Rogue River

Name: Rogue River
Director: John Rawlins
Released: 1951
Duration: 81 min
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Peter Graves, Frank Fenton, Ralph Sanford, George Stern

1951

Dir. John Rawlins

1h 21m

USA

Synopsis

The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy was in on the scheme.

Cast

Principal Cast

Crew

Director

John Rawlins

Director

John Rawlins

1902 – 1997

Director John Rawlins started in films in 1918 as an actor, stunt man, gag writer and assistant director. For a while he sidelined as a comedy writer, then became an editor and later directed second features for First National in Britain from the early 1930s. Returning to the US, he joined Universal (1938-46), where he turned out "B" pictures and serials, including installments of the "Dick Tracy"…

Full Director Profile →

More from John Rawlins

All films →

1947

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

1940

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror