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A.W. Hackel is a Producer American born on 18 december 1882 at Austria (Austria)

A.W. Hackel

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Nationality USA
Birth 18 december 1882 at Austria (Austria)
Death 22 october 1959 (at 76 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

A.W. Hackel (December 18, 1882 – October 22, 1959) was an American film producer who founded Supreme Pictures in 1934.

Hackel contracted Bob Steele for 32 of his Westerns, for example Alias John Law in 1935.

In 1936, Republic Pictures needed more Westerns and made a deal with Hackel who released his films through Republic.

After the demise of Supreme Pictures in 1942, Hackel released through Monogram Pictures. All of his pictures were Westerns with the exception of Am I Guilty? (1940), a race film, and The Flaming Urge (1953), a crime film.

Usually with

Bob Steele
Bob Steele
(18 films)
Sam Newfield
Sam Newfield
(10 films)
Charles King
Charles King
(10 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of A.W. Hackel (34 films)

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The Flaming Urge, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Harold Lloyd Jr., Cathy Downs, Byron Foulger, Jonathan Hale, Florence Lake, Herbert Rawlinson
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9151452.9151452.9151452.9151452.915145
A young man arrives in the small town of Monroe, Michigan where he finds a job in a department store. However he has an apparently irresistible urge to follow and observe fires. When there is a spate of arson attacks on the town, he becomes chief suspect.
The Living Ghost, 1h1
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Actors James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, J. Farrell MacDonald, Minerva Urecal, George Eldredge, Jan Wiley
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.650652.650652.650652.650652.65065
This is a low-budget criminal melodramatic story with faint horror movie tendencies. Lead character Nick Trayne is played by future Academy award-winner James Dunn. Nick Trayne is a slightly eccentric former private detective who has retired to pursue a more leisurely occupation gets lured back into business to investigate the disappearance of a banker - Walter Craig (Gus Glassmire). It is the banker's best friend, Ed Moline (Paul McVey) who hires him after the banker has disappeared from his home.
Man With Two Lives, 1h5
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Edward Norris, Marlo Dwyer, Frederick Burton, Addison Richards, Edward Keane, Anthony Warde
Roles Producer
Rating52% 2.6190252.6190252.6190252.6190252.619025
The story is of a man who is brought back from the dead and whose body is hijacked by the soul of an executed gangster, consequently making the deceased man a high proze criminal.
One Thrilling Night, 1h9
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors John Beal, Warren Hymer, J. Farrell MacDonald, Barbara Pepper, Tom Neal, Ernie Adams
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.8143752.8143752.8143752.8143752.814375
One Thrilling Night opens as the newlywed country bumpkin Connecticut couple, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jason ( John Beal and Wanda McKay), check into the Hotel Clarke in New York City, prepared to spend their first night together as a married couple; their first and last night before Horace joins the army.
Murder by Invitation, 1h7
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden, Gavin Gordon, Wallis Clark, Minerva Urecal
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.903082.903082.903082.903082.90308
The relatives of Cassandra "Cassie" Denham, an old unmarried lady living in New York who is reputedly good for three million dollars, try to make a judge declare her unable to take care of herself financially. The attempt fails, and in charge of handing in the petition is Cassie's nephew Garson Denham, a lawyer. Instead he summons a newspaper reporter, Bob White (Wallace Ford), and his girlfriend, Nora O'Brien (Marian Marsh), and tells them he has been invited to stay a week at Cassie's estate up in the mountains.
The Feud Maker, 55minutes
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Karl Hackett, Budd Buster, Lew Meehan, Roger Williams, Forrest Taylor
Roles Producer
Rating54% 2.731182.731182.731182.731182.73118
Arizona Gunfighter, 58minutes
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Jean Carmen, Ted Adams, Ernie Adams, Lew Meehan, Karl Hackett
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.1307753.1307753.1307753.1307753.130775
Bar-Z Bad Men, 57minutes
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Mack Brown, Lois January, Tom London, Ernie Adams, Dick Curtis, Milburn Morante
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.981712.981712.981712.981712.98171