Charles Barton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Barton (May 25, 1902 – December 5, 1981) was a film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature Wagon Wheels. Description... Read full bio →
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back.
The Shaggy Dog
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery....
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Double Crossbones
Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty Ben. They avoid being killed by faking a case of the pox, which causes the panicked captain and crew to desert the ship.
Africa Screams
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
The Noose Hangs High
Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.
Mexican Hayride
Bud and Lou head south of the border after getting mixed up in a phony oil stock scheme.
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal, Fred Hawkins, is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
The Time of Their Lives
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
Smooth as Silk
An attorney's fiancée neglects him for a playboy client she hopes will fund her lead role. After acquitting the wealthy playboy of manslaughter, the jealous attorney kills his uncle and plans to murder him next.
Island of Doomed Men
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Born to the West
Can Dare Rudd prove he is responsible enough to win the heart of Judy and also outwit the crooked saloon owner?
The Last Outpost
A love triangle set on the Eastern Front in World War I. The acting is strained, with no hint of the later brilliance of Cary Grant and Claude Rains in Hitchcock's "Notorious".