Kerosene Creek (2004)

Actors: John Gilbert (editor), Michael Bennett (director), Michael Bennett (writer), Liz DiFiore (producer), Taungaroa Emile (actor), Peter Salmon (producer), Catherine Fitzgerald (producer), Jarod Rawiri (actor), Miriama McDowell (actress), Atarangi Manley (actor), Darcy Ray Flavell Hudson (actor), Maika Bennett (miscellaneous crew),

Nightmare Asylum (1992)

Actors: David DeCoteau (producer), Todd Sheets (actor), Todd Sheets (editor), Todd Sheets (director), Todd Sheets (composer), Todd Sheets (writer), Todd Sheets (producer), Dana Cheney (miscellaneous crew), Dana Cheney (miscellaneous crew), Mike Hellman (actor), Jerry Angell (actor), Enochian Key (composer), Veronica Orr (actress), Charles Monroe (actor), Deric Bernier (actor),

Sonny Boy (1989)

Actors: Ovidio G. Assonitis (producer), Paul L. Smith (actor), Sydney Lassick (actor), David Carradine (actor), Moshe Diamant (producer), Dalene Young (actress), Susan Bierbaum (miscellaneous crew), Brad Dourif (actor), Samantha Phillips (actress), Conrad Janis (actor), Claudio M. Cutry (editor), Carlo Maria Cordio (composer), Christopher Bradley (actor), Peter Shepherd (producer), Terry Dresbach (costume designer),

Plot: A small-town crime boss accepts delivery of a stolen car, only to find there's a baby in the back-seat. He and his transvestite "wife" cut out the boy's tongue and raise him as a mute accomplice in their crimes. When the grown "Sonny Boy" escapes and tries to make contact with the outside world, the attention he draws to his warped family results in darkly-humored mayhem.

Black Taboo (1984)

Actors: Billy Dee (actor), Jeannie Pepper (actress), Sahara (actress), Mark Weiss (director), Tony El-ay (actor), Marie Lavar (actress), Tina Davis (actress), Ralph Height (actor),

Anastasia mio fratello ovvero il presunto capo dell'Anonima Assassini (1973)

Actors: Sergio Amidei (writer), Steno (director), Luciano Pigozzi (actor), Alberto Sordi (writer), Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (actor), Sergio Amidei (writer), Piero Piccioni (composer), Raimondo Crociani (editor), Maria Tedeschi (actress), Alberto Sordi (actor), Richard Conte (actor), Franco Angrisano (actor), Gianni Hecht Lucari (producer), Alberto Bevilacqua (writer), Bruna Parmesan (costume designer),

Plot: Background Information: Padre Salvatore Gabriele Anastasio (Anastasia) arrived at Santa Lucia Church in an Italian-American section of the North Bronx in 1951. He was assistant pastor there for 12 years, having come to the USA from Calabria. His two brothers Albert (Umberto) of Murder, Inc. fame & Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasia, who ran the Brooklyn docks, were well known. Albert was a boss of the Gambino crime family and was their chief executioner. He was assassinated in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan on West 56th Street in October of 1957. Father Sal handled the wake & burial. Tony died of "natural causes" in March of 1963. After Father Sal buried his second brother, he left Saint Lucy's disgraced, to return to Parghelia, Calabria, where he wrote the book of the same name as this movie. He died in 1973. The story as Father Sal wrote it portrays Albert as a kind of "Robin Hood" and not the ruthless killer he was. Their are many comedic scenes which really were not very factual. Father Sal was beloved at Saint Lucy's and was very active in children activities, starting sports teams & leagues, in addition to founding the school's Father's & Mother's clubs. The Father's Club's Annual Dinner-Dances were legendary and many of his personal friends such as Sal Mineo, Jimmy Durante, Pat Cooper, the Royal Teens among others, all performed there. This movie has just been released on DVD after 40 years in the USA as "My Brother Anastasia".

Fools' Parade (1971)

Actors: Robert L. Simpson (editor), William Windom (actor), Andrew V. McLaglen (director), Robert Donner (actor), James Stewart (actor), Anne Baxter (actress), Andrew V. McLaglen (producer), Henry Vars (composer), George Kennedy (actor), Strother Martin (actor), David Huddleston (actor), Kurt Russell (actor), Ruth Santarone (miscellaneous crew), Dominic Santarone (miscellaneous crew), David Bretherton (editor),

Plot: When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.

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Never a Dull Moment (1950)

Actors: Harry Tyler (actor), Carl Sklover (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Jimmy Hawkins (actor), William Demarest (actor), Gene Evans (actor), Ralph Peters (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), Fred MacMurray (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Paul Newlan (actor), Dan White (actor),

Plot: Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.

Rodeo Rhythm (1942)

Actors: Fred C. Newmeyer (director), Jack Cooper (actor), Fred Scott (actor), Loie Bridge (actress), George Halligan (editor), Leo J. McCarthy (writer), Leo J. McCarthy (producer), John Frank (actor), Vernon Brown (actor), Patricia Redpath (actress), Martin Finkelstein (producer), Eugene Allen (writer), Gene Tuttle (writer), Constance Joan Keyes (actress), Pat Dunn (actor),

Plot: One of the rarest, which is okay as it seldom even appears on the want lists of dedicated P.R.C. collectors (especially those who have seen it), and one of the oddest of the "who-let-this-out" films. Filmed on location in the Kansas City area, with only B-western star Fred Scott and actress Loie Bridge the only two in the cast who had ever been in a film (and Scott had none after this), and the only other Hollywood connections were director Fred C. Newmeyer, who hadn't had a directing job since 1937 and who chose to be billed as Fred Neymeyer here; cameraman Edward A. Kull, billed as Eddie Kull and editor George Halligan, who may have assumed it wouldn't be seen by anybody and kept his own name on the credits. At this period in time, actress Loie Bridge was a Kansas City residence herself. Sister of actor Alan Bridge, the pair had their start in Kansas City co-managing a stock company at the Empress Theatre, before brother Al headed for Minneapolis and, later, the bright lights of Tinseltown. Loie stayed at home in Kansas City running stock companies, with an occasional role in California in early 1930's B-westerns that usually had brother Al in the cast. Loie left Kansas City for good it appears circa 1942-43 and had a fair career as a character actress. Roy Knapp, a Kansas City dry cleaner, opened a kid's riding academy in that city circa 1926 and,in a few years, his troupe of riding young daredevils (ages from 4 years old to late teens) were performing in rodeos and livestock shows all over the American Midwest. One of the riding stars of the troupe was a 5-year-old girl named (correct spelling) Roylene "Small Fry" Smith, who evidently became Donna Jean Meinke somewhere along the way, according to the cast listing on the IMDb. While the film is a showcase for Roy Knapp's "Rough Riders," it is not a story of the group, although "Knapp" is the character role names for Scott and Bridge, who play brother and sister. She plays Tillie Knapp, struggling to keep the Knapp Orphanage open. The highlight event at the Orphanage each year is the annual summer vacation visit the kids make to the ranch of her brother Buck, who sends her money to pay for the trip. Alas, this year, Alex Twitchell, local money-bag version of Snively Whiplash, has purchased the mortgage due on the orphanage and the Knapp Ranch, and demands immediate payment. Tillie gives him all the money that had been saved for the trip. To keep the kids, orphans all, from being disappointed, her old vaudeville partner, Joe Stegge, takes her and the kids to the ranch in his truck. The kids learn that Uncle Buck and Aunt Tillie are in dire straits and enlist the aid of Jim Corey, a former member of the orphanage, and Ellie Knapp, Buck's daughter, to help them put on a rodeo and use the money to help Aunt Tillie. Whiplash, uh, Twitchell arrives and legally ties up all of Buck's property, which includes the ponies the kids were going to ride in the rodeo and pay off the old homestead. But Twitchell is in a car wreck, and the kids save his life by taking him from under the car and rushing him to the hospital. Twitchell releases the ponies and the rodeo is held and enough money raised to pay off the mortgage. But Twitchell says the money is for them and he not only is going to retire the mortgage himself, he is going to build them a bigger and better Orphanage. While producer Leo J. McCarthy wrote the story, he and the two other writers chose to be uncredited also or, at least, PRC chose not to credit them. Aside from the riding ability of the kids---and they were good---this film is a good measurement of the talent level of Kansas City stock company players at the time, which also indicates that Kansas City was among the last to know that Vaudeville had died. But Victor Adamson and Robert J. Horner made worse films without leaving California. Not by much, though.

The Cave Dwellers (1914)

Actors: Bobby Connelly (actor), Tefft Johnson (actor), Elaine S. Carrington (writer), Tefft Johnson (director), Mabel Kelly (actress), Toto the Dog (actor),

How God Came to Sonny Boy (1914)

Actors: William Desmond Taylor (actor), Anne Schaefer (actress), Burton L. King (director), Buddy Harris (actor),