Direction: Frank R. Strayer
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frank R. Strayer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 22
The Vampire Bat
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Lionel Atwill · Fay Wray · Melvyn Douglas · Maude Eburne
Synopsis 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 are frantic. Is it the work of vampire bats flown...
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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
Synopsis 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 is hounded by the campus stud and Dagwood makes the...
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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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After...
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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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to...
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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
Synopsis 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 the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Daisy
Synopsis Dagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts.
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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
Synopsis 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 taking care of the kids, so Dagwood pretends to join...
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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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 as Bill. The new Sheirff is unable to catch Pete...
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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
Synopsis 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 is.
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Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Jonathan Hale
Synopsis Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.
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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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 committing the murders.
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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
Synopsis 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 his place a spy who is his double, but who...
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