Regis Toomey — Actor (48)
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The Forest Rangers (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Forest Rangers
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Corazones en llamas
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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Follow the Boys (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Follow the Boys
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: George Raft / Vera Zorina …
other title: La nave della morte / Hollywood Parade …
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
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Station West (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Station West
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Dick Powell / Jane Greer …
other title: La città della paura / La Cité de la peur …
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
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Frenchie (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Frenchie
director: Louis King actor: Joel McCrea / Shelley Winters …
other title: Yvonne la francesina / Revolverlady …
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Island in the Sky (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Island in the Sky
director: William A. Wellman actor: Andy Devine / Andy Devine …
other title: L'isola nel cielo / Das letzte Signal …
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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The Bishop's Wife (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Bishop's Wife
director: Henry Koster actor: Cary Grant / Loretta Young …
other title: La moglie del vescovo / O Mensageiro do Céu …
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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Meet John Doe (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Meet John Doe
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Arriva John Doe! / Vi Behøver Hinanden …
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Cover Me Babe (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cover Me Babe
director: Noel Black actor: Robert Forster / Sondra Locke …
other title: Run Shadow Run
Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.
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Warlock (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Warlock
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Richard Widmark / Henry Fonda …
other title: Ultima notte a Warlock / Warlock - Den lovløse by …
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
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Strange Illusion (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Strange Illusion
director: Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Jimmy Lydon / Warren William …
other title: Sangue nel sogno / Extraña ilusión …
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
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The Phantom Creeps (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Phantom Creeps
director: Ford Beebe / Saul A. Goodkind actor: Bela Lugosi / Robert Kent …
other title: El acecho del fantasma
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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The Boy with Green Hair (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Boy with Green Hair
director: Joseph Losey actor: Pat O'Brien / Robert Ryan …
other title: Il ragazzo dai capelli verdi / Der Junge mit den grünen Haaren …
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
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Beyond the Forest (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Beyond the Forest
director: King Vidor actor: Bette Davis / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Peccato / Der Stachel des Bösen …
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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Evil Town (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Evil Town
director: Mardi Rustam / Curtis Hanson … actor: Greg Finley / Keith Hefner …
other title: God Damn Dr. Shagetz
A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors to their town for his experiments.
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Mighty Joe Young (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mighty Joe Young
director: Ernest B. Schoedsack actor: Terry Moore / Ben Johnson …
other title: Il re dell'Africa / Panik um King Kong …
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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Guys and Dolls (1955) [Movie]
Guys and Dolls
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Marlon Brando / Jean Simmons …
other title: Bulli e pupe / Eles e Elas …
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.