The Big Night 1960  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Randy Sparks, Venetia Stevenson, Dick Foran, Jesse White, Dick Contino, Frank Ferguson, Paul Langton, House Peters Jr., Robert Paget, Marc Cavell, Kay E. Kuter, Anna Lee
Frank (Randy Sparks) and Ellie (Venetia Stevenson) watch as a car being chased by the police crosses a bridge, and one of the passengers tosses a briefcase into the canal. Later, Frank retrieves it and, instead of notifying the police, hides it nearby. He reads about a robbery in which $209,000 was stolen and two robbers were slain but still keeps his secret cache hidden. Problems ensue when the third robber, Carl Farrow (Dick Contino), returns to the scene and finds the case missing. Now, both the police and Farrow set out to find the stolen money
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Black Legion 1937  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Joe Sawyer, Robert Barrat, Samuel S. Hinds, Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Paul Harvey, Helen Flint, Dickie Jones, John Litel, Dorothy Vaughan, Henry Brandon
Auto factory worker Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart) is a hard worker who wants to become a foreman. The job opening occurs, but Polish-American immigrant Joe Dombrowski (Henry Brandon) is named the new foreman. Now hatred takes over, and Frank is recruited to join a secret White supremacist organization, The Black Legion. Frank and the Legion members burn down the Dombrowski family's chicken farm, and the family leaves town. Frank now gets the job of foreman, but tragedies lie ahead–beginning with his wife Ruth (Erin O'Brien-Moore) leaving when his job and the atrocities he commits with the Black Legion take up most of his time. Now, matters go from bad to worse as murder and a prison sentence follow with the Black Legion behind the whole thing.
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Boy Meets Girl 1938 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy, Dick Foran, Ronald Reagan, Penny Singleton, Frank McHugh, Bruce Lester, Dennie Moore
The Cagney and O'Brien duo return as irreverent writers in this spoof of the Hollywood scene. They help a widow waitress (Wilson) by promoting her baby into being a star, as well as helping with her romantic problems. Look for Ron Reagan as the announcer.
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California Mail 1936  N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Noel M. Smith
Cast: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Edmund Cobb, Milton Kibbee, Glenn Strange, Roy Rogers, Jim Farley, Edward Keane, Ben Hendricks Jr., Wilfred Lucas
The mail contract is up for grabs and will go to the fastest stagecoach. Bill (Dick Foran) is in competition with the Benton brothers who sabotage his coach as well as rob a stagecoach and frame Bill for it. All ends well for the good guys. Roy Rogers calls a square dance.
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Change of Heart 1934 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Mischa Auer, Jane Darwell, Bess Flowers, Dick Foran, Leonid Kinskey
Following college, four graduates head for New York in search of fame and fortune.
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The Cowboy from Brooklyn 1938 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Priscilla Lane, Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Emma Dunn, Elisabeth Risdon, James Stephenson, Hobart Cavanaugh
As a ploy to obtain a radio job, a young singer (Dick Powell) pretends he is really a cowboy.
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Dangerous 1935 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Dick Foran, Pierre Watkin, Milton Kibbee, George Irving, Mary Treen
Bette Davis won the Oscar for her role as alcoholic ex-star Joyce Heath in this fair movie. Obviously, she is the highlight and makes it worth watching.
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Donovan's Reef 1963 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour, Marcel Dalio, Mike Mazurki, Edgar Buchanan, Patrick Wayne, Dick Foran, Jeffrey Byron
A group of retired sailors have found their ideal home on an island. Then, the daughter (Elizabeth Allen) of one of them joins the group, and she has her own ideas for their island paradise.
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Earthworm Tractors 1936 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Natural Born Salesman
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Gene Lockhart, Olin Howland, Joseph Crehan, Irving Bacon, Sarah Edwards, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson
This Depression Era film provides plenty of laughs when natural born salesman Alexander Botts (Joe E. Brown) plies his trade selling Earthworm tractors. Botts works on Sam Johnson (Guy Kibbee) to sell him tractors, and after a series of near disasters Botts makes a deal with Johnson that includes not only tractors but the affections of Johnson's daughter, Mabel (June Travis), as well.
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Easy Come, Easy Go 1947 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Diana Lynn, Sonny Tufts, Dick Foran, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, John Litel, Arthur Shields, Frank Faylen, James Burke
Irish gambler Martin (Barry Fitzgerald) is hooked on horse racing, and his daughter Connie (Diana Lynn) has the money that keeps the habit going. So, when she intends to get married, Martin just can't let that happen.
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The Fighting 69th 1940 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Dennis Morgan, Dick Foran, William Lundigan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
This film is based on facts from the 69th regiment's World War I records. Jerry Plunkett (James Cagney) is a smart-aleck recruit who buckles under fire and causes the death of some men in his company. Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) helps in the rehabilitation. Great battle scenes.
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Fort Apache 1948  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Ward Bond, John Agar, George O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Irene Rich, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendariz, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Mae Marsh
Lt. Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) is annoyed because he has been sent out West to command Fort Apache in Arizona after serving valiantly during the Civil War. After his daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) and Lt. Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond) discover the bodies of mutilated soldiers murdered by the Apaches, Thursday decides to stir up the Indians for his own fame and fortune. One of his officers, Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), tries to teach him the realities of co-existing with the Indians and tells him that the real problem is not the Apaches, but, instead, it is the corrupt Indian agents promoting the problems. York's words go unheeded, and Thursday leads his men into a disastrous situation after which he is labeled a hero by the press.
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Four Daughters 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, May Robson, Dick Foran
Four sisters in the Lemp family find love and happiness in this popular film that spawned "Daughters Courageous," "Four Wives," and "Four Mothers." The movie was remade as "Young at Heart." Five Academy Award nominations including Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor.
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Four Mothers 1941 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, May Robson, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran
This sequel to "Four Daughters" and "Four Wives" continues the Lemp family saga as the four sisters are now married and anxious to start their own families.
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Four Wives 1939 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield, Frank McHugh, Eddie Albert, May Robson, Dick Foran, Henry O'Neill, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane
This sequel to "Four Daughters" again features the Lemp sisters–now married and raising their own families.
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The Golden Arrow 1936 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds, Henry O'Neill, Eddie Acuff, E.E. Clive
Daisy Appleby (Bette Davis) is a wealthy heiress who finds the solution to her problem of being plagued by fortune hunters–she wants a "marriage of convenience" with newspaperman Johnny Jones (George Brent).
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The House of the Seven Gables 1940 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe May
Cast: Margaret Lindsay, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Dick Foran, Nan Grey, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier, Gilbert Emery, Miles Mander, Harry Woods
A jealous man, Jeffrey Pyncheon (George Sanders), sends Clifford Pyncheon to prison as a murderer. Although wrongly convicted, all ends well when Jeffrey falls victim to the family curse. A good retelling of the Hawthorne classic.
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 In the Navy 1941 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Abbott and Costello in the Navy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, Claire Dodd, The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Shemp Howard, William B. Davidson, Thurston Hall, Robert Emmett Keane
A radio entertainer, Tommy Halstead (Dick Powell), joins the Navy to get away from inquiring reporters. Aboard his battleship, he runs into Pomeroy Watson (Lou Costello) and Smokey Adams (Bud Abbott) who help him stay hidden from a prying newswoman, Dorothy Roberts (Claire Dodd).
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 Keep 'Em Flying 1941 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce, Dick Foran, William Gargan, Truman Bradley, Doris Lloyd, William B. Davidson, James Seay
Adjusting to Air Corps training is not always easy, but it is even more difficult for Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran) who is saddled with Blackie Benson (Bud Abbott) and Heathcliff (Lou Costello) as his helpers. Martha Raye shines in her roles of twin sisters Gloria and Barbara Phelps.
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The Mummy's Hand 1940 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Ciannelli, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Trowbridge, Tom Tyler, Sig Arno, Leon Belasco, Harry Stubbs, Michael Mark, Eddie Foster, Mara Tartar, Frank Lackteen
Unemployed archeologists Steve (Dick Foran) and Babe (Wallace Ford) receive funding from a magician, The Great Solvani (Cecil Kellaway), and his daughter Marta (Peggy Moran). Steve and Babe join forces in Egypt and find themselves living with the Mummy (Tom Tyler) and threatened by a high priest (George Zucco) in this good comedic horror film. Humor helps relieve the tension.
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The Mummy's Tomb 1942 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Elyse Knox, John Hubbard, Turhan Bey, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Mary Gordon, Virginia Brissac, Cliff Clark, Paul E. Burns, Frank Reicher, Emmett Vogan, Harry Cording, Rex Lease
In this sequel to "The Mummy's Hand," Lon Chaney Jr. makes his debut in the role of Kharis, the Mummy. Although it was assumed in the earlier film that archaeologist Steve Banning (Dick Foran) had killed the Mummy, he was only injured. Now, the Mummy is hiding in a Mapleton, Massachusetts, graveyard waiting for the first full moon in order to seek revenge against those who had desecrated Princess Ananka's tomb 30 years ago.
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My Little Chickadee 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton, Si Jenks, Fuzzy Knight, Anne Nagel, Ruth Donnelly, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Lloyd Ingraham, Jackie Searl, Lane Chandler, Al Bridge
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) is kidnapped by the Masked Bandit/Jeff Badger (Joseph Calleia) during a stagecoach robbery. Later, when Belle returns to town, she is suspected of having sexual relations with the Masked Bandit and is run out of town. On the train, she meets Cuthbert J. Twille (W.C. Fields) and fakes a marriage to him. Now, they return to town as a "respectable" couple, and the fun begins. Just watching the cavorting of W.C. Fields and Mae West in the same film makes this movie worthwhile.
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The Perfect Speciman 1937 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, Dick Foran, May Robson, Beverly Roberts, Allen Jenkins, Dennie Moore, Hugh O'Connell
A wealthy woman (May Robson) shelters her grandson (Errol Flynn) from the outside world until a beautiful woman (Joan Blondell) enters the picture, and the grandmother loses control.
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The Petrified Forest 1936 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Joe Sawyer, Porter Hall, Charley Grapewin, Paul Harvey, Eddie Acuff, Adrian Morris, Constance Bergen, Arthur Aylesworth
Humphrey Bogart leads a gang that invades an Arizona cafe where they run into Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) who wants them to kill him so the cafe's waitress, Gabrielle (Bette Davis), can journey to France on the insurance money.
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Please Murder Me 1956 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Raymond Burr, Angela Lansbury, Dick Foran, Lamont Johnson, John Dehner, Robert Griffin, Denver Pyle, Alex Sharp, Russell Thorson, Lee Miller, Madge Blake
Attorney Craig Carlson (Raymond Burr) defends Myra (Angela Lansbury)–the widow of his best friend–after she has been accused of her husband's murder. He "proves" her innocence and falls in love with her only to learn that, indeed, she really did murder her husband.
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Private Buckaroo 1942 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis, Jennifer Holt, Shemp Howard, Ernest Truex, Harry James, Mary Wickes, Donald O'Connor, Richard Davies, Peggy Ryan, Huntz Hall
During basic training, Army recruits visit the USO where they are entertained by the Andrews Sisters and bandleader Harry James.
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Rangers of Fortune 1940 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison, Dick Foran, Joseph Schildkraut, Bernard Nedell, Minor Watson, Frank Puglia, Matt McHugh
Gil (Fred MacMurray) and his pals (Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland) arrive in a small town run by a land baron who intends to take over ranchers' land. The trio take care of the situation in this good Western.
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 Ride 'Em Cowboy 1942 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Ella Fitzgerald, Samuel S. Hinds, Judd McMichael, Ted McMichael, Joe McMichael, Douglass Dumbrille
Duke (Bud Abbott) and Willoughby (Lou Costello) leave New York to become cowboys on a dude ranch out west. The story is funny, and Ella Fitzgerald is not to be missed as she sings "A Tisket, A Tasket."
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Riders of Death Valley 1941 N/R, 280 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Cast: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Lon Chaney Jr., Noah Beery Jr., Jean Brooks, Monte Blue, Glenn Strange, Roy Barcroft, Jack Rockwell
This 15-episode serial was one of the higher-budgeted Westerns of its day, with several well-known actors of that era. A vigilante group led by Jim Benton (Dick Foran) is formed to protect miners from scheming men who want to grab their land. One long chase, it seems, with plenty of cliffhangers.
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The Sisters 1938 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi, Alan Hale, Henry Travers, Jane Bryan, Dick Foran
Three sisters, Louise (Bette Davis), Helen (Anita Louise), and Grace (Jane Bryan), find love and marriage in this drama set during the turn of the 20th century in San Francisco.
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Stand Up and Cheer! 1934  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
Cast: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, Sylvia Froos, Shirley Temple, Ralph Morgan, John Boles, Nigel Bruce, Stepin Fetchit, Dick Foran
To help bring the country out of the Great Depression, a new Cabinet post–Secretary of Amusements–is designed. It has little impact until young Shirley Dugan (Shirley Temple) shows up. Temple sings "Baby Take a Bow."
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Studs Lonigan 1960 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Carolyn Craig, Jack Nicholson, Dick Foran, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Westcott, Jack Kruschen, George Keymas
This film is based on James T. Farrell's trilogy about Studs Lonigan growing up in the 1920s on the South side of Chicago.
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Unfinished Business 1941 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gregory LaCava
Cast: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Esther Dale, Walter Catlett, Samuel S. Hinds
Nancy Andrews (Irene Dunne) leaves her small town and heads for adventure in NYC, meets and falls in love with Steve (Preston Foster) on the train, is rejected by Steve (Preston Foster), and marries Steve's brother Tommy (Robert Montgomery). Got it? Good–but the film isn't too good.
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Winners of the West 1940 N/R, 250 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Cast: Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, James Craig, Tom Fadden, Harry Woods, Charles Stevens, Trevor Bardette, Edward Keane, Edgar Edwards, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, Roy Barcroft
In this 13-episode serial, railroad executive Jeff Ramsay (Dick Foran) attempts to run the rail line through Hell Gate's Pass. But there are bad guys who intend to block those efforts–including the use of Indians to raid workers' camps.
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| 1. Accent on Youth (1935)
2. The Atomic Submarine (1959)
3. The Big Night (1960)
4. Black Legion (1937)
5. Boy Meets Girl (1938)
6. California Mail (1936)
7. Change of Heart (1934)
8. The Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
9. Dangerous (1935)
10. Donovan's Reef (1963)
11. Earthworm Tractors (1936)
aka: Natural Born Salesman
12. Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
13. The Fighting 69th (1940)
14. Fort Apache (1948)
15. Four Daughters (1938)
16. Four Mothers (1941)
17. Four Wives (1939)
18. The Golden Arrow (1936)
19. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
20. In the Navy (1941)
aka: Abbott and Costello in the Navy
21. Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
22. The Mummy's Hand (1940)
23. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
24. My Little Chickadee (1940)
25. The Perfect Speciman (1937)
26. The Petrified Forest (1936)
27. Please Murder Me (1956)
28. Private Buckaroo (1942)
29. Rangers of Fortune (1940)
30. Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
31. Riders of Death Valley (1941)
32. The Sisters (1938)
33. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
34. Studs Lonigan (1960)
35. Unfinished Business (1941)
36. Winners of the West (1940)
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