Frank R. Strayer

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Venture of Faith

1951

Director

Directing

Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school ca...

And Then There Were Four

And Then There Were Four

1950

Director

5.0
Directing

Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to le...

The Pilgrimage Play

The Pilgrimage Play

1949

Director

3.5
Directing

Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while p...

The Sickle or the Cross

The Sickle or the Cross

1949

Director

6.0
Directing

Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Re...

Reaching from Heaven

Reaching from Heaven

1948

Director

Directing

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped menta...

Messenger of Peace

1947

Director

Directing

Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community and rebuilds the faith of the residents. He ministe...

I Ring Doorbells

I Ring Doorbells

1946

Director

Directing

Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown ...

Senorita from the West

Senorita from the West

1945

Director

5.0
Directing

Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio ...

Mama Loves Papa

Mama Loves Papa

1945

Director

Directing

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is ...

Footlight Glamour

Footlight Glamour

1943

Director, Producer

7.7
Directing Producing

Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessma...

It's a Great Life

It's a Great Life

1943

Producer, Director

7.5
Producing Directing

Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day...

The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man

1942

Director

4.3
Directing

Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret...

Blondie for Victory

Blondie for Victory

1942

Director

7.3
Directing

Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in ...

Blondie's Blessed Event

Blondie's Blessed Event

1942

Director

7.3
Directing

Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried a...

Blondie Goes to College

Blondie Goes to College

1942

Director

6.4
Directing

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, B...

Go West, Young Lady

Go West, Young Lady

1941

Director

6.9
Directing

A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.

Blondie in Society

Blondie in Society

1941

Director

7.4
Directing

Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.

Blondie Goes Latin

Blondie Goes Latin

1941

Director

6.2
Directing

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleto...

Blondie Plays Cupid

Blondie Plays Cupid

1940

Director

6.7
Directing

The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

1940

Director

7.2
Directing

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. ...

Blondie on a Budget

Blondie on a Budget

1940

Director

6.0
Directing

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters w...

Blondie Brings Up Baby

Blondie Brings Up Baby

1939

Director

6.5
Directing

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically co...

Blondie Takes a Vacation

Blondie Takes a Vacation

1939

Director

6.2
Directing

Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life saving...

Blondie Meets the Boss

Blondie Meets the Boss

1939

Director

5.8
Directing

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring ...

Blondie

Blondie

1938

Director

7.1
Directing

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself in...

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble

1937

Director

6.0
Directing

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Hot Water

Hot Water

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Big Business

Big Business

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Off to the Races

Off to the Races

1937

Director

Directing

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

Laughing at Trouble

Laughing at Trouble

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the re...

Sea Spoilers

Sea Spoilers

1936

Director

4.5
Directing

Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lie...

Hitch Hike To Heaven

Hitch Hike To Heaven

1936

Director

Directing

A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.

Murder at Glen Athol

Murder at Glen Athol

1936

Director

6.5
Directing

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmai...

Condemned to Live

Condemned to Live

1935

Director

5.1
Directing

After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampir...

Society Fever

Society Fever

1935

Director

6.0
Directing

A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.

Death from a Distance

Death from a Distance

1935

Director

4.8
Directing

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detecti...

One in a Million

One in a Million

1935

Director

5.0
Directing

A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.

Public Opinion

1935

Director

Directing

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

Symphony of Living

Symphony of Living

1935

Director

5.7
Directing

Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty chil...

The Ghost Walks

The Ghost Walks

1934

Director

5.3
Directing

A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes ...

Port of Lost Dreams

Port of Lost Dreams

1934

Director

6.5
Directing

A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows...

Fugitive Road

Fugitive Road

1934

Director

Directing

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.

Fifteen Wives

Fifteen Wives

1934

Director

1.0
Directing

Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes in...

Cross Streets

Cross Streets

1934

Director

5.8
Directing

A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.

In Love with Life

In Love with Life

1934

Director

5.0
Directing

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that footbal...

La cruz y la espada

La cruz y la espada

1934

Director

Directing
Twin Husbands

Twin Husbands

1933

Director

4.2
Directing

The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains o...

In the Money

In the Money

1933

Director

3.5
Directing

When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded o...

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance

1933

Director

5.5
Directing

Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act. She wi...

By Appointment Only

By Appointment Only

1933

Director

5.8
Directing

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in th...

El rey de los Gitanos

1933

Director

Directing

Aka King of the Gypsies

The Vampire Bat

The Vampire Bat

1933

Director

5.4
Directing

A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

Manhattan Tower

Manhattan Tower

1932

Director

5.9
Directing

The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.

Tangled Destinies

Tangled Destinies

1932

Director

5.8
Directing

An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers...

The Crusader

The Crusader

1932

Director

6.3
Directing

Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.

Gorilla Ship

Gorilla Ship

1932

Director

Directing

Philip Wells and his wife Helen argue a lot about the attention that Philip thinks Helen and his best friend, Dave Burton, are giving each other, but ...

Love in High Gear

Love in High Gear

1932

Director

Directing

A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.

Behind Stone Walls

Behind Stone Walls

1932

Director

4.4
Directing

Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jac...

The Monster Walks

The Monster Walks

1932

Director

4.1
Directing

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died sudden...

Dragnet Patrol

Dragnet Patrol

1931

Director

5.2
Directing

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

Soul of the Slums

Soul of the Slums

1931

Director

5.5
Directing

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for fram...

Anybody's Blonde

Anybody's Blonde

1931

Director

Directing

When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.

Murder at Midnight

Murder at Midnight

1931

Director

5.4
Directing

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...

Caught Cheating

Caught Cheating

1931

Director

Directing

Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.

Borrowed Wives

Borrowed Wives

1930

Director

4.6
Directing

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Let's Go Places

Let's Go Places

1930

Director

Directing

A musical comedy in which a young and ambitious singer impersonates a famous operatic tenor.

Acquitted

Acquitted

1929

Director

Directing

A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.

The Fall of Eve

The Fall of Eve

1929

Director

Directing

Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When M...

Moran of the Marines

Moran of the Marines

1928

Director

Directing

After getting into a fight with a drunkard, Mike Moran spends 10 days on the rock pile and is disinherited by his wealthy uncle; out of luck and work,...

Just Married

Just Married

1928

Director

Directing

After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime

1928

Director

2.0
Directing

After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is take...

Now We're in the Air

Now We're in the Air

1927

Director

6.2
Directing

Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps an...

Rough House Rosie

Rough House Rosie

1927

Director

Directing

A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.

The Bachelor's Baby

The Bachelor's Baby

1927

Director

Directing

Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.

When the Wife's Away

1926

Director

Directing

Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fas...

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

1926

Director

Directing

A baby girl is left at the door of Brady, an Irish-policeman in New York City. He and his friends bid for her, and she is won by Uncle Ben Shapiro, a ...

Beau Brummel

Beau Brummel

1924

Assistant Director

6.8
Directing

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she ...

Main Street

Main Street

1923

Assistant Director

4.0
Directing

The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.