Direction: Frank R. Strayer
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frank R. Strayer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Vampire Bat
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Lionel Atwill · Fay Wray · Melvyn Douglas · Maude Eburne
Plot In a small town in europe, people are dying. The blood is being drained from their bodies, and puncture wounds are found on the throat. The Burgermeister and his council...
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Blondie Goes to College
1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Janet Blair
Plot Dagwood decides to go to college. Blondie goes along with him, keeping their marriage a secret. They send Baby Dumpling off to military school where he becomes top sergeant. Blondie...
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The Sea Spoilers
1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast John Wayne · Nan Grey · William Bakewell · Fuzzy Knight
Plot When Coast Guard Commander arrives at his actress girlfriend's yacht he find the owner killed, contraband seal skins, and no girlfriend.
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The Crusader
1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Evelyn Brent · H.B. Warner · Lew Cody · Ned Sparks
Plot Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
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By Appointment Only
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Lew Cody · Aileen Pringue · Sally O'Neil · Edward Morgan
Plot When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her...
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Blondie Plays Cupid
1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Jonathan Hale
Plot The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
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Blondie
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Gene Lockhart
Plot In this first of the Blondie series, Dagwood loses his job on the eve of his and Blondie's fifth wedding anniversary. This was the first of 28 films based on...
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Blondie on a Budget
1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Daisy
Plot Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at...
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Blondie for Victory
1942 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Daisy
Plot Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking and...
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Manhattan Tower
1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Mary Brian · Irene Rich · James Hall · Hale Hamilton
Plot The lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.
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Fugitive Road
1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer · Erich von Stroheim
Cast Erich von Stroheim · Wera Engels · Leslie Fenton · George Humbert
Plot An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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Twin Husbands
1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast John Miljan · Shirley Grey · Monroe Owsley · Hale Hamilton
Plot Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion...
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Go West, Young Lady
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Glenn Ford · Ann Miller · Charles Ruggles
Plot The western town of Headstone is being besieged by the outlaw Killer Pete and his gang. Arriving on the same stagecoach are the new Sheriff and easterner Belinda Pendergast, known...
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Laughing at Trouble
1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Jane Darwell · Brook Byron · Allan Lane · Sara Haden
Plot A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer...
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Blondie's Blessed Event
1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Daisy
Plot Cynical writer George Wickley arrives as the Bumstead household experiences the birth of daughter Cookie.
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Condemned to Live
1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Ralph Morgan · Pedro de Cordoba · Maxine Doyle · Russell Gleason
Plot After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire...
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The Monster Walks
1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Rex Lease · Vera Reynolds · Sheldon Lewis · Mischa Auer
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The Sickle or the Cross
1949 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Kent Taylor · Gloria Holden · Gene Lockhart · David Bruce
Plot Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in...
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Borrowed Wives
1930 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Rex Lease · Vera Reynolds · Nita Martan · Paul Hurst
Plot Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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Behind Stone Walls
1932 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Edward J. Nugent · Priscilla Dean · Ann Christy · Robert Elliott
Plot Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to...
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