
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. Read More »
Tag Archives: S. Sylvan Simon
Rio Rita (1942) S. Sylvan Simon, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson

After being fired from their jobs as clerks in a pet store, Doc and Wishey, a couple of bumpkins Read More »
Lust for Gold (1949) S. Sylvan Simon

The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the “Dutchman” (German) of Arizona’s notorious Read More »
Washington Melodrama (1941) S. Sylvan Simon, Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor

Calvin Claymore is a wealthy businessman trying to get a bill passed to help the starving children Read More »
The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938) S. Sylvan Simon, Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan

This underrated feature stars Ralph Bellamy as Dr. Paul Hallet, working in the jungles Read More »
The Fuller Brush Man (1948) S. Sylvan Simon, Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. Read More »
Tish (1942) S. Sylvan Simon, Marjorie Main, Zasu Pitts, Aline MacMahon

Letitia “Tish” Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew Read More »
Son of Lassie (1945) S. Sylvan Simon, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart

Laddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 – has he inherited his mothers famous courage ? Read More »
Whistling in the Dark (1941) S. Sylvan Simon, Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford

The operators of ‘Silver Haven’, a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money Read More »
I Love Trouble (1948) S. Sylvan Simon, Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife’s past. Read More »