Double Feature
Blonde Ransom
Never-on-home-video ultra-rarity from director William Beaudine! When Duke Randall (Donald Cook) loses a bundle playing cards, he’ll have a week to come up with the $63,000 he owes or be forced to turn over his Broadway nightclub. And when he has a meet-crash car accident with lovely Vicki Morrison (Virginia Grey), he’ll confide his predicament. To score the cash she decides to fake her own kidnapping so that her rich uncle coughs up a ransom. But things get complicated when real kidnappers enter the mix. She hid out for fun… and held out for love! Co-starring Pinky Lee, noted 1950s kids-tv personality and proto-Pee-wee Herman.
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Writer
- Screenplay by M. Coates Webster, Story by Robert T. Shannon
- Starring
- Donald Cook, Virginia Grey, Pinky Lee, Collette Lyons
- Year
- 1945
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 68 minutes
Girl on the Spot
A musical crime mega-rarity from Universal Pictures and director William Beaudine featuring tunes by Gilbert and Sullivan! When a hopeful singer shows up for her audition with a successful talent agent, she unwittingly steps into a murder investigation. But learning the real killer is a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan, can they launch a Broadway production to help draw him out of hiding? Lois Collier (seen in the Marx Brothers’ A Night in Casablanca the same year) plays the Girl on the Spot.
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Writer
- Screenplay by Dorcas Cochran and Jerry Warner, Story by George Blake and Jack Hartfield
- Starring
- Lois Collier, Jess Barker, George Dolenz, Fuzzy Knight
- Year
- 1946
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 75 minutes