I saw a rare Republic last night, Night Train to Memphis (1946), that a friend had copied off 16 mm. It has no viewer comments on IMDb. The star is Roy Acuff, who was born a county north of me, with Adele Mara, Allan Lane, Irving Bacon, Joseph Crehan, and Roy Barcroft among the cast. Ms. Mara...
Following up on Bert's call for more Republic releases, I have the Silver Screams Cinema collection from Imprint, which has a few Republics. We talked about The Lady and the Monster and Janet Martin on this thread back in March. I had watched a gray-market copy of that film before I got the...
I also enjoy James Griffith. In one of his TV appearances--I think it's on Cheyenne--he was strutting about in an extremely tight leather outfit that set me to wondering about the character he was playing!
I just watched The Lady and the Monster, a Republic film from 1944 that was the first version of the Donovan's Brain story. Janet Martin plays a "cafe singer" in one scene. The place looks a little fancy for a "cafe," I noticed!