Ralph Byrd
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1909-04-22
Locus Natus: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Et ut:
Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In
Film experts Leonard Maltin and Ben Mankiewicz interview famous detective Dick Tracy about his life and career, with a surprise appearance by...
release : 2023.02.10popularis : 4.276
Killer Dog
A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.
release : 1936.08.29popularis : 1.625
Moontide
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
release : 1942.05.29popularis : 3.992
Guadalcanal Diary
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...
release : 1943.10.27popularis : 3.716
Canon City
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
release : 1948.06.30popularis : 2.138
A Yank in the R.A.F.
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
release : 1941.09.26popularis : 2.703
The Son of Monte Cristo
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons...
release : 1940.12.05popularis : 3.937
Time to Kill
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
release : 1942.12.24popularis : 0.792
The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
release : 1940.09.19popularis : 1.813
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret...
release : 1947.09.26popularis : 4.8
Horrible Horror
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 2.695
Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
release : 1944.03.17popularis : 1.905
Play Girl
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
release : 1941.01.29popularis : 1.908
Sea Devils
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new,...
release : 1937.02.19popularis : 4.483
The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order...
release : 1937.11.05popularis : 2.669
Stage Struck
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
release : 1948.06.13popularis : 2.411
Dick Tracy's G-Men
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before...
release : 1939.09.02popularis : 2.6
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a...
release : 1947.05.20popularis : 5.451
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various...
release : 1937.02.20popularis : 3.331
The Golden Fleecing
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 5.485
Dark Streets of Cairo
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
release : 1940.12.01popularis : 2.388
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as...
release : 1935.08.30popularis : 4.077
Blake of Scotland Yard
Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have...
release : 1937.01.30popularis : 1.255
The Trigger Trio
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agricultural Service who had come...
release : 1937.10.18popularis : 3.314
SOS Coast Guard
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he...
release : 1937.08.28popularis : 2.386
The Argyle Secrets
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated...
release : 1948.05.07popularis : 2.641
Army Girl
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to...
release : 1938.08.11popularis : 4.199
Border Caballero
Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes...
release : 1936.03.01popularis : 0.857
Broadway Big Shot
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous...
release : 1942.02.06popularis : 0.859
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.
release : 1947.05.22popularis : 5.12
Careful, Soft Shoulders
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American...
release : 1942.09.18popularis : 0.754
Blake of Scotland Yard
A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
release : 1937.01.30popularis : 1.347
Desperate Cargo
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the...
release : 1941.07.04popularis : 4.406
Born to Be Wild
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep...
release : 1938.02.16popularis : 2.846
Dick Tracy Returns
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
release : 1938.08.19popularis : 3.23
Down in 'Arkansaw'
A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of the benefits to them of a proposed dam on their...
release : 1938.10.07popularis : 2.967
They Came to Blow Up America
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with...
release : 1943.05.07popularis : 0.949
Misbehaving Husbands
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
release : 1940.12.20popularis : 1.584
S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral...
release : 1939.06.02popularis : 1.821
We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...
release : 1937.01.08popularis : 2.937
They Gave Him a Gun
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
release : 1937.05.07popularis : 2.459
Mickey the Kid
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
release : 1939.07.03popularis : 2.346
The Redhead and The Cowboy
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is...
release : 1951.03.15popularis : 3.439
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...
release : 1942.06.26popularis : 1.863
Paid to Dance
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance...
release : 1937.12.11popularis : 2.366
Fighting Thoroughbreds
A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky...
release : 1939.01.06popularis : 2.233
Drums of the Desert
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene...
release : 1940.10.06popularis : 2.007
Manila Calling
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
release : 1942.10.16popularis : 2.414
Power Dive
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard...
release : 1941.06.04popularis : 3.086
Duke of the Navy
A fake general sends two sailors on a wild-goose chase for buried treasure.
release : 1942.01.23popularis : 1.458
The Mark of Zorro
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays...
release : 1940.11.08popularis : 7.562
North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...
release : 1940.10.22popularis : 4.586
Jungle Goddess
When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she...
release : 1948.08.13popularis : 5.846
Radar Secret Service
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
release : 1950.01.28popularis : 3.237
Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...
release : 1932.06.25popularis : 4.636
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
release : 1941.12.27popularis : 1.489
Thunder in the Pines
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
release : 1948.11.11popularis : 2.076
Chinatown Squad
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
release : 1935.05.31popularis : 1.807
Stallion Road
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
release : 1947.04.12popularis : 0.734
Wings of Steel
A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
release : 1941.04.04popularis : 2.479
Jungle Book
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants,...
release : 1942.04.03popularis : 12.256
Buyer Beware
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
release : 1940.08.17popularis : 1.57
Reconnaissance Pilot
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...
release : 1943.01.25popularis : 1.722
Three Cadets
The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.
release : 1943.01.26popularis : 0.878
Margin for Error
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of...
release : 1943.02.10popularis : 2.118
December 7th
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii...
release : 1943.03.01popularis : 6.69
Hell-Ship Morgan
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.
release : 1936.02.08popularis : 0.905
Lightning Strikes Twice
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his...
release : 1951.04.12popularis : 2
The Penalty
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy...
release : 1941.03.13popularis : 2.642
Alibi for Murder
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them...
release : 1936.09.23popularis : 2.651
Criminals of the Air
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.
release : 1937.04.29popularis : 1.719
A Tenderfoot Goes West
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see...
release : 1936.10.15popularis : 0.661
Union Station
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try...
release : 1950.10.04popularis : 5.47