American Empire 1942  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
aka: My Son Alone
Director: William C. McGann
Cast: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Robert Barrat, Jack La Rue, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Cliff Edwards, Merrill Rodin, Chris-Pin Martin, Richard Webb, William Farnum
After the Civil War, pals Dan and Paxton (Richard Dix and Preston Foster) head West to Texas and start a cattle business, which thrives. But when Dominique (Leo Carrillo) steals cattle, he also talks Paxton into being his partner. Now Dan, with the help of his sister Abby (Frances Gifford), must fend for himself until Paxton sees the folly of his decision. Good Western fare.
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Barnacle Bill 1941  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Weidler, Donald Meek, Barton MacLane, Irving Bacon, Connie Gilchrist, Sara Haden, William Edmunds, Don Terry, Alec Craig, Milton Kibbee, James Millican, William Forrest
Wallace Beery plays old salt Bill Johansen who is being pursued by Marge Cavendish (Marjorie Main) who would like to marry him. When not trying to escape the clutches of Marge, Bill must deal with 12-year-old Virginia (Virginia Weidler)–the young girl he has just learned is his daughter. Marge loans Bill money to purchase his dream schooner that is on the auction block, and the adventures begin. But, after more than a few complications, Bill returns home to a smiling Virginia and marries Marge.
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Blockade 1938  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Peter Godfrey, Katherine DeMille, William B. Davidson
The Spanish Civil War becomes all too real in this film about espionage agents.
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Captain Caution 1940  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Robert Barrat, Vivienne Osborne, Miles Mander, Roscoe Ates, Alan Ladd
Set during the War of 1812, patriot Dan Marvin (Victor Mature) fights the British as he heads up a crew on a sailing ship. Alan Ladd has a bit part in this film as one of the sailors.
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City Streets 1938 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo, Tommy Bond, Mary Gordon, Helen Jerome Eddy, Arthur Loft, Joe King, Frank Reicher, Frank Sheridan
A grocer (Leo Carrillo) sells his store so that a crippled orphan, Winnie Brady (Edith Fellows), can get the money for a needed operation.
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Crime, Inc. 1945 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell, Harry Shannon, Danny Morton, Virginia Vale, Don Beddoe, George Meeker
Crime reporter Jim Riley (Tom Neal) takes on a gang of racketeers, and the case against them is made more difficult when the jury foreman (Leo Carrillo) is the gang leader.
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Fisherman's Wharf 1939 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Henry Armetta, Lee Patrick, Rosina Galli, Tommy Bupp, George Humbert, Leon Belasco, Pua Lani, Leonard Kibrick
In this musical/drama, Tony (Bobby Breen) runs away from home after his adoptive father, Carlo (Leo Carrillo), welcomes his sister-in-law (Lee Patrick) and her son into their home. Musical numbers accompany the search for Tony.
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Four Frightened People 1934 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan, Leo Carrillo, Tetsu Komai, Nella Walker, Chris-Pin Martin, Ethel Griffies, Joe De La Cruz
Abandoning ship because of an outbreak of the bubonic plague, survivors row ashore in lifeboats and then must pass the test of survival on a jungle island.
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 The Fugitive 1947 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen, Fortunio Bonanova, Mel Ferrer, Chris-Pin Martin, Miguel Inclan, Fernando Fernandez, Mel Ferrer, Jack Pennick
From Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" comes this film adaptation of the story of a fugitive priest (Henry Fonda) who is on the run from Mexican authorities. He has baptized a baby in spite of a Mexican dictatorship that has made religious worship illegal. The Fugitive runs into a friend, James Calvert (Ward Bond), and an enemy who is a police enformer (J. Carrol Naish) during his fateful escape attempt. Very good–what else would you expect from John Ford?
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The Gay Amigo 1949 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Wallace Fox
Cast: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Armida, Joe Sawyer, Walter Baldwin, Fred Kohler Jr., Kenneth MacDonald, George DeNormand, Clayton Moore, Sam Flint, Fred Crane, Bud Osborne
A U.S. Army patrol mistakes Cisco (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carillo) for members of a gang of bandits. The Captain (Kenneth MacDonald) lets them go, believing that they will lead the Army to the rest of the gang. Pancho and Cisco have their own plans: they pose as crooks and catch the real bandits.
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The Gay Desperado 1936 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber, James Blakeley, Stanley Fields, Mischa Auer, Adrian Rosley, Paul Hurst, Frank Puglia
Music-loving bandit Pablo Braganza (Leo Carrillo) kidnaps not only singing cowboy Chivo (Nino Martini) but an heiress (Ida Lupino) and her boyfriend (James Blakeley) as well. Pablo hopes to learn more about movie gangsters from Chivo and to extract a large ransom for the heiress.
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Ghost Catchers 1944 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Martha O'Driscoll, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney Jr., Kirby Grant, Walter Catlett, Henry Armetta, Frank Mitchell
A good and Johnson comedy as they help a Southern colonel and his daughters rid their home of ghosts.
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Lillian Russell 1940 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William, Leo Carrillo, Nigel Bruce, Helen Westley, Dorothy Peterson, Ernest Truex
Alice Faye portrays 1890s' Broadway star Lillian Russell and sings such classics as "After the Ball" and "The Band Played On" in this musical presentation.
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Manhattan Melodrama 1934 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Mickey Rooney, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Frank Conroy, Isabel Jewell, Herman Bing
This is the film that John Dillinger watched, at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, moments before police shot him to death and ended his life of crime. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Story; the plot is about gangster Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) and honest politician Jim Wade (William Powell) who, although childhood friends, ended up leading directly opposed lives.
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round 1937 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Reisner
Cast: Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, James Gleason, Luis Alberni, Smiley Burnette, Selmer Jackson, Moroni Olsen, Max Terhune, Gene Autry, Cab Calloway
There are plenty of songs and performers in this musical comedy. The storyline involves bad guys taking over a record company and forcing performers to do their thing, but problems ensue.
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One Night in the Tropics 1940 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings, Mary Boland, William Frawley, Peggy Moran, Leo Carrillo, Don Alvarado, Eddie Acuff
This is Bud Abbott's and Lou Costello's movie debut. The story is about a romantic trio (Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, and Robert Cummings), but the real stars shine on Abbott and Costello.
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Parachute Jumper 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Leo Carrillo, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Sheila Terry, Harold Huber, Thomas E. Jackson, G. Pat Collins, Walter Brennan
Two ex-Marine aviators (Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Frank McHugh) turn to smuggling drugs and alcohol until Alabama (Bette Davis) turns their lives around.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1943 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Romance / Musical
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Hume Cronyn, J. Edward Bromberg, Fritz Feld, Frank Puglia, Steven Geray, Jane Farrar, Barbara Everest, Fritz Leiber, Gladys Blake, Nicki Andre
This remake of the 1925 movie is the first talkie version of this story. Claude Rains does a good job as the masked Phantom who comes up from the sewers under the Paris Opera House to coach singer Christine (Susanna Foster). He terrorizes the singers and even drugs and strangles the lead singer (Jane Farrar) to ensure that Christine will be given the lead. When Christine fails to appear on the stage, the Phantom causes a giant chandelier to crash on the audience. Now, the Phantom kidnaps Christine who does manage to remove his mask. More terror ensues during the dark chase beneath the opera house to rescue Christine.
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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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Society Lawyer 1939 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Bruce, Lee Bowman, Edward Brophy, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Strang, Frances Mercer, Clarence Kolb, Pierre Watkin, Ian Wolfe, Paul Guilfoyle
This is a remake of "Penthouse," Arthur Somers Roche's story about a lawyer's involvement with underworld characters.
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Too Hot to Handle 1938  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Weidler, Henry Kolker, Marjorie Main, Robert Emmett Keane, Gregory Gaye
Everything goes wrong when newsreel photographer Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) fakes an event–and he is caught by a rival. Love saves the day–with pilot Alma Harding (Myrna Loy)–when all is said and done. 1 User Review
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| 1. American Empire (1942)
aka: My Son Alone
2. Barnacle Bill (1941)
3. Blockade (1938)
4. Captain Caution (1940)
5. City Streets (1938)
6. Crime, Inc. (1945)
7. Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
8. Four Frightened People (1934)
9. The Fugitive (1947)
10. The Gay Amigo (1949)
11. The Gay Desperado (1936)
12. Ghost Catchers (1944)
13. Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
14. Lillian Russell (1940)
15. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
16. Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
17. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
18. Parachute Jumper (1933)
19. The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
20. Riders of Death Valley (1941)
21. Rio (1939)
22. Society Lawyer (1939)
23. Too Hot to Handle (1938)
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