Frank R. Strayer was born on September 20, 1891 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Gorilla Ship (1932), Partners in Crime (1928) and When Blonde Meets Blonde (1931). He was married to Erma P. Rogers. He died on February 3, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Total trailers found: 85
23 June 1950
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to learn who the victim is.
27 May 1943
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
31 October 1940
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
20 July 1939
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings.
20 August 1930
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
01 December 1932
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
21 January 1931
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
08 November 1939
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school.
19 July 1932
Philip Wells and his wife Helen argue a lot about the attention that Philip thinks Helen and his best friend, Dave Burton, are giving each other, but they all sail off together on Philips yacht, until "Gorilla"Larsen and his motley crew show up, scuttle the yacht, and marital-strife is no longer the issue of the day.
30 September 1936
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship.
09 April 1942
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried as a cynical author who becomes caught up in the Bumstead lifestyle.
08 March 1939
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr.
30 September 1943
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
19 January 1935
Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered.
25 April 1923
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
14 December 1931
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
14 October 1934
A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar.
22 August 1934
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
15 November 1931
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him.
02 July 1951
Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school can offer a four-year engineering degree.
06 July 1933
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it.
30 November 1938
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
21 March 1935
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
17 October 1932
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house.
18 June 1937
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well.
29 February 1940
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
15 November 1929
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
14 March 1935
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
25 July 1940
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr.
20 February 1927
Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.
04 October 1932
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
26 September 1926
A baby girl is left at the door of Brady, an Irish-policeman in New York City. He and his friends bid for her, and she is won by Uncle Ben Shapiro, a pawnbroker, who raises her to young womanhood, and is known as Sweet Rosie O'Grady.
03 July 1935
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead.
05 July 1934
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
06 November 1933
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income.
27 November 1941
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
01 September 1933
Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act.
15 March 1932
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene.
12 December 1949
Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.
15 July 1934
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel.
12 October 1945
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
08 October 1942
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
01 February 1948
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church.
15 September 1935
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
27 February 1936
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over e
28 February 1946
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright.
14 May 1927
A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
21 January 1933
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
12 March 1936
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
15 July 1935
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
24 September 1937
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
01 September 1931
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets.
01 November 1931
When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
10 December 1937
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
01 May 1932
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
11 December 1936
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him.
15 January 1942
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company.
20 April 1927
When an industrious cigar manufacturer, Sam Weinberg, falls into bad health, his daughter Ruth uses up her dowry to keep him in the life to which he has grown accustomed.
30 March 1924
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley.
