Wheaton Chambers
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1887-10-13
Locus Natus: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Et ut: James Wheaton Chambers
Black Hills Express
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces to uncover the real robbers, unaware that a U.S....
release : 1943.08.15popularis : 2.827
D-Day on Mars
This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.
release : 1966.01.01popularis : 2.772
The Prowler
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who...
release : 1951.05.25popularis : 6.723
Panhandle
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
release : 1948.02.22popularis : 9.022
Hitchhike to Happiness
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them...
release : 1945.07.16popularis : 3.547
Apology for Murder
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit...
release : 1945.09.27popularis : 3.989
The Well
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing...
release : 1951.09.24popularis : 3.059
The Flying Serpent
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving...
release : 1946.02.01popularis : 5.874
Phantom of the Opera
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make...
release : 1943.08.12popularis : 9.45
Three Daring Daughters
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
release : 1948.02.12popularis : 3.701
The Undercover Man
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...
release : 1949.03.21popularis : 3.775
Valley of the Zombies
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
release : 1946.05.26popularis : 4.674
Law and Order
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
release : 1953.05.13popularis : 4.36
Mr. Wong, Detective
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two...
release : 1938.10.05popularis : 5.388
The Duel at Silver Creek
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free...
release : 1952.09.05popularis : 3.206
The Devil Commands
A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife.
release : 1941.02.03popularis : 3.223
The Unknown Man
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
release : 1951.11.09popularis : 3.73
Adventures of Red Ryder
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
release : 1940.06.28popularis : 2.443
Song of the Drifter
Jimmy joins Cannonball on a visit to the widow Fennamore, Cannonball's old girlfriend, at Firehole. Engineer Colton is killed by henchman Smoky...
release : 1948.01.17popularis : 1.046
The Fastest Gun Alive
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might...
release : 1956.07.12popularis : 6.333
The Man Who Found Himself
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it...
release : 1937.04.02popularis : 5.398
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...
release : 1942.12.09popularis : 2.742
Not Wanted
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap...
release : 1949.06.24popularis : 4.068
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...
release : 1939.05.05popularis : 7.032
Invitation to Happiness
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
release : 1939.06.07popularis : 1.844
The Magnificent Yankee
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
release : 1950.12.20popularis : 3.686
Big Town
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
release : 1946.08.23popularis : 2.48
Slightly Honorable
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
release : 1939.12.22popularis : 3.21
Caught
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic,...
release : 1949.02.17popularis : 5.369
Slaves of Babylon
The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a...
release : 1953.10.21popularis : 1.633
Drums of Fu Manchu
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the...
release : 1940.03.15popularis : 2.36
Midnight Court
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
release : 1937.03.06popularis : 2.597
All the King's Men
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...
release : 1949.11.16popularis : 7.594
The Southerner
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle...
release : 1945.04.30popularis : 4.421
East of Eden
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their...
release : 1955.04.10popularis : 9.216
Between Midnight and Dawn
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are...
release : 1950.10.01popularis : 2.515
Mildred Pierce
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
release : 1945.10.20popularis : 11.739
Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his...
release : 1947.09.26popularis : 8.213
His Girl Friday
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...
release : 1940.01.18popularis : 9.206
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
release : 1941.11.13popularis : 2.86
The Invisible Wall
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was...
release : 1947.10.15popularis : 2.102
The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
release : 1947.04.25popularis : 2.93
The Pirate
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
release : 1948.06.11popularis : 11.713
The Crimson Ghost
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on...
release : 1946.10.26popularis : 4.162
The Great Sinner
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
release : 1949.06.29popularis : 5.423
The Three Musketeers
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
release : 1948.10.20popularis : 10.336
This Land Is Mine
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and...
release : 1943.05.07popularis : 6.07
The Florentine Dagger
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
release : 1935.03.30popularis : 1.3
Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 8.153
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
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the...
release : 1940.03.03popularis : 4.832
Geronimo
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud...
release : 1939.11.26popularis : 2.525
The Last Crooked Mile
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
release : 1946.08.09popularis : 1.212
The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...
release : 1944.01.27popularis : 4.231
Marshal of Laredo
Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of...
release : 1945.10.06popularis : 0.606
The Wild Frontier
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest marshal. That marshal is Frank Lane, who brings his...
release : 1947.09.30popularis : 2.748
Stagecoach to Denver
Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the...
release : 1946.12.23popularis : 5.287
Peggy
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move...
release : 1950.07.01popularis : 3.273
Wagons West
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
release : 1952.07.06popularis : 2.538
The El Paso Kid
In this Western, an outlaw tries to escape from a gang of robbers after they refuse to assist a gang member wounded during a stagecoach caper. He and...
release : 1946.05.22popularis : 0.963
Gun Talk
In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see...
release : 1947.12.20popularis : 1.128
On the Old Spanish Trail
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
release : 1947.10.15popularis : 1.152
Son of Zorro
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and...
release : 1947.01.18popularis : 4.827
Deputy Marshal
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
release : 1949.10.28popularis : 2.813
Lost City of the Jungle
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for...
release : 1946.04.23popularis : 1.307
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as...
release : 1942.04.28popularis : 1.656
The Peacemaker
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the...
release : 1956.11.01popularis : 1.442
Sarge Goes to College
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge"...
release : 1947.05.13popularis : 2.09
The Falcon in Mexico
The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
release : 1944.08.04popularis : 2.167
The Day the Earth Stood Still
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
release : 1951.09.28popularis : 10.727
The Power of God
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young...
release : 1942.01.15popularis : 1.988
Undercurrent
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an...
release : 1946.11.11popularis : 4.625
The Secret Fury
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen...
release : 1950.02.21popularis : 3.842
River Gang
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
release : 1945.09.21popularis : 0.483
Three Secrets
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted...
release : 1950.10.20popularis : 5.713
Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
release : 1950.10.14popularis : 2.706
Young Man with Ideas
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
release : 1952.05.02popularis : 5.704
Body and Soul
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...
release : 1947.11.11popularis : 10.824
Always Together
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...
release : 1947.12.10popularis : 2.001
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
release : 1945.10.05popularis : 3.121
The Time of Their Lives
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George...
release : 1946.08.13popularis : 2.921
Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...
release : 1946.06.06popularis : 3.662
Romance on the High Seas
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband...
release : 1948.06.25popularis : 4.803
The Brighton Strangler
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he...
release : 1945.05.10popularis : 3.055
The Seventh Victim
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with...
release : 1943.08.21popularis : 8.046
Swing Shift Maisie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....
release : 1943.10.01popularis : 4.16
The Miami Story
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to...
release : 1954.05.03popularis : 1.348
Strange Confession
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in...
release : 1945.10.05popularis : 3.578
Lady in the Lake
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...
release : 1946.12.19popularis : 9.914
The Notorious Mr. Monks
A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder.
release : 1958.02.28popularis : 7.159
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his...
release : 1951.10.31popularis : 2.803