger'' is a 1957 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Thomas Carr and starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo.Pitts p.342 It is based on the novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. Plot A Union soldier return to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders. Cast * Joel McCrea as Ned Bannon * Virginia Mayo as Ellen * Barry Kelley as Hardy Bishop * Michael Pate as Charley * Michael Ansara as Zarata * Leo Gordon as Stark * Whit Bissell as Adam Judson * Ray Teal as Cap * James Dobson as Dud * Phil Phillips as Will (as Philip Phillips) * George N. Neise as Mort Harper (as George Neise) * Robert Foulk as Pagones * Adam Kennedy Adam Thomas Kennedy (born January 10, 1976) is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino (film)
''Dino'' is a 1957 film directed by Thomas Carr, written by Reginald Rose, and starring Sal Mineo, Brian Keith and Susan Kohner. It was an adaptation of a teleplay of the same name originally broadcast in 1956 on ''Westinghouse Studio One''. The picture was released as part of a double feature in April 1957 and the running time is 94 minutes. Plot The film opens as Dino (Sal Mineo) is released from a juvenile detention center where he has spent several years for taking part in a murder of a night watchmen when he was 13 years old. He is brought by his case worker Mr. Mandel to Larry Sheridan (Brian Keith), a case worker at the local settlement house, for therapy. While initially hesitant to take on a new patient due to his heavy workload, he agrees to see Dino and continues seeing him after he meets the troubled young man. It is revealed that Dino’s family life is problematic and that Dino has as much trouble liking himself as others do liking him. While he has been away, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Desperado
''The Desperado'' is a 1954 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Thomas Carr (director), Thomas Carr and written by Daniel Mainwaring. It is based on the 1950 novel ''The Desperado'' by Clifton Adams. The film stars Wayne Morris (American actor), Wayne Morris, Jimmy Lydon, Beverly Garland, Rayford Barnes, Dabbs Greer and Lee Van Cleef. It was released on June 20, 1954 by Monogram Pictures, Allied Artists Pictures. Plot summary Cast * Wayne Morris (American actor), Wayne Morris as Sam Garrett * Jimmy Lydon as Tom Cameron * Beverly Garland as Laurie Bannerman * Rayford Barnes as Ray Novak * Dabbs Greer as Jim Langley * Lee Van Cleef as Paul Clayton / Buck Clayton * Nestor Paiva as Captain Jake Thornton * Roy Barcroft as Martin Novack * John Dierkes as Sergeant Rafferty * Richard Shackleton as Pat Garner * I. Stanford Jolley as Mr. Garner * Richard Garland as Trooper * Florence Lake as Mrs. Cameron References External links * * * * {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Scarlett
''Captain Scarlett'' is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Thomas Carr (director), Thomas Carr, that was shot in Mexico. The film is set in France following the fall of Napoleon, stars Richard Greene in the title role as a Robin Hood-type avenger and the Brazilian actress Leonora Amar in her final screen role. Plot In post-Napoleonic France, the Duke of Corlaine reprimands Count Villiers because his Spanish fiancée, Princess Maria, has run away. When Maria's carriage is accosted by highwaymen, Captain Scarlett, a Frenchman returning from England, fends off the attackers. Villiers arrives shortly after and arrests the remaining highwayman, but is ungrateful to Scarlett. Scarlett later meets with his old friend the Friar, who warns him that the duke is appropriating property and ordering his guards to terrorize residents, who are imprisoned if they resist. Scarlett is uninterested until he learns that his own estate now belongs to Villiers. Scarlett later slips into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maverick
''The Maverick'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Myron Healey and Phyllis Coates.Fitzgerald & Magers p.35 Plot Cast * Wild Bill Elliott as Lieutenant Pete Devlin * Myron Healey as Sergeant Frick * Phyllis Coates as Della Watson * Richard Reeves as Frank Bullitt * Terry Frost as Trooper Westman * Rand Brooks as Trooper Barnham * Russell Hicks as Colonel Hook * Robert Bray as Corporal Johnson * Florence Lake as Grandma Watson * Gregg Barton as George Fane * Denver Pyle as Bud Karnes * Robert J. Wilke as Gang leader Massey * Gene Roth Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976), known profesionally as Gene Roth, was an American film actor and film manager. Early years Roth was born in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the son of a German father an ... as Fred Nixon * Joel Allen as John Rowe References Bibliography * Michael G. Fitzgerald & Boyd Magers. ''Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congo Bill (serial)
''Congo Bill'' (1948) is a Columbia movie serial based on the DC Comics character Congo Bill, later named Congorilla. Plot A girl is about to inherit a fortune, but she is missing in Africa. Only then, family charges Congo Bill, an adventurer, to find her, and bring her back to civilization. He follows a legend about a mysterious White Queen, but his path is full of difficulties, by an inhospitable jungle, and the man who will lose the fortune if the girl is found alive... Cast * Don McGuire as Congo Bill, famed hunter and animal trainer * Cleo Moore as Queen Lureen / Ruth Culver, white ruler of a forbidden valley in Africa and the missing heiress to the Culver fortune * Jack Ingram as Cameron, mysterious trader * I. Stanford Jolley as Bernie McGraw, villainous trustee of the Culver fortune * Leonard Penn as Andre Bocar, owner of the seedy African bar The Green Parrot Inn, in Bernie McGraw's pay and working for his own ends * Nelson Leigh as Dr Greenway * Charles King as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick Bradford (serial)
''Brick Bradford'' (1947) was the 35th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on the comic strip ''Brick Bradford'', which was created by Clarence Gray and William Ritt. Plot Brick Bradford is assigned by the government to aid Doctor Gregor Tymak, scientist and inventor who is working on an "Interceptor Ray" that can destroy incoming rockets. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a death ray, bringing it to the attention of foreign spy agent Laydron. Tymak uses his door into the fifth dimension to escape criminals and it takes him to the far side of the Moon (which luckily has air and is a rocky terrain without craters). There he is captured and sentenced to die by freezing to absolute zero by the Queen Khana, despot of the Moon, because they do not believe he has come from the Earth. The action moves to the Moon as the ray requires a special element called ''Lunarium'' (with an atomic mass of 200) previously only found in a meteorite. Working with exiles in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of The Wasteland
''Song of the Wasteland'' is a 1947 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by J. Benton Cheney. The film stars Jimmy Wakely, Lee White, Dottye Brown, Henry Hall, John James and Mike Ragan. The film was released on May 31, 1947, by Monogram Pictures. Plot Cast *Jimmy Wakely as Jimmy Wakely * Lee White as Doc Henderson *Dottye Brown as Sandra Crane *Henry Hall as Steve Crane *John James as Lance Bennett *Mike Ragan as Tex *Marshall Reed as Drake *Gary Garrett as Potter * Ted Adams as Luke Forbes *Pierce Lyden as Forrester *George Chesebro as Fred Brooks *Chester Conklin as The Jailer *Johnny Carpenter as Turner *Johnny Bond Cyrus Whitfield Bond (June 1, 1915 – June 12, 1978), known professionally as Johnny Bond, was an American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer and publisher, who co-founded a music publishing firm, he was active in the musi ... as Shorty *Dick Reinhart as Saddle Pals Concertina Player *Rivers Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse James Rides Again
''Jesse James Rides Again'' is a 1947 American Republic Western film serial. Plot Gunfighter Jesse James is framed for a Missouri bank job and murder by a black-cowled outlaw gang, known as "The Black Raiders". Unable to clear his name, him and companion Steve Lane, whose father was murdered during the bank robbery, flee to escape the posse. They ride into a town where they receive shelter from Ann Bolton and her elderly father, Sam Bolton, whose ranch is being regularly attacked by The Black Raiders. The same gang are led by Frank Lawton, who in turn had been hired by James Clark, a businessman. Through him, The Black Raiders attempt to drive the Boltons and other farmers off their land because of localized oil reserves in the area. Cast * Clayton Moore as Jesse James * Linda Stirling as Ann Bolton. It was during filming of this serial that Linda Stirling met her future husband Sloane Nibley. * Roy Barcroft as Frank Lawton * John Compton as Steve Lane * Tristram Coffin as Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red River Renegades
''Red River Renegades'' is a 1946 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by Norman S. Hall. The film stars Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Tom London, Ted Adams, LeRoy Mason and Kenne Duncan. It was released on July 23, 1946 by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Sunset Carson as Sunset Carson * Peggy Stewart as Julie Bennett *Tom London as Pop Underwood * Ted Adams as Frank Stevens *LeRoy Mason as Lon Ballard *Kenne Duncan Kenne Duncan (February 17, 1903 – February 5, 1972) was a Canadian-born American B-movie character actor. Hyped professionally as "The Meanest Man in the Movies," the vast majority of his over 250 appearances on camera were Westerns, bu ... as Henchman Hackett *Richard Beavers as Dave Webster * Edmund Cobb as Mark Webster References External links * 1946 films American Western (genre) films 1946 Western (genre) films Republic Pictures films Films directed by Thomas Carr American black-and-white films 1940s Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
