Directing

Eugene Forde

Born — Died

1898-11-08 — 1986-02-27

Place of birth

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Michael Shayne: Private Detective poster
6.6

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

1940

Charlie Chan on Broadway poster
7.1

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

Charlie Chan on Broadway

1937

Charlie Chan in London poster
6.9

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.

Charlie Chan in London

1934

The Great Hotel Murder poster
6.0

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.

The Great Hotel Murder

1935

The Invisible Wall poster
6.0

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.

The Invisible Wall

1947

Hello Cheyenne! poster
9.0

Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings and Cheynne, Wyoming. Lineman Tom Remington's girlfriend is the daughter of one crew foreman, who wants to win the race in order to re-establish himself in the business. However, the foreman of the other crew has his own scheme to win the race, and will stop at nothing--including kidnapping--to accomplish it.

Hello Cheyenne!

1928

Film credits

Behind the camera

Michael Shayne: Private Detective poster
6.6

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

1940

Charlie Chan on Broadway poster
7.1

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

Charlie Chan on Broadway

1937

Charlie Chan in London poster
6.9

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.

Charlie Chan in London

1934

The Great Hotel Murder poster
6.0

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.

The Great Hotel Murder

1935

The Invisible Wall poster
6.0

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.

The Invisible Wall

1947

Hello Cheyenne! poster
9.0

Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings and Cheynne, Wyoming. Lineman Tom Remington's girlfriend is the daughter of one crew foreman, who wants to win the race in order to re-establish himself in the business. However, the foreman of the other crew has his own scheme to win the race, and will stop at nothing--including kidnapping--to accomplish it.

Hello Cheyenne!

1928

Charlie Chan's Courage poster
8.7

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.

Charlie Chan's Courage

1934

Sleepers West poster
6.4

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Sleepers West

1941

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise poster
6.8

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

1940

Dressed to Kill poster
6.3

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Dressed to Kill

1941

36 Hours to Kill poster
6.1

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended.

36 Hours to Kill

1936

Berlin Correspondent poster
6.0

Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.

Berlin Correspondent

1942

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo poster
6.3

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

1937

Right to the Heart poster
7.0

John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a return engagement with the fighter.

Right to the Heart

1942

International Settlement poster
6.0

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

International Settlement

1938

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case poster
5.2

The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

1943

Meet the Girls poster
5.0

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

Meet the Girls

1938

Mystery Woman poster
6.5

A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.

Mystery Woman

1935

Buy Me That Town poster
6.3

A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.

Buy Me That Town

1941

One Wild Night poster
7.8

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

One Wild Night

1938

Shadows in the Night poster
6.0

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

Shadows in the Night

1944

Backlash poster
4.8

In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.

Backlash

1947

Cupid and the Clock poster
8.0

A jazz version of O. Henry's The Caliph, Cupid and Clock.

Cupid and the Clock

1927

Charter Pilot poster
7.7

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.

Charter Pilot

1940

Midnight Taxi poster
6.2

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

Midnight Taxi

1937

Daredevil's Reward poster
8.0

Tom Mix portrayed a daredevil ranger on the trail of a gang of outlaws. To get close to the gang, Tom utilizes various cunning disguises, including donning the garb of a medicine man. Along the way, complications arise when Tom falls for the niece (Natalie Joyce) of the gang leader (William Welch).

Daredevil's Reward

1928

The Son of the Golden West poster
9.0

Tom Hardy (Tom Mix), a pony express rider, is carrying government gold in a coach to Wassatch accompanied by Alice Calhoun (Sharon Lynn) , the daughter of the US telegraph survey station. The gold is to pay for the US Telegraph Survey and it is to be delivered to the survey chief, Jim Calhoun (Thomas Lingham). The coach is attacked by bandits led by the Slade (Duke Lee) and Kane (Mark Hamilton).

The Son of the Golden West

1928

No artwork available
7.0

In this one cowboy stars Rooseveldt and McDonald enact a rescued damsel plot complete with sword fight.

Zampa

1930

The Honeymoon's Over poster
8.0

Newly married copywriters become seduced by life with the country-club set, until mounting bills and legal troubles snap them back to reality.

The Honeymoon's Over

1939

Smoky poster
10.0

Rodeo star forms a strong bond with the noble horse he took from the wilds and trained. Unfortunately, they end up on different life paths and are separated. When at last they are reunited, the cowboy is appalled to discover that Smoky has become a broken down cart horse with an appointment at the local abattoir. Fortunately the cowboy intervenes and saves the horse from death

Smoky

1933

The Lady Escapes poster
7.0

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

The Lady Escapes

1937

Step Lively, Jeeves! poster
6.0

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Step Lively, Jeeves!

1937

Your Uncle Dudley poster
5.5

A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.

Your Uncle Dudley

1935

The Crimson Key poster
4.5

Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...

The Crimson Key

1947

No artwork available
NR

Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2'. One of a series of shorts consisting of silent, staged stories, played out against popular pieces of classical music.

Hungarian Rhapsody

1930

Man at Large poster
6.5

FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas Dayle is assigned by her editor to track down the enemy aviator and get an exclusive story. When she catches up with Grayson and Max, Dallas is under the impression that Grayson is a rival reporter and Max is the genuine fugitive.

Man at Large

1941

Inspector Hornleigh poster
7.5

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.

Inspector Hornleigh

1939

Jewels of Brandenburg poster
6.0

A former secret agent is sent to retrieve a priceless collection of stolen jewels from a Lisbon nightclub owner who worked both sides during World War II.

Jewels of Brandenburg

1947

Pier 13 poster
5.7

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

Pier 13

1940

The Big Diamond Robbery poster
7.0

A ranch foreman is assigned to escort his employer's daughter from the big city back to the ranch. The girl is carrying the valuable Regent diamond and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves.

The Big Diamond Robbery

1929