Movies starring Wallace Ford

The Informer (1935)

91 mins     Drama      

Back at the 1936 Academy Awards John Ford's "The Informer" scooped four of the six awards it was nominated for giving Ford the first of four Oscars he won for directing. It is easy to see why as "The Informer" is a stylish pi...

The Ape Man (1943)

64 mins     Horror, Sci-Fi      

When I stumbled across "The Ape Man" the fist thing to cross my mind was not that this was a Bela Lugosi movie but how much it made me think of The Big Bang Theory and the storyline about Penny starring as an ape in the movie...

Crack-Up (1946)

93 mins     Crime, Drama      

Crack-Up (1946) Pat O'Brien stars as the art curator who finds himself being made to think he is cracking up when he believes he was involved in a train wreck...

A Guy Could Change (1946)

66 mins     Drama      

One of the marvels when you watch some old movies is how they manage to cram so much in to lesser running times. Take "A Guy Could Change" it starts with a bit of fun abandon which quickly descends into heart break and then w...

Magic Town (1947)

103 mins     Comedy, Romance      

Magic Town (1947) James Stewart is the pollster who finds the perfect average town which mirrors the nations opinions, but emotions start to get in the way of work when he falls for a local...

Coroner Creek (1948)

90 mins     Western      

As Randolph Scott westerns go "Coroner Creek" is a bit of surprise. On one hand it has the look and familiarity of a bygone western with pretty women, nasty ranch hands, a sheriff in the pocket of a corrupt businessman and so...

The Set-Up (1949)

73 mins     Drama, Sport      

The Set-Up: Robert Ryan stars as the ageing boxer who falls foul of a mob boss when he doesn't take a dive against a contender...

Dakota Lil (1950)

88 mins     Western      

"Well it passed 88 minutes of my day" is not the most flattering thing you can say about a movie but it is how I feel after spending 88 minutes watching "Dakota Lil" a quite ordinary western made back in 1950. From a secret s...

The Great Jesse James Raid (1953)

73 mins     Western      

But the low budget production, and trust me "The Great Jesse James Raid" is low budget from start to finish, is not the most disappointing thing, using the name Jesse James in the title is. Yes we have Jesse who is haunted by...

The Nebraskan (1953)

68 mins     Western      

The Nebraskan: Philip Carey stars as Wade Harper who along with two civilians, two criminals and an old cavalry soldier end up under siege from warring Indians...

Beautiful But Dangerous (1954)

89 mins     Comedy, Drama      

It's quite amusing as just the other day there was an item on the news about an anonymous gift giver who was using social media to give clues as to where they had hid envelopes of money and this small story was covered by so ...

The Man from Laramie (1955)

104 mins     Western      

The Man from Laramie (1955) James Stewart is Will Lockhart, the man from Laramie who shows up in Coronado secretly looking for revenge on a man resposnsible for his brother's death...

A Lawless Street (1955)

78 mins     Western      

A Lawless Street (1955) Randolph Scott stars as Calem Ware who is dealing with gunmen hired to kill him whilst also dealing with his estranged wife Tally (Angela Lansbury) who hates violence...

The Spoilers (1955)

84 mins     Western      

In 1906 Rex Beach's novel "The Spoilers" was published over the next 50 years it was to be adapted in a movie not once but 5 times which is quite staggering for one book, especially one which is a western. But there is a reas...

Thunder Over Arizona (1956)

70 mins     Western      

The ironically best thing about "Thunder Over Arizona" is that whilst it may be set in the lawless town of Tombstone there is no Wyatt Earp or Doc Holiday. Now that doesn't say much for the rest of this western which basis is...