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Lee Zahler
Lee Zahler (born Leo Zahler, August 14, 1893 – February 21, 1947) was an American composer and musical director of films, starting in the 1920s and well into the 1940s. Songwriter and orchestrator Zahler provided both the musical score and an original theme song for the first talking serial, ''King of the Kongo'', produced by Mascot Pictures in 1929. Zahler was then hired by independent producer Larry Darmour as musical director for the Darmour studio. Beginning in 1936 Darmour began releasing his productions through Columbia Pictures, and Zahler remained with Darmour until Darmour's death in 1942. Columbia retained Lee Zahler's services, and he continued to compose music for Columbia serials. Zahler's '' agitato'' scores for ''Holt of the Secret Service'' (1941) and ''Batman'' (1943) are perhaps most familiar to serial fans. The only Columbia serial of the 1940s that didn't involve Lee Zahler was ''Brenda Starr, Reporter'' (1945); it was produced by Sam Katzman at the Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of The Amazons
''Queen of the Amazons'' is a 1946 adventure film produced and directed by Edward Finney and featuring Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison and J. Edward Bromberg.. Plot Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is determined to find her fiancé, Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards), who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to "Akbar", India, with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones (John Miljan), who also narrates the film, together with Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge). She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays. Although the clerk acts like he knows nothing of Jones, he immediately makes a suspicious phone call when the group leaves the lobby. While Jean unpacks in her room, a native woman named Tondra (Vida Aldana), who spied on the group in the hotel lobby earlier, knocks on the door. She tells Jean that her husband, Moya (Hassam Kayyam), spoke to her of a safari that suffered a tiger attack. Jean asks Tondra to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind Jury Doors
''Behind Jury Doors'' is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Helen Chandler, William Collier Jr. and Blanche Friderici.Pitts, p. 329 Plot Cast * Helen Chandler as Elsa Lanfield * William Collier Jr. as Steve Mannon * Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Lanfield * Franklin Parker as Casey * John Davidson as George Fisher * Walter Miller as Arthur Corbett * Richard Cramer as Gus Mauger * Jessie Arnold as Ma Mauger * Louis Natheaux as Halliday * Patsy Cunningham as Mame * James Gordon as William Wegand * Arthur Loft as James Collins * Gordon De Main Gordon De Main (born Floyd Wood; September 28, 1886 – March 5, 1954)''Who Was Who on Screen'', p. 119 c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt *note his publication claims his date of birth as 1897-March 5, 1967/ref> was an American film actor. He w ... as Dr. Emil Lanfield References Bibliography * Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Bound
''Love Bound'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young.Pitts p.259 It is a second feature produced by the Poverty Row studio Peerless Pictures. The film is also known as ''Murder on the High Seas'', the alternative title it was later reissued under. Plot Gold-digging actress Verna Wilson demands money from a financial theatrical backer by falsely threatening to tell his wife that their relationship is more than professional. After he pays up his son Dick discovers that Verna is part of a gang of blackmailers and is now fleeing the country on an ocean liner. He boards the ship along with his chauffeur and the two pose as wealthy playboys so that Verna will attempt to play the same trick on them. Dick and Verna instead fall in love, but things are complicated by the presence of her associates on board the ship, leading to a murder. Cast *Jack Mulhall as Richard "Dick" Randolph, posing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defenders Of The Law
''Defenders of the Law'' is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by Joseph Levering and starring Catherine Dale Owen, John Holland and Robert Gleckler.Pitts, p. 401 Plot A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang with strong political connections. Cast * Catherine Dale Owen as Alice Randall * John Holland as Police Captain Bill Houston * Robert Gleckler as Joe Velet aka Phil Terry * Edmund Breese as Police Commander Randall * Mae Busch as Mae Ward - Undercover Policewoman * Paul Panzer as Taroni - Gang Leader * Kit Guard as Kit - Velet's Chief Henchman * Joseph W. Girard as The Police Chief * Philo McCullough Philo McCullough (June 16, 1893 – June 5, 1981) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1914 and 1969. He was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Burbank, California. McCullough's film debut came in 1912 ... as Detecteive Tom Muldoon * Al Cooke as Cookie - the Photographer * Nick Thompson as Velet Henchman R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Eagles
''Air Eagles'' is a 1931 American pre-Code action film directed by Phil Whitman and starring Lloyd Hughes, Norman Kerry, and Shirley Grey.Pitts, p. 134 Plot Cast * Lloyd Hughes as Bill Ramsey * Norman Kerry as Otto Schumann * Shirley Grey as Eve * Berton Churchill as Windy J. Bailey * Matty Kemp as Eddie Ramsey * Otis Harlan as Mr. Ramsey * Kathrin Clare Ward as Mrs. Ramsey * Eddie Fetherston as Pickpocket * Olin Francis as Guard * John Ince as Doctor * Lew Meehan James Lew Meehan (September 7, 1890 – August 10, 1951) was an American film actor. Meehan appeared in more than 200 films between 1921 and 1947. He was often the main villain in silent Westerns, but in sound films he was usually an "anon ... as Guard * George Morrell as Onlooker References Bibliography * Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Skies (1929 Film)
''Dark Skies'' is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film, crime drama film directed by Harry S. Webb and starring Shirley Mason (actress), Shirley Mason, Wallace MacDonald and William V. Mong. Made by the Poverty Row studio Biltmore Productions it was an early low-budget talkie, set in a California coastal community. It featured the hit song "Juanita".Pitts, p. 71 Cast * Shirley Mason (actress), Shirley Mason as Juanita Morgan * Wallace MacDonald as Captain Pedro Real * William V. Mong as Mr. Morgan * Tom O'Brien (silent film actor), Tom O'Brien as Pete * Josef Swickard as Señor Moreno * Larry Steers as Captain Nelson * Tom Wilson (actor), Tom Wilson as Mike See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) References Bibliography * Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005. External links * 1929 films 1929 drama films 1920s English-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazing Stewardesses
''Blazing Stewardesses'' is a 1975 American sex comedy film directed by Al Adamson. Its title is derived from the 1975 film '' The Naughty Stewardesses'' and the 1974 film ''Blazing Saddles''. Producer Sam Sherman intended the film to be a fond throwback to "B" westerns of the 1940s, and hired a cast of screen veterans. He planned to reunite Yvonne De Carlo and Rod Cameron, who had co-starred at Universal Pictures in the 1940s, but Cameron walked out on the project after a salary dispute; Sherman replaced him with Don "Red" Barry. Joining Barry was another former cowboy star, Bob Livingston. For comedy scenes, Sherman hired The Three Stooges, but Larry Fine suffered a stroke that confined him to a wheelchair. Producer Sherman rewrote their scenes to accommodate Larry: Larry would be visiting a health spa, run by Stooges Moe Howard and Joe De Rita. Then Moe became too ill to perform, and had to withdraw. The Stooges were replaced by The Ritz Brothers, Harry and Jimmy, reprising m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Adamson
Albert Victor Adamson Jr. (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was an American Filmmaking, filmmaker and actor known as a prolific director of B movie horror and exploitation films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The son of silent film veterans Victor Adamson and Dolores Booth, Adamson began his career in the film industry at a young age and began directing in the early 1960s, helming a total of 33 feature films.McCarty, John (1995). ''The Sleaze Merchants''. St. Martin's Griffin Press. . Page 91Sherman, Sam (2001). ''Blood of Ghastly Horror'' (DVD liner notes). Troma Entertainment. #9026. Many of his films, such as ''Psycho A-Go-Go'', ''Blood of Ghastly Horror,'' and ''Dracula vs. Frankenstein,'' went on to gain Cult film, cult status. He cast his wife, actress and singer Regina Carrol, in many of his films. Adamson retired from filmmaking in the early 1980s to pursue a career in real estate. In 1995, he was murdered by a live-in contractor whom he had hired to work on his house, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underdog (TV Series)
''Underdog'', also known as ''The Underdog Show'', is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!" His voice was supplied by Wally Cox. When appearing as Shoeshine Boy, he described himself as "humble, and loveable"; possibly a tongue-in-cheek reference to "mild-mannered reporter" Clark Kent from the opening narration of the ''Adventures of Superman'' television series. History In 1959, handling the Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New 3 Stooges
''The New 3 Stooges'' is an American animated television series that ran during the 1965–66 television season starring the Three Stooges. The show follows the trio's antics both in live-action and animated segments. The cast consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita (as Curly-Joe), with actor and close friend Emil Sitka co-starring, as well as Margaret Kerry. The stories took place in varied settings, including Newport Beach and sailing as buccaneers on the Spanish Main. Production Forty-one live-action sequences were executively overseen by cartoonist Norman Maurer, son-in-law of Moe Howard, serving as their film agent during this period. Additionally, Edward Bernds, who directed the team at Columbia Pictures from 1945 to 1952 (predominantly during the Shemp Howard era), was enlisted to both script and direct the series. Emil Sitka, a familiar figure from numerous Stooges comedies, was slated to feature in these wraparound segments, assuming the role of a straight ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Secretary (TV Series)
''Private Secretary'' (also known as ''Susie'') is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February 1, 1953, to March 17, 1957. Created by Ned Marin, the series stars Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by Don Porter. Overview Susie MacNamara (Sothern) is a former stage actress, a WAC veteran of World War II and single woman who works as the private secretary for theatrical agent Peter Sands (Porter) at the fictional New York theatrical agency International Artists Inc. Susie's honest, good-natured attempts to help Mr. Sands, especially in romantic matters, always leads to comedic complications. Susie is usually assisted by her best friend, Violet "Vi" Praskins ( Ann Tyrrell), the office's nervous and bumbling receptionist. Recurring characters include Jesse White as Mickey "Cagey" Calhoun, a chief competitor and loudmouthed agent business rival to Susie and Sands; and Joan Banks as Sylvia Platt, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
