Hugh Douglas Movies
In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves company, he takes up with Warren, a fellow Lonely Guy (Charles Grodin), and eventually both Warren and Larry find some surprising companions, especially after Larry writes a best-selling Lonely Guy Guide. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, (more)
- 1972
Working undercover, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) infiltrates the gang responsible for the kidnapping of the daughter (Kay Lenz) of a famous movie actress (Barbara Rush). Curiously, in his efforts to secure the girl's release, Ed's boss Ironside (Raymond Burr) encounters a stunning lack of cooperation from both the victim's mother and her overbearing business manager (Richard Anderson). Meanwhile, Ed finds out that the kidnapping was an "inside job" and that the abductors have been given strict orders not to hurt the blindfolded girl--but one of the gang members (Kaz Garas) has other ideas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1931
Hell on Earth is the English-language title for the German antiwar drama Niemansland (No Man's Land). Most of the film takes place in a WW I trench, where five diverse individuals have been unwillingly thrust together. The characters are not given names, but designations instead: The Frenchman (Georges Peclet), The Englishman (Hugh Douglas), The Jew (Wladimir-later Vladimir-Sokoloff), The German (Ernst Busch) and The Negro (Louis Douglas). Despising one another at first, the five protagonists come to realize that they must learn to get along if they hope to survive. The pacifistic sentiments (not to mention the ethnic mix) of Niemansland would be verboten by the Nazi regime within a few years after its original 1931 release; indeed, all copies of this film were ordered to be destroyed by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Georges Péclet, Hugh Douglas, (more)
- 1931
Nur Am Rhein (Only on the Rhine) is a standard "heimat"-style musical, with handsome young Germans lifting their voices and beer steins in song and pretty blonde frauleins giggling appreciatively before going into their dance. At the end of WWI, the British forces occupy the Rhineland, where English captain Barrymore (Igo Sym) falls in love with burgomeister's daughter Hanna (Dasy D'Ora). When Barrymore's interpreter Lehmann (Julius Falkenstein) spreads malicious gossip about the captain and his lady, Hanna's brother Karl (Carl Bauhaus) decides to teach the loose-tongued Lehmann as lesson. Karl and his college buddies subject Lehmann to a fraternity hazing, and as a result he is arrested and threatened with a lengthy prison term for insulting a British official. Only the evacuation of the English saves Karl from durance vile, allowing Barrymore and Hanna to get married with a clear conscience. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Emil Rameau, Daisy D'Ora, (more)
- 1928
The British silent Q Ships is set during World War I. The ships of the title are British war vessels, disguised as merchant ships to throw the Germans off guard. Much of the film is devoted to the war of nerves between British admiral Sims (J.P. Kennedy) and German U-boat captain Von Haag (Roy Travers) as they square off in the English Channel. Originally titled Blockade, Q Ships was one of the biggest British moneymakers of the silent era (outside of the Hitchcock films of the period, that is). The film was reissued in 1932, with a music and sound effects score and a few dialogue sequences tacked on. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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