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Jean Yarbrough

Jean Yarbrough
Total Credits at Criticker: 71 (Director), 9 (Writer)
Titles you haven't rated - Director (71) | Writer (9)
She-Wolf of London
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park. (imdb)
+2
King of the Zombies
During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crashland on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor... (imdb)
+19
The Devil Bat
Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members... (imdb)
+28
Jack and the Beanstalk
Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans. (imdb)
+24
The Naughty Nineties
When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right. (imdb)
+2
The Brute Man
Hal Moffat, known as the Creeper, is a deformed and mentally unhinged man. Through a series of brutal murders he takes his revenge on those responsible for making him this way, until eventually encountering a blind woman.
+2
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. Soon they realize that the house is not only haunted, but is also the headquarters of a ring of international spies after a top secret formula for rocket fuel. (imdb)
+11
House of Horrors
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics. (imdb)
+2
Here Come the Co-eds
Abbott and Costello invade a staid and exclusive girls' school and eventually save it from bankruptcy. This zany comedy is capped by a wild wrestling match between Lou Costello and Lon Chaney. (movlic.com)
+2
In Society
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly. (imdb)
Lost in Alaska
Up in the Alaskan wilderness, Abbott & Costello save Ewell from a greedy saloon owner and his cohorts who are trying to get their hands on Ewell's fortune. (movieretriever.com)
+2
The Over-the-Hill Gang
A retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town. (imdb)
+14
The Creeper
A man is turned into a "catlike" killer by means of a serum invented by a crazed scientist. (imdb)
Angels in Disguise
The Bowery Boys investigate a murder, and all the evidence points to the involvement of the notorious Loop gang. (imdb)
Crashing Las Vegas
An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers. (imdb)
Hot Shots
A precocious young TV star steals Sach's and Duke's car, and they run up against some network executives when they go to find out what happened. The executives believe that the boys know how to handle the little brat, and hire them as the boy's companions, with the titles of Vice President. Soon afterward the boy's uncle and manager kidnap him for ransom, and Sach and Duke set out to rescue the boy. (imdb)
Master Minds
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster. (imdb)
+2
Triple Trouble
While coming home from a masquerade party, the boys stumble upon a warehouse robbery in progress. They try to stop it, but wind up being arrested and accused of committing it themselves. While awaiting trial, Slip discovers that one of the men involved in the robbery is in prison on other charges. Slip decides that the boys should plead guilty and go to prison so they can find out who was really responsible for the robbery. (imdb)
Inside Job
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store. (imdb)
Footsteps in the Night
A gambling addict is the logical suspect in the death of a card-playing neighbor who caused his relapse - too logical, think the two detectives on the case. (imdb)
Shed No Tears
A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has been having an affair for some time, and she has plans for the money - and they don't include him. (imdb)
+4
The Challenge
In this episode of the Bulldog Drummond series, the amateur detective looks into the case of a murdered sea captain who was killed by his greedy heirs. Drummond must find the captain's hidden casket of gold before the captain's relatives do. (allrovi.com)
Criminal Investigator
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. (imdb)
The Gang\
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
Law of the Jungle
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent's activities.
+8
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Byington, a retired teacher, sells her apartment complex to ex-gangsters who begin kicking out the tenants. Byington tries to help the reformed mobsters, headed by Caruso, to undergo a change of heart. But one of the group, Karnes, still is out to cheat the system. (allmovie.com)
Big Timber
A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs thinks to make him appear to be an incompetent bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside. (imdb)
Cuban Pete
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program. (imdb)
Father Steps Out
A remake of Monogram's 1934 "City Limits" with practically all of the character role names the same as in the earlier film, and the primary difference here is that the author of the original story, Jack Woodford, receives no mention here. George Waggner (as Joseph West),who adapted the story for the first film, takes an "original screenplay" credit here with no nod in the direction of the man who wrote the story in the first place. (imdb)
Follow the Band
A farmer goes to New York to become a singer, has sucess and marries his neighbor's girl-friend. (imdb)
Freckles Comes Home
Freckles (Johnny Downs) comes home from college...and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane (Gale Storm), falls in love with a confidence man. (imdb)
Holiday in Havana
Carlos Estrada, a busboy in a Cuban hotel who wants to become a composer, is rebuffed by Mama Valdez when he tries to get her daughter, singer-dancer Lolita Veldez, to use one of his songs. Carlos thinks Lolita, who he has not met, is the one who turned him down. He unexpectedly becomes the leader of the hotel band, and they set out for Havana by bus to find a singer and dancer to join them in the grand rumba contest at the annual carnival. (imdb)
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
A crooked mayor and fight promoter conspire to sign slow-witted Humphrey to a contract. Their goal is to use Humphrey to get Joe Palooka to sign. As things develop, Humphrey becomes mayor. (imdb)
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Joe and Anne go off on their honeymoon while Knobby books him into a charity fight which Lord Cecil tries to wreck. (imdb)
Let\
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue. (imdb)
+3
Lure of the Islands
Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with his pal Jinx, is there to investigate rumored Japanese spy activity. He agrees to marry her if she will help him in his investigations. Through the discovery of a contraband radio set tuned to Japanese reception, Wally learns that the local Commandant is in league with the enemy and is planning an invasion of the island. (imdb)
Man from Headquarters
Reporter Larry Doyle is rewarded for his role in the capture of the Pardoni gang, but then loses his job on a frame-up to keep him from testifying. He goes to a neighboring city, meets Ann and, before he gets another reporting job, has to pawn his engraved revolver with a fence in league with the gangsters also part of Pardoni's mob. The gang gets the revolver from the fence and plant it at their next job, but Larry is on their trail and captures them at the pawn shop. (imdb)
Moon Over Las Vegas
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man. (imdb)
The Dummy Owner
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious. (imdb)
Rebellious Daughters
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail. (imdb)
+4
Father Makes Good
In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. (allmovie.com)
Henry, the Rainmaker
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Raymond Walburn stars as Henry Latham, an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton (played by Walburn's lifelong friend Walter Catlett) solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least. (allmovie.com)
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Eighteen years have passed since the arrival of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island. The last of these mutineers has just died and the island is now populated solely by their widows and children including Thursday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian. Onto this island now comes a band of shipwrecked sailors, bringing with them a lust for women and a greed for black pearls.
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Ex-cavalry scout and gunfighter Will Sonnett and his grandson, Jeff, search the West for Will's son - and Jeff's father - Jim Sonnett, a former lawman and gunslinger, who has avoided seeing his son in order to keep him away from the assortment of killers and bounty hunters who are after him.
So\
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders as she is falsely accused of being notorious murderer Ma Parker. (imdb)
+1
South of Panama
Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mile Lawrence, instead. Enemy agents Lake and Wilton are convinced that Mike is her brother and attempt to trap the pair. They get away but Jan disappears. Disguised with a black wig and new makeup, Jan becomes Dolores and gets a job singing at a cafe. (imdb)
Caught in the Act
Mike Ripportella, a construction foreman who can't be bribed, finds on his daughter's wedding day that he is a very-much wanted man. His boss, Leonard Brandon, wants him to be the head salesman; a seductive blonde, Fay Kingman, wants him for a playmate; the police want him for murder, extortion and bigamy; and some very nasty gangsters want him as a corpse. His wife, Mary, is also a bit upset with him. And they all lay hands on him between dawn and dusk. (imdb)
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
A captain in the French Foreign Legion in North Africa tries to keep the peace and battle bandit tribes while also taking care of his son, who lives with him at the Foreign Legion fort.
Good Morning, Judge
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
All Business
All Business (1936) - Short Film
Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
Berth Quakes
Berth Quakes (1938) - Short Film
Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Crime Rave
Crime Rave (1939) - Short Film
When a crime wave hits town, bank robbers find haven in Errol's home.
Sauce for the Gander
Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tells the radio audience that he thinks men could do a better job running the household than women. When he arrives home, his infuriated wife Margaret proposes that her husband put his money where his mouth is. The couple switch roles, with Margaret going to the office and Tom cooking and cleaning.
So\
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
Under Western Skies
In a film that was closer to being a "sanitized" version of and contained more elements akin to Mae West's and W.C. Fields' "My Little Chickadee" than it did from anything John Ford had done, or was to do, a traveling show arrives in a small Arizona town and finds much opposition from local townspeople. They plan to stage the show in the saloon and the leading lady, Katie, gets involved with the local school teacher, Tod. and a mysterious masked bandit, King Randall.
+3
South of Dixie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bll "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate if Dixieland. Bill sells the movie rights to Apex Pictures for $100,000, and hires Dixie Hollister, a southern girl who has been singing in a new York nightclub, to help Danny acquire a Southern accent and manners. In New Orleans, Danny receives an honorary music degre
Silent Witness
District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder. Their attorney, Bruce Strong, gets them off when the testimony given by Mrs. Roos proves to be perjured. Carlos, one of the Manson gang members, rightfully thinks he is not getting his rightful cut, and when he says this to the Mansons, they shoot him. He hangs on long enough to crawl to Holden's office. The Mansons call Bru
On Stage Everybody
A vaudevillian (Jack Oakie) who staunchly believes that radio is a threat to his livelihood eventually develops an appreciation of the airwaves.
Get Going
Judy King (Grace McDonald), newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton (Robert Paige), an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
The Addams Family
+6
The Mutineers
Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.
Saintly Sinners
A kindly old priest reforms a collection of lovable fellows in his humble parish. (imdb)
+6
My Favorite Martian
+12
A Rented Riot
While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
Fun on the Run
Bixby College needs to win the girls' basketball tourney prize-money in order to survive, but a pair of gamblers have brought in some Amazonian ringers to play for the opposition and Lou, in drag, is playing for the Bixby team.
Kitchen Mechanics
Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying - to get their own quarters cleaned up.
Sideshow
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
Knights of the Bath
Two inept plumbers try to fix a simple leaky bathroom faucet, with disastrous results.
The Abbott and Costello Show
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Any premise would lead to slapstick, puns, lots of gimmicks from their movies. (imdb)
America\
The Fisk Tire Company enlists the help of a stuntman to demonstrate the safety features of their newest tyres.
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I'm the Law (1953) - TV Series
Lieutenant George Kirby is a New York City detective whose jurisdiction appears to cover a wide area. Whether it's murderers or thieves, he approaches every situation prepared to deal violently with the criminals.