A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. Read More »
Tag Archives: Lloyd Bacon
42nd Street (1933) Lloyd Bacon, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. Read More »
Wake Up and Dream (1946) Lloyd Bacon, John Payne, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood
Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her “ancient mariner” boarder. Read More »
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) Lloyd Bacon, Donald O’Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett
World War II veteran Clarence “Jigger” Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. Read More »
She Couldnt Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
As usual with most of the RKO films from this era “presented” by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, Read More »
The Frogmen (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill
World War II drama in which Richard Widmark, as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, replaces the popular commanding officer of a group of underwater demolition divers. Read More »
Espionage Agent (1939) Lloyd Bacon, Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent Read More »
Ever Since Eve (1937) Lloyd Bacon, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Comedy, Romance
Marge is a competent secretary, but her managers are more enthusiastic about her abilities. Read More »
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) Lloyd Bacon, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Stage-producer J.J. Hobart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn’t know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. Read More »
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) Lloyd Bacon, Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Comedy
Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend’s kit without permission Read More »
The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) Lloyd Bacon, Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Western
Joan Britton, improbably gorgeous frontier horse dealer, and the much less scrupulous Stephen Cook are friendly competitors supplying horses to the Union Army in Wyoming Territory during the Civil War. Read More »
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues Read More »
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Crime, Drama
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Read More »
Manhattan Parade (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Winnie Lightner, Charles Butterworth, Joe Smith, Comedy
The John Roberts Costume Company is being run super-efficiently by Doris Roberts, but her husband demands that she give up her position to stay at home with their young son. Read More »
A Very Honorable Guy (1934) Lloyd Bacon, Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Read More »