$1000 a Touchdown 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley, Joyce Mathews, Syd Saylor, George McKay, Tom Dugan, Matt McHugh, Edward Gargan, Jimmy Conlan, William Haade, Dewey Robinson, Charles Middleton
Two popular comedians of the time, Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, play a struggling showbiz couple who takes off to run a poor school that she inherits. In order to get money to help the school, it is decided to build up the school's football team. Funny at times.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops 1955  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Roscoe Ates, Mack Sennett, Frank Wilcox, Henry Kulky, Harry Goodwin, Hank Mann, Heinie Conklin, William Haade, Donald Kerr, Jack Stoney
Harry Pierce (Bud Abbott) and Willie Piper (Lou Costello) are sold a bill of goods by con man Joseph Gorman (Fred Clark) and end up losing their savings. Now, they follow Gorman to Hollywood and perform as stuntman for his studio. Harry and Willy get help from the Keystone Kops when Gorman steals the studio payroll, and they chase Gorman to the airport. The laughs really begin when the Keystone Kops come to their rescue.
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Big Town 1947 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
aka: Underworld After Dark
Director: William C. Thomas
Cast: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent, Charles Arnt, Joseph Allen, William Haade, Arthur Space, Richard Keene, Sumner Getchell, Benny Bartlett, Marin Sais
When Susan (Ann Gillis), the niece of newspaper publisher Amos Peabody (Charles Arnt), gets in over her head gambling, her uncle is blackmailed by gambling racketeers led by Chuck LaRue (Richard Travis). Crusading newspaper editor-in-chief Steve Wilson (Philip Reed) and police reporter Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) jump on the trail of the mobsters involved.
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The Blue Gardenia 1953  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, Richard Erdman, George Reeves, Ruth Storey, Ray Walker, Nat King Cole, Gail Bonney, Frank Ferguson, Mike Donovan, Jess Kirkpatrick, William Haade
After finding out that her soldier/boyfriend has found a new girlfriend, Norah (Anne Baxter) goes out with Harry (Raymond Burr). The blind date doesn't go well for Norah. Returning to Harry's place after having too much to drink, he makes a pass at her, and she takes a poker to him. Later, after Harry is found dead, Norah assumes she did it while drunk, and now a reporter (Richard Conte) is on her trail. OK film noir.
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Come Back, Little Sheba 1952  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel, Philip Ober, Lisa Golm, Walter Kelley, Edwin Max, William Haade, Virginia Mullen
Slovenly housewife Lola (Shirley Booth) copes with alcoholic husband Doc's (Burt Lancaster) crisis involving their boarder (Terry Moore). Shirley Booth won a Best Actress Oscar for her fine performance, and Terry Moore was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Dancing Masters 1943 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Robert Mitchum, Matt Briggs, Nestor Paiva, Arthur Space, Edward Earle, Allan Lane, William Haade, Emory Parnell, George Lloyd, Charley Rogers
While failing at operating their dancing school because they cannot afford the rent, Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) help a young inventor, Grant Lawrence (Robert Bailey), who needs backing for his flame throwing rifle invention. They plot to fake an accident so that Stan's accident-insurance policy can be used to collect the needed money. Everything goes wrong, and they end up stuck on a driverless bus while dealing with a gang of hoods.
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 Down to Earth 1947  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Marc Platt, Edward Everett Horton, Roland Culver, James Gleason, William Frawley, Jean Donahue, William Haade, Adele Jergens, George Macready, Kathleen O'Malley, James Burke, Eddie Acuff, Alan Bridge
Rita Hayworth plays the Greek Goddess Terpsichore who visits Earth in the human form of Kitty Pendleton when she learns that Broadway producer Danny Miller (Larry Parks) is putting on a musical satire about Greek goddesses. She comes to help with the show but ends up landing a role in the play. Now, she gets Danny to change the show from a satire into a "work of art." But, her ideas are not very good, and the show turns into a major flop, but our Greek goddess makes everything right. Remade as "Xanadu" in 1980.
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Fallen Angel 1945  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews, Charles Bickford, John Carradine, Bruce Cabot, Anne Revere, Percy Kilbride, Olin Howland, Hal Taliaferro, Harry Strang, J. Farrell MacDonald, Garry Owen, William Haade, Paul E. Burns
Dana Andrews plays the villain, Eric Stanton, hatching the devious plot to marry wealthy spinster June Mills (Alice Faye), take her money, and then divorce her. This will give him the money he needs to take up with diner waitress Stella (Linda Darnell) who will have nothing to do with Eric unless he has money. Plans go awry when, after Eric marries June, Stella is found murdered. Eric is the chief suspect in the murder case, and, with June by his side, he investigates to uncover the murderer whose identity will prove shocking.
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The Frozen Ghost 1945 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery / Horror
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille, Martin Kosleck, Elena Verdugo, Tala Birell, Arthur Hohl, Eddie Acuff, Leyland Hodgson, Charles Jordan, David Hoffman, William Haade, Dennis Moore, Pauline Drake
This movie was part of the "Inner Sanctum" series. The story is about a hypnotist, Gregor the Great (Lon Chaney Jr.) who, under the influence of two men, begins to fear the powers of his profession.
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Heart of the Rio Grande 1942 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Morgan
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Edith Fellows, Joseph Strauch Jr., Pierre Watkin, William Haade, Sarah Padden, Jean Porter, Edmund Cobb, Budd Buster, Jimmy Wakely
Singing cowboy Gene Autry teaches a few facts of life to a spoiled rich girl who finds ranch running isn't that simple.
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery 1938 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Stadium Murders
Director: David Howard
Cast: Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Jimmy Wallington, Barbara Pepper, Lucien Littlefield, Lynne Roberts, Charles Williams, James Spottswood, Reed Hadley, Smiley Burnette, Robert Homans, William Haade
D.A. Bill Devons (Neil Hamilton) is assigned the task of solving the mysterious murder of a boxer preparing for a championship fight–a murder that occurred in front of hundreds of boxing fans.
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In Old Cheyenne 1941 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Joan Woodbury, J. Farrell MacDonald, Sally Payne, Hal Taliaferro, Iron Eyes Cody, George Rosener, William Haade, Jack Kirk
Newspaper reporter Roy Rogers heads to Cheyenne to look into a story about a bad guy. But, it turns out that the man he's covering isn't the bad guy. Of course Roy exposes the real one.
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It Happened In Brooklyn 1947 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame, Marcy McGuire, Aubrey Mather, Tamara Shayne, William Roy, Bobby Long, William Haade, Lumsden Hare, Raymond Largay, William Tannen
Ex-GI Danny Miller (Frank Sinatra) returns to his Brooklyn neighborhood and moves in with his friend Nick Lombardi (Jimmy Durante) who is a high school janitor. Now, his friend from the Army, Jamie Shellgrove (Peter Lawford), arrives in town. Danny and Jamie decide to compose music together and help with a fundraiser for Nick's granddaughter Rae (Marcy McGuire) who wants to be a pianist. Soon both men are romantically attracted to Rae's music teacher Anne Fielding (Kathryn Grayson). Jamie ends up with Anne, but all is not lost when Danny falls for an Army nurse (Gloria Grahame) who he had met in the service.
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 Key Largo 1948 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Jay Silverheels, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, William Haade, John Litel, Pat Flaherty
Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) and his gang have taken over a run-down hotel on Key Largo, Florida. At the same time, Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) has come to visit the hotel owners Jay (Lionel Barrymore) and Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), who are the father and widow of his war buddy. Frank becomes their reluctant savior. Claire Trevor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rocco's alcoholic girlfriend Gaye Dawn. A great John Huston film of Post-World War II American attitudes.
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Kid Galahad 1937 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: The Battling Bellhop
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Harry Carey, Jane Bryan, William Haade, Soledad Jimenez, Joseph Crehan, Ben Welden, Joe Cunningham, Veda Ann Borg, Frank Faylen, Harland Tucker, Bob Evans
Boxing manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) decides to promote a young bellhop (Wayne Morris) as the next champion. While still training for his prize fight, the bellhop knocks out heavyweight Chuck McGraw (William Haade) after he insults Donati's girlfriend Louise "Fluff" Phillips (Bette Davis), and he is given the name "Kid Galahad." Later, he falls in love with Donati's young sister Marie (Jane Bryan). Their interest in each other angers Donati, and he arranges a fight that he is sure "Kid Galahad" will lose. But, will "Kid Galahad" come through and live up to his reputation as a winner? Remade in 1941 as "The Wagons Roll at Night" and in 1962 as "Kid Galahad."
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Man from Cheyenne 1942 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Lynne Carver, William Haade, James Seay, Gale Storm, Bob Nolan, Jack Ingram, Jack Kirk, Pat Brady, Bob Burns, Spade Cooley, Art Dillard, Ted Mapes
Marian Hardy (Lynne Carver) is a rustler and uses her sexy charms to get cattle information from the ranchers to pass on to her gang. Agent Roy Rogers is in Wyoming assigned to put an end to the rustling. The clues lead to the Hardy ranch, but when Roy tracks down the gang, a gunfight ensues at the ranch, and Roy must fight the gang.
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Man Hunt 1941 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stossel, Heather Thatcher, Frederick Worlock, Roger Imhof, Holmes Herbert, Olaf Hytten, William Haade, Kurt Kreuger, Frederick Vogeding, Lester Matthews
While in the Bavarian Alps, big-game hunter Thorndyke (Walter Pidgeon) has an opportunity to assassinate Hitler. He fails in the attempt and is captured by the Gestapo, beaten, and left for dead. With help from young Vaner (Roddy McDowell), Thorndyke stows away on a steamer where he sees a "Mr. Jones" (John Carradine) who has stolen Thornydyke's identity, including his passport. But "Mr. Jones" is only one problem he must deal with in the coming days. Remade in 1976 as "Rogue Male."
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My Pal Trigger 1946 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Musical
Director: Frank McDonald, Yakima Canutt
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Jack Holt, LeRoy Mason, Roy Barcroft, Sam Flint, Kenne Duncan, William Haade, Bob Nolan, Ralph Sanford, Harlan Briggs, Francis McDonald, Frank Reicher, Al Bridge
One of Roy Rogers' best, this is a light-hearted musical tale of how Roy obtained Trigger. Both Roy and a dastardly gambler want to breed their mares with a champion stallion. The bad guy shoots the stallion, but not before Roy's mare is pregnant with Trigger. Lots of fun, action, and songs.
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Oh! Susanna 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Romance
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Rod Cameron, Lorna Gray, Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills, William Ching, Jim Davis, Wally Cassell, Jimmy Lydon, Douglas Kennedy, William Haade, James Flavin, Al Bridge, John Compton, Marion Randolph, Charles Stevens
Cavalry officer Captain Calhoun's (Rod Cameron) charter to protect the Sioux Indians and their land from prospectors is made even more difficult due to his boss, cavalry unit leader Lieutenant Colonel Unger (Forrest Tucker), who is an Indian hater. When war breaks out, the Indians attack Unger's fort, and only Calhoun survives.
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Pittsburgh 1942 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Frank Craven, Louise Allbritton, Thomas Gomez, Shemp Howard, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Fix, William Haade, Nestor Paiva, Charles Coleman, Ben Taggart, Virginia Sale, Wade Boteler
Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham (John Wayne) is an ambitious man whose time spent with the coal business shows that he places work above family. He eventually loses his wife Josie (Marlene Dietrich) to John "Cash" Evans (Randolph Scott).
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Rawhide 1951 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
aka: Desperate Siege
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Jeff Corey, Kenneth Tobey, James Millican, Louis Jean Heydt, William Haade, Milton R. Corey Sr., Max Terhune, Dan White
A stagecoach, carrying Vinnie Holt (Susan Hayward) and her baby niece, arrives at the stagecoach stop, Rawhide. The station assistant manager Tom Owens (Tyrone Power) tells Vinnie about an outlaw gang nearby and advises her to stay until the following day. While Vinnie waits, Zimmerman (Hugh Marlowe) and his outlaw gang arrive at the station with plans to rob the incoming stagecoach. The gang kills stationmaster Sam Todd (Edgar Buchanan). Zimmerman assumes that Tom, Vinnie, and the baby are a family and holds them captive. Struggles ensue, and Tom tries to find the means for their escape. This is the Western remake of 1935's "Show Them No Mercy!"
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Robin Hood of the Pecos 1941 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Reynolds, Jay Novello, Roscoe Ates, Eddie Acuff, Wade Boteler, Sally Payne, Leigh Whipper, Robert Strange, William Haade, Cy Kendall, Bob Burns, Art Dillard, Ted Mapes
During the post-Civil War era, Texas is run by corrupt politicians from the North who are trying to drive ranchers out of the area. Vance Corbin (Roy Rogers) is elected Sheriff, but then Ambrose Ballard (Cy Kendall) declares martial law, and "Gabby" Hornaday (George "Gabby" Hayes) is sentenced to be executed for murder. Vance investigates, finds the real villain Stacy (Jay Novello) who confesses to the crime, and Gabby's life is saved.
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Shadows Over Shanghai 1938 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: James Dunn, Ralph Morgan, Lynda Grey, Robert Barrat, Paul Sutton, Edward Woods, Edwin Mordant, Chester Gan, Victor(2) Wong, Edward Keane, Billy Bevan, William Haade, Richard Loo, Victor Sen Yung
American newspaperman Johnny McGinty (James Dunn) falls in love with a Russian teacher, Irene (Lynda Grey), who works at a mission in Shanghai. After Irene's brother Peter (Edward Woods) gives her a valuable amulet that she must take from Shanghai to San Francisco and ensure that it does not get into the wrong hands, Johnny marries Irene hoping to aid in the effort to get the amulet out of the country. They board a ship for the voyage, but they are not alone; those who want the amulet are hot on its trail.
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Sing You Sinners 1938 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Ellen Drew, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Patterson, John Gallaudet, William Haade, Irving Bacon, Tom Dugan, Herbert Corthell, Paul White, Bill Dooley, Herbert Heywood, Joyce Mathews, Duke York
When gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) wheels and deals his way to ownership of a racehorse, the whole Beebe family joins in the act by following "their" horse from track to track. Joe's mother Daisy (Elizabeth Patterson) sells their home so that she can join him, brother David (Fred MacMurray) tries to bring Joe to his senses, and brother Mike (Donald O'Connor) serves as the jockey. Together, they fight off race-fixing gangsters and prepare for the Big Race.
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Song of Texas 1943 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, Sheila Ryan, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Arline Judge, William Haade, Hal Taliaferro, Pat Brady, Tom London, Bob Nolan, Eve March, Hank Bell, Maxine Doyle, Yakima Canutt, Harry McKim
Rodeo star Roy Rogers (played by himself) has quit the rodeo and become a rancher. His old friend Sam Bennett (Harry Shannon) is also no longer performing in rodeos, and Roy hires him as a ranch hand. Sam's daughter, Sue (Sheila Ryan), is living in the East and decides to visit her father. Sue believes that Sam owns the ranch, and big problems lie ahead when Roy helps Sam try to fool her by pretending that Sam does own the ranch. Songs include "Moonlight and Roses," "Mexicali Rose," and Rainbow Over the Range."
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Yellow Rose of Texas 1944 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Harry Shannon, George Cleveland, William Haade, Hal Taliaferro, Tom London, Bob Nolan, Weldon Heyburn, Dick Botiller, Janet Martin, Sons of the Pioneers, Fred Graham, Si Jenks
Roy Rogers is an undercover insurance agent working on Betty Weston's (Dale Evans) showboat. He is trying to find money stolen several years before, supposedly by Betty's father. Several popular songs are sung, including the title song.
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You're in the Army Now 1941 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Donald MacBride, Jane Wyman, Regis Toomey, Joe Sawyer, Clarence Kolb, Paul Harvey, George Meeker, Paul Stanton, William Haade, John Maxwell, Etta McDaniel, Kay Aldridge, Peggy Diggins
This comedy involves vacuum-cleaner salesmen Homer "Jeeper" Smith and Breezy Jones (Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers) who, through their own ineptness, enlist in the Army–and the fun and problems lie ahead.
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| 1. $1000 a Touchdown (1939)
2. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
3. Big Town (1947)
aka: Underworld After Dark
4. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
5. Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
6. The Dancing Masters (1943)
7. Down to Earth (1947)
8. Fallen Angel (1945)
9. The Frozen Ghost (1945)
10. Heart of the Rio Grande (1942)
11. Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)
aka: The Stadium Murders
12. In Old Cheyenne (1941)
13. It Happened In Brooklyn (1947)
14. Key Largo (1948)
15. Kid Galahad (1937)
aka: The Battling Bellhop
16. Man from Cheyenne (1942)
17. Man Hunt (1941)
18. My Pal Trigger (1946)
19. Oh! Susanna (1951)
20. Pirates on Horseback (1941)
21. Pittsburgh (1942)
22. Rawhide (1951)
aka: Desperate Siege
23. Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
24. Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
25. Sing You Sinners (1938)
26. Song of Texas (1943)
27. Yellow Rose of Texas (1944)
28. You're in the Army Now (1941)
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