71% (1)  Ride 'Em Cowboy  82 min,  Approved,  [Comedy, Western, Musical]  [Arthur Lubin]  [13 Feb 1942]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 71%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 nomination.
Actors:  Anne Gwynne, Bud Abbott, Dick Foran, Lou Costello
Writer:  Edmund L. Hartmann (story), Harold Shumate (adaptation), True Boardman (screenplay), John Grant (screenplay)
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Plot:  Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Bud Abbott and Lou Costello invade the Wild West in this film. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo peanut vendors who get mixed up in the travails of western novelist Bob Mitchell.
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66% (1)  Weird Woman  63 min,  PASSED,  [Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery]  [Reginald Le Borg]  [01 Mar 1944]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Morgan
Writer:  Fritz Leiber Jr. (novel), Scott Darling (adaptation), Brenda Weisberg (screenplay)
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Plot:  While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this film, a college professor returns from a tropical vacation with a bride who was raised by natives. Unfortunately, his jealous ex-girl friend begins spreading rumors that the girl is a voodoo priestess. To ensure that the bride is ruined, the conniving villainess commits a series of murders.
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64% (1)  Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome  65 min,  APPROVED,  [Action, Crime, Drama]  [John Rawlins]  [26 Sep 1947]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 64%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Anne Gwynne, Boris Karloff, Edward Ashley, Ralph Byrd
Writer:  Robertson White (screenplay), Eric Taylor (screenplay), William Graffis (from a story by), Robert E. Kent (from a story by), Chester Gould (based on the cartoon strip "Dick Tracy" created by)
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Plot:  A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. To get in and out of the bank without being noticed, the gang uses an asphyxiating gas that leaves anyone inside momentarily frozen in place. Everyone, that is, except for bank customer Tess Truehart (Anne Gwynne), who is able to contact Dick Tracy (Byrd) from a phone booth in the bank. With little or no clues, Tracy and his man Friday, Pat Patton (Lyle Latell), question the bank customers but none can shed any light on the mysterious goings-on. The disappearance of Dr. A. Tomic (Milton Parsons) and the odd behavior of his associate, Dr. I.M. Learned (June Clayworth), crack the case wide open, however, and Tracy is eventually able to track down both Gruesome and the surprising identity of his boss, L.E. Thal (Edward Ashley). According to some reports, RKO wanted to release Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as "Dick Tracy Meets Karloff" but that title was vetoed by Karloff himself. The legendary horror star apparently later accepted his own box-office value and a 1949 Universal comedy was released as Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.
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63% (1)  We've Never Been Licked  103 min,  APPROVED,  [Action, Drama, Romance]  [John Rawlins]  [30 Aug 1943]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 63%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr., Richard Quine
Writer:  Norman Reilly Raine (story "The Fighting Sons of Texas A. & M."), Nick Grinde (screenplay), Norman Reilly Raine (screenplay)
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Plot:  WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas. Young Brad Craig (Langton) enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate, played by Noah Beery. In the meantime, Craig associates with Japanese spies (including William Frawley of "I Love Lucy") bent on stealing a secret chemical compound being worked on a the University. But is he one of them, or a double agent for his country?
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55% (1)  Killer Dill  75 min,  APPROVED,  [Comedy, Crime]  [Lewis D. Collins]  [02 Aug 1947]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 55%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Anne Gwynne, Frank Albertson, Mike Mazurki, Stuart Erwin
Writer:  Alan Friedman (story), John O'Dea
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Plot:  Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Screen Guild's Killer Dill trods a comedy path previously taken by such films as Mr. Lemon of Orange and The Whole Town's Talking. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny Dill, milquetoast door-to-door salesman who happens to be the exact double of a notorious Prohibition gangster. When the bad guy murders a rival, poor Dill is really in a pickle. Our hero finds himself stuck between the forces of good, represented by crusading attorney Allen (Frank Albertson), and the minions of evil, played by such veteran movie heavies as Mike Mazurki, Anthony Warde and Ben Welden. Erwin's well-thought-out performance helps to cover the gaping story holes and logic gaps.
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