Douglas Walton
8 titles
Filmography
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Damaged Goods
(1937)A groom-to-be contracts syphilis, threatening his family's future, in a poetic tale that challenges the stigma of disease and its hidden impact.

Wallaby Jim of the Islands
(1937)Wallaby Jim (Houston) and his tough crew of fisherman are always on the lookout for new pearl beds in the South Pacific, due to an excessive gambling debt incurred by their pearl broker, Norman. They finally discover the "mother lode" of pearls, and realize there are enough pearls to pay off the debt and set them up for life. However, trouble brews on the horizon when Wallaby's chief competitor, Adolf Richter, and his vicious indentured crew try to violently take over the operation and get the pearls for themselves. Fights, action, excitement, romance, and 4 songs sung by former cowboy crooner Houston make this an entertaining adventure film.

Mary of Scotland
(1936)Based on the historical play by Maxwell Anderson, this screen biopic chronicles Mary Queen of Scots' return to her homeland from France to rule fairly and justly.

Raffles
(1939)Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
Shock
(1934)Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants. Weeks later, Drek awakens in an English field-hospital and has amnesia. Since he had no papers on him when found, the hospital staff name him Private John Drake, and he is shipped back to England several months later. There, he is recognized by Bob Hayworth, who has been courting the widow Marbury. Despite the fact that Marbury had undertaken the mission on order to keep the Hayworth family-name from shame, Bob brings charges of battlefield desertion against Derek. The latter, not even knowing who he really is, has no defense against the charges.

Bride of Frankenstein
(1935)Baron Frankenstein creates a mate for the monster.

Murder, My Sweet
(1944)Detective Philip Marlowe takes a job looking for Moose Malloy's girlfriend Velma. Malloy's a petty criminal just released after a seven-year prison sentence, and Velma hasn't been seen for six years. But a simple missing-person case becomes much more twisted than Marlowe ever anticipated as clues lead to a complex web of deceit, bribery, perjury and theft where no one's motivation is clear, least of all Marlowe's.

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
(1946)When bad guy Cueball realizes he's been betrayed by his crew of criminals, he starts hunting them down, along with his arch nemesis Dick Tracy.