Michael Duane
Actor · 1914 – 1963 · Dunkirk, New York, USA
Movies17
Movie5.3ComedyLupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Redhead from Manhattan
1943 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyCrimeMystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
Dangerous Blondes
1943 · 7 votes
Movie6.4ActionAdventureAfter fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard I of England, Sir Allan Claire returns home to marry his betrothed Lady Christable. Accompanied by his sister Lady Marian, the two are intercepted by Robin Hood and his band of Merrie Men. Recognizing a friend of King Richard, Robin informs them that Lady Christabel is to be wed to another against her will in the interest of politics and her father's fortune. The three team up to rescue the fair lady.
The Prince of Thieves
1948 · 5 votes
Movie10.0MusicDramaThis is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
Is Everybody Happy?
1943 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaAn Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
Personality Kid
1946 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ActionDramaLarry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
The Gallant Blade
1948 · 4 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
Movie7.3CrimeMysteryFred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
Shadowed
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.1MysteryCrimeA San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
The Devil's Mask
1946 · 6 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
The Secret of the Whistler
1946 · 18 votes
Movie10.0DramaMichael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
Keeper of the Bees
1947 · 1 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaA young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
City Without Men
1943 · 3 votes
Movie10.0A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.
Glamour Girl
1948 · 1 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaGeoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946 · 6 votes
Movie7.3AdventureYoung lovers brings two fighting clans together.
The Swordsman
1948 · 3 votes
Movie7.5ActionAdventureThis one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar. $50,000, in gold, is stolen from the ship's safe and the captain tells the police that the purser was the thief and that he had to kill him in self defense, but the purser must have hidden the money before he got dead. The purser isn't in any position to make a disclaimer. Everybody buys that with the exception of an insurance detective, Shapley, who, along with the audience, suspects the captain of being the thief shows up to investigate further. Written By Les Adams
The Woman from Tangier
1948 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaCrimeIn this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943 · 5 votes