Joseph Allen
Actor · 1918 – 1962 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Movies21
Movie6.2AdventureJungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
Cannibal Attack
1954 · 6 votes
Movie10.0ActionDramaAfter winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.
Motor Madness
1937 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyA washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
It Happened in Flatbush
1942 · 5 votes
Movie7.0Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses a photographic memory that amazes the rubes. The Champion, in the title, is a Great Dane who has won the title at the Rubeville State Fair, and it isn't long before the Champion turns up dead, which is because somebody---motive unknown at the moment---has killed the Champion. This is repeated at other shows along the way and Quade's bright young assistant, "Small Fry", fancies himself as an amateur detective, and starts nosing around into the mystery and drags Quade along with him.
Death of a Champion
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCrimeMarital comedy with a dash of murder.
The Night Before the Divorce
1942 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyLearning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
My Son, The Hero
1943 · 2 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaCora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
Lucky Night
1939 · 7 votes
Movie7.0WesternConstable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to locate a secret gold mine, The Leader pits the Indians against the Mounties, whom he blames for creating trouble.
Gunfighters of the Northwest
1954 · 1 votes
Movie5.5CrimeDramaA crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Big Town After Dark
1947 · 10 votes
Movie6.0ComedyWhen they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
All Women Have Secrets
1939 · 2 votes
Movie5.9CrimeMysteryA treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
Dangerous Money
1946 · 26 votes
Movie4.5ActionAdventureA girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1942 · 3 votes
Movie6.8CrimeA bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
Road to the Big House
1947 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaComedyLem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Our Leading Citizen
1939 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceJohn T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a return engagement with the fighter.
Right to the Heart
1942 · 1 votes
Movie6.2MysteryCrimeNero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
The League of Frightened Men
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.3CrimeDramaA crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Big Town Scandal
1948 · 7 votes
Movie5.5ActionAdventureBad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim.
Valley of Head Hunters
1953 · 4 votes
Movie8.0CrimeMysteryHenry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
The Mantrap
1943 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
The Desperate Women
1955 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyMusicThe Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
Mountain Rhythm
1943 · 1 votes