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Wallace Fox is a Director, Scriptwriter and Second Unit Director American born on 9 march 1895 at Purcell (USA)

Wallace Fox

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Nationality USA
Birth 9 march 1895 at Purcell (USA)
Death 30 june 1958 (at 63 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Wallace Fox (9 March 1895 – 30 June 1958) was an American film director. He directed 84 films between 1927 and 1953.

He was born in Purcell, Oklahoma and died in Hollywood, California.

Usually with

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Sam Katzman
(14 films)
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Wallace Fox (32 films)

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The Daring Caballero, 1h
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Charles Halton, Pedro de Cordoba, Edmund F. Cobb
Rating67% 3.375553.375553.375553.375553.37555
This script must be run from the command line
The Valiant Hombre, 1h
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, John Litel, Barbara Billingsley, Stanley Andrews, John James
Rating59% 2.9701852.9701852.9701852.9701852.970185
This script must be run from the command line
Jack Armstrong
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors John Hart, Wheeler Oakman, Pierre Watkin, Rosemary LaPlanche, Charles Middleton, Jack Ingram
Rating61% 3.09193.09193.09193.09193.0919
Vic Hardy, a scientist working for Jim Fairfield's aviation company, is kidnapped by Jason Grood's gang after discovering radiation emitting from their secret island base. Grood intends to conquer the world and forces Hardy to assist him.
The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ralph Byrd, Ramsay Ames, Lyle Talbot, Jack Ingram, Eddie Parker, Tiny Brauer
Rating59% 2.9599452.9599452.9599452.9599452.959945
The Vigilante, a masked government agent, is assigned to investigate the case of the "100 Tears of Blood", a cursed string of rare blood red pearls sought by a gang led by the unknown X-1 that may have been smuggled into the country.
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Syd Saylor, Ernie Adams, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Burns
Rating66% 3.316883.316883.316883.316883.31688
Daily Flash newspaper journalist Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), assigned to cover a fire in an old house where they discover the wounded Joe Heller (Wheeler Oakman),a mobster suspected of stealing a quarter-million dollar payroll. The dying Heller tells Brenda that someone took his satchel of stolen money and he gives her a coded message. Kruger (Jack Ingram), the gangster who shot Heller, escapes to his gang's hideout with the bag but discovers it is filled with paper rather than money.
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Docks of New York, 1h2
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Leo Gorcey, William Benedict, Huntz Hall, Buddy Gorman, Betty Blythe, Cy Kendall
Rating56% 2.807342.807342.807342.807342.80734
Late one night on New York's poor East Side, a man is stabbed to death on a street corner, and his body is searched by his attacker. Nearby, Glimpy (Huntz Hall) shows Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) a jeweled necklace he just found outside their tenement. While Glimpy and Muggs are investigating the area, the attacker spots them and gives chase, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Muggs and Glimpy then return to their tenement and learn from neighbor Mrs. Darcy (Betty Blythe), a war refugee from Toscania, that a thief just stole a valuable necklace from her.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again, 1h3
Directed by Wallace Fox
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Johnny Duncan, Buddy Gorman, Minerva Urecal
Rating60% 3.0492053.0492053.0492053.0492053.049205
After an electric "buzzing" device is found near his winning horse Turnabout, jockey Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) is questioned by track officials. Despite his protests that Turnabout's owner, gambler Dollar Davis (George Meeker), and his righthand man, Gaby O'Neill (Bernard Thomas), planted the device on Turnabout so that they could bet against him, Muggs is suspended indefinitely from horseracing. Embittered, Muggs is about to quit racing forever when he and his gang of friends, The East Side Kids, learn that Mrs.
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Pillow of Death, 1h6
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg, Rosalind Ivan, Clara Blandick, George Cleveland
Rating60% 3.005193.005193.005193.005193.00519
Attorney Wayne Fletcher (Chaney, Jr.) intends to divorce his wife and marry his secretary (Joyce), who comes from a wealthy family. When the wife is found suffocated to death, he naturally becomes the suspect. As others are killed in the same manner and a phony medium (Bromberg) also claims Fletcher is guilty, Fletcher begins to imagine his dead wife is communicating with him, making it even more difficult for him to prove his innocence.
Block Busters, 1h
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William Benedict, Noah Beery Sr., Harry Langdon
Rating53% 2.6599652.6599652.6599652.6599652.659965
After an afternoon of playing baseball, Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) and the East Side Kids gang arrive at the door of their clubhouse, where a man named Higgins (silent comedian Harry Langdon, in one of his last film appearances) is removing their "East Side Club" sign. Higgins explains that the owner of the place plans to rent it to some "respectable" tenants. When Muggs learns that the new tenants are due to examine the place at noon the following day, he plans to frighten them away by picking a fight with Butch (Billy Benedict) and the Five Pointers, a rival gang.
Career Girl, 1h9
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Frances Langford, Edward Norris, Iris Adrian, Craig Woods, Charles Williams, Gladys Blake
Rating55% 2.7641952.7641952.7641952.7641952.764195
Kansas City girl Joan Terry has come to New York to conquer Broadway as thousands have before her. Advised to maintain an appearance of wealth, she has been living in an expensive hotel until she is discovered. With no offers coming in she moves to an economical women's boarding house full of equally unsuccessful actresses, singers, and dancers.
Million Dollar Kid, 1h5
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William Benedict, Louise Currie, Buddy Gorman
Rating60% 3.001963.001963.001963.001963.00196
In the East Side Kids' clubhouse, Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) laments the epidemic of mugging that has been plaguing their streets. While waiting outside a store that afternoon, the boys witness a man being attacked in the alley and come to his defense, chasing away his assailants. In gratitude, the man, millionaire John Cortland (Herbert Heyes), hands Muggs his business card. When the cynical Muggs tosses the card in a garbage can, Glimpy McClosky (Huntz Hall) digs it out and finds the man's cash-laden wallet in the trash.
The Girl from Monterrey, 58minutes
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Armida, Edgar Kennedy, Veda Ann Borg, Jack La Rue, Anthony Caruso, Charles Williams
Rating53% 2.6595452.6595452.6595452.6595452.659545
In a Mexican nightclub, some American fight promoters witness Alberto 'Baby' Valdez, the brother of Lita Valdez knock out a champion fighter. At first Lita is angered that her brother has quit his law studies to become a fighter, but the two move to the United States. Lita literally bumps into reigning champion Jerry O'Leary with the three becoming inseparable friends. However the American fight promoters force Alberto and Jerry to fight each other or face suspension.