Will Jason

Will Jason

Total Credits at Criticker: 39 (Director), 6 (Writer)

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    The Soul of a Monster
    As famous surgeon, George Winson, lies on his deathbed, his wife Ann calls on unknown powers to save him. A strange woman (Lilyan) appears from nowhere and takes control. George recovers, but he's mysteriously dominated by Lilyan, and leaves his wife. When the evil woman tempts him into letting his best friend (Roger) die Wilson realizes that Lilyan wants his soul in exchange for the chance to continue living. (imdb)
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    Blonde Alibi
    Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past. (imdb)
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    Thief of Damascus
    A young man gathers a group of friends and adventurers to help battle an evil sultan. (imdb)
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    A Failure at Fifty
    The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man. (imdb)
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    Eve Knew Her Apples
    Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". (imdb)
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    Everybody\
    Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club. (imdb)
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    The Harlem Globetrotters
    Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters." Saperstein want Billy to finish school first and get his degree but, despite the good advice, Billy quits college and joins the team. He becomes the team star, gets married although it is against the team regulations, and is injured. As a result, the team loses an important game and Billy is fired. (imdb)
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    Kazan
    Based on a James Oliver Curwood story, Kazan was one of those "little" pictures of the late 1940s which gained a lofty reputation when it was championed by a handful of film critics. The title character is a huge white dog, running wild in the Canadian wilderness. Mistreated by cruel woodsmen, Kazan learns to trust mankind through the kindness and consideration of government wildlife expert Thomas Weyman (Steve Dunne). Lois Maxwell, the future Miss Moneypenny of the "James Bond" movies, plays th (allmovie.com)
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    Movie Pests
    Movie Pests (1944) - Short Film
    A humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible. (imdb)
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    Campus Sleuth
    When a magazine photographer is found dead on campus, a group of students decide to find out who committed the crime. (imdb)
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    Snow Gets in Your Eyes
    A department store has an indoor ski-slide for the annual contest for department store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers; a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. But the sausage salesman goes into intensive ski-training, wins the contest and wins the girl. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) do two numbers. (imdb)
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    Rusty Leads the Way
    Thirteen-year-old Danny Mitchell befriends Penny Waters, a little blind girl who is shy and lonely. Danny intercedes for Penny when she is about to be sent to the State Institution for the Blind and she is sent to a guide-dog school.
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    Sarge Goes to College
    A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service, requires an operation, and Navy psychiatrist Captain R. S. Handler, recommends to Marine Captain Russ Morgan and Colonel Winters that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through Dean McKinley of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. (imdb)
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    Idea Girl
    Hoping to hit the big time, song-plugger Pat O'Rourke pitches the notion of an amateur song-writing contest. Her zany publicity-seeking efforts cause nothing but grief for a group of Manhattan-based song publishers, foremost among them the handsome but harried Larry Brewster.
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    No News Is Good News
    Robert Benchley answers questions sent in by people. The first question is about inflation; the second is about if elephants can be used in modern warfare; and the third, what would happen if Russia was involved in a stalemate in Upper Rhodesia.
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    First Aid
    First Aid (1943) - Short Film
    This Pete Smith Specialty is a semihumorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house. It was produced in cooperation with the Beverly Hills First Aid Unit of the American Red Cross Disaster Service.
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    Inca Gold
    Inca Gold (1943) - Short Film
    Legends associated with the lost treasures of Incan gold, thought to be located at the bottom of one of the many shafts of what is called the hawk's nest above the city of Cusco, Peru are presented. These stories begin in 1531 with the arrival of explorer Francisco Pizarro, under the direction of King Charles V of Spain, Pizarro who is in search of the gold associated with the legendary El Dorado. Pizarro holds captive the Emperor of the Incas, Atahualpa, to discover the location of the gold.
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    Groovie Movie
    Groovie Movie (1944) - Short Film
    A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various other couples. We start with steps imported from other dances, like the waltz, then sped up. Next Walsh and his partner show some basic steps, but the movements are too swift for the narrator to describe them or the viewer to learn how to do them.
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    Why Daddy?
    Why Daddy? (1944) - Short Film
    When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.
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    Safety Sleuth
    Safety Sleuth (1944) - Short Film
    Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.
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    Shotgun Slade
    Shotgun Slade (1959) - TV Series
    Shotgun Slade was unlike other show heroes. He wasn't a Marshal, Sheriff, or gunfighter for hire, but Slade was a private detective, hired to track down criminals, return stolen money, or solve mysteries surrounding the death of townspeople. The show had more in common with shows like Peter Gunn (1958) and 77 Sunset Strip (1958), than Gunsmoke (1955) and Bonanza (1959). This show depended on strong characters and storylines than action. (imdb)
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    Ten Cents a Dance
    Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue!
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    Slightly Scandalous
    There are two twin brothers, one of whom has three girls on a romantic string and is trying to sell a television show to a fountain pen manufacturer. The other doesn't have one girl and quietly sells insurance. The insurance seller invests money in his brother's show and, in the process of protecting his investment, gets involved with his twin's romances. Things eventually work out and the TV promoter winds up with the manufacturer's daughter and the salesman with Sheila Ryan.
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    Important Business
    Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
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    My Tomato
    My Tomato (1943) - Short Film
    Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she doesn't correct him, especially after he announces that he will grow enough tomatoes to feed the entire block.
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    The Dark Horse
    George Kelly (Phillip Terry), World-War-Two vet returning home from the war, is persuaded by a local politician, John Rooney (Donald McBride), assuming that Kelly would fall in line with the entrenched establishment. But, Kelly has his own agenda and exposes a crooked political set-up in in the town and is elected on the strength of his honesty.
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    Smart Politics
    The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center. The project leaders discuss with the town mayor Phineas Wharton Sr. about buying an old warehouse from the city, and rebuilding it as the Center. The mayor, however, has his own plans to buy it himself for another project which he would profit from.
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    Music Man
    In New York City, Italian American songwriting brothers Phil and Freddie Russo turn out one successful song after another for their publisher, Sanders. One day, Freddie and Phil accept an invitation from attractive June Larkin to sing at a benefit that her parents are hosting. Kitty, the brothers' secretary, is secretly in love with Phil, but Phil is smitten with June. Following the benefit party, Kitty visits Phil and Freddie's mother and asks her to help stop the bickering between her sons.
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    Seventh Column
    Seventh Column (1943) - Short Film
    A short showing how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
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    Calling All Pa\
    In this Pete Smith Specialty, we meet new father Mr. Thunderstruck as and his wife start raising their new baby girl and experience the issues of new parents.
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    Victory Quiz
    Victory Quiz (1942) - Short Film
    A quiz where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.
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    Cuban Rhythm
    Cuban Rhythm (1941) - Short Film
    Two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.
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    Water Bugs
    Water Bugs (1941) - Short Film
    This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California lakes. Included in this film are paddle boats with outboard motors, two people using a single pair of water skis, and a water skier towed by a low-flying airplane.
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    Once Over Lightly
    In this spoof of college life, Clipton Barber College must meet Beardsley in an intercollegiate face-off. Thanks to a secret depilatory developed by Professor Kapouris, Clipton has the edge. But will romantic rivalry keep star student Bob out of the match?
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    The Canary Comes Across
    A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.
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    Guest Pests
    Guest Pests (1945) - Short Film
    An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.
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    Memory Tricks
    Memory Tricks (1941) - Short Film
    A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented.
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    Home Maid
    Home Maid (1944) - Short Film
    Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.
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    Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle
    Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle with Carson Robison and His Buckaroos.
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