'Vail' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
White Goddess (1953)
Actors:
James Fairfax (actor),
Joel Fluellen (actor),
Jon Hall (actor),
Darby Jones (actor),
Ray Montgomery (actor),
Lucien Prival (actor),
Ludwig Stössel (actor),
Robert Williams (actor),
M'liss McClure (actress),
Milicent Patrick (actress),
Rudolph C. Flothow (producer),
Leon Fromkess (producer),
Sherman L. Lowe (writer),
Eric Taylor (writer),
Wallace Fox (director),
Plot: Dr. Tom Reynolds (Jon Hall) returns to Africa, where he was born of missionary parents, to do research on medicines that are reputed to keep a "White Goddess" (Millicent Patrick) eternally young. With his friend Howard Ogden (Ray Montgomery) and his guide Charley Smart (James Fairfax), Tom rescues Trudy Vantyne (M'Liss McClure), a trader's daughter, from savages who capture and hypnotize her, planning to make her a rival White Goddess. Two escaped convicts, Atkins (Lucien Prival) and Vail (Robert Williams) persuade the White Goddess, in reality the wife of another escapee, to flee with the tribal riches, but all three are killed trying to escape.
Keywords: africa, animal, b-movie, chimpanzee, convict, doctor, escapee, eternal-youth, goddess, gorilla
Genres:
Adventure,
Drama,
Taglines: MISTRESS OF A JUNGLE DOMAIN! ...She-devil with a priceless secret! Forbidden treasure...Forbidden lips!! In the heart of Darkest Africa they found a thousand wild savages...and one woman - mistress of them all!
Below the Deadline (1946)
Actors:
Al Bridge (actor),
Clancy Cooper (actor),
Warren Douglas (actor),
Bruce Edwards (actor),
George Eldredge (actor),
Meyer Grace (actor),
John Harmon (actor),
Mike Lally (actor),
George Lloyd (actor),
Paul Maxey (actor),
George Meeker (actor),
Jimmy O'Gatty (actor),
William Ruhl (actor),
Charles Sullivan (actor),
Philip Van Zandt (actor),
Plot: A veteran, Joe Hilton ('Warren Douglas (I)' (qv)), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton ('George Meeker (I)' (qv)), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner ('Ramsay Ames' (qv)), persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
Keywords: army-veteran, b-movie, beauty-parlor, black-market, brother, campaign-contribution, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes, crime-syndicate, crooked-mayor
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Film-Noir,
Taglines: DARING...DANGEROUS...DIFFERENT! Meet the New Treat-Em-Rough Guy, WARREN DOUGLAS! He's the Kind Girls Talk About, But Seldom Find! He's As Tough In Civvies As He Was In A Foxhole! First Sizzling Story Of An Ex-G.I. Out To Get What's His...And Don't Get In His Way! He Tough...And She's TERRIFIC! Meet The Screen's New Treat-Em-Rough Guy In A Story With A Sock! They Taught This G.I. How To Use A Gun...And He's Using It! They Play The LOVE GAME The Way They Gamble...It's WINNER TAKE ALL!
Night Spot (1938)
Actors:
Jack Carson (actor),
Eddy Chandler (actor),
Joseph Crehan (actor),
Al Ferguson (actor),
James Flavin (actor),
Bud Geary (actor),
William Gould (actor),
Sam Harris (actor),
Gordon Jones (actor),
Cecil Kellaway (actor),
Fred Kelsey (actor),
Allan Lane (actor),
Rollo Lloyd (actor),
Wilfred Lucas (actor),
Don Brodie (actor),
Plot: Bored with her work in an insurance office and wishing for a singing career, Marge Dexter ('Joan Woodbury' (qv)), goes to the Royal Beach Club for an interview with the owner, Marty Davis ('Bradley Page'). Waiting in his office she sees Davis wounding by a rival gangster, who is killed on the street thirty minutes later. Davis is arrested for the murder but Marge proves his alibi and the grateful gangster offers Marge a chance to sing in his club, and assigns "Gashouse' ('Harry Parke' (qv), as Parkyakarkus) as her bodyguard. Police Inspector Wayland isn't convinced that Davis is totally innocent, and he assigns two officers who also play in the police band, Pete Cooper ('Allan Lane (I)' (qv))and Riley ('Gordon Jones (I)' (qv))to get work in the nightclub's orchestra and keep their eyes. Pete keeps his eyes mostly on Marge.
Keywords: 1930s, alibi, archive-footage, b-movie, bodyguard, cigar-smoking, cigarette-smoking, criminal, crook, dance
Genres:
Comedy,
Crime,
Music,
Romance,
Taglines: Young love in the meshes of under-world terror. NICE WORK...If You Can Get It! It was his duty to make love to a beautiful nightclub singer!
Quotes:
Pete Cooper: There's no rest for the honest.
