H. Bruce Humberstone Trailers
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H. Bruce 'Lucky' Humberstone (b. November 18, 1901, Buffalo, New York - d. October 11, 1984, Los Angeles, California) was a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.
One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox. Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, dramas, and melodramas. Humberstone is best known today for his work on some of the Charlie Chan films. In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV.
He retired in 1962, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died in 1984, aged 82.
Most Popular H. Bruce Humberstone Trailers
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23 March 1928
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman).
24 January 1941
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
21 September 1942
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina.
09 November 1933
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler.
24 October 1939
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
15 August 1958
Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior.
10 January 1936
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
12 August 1932
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life.
25 April 1944
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for.
13 April 1961
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
07 August 1936
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
28 June 1940
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid.
13 July 1945
Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There Michael imposes a strict regime of discipline on the inmates.
03 November 1927
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with.
09 July 1952
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife.
30 December 1938
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
03 September 1946
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
10 March 1933
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
31 October 1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
08 December 1937
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
21 September 1932
When the boys end up with a half-naked woman in their cab, trouble ensues when her jealous husband appears.
20 May 1938
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia.
01 February 1955
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
24 February 1939
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party.
04 May 1947
A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.
18 November 1932
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
04 December 1936
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
08 June 1945
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson.
25 August 1934
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk.
30 August 1950
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much.
06 March 1951
Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness.
15 June 1955
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter).
14 May 1932
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
01 January 1958
Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos.
09 November 1942
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
31 October 1927
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence.
26 March 1943
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
15 October 1940
A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor.
11 July 1930
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman".
29 August 1941
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson.
25 September 1938
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
16 December 1938
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
12 April 1957
Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.
30 April 1948
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town.
21 May 1937
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover.
03 October 1926
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
30 May 1953
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food.
04 September 1927
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
19 July 1935
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket.
25 September 1932
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
18 April 1934
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
21 March 1924
The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick O'Farrell) arriving in Los Angeles to meet with Universal's advertising manager.
03 May 1935
A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor.
