Byron Barr

Movies17

• Movie8.1

  CrimeThriller

  An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

  Double Indemnity

  1944 · 2.1K votes

• Movie6.6

  ThrillerDrama

  Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

  The File on Thelma Jordon

  1949 · 68 votes

• Movie6.9

  DramaCrime

  An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

  Pitfall

  1948 · 90 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaMystery

  When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."

  Love Letters

  1945 · 25 votes

• Movie5.7

  CrimeDrama

  Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

  Appointment with Danger

  1950 · 33 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyDrama

  Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

  The Affairs of Susan

  1945 · 10 votes

• Movie10.0

  FantasyComedy

  A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.

  The Main Street Kid

  1948 · 1 votes

• Movie5.7

  ComedyWar

  Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.

  The Tanks Are Coming

  1941 · 10 votes

• Movie5.5

  CrimeDrama

  A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

  Big Town

  1946 · 6 votes

• Movie7.0

  WarAdventure

  Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.

  Tokyo Rose

  1946 · 2 votes

• Movie7.2

  CrimeAction

  Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.

  Tarnished

  1950 · 3 votes

• Movie8.3

  Western

  In 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

• Movie6.5

  DramaAdventure

  A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.

  Seven Were Saved

  1947 · 10 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.

  Practically Yours

  1944 · 1 votes

• Movie5.7

  CrimeDrama

  A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

  They Made Me a Killer

  1946 · 12 votes

• Movie7.2

  Western

  Under the leadership of a cutthroat named Grif, a band of outlaws has systematically been robbing and murdering settlers bound for the large Chandler ranch which has been cut up into small parcels of land for purchase.

  Covered Wagon Raid

  1950 · 3 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyMystery

  A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.

  Follow That Woman

  1945 · 2 votes