Ted Oliver Movies

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his...

A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is...

An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.

Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early...

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

A detective investigates a racing scam.

The singing stoker and the vamp.

Peace River Parker, foreman of the Cross L Ranch and engaged to Jess, the daughter of the owner, is railroaded into a prison term by the false witness of Jefferson Crane, who covets the ranch and Jess. Through the complicity of Clell Danert, a villainous foreman who also desires Jess, Crane...