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Lee Marcus, also known as Lee S. Marcus (December 7, 1893 – January 30, 1969), was an American film producer of the 1930s and 1940s. During his fifteen-year career he produced over 85 films, most of them between 1934 and 1941 while he was at RKO Studios. Prior to his production career, Marcus worked for FBO and then RKO as a sales executive, reaching the level of vice president in both organizations. At RKO, he was head of production of the studio's b-films during the late 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s. He was also responsible for producing what many consider to be the first film noir, 1940's Stranger on the Third Floor.
Marcus was born on December 7, 1893 in Buffalo, New York. His father was Albert L. Marcus. During World War I Marcus served with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), and in 1918 was stationed in Vitry, France.
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Total trailers found: 55
09 July 1937
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business.
12 April 1940
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach.
16 August 1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
27 October 1939
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
09 August 1940
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
24 February 1939
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented.
07 June 1940
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.
18 November 1938
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
25 October 1935
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spelt
21 May 1940
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
23 February 1939
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
10 November 1938
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour.
20 March 1936
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
23 June 1939
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course.
08 March 1939
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force.
24 January 1941
George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs.
28 July 1939
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery.
21 June 1935
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
07 February 1941
A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' murder.
02 November 1934
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him.
29 January 1941
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
23 March 1939
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination.
03 November 1939
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
12 July 1940
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
06 December 1940
The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...
26 July 1940
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
22 September 1940
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller.
07 December 1934
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
07 November 1937
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter.
29 June 1939
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
14 June 1940
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him.
29 March 1947
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
06 March 1936
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
13 September 1939
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
28 April 1939
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
05 March 1936
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack.
12 February 1937
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
05 January 1940
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
06 January 1939
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse.
07 June 1935
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
24 August 1936
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest.
11 March 1940
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
10 July 1936
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day.
03 October 1941
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
07 May 1943
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
08 August 1939
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
14 December 1934
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' n
29 October 1940
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman.
08 August 1934
A old lady and her 2 girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.
23 November 1934
A musical comedy laugh riot about the adventures of a New York ferry boat supporting a concert party.
12 May 1939
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
25 January 1935
Musical short featuring Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra with a young Betty Grable as their singer.
26 May 1939
A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer.
12 July 1935
Comic short about how rumors spread.
01 March 1935
Ruth Etting sings "Ay, Ay, Ay" in this 1935 film with Mario Álvarez, along with other songs.
