Ford Beebe

Directing

Ford Beebe

Born — Died

1888-11-26 — 1978-11-26

Place of birth

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ford Beebe (November 26, 1888 – November 26, 1978) was a screenwriter and director. He entered the film business as a writer around 1916 and over the next 60 years wrote and/or directed almost 200 films. He specialized in B-movies – mostly Westerns – and action serials, working on the "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" serials for Universal Pictures.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Invisible Man's Revenge poster
5.6

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars poster
6.3

When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

1938

Son of Dracula poster
5.8

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

Son of Dracula

1943

The Green Hornet Strikes Again! poster
6.8

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

1940

King of the Wild Stallions poster
6.8

A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch.

King of the Wild Stallions

1959

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe poster
5.8

A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

1940

The Phantom Creeps poster
4.5

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

The Phantom Creeps

1939

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty poster
7.2

A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

1935

Border Blackbirds poster
7.0

A couple of drifters seeking shelter from a blizzard. In a mountain cabin, they find the body of an old friend and a note that blames his death on the Border Blackbirds, a notorious gang operating on the border of Canada.

Border Blackbirds

1927

Buck Rogers poster
5.8

Edited version of the 1939 Universal serial "Buck Rogers." A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

Buck Rogers

1977

7 Wise Dwarfs poster
5.2

7 Wise Dwarfs is an educational short animated film commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as a short film for educating the Canadian public about war bonds during World War II. The short features the seven dwarfs from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, four years after the characters made their screen debut.

7 Wise Dwarfs

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Hoot is the only cattleman in the neighborhood and he is about to be run off the range by the wealthiest sheep man in the district. Hoot is in love with the sheep man's daughter, and refuses to be run off. The little son of the sheep herder strays away and wanders to Hoot's shanty, where Hoot keeps him, sending a note to the father to come after him. A villainous foreman intercepts the note and plots a kidnapping frame-up. After a near tragic climax, Hoot captures and unmasks the villain, winning the girl and the good will of her father.

Sweet Revenge

1921

The Man from Guntown poster
10.0

When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes him for her brother. He stays on to help her retain control of the dam her farther started. But DeLong is after the dam and having had McArthur killed, he now sends his man after Tim.

The Man from Guntown

1935

The Man from Guntown poster
10.0

When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes him for her brother. He stays on to help her retain control of the dam her farther started. But DeLong is after the dam and having had McArthur killed, he now sends his man after Tim.

The Man from Guntown

1935

The Girl from San Lorenzo poster
8.0

Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.

The Girl from San Lorenzo

1950

The Oregon Trail poster
7.5

Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.

The Oregon Trail

1939

The Shadow of the Eagle poster
5.4

The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.

The Shadow of the Eagle

1932

The Shadow of the Eagle poster
5.4

The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.

The Shadow of the Eagle

1932

Bomba on Panther Island poster
5.1

In this second film in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.

Bomba on Panther Island

1949

Bomba on Panther Island poster
5.1

In this second film in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.

Bomba on Panther Island

1949

Night Monster poster
6.2

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

Night Monster

1942

Night Monster poster
6.2

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

Night Monster

1942

Satan's Cradle poster
5.4

Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.

Satan's Cradle

1949

No artwork available
8.0

Hoss Martin befriends Chuck Willis, a war veteran long separated from his mother. They arrive at the old home to find Gabe Lawrence posing as the son. Gabe is scheming with Luke Steele to deprive the mother of the ranch, but Hoss shows them up, installs his friend in his proper place, and wins the love of sister Elizabeth.

Ridin' Double

1924

Huntin' Trouble poster
10.0

A peace-loving cowboy who must overcome his pacifist convictions when a good friend is found murdered.

Huntin' Trouble

1924

Peril from the Planet Mongo poster
7.0

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to the planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death, which wreaking destruction on Earth. However, Ming the Merciless has other plans for them.

Peril from the Planet Mongo

1966

Winners of the West poster
7.0

Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.

Winners of the West

1940

Riders of Death Valley poster
6.8

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.

Riders of Death Valley

1941

Don Desperado poster
9.0

A deputy sheriff in a small Western town terrorized by a masked stage robber known only as the Black Bandit.

Don Desperado

1927

West Bound Limited poster
7.0

Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.

West Bound Limited

1937

The Masked Rider poster
7.2

The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.

The Masked Rider

1941

Bomba and the Jungle Girl poster
5.6

Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson's diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his parents and the village's true ruler were murdered by the current chieftain and his daughter.

Bomba and the Jungle Girl

1952

Bomba and the Jungle Girl poster
5.6

Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson's diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his parents and the village's true ruler were murdered by the current chieftain and his daughter.

Bomba and the Jungle Girl

1952

Code of the Range poster
8.0

Ford Beebe's "original screenplay" (he had used it before) finds the cattlemen, headed by "Calamity" Parker, opposing the use of their rangelands by sheepherders, with cattlemen Lee Jamison and Ed Randall in the dissenting minority and they offer sheepman Angus McLeod free grazing privileges. Saloon owner Barney Ross offers to keep the sheepmen off of the range and out of town if each cattleman will pay $500.

Code of the Range

1936

Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars poster
10.0

Made for 16mm home rental, tv and video feature version of the 1938 Universal serial "Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars". Flash, Dale and Zarkov rocket from Earth to Mars to investigate the source of a ray creating environmental havoc on Earth, and find Martian queen Azura working in consort with Emperor Ming of Mongo to take over Earth.

Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars

1966

Shep Comes Home poster
6.5

Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.

Shep Comes Home

1948

Shep Comes Home poster
6.5

Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.

Shep Comes Home

1948

Easy to Look At poster
7.0

In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".

Easy to Look At

1945

Tim Tyler's Luck poster
7.0

A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.

Tim Tyler's Luck

1937

Radio Patrol poster
10.0

About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Radio Patrol

1937