Edward L. Cahn Trailers
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Edward L. Cahn (February 12, 1899 – August 25, 1963) was an American film director. He is best known for directing Our Gang comedies from 1939-1943, and a long line of other short subjects and B-movies afterward. He is also known for directing the 1958 film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, that inspired the 1979 film Alien. He made a number of films for American International Pictures. His brother was film editor Philip Cahn.
Most Popular Edward L. Cahn Trailers
Total trailers found: 127
01 July 1955
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them.
24 October 1941
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr.
24 April 1957
Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
24 June 1933
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
07 March 1942
The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learning the identity of the leader of a gang of bullies.
07 June 1945
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
02 June 1932
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
17 October 1949
Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.
01 June 1960
A young gangster in 1920's New York quickly rises through the ranks of the mob, then sets up his own murder-for-hire organization.
30 May 1942
Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every four years.
25 May 1940
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
15 October 1938
Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.
29 September 1941
Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
07 April 1961
WWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.
27 April 1940
Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.
29 January 1949
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook and housekeeper in his family's home while he was growing up.
22 October 1957
A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club.
01 August 1931
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
01 September 1942
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
01 December 1959
A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
17 July 1955
Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.
04 March 1949
An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
01 October 1958
An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.
24 January 1948
Narrator John Nesbitt laments the disappearance of the rural one-room schoolhouse in America. He reminisces about his own days as a student in such a school and how his teacher, Miss Turlock, influenced so many students.
01 July 1960
While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze.
27 August 1937
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
03 September 1938
A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
12 January 1945
A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.
09 March 1940
It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities.
09 September 1951
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
15 May 1943
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
01 August 1956
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
01 March 1960
Temple Houston (Sam Houston's son) who is the DA with a sense of Justice. He is located in Fort Smith, Ark and works with Judge Parker in 1872.
26 October 1940
The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
27 December 1961
The Clown and the Kid is a 1961 film. When Moko the Clown (Don Keefer) passes away, his newly orphaned son Shawn (Michael McGreevey) takes up with mysterious wanderer Peter (John Lupton), and the two strangers become close friends and partners until a closely guarded secret rips them apart.
01 October 1960
An ex-con finds unexpected romance with the widow of his former accomplice as he tries to collect his hidden loot.
05 November 1961
A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.
01 October 1961
The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.
02 April 1960
After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.
19 September 1961
A reporter learns that his girlfriend's father, an old sea captain, is being paid by the mob to transport gangsters out of the country.
01 November 1956
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.
16 October 1935
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
11 April 1957
Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will.
01 February 1936
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
01 May 1960
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
20 January 1940
Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
22 April 1943
Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organization for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world.
28 November 1942
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
28 August 1948
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.
13 October 1929
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
30 April 1961
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
25 March 1944
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
15 February 1941
Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese.
26 April 1941
While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When the gang visit him in the hospital they are appalled to find the ward populated by many other children injured in automobile accidents.
21 May 1941
A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of convenience, and end up falling in love.
01 March 1960
Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.
20 January 1956
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it.
01 January 1960
A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.
22 July 1939
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
04 November 1928
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
