The best Lyle Talbot’s action movies

Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot

08/02/1902- 02/03/1996
Today we present the best Lyle Talbot’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Lyle Talbot’s movies.

Jail Bait

Jail Bait
3.7/10
Don Gregor, the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor, begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady and carry a gun. The pair attempt an armed holdup, and when things start to go wrong Gregor accidentally kills a night watchman. Fearing that Gregor plans to turn himself in, Brady kills him and blackmails Dr. Gregor into giving him a new face.

Batman and Robin

Batman and Robin
5.9/10
This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.

Chinatown Squad

Chinatown Squad
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Ted Lacey
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Heat Lightning

Heat Lightning
7.1/10
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Parole Fixer

Parole Fixer
5.9/10
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents Scott Britton'William Henry (I)') and Ross Waring (Lyle Talbot) are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore (Anthony Quinn, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

Song of Arizona

Song of Arizona
5.5/10
Song of Arizona is a 1946 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers. Roy Rogers rides to the rescue when a bank robber's orphaned son (Tommy Cook), who is living at a ranch for homeless boys run by Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes), attracts the attention his father's rowdy gang, who want to claim the boy's inheritance for themselves

Atom Man vs Superman

Atom Man vs Superman
6.7/10
Serial - sequel to Superman (1948); Superman faces off against Lex Luthor.

The Mutineers

The Mutineers
6.1/10
Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.

Fury of the Congo

Fury of the Congo
5.5/10
Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.

A Shriek in the Night

A Shriek in the Night
5.3/10
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Kord find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.

Boulder Dam

Boulder Dam
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/03/1936
  • Character: Mr. Harry Lacy
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Call of The Yukon

Call of The Yukon
5.3/10
Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 22/05/1947
  • Character: George Pierce
Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.

West Bound Limited

West Bound Limited
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventure
  • Release: 11/07/1937
  • Character: Dave Tolliver aka Bob Kirk
Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.

The Mystery of the Riverboat

The Mystery of the Riverboat
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 24/10/1944
  • Character: Rudolph Toller
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.

Thunder in the Pines

Thunder in the Pines
6.1/10
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.

Murder Is My Business

Murder Is My Business
6.1/10
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernst, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.

Shep Comes Home

Shep Comes Home
5.8/10
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.

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