
Louise Currie
Oyuncu · 1913 – 2013 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
a B movie and serial actress of the 1940s. Born Louise Gunter in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, she attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Moving to Hollywood, Currie enrolled in Max Reinhardt's drama school. “At the time, I was not necessarily a movie fan, but once I came to California, of course, that’s what California’s all about, the movie industry.” Attracting the interest of movie scouts while appearing in one of the school’s stage productions, Currie surprised them by expressing no desire at that point to enter movies. She wanted to wait until she graduated, and was better equipped as an actress, before she decided her next career move. When she was ready, she signed with agent Sue Carol. After she made a movie at Columbia, Harry Cohn wanted to put her under contract, but Currie would have none of it – she thought it “would maybe be more interesting to freelance.” She stated in 1999 that that was “more fun for me because I was able to pick and choose and do what I wanted, rather than all the little contract players who had to do exactly as they were told and go into films that they didn’t want or like. So, I had my independence, and I chose to do it that way.” The not-overly-ambitious Currie worked steadily during the next few years, with small, uncredited parts in As and leads in Poverty Row flicks. She found herself in a bunch of Westerns – her bullwhip-carrying role in GUN TOWN was her favorite – and also as the heroine in Bela Lugosi’s THE APE MAN. She was again menaced by Bela in VOODOO MAN. Her most enduring and fondly remembered credit is ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, considered by many the greatest cliffhanger of all time; two years later, she acted for 12 episodes opposite another serial marvel: THE MASKED MARVEL. Currie enjoyed the fast-paced shooting schedules of her B movies and serials: “Fortunately, I had enough training that I could do my scenes and not mess them up, not muff the lines. And I thought that was more stimulating and interesting than pictures like CITIZEN KANE [in which she played a reporter], where you just sat on a set for endless hours, doing nothing – which to me was just a trial and a bore. So I sort of enjoyed the activity, and the fact that you could do something quickly and do it well, and have it finished... But I’m sure that most of the people that started with big A productions would never have understood that, or been able to cope with it!”
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Film8.0GizemDramZengin medya patronu Charles Foster Kane kendi özel şatosu Xanadu'da ölür. Ölürken son söz olan Rosabud'u fısıldar. Bütün gazetelerde Kane ile ilgili değişik hayat hikayeleri yayınlanır. Genç bir gazeteci Kane'nin son sözünün ne anlama geldiğini araştırmak için görevlendirilir. Gazeteci Kane'nin yakınlarıyla iletişime geçer. Biz de Kane'nin geçmişine tanık oluruz. Bu bireysel hikaye aynı zamanda mükemmelliyetçiliğin ve otoriter yönetimin hazin sonuçlarını da göstermektedir.
Film7.5DramRomantikABD'nin büyük yönetmenlerinden birinin elinden çıkma bu türünün tek örneği başyapıtta, Victor Moore ve Beulah Bondi, evlerinin ellerinden alınması sonucunda orta yaştaki çocuklarının yanına sığınmak zorunda kalan yaşlı çift Bark ve Lucy Cooper'ı canlandırıyor. Çocukların ilk işi, onları ağırlama zahmetini paylaşmak için çifti ayırmak olur. Özgüvenleri ve özsaygıları gittikçe azalan ihtiyarlar, sonunda, birisinin New York'ta diğerinin Kaliforniya'da bir bakım evine yerleştirilmesi için yapılan ayarlamalara boyun eğerler.
Film6.4FantastikAksiyonOn a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941 · 31 votes
Film6.8AksiyonMaceraSecond serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Film5.6KomediKorkuThe manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
You'll Find Out
1940 · 27 votes
Film10.0KomediHarry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
Double Trouble
1941 · 1 votes
Film8.5BelgeselLugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features a vast array of never-before-seen footage of the actor, ranging from remains of his 1918 film Struggle for Life to behind-the-scenes home movies on the set of RKO Studios. Lugosi is peppered with dozens of rare films clips and photographs, with the story itself coming to life thanks to the vast array of on-camera interviewees.
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
1997 · 4 votes
Film6.7KomediFibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
Look Who's Laughing
1941 · 3 votes
Film7.5DramAdapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
Queen for a Day
1951 · 2 votes
Film5.2WesternEscaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940 · 5 votes
Film5.0KorkuGizemAfter several female motorists begin disappearing en route to Twin Falls, a Hollywood screenwriter and the cousin of his bride-to-be discover that they've all been abducted by the mysterious Dr. Marlowe, who is attempting to resurrect his dead wife.
Voodoo Man
1944 · 48 votes
Film5.1KomediRomantikA recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
And Baby Makes Three
1949 · 6 votes
Film6.0KomediSuçA private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.
Three on a Ticket
1947 · 6 votes
Film10.0WesternIn the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...
Billy the Kid Outlawed
1940 · 1 votes
Film5.2GerilimSuçSoon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
The Chinese Ring
1947 · 19 votes
Film5.5WesternA singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
Stardust on the Sage
1942 · 4 votes
Film7.0BelgeselThe first-ever authorized film about the legendary horror actor, Bela Lugosi, the man who portrayed Dracula, Hollywood's most famous Vampire.
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
2016 · 1 votes
Film6.5SuçDramA young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
Christmas Holiday
1944 · 37 votes
Film6.8KomediMüzikBandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Around the World
1943 · 4 votes
Film6.0WesternA Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
Dude Cowboy
1941 · 3 votes
Film7.0WesternIndian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments robbed by Indians. Kip and his men are ready the next time and learn the robbers are white men dressed as Indians. Kip finds Davy Sawyer's case at the scene and confronts him. When Davy accuses Talbot whom he lent it to, Talbot shoots him. But Davy names Talbot before he dies and Kip goes after him.
Gun Town
1946 · 1 votes
Film4.8SuçGizemIn a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Backlash
1947 · 20 votes
- Film7.0Aksiyon
Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.
Sakima and the Masked Marvel
1966 · 2 votes
Film4.5GizemGerilimLarry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
The Crimson Key
1947 · 6 votes
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Dizi5.0Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikAksiyon ve MaceraA mortal, Billy Batson, is given the power to become Captain Marvel. The Captain fights the arch villain, the Scorpion, for 12 exciting chapters, to keep him from getting the lens. The plot concerns a group of scientists and an ancient artifact with lenses that can turn any matter to gold, thus the owner could rule the world. Captain Marvel is played by former cowboy star, Tom Tyler in fine fashion. David Sharpe does the leaps and landings in realistic style. Flying scenes still look great today, with excellent special effects by the Lydecker brothers. The Scorpion is voiced by another actor, and should keep the viewer guessing until the final reel. Music by Cy Feurer, William Lava and others add more excitement to a fine serial. Whitney and English directed.
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941 · 2 votes