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The Second Face (1950) Jack Bernhard, Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital Read More »
Before I Hang (1940) Nick Grinde, Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals’ blood Read More »
Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948) Richard L. Bare, Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
Linda Vickers gets mixed up with gambler Marty Fain. One of Fain’s henchmen uses her car in a killing, and the police come around asking questions. Read More »
The Fiend of Dope Island (1961) Nate Watt, Bruce Bennett, Robert Bray, Tania Velia
Charlie is a dope smuggler who lives on his own private desert island and rules over the natives with an iron fist. Read More »
The Big Tip Off (1955) Frank McDonald, Richard Conte, Constance Smith, Bruce Bennett
Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoriety by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities. Read More »
Honolulu Lu (1941) Charles Barton, Lupe Velez, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Bennett
Consuelo Cordoba is a headstrong girl trying to reform her con man uncle Don Estaban Cordoba, who is posing as a wealthy tourist in Hawaii. Read More »
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940) Sidney Salkow, Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit. Read More »
The House Across the Street (1949) Richard L. Bare, Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher Read More »
The Last Outpost (1951) Lewis R. Foster, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett, Western
Two brothers who are not the best friends because they were fighting on different sides during the Civil War have to cooperate in order to defend themselves against an attack of indians. Read More »
Submarine Raider (1942) Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher, John Howard, Marguerite Chapman, Bruce Bennett, Drama, War
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier “Hiranamu”, orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. Read More »
Dragonfly Squadron (1954) Lesley Selander, John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett, Drama, War
A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base. Once there he meets again Donna Cottrell (Barbara Britton), whom he was about to marry a year ago until she learned that she wasn’t the widow she thought she was. Her husband (Bruce Bennett), had been a prisoner and wasn’t dead, and showed up before the wedding and more or less put a damper on the whole proceedings. He is the base doctor and also keeps a wary eye on his wife and Brady. Not a bad idea considering the short period of grief she went through, after being informed he was dead, before heading for the altar with Brady. But Bruce Bennet, as was par for the course for characters Bennett usually played, does the right thing and gets himself blown up by an enemy bomb (and is certified real dead this time), thereby ensuring the two top-billed players will end up together.
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There’s Something About a Soldier (1943) Alfred E. Green, Tom Neal, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Drama
War-time films set in stateside training camps abounded in the early Forties. Often, these films utilized the basic plot points of programmers but set the action in the contemporary locale of an army camp. Tom Neal (Detour) plays Wally Williams, a trainee who’s so full of himself that his fellow candidates – and maybe the audience – dislike him.
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Dark Passage (1947) Delmer Daves, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Film-Noir, Thriller
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart’s-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he’s really after is revenge.
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The Younger Brothers (1949) Edwin L. Marin, Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Western
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
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