Cast: Joan Woodbury

Direction William Castle

Cast Richard Dix · Gloria Stuart · J. Carrol Naish · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler, a shadowy (and unbilled) figure, introduced each film as he'd done on radio: "I am the Whistler...and I...

Direction I.B. Melchior

Cast Preston Foster · Phil Carey · Merry Anders · John Hoyt

Synopsis A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Joan Woodbury · Jack La Rue · Linda Ware · John Archer

Synopsis Afterseeking revenge for her boyfriend, Joan Woodbury finds herself in jail on a hit-and-run charge. Ladd plays an undercover reporter doubling for a notorious gangster.

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Dick Purcell · Joan Woodbury · Mantan Moreland · Henry Victor

Synopsis In World War II, during a storm, a small plane crashes in an island between Cuba and Porto Rico, but the pilot James 'Mac' McCarthy (Dick Purcell) and his two passengers, Bill Summers (John Archer) and his black servant Jeff...

Direction William Beaudine

Cast James Dunn · Joan Woodbury · Paul McVey · Vera Gordon

Synopsis Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving him in a zombified state. Trayne and his perky assistant...

Direction Robert F. Hill

Cast Wallace Ford · Barbara Pepper · Joan Woodbury · Clara Kimball Young

Synopsis A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Damian O'Flynn · Joan Woodbury · Evalyn Knapp · Henry Roquemore

Synopsis Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tells the radio audience that he thinks men could do a better job running the...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Chester Morris · Harriet Hilliard · Richard Lane · George E. Stone

Synopsis A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie...

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Joe E. Brown · Adele Mara · Victor Jory · Fritz Feld

Synopsis Wellington Holmes, a timid and very shy horticulturist, heads for Big Bluff. When the stagecoach is held up by Buckskin Bill and his men, he coincidentally knocks out three of them earning himself the unwanted job, as Marshall of Big...

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Ann Dvorak · John Litel · Carlyle Moore Jr. · Joseph Crehan

Synopsis After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Frank Albertson · Joan Woodbury · Dick Elliott · Byron Foulger

Synopsis Reporter Larry Doyle is rewarded for his role in the capture of the Pardoni gang, but then loses his job on a frame-up to keep him from testifying. He goes to a neighboring city, meets Ann and, before he gets...

Direction Benjamin Stoloff

Cast Jack Oakie · Ann Sothern · Eduardo Ciannelli · Alan Bruce

Synopsis An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Dick Purcell · Joan Woodbury · John Hamilton · Warren Hymer

Synopsis Well-known philanthropist and deaf John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.

Direction Howard Bretherton

Cast William Boyd · James Ellison · William Farnum · George 'Gabby' Hayes

Direction Wallace Fox

Cast Joan Woodbury · Syd Saylor · Kane Richmond · Jack Ingram

Synopsis Daily Flash newspaper journalist Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), are assigned to cover a fire in an old house, where they discover the wounded Joe Heller (Wheeler Oakman), a mobster suspected of stealing a...

Direction W. Lee Wilder

Cast Douglas Fowley · Joan Woodbury · Clem Bevans · Ransom M. Sherman

Synopsis "Yankee" Davis and his partner,"Shaggy" Hartley, a couple of carny-type traveling (usually just ahead of the law) pitchmen with their own tent to pitch from, arrive in a small Arizona town, close to the Mexican border. Davis falls in love...

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Leon Ames · Charlotte Wynters · Joan Woodbury · Don Dillaway

Synopsis The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Roy Rogers · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Joan Woodbury · J. Farrell MacDonald

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast John Hodiak · George Murphy · Frances Gifford · Dean Stockwell

Synopsis Anne Parkson feels neglected by her lawyer-husband Ted, so she falls in love with night-club owner Tony Arnello, a shady character who is a client of her husband's. This being a MGM picture and MGM known to strive for General...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Joan Woodbury · Pat Gleason · George Pembroke

Synopsis A condemned murderer on the eve of his execution decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder. However, he's killed by a poison dart in front of a roomful of officials and reporters before he can...