The Vampire Bat (1932) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone

Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the middle-European municipality of Kleinschloss in this atmospheric, low-budget thriller from small-scale Majestic Pictures, and the burgomaster (Lionel Belmore) demands answers. With victims scattered everywhere, all bearing the ...

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Blondie for Victory (1942) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Majelle White

Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie (Penny Singleton) joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood (Arthur Lake) soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) and a newlywed husband ...

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Blondie (1938) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Gene Lockhart, Ann Doran

When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably never imagined that the ensuing "Blondie" series would last for 12 years and 28 episodes! Part of the series' charm was Columbia's wisdom in casting the ideal actors for the leading roles. Penny Singleton dyed her hair blonde ...

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The Monster Walks (1932) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Vera Reynolds, Sheldon Lewis, Sleep 'n' Eat, Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox

It is difficult to believe that this ultra-cheapie ever actually scared anyone; it's just possible that audiences laughed as loudly at the film in 1932 as they do today. On a dark and stormy night, Hero and heroine Rex Lease and Vera Reynolds head to Reynolds's ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Everyone in the house takes great delight ...

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Blondie on a Budget (1940) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Rita Hayworth

This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract actress. Hayworth plays an old flame of Dagwood Bumstead's (Arthur Lake), who moves into the Bumstead household when wife Blondie (Penny Singleton) advertises for a boarder. Blondie (Penny Singleton) tries to be civil when she ...

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Congo Swing (1941) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Ruth Terry, Tito Guizar

Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is invited by his boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) to accompany Dithers on an ocean cruise to South America. Dagwood's whole family comes along, including wife Blondie (Penny Singleton), son Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) and Daisy the dog and her pups. Just before sailing, Dagwood is compelled to stay behind and watch ...

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Blondie Goes to College (1942) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Janet Blair

One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie (Penny Singleton) enrolls in college as well-but the ...

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Blondie Brings up Baby (1939) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Danny Mummert

Columbia's new "Blondie" series continued its winning streak with its fourth entry, Blondie Brings Up Baby. So much happens within the film's 67 minutes that it's best to boil things down to the central storyline. Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms), the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead (Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake) disappears from ...

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Blondie Meets the Boss (1939) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Jonathan Hale

This second entry in Columbia's new "Blondie" series is every bit as delightful as the first. When Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) heads off for a long-awaited fishing trip, his loving wife Blondie (Penny Singleton) assumes Dag's duties at the offices of J. C. Dithers (Jonathan Hale). Unfortunately, our hero finds himself in a compromising position ...

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By Appointment Only (1933) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Sally O'Neil, Edward Morgan, Edward Martindel

When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old daughter Judy (Sally O'Neil), whom he makes his ward. Against the wishes of his fiancée, socialite Diane Manners (Aileen Pringle), Michael leaves for an extended business trip to Europe. Upon his return three years later, the good ...

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Fugitive Road (1934) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Erich Von Stroheim, Vera Engels, Leslie Fenton, George Humbert

Down on his luck in 1934, Erich Von Stroheim accepted a leading role in the Chesterfield Pictures cheapie Fugitive Road, making lemonade from a lemon by offering his services as "supervisor of military detail" (according to some sources, he also contributed to the script). Set during WW I, the film concerns a menage a trois at a border outpost. ...

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The Ghost Walks (1934) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring John Miljan, June Collyer, Richard Carle, Spencer Charters, Johnny Arthur

In the tradition of the classic scare piece Banquo's Chair, The Ghost Walks features one phony spectre and one supposedly real wraith. An actor is hired for a high-society gathering to pose as a ghost. It's all part of a plan by a struggling playwright to stir up interest in his latest production. But just as the "faux" phantom is putting on his ...

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Murder at Midnight (1931) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Robert Elliott, Clara Blandick

A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a play. The highlight of the production is a realistic on-stage murder, wherein the victim is shot point-blank, right through the heart, as the clock strikes 12. The audience applauds enthusiastically as the "victim" falls dead, ...

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In the Money (1934) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Lois Wilson, Warren Hymer, Sally Starr, Arthur Hoyt

Evidently inspired by Paramount's screwball comedy Three Cornered Moon, Chesterfield-Invincible Studio's In the Money is actually more entertaining than its costlier predecessor. The main characters are members of a zany, perpetually improvident family, all of whom take polite little bows as they're introduced to the audience by narrator-co-star ...

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Dangerous Appointment (1934)

directed by Frank Strayer

In this drama, a department store clerk is falsely accused of stealing and attempted murder. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Death from a Distance (1936) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Russell Hopton, Lola Lane, George F. Marion, Lee Kohlmar

Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the spectators is shot to death. Homicide detective Ted Mallory (Russell Hopton) can't get a straight story from the witnesses and refuses to allow reporter Kay Palmer (Lola Lane) to file her story until he can determine the ...

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Condemned to Live (1935) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Ralph Morgan, Maxine Doyle, Russell Gleason, Pedro de Cordoba, Mischa Auer

In Condemned to Live, Ralph Morgan stars as Professor Paul Kriston, the kindly and generous doctor of a tiny European village. So well-liked is Kriston that the beautiful Marguerite Mane (Maxine Doyle) is willing to marry him, even though she loves another man, young David (Russell Gleason). Things take a sinister turn when a series of murders ...

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Manhattan Tower (1932) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Mary Brian, Irene Rich, James Hall, Hale Hamilton, Noel Francis

This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank failures, love scenes and odd clerks. All Movie Guide

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Dragnet Patrol (1932) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Vernon Dent, Walter Long, George "Gabby" Hayes, Vera Reynolds

As cheap as any other poverty-row talkie, Dragnet Patrol possesses a breezy charm that is hard to resist. Glenn Tryon stars as a rambunctious sailor who marries carnival cutie Vera Reynolds. For her sake, he hires himself out to shady business entrepreneur Walter Long, only to face extermination when Long's faithless wife Symona Boniface "comes on ...

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Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer

An historical entry in Columbia's Blondie series, Blondie's Blessed Event recreates the moment in Chic Young's original comic strip wherein Blondie and Dagwood were blessed with baby daughter Cookie. The first portion of the film involves the tribulations of Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) as he tries to take his wife Blondie (Penny Singleton) and ...

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Symphony of Living (1935) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Evelyn Brent, Al Shean, Charles Judels, John Darrow, Albert Conti

This drama is based on a true story and chronicles the story of a veteran musician who must give up his beloved career after he is terribly injured in an auto accident. His children do little to help their struggling father. His daughter marries a wealthy man and bears a musically talented son. To tutor him, his mother unknowingly hires her ...

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Twin Husbands (1934) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton, Robert Elliott

The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were directed by Richard Thorpe, while the Invincibles were helmed by Frank Strayer (in truth, both studios were one in the same!) It was Strayer at the controls for Twin Husbands, a sharply-turned comedy melodrama dominated by ...

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Tangled Destinies (1932) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Lloyd Whitlock, Doris Hill, Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds, Sidney Bracey

Produced at the little Tec Art studio by sound engineer Ralph M. Like, this film is one of those modest whodunits where the lights go out and someone inevitably gets hit over the head with a blunt instrument. This time, the crew and passengers from a Los Angeles-bound plane seek shelter from the fog in a deserted yet fully furnished farm house. As ...

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Love in High Gear (1932) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Harrison Ford, Alberta Vaughn, Tyrell Davis, Arthur Hoyt, Ethel Wales

Harrison Ford (the original silent era Harrison Ford) and 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star Alberta Vaughn starred in this comedy-thriller from low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp. When fussy Ronald Courtney (Tyrell Davis) spots his fiancée, Betty (Vaughn), winking at Donald Ransome (Ford) at a friend's wedding, he demands that they get married that very night. ...

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Port of Lost Dreams (1935) more movies like this

directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Lola Lane, George F. Marion

In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love with captain. They get married, and she quietly--he knows nothing of her past--goes straight. Trouble ensues when the police finally capture her. Though she has a baby, they send her to prison anyway. This leads the captain to ...

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