Blondie's Holiday 1947  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Abby Berlin
Cast: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Kent, Jerome Cowan, Grant Mitchell, Sid Tomack, Jeff York, Jack Rice, Eddie Acuff
Problems, along with comedy, greet the Bumstead family when Dagwood ends up in jail after he tries to get extra money gambling on the ponies.
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates 1956  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Western / Comedy / Drama
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Kenneth Tobey, Clem Bevans, Irvin Ashkenazy, Frank Richards, Walter Catlett, Douglass Dumbrille, Paul Newlan, Mort Mills, Troy Melton, Hank Worden, Dick Crockett, William Fawcett
This film splices together TV episodes of the story of Davy Crockett (Fess Parker) and his sidekick George Russell (Buddy Ebsen) when they encounter keel-boater Mike Fink (Jeff York). Mike challenges Davy and George to a river race to New Orleans, during which they deal not only with the dangerous rapids but with the River Pirates as well. Following the race, Davy and Mike join forces to try to prevent an Indian war. Enjoy the ride!
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Fear in the Night 1947  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maxwell Shane
Cast: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott, Charles Victor, Robert Emmett Keane, Jeff York, Janet Warren, John Harmon, Gladys Blake
Vince (DeForest Kelley) awakes from a nightmare in which he killed a burglar in a mirrored room–or was it real? He has bruises, a button from the man's coat, and a key he had taken from the house. His police detective friend, Cliff (Paul Kelly), doesn't believe it to be real until they take shelter in a deserted mansion with a mirrored room. It's time to find out what happened. Remade by Director Maxwill Shane in 1956 as "Nightmare."
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The Great Locomotive Chase 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Andrews' Raiders
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Eddie Firestone, Kenneth Tobey, Don Megowan, Harry Carey Jr., Slim Pickens, Morgan Woodward
Union soldiers steal a train as they attempt to destroy Confederate supply lines, and a Confederate train conductor is in hot pursuit. A retelling of Buster Keaton's "The General."
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The Lady Says No 1952  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Ross
Cast: Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan, Frances Bavier, Peggy Maley, Henry Jones, Jeff York, George Davis, Robert Williams
When magazine photographer Bill Shelby (David Niven) arrives in town to work on a story about best-selling author Dorinda (Joan Caulfield), he is amazed that this beautiful woman wrote a book trashing men. Determined to change her opinion on men, Bill pursues her, and complications are inevitable.
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Li'l Abner 1940  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Jeff York, Martha O'Driscoll, Mona Ray, Johnnie Morris, Buster Keaton, Billie Seward, Kay Sutton, Maude Eburne, Edgar Kennedy, Charles A. Post, Bud Jamison, Dick Elliott, Johnny Arthur, Walter Catlett, Lucien Littlefield
In this film version of Al Capp's comic strip, Jeff York takes on the role of that elusive bachelor Li'l Abner on whom Daisy Mae (Martha O'Driscoll) has set her eyes and determines to wed. When Li'l Abner is told he has just 24 hours to live, he kisses Daisy Mae–an act that is the same as proposing in Dog Patch. Too late, Abner learns that the medical prognosis is wrong. Now, what is he to do? As if that were not bad enough, Li'l Abner is trapped in the woods and saved by Wendy Wilecat (Kay Sutton) who performs her service on the promise that Li'l Abner will marry her. Now, how will Li'l Abner get out of his predicament of being engaged to two women?
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 Old Yeller 1957  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Chuck Connors, Jeff York, Beverly Washburn
This "boy and his dog" story is a heart-warming tale about a mid-1800s Texas farm family. A large, yellow mongrel hound and the farm boy become friends, and the dog, in turn, protects the family. Disney started a boy-dog trend with this one. Sequel: "Savage Sam."
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The Paleface 1948 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Charles Trowbridge, Jeff York, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson, Jackie Searl, Joseph Vitale, Clem Bevans, Stanley Andrews, Wade Crosby, Chief Yowlachie, Iron Eyes Cody, John Maxwell
The song "Buttons and Bows" won the Academy Award for Best Song in this very entertaining comedy about the romance and marriage of Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) and frontier dentist "Painless" Peter Potter (Bob Hope) who she meets while investigating the selling of rifles to Indians.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed, Jeff York, Morris Ankrum, Wally Cassell, Byron Foulger, Dick Crockett, Betty Blythe, Joel Friedkin
Cora (Lana Turner) falls for drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) who her husband Nick (Cecil Kellaway) has hired to work as a handyman at his gas station/diner. If Frank and Cora are to live "happily ever after," they need money. Their solution: murder Nick and collect on his insurance. They try to kill Nick. But, they fail, and now District Attorney Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames) is determined to get to the bottom of what really went on the night Nick was "accidentally"–but not fatally– electrocuted in his bathtub.
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Savage Sam 1963 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin, Jeff York, Marta Kristen, Rafael Campos, Slim Pickens, Royal Dano, Rodolfo Acosta
Three children are kidnapped by Apaches, but the family dog, Savage Sam, comes to the rescue in this Disney sequel to "Old Yeller."
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Special Agent 1949 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William C. Thomas
Cast: William Eythe, George Reeves, Kasey Rogers, Paul Valentine, Tom Powers, Carole Mathews, Frank Puglia, Jeff York, Virginia Christine, Walter Baldwin, Robert Williams, Raymond Bond
With help from the daughter (Kasey Rogers) of the engineer killed during a train robbery, special agent Johnny Douglas (William Eythe) investigates the murder and theft of $100,000 in railroad receipts.
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Tammy and the Millionaire 1967 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leslie Goodwins, Sidney Miller, Ezra Stone
Cast: Debbie Watson, Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle, George Furth, Dorothy Green, Donald Woods, Linda Marshall, David Macklin, Jay Sheffield, Jeff York, Roy Roberts, Teddy Quinn
Now it is Debbie Watson's turn to play sweet Tammy. This time around, Tammy has her hands full with a mother (Dorothy Green) scheming to lure Tammy's boss in her daughter's (Linda Mashall) direction. The film is derived from several TV episodes.
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Terry and the Pirates 1940 N/R, 270 min.
Genre: Action
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: William Tracy, Jeff York, Joyce Bryant, Dick Curtis, Allen Jung, Victor DeCamp, Sheila Darcy, J. Paul Jones, Jack Ingram, Charles King, Constantine Romanoff, Forrest Taylor
Based in Milton Caniff's comic strip, this 15-episode adventure follows young Terry (William Tracy) and his friends as they head off to rescue his archeologist father (J. Paul Jones) who has been kidnapped by Asian warlord Fang (Dick Curtis).
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They Were Expendable 1945 N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Cameron Mitchell, Donald Curtis, Arthur Walsh, Jeff York, Jack Pennick, Murray Alper, Harry Tenbrook
This is a good war film about American PT Boat crews battling the Japanese in the Pacific. Lt. John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) commands a Torpedo Boat Squadron in Manila Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea, at the beginning of World War II. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, and many U.S. ships are out of commission. The assignment of Brickley's PT Boats is to run messages, but they do manage to shoot down three Japanese planes. Fed up with message-running assignments, Brickley's executive officer Lt. Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) asks for a transfer to destroyer duties. This story does not glorify war; instead, it tells it like it is–warts and all. Vintage John Ford.
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Westward Ho, the Wagons! 1956 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Family
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery, Sebastian Cabot, George Reeves, Iron Eyes Cody, Juliette Compton, Mouseketeers
In this Disney Western, a wagon train rolling along the Oregon Trail is attacked by savage Sioux Indians. Our mouseketeer friends (Doreen Tracy, Chubby O'Brien, Tommy Cole, and Karen Pendleton) are on the trip as the Stevens and Thompson kids, but can't help this film much.
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| 1. Blondie's Holiday (1947)
2. Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
3. Fear in the Night (1947)
4. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
aka: Andrews' Raiders
5. Johnny Tremain (1957)
6. The Lady Says No (1952)
7. Li'l Abner (1940)
8. Old Yeller (1957)
9. The Paleface (1948)
10. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
11. Savage Sam (1963)
12. Special Agent (1949)
13. Tammy and the Millionaire (1967)
14. Terry and the Pirates (1940)
15. They Were Expendable (1945)
16. Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)
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