Joel Friedkin
Also Known As: Israel Friedkin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kalpni, Russia
Birthday: May 14, 1885
Deathday: September 19, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
Popularity:
Money Madness
Overview: A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
Popularity:
Doctors Don't Tell
Overview: Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
Genres: Action Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-22
Popularity:
Experiment Perilous
Overview: In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
Popularity:
Bad Man of Deadwood
Overview: Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
Popularity:
Chick Carter, Detective
Overview: Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-11
Popularity:
Borrowed Hero
Overview: A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-05
Popularity:
Fury of the Congo
Overview: Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-26
Popularity:
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Overview: The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When the Rangers capture his brother and the jury sentences him to hang, Lemar starts killing the jurists. Then the scoundrels kidnap the Captain's daughter Doris... Written by Tony Fontana
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-10
Popularity:
Magic Town
Overview: Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-07
Popularity:
Twice Blessed
Overview: Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-31
Popularity:
Uncertain Glory
Overview: In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
Genres: War Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-07
Popularity:
The Great John L.
Overview: Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-25
Popularity:
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Overview: A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
Popularity:
Colorado
Overview: Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-15
Popularity:
The Border Legion
Overview: Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
Popularity:
Gaucho Serenade
Overview: Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
Popularity:
Strange Gamble
Overview: Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-08
Popularity:
False Paradise
Overview: A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-10
Popularity:
The Richest Man in Town
Overview: The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
Popularity:
Unexpected Guest
Overview: At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among whoever remains of the seven relatives. With one already dead, another immediately murdered, and the Lawyer telling them the ranch is almost worthless, Hoppy investigates.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-28
Popularity:
The Last Alarm
Overview: A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-25
Popularity:
Night Train to Memphis
Overview: A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
Genres: Action Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-12
Popularity:
Faces in the Fog
Overview: Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
Popularity:
The Cyclone Kid
Overview: A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means. The brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a range war between homesteaders and a crooked cattleman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-31
Popularity:
California Gold Rush
Overview: California Gold Rush is set in 1849. Ryder heads to Sutter's Mill, where he must contend with claim-jumping and treachery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-04
Popularity:
Bad Men of the Hills
Overview: U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
Popularity:
The Sombrero Kid
Overview: A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans). But when Holden Sr. is killed by one of Banker Martin's (Joel Friedkin) gang of claim jumpers, Jerry learns that his real father was Bart Clanton, a notorious bandit killed by Marshal Holden, who then raised the orphaned boy as his own.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-31
Popularity:
Impact
Overview: After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-20
Popularity:
The Devil's Trail
Overview: Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to pitch woo to leading lady Eileen O'Hearn. The Devil's Trail was based on a story with the more intriguing title "The Town in Hell's Backyard."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-14
Popularity:
Sagebrush Heroes
Overview: This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a radio show with Jimmy Wakely (Jimmy Wakely) and his Saddle Pals, and are in town for a rodeo. Reporter Connie Pearson (Constance Worth) persuades them to visit Marty Jones (Elvin Fields), a fatherless boy, who has been sent to a boy's home after stealing Steve's wallet, ran by Tom Goodwin (Forrest Taylor.) Marty tells Steve that the home is a phony and is a front for cattle rustlers. Steve passes the information on to Connie, who doesn't believe him, so he and Jimmy wire the ranch for sound. They are caught and Goodwin turns them over to Sheriff Barnes (Edmund Cobb), and then plans to skip the country
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-01
Popularity:
Pardon My Gun
Overview: In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the bushes without opening it. Later a woman happens upon the cash and finds herself a prime suspect in the killing. Fortunately, a survey engineer proves her innocence, and they begin looking for the real villains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-01
Popularity:
Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
Popularity:
Dakota Lil
Overview: Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-17
Popularity:
The Secret Fury
Overview: The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
Popularity:
Murder, He Says
Overview: Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-23
Popularity:
Strange Bargain
Overview: Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-05
Popularity:
Angel on My Shoulder
Overview: The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
Popularity:
Bedtime for Bonzo
Overview: College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
Popularity:
The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
Popularity:
Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
Popularity:
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Overview: A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-04
Popularity:
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Overview: A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
Popularity:
Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
Popularity:
The Face Behind the Mask
Overview: A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-16
Popularity: