''Mr. Reckless'' is a 1948 American
adventure film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
Frank McDonald.
Plot
Cast
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William Eythe as Jeff Lundy
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Barbara Britton
Barbara Britton (born Barbara Maurine Brantingham; September 26, 1920 – January 17, 1980) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Western film roles opposite Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Gene Autry and for h ...
as Betty Denton
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Walter Catlett
Walter Leland Catlett (February 4, 1889 – November 14, 1960) was an American actor and comedian. He made a career of playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards.
Career
Catlett was born on February 4, 1889, in S ...
as Joel Hawkins
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Minna Gombell
Minna Marie Gombell (''née'' Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
She was born Minna Marie Gombel in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of William and Emma M. Debring Gombel. Her father was ...
as Ma Hawkins
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Lloyd Corrigan
Lloyd Corrigan (October 16, 1900 – November 5, 1969) was an American film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, and director who began working in films in the 1920s. The son of actress Lillian Elliott, Corrigan directed films, usually ...
as Hugo Denton
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Nestor Paiva
Nestor Caetano Paiva (June 30, 1905 – September 9, 1966) was an American stage, radio, film and television actor of Portuguese descent. He performed in over 400 motion pictures either as an extra, a bit player, or as a significant supporting ...
as Gus
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Frank Jenks
Frank Jenks (November 4, 1902 – May 13, 1962) was an American actor and vaudevillian.
Biography Early years
Jenks was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and his mother gave him a trombone when he was 9 years old. By his late teens he was playing ...
as Cab Driver
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Ian MacDonald
Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both '' Revolution in the Head'', his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed te ...
as Jim Halsey
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James Millican
James Millican (February 17, 1910 – November 24, 1955) was an American actor with over 200 film appearances mostly in western movies.
Millican was the son of Fred S. Millican, a circus owner, and Dorothy Millican.
Millican was a clos ...
as Pete
Production
Pine Thomas Productions purchased the story from Thomas Ahearn in 1946 and hired him to write the script.
[Star Pens Play Based on His Acrobatic Past
Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 20 Sep 1946: 9.]
References
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1948 films
1948 adventure films
1940s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Frank McDonald
American adventure films
1940s American films
English-language adventure films
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