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Tag Archives: Marguerite Chapman
Murder in Times Square (1943) Lew Landers, Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel
Actor-playwright Cory Williams is sitting in a nightclub when Longacre Lil, a Broadway vagrant, and asks him for some money. Read More »
Appointment in Berlin (1943) Alfred E. Green, George Sanders, Marguerite Chapman, Onslow Stevens
A former RAF officer is enlisted in the British secret service. Read More »
Mr. District Attorney (1947) Robert B. Sinclair, Dennis O’Keefe, Adolphe Menjou, Marguerite Chapman
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating. Read More »
Flight to Mars (1951) Lesley Selander, Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz
A newspaper reporter and a bunch of scientists fly a rocket to Mars just to find out that Martians look exactly like us. Read More »
The Last Page AKA Man Bait (1952) Terence Fisher, George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley
John Harman (George Brent), manager of an Oxford Street bookstore, reprimands an attractive young clerk Read More »
Coroner Creek (1948) Ray Enright, Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready
With the help of Kate Hardison (Marguerite Chapman), the Coroner Creek hotel keeper, Chris Danning (Randolph Scott) Read More »
Counter-Attack (1945) Zoltan Korda, Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks
This drama centers on a Red Army officer (Paul Muni), a Russian woman (Lisa Elenko), and seven German soldiers Read More »
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) Edgar G. Ulmer, Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith
Paul Krenner, an ex-major with delusions of grandeur, has forced scientist Peter Ulof to develop a radiation-based technique to turn men invisible Read More »
Strange Affair (1944) Alfred E. Green, Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, Mystery
Eminent psychologist Dr. Brenner (Erwin Kalser) invites cartoonist Bill Harrison (Allyn Joslyn) along with his spouse, Jack (Evelyn Keyes), into a feast honoring war refugees. 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 »
Kansas Raiders (1950) Ray Enright, Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Western
Audie Murphy plays a young Jesse James falling under the Svengali-like spell of the outlaw William Quantrill, played by Brian Donlevy. Read More »
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946) Lothar Mendes, Lee Bowman, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance
The Columbia mystery melodrama The Walls Came Tumbling Down is regarded in many circles as star Lee Bowman’s finest hour-and-a-half. Bowman is cast as Winchellesque Broadway columnist Gilbert Archer, who insists upon investigating the death of an old friend, a priest. The police insist that the priest hanged himself, but Archer believes otherwise, and together with Boston socialite Patricia Foster (Marguerite Chapman) he begins to play detective – though “play” is hardly the word. Key ingredients to the mystery are two rare Bibles and a painting of the fall of Jericho. The principal villainy comes at the grubby hands of Columbia contractees George Macready and Edgar Buchanan, while J. Edward Bromberg has a few amusing moments as a kooky art dealer.
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Relentless (1948) George Sherman, Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman, Willard Parker, Western
At the local saloon, prospectors Len Briggs and Bob Pliny brag about finding gold at their mine. Bad guys Tex Brandaw and Jim Rupple decide to follow the two prospectors and steal their mine. Drifter Nick Buckley who’s passing through town seeking shelter for his pregnant mare is offered a drink by the two old prospectors, on the account of their recent good fortune. They also offer him the use of their shack for the night. However, bad guy Tex Brandaw suggests to Nick the use of an empty stall in the town stable instead. The two old prospectors return to their cabin where bad guys Tex and Jim await in ambush and kill the prospectors and steal the map revealing the gold mine’s location. They divide the map in two sections, to prevent cheating, and split up agreeing to meet later. Tex has no intention of sharing the gold with Jim and bushwhacks him on the trail taking Jim’s other half of the map. Jim pursues Tex on foot and runs into drifter Nick Buckley who left town after spending …
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