James Cardwell
Actor · 1920 – 1954 · Camden, New Jersey, USA
Movies24
Movie6.7ThrillerCrimeRoy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
He Walked by Night
1949 · 109 votes
Movie7.1ComedyRomanceA New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947 · 87 votes
Movie6.7WesternIn 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Canyon Passage
1946 · 70 votes
Movie5.9WarIt's 1943 and the allied landings in and around the town of Salerno,Italy are underway.A platoon from the U.S 36th Infantry Division is tasked with advancing 6 miles inland to blow a bridge before clearing a nearby farmhouse, with the hope of blocking an expected counter attack on the Division's bridgehead.
A Walk in the Sun
1945 · 64 votes
Movie6.1DramaThrillerAn American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Tokyo Joe
1949 · 45 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerA dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Voice of the Whistler
1945 · 16 votes
Movie6.0CrimeMysteryWhen a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
The Return of the Whistler
1948 · 17 votes
Movie4.6CrimeDramaB-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
Fear
1946 · 17 votes
Movie7.0WesternWhen the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AdventureDramaA tale of feuding and revenge among whalers in Alaska in the late 19th century.
Harpoon
1948 · 1 votes
Movie4.6DramaA teenager is involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
The Devil On Wheels
1947 · 8 votes
Movie6.5ActionAdventureTerry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam company determined to buy him out at their low price. In addition, one of his primary employees is working against him. One of his airplanes is transporting a cargo of gold and the pilot arranges for the gold to be stolen. He planned to parachute to safety, letting the airplane be looted when it crashed, but a co-worker cuts his parachute cord and he is killed. O'Rourke, with the air of one of his best pilots, Kay Cameron, sets out to track down the culprits.
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948 · 2 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaDave Fowler is an honest and sincere American football player. Dave goes up against professional match gambler Bernie Dupal and Mike Burns, the corrupt sports magazine publisher. One day, Dave is found murdered and Jerry Muller, Burns' lawyer and son-in-law, sets out to find the killer.
King of the Gamblers
1948 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ActionWesternA singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.
The Arizona Cowboy
1950 · 1 votes
Movie6.0MysteryThrillerSomeone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
The Shanghai Cobra
1945 · 21 votes
Movie5.7MusicRomanceAfter their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother play the trombone. Shenanigans ensue following Goodman's offering the brother a job with the band.
Sweet and Low-Down
1944 · 7 votes
Movie8.3WesternIn Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) before the latter can report his findings to the government. Rogers manages to straighten out the situation by appealing to the sensibilities of the aunt (Elizabeth Risdon) of McKenzie's hotheaded hired assassin (Byron Barr). The film also bears several musical numbers from Roy, Dale Evans, and Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage.
Down Dakota Way
1949 · 3 votes
Movie5.0AdventureAn airplane carrying a pair of police officers escorting gangsters to prison crash-lands in the African jungle. They are rescued from an attack by savage natives by a white woman who appears out of nowhere, and it turns out she is a lost heiress who herself crash-landed in the jungle years before.
Daughter of the Jungle
1949 · 5 votes
Movie5.5MysteryScience FictionFalsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
Behind the Mask
1946 · 8 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistoryThe lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
The Fighting Sullivans
1944 · 25 votes
Movie5.2CrimeDramaA federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
Parole, Inc.
1948 · 12 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerA suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
Trouble Preferred
1948 · 3 votes
Movie4.8Science FictionCrimeWhile investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
The Missing Lady
1946 · 12 votes
Movie7.0WesternJust after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a pay wagon massacre by the Commissioner's men, he deserts the Army and tries to clear himself. At first he belives the Texan was behind the massacre but then learns it was the Commissioner and joins the Texan in his fight.
San Antone Ambush
1949 · 2 votes