Gordon Douglas

Gordon Douglas
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 6 (Actor), 91 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball... (imdb)
Them!
Nuclear tests in the desert result in the growth of gigantic mutant ants who menace cities in the American south-west as a team of investigators and the army search for a way to control their spread.
Bombers B-52
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois. (imdb)
Harlow
In this story, Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing, the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots... (imdb)
The Detective
Police detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs. Based on the Roderick Thorpe novel (imdb)
Zenobia
A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant. After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere. (imdb)
In Like Flint
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 90 seconds while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own. (imdb)
Zombies on Broadway
Two inept press agents are ordered to the island of St. Sebastian to get a zombie for an opening night publicity stunt of a nightclub. They find a likely source in Dr. Paul Renault, who has spent much time studying (and experimenting) on the subject. But Renault has other ideas. (imdb)
Lady in Cement
Tony Rome is a miami based detective who while diving in the ocean finds the body of a young woman. He is hired by Gronsky to find her killer. Tony has to sift through a stack of suspects, plus trying to elude the police. (imdb)
Slaughter\
The mob put the finger on Slaughter...so he gave them the finger right back--curled tight around a trigger! (IMDB)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him. (IMDb)
Up Periscope
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes. (imdb)
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Robin and the 7 Hoods mirthfully gives the Robin Hood legend a Depression-era, mobtown Chicago setting. There, North Side boss Robbo (Frank Sinatra) hopes to get a leg up in his power struggle with rival racketeer Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk). Robbo sets himself up as a latter-day Robin Hood with philanthropic fronts enabling him to scam the rich, take his cut, and then give to the poor. (IMDb)
Stagecoach
A group of unlikely traveling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a traveling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gunslinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. (imdb)
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher and political candidate is accused of murdering a prostitute. Tibbs is also battling domestic woes, including a frustrated wife and a rebellious adolescent son. (imdb)
Barquero
The picture narrates as a renegade motley group (Warren Oates, Kerwin Matthews, Armando Sivestre) execute a massacre and they are robbing to the village's inhabitants. They flee but are stopped for a barge's proprietary(Lee Van Cleef) in the frontier on the river Grande. He only is helped for a mountain man (Forrest Tucker).The confrontation will be terrible and they will fight until the death. (imdb)
Chuka
While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers try to come to terms with their pasts. (imdb)
I Was a Communist for the FBI
An FBI agent infiltrates the US Communist Party, which causes big problems in his life as nobody is aware that he's an FBI agent.dy knows that he is with the FBI
Tony Rome
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD. (imdb)
Way... Way Out
The Americans and Russians each have a two-person base on the Moon The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibility of impropriety. The Russians, as godless Communists, are under no such constraints, and their male-female team has remained well-adjusted... (imdb)
The Devil with Hitler
If he wants to keep control of Hell, Satan has to get Hitler to perform a good deed. (TCM.com)
Saps at Sea
After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, so Stan and Oliver rent a boat and set sail, unaware that escaped killer Nick Grainger has stowed away onboard. To disable the crook, the boys prepare him a meal using string for spaghetti, sponges for meatballs and soap for cheese. But Grainger discovers their plan and decides to make them eat the stuff themselves. (imdb)
Young at Heart
A cynical songwriter upsets the lives of three musical sisters. (TCM.com)
Mara Maru
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
Only the Valiant
Richard Lance is a strictly by-the-book Army captain. Though hated by his men, Lance is respected for his military know-how. This comes in very handy when Lance and a detachment of troops attempt to reach, and then hold, an unguarded Army garrison in the middle of Apache Country. (allmovie.com)
Rio Conchos
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches. (imdb)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeeville, gang member Bill Doolin arriving late escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name. But the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. So once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law. (imdb)
The Iron Mistress
Barely historical presentation of the life of Jim Bowie. Here he goes to New Orleans to sell lumber but falls in love with Judalon. To match his rivals he must become sophisticated and does so. By the time he sells the mill, starts a plantation and tries to wed Jedualon the woman has wed playboy Phillipe. Along the way to true wisdom he designs a special knife made from part of a meteorite. (imdb)
The McConnell Story
Mac's plans to settle down and raise a family are upset by the Korean War. He goes as a fighter pilot and returns a hero, the first triple ace of the war. His neighbors have built a home for Mac and his devoted wife and their three children. Now he has an offer to test pilot new Sabre Jets. His wife is uneasy but knows she cannot ground her man. (imdb)
The Nevadan
A U.S. Marshall tries to recover stolen gold. (TCM.com)
Walk a Crooked Mile
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim? (imdb)
Yellowstone Kelly
A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her. (imdb)
The Charge at Feather River
A platoon of army misfits tries to rescue two women kidnapped by Indians. (TCM.com)
Follow That Dream
A family of squatters takes on a gambling chieftan and a corrupt social worker. (TCM.com)
The Falcon in Hollywood
Vacationing in Hollywood doesn't free the Falcon from investigating murder. The victim is an actor whose fashion designer wife has been having an affair with a director. (imdb)
Call Me Bwana
A wisecracking fraud fights off enemy agents to retrieve a space capsule that crashed in Africa. (TCM.com)
Come Fill the Cup
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics. His boss enlists his help to sober up his nephew, Boyd Copeland, who has married Lew's old sweetheart. Boyd, who is involved with a cabaret singer and the mob, presents quite a challenge. (imdb)
The Miracle
During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a handsome British soldier who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, he asks her to leave the convent and marry him. The postulant, devoted to the statue of the Virgin Mary, asks her for a heavenly sign and leaves when nothing happens. Then the statue of the Virgin descends from its pedestal. (imdb)
Fortunes of Captain Blood
A doctor exiled from England becomes a pirate of the Caribbean. (TCM.com)
So This Is Love
The rise of opera star Grace Moore.
The Sins of Rachel Cade
While the Nazis regime subjugates European Nations, in Belgian Congo the doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. The colonel Derode falls in love with her but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans. (imdb)
The Big Land
stars Ladd as Texas cattleman Morgan. As a means to expedite shipment of his stock to Missouri, Morgan convinces several Kansas farmers to build a small town as a railroad link between the Rio Grande and Kansas City. He is opposed in this by crooked cattle buyer Brog (Anthony Caruso), who realizes that any speed-up of Morgan's shipments will increase livestock prices. (allmovie.com)
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
When King John imposes oppressive taxes and cruel treatment upon the local population in medieval England, the son of legendary bandit Robin Hood reforms his father's "Merry Men" to once more rise against the king. (imdb)
Bored of Education
Spanky & Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. (imdb)
Fishy Tales
Fishy Tales (1937) - Short Film
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated. (imdb)
Framing Youth
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win. (imdb)
Gold of the Seven Saints
Fur-trapper Shawn Garrett gets out of a horse-stealing charge in a small, frontier town by agreeing to buy the horse with a gold nugget. This nugget attracts the attention of a man named McCracken who, with his gang, secretly follows Garrett across the desert in the hope of finding the source of his gold... (imdb)
Niagara Falls
Margie Blake (Marjorie Woodworth), who wants to get married young and have two dozen kids, has a flat tire and traveling salesman Tom Wilson (Tom Brown), who believes in "loving 'em and leaving 'em" stops to help. They soon discover they are polar opposites and dislike each other very much. (archive.org)
Santiago
Set during Cuba's struggle to free itself from colonialist Spain, this exciting adventure chronicles the exploits of a tough, mercenary gun runner who learns about honor, sacrifice and caring for others when he ends up forced to smuggle his latest weapon's cache aboard a beat up stern wheeler bound for Cuba. There he meets a beautiful freedom fighter who has been in the States trying to rally her expatriot colleagues into returning to join in the battle. (allmovie.com)
Fort Dobbs
Having eluded a posse, a wanted man rescues a woman and her young son from a Comanche attack. He then escorts them to the presumed safety of a U.S. Cavalry fort. Trouble develops along the way when the woman comes to believe that her rescuer was responsible for the recent death of her husband. (imdb)
General Spanky
A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory. (imdb)
The Black Arrow
Yong nobleman Richard Shelton returns from the War of the Roses to find his father murdered, a fugitive family friend blamed, and his uncle occupying his estates. (imdb)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
a convicted bank robber serving his sentence, and wishing nothing more than to finish his time and get back to his family, gets involved with a psychotic, homicidal inmate who turns on him and winds up terrorizing his wife and murdering his friends. (imdb)
First Yank Into Tokyo
An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW. (imdb)
Sincerely Yours
Tony Warrin has it all: a popular pianist who plays any style, he has money, great clothes, a penthouse overlooking Central Park, a rich blond fiancée, a loyal brunette secretary secretly in love with him, and a date at Carnegie Hall. On concert night, disease deafens him. While medical science works on a cure, he must find other ventures. He learns lip reading and, using high-powered binoculars, eavesdrops on conversations in the park. (imdb)
Skullduggery
The missing-link is found on a safari in New Guinea. Is it human or animal? (imdb)
Sylvia
Sylvia West is a young poetess engaged to Frederic Summers, an eccentric millionaire. Summers, a man who always fears he is being loved for his money, decides to make a small check on his prospective bride. The results of this check completely shock him. Not one fact matches 'his' Sylvia. Intregued and bewildered, Summers hires detective Alan Maklin and has him make a thorough investigation on 'Who Is Sylvia.' (imdb)
Viva Knievel!
As the legendary stuntman travels to Mexico to prepare for one of his greatest stunts yet, he takes time out of his schedule to meet his fans, help out lonely orphans, and try to get his alcoholic mechanic to reconcile with his son. While all of this is going on, Evel's main rival is plotting to have Evel killed and then get rich by using the Team Evel 18-wheeler to smuggle cocaine into America. (imdb)
Our Gang Follies of 1938
The gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as "King of the Crooners." But Alfalfa abandons the show saying his crooning days are over, and that opera is his true calling. But after taking a nap and dreaming of a successful future in popular music, he changes his mind and joins the rest of the gang for the closing number. (imdb)
Gildersleeve\
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman. (imdb)
Between Midnight and Dawn
Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young lady while in danger from a vengeful racketeer. (imdb)
Came the Brawn
Waldo, as the Masked Marvel, is to wrestle Wildcat Alfalfa for the possession of a new football. (imdb)
Mr. Soft Touch
Just before Christmas, Joe Miracle, a returning WWII war hero, comes home to learn that gangster Barney Teener has taken over his nightclub and murdered Joe's partner. Joe loots the club's safe for $100,000 and then finds sanctuary in a settlement house ran by Jenny Jones. Mistaking him for a down-and-out musician, she helps him understand the importance of her work. "Early" Byrd, a newspaper columnist, learns Joe's true identity and writes a column that puts Barney on his trail. (imdb)
A Night of Adventure
A wealthy lawyer begins to suspect that his inattention to his wife has resulted in her taking on a lover. It turns out that he's right, but her lover also has a lover--and when HIS girlfriend disappears and he's charged with her murder, the lawyer's wife asks her husband to defend him. (imdb)
San Quentin
Television viewer seeing this for the first time: Gee whiz, it's in black-and-white and was made in the 40's and is about crime and...Eureka!...another "noir" film is discovered. (imdb)
The Great Missouri Raid
The Great Missouri Raid stars Wendell Corey and MacDonald Carey as famed Kansas outlaws Frank and Jesse James. Once more, the James Boys are depicted sympathetically as victims of circumstance forced into a life of crime. Joining Frank and Jesse on their bandit raids are the Younger Brothers, portrayed by Bruce Bennett and Bill Williams. The heavy of the piece is Union major Trowbridge (Ward Bond), who seeks vengeance after Frank and Jesse kill Trowbridge's brother in self defense. (allrovi.com)
Claudelle Inglish
She liked boys looking at her...and thinking...and then she'd take her delicious kind of revenge on them all! The author of 'God's Little Acre,' Erskine Caldwell, brings you his most misbehavin' female...the child-woman called Claudelle Inglish. (imdb)
Broadway Limited
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt. (imdb)
Gildersleeve on Broadway
On a mission to New York, two women pursue Gildersleeve...then his fiancée shows up. (imdb)
Gildersleeve\
Gildersleeve gets himself into trouble while on jury duty. (imdb)
Girl Rush
Two unsuccessful vaudeville entertainers decide to search for gold during the Californian gold rush in 1849. They come to a town where no woman lives. The dwellers of this town promise them a lot of gold, when they bring some women to them. So they bring a vaudeville show with lots of girls. (imdb)
The Great Gildersleeve
Gildersleeve, a small town bachelor, has slapstick troubles with a husband-hunting woman and two helpful kids. (imdb)
Pay As You Exit
The Our Gang put on their own production of "Romeo and Juliet", with some lines from "Hamlet" and a strong man act thrown in for good measure. Buckwheat saves the day by playing Juliet after Darla quits because of onions on "Romeo" Alfalfa's breath. (imdb)
Spooky Hooky
Spooky Hooky (1936) - Short Film
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was going on a field trip to the circus anyway. (imdb)
Two Too Young
Spanky & Alfalfa try to get Porky's & Buckwheat's fireworks. (imdb)
Night \
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy. (imdb)
Rushin\
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital. (imdb)
Three Smart Boys
When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness. They paint spots on their faces and go to the doctor. Unfortunately they don't realize the doctor they've chosen is a veterinarian. The doctor humors them by inviting Buckwheat into the examining room, but when a monkey emerges they assume the doctor's "monkey serum" has transformed their pal. (imdb)
Reunion in Rhythm
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids. (imdb)
The Pigskin Palooka
While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back home, he has to prove it. (imdb)
Roamin\
The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple. (imdb)
Glove Taps
Glove Taps (1937) - Short Film
Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight. (imdb)
Hearts Are Thumps
The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla. (imdb)
Feed \
It's Mr. Hood's birthday, and he has been eagerly anticipating a quiet dinner at home with his family. Alas, Darla has invited a "few friends" to the celebration: Alfalfa, Porky, and Philip. The well-meaning trio drive poor Mr. Hood to distraction with loud and interminable choruses of "Happy Birthday, Mr. Hood", but this is nothing compared to the presents they've brought: a frog, a duck, and a cat, all of which get into a noisy confrontation with the family dog.
Canned Fishing
Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick and Spanky should stay with him while the parents are away. But Spanky's mom, knowing the truth, turns the tables by insisting they also watch Spanky's little brother. But taking care of little brother turns out to be more difficult than they expected. (imdb)
Bear Facts
Bear Facts (1938) - Short Film
In an effort to impress Darla (Darla Hood), Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he know that Darla's father owns a circus - and a bear costume. It's time for everyone to uncover the "bear facts". (imdb)
Hide and Shriek
Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house. (imdb)
If You Knew Susie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker. (imdb)
The Little Ranger
While Muggsy implores Alfalfa to use her extra ticket to go to the movies with her, Alfalfa patiently waits for Darla outside the theater, unaware that Darla is going to go to the movies with Butch, with Butch using Alfalfa's ticket. A dejected Alfalfa ends up going into the movie and sitting with Muggsy, right next to Darla and Butch. (imdb)
Aladdin\
The gang members are putting on a musical show about Aladdin and his lamp. While Spanky, Alfalfa, and Darla endeavor to stick to the script (such as it is), their efforts are undermined by smaller kids Buckwheat and Porky. (Wikipedia)
She\
When her Hollywood career fails, an actress returns to Broadway and tries for a comeback in a stage show directed by her former lover. (imdb)