Stanley Blystone — Actor (21)
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Half Shot Shooters (1936) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Half Shot Shooters
director: Jack White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
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Mutiny in the Arctic (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mutiny in the Arctic
director: John Rawlins actor: Richard Arlen / Andy Devine …
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
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The Whip Hand (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Whip Hand
director: William Cameron Menzies actor: Carla Balenda / Elliott Reid …
other title: Il lago in pericolo / La mano en la sombra
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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A Connecticut Yankee (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Connecticut Yankee
director: David Butler actor: Will Rogers / William Farnum …
other title: Un americano alla corte di Re Artù / Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo …
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
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Carnival (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Carnival
director: Walter Lang actor: Lee Tracy / Sally Eilers …
other title: Carnival (1935)
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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Tim Tyler's Luck (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tim Tyler's Luck
director: Ford Beebe / Wyndham Gittens actor: Frankie Thomas / Frances Robinson …
other title: Tim Tyler's Luck (seriado)
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Before Dawn (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Before Dawn
director: Irving Pichel actor: Stuart Erwin / Dorothy Wilson …
other title: Antes del amanecer
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
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Picture Snatcher (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Picture Snatcher
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: James Cagney / Ralph Bellamy …
other title: Dinamite doppia / Der Mann mit der Kamera …
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Murder at the Vanities (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Murder at the Vanities
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Carl Brisson / Victor McLaglen …
other title: Rythmes d'amour / El crimen del Vanities …
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
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Rancho Notorious (1952) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB
Rancho Notorious
director: Fritz Lang actor: Marlene Dietrich / Arthur Kennedy …
other title: Guldfuglen / Engel der Gejagten …
A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Invisible Man Returns
director: Joe May actor: Cedric Hardwicke / Vincent Price …
other title: Il ritorno dell'uomo invisibile / Der Unsichtbare kehrt zurück …
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Calamity Jane (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Calamity Jane
director: David Butler actor: Doris Day / Howard Keel …
other title: Non sparare, baciami! / Vestens vildkat …
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Man They Could Not Hang
director: Nick Grindé actor: Boris Karloff / Lorna Gray …
other title: L'uomo che non poteva essere impiccato / La horca fatal
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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A Night at the Opera (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Night at the Opera
director: Samuel Grosvenor Wood / Edmund Goulding actor: Groucho Marx / Chico Marx …
other title: Una notte all'opera / Halløj i operaen …
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
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Phantom of the Opera (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Phantom of the Opera
director: Arthur Lubin actor: Nelson Eddy / Susanna Foster …
other title: Il fantasma dell'Opera / Spøgelset i operaen …
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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Tower of London (1939) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Tower of London
director: Rowland V. Lee actor: Basil Rathbone / Boris Karloff …
other title: L'usurpatore / Der Henker von London …
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.