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Lewis Martin (actor)
Lewis Martin (November 1, 1894, in Berkeley, California – February 21, 1969, in Los Angeles) was an American actor. Biography Lewis Martin was born in Berkeley, California. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Martin. He made his first Broadway appearance during 1925 in the play ''Lucky Sam McCarver''. His career on Broadway was long and successful, he appeared in over 16 plays between 1925 and 1950. His film and television career started in 1950 with a supporting role in the Kraft Television Theatre. His first film was '' The Blazing Sun''. He played supporting roles in films like ''The War of the Worlds'' (as Pastor Collins), ''The Court Jester'' (as Sir Finsdale) and '' Diary of a Madman'' (as Father Raymonde). Martin often played respectable figures like police officers, military men, judges or priests. Martin also appeared in numerous television series of the 1950s and 1960s, including Judge Libbott in four episodes of ''Perry Mason'' and Professor Henderson in three ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lock-Up (TV Series)
''Lock-Up'' is an American crime drama series that premiered in Broadcast syndication, syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for Characterization, character development or subplots. It instead presented a compact story without embellishment. Series overview The program stars Macdonald Carey as real-life Philadelphia corporate attorney Herbert L. Maris (1880–1960) and John Doucette as police detective Lieutenant Jim Weston. Maris died during the program's initial run. Each episode began with the following introduction: "These stories are based on the files and case histories of Herbert L. Maris, prominent attorney, who has devoted his life to saving the innocent." The foundation of each episode is the cornerstone of English and American jurisprudence: a person charged with a crime is Presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The series featured stories of persons who were unjustly ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Criminal Lawyer (1951 Film)
''Criminal Lawyer'' is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Pat O'Brien and Jane Wyatt.Blottner p.48-49 Plot A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in a murder case. Cast * Pat O'Brien as James Edward Reagan * Jane Wyatt as Maggie Powell * Carl Benton Reid as Tucker Bourne * Mary Castle as Gloria Lydendecker * Robert Shayne as Clark P. Sommers * Mike Mazurki as 'Moose' Hendricks * Jerome Cowan as Walter Medford * Marvin Kaplan as Sam Kutler * Douglas Fowley as Harry Cheney * Mickey Knox as Vincent Cheney * Louis Jean Heydt as Frank Burnett See also * List of American films of 1951 A list of American films released in 1951 in film, 1951. Danny Kaye hosted the 24th Academy Awards ceremony on held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood. The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Metro-Goldw ... References Bibliography * Blottner, Gene. ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arrowhead (1953 Film)
Arrowhead is a 1953 Western Technicolor film directed by Charles Marquis Warren (1912-1990), starring Charlton Heston, and featuring a supporting cast including Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith and Milburn Stone. The picture is based on the 1953 novel ''Adobe Walls'' by W. R. Burnett (1899-1982). The screenplay was also by Charles Marquis Warren of Baltimore. Plot Maverick scout Ed Bannon (Charlton Heston), a fictionalized depiction of real-life Army scout Al Sieber (1843-1907), is working with Army cavalry stationed at Fort Clark, near Brackettville, Texas. The United States Army Cavalry is trying to talk peace with the native Apaches and move them to reservations far to the East in Florida. Bannon's activities seem counterproductive to this new policy. Toriano (Jack Palance), the son of the Apache chief, returns from an Eastern white education. Bannon is suspicious of his motives and their mutual distrust of each other is eventually resolved by single man combat. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
No Escape (1953 Film)
''No Escape'' is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Bennett starring Lew Ayres, Sonny Tufts and Marjorie Steele. Bennett called the film "dreadful! I had a ten day shooting schedule." Plot The action is set in San Francisco where the film opens in a documentary style. When evidence and circumstance in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, both her boyfriend (a police detective) and a struggling songwriter who plays piano in a bar, decide to withhold evidence from the police. Both of them ostensibly act to protect the woman, who believes that she accidentally killed the victim after an attempted sexual assault. Later, the girl, knowing that the songwriter did not commit the murder, helps him to escape from a police dragnet when he becomes the main suspect. She and the songwriter fall in love and eventually compare notes about the events surrounding the murder, leading them to realize that someone else must be the culprit. The boyfriend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vice Squad (1953 Film)
''Vice Squad'' is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Edward G. Robinson and Paulette Goddard. The film is also known as ''The Girl in Room 17''. Plot A married undertaker having an affair, Jack Hartrampf, is a reluctant eyewitness to the shooting of a Los Angeles cop. He does not wish to testify, but captain of detectives "Barney" Barnaby is just as determined. After a bank robbery pulled by Alan Barkis and his gang, another policeman is gunned down and a bank teller is taken hostage. Escort agency madam Mona Ross is willing to help Barnaby with the case for a fee. Barnaby places one of Barkis' partners, Marty Kusalich, under arrest until Marty implicates the real killer. Pete Monte steals a boat in an attempt to get Barkis to freedom, but Barnaby and his lieutenant, Lacey, arrive in the nick of time. Cast * Edward G. Robinson as Capt. Barnaby * Paulette Goddard as Mona Ross * K.T. Stevens as Ginny * Porter Hall as Jack Hartrampf * Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fort Algiers
''Fort Algiers'' is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Theodore St John. The film reused action sequences from '' Outpost in Morocco'' (1949) and starred Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr, Leif Erickson, Anthony Caruso, John Dehner, Robert Boon and Henry Corden. The film was released on July 15, 1953, by United Artists. Plot A female secret agent is sent to French North Africa posing as a night club singer to investigate the massacre of a French Foreign Legion outpost. She discovers a treacherous leader planning an attack on strategic oil fields. Cast *Yvonne De Carlo as Yvette * Carlos Thompson as Jeff *Raymond Burr as Amir * Leif Erickson as Kalmani * Anthony Caruso as Chavez *John Dehner as Major Colle *Robert Boon as Mueller *Henry Corden as Yessouf *Joe Kirk as Luigi * Lewis Martin as Colonel Lasalle *Leonard Penn as Lt. Picard * William Phipps as Lt. Gerrier *Michael Couzzi as Richetti *Charles Evans as General Rouss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Houdini (1953 Film)
''Houdini'' is a 1953 American Technicolor biographical film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, was written by Philip Yordan, based on the book ''Houdini'' by Harold Kellock. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira, and the costume design by Edith Head. The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life. It details his beginnings as a carnival performer, later as a worker in a safe factory, and finally his international success as a world-renowned escape artist and stage magician. Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her. The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pony Express (film)
''Pony Express'' is a 1953 American Western film directed by Jerry Hopper, filmed in Kanab, Utah, and starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickok, Jan Sterling as a Calamity Jane-type character, and Rhonda Fleming. The story is largely based on the 1925 silent film '' The Pony Express'' while the threat of a Californian secession is taken from '' Frontier Pony Express'' (1939). The film is an historical account of the formation of the Pony Express rapid transcontinental mail delivery in the United States in 1860–1861. Although it gives no credit to the real founders of the Pony Express, Buffalo Bill Cody did ride for them, having signed up when he was 15 years old. Plot In 1860, Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. On the way, they battle the weather, hostile Indians and California secessionists intent on shutting the operation down to encourage Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Angel Face (1952 Film)
''Angel Face'' is a 1953 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, and featuring Leon Ames and Barbara O'Neil. It was filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California. Plot summary Frank Jessup is an ambulance driver who dreams of running his own repair shop for sportscars. One evening, while responding to an emergency call at a posh estate, he meets beautiful heiress Diane Tremayne. Intrigued, Diane devises a series of seemingly happenstance meetings with Frank, and a relationship between them ensues. As a result, Frank alienates his girlfriend, Mary Wilton. When the Tremayne family offers Frank a job as chauffeur, with his own rooms on the estate. He accepts. One afternoon, as Diane's father and stepmother start their car to drive to town, their vehicle mysteriously reverses when geared to drive forward. It careens backwards down a steep cliff, killing both occupants. As Diane is the sole heir to their fortune, she comes under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sudden Fear
''Sudden Fear'' is a 1952 American film noir thriller film starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in a tale about a successful woman who marries a murderous man. Directed by David Miller, the screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee and Robert Smith was based upon the novel of the same name by Edna Sherry. Plot Myra Hudson (Crawford) is a successful Broadway playwright who rejects Lester Blaine (Palance) as the lead in her new play. Later, she meets him on a train bound for San Francisco, is swept off her feet, and after a brief courtship, marries him. Lester is unaware that Myra is making changes to her will, which will ensure he will inherit everything. She has begun dictating them into her personal dictating machine, but is interrupted when guests begin to arrive for the evening. She forgets to turn the machine off, and later, when Lester and his long-time lover, Irene Neves (Grahame), are in Myra's study, they find the original will, which stipulates that the bulk of her fortune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Red Planet Mars
''Red Planet Mars'' is a 1952 American science fiction film released by United Artists starring Peter Graves and Andrea King. It is based on a 1932 play ''Red Planet'' written by John L. Balderston and John Hoare and was directed by art director Harry Horner in his directorial debut. Plot An American astronomer obtains images of Mars suggesting large-scale environmental changes are occurring at a pace that can only be accomplished by intelligent beings with advanced technology. Scientist Chris Cronyn (Peter Graves) and his wife, Linda ( Andrea King) have been contacting Mars by a hydrogen powered radio transmitter, using technology based on the work of Nazi scientist Franz Calder. They communicate first through an exchange of mathematical concepts, like the value of pi, and then through answers to specific questions about Martian life. The transmissions claim that Mars is a utopia, which has led to great technological advancement and the elimination of scarcity, but that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Wild North
''The Wild North'' (also known as ''The Big North'', ''Constable Pedley'', ''The Constable Pedley Story'', ''The Wild North Country'' and ''North Country'') is a 1952 American Western film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey and Cyd Charisse. It was the first Ansco Color film shot. Plot Jules Vincent, a French-Canadian trapper (Stewart Granger), while in a northern Canadian town, helps an attractive Indian singer (Cyd Charisse), fend off unwanted attentions from a drunken Max Brody ( Howard Petrie). The next day, Vincent sets off by canoe into the Canadian wilderness, taking the Indian girl up north to her tribe, now accompanied by a contrite Brody. When only Vincent and the Indian girl arrive at her Chippewa village, Vincent tells the chief ( John War Eagle) that Brody had acted recklessly by trying to run the rapids, and that he then tried to shoot Brody in the shoulder to graze it and frighten him, but that he accidentally killed Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |