Ralph Peters
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1902-08-03
Locus Natus: Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
Et ut:
My Girl Tisa
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in...
release : 1948.02.07popularis : 1.738
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...
release : 1942.03.27popularis : 2.775
Nobody Lives Forever
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
release : 1946.11.01popularis : 3.449
Experiment Alcatraz
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
release : 1950.11.21popularis : 2.013
While the City Sleeps
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
release : 1956.04.19popularis : 8.577
Man's Country
An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother.
release : 1938.07.06popularis : 1.199
Black Magic
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
release : 1944.08.19popularis : 2.637
Tough Kid
Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the...
release : 1938.12.28popularis : 0.337
Death Rides the Range
A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after...
release : 1939.12.14popularis : 2.237
Up in the Air
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his...
release : 1940.09.09popularis : 3.075
You Belong to Me
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
release : 1941.10.22popularis : 2.638
Rhythm Inn
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's...
release : 1951.02.11popularis : 0.601
Billy the Kid's Range War
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy...
release : 1941.01.24popularis : 4.38
Gun Grit
Big city gangster muscle in on ranch territory with a cattle protection racket. Out to stop them is federal agent Jack Perrin.
release : 1936.05.27popularis : 2.431
Outlaws of Sonora
Outlaws of Sonora is a 1938 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.
release : 1938.04.14popularis : 2.108
Lady on a Train
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...
release : 1945.08.03popularis : 5.44
Sky Liner
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans...
release : 1949.07.28popularis : 3.681
Swing It Professor
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in...
release : 1937.03.13popularis : 2.119
Three Husbands
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions...
release : 1950.11.10popularis : 3.367
Let's Dance
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...
release : 1950.11.29popularis : 4.334
Wanted by the Police
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a...
release : 1938.09.21popularis : 2.529
Irish Luck
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
release : 1939.08.22popularis : 2.796
The Creeper
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes...
release : 1948.09.01popularis : 1.388
Where the West Begins
Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a...
release : 1938.02.02popularis : 1.625
Flaming Lead
Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting...
release : 1939.11.01popularis : 2.908
Meet Me on Broadway
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress...
release : 1946.01.26popularis : 1.878
Gasoline Alley
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
release : 1951.01.02popularis : 2.058
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...
release : 1939.11.22popularis : 9.384
Hold That Blonde!
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find...
release : 1945.11.23popularis : 0.854
The Blonde from Singapore
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have...
release : 1941.10.15popularis : 1.746
Oklahoma Terror
Cartwright's racket is to sell a ranch and then have Mason and his men drive the ranchers away so he can resell it. If they want their money back he...
release : 1939.08.24popularis : 1.498
Six-Gun Rhythm
Western - When football player Tex fletcher arives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex's identity -...
release : 1939.02.17popularis : 3.552
Mandrake the Magician
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
release : 1939.05.06popularis : 1.748
Trigger Fingers
Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
release : 1939.11.01popularis : 0.958
Wyoming Outlaw
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
release : 1939.06.27popularis : 5.975
The Dark Mirror
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
release : 1946.10.17popularis : 7.891
Men Without Souls
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
release : 1940.05.20popularis : 1.062
I Married a Witch
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find...
release : 1942.10.30popularis : 7.177
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
release : 1940.01.26popularis : 1.547
Rough Riding Rhythm
When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have...
release : 1937.08.14popularis : 0.558
Dixie Jamboree
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
release : 1944.08.15popularis : 1.828
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians,...
release : 1939.11.16popularis : 1.843
The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler,...
release : 1937.06.24popularis : 2.884
Hollywood or Bust
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith...
release : 1956.12.06popularis : 3.445
Blondie on a Budget
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters...
release : 1940.02.29popularis : 1.951
Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...
release : 1941.12.02popularis : 8.291
Riders of Black Mountain
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the...
release : 1940.11.11popularis : 1.452
Arizona
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But...
release : 1940.12.25popularis : 2.598
Lightning Strikes West
When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's...
release : 1940.06.01popularis : 2.978
One Touch of Venus
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
release : 1948.08.01popularis : 3.195
It Had to Be You
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
release : 1947.12.07popularis : 5.709
Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a...
release : 1948.05.28popularis : 2.212
Torrid Zone
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
release : 1940.05.18popularis : 5.777
The Lady in Question
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
release : 1940.08.07popularis : 2.372
Junior G-Men
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the...
release : 1940.11.01popularis : 2.403
Cafe Hostess
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
release : 1940.01.11popularis : 2.44
You Were Never Lovelier
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
release : 1942.11.19popularis : 5.896
Shut My Big Mouth
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
release : 1942.02.19popularis : 1.534
Across the Sierras
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the...
release : 1941.02.13popularis : 3.271
Ghost Valley Raiders
Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an...
release : 1940.03.23popularis : 1.635
Outlaws of the Rio Grande
Bob Day has been captured by Marlow's gang. When Tim Barton and sidekick Monte come looking for him, Tim is also captured. Escaping, Tim has a plan...
release : 1941.02.26popularis : 2.554
Trail to San Antone
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can...
release : 1947.01.25popularis : 1.891
The Lone Rider Ambushed
The Lone Rider Tom assumes a former outlaw's identity (Keno) to learn where the gold from his last big heist is hidden. He tries to get the info from...
release : 1941.08.29popularis : 2.335
The Valiant Hombre
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the...
release : 1948.12.15popularis : 0.865
In Old California
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the...
release : 1942.05.31popularis : 4.454
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...
release : 1942.02.13popularis : 4.27
King of the Cowboys
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from...
release : 1943.04.09popularis : 3.07
Texas
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the...
release : 1941.10.09popularis : 4.335
Convicted Woman
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
release : 1940.01.31popularis : 2.842
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who...
release : 1953.07.14popularis : 12.804
You're Out of Luck
An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.
release : 1941.01.20popularis : 2.65
Badlands of Montana
Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join...
release : 1957.05.01popularis : 2.909
My Kingdom for a Cook
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
release : 1943.10.27popularis : 2.409
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 2.415
Pacific Blackout
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...
release : 1941.12.31popularis : 2.993
Mr. Blabbermouth!
Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage...
release : 1942.08.08popularis : 4.039
Destry
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
release : 1954.12.01popularis : 4.034
Something to Shout About
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
release : 1943.02.25popularis : 1.04
The Navy Way
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
release : 1944.02.26popularis : 3.105
Murder, He Says
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing....
release : 1945.06.23popularis : 3.323
See My Lawyer
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub...
release : 1945.03.09popularis : 1.55
A Night to Remember
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...
release : 1942.12.10popularis : 2.268
Lucky Jordan
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
release : 1942.11.16popularis : 3.72
The Durango Kid
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the...
release : 1940.08.15popularis : 1.924
Find the Blackmailer
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird...
release : 1943.11.06popularis : 2.047
Sorrowful Jones
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...
release : 1949.07.04popularis : 5.872
Father of the Bride
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...
release : 1950.05.18popularis : 9.909
Slaughter Trail
Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the...
release : 1951.10.15popularis : 1.363
It Ain't Hay
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...
release : 1943.03.10popularis : 3.878
So You Want to Build a House
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns...
release : 1948.05.15popularis : 1.661
Little Giant
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his...
release : 1946.02.22popularis : 3.409
Take One False Step
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...
release : 1949.08.14popularis : 3.437
Adventure
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
release : 1945.12.28popularis : 3.243
Stork Bites Man
A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary stock and a large department store, after his wife...
release : 1947.06.21popularis : 1.309
On Stage Everybody
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
release : 1945.07.13popularis : 1.186
The Man Who Came to Dinner
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
release : 1941.12.24popularis : 5.368
Radio Stars on Parade
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
release : 1945.08.01popularis : 0.979
A Man's World
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor...
release : 1942.09.17popularis : 0.995
Everything I Have Is Yours
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
release : 1952.10.31popularis : 1.408
The Racket
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on...
release : 1951.10.25popularis : 5.089
Maisie Gets Her Man
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...
release : 1942.06.01popularis : 2.237
The Big Street
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
release : 1942.08.13popularis : 3.79