Acting

Sam Balter

Acting credits

Tall Story poster
5.7

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.

Tall Story

1960

Kiss Me Deadly poster
7.2

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man poster
6.3

As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

1951

His Kind of Woman poster
6.8

Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.

His Kind of Woman

1951

Iron Man poster
6.2

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

Iron Man

1951

Champion poster
6.7

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Champion

1949

The Underworld Story poster
6.3

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

The Underworld Story

1950

The Jackie Robinson Story poster
6.3

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

The Jackie Robinson Story

1950

Dillinger poster
5.9

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.

Dillinger

1945

Confirm or Deny poster
4.8

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.

Confirm or Deny

1941

The Pittsburgh Kid poster
7.0

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.

The Pittsburgh Kid

1941

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey poster
5.3

Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

1950

Because of Eve poster
4.8

A doctor uses films about venereal disease and the human reproductive system to educate a young married couple.

Because of Eve

1948

Harmon of Michigan poster
7.5

A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.

Harmon of Michigan

1941

Big Town Scandal poster
5.3

A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

Big Town Scandal

1948

Crazy Over Horses poster
6.7

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers

Crazy Over Horses

1951

The Story of Life poster
9.0

Focuses on frank discussions regarding human reproduction, the "facts of life," and the appreciation of modern medical science in the post-war era.

The Story of Life

1948

Tomorrow is a Wonderful Day poster
5.5

Benjamin, an adolescent boy, arrives on a bus with other boys who are new arrivals at the village. They are introduced to the class. He is still suffering from trauma and begins to hoard bread taken from storage even though the village has no lack of food. He watches other children at work but feels foreign and alienated

Tomorrow is a Wonderful Day

1949