Steven Helmer Publications

Synopsis: Once a promising Hollywood director, Jimmie Dale is now out of work with no studio willing to take a chance on him. Desperate for employment, he accepts a job teaching at a sham acting school run by J. Walter Delmar and actor Adrian Almont.  Delmar and Almont see a way to increase their profit by conning a new Hollywood arrival, Frank Young, into investing his inheritance into a motion picture starring Almont and one of Dale's students, Alice Perkins. However, their plan to keep a large percentage of the money for themselves goes awry when Dale decides to use the full $75,000 and make a legitimate movie. Who's in it? The movie stars James Dunn , Alice Faye, Frank Mitchell, John Bradford, Jack Durant and Grant Mitchell . Review: I have had 365 Nights in Hollywood in my library for a few months and, while I did start watching it once, only to be interrupted a few minutes into it, I didn't get around to finally watching it until this morning. At first, I wasn...

Synopsis: Eccentric ex-detective Nick Trayne is offered $25,000 to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy banker. The case becomes more challenging when the banker returns to his house in a zombie-like state and, a short time later, the banker’s brother-in-law is found murdered in the garden. It’s up to Nick to figure out which of the banker’s uncooperative relatives is behind all of it. Who's in it?   The movie stars James Dunn , Joan Woodbury , Vera Gordon, Lawrence Grant , Norman Willis and Gus Glassmire. Review: I came across The Living Ghost and, realizing it had been a while since I last watched it, added it to my library. I wound up watching it again this morning and it is as good as I remember. I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m a huge fan of mysteries and this film offered up a pretty decent one. Not only did we not know what happened to the banker (Glassmire) and why he was in a zombie-like state. At times, he would actually turn violent and there was a...