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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 mother was actress Marjorie Prole, and his father was actor Fred Kohler. Father and son appeared in two films together. In RKO's ''Lawless Valley (1938 film), 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!" From 1951 to 1958 Kohler played Jordan on ''The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok'' television series. Selected filmography *''Sweetie (1929 film), Sweetie'' (1929) - Student Football Player (uncredited) *''Maybe It's Love (1930 film), Maybe It's Love'' (1930) - Football Player (uncredited) *''Renegades (1930 film), Renegades'' (1930) - Young Legionnaire (uncredited) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Mail (film)
''Western Mail'' is a 1942 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Tom Keene (actor), 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 (actor), 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 as Sheriff Big Bill Collins *Gene Alsace as Henchman Rod *James Sheridan as Henchman Cheyenne *Karl Hackett as Jim Rivers References External links * * 1942 films Monogram Pictures films 1942 Western (genre) films 1940s English-lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
70,000 Witnesses
''70,000 Witnesses'' is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Ralph Murphy, written by Garrett Fort, Robert N. Lee, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson, and starring Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lew Cody and David Landau. It was released on September 9, 1932, by Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber. In the film, a star player of college football collapses during a game. He dies shortly after, and his death is initially ruled accidental. But a police detective wants to re-enact the football game, in an attempt to find who killed the player. Plot Buck Buchanan plays football for State, but his criminal brother Slip Buchanan has placed a whopping $350,000 wager on University defeating State in the upcoming big game. Slip attempts to coerce his brother into drugging a star teammate, Wally Clark, so he is unable to play. Buck refuses to do so, but is distrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike Me Pink (film)
''Strike Me Pink'' is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Cantor plays a nebbishy employee of an amusement park, forced to assert himself against a gang of slot-machine racketeers. The climax involves a wild chase over a roller coaster and in a hot-air balloon, filmed at The Pike in Long Beach, California. The film's sets were designed by the art director Richard Day. The film was Eddie Cantor's sixth of six films for Goldwyn, all produced and released within seven years. The story derives from the novel ''Dreamland'' by the once-popular writer Clarence Budington Kelland, reworked as a 1933 stage musical comedy by Ray Henderson for Jimmy Durante. Cast * Eddie Cantor as Eddie Pink * Ethel Merman as Joyce Lennox * Sally Eilers as Claribel Higg * Parkyakarkus as Parkyakarkus * William Frawley as Mr. Copple * Helene Lowell as Hattie 'Ma' Carson * Gordon Jones as Butch Carson * ... [...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 sh ... [...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 A steamboat is a boat that is marine propulsion, propelled primarily by marine steam engine, steam power, typically driving propellers or Paddle steamer, paddlewheels. The term ''steamboat'' is used to refer to small steam-powered vessels worki ... 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. Doctor John Pearly, who sells Pocahontas patent medicine that is mostly pure alcohol, buys a broken down paddleboat steamer and intends to spend h ... [...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. Cast * Mary Ellis as Simone * Tullio Carminati as Paul de Lille * Ida Lupino as Mignon de Chare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935 Film)
''The Hoosier Schoolmaster'' is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Norman Foster, Charlotte Henry and Otis Harlan. It was distributed by the independent studio Monogram Pictures. It is an adaptation of the 1871 novel '' The Hoosier Schoolmaster'' by Edward Eggleston, which had previously been made into two silent films.Goble p.144 Plot In the wake of the American Civil War, a former Union soldier settles in southern Indiana to become a schoolmaster A schoolmaster, or simply master, is a male school teacher. The usage first occurred in England in the Late Middle Ages and early modern period. At that time, most schools were one-room or two-room schools and had only one or two such teacher .... As this is largely butternut country, he receives a great deal of hostility from locals who had supported the Confederates. Cast References Bibliography * Considine, David M. ''The Cinema of Adolescence''. McFarland, 1985. * Fetrow, ... [...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. Plot 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. 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 ... as Jackson * Matty Fain as Louie * Joseph W. Girard as Edward Bentley Sr. * Earl Dwire 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 & ... [...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 A rich boy likes to take risks escapes from his overprotective aunts. Pursued by crooks, he is aided in his adventures by Gertie, Mary, and Mickie. 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 American actor who performed in a number of Wester ... [...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 ... [...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 disc ... [...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 Tim Butler 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, a major member of the political machine. Butler is helped by his loyal assistant, Ellen 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 Bracy; 18 December 1877 – 5 August 1942) was an Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |