72% (1) Miss Susie Slagle's 88 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [John Berry] [08 Mar 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Joan Caulfield, Ray Collins, Sonny Tufts, Veronica Lake
Writer: Hugo Butler (screenplay), Anne Froelich (adaptation), Anne Froelich (screenplay), Adrian Scott (adaptation), Theodore Strauss (additional dialogue), Augusta Tucker (novel)
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Plot: Miss Susie Slagle's has opened her large home as a boarding house for medical students in Baltimore. The young men are encouraged by the compassionate Miss Susie as each struggles with the pressures of becoming doctors. One of her student boarders contracts diphtheria and dies, his loving fiancée, a student nurse bravely puts her grief aside to fulfill their dream of helping the poor in China. Finally the school year ends and Miss Susie wishes each of her boarders good success as she prepares once more to welcome a new group of eager young students.
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67% (1) The Man from Colorado 100 min, APPROVED, [Romance, Western] [Henry Levin] [01 Jan 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Ellen Drew, Glenn Ford, Ray Collins, William Holden
Writer: Robert Hardy Andrews (screenplay), Ben Maddow (screenplay), Borden Chase (original story)
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Plot: Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Glenn Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War vet who kills because he enjoys killing. William Holden, Ford's army buddy, tries to stem Ford's homicidal tendencies. When Ford is appointed the "hanging" judge of a Colorado town, Holden signs on as his deputy.
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66% (1) Kill the Umpire 78 min, Approved, [Comedy, Sport] [Lloyd Bacon] [27 Apr 1950]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Gloria Henry, Ray Collins, Una Merkel, William Bendix
Writer: Frank Tashlin (story and screenplay)
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Plot: Former baseball player Bill Johnson, portrayed by William Bendix, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans (Ray Collins), a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan (Connie Marshall ) and his wife Betty (Una Merkel) - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
Rotten Tomatoes: William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion to baseball has lost him job after job, so his father-in-law (Ray Collins)--who happens to be an umpire--forces Our Hero to enroll in umpire school. Eventually Bendix learns to respect his new job, even gaining a measure of popularity by earning the nickname "Two-Call Johnson" (the result of double vision brought about by an overdose of eye drop medicine). But when Bendix calls a play against a popular pitcher, he is accused of cheating by the angry fans. Forced to disguise himself to get to the Big Game, Bendix arrives at the ball park to a chorus of "boos." Exonerated by the pitcher, who praises the umpire's honesty, Bendix is the hero of the day...until he makes another unpopular call two seconds later. Kill the Umpire is climaxed by a zany chase sequence scripted by former cartoon director Frank Tashlin.
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66% (1) Crack-Up 93 min, Approved, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery] [Irving Reis] [06 Sep 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Pat O'Brien, Ray Collins
Writer: John Paxton, Ben Bengal, Ray Spencer, Fredric Brown (suggested by a short story "Madman's Holiday")
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Plot: George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturnal train trip. He suddenly sees another train ahead, speeding toward his... Is George indeed cracking up, or is there a plot to discredit him? The mystery grows murky with shadowy menace...
Rotten Tomatoes: George Steele (Pat O'Brien), an expert on art forgeries, is fired from his job at a famous art museum because of his erratic behavior. George insists that he was involved in a train accident, but he is suffering from a black-out and cannot remember any of the events. Anxious to clear his name, George, aided by both his girlfriend Terry (Claire Trevor) and a newspaper reporter and undercover Scotland Yard agent Traybin (Herbert Marshall), who is investigating a ring of art forgers. Under the influence of sodium pentothal, George discovers that he was framed to avoid his discovery of several forgeries. George must now escape the gang and save his own life when they learn of this knowledge. Crack-Up is often neglected but remains an interesting, if somewhat implausible thriller, featuring a strong performance by Pat O'Brien, and with an interesting, post-war undertone of paranoia as George struggles to save himself and the art from the evil, selfish collectors, who would keep it for themselves.
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64% (1) Crime Doctor 66 min, [Crime, Drama] [Michael Gordon] [22 Jun 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: John Litel, Margaret Lindsay, Ray Collins, Warner Baxter
Writer: C. Graham Baker (screenplay), Louis Lantz (screenplay), Max Marcin (radio series), Jerome Odlum (adaptation)
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Plot: Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a ...
Rotten Tomatoes: In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his memory. Unable to remember anything about his past, he starts anew and becomes a psychiatrist. He never does stop trying to remember his past life, even while his present life continues to advance. He is soon made the head of the state parole board. There he gets entangled with former gang members, one of whom hits him in the head, again. Suddenly, he remembers. He gives himself up, but then receives a suspended sentence.
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64% (2) Good Sam 114 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Leo McCarey] [01 Sep 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Edmund Lowe, Gary Cooper, Ray Collins
Writer: Leo McCarey (story), John D. Klorer (story), Ken Englund (screenplay)
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Plot: Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Rotten Tomatoes: Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as "sucker." Much to the dismay of his wife Lu (Anne Sheridan), who'd like to save up enough cash for a new house, Sam habitually gives his money away to one "deserving" soul or other. But when Sam himself is in dire financial difficulty, none of the people to whom he's extended his generosity come to his aid. Disillusioned, he goes on a bender and disappears into the night. Thanks to Lu's not-so-gentle remonstrations, however, Sam's debtors finally own up to their obligations, and a happy ending is had by all. Producer/director Leo McCarey has a good thing going in the first few reels of Good Sam, but eventually loses control of the film, resulting in a great deal of illogical plot twists and character transformations in the final footage. Still, it's interesting to watch Gary Cooper doing what amounts to an imitation of Jimmy Stewart. Originally released a 128 minutes, Good Sam was pared down to 114 minutes for reissue. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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