Dick Wessel
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1913-04-20
Locus Natus: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Et ut: Dick Wassel, Richard M. Wessel , Richard Wessel , Dick Wessell, Richard Wessell , Richard Michael Wessel
Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....
release : 1941.08.09popularis : 3.895
Blondie's Big Moment
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...
release : 1947.01.09popularis : 2.738
Beware of Blondie
Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam...
release : 1950.04.13popularis : 3.336
Pardon My Terror
Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
release : 1946.09.12popularis : 2.901
Pitfall
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent...
release : 1948.08.11popularis : 8.889
Billie Gets Her Man
Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital. At the same time, her old boyfriend, now...
release : 1948.09.09popularis : 2.087
The Scarf
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was...
release : 1951.04.06popularis : 2.979
Rancho Notorious
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from...
release : 1952.03.06popularis : 9.935
The Traitor Within
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was...
release : 1942.12.16popularis : 3.994
On the Town
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
release : 1949.12.08popularis : 11.344
Blondie's Hero
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
release : 1950.03.09popularis : 6.493
Friendly Enemies
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has...
release : 1942.06.21popularis : 2.087
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
release : 1946.11.22popularis : 5.897
The Border Legion
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the...
release : 1940.12.05popularis : 1.298
The Crowd Roars
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...
release : 1938.08.06popularis : 1.679
Watch the Birdie
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
release : 1950.12.11popularis : 2.465
High Wall
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county...
release : 1947.12.17popularis : 2.662
Wife to Spare
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
release : 1947.11.20popularis : 2.509
The Cowboy Quarterback
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his...
release : 1939.07.29popularis : 2.677
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
release : 1952.12.24popularis : 5.526
An Hour for Lunch
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
release : 1939.03.17popularis : 0.58
Punchy Cowpunchers
It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but...
release : 1950.01.05popularis : 1.628
Tulsa
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee...
release : 1949.04.13popularis : 2.948
13 Rue Madeleine
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students,...
release : 1947.01.15popularis : 8.796
San Quentin
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for...
release : 1937.05.24popularis : 3.44
Half Shot Shooters
The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the...
release : 1936.04.30popularis : 9.065
Harvey
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few...
release : 1950.12.04popularis : 12.214
Slattery's Hurricane
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The...
release : 1949.08.11popularis : 3.449
Fling in the Ring
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss,...
release : 1955.01.06popularis : 1.484
So's Your Antenna
Harry plays a gangster on a radio show and is then is mistaken for a real one.
release : 1946.10.10popularis : 1.14
Radio Romeo
Harry gets a job at a radio station as an "advice to the lovelorn" host and winds up getting involved in a young woman's marital problems.
release : 1947.12.25popularis : 1.369
Gasoline Alley
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
release : 1951.01.02popularis : 1.05
Hawk of the Wilderness
An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.
release : 1938.12.03popularis : 1.784
Flying Leathernecks
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he...
release : 1951.08.28popularis : 16.278
They All Come Out
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of...
release : 1939.08.04popularis : 5.102
Corky of Gasoline Alley
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.
release : 1951.09.17popularis : 1.042
All in a Night's Work
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating...
release : 1961.03.15popularis : 4.973
Silver Spurs
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a...
release : 1943.08.12popularis : 2.115
Three Hearts for Julia
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
release : 1943.05.21popularis : 1.469
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who...
release : 1953.07.14popularis : 13.461
X Marks the Spot
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...
release : 1942.11.04popularis : 5.309
The WAC From Walla Walla
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
release : 1952.10.10popularis : 2.243
Canadian Pacific
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
release : 1949.05.19popularis : 4.453
Wife Tames Wolf
Caught philandering (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple), Leon's wife (Dorothy Granger) announces (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple...
release : 1947.03.28popularis : 2.303
They Gave Him a Gun
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
release : 1937.05.07popularis : 3.814
Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
release : 1938.07.16popularis : 3.206
The Texas Rangers
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to...
release : 1951.06.03popularis : 3.193
The Jackie Robinson Story
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...
release : 1950.05.16popularis : 4.816
Border Cafe
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny...
release : 1937.06.04popularis : 2.531
They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
release : 1939.01.21popularis : 6.29
Blackwell's Island
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
release : 1939.01.24popularis : 4.219
Tricky Chicks
A pair of nightclub performers fall in love with government agents who suspect them to be foreign spies.
release : 1957.10.24popularis : 2.243
Dust Be My Destiny
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...
release : 1939.09.16popularis : 5.121
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
Dizzy Yardbird
Joe is in the army, and his sergeant is determined to make a soldier out of Joe if he has to kill him to do it.
release : 1950.03.09popularis : 1.618
G.I. Dood It
Joe Besser has a fight with an army sergeant before he is drafted, and when he arrives at camp, finds the sergeant is his NCO and not adverse to...
release : 1955.02.17popularis : 0.644
Slappily Married
Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
release : 1946.11.07popularis : 1.737
Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 17.579
An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist...
release : 1951.09.26popularis : 10.134
Submarine Patrol
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
release : 1938.11.25popularis : 3.822
Rebel Without a Cause
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own...
release : 1955.10.27popularis : 14.599
Thieves' Highway
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his...
release : 1949.09.20popularis : 11.482
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...
release : 1936.01.13popularis : 1.382
Scarlet Street
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really...
release : 1945.12.25popularis : 19.174
Her First Romance
A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr.,...
release : 1951.05.04popularis : 4.582
Fright Night
The stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bank roll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to have Chopper lose...
release : 1947.03.06popularis : 3.304
Life with Buster Keaton
Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group.
release : 1951.02.10popularis : 2.475
Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...
release : 1947.10.11popularis : 3.319
Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 3.88
It Happened in Brooklyn
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that...
release : 1947.03.13popularis : 6.687
Missing Daughters
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
release : 1939.05.22popularis : 2.975
In Old Sacramento
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his...
release : 1946.05.31popularis : 2.015
Texas Carnival
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
release : 1951.10.05popularis : 2.781
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...
release : 1948.06.01popularis : 1.092
White Bondage
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
release : 1937.08.05popularis : 1.341
Hectic Honeymoon
Sterling works as a woman's hosiery salesman, and marries one of the office secretaries only to find out that his boss has just decided that anyone...
release : 1947.10.17popularis : 0.649
Flat Feat
Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has.
release : 1948.06.24popularis : 0.441
Flowing Gold
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires...
release : 1940.08.24popularis : 3.537
City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...
release : 1940.09.21popularis : 5.102
The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
release : 1940.09.19popularis : 3.338
Small Town Girl
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob...
release : 1936.04.10popularis : 3.158
Flight Command
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression...
release : 1940.12.27popularis : 3.523
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...
release : 1942.11.14popularis : 6.084
Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
release : 1940.02.17popularis : 3.869
They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...
release : 1940.07.26popularis : 9.21
Let's Do It Again
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The...
release : 1953.06.16popularis : 6.271
Pocketful of Miracles
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...
release : 1961.12.18popularis : 9.926
Cafe Hostess
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
release : 1940.01.11popularis : 1.245
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
Around the World in Eighty Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...
release : 1956.10.17popularis : 12.62
Sands of Iwo Jima
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit...
release : 1950.01.01popularis : 15.767
The Ugly Dachshund
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of...
release : 1966.02.16popularis : 10.521
In Room 303
Leon needs to make a business deal with Mr. Marshall but can't unless his son and Marshall's daughter straighten out their romantic problems. Leon,...
release : 1947.04.25popularis : 1.291
Desert Bandit
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as...
release : 1941.05.24popularis : 3.213
The Great Train Robbery
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an...
release : 1941.02.28popularis : 1.131
Red River Valley
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock...
release : 1941.12.12popularis : 2.935
Romance on the Range
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
release : 1942.05.18popularis : 1.11
Sunset Serenade
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl....
release : 1942.09.14popularis : 1.611
King of the Cowboys
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from...
release : 1943.04.09popularis : 6.234
They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...
release : 1941.11.20popularis : 15.698
Dangerously They Live
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
release : 1941.12.24popularis : 2.768
The Desperados Are in Town
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his...
release : 1956.11.01popularis : 4.541
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna...
release : 1939.10.07popularis : 6.937
I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
release : 1939.08.01popularis : 6.17
About Face
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
release : 1942.04.16popularis : 1.944
Fall In
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
release : 1942.11.20popularis : 3.413
Brooklyn Orchid
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
release : 1942.01.31popularis : 1.25
Who's Minding the Store?
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store...
release : 1963.11.28popularis : 10.071
Steel Against the Sky
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
release : 1941.12.13popularis : 3.534
False Faces
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
release : 1943.05.28popularis : 2.537
Champ for a Day
An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a...
release : 1953.08.15popularis : 1.961
Love Is Better Than Ever
The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all....
release : 1952.02.23popularis : 1.768
Reunion in Reno
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
release : 1951.10.09popularis : 1.366
Father of the Bride
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...
release : 1950.05.18popularis : 8.699
Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as...
release : 1943.06.12popularis : 11.861
Borrowing Trouble
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
release : 1937.12.10popularis : 1.254
Unknown Island
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated...
release : 1948.10.15popularis : 3.356
The Game That Kills
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing...
release : 1937.09.21popularis : 2.733
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...
release : 1946.03.01popularis : 2.415
Young Man with Ideas
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
release : 1952.05.02popularis : 4.089
The Green Promise
A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to...
release : 1949.03.22popularis : 1.999
In Spite of Danger
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another...
release : 1935.03.08popularis : 2.35
So You Won't Talk?
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
release : 1940.10.02popularis : 0.979
Young Widow
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
release : 1946.03.01popularis : 4.419
Bowery to Bagdad
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
release : 1955.01.07popularis : 4.967
Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is...
release : 1942.02.01popularis : 0.619
Dangerous Lady
Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge....
release : 1941.09.12popularis : 1.388
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
Wives and Lovers
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford...
release : 1963.08.29popularis : 2.123
Round-Up Time in Texas
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys.
release : 1937.02.28popularis : 3.255
Do or Diet
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired...
release : 1947.02.10popularis : 2.38
Hollow Triumph
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
release : 1948.08.18popularis : 9.274
Black Angel
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of...
release : 1946.08.02popularis : 10.295