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Howard Welsch
Howard Welsch (1898–1980) was an American film producer. He owned Fidelity Pictures. He was in charge of a producing unit at Universal which was dissolved in 1946. He formed Fidelity Pictures in 1948. Select credits *''Falling in Love'' (1934) *''Men in Her Diary'' (1945) *''The Daltons Ride Again'' (1945) *'' Smooth as Silk'' (1946) *''Idea Girl'' (1946) *'' The Spider Woman Strikes Back'' (1946) *'' The Cat Creeps'' (1946) *'' Cuban Pete'' (1946) *'' The Dark Horse'' (1947) *''The Michigan Kid'' (1947) *'' Philo Vance's Gamble'' (1947) *'' Philo Vance Returns'' (1947) *'' Return of the Vigilantes'' (1947) *''Philo Vance's Secret Mission'' (1947) *''House by the River'' (1950) *''Woman on the Run'' (1950) *''The Groom Wore Spurs'' (1951) *'' The San Francisco Story'' (1952) *''Montana Belle'' (1952) *''Rancho Notorious'' (1952) *''A Bullet Is Waiting ''A Bullet Is Waiting'' is a 1954 American film noir crime western film directed by John Farrow and starring Jean Simmons, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falling In Love (1935 Film)
''Falling in Love'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Charles Farrell, Mary Lawson, Diana Napier and Gregory Ratoff. The film was shot at Walton Studios.Wood p.81 It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title ''Trouble Ahead''. Plot The manager of an American film star struggles to cope with her behaviour. Cast * Charles Farrell as Howard Elliott * Mary Lawson as Ann Brent * Gregory Ratoff as Oscar Marks * H. F. Maltby as Cummins * Diana Napier as Gertie * Cathleen Nesbitt as Mother * Patrick Aherne as Dick Turner * Margot Grahame as June Desmond * Sally Stewart as Winnie * Monty Banks as Film Director * Marion Harris as Cafe Singer * Pat Fitzpatrick as Jackie * Carroll Gibbons and His Orchestra as Themselves * Eliot Makeham as Caretaker * Miles Malleson as Minor Role * Wally Patch Walter Sydney Vinnicombe (26 September 1888 – 27 October 1970) was an English actor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
''Philo Vance's Secret Mission'' is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan and Tala Birell.Backer p.35 It was part of a series of films featuring the detective Philo Vance made during the 1930s and 1940s. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Edward C. Jewell and Perry Smith. Synopsis Philo Vance is approached by the head of a publishing company to become an advisor on a series of crime novels they are releasing. Before long he is embroiled in a case about the mysterious killing of one of the partners in the company. Cast * Alan Curtis as Philo Vance * Sheila Ryan as Mona Bannister * Tala Birell as Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips * Frank Jenks as Ernie Clark * James Bell as Sheriff Harry Madison * Frank Fenton as Paul Morgan * Paul Maxey as Martin Jamison * Kenneth Farrell as Joe, the Photographer * Toni Todd as Louise Roberts aka Mrs. Paul Morgan * David Leonard as Carl Wilson * William Newell as De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Producers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the " United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Socc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Blood
''Hot Blood'' is a 1956 American CinemaScope Technicolor musical film starring Jane Russell and Cornel Wilde and directed by Nicholas Ray. Plot Marco Torino, king of the gypsies in southern California, is terminally ill. He wants his younger brother to succeed him, but Stephano is determined to become a dancer instead. After turning a potential employer against him, Marco arranges a marriage for his brother to Annie Caldash, another gypsy. Stephano angers Annie's father Theodore and brother Xano by resisting Annie's charms and refusing to marry her, as he loves Velma. Annie comes up with a scheme. Her father wants her to be paid a rich dowry from Stephano's family, then run off before the marriage. Stephano's brother is trying to raise money for a trip to "the promised land." She persuades Stephano to stage a phony wedding at which she will faint during the ceremony, whereupon they will split the dowry and teach their greedy relatives a lesson. But it is Stephano whom she ends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bullet Is Waiting
''A Bullet Is Waiting'' is a 1954 American film noir crime western film directed by John Farrow and starring Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Stephen McNally and Brian Aherne. Plot A small plane carrying Frank Munson and a handcuffed prisoner, Ed Stone, crashes in the California wilderness. Ed knocks out Frank, unlocks the cuffs and flees, coming upon a woman called Cally tending to sheep, seemingly by herself in a remote cabin. Frank follows and identifies himself as a Utah lawman who after tracking Ed for nearly two years finally caught up with him. Cally is hesitant to trust either stranger. She is an educated woman whose father, a former Oxford University professor, is living with her but is currently away. As a torrential rain falls, Ed attempts to escape, but the passage is flooded. Cally tries to warn him, but pulls a knife when Ed tries to rape her. At the cabin, Frank has no weapon and searches for a rifle Cally has hidden. Ed returns and, while trapped there during the sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rancho Notorious
''Rancho Notorious'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich as the matron of a criminal hideout called ''Chuck-a-Luck''. Arthur Kennedy and Mel Ferrer play rivals for her attention in this tale of frontier revenge. The film was originally titled ''Chuck-a-Luck'', with “The Legend of Chuck-a-Luck” as the title song, but the name was changed at the insistence of Howard Hughes, then head of RKO Pictures. Plot Wyoming ranch hand Vern Haskell is enraged when his fiancee Beth Forbes is abused and murdered during a store robbery. He sets out after the two thieves, first with a posse, then by himself. He finds one of them, Whitey, shot in the back by his partner after a quarrel. Whitey's dying words, "Chuck-a-luck", are the only clue to the second man's identity. After questioning everyone he meets, Vern finally finds someone who lets slip that a woman named Altar Keane is connected with Chuck-a-luck. When the man realizes that Vern is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montana Belle
''Montana Belle'' is a 1952 American Trucolor Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Jane Russell. It is one of several fictionalized movies about outlaw Belle Starr. The story is set in Oklahoma, where the real Starr was killed. The word "Montana" in the title refers to the part of the plot in which Starr, wanted by the law, alters her appearance, poses as a widow from Montana and becomes a saloon singer. Plot Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when she is rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Dissension among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicate the plot, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons, horses, and as a saloon entertainer. Cast * Jane Russell as Belle Starr * George Brent as Tom Bradfield * Scott Brady as Bob Dalton * Forrest Tucker as Mac * Andy Devine as Pete Bivins * Jack La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The San Francisco Story
''The San Francisco Story'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne De Carlo. The rough and tumble Barbary Coast of San Francisco is recreated with attention to detail, including Florence Bates as a saloon keeper Shanghaiing the unwary. Noir elements include many shadows, discordant musical score, snappy dialogue, a disabused hero who resists the good fight, and a femme fatale. A schematic but insightful rendering of political corruption, the film is essentially about standing up to bullies. Plot summary Law in San Francisco in 1856 is an ideal struggling to be established. Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) is a loner with his own code of ethics, now a miner visiting his old stomping ground. He meets raven-haired beauty Adelaide McCall (Yvonne De Carlo), who's in the buggy of corrupt political power broker Andrew Cain (Sidney Blackmer). Newspaper editor Jim "Captain" Martin (Onslow Stevens) begs his old friend Rick to rejoin his pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Groom Wore Spurs
''The Groom Wore Spurs'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Ginger Rogers and Jack Carson. Plot Hollywood Singing cowboy Ben Castle ( Jack Carson) hires lawyer "A.J." Furnival ( Ginger Rogers) to get him out of his gambling debts that he incurred in Las Vegas to Harry Kallen Stanley Ridges. Kallan recognises A.J. as the daughter of a legendary attorney who helped him on several occasions. Castle seduces A.J. into a quick wedding with Kallan forgiving Castle his debts. A.J. discovers that Castle schemed the entire meeting and wedding with the intended result. Encouraged by her roommate Alice ( Joan Davis) A.J. decides to get her revenge by living with him. She settles Castle's film contract, then discovers that he is a milquetoast who in real life in unable to ride a horse or sing. Gangsters decide to frame Castle with a murder. Cast * Ginger Rogers as "A.J." Furnival * Jack Carson as Ben Castle * Joan Davis as Alice Dean * Stanley Ridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman On The Run
''Woman on the Run'' is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Norman Foster and starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe. The film was based on the April 1948 short story "Man on the Run" by Sylvia Tate and filmed on location in San Francisco. The film, which lies in the public domain, was restored and preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Plot Frank Johnson is an unsuccessful painter who is out walking his dog one night when a car stops nearby. Unbeknown to Frank, the passenger in the car, a middle-aged man with an Irish accent, is trying to blackmail the driver. The passenger is about to testify before the grand jury against a criminal named Smiley Freeman. The passenger promises that he will not divulge the driver's ties to Freeman in return for a cash payment. The passenger does all the talking, addressing the driver, whose face is not shown, as "Danny Boy". Frank hears a shot as the would-be blackmailer is pushed out the passenger door. The stricken man begs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House By The River
''House by the River'' is a 1950 American crime melodrama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman and Jane Wyatt. It is based on the 1921 novel of the same title by A. P. Herbert. Plot A rich novelist, Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, accidentally kills his attractive maid after she begins screaming when he makes a drunken pass. The writer manipulates his brother, John, who is physically impaired with a limp, to help him dispose of the body. Making use of a sack, which Stephen has borrowed from John for carrying firewood, they stuff the maid inside and dump her into the river. Days later, the sack and body float up and pass Stephen's house. He goes onto the water and desperately tries to retrieve it, but fails. The police recover the bundle and, because John's initials have been stencilled on the sack, it is all traceable to him. An inquest is held and, to Stephen's great pleasure, a cloud of suspicion hangs over John, who is tortured by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return Of The Vigilantes
Return may refer to: In business, economics, and finance * Return on investment (ROI), the financial gain after an expense. * Rate of return, the financial term for the profit or loss derived from an investment * Tax return, a blank document or template supplied by a government for use in the reporting of tax information * Product return, the process of bringing back merchandise to a retailer for a refund or exchange * Returns (economics), the benefit distributed to the owner of a factor of production * Abnormal return, denoting the difference in behaviour between one stock and the overall stock market * Taxes, where tax returns are forms submitted to taxation authorities In technology * Return (architecture), the receding edge of a flat face * Carriage return, a key on an alphanumeric keyboard commonly equated with the "enter" key * Return statement, a computer programming statement that ends a subroutine and resumes execution where the subroutine was called * Return code, a meth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |