Joseph W. Girard

Heavenly Days (1944)

, 1h11
Réalisé par Howard Estabrook
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Marian Driscoll Jordan, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Oliver, Raymond Walburn, Barbara Hale, Donald Douglas
Rôle Senator (non crédité)
Note55%

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Mission à Moscou (1943)

, 2h4
Réalisé par Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Historique
Thèmes Politique, Documentaire sur la guerre, Documentaire historique, Politique, Documentaire sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Acteurs Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Rôle American Senator (uncredited)
Note54%

En 1936, le président Roosevelt envoie son ami Joseph Davies comme ambassadeur en URSS où il rencontre les hautes sphères du pouvoir soviétique.

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Captain Midnight (1942)

, 4h30
Réalisé par James W. Horne
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Aventure
Thèmes Transport, Aviation
Acteurs Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Bryant Washburn, Sam Edwards, Luana Walters, Joseph W. Girard
Rôle Major Steel (as Joe Girard)
Note65%

Captain Midnight was only one of the many aviation serials released in wartime whose leading characters were derived from early pulp magazines and radio favorites. In this serial, Captain Albright is an extremely skilled aviator better known as Captain Midnight, who is assigned to neutralize the sinister Ivan Shark, an evil enemy scientist who is bombing major American cities. Our hero leads the Secret Squadron, whose staff includes Chuck Ramsay who is Midnight's ward and Ichabod 'Icky' Mudd, the Squadron's chief mechanic. Shark has developed a highly efficient mercenary organization, being aided by his daughter Fury who is highly intelligent and second in command, Gardo the henchman and Fang, an Oriental ally. Unfortunately, Shark is after a new range finder invented by the altruistic scientist, John Edwards, whose beautiful daughter, Joyce, the villains attempt to capture to blackmail the inventor.

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The Secret Code (1942)

Réalisé par Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Aventure, Espionnage
Thèmes Espionnage, Politique
Acteurs Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Clancy Cooper, Gregory Gaye, Ludwig Donath
Rôle Col. Drake
Note73%

This serial introduces the World War II scenario when a masked hero tries to prevent Nazi agents from crippling the US's war effort. The spy ring is led by fifth columnist Jensen, who, with his lieutenant Rudy Thyssen and a network of Nazi saboteurs, is trying to get possession of a top-secret formula the United States had developed for manufacturing synthetic rubber while creating explosive gases and radio-controlled bombs to sabotage the exhausting war effort. Then Police Lieutenant Dan Barton stages a public dismissal from the police department, in order to join the saboteurs ring and learn the secret code they have been using. To further assist his efforts (especially after his superior, the only person to know that Barton is working undercover, is murdered), Barton assumes the secret identity of the Black Commando, a masked man who is wanted both by the villains (who want the secret formula they think he has) and police (who are also searching for Barton for murder). Finally, Barton steals the formula and is captured by Thyssen and put under the protection of the sabotage ring. Joining the gang, he learns of their plans, which he immediately leaks to his best friend and former partner Pat Flanagan and news reporter girlfriend Jean Ashley and, as "The Black Commando", continually frustrates the Nazi plots. After innumerable dangers and lost efforts in trying to decipher the enemy's secret codes, Barton and Flanagan discover the key to the Nazi code, capture the Nazi ring and make sure that the Nazi U-boat which has been waiting to help the Nazis escape is depth-bombed and destroyed.

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Sergent York (1941)

, 2h14
Réalisé par Don Siegel, Howard Hawks
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Biographie, Action, Historique, Romance
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Rôle Général John J. Pershing
Note76%

L'histoire vraie d'Alvin Cullum York, un jeune campagnard croyant et pacifiste qui s'enrôle dans l'armée américaine en tant qu'objecteur de conscience et qui deviendra un héros de la Première Guerre mondiale.

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L'araignée au Service Secret (1941)

Réalisé par James W. Horne
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Aventure, Policier
Thèmes Super-héros
Acteurs Warren Hull, Mary Ainslee, Dave O'Brien, Joseph W. Girard, Kenne Duncan, Bryant Washburn
Rôle Police Commissioner Kirk
Note62%

Le « Gargouille » mal et masqué est en train de saboter toutes les installations industrielles de l'Amérique. Il est à l'araignée pour sauver le pays.

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Deadwood Dick (1940)

Réalisé par James W. Horne
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Western
Acteurs Donald Douglas, Lorna Gray, Harry Harvey, Sr., Jack Ingram, Marin Sais, Lane Chandler
Rôle Government Referee
Note70%

Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in a reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band which is infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorises the town to prevent statehood being achieved, in order to build his own empire in the vast territory. But Dick suspects that one of his fellow committeemen might be responsible for the string of criminal acts. It takes him fifteen episodes and about forty choreographed slugfests to finally uncover the truth and reward the Skull's villainy with an exemplary punishment.

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The Green Archer (1940)

Réalisé par James W. Horne
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Policier
Acteurs Victor Jory, Iris Meredith, Dorothy Fay, Robert Fiske, Forrest Taylor, Jack Ingram
Rôle Inspector Ross
Note64%

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother, Abel Bellamy, takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans. Bellamy is using Garr Castle as a base for his jewelry-theft ring, and he kidnaps his brother's wife to keep things quiet. Insurance investigator Spike Holland enters the case, and Bellamy continually dispatches his resident gang to do away with him. Detective Thompson, representing the law, is seldom of any help. Meanwhile, the estate's fabled "Green Archer", a masked, leotard-clad marksman, steals silently through Garr Castle and the estate grounds, confounding the enemy forces.

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Deux bons copains (1939)

, 1h13
Réalisé par Gordon Douglas
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal
Acteurs Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, Hattie McDaniel, James Ellison
Rôle un juré
Note59%

Un médecin de campagne modeste dans le antebellum Sud doit faire face mariage prochain de sa fille et une affectueuse médecine spectacle éléphant.

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Held For Ransom (1938)

, 59minutes
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Policier
Acteurs Grant Withers, Blanche Mehaffey, Jack Mulhall, Kenneth Harlan, Harry Harvey, Sr., Walter McGrail
Rôle Police Chief Howell
Note52%

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Clipped Wings (1937)

, 1h3
Réalisé par Stuart Paton
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Aventure, Policier
Thèmes Transport, Aviation
Acteurs Lloyd Hughes, Rosalind Keith, William Janney, George Regas, Richard Cramer, Jason Robards Sr.
Rôle Col. A.C. Clayton, Flight Surgeon
Note41%

In World War I, Captain Jerry Broun (Lloyd Hughes) feels he has to fight even though the United States has not yet entered the conflict. He enrols in Canada to fly as a pilot, with his adoring young half-brother Mickey (Delmar Watson) wanting to follow in his footsteps by becoming a pilot.

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The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (1937)

, 1h
Réalisé par Ray Taylor
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Western
Acteurs Tex Ritter, Iris Meredith, Horace Murphy, Charles King, Earl Dwire, Forrest Taylor
Rôle Dan Farley
Note47%

Tex and Stubby keep their promise to a dying friend by helping his partner hang on to his gold mine and to avenge his death by taking on and wiping out a horde of masked riders.

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Wild West Days (1937)

Réalisé par Ford Beebe
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Aventure, Western
Acteurs John Mack Brown, Bob Kortman, Russell Simpson, Walter Miller, Charles Stevens, Francis McDonald
Rôle Judge Lawrence
Note64%

Larry and Lucy Munro own a hidden gold mine. Newspaper editor Matt Keeler wants the mine for himself and has Larry framed for to get it. Frontiersman Kentucky Wade - with Dude Hanford, Mike Morales and Trigger Benton - come to the Munros' aid.

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Aces and Eights (1936)

, 1h2
Réalisé par Sam Newfield
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Western
Acteurs Tim McCoy, Luana Walters, Rex Lease, Wheeler Oakman, J. Frank Glendon, Charles Stevens
Rôle Don Julio Hernandez (as Joseph Girard)
Note53%

A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.

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