S. Sylvan Simon

S. Sylvan Simon

Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Director)

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    Lust for Gold
    The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the "Dutchman" (German) of Arizona's notorious Lost Dutchman gold mine, found treasure and love and lost them again. (imdb)
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    Abbott and Costello in Hollywood
    When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. (imdb)
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    Rio Rita
    Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel. (imdb)
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    Grand Central Murder
    A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend on the phone. She flees for her new beau's private railcar at the same station. When she is then found murdered the cops round up a motley group of suspects including the escapee, several guys feeling sore at the way the gold-digging broad had treated them, some jealous dames, and a private eye already on the case. Inspector Gunther soon has a problem - enough evidence to fry all of them. (imdb)
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    Whistling in the Dark
    The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiance and a friend to further this goal. Wally is "The Fox", a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot. (imdb)
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    Whistling in Brooklyn
    A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder. (tcm.com)
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    Whistling in Dixie
    Radio sleuth Wally "the Fox" Benton travels to Georgia with his fiance Carol to be married, and to help Carol's college chum Ellie Mae solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon and buried treasure. (imdb)
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    The Cockeyed Miracle
    Man returns from heaven to make up for financial errors he made that caused harm to his family. (imdb)
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    Bad Bascomb
    It's just after the civil war when the elderly outlaw Bascomb and his gang try to rob a bank. They run into a trap as officers are waiting in ambush. Bascomb and the cold blooded killer Yancy escape and join a Mormon wagon train heading for Utah. They learn there is gold hidden on the train and eventually Yancy finds it. The plan is to take the gold and flee but a nine year old girl has become attached to Bascomb and Bascomb is beginning to change his mind. (imdb)
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    Dancing Co-Ed
    Right before the dancing Tobius' ought to film a new production, his wife tells Freddy Tobius that she's pregnant. So the producer desperately has to seek a replacement and starts a countrywide competition among all college girls. However the contest is bogus: young dancer Patty Marlow is sent to a little college in the Midwest. Only Pug, a college reporter, suspects something. (imdb)
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    The Fuller Brush Man
    Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect. (imdb)
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    I Love Trouble
    A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. The latter is killed before he can talk, but, with the help of a showgirl, the detective learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girl friend to enter college after she had stolen $40,000 from the night club where she worked. (imdb)
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    Son of Lassie
    Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage? (imdb)
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    Her Husband\
    A scientist invents a formula that removes old, thinning hair and replaces it with thick, new hair. Complications ensue. (imdb)
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    Sporting Blood
    Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda. (imdb)
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    Tish
    Letitia "Tish" Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house. Cora Edwards also lives at the boarding house and is in love with Charlie, who, however, loves Katherine "Kit" Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser. (imdb)
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    Salute to the Marines
    A retired Marine gets caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign. (tcm.com)
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    The Bugle Sounds
    By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the old-line martinet who resents the incursions of progress. In The Bugle Sounds, Beery opted for characterization #2, playing entrenched Cavalry sergeant Hap Doan. Accustomed to horses and horsemen, Sgt. Doan has a great deal of trouble adjusting themselves to those newfangled armored cars and tanks that the modern Army has introduced to his troops. (imdb)
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    The Crime of Doctor Hallet
    Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever. (imdb)
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    Dulcy
    A dizzy young woman arranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens. (imdb)
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    Four Girls in White
    A young nurse vacillates between her romantic interests in a brilliant young doctor and a wealthy playboy, who is unfortunately in love with another nurse. This drama charts the course of these romantic conflicts, which take an unexpected turn due to a tragic train crash. (allrovi.com)
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    The Kid from Texas
    A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show. (imdb)
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    These Glamour Girls
    A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead she stays and shows up both him and his classmates snooty dates. (imdb)
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    A Girl with Ideas
    A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper. (imdb)
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    Keeping Company
    In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's B-picture product. In Keeping Company, Morgan plays real estate broker Harry C. Thomas, blessed (or saddled) with three growing daughters. Mary (Ann Rutherford), oldest of the Thomas girls, leaves the nest to marry handsome Ted Foster (John Shelton). Thanks to the well-meaning parental interference of Thomas and his wife (Irene Rich), the young couple ends up on the verge of divo (allmovie.com)
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    The Lady and the Ranger
    In this lively musical western, a cowboy's wife heads for Reno for a quickie divorce. Meanwhile her husband finds himself in competition with a suave Easterner who has fallen in love with her. The cowboy is dismayed and embarrassed when the city-slicker easily out rides him during a bronc-riding exhibition. Fortunately, for the red-faced cowboy, his wife comes back and happiness ensues. (allmovie.com)
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    The Nurse from Brooklyn
    A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name. (imdb)
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    Spring Madness
    A young college man and his best friend both vie for the affections of the same woman while on their Spring Break vacation. (imdb)
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    Song of the Open Road
    Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth hostels and picking crops while adult farmworkers are at war. Totally clueless about the real world, befuddled Jane is embroiled in teen-romance complications while Mother frantically searches. Will her stardom help or hinder her new friends? (imdb)
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    Two Girls on Broadway
    Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the Producer named Chad, also has is eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. (imdb)
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    The Thrill of Brazil
    Vicki Dean, is the soon to be divorced wife of theatrical manager Steve Farraugh. While mounting a big musical spectacular in Brazil, Farraugh simultaneously campaigns to win back his wife. The couple encounters romantic interference from tap-dancer Linda Lorens. (Wikipedia)
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    Washington Melodrama
    A newsman links his fiancee's millionaire father to a chorus girl's murder.
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