Several days after one of his company’s dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors Read More »
Tag Archives: Charley Grapewin
Sabotage (1939) Harold Young, Arleen Whelan, Gordon Oliver, Charley Grapewin
When Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver, Jezebel) is arrested on suspicion of sabotage Read More »
Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) Kurt Neumann, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving Read More »
The Man Who Dared (1939) Crane Wilbur, Jane Bryan, Charley Grapewin, Henry O’Neill
One man stands up to his dangerous corrupt local small town government. Read More »
A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942) James P. Hogan, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers’ past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Read More »
One Frightened Night (1935) Christy Cabanne, Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl
An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter Read More »
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »
Big City (1937) Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz, Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin, Drama
To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton’s wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. Read More »
Tobacco Road (1941) John Ford, Charley Grapewin, Gene Tierney, Marjorie Rambeau, Comedy, Drama
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank’s plans to take over the land for more profitable farming; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son Dude and daughter Ellie May.
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