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Tom Greenway (actor)
Tom Greenway (June 5, 1909 – February 8, 1985) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 100 films and television programs, in which he also appeared in westerns of the 1950s, such as '' Big Timber''. He was particularly rough on Dennis Weaver's character ("Chester Goode") on ''Gunsmoke'', almost killing Matt Dillon's sidekick twice in 1957; first when he played the hated "Ned Pickard" in the episode "Chester's Murder" (S2E27) and later the bully "Trevitt" as he again attacks Chester in the episode "Never Pester Chester" (S3E10). He also made an appearance on ''High Noon''. Greenway died in February 1985 of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles, California. at the age of 75. Early life Greenway was born in Booneville, Arkansas to Charles Sanford Greenway and his wife Lena Mai Radford, in Logan County, east of Fort Smith in western Arkansas. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Corps as a flight engineer on a B-17 bomber. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booneville, Arkansas
Booneville is a city in Logan County, Arkansas, United States and the county seat of its southern district. Located in the Arkansas River Valley between the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains, the city is one of the oldest in western Arkansas. The city's economy was first based upon the railroad and Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. It has developed a diverse economy of small businesses and light industry. Booneville's population was 3,990 at the 2010 census. Booneville supports a community center, a senior-citizens center, a community hospital, a municipal airport, and new school facilities. Hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and other outdoors activities are readily available in nearby national forests and state parks. History Naming The city was founded in 1828 when Walter Cauthron, an early explorer of the Arkansas Territory, built a log cabin and store along the Petit Jean River. By some accounts, he intended to name the community as "Bonneville" for friend Benjamin Bonnevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoner Of War
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from the enemy combatants still in the field (releasing and repatriating them in an orderly manner after hostilities), demonstrating military victory, punishing them, prosecuting them for war crimes, exploiting them for their labour, recruiting or even conscripting them as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or indoctrinating them in new political or religious beliefs. Ancient times For most of human history, depending on the culture of the victors, enemy fighters on the losing side in a battle who had surrendered and been taken as prisoners of war could expect to be either slaughtered or enslaved. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951 American Film)
''Tomorrow Is Another Day'' is a 1951 crime drama film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Ruth Roman and Steve Cochran. An ex-convict who thinks he killed a man goes into hiding with a woman whose boyfriend is the man he supposedly killed. Plot Convicted of murdering his abusive father at age 13, Bill Clark is freed after 18 years behind bars. On his release, Bill meets Dan Monroe, who seems to be friendly, but is angered when he discovers that Monroe is a reporter exploiting Bill for a sensational story about the released "boy killer." Now wary of people and unused to women, Bill is attracted to taxi dancer Cathy "Cay" Higgins, who initially rejects his advances. After he gifts her a watch and they tour the city together, she invites him up to her apartment. There, the couple is confronted by George Conover, Cathy's estranged boyfriend, who orders Bill to leave and pulls a gun. Bill attacks Conover and gets hold of the gun, but is knocked unconscious. Cathy retrieves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Trust A Gambler
''Never Trust a Gambler'' is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Dane Clark, Cathy O'Donnell and Tom Drake. Plot Steve Garry, insisting he has quit gambling, asks his ex-wife Virginia Merrill if he can lay low at her Los Angeles house while avoiding testifying in a murder trial. She reluctantly consents, unsure whether she can trust him, and hides him from nosy neighbor, Phoebe. At a market, buying Steve food and liquor, Virginia runs into a police sergeant, McCloy, who dated Dolores Alden, her former roommate. McCloy won't go away, escorting Virginia home, then making a drunken pass at her. Steve emerges from hiding and hits McCloy with a chair, accidentally killing him. Sgt. Ed Donovan has been out looking for Steve, who is actually a suspect in that murder case coming to trial. Donovan is called to the scene when McCloy's body is found near a car that's gone off a cliff. Steve pushed it there, hoping to make it look like the cop drove d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Harlem Globetrotters (film)
''The Harlem Globetrotters'' is a 1951 Sport/Drama film about the famous African American basketball team The Harlem Globetrotters released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Thomas Gomez, Bill Walker, Dorothy Dandridge, Angela Clarke, and Peter M. Thompson. Broadcast The film premiered on television on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on May 29, 2012. Plot Cast * Thomas Gomez as Coach Abe Saperstein *Bill Walker as Prof. Turner *Dorothy Dandridge as Ann Carpenter *Angela Clarke as Sylvia Saperstein *Peter M. Thompson as Martin *Billy Brown as Billy Townsend (Globetrotter) * Roscoe Cumberland as Roscoe (Globetrotter) * William 'Pop' Gates as 'Pop' Gates (Globetrotter) * Marques Haynes as Marques (Globetrotter) * Louis 'Babe' Pressley as 'Babe' Pressley (Globetrotter) *Ermer Robinson as Elmer Robinson (Globetrotter) *Ted Strong Theodore Reginald Strong, Jr. (January 2, 1914 – March 1, 1978), was an American Negro league baseball player who played from 1936 to 1942 and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Get By (film)
''I'll Get By'' is a 1950 American Comedy film, comedy musical film directed by Richard Sale (director), Richard Sale, and starring June Haver, Gloria DeHaven and William Lundigan. This story follows themes explored in 1940's ''Tin Pan Alley (film), Tin Pan Alley'', with updated characters and music. The plot revolves around songwriters and their struggles in the music industry. Plot Song plugger Bill Spencer runs into Liza Martin, literally. He slams a door into her accidentally while rushing to bring a new recording to Peter Pepper, an influential New York disc jockey. The record breaks. After he is fired, Bill opens his own music publishing business. He hires a secretary, Miss Murphy, and gains a partner in Freddy Lee, a young man from Texas, with whom he peddles a song that piano player Chester Dooley has written. They hear the singer Terry Martin is performing with trumpeter Harry James at a club, so they go there to pitch the song to her. Terry's sister is also in the act; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretty Baby (1950 Film)
''Pretty Baby'' is a 1950 American comedy film starring Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott and Edmund Gwenn. A young woman's little white lie leads to unforeseen complications. Cary Grant aggressively promoted Drake, his wife, to Jack L. Warner for the lead in ''Pretty Baby''. Plot Patsy Douglas comes up with an ingenious way to get a seat on the crowded New York subway: she pretends to have a baby, using a doll discarded by the advertising agency where she works. One day, however, her agency's primary client, short-tempered Cyrus Baxter, happens to be seated beside her. (His chauffeur had abruptly quit after Baxter berated him for getting stuck in a traffic jam.) He is delighted when he overhears that she named her "child" Cyrus after him. He becomes acquainted with her, letting her assume that he works for Baxter as a watchman. Later, when the agency's two bosses, Sam Morley and Barry Holmes see Baxter to try to get him to sign a contract for a new advertising campaign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lady Without Passport
''A Lady Without Passport'' is a 1950 American film noir film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak. Written by Howard Dimsdale, the film is about a beautiful concentration-camp refugee who has taken up residence in Cuba while awaiting permission to enter the United States. An undercover immigration agent decides to use her as an informant to entrap the leader of an alien-smuggling ring. This film marked the feature film debut of actor Steven Hill. Plot After World War II, immigrants in Cuba who are refused visas for various reasons try to sneak into the U.S. illegally with the help of a human smuggling ring run by Palinov (George Macready), a Levantine café owner. Following the death of one immigrant, U.S. Immigration operative Pete Karczag ( John Hodiak) is sent to Havana, where he poses as a Hungarian in need of Palinov's services. During his dangerous undercover investigation, Pete meets Marianne Lorress (Hedy Lamarr), a penniless Austrian ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love That Brute
''Love That Brute'' is a 1950 American comedy film, comedy crime film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Paul Douglas (actor), Paul Douglas and Jean Peters. The film is a remake of ''Tall, Dark and Handsome'', a 1941 film also distributed by 20th Century Fox. Plot In 1928 Chicago, two gangsters kill a store owner. Mobster Big Ed (Paul Douglas (actor), Paul Douglas) sends top henchman Bugsy Welch (Keenan Wynn) to place a white carnation—his trademark—on the corpses, to suggest that he is responsible. The police rush to arrest Big Ed, only to find out that he has an alibi. He has been in the park, where Big Ed encounters Ruth Manning (Jean Peters), a country girl who came to Chicago to be a singer, but is now a children's governess. Big Ed falls in love with the woman—in his opinion, she has class—and is determined to court her. He poses as a widowed father and asks her to take care of his child, with the promise of tripling her salary. When she accepts, he sends Bugs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Damned Don't Cry
''The Damned Don't Cry'' is a 1950 American film noir crime-drama directed by Vincent Sherman and featuring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Steve Cochran. It tells of a woman's involvement with an organized crime boss and his subordinates. The screenplay by Harold Medford and Jerome Weidman was based on the story "Case History" by Gertrude Walker. The plot is loosely based on the relationship of Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Jerry Wald. ''The Damned Don't Cry'' is the first of three cinematic collaborations between Sherman and Crawford, the others being ''Harriet Craig'' (1950) and ''Goodbye, My Fancy'' (1951). Cast ;Uncredited (in order of appearance) Reception Box office The movie was a hit. According to Warner Bros., it earned $1,540,000 in the U.S. and $671,000 in other markets. According to ''Variety'', the film earned $1.4 million in the U.S. and Canada in 1950. Critical response When the film was released, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakota Lil
''Dakota Lil'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Maurice Geraghty. The film stars George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford and Jack Lambert. The film was released on February 17, 1950, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Tom, a secret service agent on the hunt for gang of counterfeiters, gains the confidence of one of the gang's ringleaders. Cast * George Montgomery as Tom Horn / Steve Garrett * Rod Cameron as Harve Logan / Kid Curry *Marie Windsor as Dakota Lil * John Emery as Vincent *Wallace Ford as Carter * Jack Lambert as Dummy *Larry Johns as Sheriff *Marion Martin as Blonde Singer *James Flavin as Secret Service Chief * Walter Sande as Butch Cassidy *Lillian Bronson as Sheriff's Wife * Kenneth MacDonald as Fletch *Clancy Cooper as Bartender *Bill Perrott as Cashier *Alberto Morin as Rurales Captain *J. Farrell MacDonald John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blonde Dynamite
''Blonde Dynamite'' is a 1950 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on February 12, 1950 by Monogram Pictures and is the seventeenth film in the series. Plot After Slip and Sach are thrown out on the street after unsuccessfully trying to get jobs as urbane male escorts, the enraged Slip vows to start his own escort agency. Slip suggests that the hard working Louie take a vacation and hand over the responsibilities of the sweet shop to the boys. Louie reluctantly agrees and takes his wife to Coney Island. The boys turn his sweet shop into their escort service and give the place a makeover. Meanwhile, Gabe, who works as a messenger for a bank, has gotten himself into trouble. He had $5,000 of the bank's money stolen from him by a scheming woman working with local gangsters who threaten to frame him for the theft unless he agrees to get the bank vault combination for them. He gives them the combination and the ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
