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Jean Yarbrough is a Director, Producer and Assistant Director American born on 22 august 1900 at Arkansas (USA)
Jean Yarbrough (August 22, 1901–August 2, 1975) was an American film director.
Yarbrough's last theatrical film was 1967's Hillbillys in a Haunted House, a poor mixture of low comedy, horror and country music and a sad swan song to his career.
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Nationality USA
Birth 22 august 1900 at Arkansas (USA)
Death 2 august 1975 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 22 august 1900 at Arkansas (USA)
Death 2 august 1975 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
He was born in Marianna, the seat of Lee County in southeastern Arkansas. After attending the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, he entered the film business in 1922, first as a propman, but he steadily rose in the ranks to assistant director. Beginning with 1936, he was a bona fide director, first doing comedy and musical shorts for RKO, but in 1938 he graduated to directing features, his first being Rebellious Daughters for the low-budget Progressive Pictures. His greatest success came in the 1940s, when he directed films that are even today fondly remembered such as The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, She-Wolf of London, and a number of Abbott and Costello and Bowery Boys comedies. In the 1950s, when the traditional B-movie was on the decline, he had few problems switching to television and directed episodes for many series throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and had a two-year stint including producing and directing The Abbott and Costello Show. He directed some episodes of The Silent Service and Navy Log, two 1950s military dramas based on true stories of the United States Navy. He also subsequently directed episodes of Walter Brennan's western series, The Guns of Will Sonnett.Yarbrough's last theatrical film was 1967's Hillbillys in a Haunted House, a poor mixture of low comedy, horror and country music and a sad swan song to his career.
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, 1h28Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Musical
Themes Ghost films, Musical films, Comedy horror films
Actors Joi Lansing, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, George Barrows
Rating27%
Country singers are headed to Nashville. Their car breaks down and they stop overnight at an abandoned house, which turns out to be haunted. A ring of international spies (Lon Chaney, Jr., Basil Rathbone and John Carradine) who live in the house are seeking a top-secret formula for rocket fuel. While it is never revealed for whom they are spying, they carry out their activities under the cover of a supposed haunted house, which comes complete with a gorilla in the basement.
Saintly Sinners (1962)
, 1h17Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Don Beddoe, Ellen Corby, Stanley Clements, Addison Richards, Ron Hagerthy, William Fawcett
Rating51%
Crashing Las Vegas (1956)
, 1h2Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Mary Castle, Don Haggerty, Nicky Blair
Rating57%
The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly is in need of some money. Through some accident with electricity, Sach gains the ability to predict numbers. The boys get tickets for "Live Like a King", a game show. Thanks to Sach's new power, the boys earn a trip to one of the finest hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sach uses his power to gamble ultimately win money for Mrs. Kelly. However, it's not too long before some curious gangsters want to get in on Sach's 'secret'.
Hot Shots (1956)
, 1h1Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Joi Lansing, Queenie Smith, Robert Shayne
Rating55%
A spoiled child television star steals Sach and Duke's car. After retrieving the vehicle, the duo "teach the kid a lesson". Television executives, who are disgruntled by the child, are impressed by the duo who are then hired to watch after the boy. The child's uncle/manager is not happy with Sach and Duke's influence over the child so he gets the two fired and then kidnaps the boy for ransom, to cover up his stealing the boys earnings. Sach and Duke then rescue him.
The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956)
, 1h12Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Lynn Bari, James Craig, John Smith, Sue England, Arleen Whelan, Carol Thurston
Rating61%
Nearly twenty years after the Bounty mutineers landed on Pitcairn Island, the last survivor has died leaving only their local-born widows and children. Tensions arise on the island when a fresh load of shipwrecked sailors arrive.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
, 1h18Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Farnum, Dorothy Ford, Barbara Brown, Mel Blanc
Rating58%
Mr. Dinkle and Jack (Abbott and Costello) look for work at the Cosman Employment Agency. Jack makes advances to Cosman employee Polly (Dorothy Ford), but he is thwarted by the arrival of her boyfriend, a towering police officer. Polly assigns Dinkle and Jack to babysit for Eloise Larkin's brother and infant sister, while Eloise (Shaye Cogan) and her fiancé are out for the evening. The babysitting duties are complicated by the fact that Donald (David Stollery) is something of a prodigy, as well as a self-proclaimed "problem child". The dull-witted Jack is soon outclassed by the child, and an attempt to lull the boy to sleep by reading the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk (Jack's "favorite novel") aloud fails when Jack stumbles over the larger words. Bemused by Jack's incompetence, Donald reads the story instead--a role-reversal made complete when Jack falls asleep as Donald reads. In his slumber, Jack dreams that he is the young Jack of the fairy tale.
Lost in Alaska (1952)
, 1h16Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell, Bruce Cabot, Iron Eyes Cody
Rating61%
The time is the 1890s, and the place is San Francisco. George Ball (Lou Costello) and Tom Watson (Bud Abbott) are firemen who rescue 'Nugget' Joe McDermott (Tom Ewell) from committing suicide by drowning. Joe wants to die because his girlfriend, Rosette (Mitzi Green) no longer loves him. The boys keep an eye on him and Joe is thankful for it after receiving a telegram the next morning from Rosette claiming that she still loves him. George and Tom take their gold reward to the bank when they learn the police mistakenly believe Joe was murdered for his gold that night by the two men who actually rescued. They catch up to Joe on his boat for the Yukon and try to get him down to the police station only to see the ship depart San Francisco with all three of them on it.
Lost in Alaska (1952)
Directed by Albert Capellani, Jean Yarbrough
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Paul Capellani, Harry Baur, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell
Rating65%
Deux pompiers, Tom Watson et George Bell, secourent un chercheur d'or sur le point de suicider. Toutefois, une méprise fait qu'ils se retrouvent recherchés par la police pour le meurtre de ce chercheur d'or. Ils partent alors en Alaska à sa poursuite et découvrent, une fois là-bas, qu'il compte beaucoup d'ennemis voulant le voir mort. Ils tâcheront alors de lui sauver la vie autant de fois que nécessaire afin de prouver qu'il n'est pas mort et qu'ils ne sont donc pas coupables…
Triple Trouble (1950)
, 1h6Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, G. Pat Collins
Rating61%
The boys are on their way home from a masquerade party when they hear noises in a warehouse and decide to investigate. They find the warehouse is being robbed and they are mistakenly captured by the police and sentenced for robbing it. Gabe, as their lawyer, gets them off with just probation but Slip insists that he and Sach accept jail time in order to find out who is behind the series of robberies in the neighborhood. He deduces that the instructions are being sent from inside the prison via a short wave radio.
Master Minds (1949)
, 1h4Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett
Rating60%
Sach, after eating too much candy develops a toothache which allows him to predict the future. Slip and Gabe come up with an idea to make money off of this and put him in a side show carnival. A mad scientist sees Sach's photo in the newspaper and reads about his ability and decides to visit the carnival. After seeing Sach in action he decides to kidnap him so he can transfer his brain into the brain of Atlas, a humanoid creature.
Angels in Disguise (1949)
, 1h7Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett
Rating65%
Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) and Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) are copy boys for the New York Daily Chronicle newspaper and they hear their friend Gabe, a local police officer, has been shot in the line of duty, while trying to stop a robbery. Both boys are members of the Bowery Boys gang, and they decide to find the person who killed their friend. They soon find a lead, since another police man has been shot by the same killer, who turns out to be a mob gangster and member of the Loop Gang from Chicago. The boys then decide to go undercover to try to infiltrate the mob and expose them. They get a green light from their editor, Joe Cobb, to go and investigate the story further. They encounter two members of the Loop Gang and befriend them, with the result that they get to meet their boss, Angles Carson (Mickey Knox). Angles likes the boys and soon they are involved with the gang's next hit - a new robbery. Before long, they get to meet Angles' boss, Carver (Edward Ryan), who takes a liking to them because he thinks they are tough gangsters that he can use in his operation. He lets the boys in on a plan to rob the Gotham Steel Works the next day, and Slip sends this information to the police. An ambush is set, to stop the robbery and catch the gangsters, but someone on the inside slips the information about the ambush to Carver. Carver changes his plans and instead tries to rob the Beacon Machine Works. Slip has no possibility to warn the police, but when Carver is trying to crack open the safe at Beacon Machine Works the next evening, Slip gets a chance to call his editor, who passes the information forward. Unfortunately, another employee at the Chronicle, a cartoonist named Lowell, informs Carver that the police is coming. There is a showdown between Slip and Sach and the Loop Gang members, and Slip and Sach are beat up badly. They are taken to the hospital, and once there, Sach calls for a nurse to take care of him, but when a male nurse arrives he sends him to over to Slip and gets up to leave.
Holiday in Havana (1949)
, 1h13Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Desi Arnaz, Mary Hatcher, Ann Doran, Steven Geray, Minerva Urecal, Sig Arno
Rating60%
The Challenge (1948)
, 1h8Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Actors Tom Conway, Tim Conway, June Vincent, John Newland, Eily Malyon, Houseley Stevenson
Rating64%
The Creeper (1948)
, 1h3Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Horror
Actors Eduardo Ciannelli, Onslow Stevens, June Vincent, Ralph Morgan, Richard Lane, Philip Ahn
Rating49%
Shed No Tears (1948)
, 1h10Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson, Elena Verdugo, Betty Blythe
Rating62%
Edna Grover (Vincent) convinces her older husband Sam (Ford) to fake his own death so they can collect on the life insurance. He hides in another city under an assumed name while she identifies a burned body found after a hotel fire as her husband. Edna collects the money but she has been having an affair for some time and double-crosses her husband. The whole situation rouses the suspicions of the Sam's son from a previous marriage who hires a private investigator to look into it. Unfortunately the PI is crooked and Edna pays him to stay silent. In the end, when Sam finds out about Edna's secret lover, Ray (Roberts), he is so distraught that he commits suicide.