Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against younger ex-pal Chester Morris. Read More »
Tag Archives: Virginia Grey
Unknown Island (1948) Jack Bernhard, Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition Read More »
The Fighting Lawman (1953) Thomas Carr, Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, John Kellogg
Deputy U. S. Marshal Jim Burke, stationed in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1886, follows the trail of four bank robbers Read More »
House of Horrors (1946) Jean Yarbrough, Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin
Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. Read More »
Hullabaloo (1940) Edwin L. Marin, Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey
A movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather’s attempt to restore his career Read More »
Slaughter Trail (1951) Irving Allen, Brian Donlevy, Gig Young, Virginia Grey
Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. Read More »
Grissly’s Millions (1945) John English, Paul Kelly, Virginia Grey, Donald Douglas
An eccentric millionaire appears to die while killing our heroine’s estranged, badboy husband. Read More »
Blonde Inspiration (1941) Busby Berkeley, John Shelton, Virginia Grey, Albert Dekker
Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. Read More »
Highway 301 (1950) Andrew L. Stone, Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André
The “Tri-State” gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals. Read More »
Jungle Jim (1948) William Berke, Johnny Weissmuller, Virginia Grey, George Reeves, Action, Adventure
Smooth as Silk (1946) Charles Barton, Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, Milburn Stone, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Desert Pursuit (1952) George Blair, Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, George Tobias, Western
In this bizarre western, two prospectors strike it rich and set out across Death Valley with their riches. They are chased by three Arabs astride camels (they are left-overs from a proposed government program that brought the desert beasts to the US to assist with desert travel). The locals who see the Arabs pass by mistake them for everything from Indians to the 3 Wise Men. The prospectors are assisted by the real Indians who dispatch with the Arabs.
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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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Strangers in the Night (1944) Anthony Mann, William Terry, Virginia Grey, Helene Thimig, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lonely, mentally unbalanced woman invents a fictitious daughter and has the “daughter” write to a Marine stationed in the South Pacific. When the soldier returns back to the States, he goes to look up his pen pal, and is told by the “mother” that the daughter has moved away. An acquaintance of the women tells the soldier the truth, and in a rage the “mother” kills her. In order to cover up that crime, she realizes she must kill the soldier, too.
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Another Thin Man (1939) W.S. Van Dyke, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Farewell Murder”, Nick and Nora (and their dog Asta) visit the estate of Col. MacFay, who is being threatened by a mysterious man wanting revenge for a past injustice. When MacFay is murdered, that man is the obvious suspect- maybe too obvious…
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