The best Elyse Knox’s movies

Elyse Knox

Elyse Knox

14/12/1917- 16/02/2012
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The Mummy's Tomb

The Mummy's Tomb
5.5/10
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/06/1943
  • Character: Nurse Peggy Osborne
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

Miss Polly

Miss Polly
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1941
  • Character: Barbara Snodgrass
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1940
  • Character: Lillian Russell's Sister
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Mister Big

Mister Big
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/05/1943
  • Character: Alice Taswell
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.

Black Gold

Black Gold
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1947
  • Character: Ruth Frazer
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

Sheriff of Tombstone

Sheriff of Tombstone
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 07/05/1941
  • Character: Mary Carson
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 23/05/1948
  • Character: Ann Quinn
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

Joe Palooka in the Knockout
6.6/10
  • Release: 20/09/1947
  • Character: Anne Howe
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.

Hay Foot

Hay Foot
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/01/1942
  • Character: Betty Barkley
Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
5.8/10
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.

Keep 'em Slugging

Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/09/1948
  • Character: Anne Howe
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.

Gentleman Joe Palooka

Gentleman Joe Palooka
5.9/10
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.

Girl in 313

Girl in 313
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/05/1940
  • Character: Judith Wilson
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

So's Your Uncle

So's Your Uncle
6.1/10
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.

Top Sergeant

Top Sergeant
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/06/1942
  • Character: Helen Gray
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.

Joe Palooka, Champ

Joe Palooka, Champ
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/05/1946
  • Character: Anne Howe
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/02/1948
  • Character: Anne Howe
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.

Tanks a Million

Tanks a Million
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/09/1941
  • Character: Jeannie
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.

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