Kernan Cripps
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1886-07-08
Locus Natus: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Et ut: Kerman Cripps, Mr. Kernan Cripps
The Secret Of St. Ives
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director...
release : 1949.06.30popularis : 5.103
Borrowed Hero
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
release : 1941.12.05popularis : 4.627
Silver Spurs
Janet Allison witnesses Art Holden and his gang hold up the Station Agent. When she identifies Holden to the Sheriff, the Sheriff gives Holden an...
release : 1936.01.29popularis : 1.301
The Cowboy and the Kid
Penniless drifter Steve Davis finds young Jimmy Thomas just after his father is killed. The two become friends and Steve looks for work. This brings...
release : 1936.07.01popularis : 1.462
Broadway Bill
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...
release : 1934.11.30popularis : 3.051
Maid to Order
While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on...
release : 1931.08.28popularis : 1.973
Smart Girl
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a...
release : 1935.07.16popularis : 2.329
Mary Ryan, Detective
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods...
release : 1949.11.03popularis : 2.724
The Mystery Squadron
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery...
release : 1933.12.21popularis : 10.475
Calling Dr. Death
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving...
release : 1943.12.17popularis : 5.687
Mr. Dynamite
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
release : 1941.03.01popularis : 3.661
Federal Operator 99
Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped crime boss Jim Belmont.
release : 1945.07.07popularis : 2.16
Atlantic Adventure
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....
release : 1935.08.25popularis : 1.837
I Hate Women
A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he...
release : 1934.05.10popularis : 6.324
Swing It, Sailor!
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
release : 1938.02.04popularis : 1.312
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
release : 1936.12.01popularis : 2.766
Playing Around
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
release : 1930.01.10popularis : 1.096
Frisco Lil
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love...
release : 1942.03.13popularis : 1.604
Meet Me on Broadway
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress...
release : 1946.01.26popularis : 3.538
Alibi
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he...
release : 1929.04.20popularis : 3.194
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with...
release : 1948.03.25popularis : 12.724
Double Indemnity
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of...
release : 1944.07.06popularis : 16.878
The Defense Rests
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
release : 1934.07.15popularis : 4.45
Key Witness
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
release : 1947.10.09popularis : 2.731
Northern Frontier
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
release : 1935.02.01popularis : 1.803
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One...
release : 1934.01.12popularis : 1.763
The Saint Strikes Back
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...
release : 1939.03.08popularis : 6.356
Let Us Live
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...
release : 1939.03.29popularis : 5.549
5th Ave Girl
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
release : 1939.09.22popularis : 4.905
Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...
release : 1939.03.12popularis : 34.539
Dr. Broadway
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
release : 1942.05.09popularis : 7.516
Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 1.559
The Invisible Killer
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of...
release : 1939.11.14popularis : 7.218
Gang Bullets
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get...
release : 1938.11.10popularis : 8.218
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...
release : 1939.10.28popularis : 15.527
Main Street After Dark
A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
release : 1945.01.12popularis : 2.703
Stone of Silver Creek
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the...
release : 1935.04.14popularis : 1.313
You're Not So Tough
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick...
release : 1940.07.26popularis : 3.949
Girl in Danger
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
release : 1934.09.11popularis : 0.893
The Crime of Helen Stanley
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
release : 1934.04.20popularis : 4.918
The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler,...
release : 1937.06.24popularis : 2.145
The Scarlet Clue
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
release : 1945.05.11popularis : 7.34
The Crime Patrol
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in...
release : 1936.05.12popularis : 2.966
The Invisible Woman
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her...
release : 1940.12.28popularis : 11.282
The Shadow
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his...
release : 1940.01.05popularis : 2.054
The Green Hornet
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
release : 1940.01.08popularis : 5.183
Saboteur
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
release : 1942.04.24popularis : 10.557
Rough Necking
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her...
release : 1934.04.24popularis : 1.387
Black Friday
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters,...
release : 1940.02.29popularis : 9.144
The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...
release : 1941.04.11popularis : 2.906
Gaucho Serenade
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's...
release : 1940.05.09popularis : 0.511
When the Daltons Rode
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...
release : 1940.08.23popularis : 5.795
The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth...
release : 1940.08.10popularis : 8.992
Deadwood Dick
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
release : 1940.07.19popularis : 2.763
Mary Burns, Fugitive
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
release : 1935.11.15popularis : 5.614
Waterfront Lady
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...
release : 1935.10.04popularis : 5.197
Dance, Girl, Dance
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 8.354
The House of the Seven Gables
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother...
release : 1940.04.12popularis : 4.843
Cross-Country Romance
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
release : 1940.07.12popularis : 2.716
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty...
release : 1940.05.24popularis : 1.593
Wolf of New York
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
release : 1940.01.23popularis : 4.234
The Green Archer
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...
release : 1940.10.25popularis : 1.894
Over the Wall
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
release : 1938.04.02popularis : 11.507
Unknown Blonde
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
release : 1934.04.23popularis : 1.262
Crime Doctor
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading...
release : 1943.06.22popularis : 8.957
Afraid to Talk
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
release : 1932.11.17popularis : 2.175
Little Big Shot
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
release : 1935.09.07popularis : 2.273
Juvenile Court
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the...
release : 1938.09.10popularis : 1.799
That Girl from Paris
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an...
release : 1936.12.31popularis : 1.342
Six Gun Gospel
U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a...
release : 1943.08.03popularis : 2.385
Daughter of Don Q
When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate...
release : 1946.06.27popularis : 2.855
The Gunman From Bodie
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is...
release : 1941.09.19popularis : 6.104
Murder by Invitation
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no...
release : 1941.06.30popularis : 8.217
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but...
release : 1940.10.29popularis : 1.317
Angel's Holiday
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...
release : 1937.06.07popularis : 1.196
The Undie-World
A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as...
release : 1934.04.03popularis : 0.957
Pacific Blackout
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...
release : 1941.12.31popularis : 5.029
Slightly French
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...
release : 1949.02.02popularis : 1.319
Those Who Dance
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
release : 1930.04.18popularis : 1.61
Hi Diddle Diddle
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...
release : 1943.08.02popularis : 4.64
Mr. Lucky
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
release : 1943.07.01popularis : 8.698
The Falcon in San Francisco
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.
release : 1945.07.20popularis : 3.737
Lady Scarface
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...
release : 1941.09.26popularis : 3.661
She Couldn't Take It
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...
release : 1935.10.08popularis : 2.901
Strange Affair
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up...
release : 1944.10.05popularis : 1.346
Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early...
release : 1930.11.08popularis : 11.508
Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
release : 1931.01.25popularis : 7.297
Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
release : 1940.07.05popularis : 1.239
Appointment for Love
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 3.825
The Seventh Victim
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with...
release : 1943.08.21popularis : 8.671
Mysterious Intruder
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
release : 1946.04.11popularis : 2.653
California
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...
release : 1947.02.21popularis : 6.145
The Falcon Takes Over
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...
release : 1942.05.29popularis : 2.751
Great Guy
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
release : 1936.12.01popularis : 7.54
Blondie in the Dough
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer...
release : 1947.10.16popularis : 4.698
Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.
release : 1949.09.08popularis : 4.491
Big Brown Eyes
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...
release : 1936.04.03popularis : 5.769
Crack-Up
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
release : 1946.09.06popularis : 3.476