Will Cowan Trailers
The Thing That Couldn't Die TrailerThe Big Beat TrailerThe Nat King Cole Musical Story Trailer
The Thing That Couldn't Die TrailerThe Big Beat TrailerThe Nat King Cole Musical Story Trailer
Total trailers found: 35
05 May 1949
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.
17 November 1949
This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.
01 June 1944
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr.
01 May 1944
Short film featuring band leader Stan Kenton and vocalist Anita O'Day.
01 June 1945
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man.
03 January 1951
Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet.
26 June 1946
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program.
13 February 1942
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
24 December 1941
Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartes
09 February 1950
This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns, fists and singing abilities against a gang of stage-robbing bandits.
05 September 1941
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
01 January 1949
15 minute musical short featuring Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra
24 May 1958
Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.
27 June 1958
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.
24 October 1941
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.
03 December 1947
This "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 3302), filmed in November of 1947 and released on December 3, 1947 (which should make it a 1947 and not a 1948 film) features Gene Krupa, his drums and his trio.
16 June 1948
The Universal Name Band Musical short (house-production number 3306) features Red Ingle and His Natural Seven Band, and band vocalist Karen Tedder.
07 December 1949
Production number 5302 in Universal-International "Name Band Musical" series of shorts featuring Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, with a much-larger-than usual number of supporting acts.
27 August 1947
This edition of Universal's "Name Band" shorts (production number 2312) features Tony Pastor, his saxophone, his orchestra, the Nilsson Twins, the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary and Betty in possibly their first film appearance)and Mildred Law.
20 November 1946
This is an entry in Universal's "Name Band Musical" series of shorts. Welk and the band open with a medley including "Josephine", Stumbling", "Honey" and "Running Wild" and vocalist Betty Jane Pettit sings "No Can Do.
23 November 1948
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Dottie O'Brien, The Mello-Larks and Bill Lawrence.
01 January 1949
Shipments of silver are going astray after leaving the mine, and Tex and his pals investigate. With 3 songs.
02 December 1955
This short film shows the musical career of Nat "King" Cole, shows the ups and downs of his career, his conquest of illness, how he switched from being the leader of a trio to a solo vocalist, and his growing popularity with the record-buying public.
27 October 1949
A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.
10 November 1944
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation.
22 January 1954
This Universal "Musical Featurette" eatures a slight story line woven around the comedian Pinky Lee and Universal glamour girls Mamie Van Doren and Lisa Gaye.
15 July 1947
The busty blonde bombshell of big band and swing music is the charming host and lead performer of this short and entertaining vintage film featuring an all-female cast.
19 July 1946
Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
17 May 1946
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
02 February 1949
Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier.
06 March 1950
Short directed by Will Cowan as tribute to Duke Ellington
01 January 1943
An air raid warden demonstrates safety measures, while a refugee from Occupied Europe reveals why she came to America.
30 June 1954
Bill Haley and the Comets made their motion picture debut in this musical short that featured a D.J. and his female guest introducing the Comets.