Billy Coy comes to Carrell. His late father’s mechanic Red hires Billy as a mechanic. Soon, Billy gets a job as a driver. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michael O’Shea
Jack London (1943) Alfred Santell, Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen
Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »
Violence (1947) Jack Bernhard, Nancy Coleman, Michael O’Shea, Sheldon Leonard
Undersover magazine reporter Ann Mason is able to infiltrate a neo-facist organization that recruits disgruntled war veterans Read More »
Man from Frisco (1944) Robert Florey, Michael O’Shea, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Read More »
Circumstantial Evidence (1945) John Francis Larkin, Michael O’Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young lad has his fine new hatchet confiscated by a grumpy baker. The boy’s hot-headed father tries to get it back Read More »
Fixed Bayonets! (1951) Samuel Fuller, Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea, Action, Drama, War
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno’s superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
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The Eve of St. Mark (1944) John M. Stahl, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O’Shea, War, Drama
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. Read More »
It’s a Pleasure (1945) William A. Seiter, Sonja Henie, Michael O’Shea, Marie McDonald, Comedy, Musical
Don Martin is a star hockey player with the Wildcats until he is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Read More »
Parole, Inc. (1948) Alfred Zeisler, Michael O’Shea, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
When several notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on parole, the Federal Government smells a rat and sends ace agent Richard Hendricks to investigate. Hendricks infiltrates the gang, responsible for the parole racket by posing as a much-wanted convict Rick Carson. However, the wily Barney Rodescu, who is the brain behind the racket, soon finds out Carson’s true identity. Carson’s life is now in grave danger.
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Lady of Burlesque (1943) William A. Wellman, Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Comedy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that’s been turned into a burlesque theater. She’s popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she’d get the top spot. Also complicating matters is the return of the Princess Nirvena, the show’s former star who once had a fling with the boss. When the Princess blackmails her way into the top spot, Dixie is none too pleased. When both Lolita and the Princess are murdered, Dixie becomes a prime suspect. She then sets up a trap to nail the real killer.
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The Threat (1949) Felix E. Feist, Michael O’Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
At Folsom Prison, several inmates escape…including killer Arnold Kluger, who swore revenge on the detective and district attorney who convicted him. Despite precautions, the two men are soon in Kluger’s power, together with showgirl Carol whom he suspects of informing on him. At a shack in the California desert, Kluger, two henchmen, and four hostages wait, and wait, for an escape plane that may never come.
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