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  • The Big Sleep
  • The Big Sleep review by Donensian from Doncaster
    Rated - 4.0 stars So you're a private detective! 28 September 2008
    ...ontrol younger sister 'She tried to sit on my lap and I was still standing up!' Regis Toomey as a straight down the line copper. Elisha Cook Jr in a brief, fatal appearance...   Read customer review

Regis Toomey - filmography


  • Burke's Law (8 discs) on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Gene Barry,  Gary Conway,  Regis Toomey
    Director: Burke's Law
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This DVD collection features series one of the investigative crime drama, BURKE'S LAW, in which Amos Burke, a millionaire chief of detectives, travels round L.A. in his chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce, investigating crimes and solving murders. The series brought a refreshing twist to the cop shows of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 29 members
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  • Change Of Habit on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Elvis Presley,  Mary Tyler Moore,  Jane Elliot
    Director: William A. Graham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elvis Presley plays a young doctor who helps the poor by working in an inner-city clinic. When a Catholic group sends in a trio of nurses--who are really nuns in disguise--to help the doctor with his work, he forms an affectionate bond with one of the sisters (Mary Tyler Moore), leading to a series ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 521 members
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  • Man's Favourite Sport on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Paula Prentiss,  Maria Perschy
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 205 members
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  • The Battle At Apache Pass on DVD (1952)
    Starring: John Lund,  Jeff Chandler,  Beverly Tyler
    Director: George Sherman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jeff Chandler stars as Cochise, the mighty Indian chief of the Chiricahua Apaches whose friendship and trust of the U.S. Cavalry has ensured peace in an otherwise hostile land. The already fragile concord is shattered when a new Indian Affairs agent (Bruce Cowling) conspires to bring the Apaches to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 12 members
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  • Magic Town on DVD (1947)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Jane Wyman,  Ann Doran
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jimmy Stewart plays Lawrence Smith in this Capraesque tale in which an ambitious pollster finds a small town whose citizens' opinions accurately reflect those of America at large. On discovering this oddity in the darling town of Grandview, Smith plots to exploit this "mathematical miracle." Posing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 190 members
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  • The Bishop's Wife on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  David Niven,  Loretta Young
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    David Niven plays preoccupied, harrassed Bishop Henry Brougham whose prayers are answered at Christmas when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church, enabling him to give his full attention to his neglected wife (Loretta Young) and parishioners. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,707 member
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  • The Big Sleep on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Lauren Bacall,  Dorothy Malone,  Elisha Cook Jr Jr.
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 9,102 members
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  • Follow The Boys on DVD (1944)
    Starring: George Raft,  Vera Zorina,  Grace McDonald
    Director: A. Edward Sutherland
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A screen star organises all-star USO shows for the troops after being turned down himself for active duty. Features musical acts and guest stars galore, including Orson Welles, Dinah Shore, Marlene Dietrich, Donald O'Connor and many, many more.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 35 members
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  • Dive Bomber on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Errol Flynn,  Fred MacMurray,  Allen Jenkins
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The true story of the American Naval Air Corps' unsung heroes who flew into danger more for science than glory. The story follows a naval surgeon devoted to aviation medicine, experimenting with ways to eliminate black-outs, altitude sickness and night-blindness. The drama of his personal life ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 182 members
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  • Meet John Doe on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Walter Brennan,  Spring Byington,  Gene Lockhart
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In this Frank Capra film, Gary Cooper plays Long John Willoughby, an unemployed man who is duped into becoming an American symbol by D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. When Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by Norton, she sends a fake suicide note to the publisher ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 500 members
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  • Arizona on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Jean Arthur,  William Holden,  Warren William
    Director: Wesley Ruggles
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 11 members
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  • His Girl Friday on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Rosalind Russell,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,514 members
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Regis Toomey facts

5 most recent films

Burke's Law - 3.0 stars
Change Of Habit - 3.0 stars
Man's Favourite Sport - 3.0 stars
The Battle At Apache Pass - 2.5 stars
Magic Town - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Big Sleep - 3.5 stars
The Bishop's Wife - 3.5 stars
His Girl Friday - 3.5 stars
Meet John Doe - 3.5 stars
Man's Favourite Sport - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Shadows Of The Orient - 1.0 stars
The Battle At Apache Pass - 2.5 stars
The Phantom Creeps - 2.5 stars
Follow The Boys - 2.5 stars
Arizona - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gene Lockhart - 4 times - show films
Cary Grant - 3 times - show films
James Gleason - 3 times - show films
Edwin Stanley - 3 times - show films
Jack C. Smith - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Howard Hawks - 5 times - show films
Ford Beebe - 3 times - show films
Saul A Goodkind - 3 times - show films
Frank Capra - 2 times - show films
Fred C. Newmeyer - 1 times - show films