|
Louis Friedlander
Lew Landers (born Louis Friedlander, January 2, 1901 – December 16, 1962) was an American independent film and television director. Biography Born as Louis Friedlander in New York City, Lew Landers began his movie career as an actor. In 1914, he appeared in two features: D.W. Griffith's drama '' The Escape'' and the comedy short ''Admission – Two Pins'', under his birth name. He became an assistant director at Universal Pictures in 1922. He began making films in the 1930s, one of his early ones being the Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi thriller ''The Raven'' (1935). After directing a few more features, he changed his name to Lew Landers and directed more than 100 films in a variety of genres, including Westerns, comedies, and horror movies. He worked for every major film studio—and many minor ones—during his career. Since 1943, he began to alternate his movie work with directing television series, including two episodes of '' Adventures of Superman'' and the campy ''Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Desert, California
Palm Desert is a city in the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County, California. The city is located in the Colorado Desert arm of the Sonoran Desert, about east of Palm Springs, northeast of San Diego and east of Los Angeles. The population was 51,163 at the 2020 census, and the city has been one of the state's fastest-growing since 1980, when its population was 11,801. History Palm Desert is in the ancestral homeland of the Cahuilla people, who are nowadays organized as a division of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Their bird songs and funeral songs share the oral tradition of how they lived on this land for over 10,000 years. The area was first known as the Old MacDonald Ranch, before the name changed to Palm Village in the 1920s when date palm groves were planted. That original tract is today referred to as the ''Palma Village'' neighborhood in the central part of the city. Most of the pre–World War II residents of Palm Desert were Cahuilla farmers of the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Rider
''The Red Rider'' is a 1934 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures and starring Buck Jones. It has 15 chapters based on the short story "The Redhead from Sun Dog" by W. C. Tuttle, and is a remake of Buck Jones' earlier 1931 film '' The Range Feud''. Plot Sheriff "Red" Davison (Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, is shocked when he hears his good friend "Silent" Slade (Grant Withers) has been accused of murdering a man named Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). He feels that Slade was framed and denied a fair trial. When Slade is sentenced to hang, Red allows him to escape from jail, sacrificing his job and his good reputation in the process. Red and his horse Silver then follow Slade in an attempt to aid him in proving his innocence. Cast * Buck Jones as "Red" Davidson * Grant Withers as "Silent" Slade * Marion Shilling as Marie Maxwell * Walter Miller as Jim Breen * Richard Cramer as Joe Portos * Silver as Silver, Red's Horse * Charles K. French as Robert Maxwell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Takes A Tour
''Annabel Takes a Tour'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and starring Lucille Ball, Jack Oakie and Ruth Donnelly. Annabel (Lucille Ball) is on a promotional tour and, as a publicity stunt, leaks a story that she is having a romantic fling with a famous romance novelist. The film is a sequel to '' The Affairs of Annabel''. Plot Frustrated at being upstaged in the press by a colleague who's making headlines with her aristocratic fiancé, movie star Annabel Allison insists that studio chief Howard Webb rehire dangerously resourceful publicist Lanny Morgan. Allison, Morgan, Josephine, and Poochy depart by train for Chicago on a public-appearance tour in conjunction with the premiere of Allison's latest film. Morgan accidentally sends Allison through a trap door as she addresses the Chicago audience, and he attempts unsuccessfully to capitalize on the mishap for PR purposes by exaggerating Allison's injuries. While recuperating in her hotel, Allison learns that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Wanted To Marry
''They Wanted to Marry'' is a 1937 romantic comedy film directed by Lew Landers from a screenplay by Paul Yawitz and Ethel Borden, based on a story by Larry Bachmann and Daniel L. Teilhet. RKO produced and distributed the film, releasing it on February 5, 1937. The picture stars Betty Furness and Gordon Jones. Plot Cast * Gordon Jones as Jim * Betty Furness as Sheila * E.E. Clive as Stiles * Patsy Parsons as Patsy (as Patsy Lee Parsons) * Henry Kolker Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874 – July 15, 1947) was an American stage and film actor and film director, director. Early years Kolker was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1874. (Some sources say 1870.) He came to America at age five and w ... as Mr. Hunter * Frank M. Thomas as Detective * Charles C. Wilson as Clark (as Charles Wilson) * William 'Billy' Benedict as Freckles (as William Benedict) * Diana Gibson as Helen References External links * * * 1937 romantic comedy films American romantic comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Cafe (film)
''Border Cafe'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Harry Carey. Plot Keith Whitney, the son of a wealthy senator, travels to the western part of the country to purchase a ranch. After losing his money at a cafe near the border, he is taken in by a rancher named Tex, who offers him refuge and makes him a partial owner of the ranch. When Keith's father and girlfriend are kidnapped, Tex and Keith team up to rescue them. Along the way, Keith transforms from an intoxicated patron to a hero, and ultimately helps to save the day. Cast * Harry Carey as Tex Stevens * John Beal as Keith Whitney * Armida as Dominga * George Irving as Senator Henry Whitney * Leona Roberts as Mrs. Emily Whitney * J. Carrol Naish as ''Rocky Alton * Marjorie Lord as Janet Barry * Lee Patrick as Ellie * Paul Fix as "Doley" Dolson * Max Wagner as Shakey, Rocky's Henchman * Walter Miller as Evans, Rocky's Henchman See also * List of American films of 1937 * Harry Carey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Found Himself
''The Man Who Found Himself'', also known as ''Wings of Mercy'', is a 1937 American aviation film based on the unpublished story "Wings of Mercy" by Alice B. Curtis. The film marked the first starring role for 19-year-old Joan Fontaine, who was billed as the "new RKO screen personality", highlighted following the end of the film by a special "on screen" introduction. Unlike many of the period films that appeared to glorify aviation, it is a complex film, examining the motivations of both doctors and pilots. Plot Young doctor Jim Stanton has two passionate interests in conflict with each other. He is first a conscientious surgeon, but in his spare time, pursues his love of flying, a dangerous hobby that his well-intentioned father abhors. His father is a well-regarded doctor who does his best to curtail his son's flying. When Jim crashes, his passenger, a married woman is killed. The resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put him on probation. Believing that he is innocent an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Buy Luck
''You Can't Buy Luck'' is a 1937 American murder mystery film directed by Lew Landers and starring Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack and Vinton Hayworth. It was produced and distributed by Hollywood studio RKO Pictures. Plot Superstitious New York gambler Joe Baldwin (Onslow Stevens), owner of the thoroughbred racing horse Sarcasm, believes that luck can be bought with charitable deeds. Before the Kentucky Derby, to "buy luck," he finances an expensive trip to Europe for gold-digger Jean Jason, his "good luck charm," not knowing she is taking her lover with her, gigolo and sometime artist Paul Vinette (Vinton Hayworth). He also gives his old friend Frank Brent cash to save his cab business and visits an orphanage in Louisville with his sister, where he meets Betty McKay (Helen Mack), a pretty teacher who scoffs at his philosophy. She scolds him for wishing for rain on the day of the Derby to aid his horse, who runs best on a muddy track, because the orphans plan an outdoor party. Alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Patrol
''Danger Patrol'' is a 1937 American drama film directed by Lew Landers from a screenplay by Sy Bartlett based on a story by Helen Vreeland and Hilda Vincent. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it was released on December 3, 1937, and stars Sally Eilers, John Beal, and Harry Carey. Plot Dan Loring ( John Beal) wants to be a medical student, but does not have the money for it. He takes a job as an apprentice with the Goliath Explosives Corp. transporting nitroglycerin—or as they like to call it, "soup"—to oil fields. He is trained by Sam "Easy" Street ( Harry Carey), a veteran nitro handler, and soon promoted to a full-time nitro truck driver. Meanwhile, Dan begins to develop a romantic relationship with Sam's daughter, Cathy ( Sally Eilers). Because the explosive is so easily set off, the families of all the "soup handlers" live in fear that they will suddenly die. For years Cathy has been asking her father to leave the job, and he has been replying that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living On Love
''Living on Love'' is a 1937 American romantic comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures. Directed by Lew Landers, it stars James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, and Joan Woodbury. The film is a remake of the RKO film ''Rafter Romance'' (1933). It is one of the "lost RKO films" owned by Merian C. Cooper and only re-released in April 2007 when Turner Classic Movies acquired the rights and aired all six films on its channel. Plot Gary Martin is a struggling artist living in the Venus de Milo Arms, a shabby apartment building in Greenwich Village. Another tenant, Mary Wilson, is also having trouble keeping up with her rent. The two do not know one another, but building manager Eli West arranges for them to live in the same basement apartment, him by day and her by night, at a reduced rate so he can re-rent Mary's apartment to the paying Ghonoff brothers, a Russian acrobatic team. Though they never see one another, Gary and Mary find plenty of traces of one another in the room, and begin le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight From Glory
''Flight from Glory'' is an American B movie about a run-down air cargo company in the Andes. It was directed by Lew Landers, and starred Chester Morris, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens and Van Heflin. When released on August 20, 1937, ''Flight from Glory'' was considered one of the films that broke new ground in "pioneering airline sagas", comparing favorably to big-budget features such as 1936's ''Thirteen Hours by Air''. Plot Ellis (Onslow Stevens) runs Trans-Andean Air Service, a run-down company transporting supplies from Delgado, a tiny, remote outpost, over the Andes Mountains to some mines. To save money, Ellis uses worn-out aircraft and "black sheep" pilots and crew no one else will employ. He hires George Wilson (Van Heflin), and is surprised when he brings his new wife, Lee (Whitney Bourne). Chief pilot Paul Smith (Chester Morris) tries to get her to leave, but the Wilsons have no money. As time goes on, George proves to be a drunk. Paul protects him as best he can, as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Waitress
''Night Waitress'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Marcus Goodrich. The film stars Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Hayworth, Marc Lawrence and Billy Gilbert. The film was released on December 18, 1936, by RKO Pictures. Plot A waterfront waitress and her boyfriend know too much about a murder and gold. Cast *Margot Grahame as Helen Roberts * Gordon Jones as Martin Rhodes *Vinton Hayworth as George Skinner *Marc Lawrence as Dorn *Billy Gilbert as Torre *Don 'Red' Barry as Mario Rigo *Otto Yamaoka as Fong * Paul Stanton as District Attorney *Arthur Loft as Borgum * Walter Miller as Police Inspector *Anthony Quinn as gangster (uncredited) *Willie Best William Best (May 27, 1916 – February 27, 1962), known professionally as Willie Best or Sleep 'n' Eat, was an American television and film actor. Best was one of the first African American film actors and comedians to become well known ... as Cars For Rent attendant (uncredi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Orders
''Without Orders'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Frances Sage, Charley Grapewin and Vinton Haworth. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures, who released the picture on October 23, 1936. The screenplay was written by Samuel Briskin and Cliff Reid, based on the short story of the same name by Peter B. Kyne, which had appeared in the February 8, 1936 edition of ''Collier's'' magazine. Plot At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth) lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick (Charley Grapewin) who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated flight attendant, stewardess Kay Armstrong (Sally Eilers) who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison (Robert Armstrong). Len dates her sister Penny (Frances Sage) who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
