Seven rare films from the personal collection of the Star of "Detour", ANN SAVAGE
I'm very proud for my work to be seen on DVD. In my career, I made three musicals, several westerns, and a handful of comedies, in additional to several special noir films, including DETOUR. I hope you enjoy these films, and I hope we can bring you more of my movies in the future. With love to all my friends and fans,
-Ann Savage
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Rare PRC Noir Classic- First Time on DVD!APOLOGY FOR MURDERAnn's second feature for PRC, it was filmed in 1945, just after Detour. Reporter Kenny Blake (Hugh Beaumont) falls in love with scheming Toni Kirkland (Ann Savage) not knowing that she is married to a man years older than she. By the time he finds out, he is so under her spell that he murders her husband which is what Toni had planned all along. City editor McKee (Charles D. Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. The latter is mortally wounded by Toni, who has deserted him for another man.
Ann proves her talent for comedy and pratfalls!THE DARK HORSEThe Dark Horse (1946)
is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though
both deal with a long shot political candidate. The 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the standard "Jean Arthur" role as the honest government functionary with whom the hero falls in love. Terry
finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push
through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks. He wins on
the basis of his honesty, making one wish that things worked out this
way in Real Life.
Wild Western Action!RENEGADE GIRLJean Shelby, a member of a family of Confederate sympathizers in
Missouri during the Civil War, has been providing information about the
Union Army to Confederate Raiders. So the Union is trying to capture
the Shelby family, with the help of an outcast Indian who has his own
grudge against the Shelbys. When Jean and a Yankee captain fall in
love, their plans and loyalties are tested.
Ann and Jack Haley- a Great Comedy Couple!SCARED STIFFThis comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a
hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble begins when he is
assigned to do a story on a local wine festival. Meanwhile an escaped
convict holds the heated interest of the rest of the newspaper
employees. The bungler gets involved when he goes to the wrong location
and ends up on a bus where someone is killed. He becomes a suspect, and
later when he must stop at an inn, he finds his girl friend and a
detective there too. At the inn, the proprietor has two priceless
jeweled chess pieces that have been attracting a lot of attention from
the public, and from the fugitive convict. Mayhem ensues when the crook
shows up to claim the chessmen.
Very Rare Inspirational Drama Starring Ann!
THE RIGHT SIDEA family is torn apart by the husband's gambling. Ann Savage is the wife who, with help from her divorce attorney, and through her new-found faith, helps to bring her family back together.
An episode of "Front Page Detective" reunites Ann with Edmund Lowe
CLEAN SWEEPAn episode of the television series, Front Page Detective, Clean Sweep is a story of murderers and the newspaper editor who brings them down.
Ann's role as a tough gang moll is reminiscent of her tough characters in Detour and Apology for Murder.
Rare early Television AppearanceMAGIC FORMULAClaudette Colbert stars in the television program. Ann is featured as her private secretary.
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