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Fred Kohler Jr.
Fred Kohler Jr. (July 8, 1911 – January 7, 1993) was an American actor who performed in a number of Westerns such as '' The Pecos Kid'' and ''Toll of the Desert''. He played nearly 130 film and television roles between 1929 and 1978. Kohler's father was actor Fred Kohler. Father and son appeared in two films together. In RKO's '' Lawless Valley'', they played father and son outlaws. In one scene, Fred Jr.'s character says to his father's character, "Aw, that's crazy!", and Fred Sr. responds "Careful, son, you're talkin' to your dad, ya know!" Selected filmography *'' Sweetie'' (1929) - Student Football Player (uncredited) *'' Maybe It's Love'' (1930) - Football Player (uncredited) *'' Renegades'' (1930) - Young Legionnaire (uncredited) *'' A Holy Terror'' (1931) - Party Guest (uncredited) *''Bad Company'' (1931) - Yacht Guest (uncredited) *'' Devil and the Deep'' (1932) - Submarine Crewman (uncredited) *''Movie Crazy'' (1932) - Young Actor in Waiting Room (uncredited) *'' 70 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Mail (film)
''Western Mail'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Tom Keene and Fred Kohler, Jr. Plot Lucky Webster (Fred Kohler, Jr.), a member of the Rivers gang, is uneasy that they have been stealing U.S. mail when robbing trains. Tom Allen (Tom Keene) is undercover and working with Sheriff Big Bill Collins (Glenn Strange) to capture and arrest the gang. Julia Webster (Jean Trent) is concerned about her brother. Lopez Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) provides some humor as Tom's sidekick. Cast * Tom Keene as Tom Allen *Frank Yaconelli as Lopez Mendoza *LeRoy Mason as Jeff Gordon *Jean Trent as Julia Webster * Fred Kohler, Jr. as Lucky Webster *Glenn Strange George Glenn Strange (August 16, 1899 – September 20, 1973) was an American actor who mostly appeared in Western films and was billed as Glenn Strange. He is best remembered for playing Frankenstein's monster in three Universal films d ... as Sheriff Big Bill Collins *Gene Alsace a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movie Crazy
''Movie Crazy'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Harold Lloyd in his third sound feature. The film's copyright was renewed in 1959. Plot Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything wrong and causes all sorts of trouble. But he catches the fancy of a beautiful actress, and eventually the studio owner recognizes him as a comic genius. Cast * Harold Lloyd as Harold Hall / Trouble * Constance Cummings as Mary Sears * Kenneth Thomson as Vance * Louise Closser Hale as Mrs Kitterman * Spencer Charters as J.L. O'Brien * Robert McWade as Wesley Kitterman, Producer * Eddie Fetherston as Bill (assistant director) * Sydney Jarvis as The Director * Harold Goodwin as Miller * Mary Doran as Margie * DeWitt Jennings as Mr Hall * Lucy Beaumont as Mrs Hall * Arthur Housman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Salute (1935 Film)
''Red Salute'' (also released as ''Arms and the Girl'') is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young. Based on a story by Humphrey Pearson, the film is about the daughter of a US Army general who becomes involved with a suspected communist agitator. Plot Drue Van Allen, the daughter of an American general, is in love with communist graduate student Leonard Arner. When Leonard is ejected from a college campus for speaking to the students, a newspaper photographer takes a picture of him in Drue's car and prints it on the front page. When Drue ignores her father’s advice, he tricks her into boarding an airplane bound for Mexico, supposedly to see her aunt Betty off, then locks her in. She is stuck in Juarez with no money to get home. After a rowdy soldier, Jeff overhears a border policeman warn her not to try to cross into the US, Jeff, whom she nicknames "Uncle Sam", strikes up a conversation, telling her he thinks she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboat Round The Bend
''Steamboat Round the Bend'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Ford, released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film Corporation, based on the 1933 novel of the same name by author Ben Lucien Burman. It was the final film made by star Will Rogers and was released posthumously, a month after he was killed in an airplane crash on August 15, 1935. Plot A con man enters his steamboat in a winner-take-all steamboat race in the 1890s with a rival while attempting to find an eyewitness that will save his nephew, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, from the gallows. Cast * Will Rogers as Doctor John Pearly * Anne Shirley as Fleety Belle * Irvin S. Cobb as Captain Eli * Eugene Pallette as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers * John McGuire as Duke * Berton Churchill as New Moses * Francis Ford as Efe * Roger Imhof as Breck's Pappy * Raymond Hatton as Matt Abel * Hobart Bosworth as Chaplain * Stepin Fetchit Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris In Spring
''Paris in Spring'' (also released as ''Paris Love Song'') is a 1935 black and white musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone for Paramount Pictures. It is based on a play by Dwight Taylor, with a screen play by Samuel Hoffenstein and Franz Schulz. Plot Afraid of marriage, Simone ( Mary Ellis) ends her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille ( Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris, and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) decides to separate from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other. Partial cast * Mary Ellis as Simone * Tullio Carminati as Paul de Lille * Ida Lupino as Mignon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935 Film)
''The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana'' is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston. The novel originated from a series of stories written for '' Hearth and Home'', a periodical edited by Eggleston, and was based on the experiences of his brother, George Cary Eggleston, who had been a schoolteacher in Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s .... The novel is noted for its realistic depictions of 19th-century American rural life and for its use of local dialect. Evaluation In the conclusion to ''The Hoosier Schoolmaster'', Eggleston announces his belief that readers whose taste is not perverted always want a story to “come out well.” Accordingly, he so planned this his first and most important romance that the lovers are al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Error
''Social Error'' is a 1935 American crime film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger and Monte Blue.Pitts p.129-30 It was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1948. Main cast * David Sharpe as Edward 'Eddie' Bentley, Jr. * Gertrude Messinger as June Merton * Monte Blue as Dean Carter * Lloyd Hughes as Attorney Johnson * Sheila Terry as Sonia * Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Shadow * Fred Kohler Jr. as Jackson * Matty Fain as Louie * Joseph W. Girard as Edward Bentley, Sr. * Earl Dwire Earl Dwire (October 3, 1883 – January 16, 1940), born Earl Dean Dwire, was an American character actor who appeared in more than 150 movies between 1921 and his death in 1940. Dwire acted for three years in stock theater with companies i ... as Mr. Merton References Bibliography * Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roaring Roads
''Roaring Roads'' is a 1935 American action film directed by Charles E. Roberts and Ray Nazarro. It featured three actors from the ''Our Gang'' films: David Sharpe, Mary Kornman and Mickey Daniels. It was the second and last film in the series ''Our Young Friends,'' the first being ''Adventurous Knights.'' Plot summary A rich boy (Sharpe) who likes to take risks escapes from his overprotective aunts. Pursued by crooks, he is aided in his adventures by Gertie (McDowell), Mary (Kornman) and Mickie (Daniels). Cast * David Sharpe as David Morton aka David Smith *Gertrude Messinger as Gertrude "Gertie" McDowell *Mary Kornman as Mary McDowell *Mickey Daniels as Mickey Daniels *Jack Mulhall as Donald McDowell * Eddie Phillips as Gangster *Vera Lewis as Aunt Harriet *Heinie Conklin as Bodyguard * Al Thompson as Bodyguard *Matty Fain as Henchman * Charles Moyer as Henchman * Helen Hunt as Aunt Agatha *Fred Kohler Jr. Fred Kohler Jr. (July 8, 1911 – January 7, 1993) was an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Old Girl
''Grand Old Girl'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Robertson from a screenplay by Milton Krims, John Twist, Arthur T. Horman, adapted from a story by Wanda Tuchock. The film stars May Robson, Mary Carlisle, Fred MacMurray, and Alan Hale, other cast members included Ben Alexander. Plot Laura Bayles has been a devoted educator for 38 years. Over that time she has risen to become the principal of Avondale High School. When a local petty gambler, "Click" Dade, begins to prey on her students, she takes a leading position in an attempt to force the gambling location to close down. Dade had been one of her former pupils. Her efforts are opposed by two local politicians, Holland and Joseph Killaine. Holland is a small time political boss, while Killaine is the superintendent of schools. So Bayles decides to fight fire with fire. With a stake of $250, and a pair of Dade's own loaded dice, she wins enough money to open a club to compete with Dade's, taking away his busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Day And Age (film)
''This Day and Age'' is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Charles Bickford and Richard Cromwell. It is one of his rarest films and has been released on home video through the Universal Pictures Vault Series DVD collection. Plot During Boys' Week at racially integrated North High School, students Steve Smith, Gus Ruffo and Billy Anderson are elected to temporarily hold the city offices of district attorney, judge and chief of police. After Jewish tailor Herman refuses to pay protection money to Louis Garrett, Garrett's gang bombs his store. Herman and the student who was with him survive the blast, but Herman is later murdered by Garrett after he again refuses to pay. Garrett is acquitted of murder charges because he has a perfect alibi. Steve, who had taken the stand during the trial, is humiliated by his experience as a witness because he failed to prove Garrett's guilt. Billy, Gus and Sam Weber decide to investigate for themselves and disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corruption (1933 Film)
''Corruption'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code film directed by Charles E. Roberts and starring Evalyn Knapp and Preston Foster. The film is also known as ''Double Exposure'' in the United Kingdom. Plot summary Tim Butler (Preston Foster) is elected Mayor of a city known for corruption, unfortunately, he is elected by those who are corrupt. Butler is set up and removed from office, to only be convicted of killing Regan ( Warner Richmond), a major member of the political machine. Butler is helped by his loyal assistant, Ellen (Evalyn Knapp) and is eventually exonerated. Cast *Evalyn Knapp as Ellen Manning *Preston Foster as Tim Butler *Charles Delaney as Charlie Jasper *Tully Marshall as Gorman * Warner Richmond as Regan *Huntley Gordon as District Attorney Blake *Lane Chandler as Assistant District Attorney King *Natalie Moorhead as Sylvia Gorman * Mischa Auer as Volkov * Jason Robards, Sr. as Police Commissioner *Gwen Lee as Mae *Sidney Bracey Sidney Bracey (born Sidney Brac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laughter In Hell
''Laughter in Hell'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Pat O'Brien. The film's title was typical of the sensationalistic titles of many Pre-Code films. Adapted from the 1932 novel of the same name by Jim Tully, the film was inspired in part by ''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'' and was part of a series of films depicting men in chain gangs following the success of that film. O'Brien plays a railroad engineer who kills his wife and her lover in a jealous rage and is sent to prison.Laughter in Hell tcm.com, accessed October 12, 2010.Doherty. pg 167 The movie received a mixed review in '''' upon its release. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |