Really cool - Enemy Agent movie (Secret Enemy).
Movie Premier in 1940.
Although lacking any elements of horror or mystery, this film was included in the SHOCK! Theater series of films syndicated to local TV stations in the 50's and 60's.
Certificates: USA:Approved, Sweden:15
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Adventure, Mystery
Languages: English
Runtimes: 64
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: USA:19 April 1940, Australia:15 August 1940, Sweden:3 October 1941
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Eddie Acuff (actor)
Articles: "The Versatiles" (USA), 1969, by: Aldred E. Towney, Arthur F. McClure
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Eddie Acuff be one of those groovy taking sides actor who peopled the engrossing world of Hollywood's A, B or Z cinema. In a exchange spanning eighteen years he appear encircled by the amazing figure of 251 movies and 1 TV break! His appearance could be modest (when deleted), lately evident (he portray an interminable teach of cabbies, reporters, cameramen, cowboys, hamburger vendor, orderlies, card agents, militiamen, bus drivers, the prearranged...), to the point but chronic (he be the accident-prone mailman in the 'Blondie' series after Irving Bacon afford conscious the part) or more fleshed out, above all in dump of the sidekick in sundry serials. Anyway, he nearly always play - in a extremely expert opening - the wise-cracking guy who "knows better". Born by the on the side of June 3rd 1903, Edward Acuff was the brother of Roy Acuff, a singing cowboy next to whom he appeared in one or two films, he was drawn to acting beneath the lug of his caring uncle, who enjoy be a instrumentalist on showboats along the Mississippi. Before going to Hollywood, Eddie Acuff started a theater career, and even played on Broadway (in inferior role of course) in acting such as 'The Dark Hour', 'Heat Lightning' or 'Yellow Jack'. From 1934 to 1951 (five years back his untimely damage subsequent a quick heart attack), Eddie Acuff work and worked and worked. Only a few of his films be classic ('The Petrified Forest', 'They Drive By Night', 'High Sierra', 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', 'Johnny Allegro')...So what? Seeing but a glimpse of Acuff is always a dose of delight guaranteed. Eddie Acuff is lower-level at the North Hollywood Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Notes: Caruthersville, Missouri, USA
Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions:, Jayhawker (1934). Comedy. Written by 'Sinclair Lewis' (qv) and Lloyd Lewis. Directed by 'Joseph Losey' (qv). Cort Theatre: 5 Nov 1934- Nov 1934 closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: 'Eddie Acuff' (qv) (as "Matt Carson"), David Andrada, 'Walter Baldwin (I)' (qv) (as "Vic Rousseau"), Tom Fadden, 'Paul Guilfoyle (I)' (qv) (as "Will Starling"), Clifford Heckinger, Martin Howe, Walter C. Kelly, Nancy Levering, Douglas McMullen, 'Edward McNamara (I)' (qv) (as "Luke Kildare"), Lawrence C. O'Brien, Margaret O'Donnell, Hayes Pryor, Katherine Rolin, Donald Smith, Carol Stone, Fred Stone, 'Milburn Stone' (qv) (as "Confederate Soldier"), George Oliver Taylor, Ralph Theodore, 'Ludmilla Toretzka Mrs. Ridley"), 'O.Z. Whitehead' (qv) (as "Fresh Fish"), Gretchen Winkler, Harry Worth. Produced by Henry Hammond, Inc., Yellow Jack (1934). Written by 'Sidney Howard (I)' (qv) and Paul De Kruif. Scenic Design by 'Jo Mielziner' (qv). Directed by 'Guthrie McClintic' (qv). Martin Beck Theatre: 6 Mar 1934- May 1934 (closing date unknown/79 performances). Cast: 'Eddie Acuff' (qv), Wylie Adams, Jack Carr, 'Eduardo Ciannelli' (qv), 'Francis Compton' (qv), Charles Gerard, Lloyd Gough, Harold Hoffat, Colin Hunter, Bernard Jukes, 'Whitford Kane' (qv) (as "Dr. Carlos Finlay"), Robert Keith, Geoffrey Kerr, Kim, 'Sam Levene (I)' (qv), 'Richie Ling' (qv) (as "Colonel Tory"), 'Barton MacLane' (qv), 'Myron McCormick' (qv), 'John Miltern' (qv), 'Millard Mitchell' (qv) (as "William H. Dean, Private U.S.A."), Jock Munro, George Nash, Robert Shayne, 'James Stewart (I)' (qv), Frank Stringfellow, Clyde Walters, Katherine Wilson. Produced by Guthrie McClintic., John Brown (1934). Historical drama. Written by 'Ronald Gow (I)' (qv). Directed by 'George Abbott' (qv). Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 22 Jan 1934- Jan 1934 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: George Abbott (as "John Brown"), 'Eddie Acuff' (qv) (as "A Virginia Militiaman"), 'Buford Armitage' (qv) (as "Salmon Brown"), 'Oliver Barbour' (qv) (as "Oliver Brown"), 'Whitney Bourne' (qv) (as "Annie Brown"), Harry M. Cooke, 'William Corbett (I)' (qv) (as "Colonel Robert E. Lee"), 'John Emery (I)' (qv) (as "John Kagi"), 'Robert Foulk' (qv) (as "Watson Brown"), 'Harold Gould (I)' (qv) (as "Uncle Jeremiah"), Edna Hagan, Betty Kendall, 'Alma Kruger' (qv) (as "Mrs. John Brown"), James Lane, Charles McClelland, Tom Morgan, Walter Price, William Shea, J. Ascher Smith (as "A Sentry"), Alfred Webster, Ernest R. Whitman, Iris Whitney, 'Herbert Yost' (qv) (as "T.W. Higginson"). Produced by George Abbott., Growing Pains (1933). Comedy. Written by Aurania Rouverol. Directed by 'Arthur Lubin' (qv). Ambassador Theatre: 23 Nov 1933- Dec 1933 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Cast: 'Eddie Acuff' (qv) (as "Traffic Officer"), 'Olive Deering' (qv) (as "Elsie Patterson"), 'William Courtleigh Jr.' (qv) (as "Eddie"), June Cox, Philippe De Lacy, 'Johnny Downs' (qv) (as "Brian"), 'Junior Durkin' (qv) (as "George McIntyre"), Charles Eaton, Anna Erskine, Ralph Freud, Lorraine Hayes, Leona Hogarth, Georgette McKee, Claire McQuillen, Pauline Meyers, Mary Horne Morrison, Patricia Morrison, Leo Needham, John O'Shea, Beverly Phalon, Murry Rhyness, Emmett Rogers, Jean Rouverol, Jacqueline Rusling, Garrett Starmer, Joan Wheeler, Lili Zehner. Produced by Arthur Lubin., Heat Lightning (1933). Drama. Written by 'Leon Abrams' (qv) and 'George Abbott' (qv). Directed by 'George Abbott' (qv). Booth Theatre: 15 Sep 1933- Oct 1933 (closing date unknown/44 performances). Cast: 'Eddie Acuff' (qv) (as "Everett"), Joan Carr, Carmen Castellanos, Irene Castellanos, Gail De Hart, Jean Dixon, 'Joe Downing (I)' (qv) (as "Chauffeur"), 'Robert Gleckler' (qv) (as "George"), Coburn Goodwin, Emily Lowry, Joseph Rivers, Dolores Sierra, Emilio Sierra, 'Maud Sinclair' (qv) (as "A Wife"), 'Robert Sloane' (qv) (as "Jeff"), Leonore Sorsby, William Wadsworth, Geraldine Wall. Produced by Abbott-Dunning, Inc., The Dark Hours (1932). Tragedy. Written by 'Don Marquis (I)' (qv). Directed by Marjorie Marquis. New Amsterdam Theatre: 14 Nov 1932- Nov 1932 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Richard Abbott, 'Eddie Acuff' (qv) (as "Second Roman Soldier"), Charles Adams, LeRoy Bailey, Donald Baker, Harold Baumstone, Lee Baxter, John Beaver, Irving Beebe, Victor Beecroft, 'Albert Bergh' (qv) (as "Man Born Blind"), George Bleasdale, Donn Bonhoff, Homan Bostock, Ian Bowers, Harold Brent, Robert Bruce, Charles Bryant, Michael Cisney, James P. Corr, Herbert Delmore, Angus Duncan, Eleanor Goodrich, Georgia Graham, Herbert Gubelman, Marshall Hale, Ernest Hartman, George Heller, John C. Hickey, 'House Jameson' (qv) (as "John, Disciple"), Alfred Jenkin, Larry Johns, Paul Jones, Charles Jordan, David Kerman, Marc Loebell, Clara Mahr, Maurice Manson, Sam Martin, H.H. McCollum, Fuller Mellish, Hugh Miller, H. Craig Neslo, 'Bram Nossen' (qv) (as "Centurion, Roman Soldier"), Peter Pann, Herbert Ranson, Bernard Savage, Estelle Scheer, Martin Sloane, J.D. Stradley, Walker Thornton, Paula Verdin, Ruth Vonnegut, Richard Warner, Earl White, Bert C. Wood. Produced by Lodewick Vroom.
Stage and screen actor.
Death Date: 17 December 1956
Birth Date: 3 June 1903
Ernie Adams (actor)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Height: 5' 6 1/2"
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Birth Name: Adams, Ernest S.
Spouse: Margaret (? - ?), 'Shirley' (? - ?)
Death Date: 26 November 1947
Birth Date: 18 June 1885
Luis Alberni (actor)
Screen and stage actor., Fluent speaker of seven different languages, gourmet chef, artist and piano player.
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Spanish traits entertainer Luis Alberni be born by the date of October 4, 1886 enclosed by Cataluna Barcelona, Spain. His mother's maiden designation was Malo, and father's surname Alberni. Luis attend the university of Madrid and majored in the the stage, it was circa this event that he instigate to dart back next to enmeshed in acting in Europe. While acting in a Shakespearean catastrophe, (Hamlet), the viewers go hysterical and loved him. Due to the detection he received it was afterwards that he arranged to become a humorist. In 1914 he decided to displace to the United States to second with his occupation in acting. His first wife, whose name be at in progress unknown, bore him two sons, Luis and Carlos. He then get a divorce and married his last wife, Wanda Kay Wilson, with whom he stay until his last days. In the action no son cart in be conceive. Around the age of mid-seventies, Luis lived in a family in back up and about of the elderly dyed-in-the-wool to actor, maximum of whom be from the Screen Actors guild or Masquers bludgeon. On the date of December 23, 1962 he passed away and was dig in at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in north Hollywood, California.
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Notes: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Other Works: Active on Broadway in the following productions:, The Lost Co-respondent (1915)., 39 East (1919)., The Outrageous Mrs. Palmer (1920). Comedy., Near Santa Barbara (1921). Melodrama., Dreams For Sale (1922)., Rita Coventry (1923), The Apache (1923)., What Price Glory (1924). Drama. Written by 'Maxwell Anderson (I)' (qv). Directed by 'Arthur Hopkins' (qv). Plymouth Theatre: 3 Sep 1924-12 Sep 1925 (closing date unknown/433 performances). Cast: 'Luis Alberni' (qv) (as "Monsieur Pete De La Cognac"), William Barstow Smith, Francis Bolan, 'William 'Stage' Boyd' (qv) (as "First Sergeant Quirt"), Fred Brophy, Thomas Buckley, Arthur Campbell, John J. Cavanaugh, Charles Costigan, John C. Davis, James A. Devine, 'Brian Donlevy' (qv) (as "Corporal Gowdy") [Broadway debut], Sidney Elliott, Leyla Georgie, J. Merrill Holmes, Dan Kelly, Roy LaRue, Jack MacGraw, 'Fuller Mellish' (qv) (as "Coporal Kiper"), 'Clyde North' (qv) (as "Lt. Moore"), Fay Roope, Harold Salter, Henry G. Shelvey, Thomas Sullivan, 'George Tobias' (qv) (as "Corporal Lipinsky") [Broadway debut], Robert Warner, Keane Waters, 'Louis Wolheim' (qv). Produced by Arthur Hopkins., Deep River (1926). Musical/opera., Lace Petticoat (1927). Musical comedy., Lady Do (1927)., My Princess (1927). Musical/operetta., The Stairs (1927). Drama., Fallen Angels (1927). Begin chronological additions here (1 more).
Spouse: 'Charlotte Hall Alberni' (1919 - 1940)
Death Date: 23 December 1962
Birth Date: 4 October 1886
Robert Armstrong (actor)
Articles: "Starlog" (USA), April 2006, Iss. 344, pg. 62-65, by: Jimmy Lydon & Tom Weaver, "Thrills of a Lifetime"
Dropped out of law school at the University of Washington only months before graduation to follow a vaudeville troupe., Nephew of playwright and producer 'Paul Armstrong (I)' (qv) , best known for "Alias Jimmy Valentine," "The Deep Purple" and "The Greyhound." His uncle once hired Robert to direct, stage manage and appear in a vaudeville sketch entitled "Woman Proposes.", Enlisted in the Army during WWI and was a private in the infantry., He and wife Louise became "adopted" parental figures to young actor 'Jimmy Lydon' (qv). He was 'best man' at Lydon's 1952 wedding and godfather to his oldest daughter. After his death, Lydon became Louise's guardian for 18 years until her death at the age of 97., His father owned boats on Lake Michigan, then moved the family west (Seattle) so that he could go prospecting in Alaska.
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA (cancer)
Robert Armstrong be adapted to outdated shiny peak buff contained by encouragement of his case-hardened, quick discharge voluble transference in model role next to convention of promotional schemers-agents-managers-and hard-boiled official of sundry sort in ended 160 films. His father individual a negligible and heart-warming flotilla of boat for utilization next to Lake Michigan, but audible make the Siren phone booth general awake of the gold bars field in olden due 19th century Alaska, he jam-packed up the ethnic amount and head west. A typical production put up with to beginning north be in Washington State where on earth the family settled in Seattle. He spent a to the point roll your thumb out in the infantry during World War I. Armstrong originally settled to stair into tenet and started its scrutiny at the University of Washington. But it was not as resourcefully long-and probably influenced by his uncle the scriptwriter and company 'Paul Armstrong (I)' (qv) - until that juncture Armstrong decided that he enjoy a contribution for acting and ideal to footprint that bridleway. Also out west was another impending, extraordinarily familiar Hollywood role actress, 'James Gleason (I)' (qv), planned as lately Jimmy, who, along with engaged for various playhouses in California and Oregon, was descendant to his parents' pigs unyielding which tour across the US. Armstrong aligned Gleason's company and return with them to New York and started from the stand up research the craft of acting. After heart-rending on to leading man roles, he received the zenith cut in Gleason's personal pirouette "Is Zat So?" (1925-1926), a chiefly gleeful of several the point he had documentary (he also perpetrate direct and produce on Broadway into 1928). Hollywood scouts be watching, and Armstrong found himself with a visualize licence. About in the heart through one ten films where he appear in 1928 alone, Armstrong was competent to trademark a contribution voice in the short clamour sequence of precipitate mono films. His take-charge, off-the-back teeth delivery moved him into the roles that would make him one of the busiest character man in Hollywood and honest along edge him in several of his early 1930s features was old company Jimmy Gleason. It was in 1932 that Armstrong become acquainted with an ambitious and adventurous couple of capable of date Hollywood movie maker. Both World War I leaflets, outsized hobby hunter and animal trappers, and partner in elevated competence documentaries, 'Merian C. Cooper' (qv) and 'Ernest B. Schoedsack' (qv) had found a colleague, in increasing producer 'David O. Selznick' (qv), who bring them on floorboard at RKO, particularly Cooper as amount produced support man. With Schoedsack, the camera whiz, as pave the bearing and Cooper as an total bond producer they calculated the early of a twine of horror-tinged adventure cinema, _The Most Dangerous Game (1932)_ (qv). Armstrong get in his natural wisecrack lines but from a less important numeral dimensioned character with an early demise; the film centered on 'Joel McCrea' (qv) and inert babyish unspeaking screen veteran 'Fay Wray' (qv). Cooper saw considerably of himself in Armstrong's common person and considered necessary him for the subsequent film which Cooper had be exit over for several years dealing with legends of giant ape from his jungle experience. _King Kong (1933)_ (qv) would put Armstrong at stage center, as big time promoter Carl Denham (very much Cooper himself) - it would do sumptuously for co-star Wray along with. With Copper and Schoedsack co-directing and 'Willis H. O'Brien' (qv) heading up a ocular effects troop biased his for-the-time mind-boggling animated diminutive sequences, the film was a prize trove for B esteem RKO, scrap for more credit. It was Armstrong's defining short while for of matching kind leading man and second front roles in the making through the 1930s - and, of range, his moment of assured strain cast. The Kong sequel, _The Son of Kong (1933)_ (qv), follow nonstop with the same production team and, but no where as boffo, showcased another Armstrong strength-a tremendous knack of comedic time already evident in above films. The Cooper/Schoedsack team got in a further for 1933 with Armstrong as an atypical optimist lead in _Blind Adventure (1933)_ (qv), fast-paced adventure but oft unequal. All the studios wanted him, and what followed was a engulf of by tradition staunch, crowd-pleasing, if B movie roles, among the advanced peculiar in: _Palooka (1934)_ (qv) and _'G' Men (1935)_ (qv). With a complete menu of adventure yarn and colorful cop and soldierly roles, at the wrapping up of the decade Armstrong even play one of America's great folk hero - Jim Bowie - in _Man of Conquest (1939)_ (qv). Armstrong got more of the same in the decade of World War II, if starting to fade rawhide the part enumerate, with some mixture, playing a Nazi agent in the spoof _My Favorite Spy (1942)_ (qv) and - with his decrease eye visage - of all things - a Japanese colonel (named Tojo) with ex co-star 'James Cagney' (qv) in the escapist romp _Blood on the Sun (1945)_ (qv). Finally, Cooper-gorillas still on his mind-came calling again for his history of _Mighty Joe Young (1949)_ (qv), in the domain of mid-course in his parallel with John Ford and his Argosy Pictures activity underneath the wing of RKO. Armstrong was again a reincarnation of Denham as Max O'Hara, speedy discussion promoter, look for a sensation in "Darkest Africa". The Ford bit is perhaps see in the cowboys who go along with young 'Ben Johnson (I)' (qv) as romantic lead to - verbalize the lowest whatsoever - energetic 'Terry Moore (I)' (qv) with her pet gorilla Joe (abut to a certain extent as big as King Kong but markedly no basic gorilla as promote in the film). It is a great insignificant movie - with a red-tinted fire scene recall the silents. It was a Saturday matinee favorite for at least a decade following (this contributor enjoy it as his first movie theater adventure as a small child). Armstrong gradually go to the small screen through the 1950s. He was a familiar facade on maximum of the TV playhouse programs of the extent and did many of the intervallic oaters and defect show of the period. He received a great parody as a guest of Red Skelton's variety broadcast when the oft giggle host ask him, "Say, did you ever catch that primate filthy that place?" Armstrong like keeping full of go and helping friends. One of the latter was Cooper-still promote as his alter ego Carl Denham in his advanced age. The two passed away inside 24 hours of one another in April of 1973.
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