Money Madness (1948) - Full Movie | Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, Harlan Warde, Cecil Weston

[@norobbery]

Well done writer Al Martin! Clever plot and great acting. Beaumont plays a great villain (which I did not expect) and Frances Rafferty is very convincing. Thank you!

[@davidbrown-xk8zl]

I kept waiting for Beaver and Wally to come downstairs and ask,"What the hell is goin' on Dad"?

[@mildredpierce4506]

😂😂

[@laradavenport903]

I don't think they cussed in the show, right?

[@aspenrebel]

The Beav was just a twinkle in his eye.

[@arieswaters]

Oh stop

[@kathyh4804]

It’s so funny seeing Hugh Beaumont play any part other than Ward Cleaver😂 Thank you for the upload

[@landryayaan5215]

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[@harrisonwestley7537]

@Landry Ayaan yea, been using Flixzone} for since december myself :D

[@elizabethbowie9753]

Nevermind That!! Was that Gladyss Kravitz at the malt shop????!!! Listen to that voice, & facial expression!!! ( I don't know her real name.)

[@nedludd7622]

@@landryayaan5215 A con trick you mean.

[@MidnightSouthpaw188]

So funny because he is not good at playing anything other than ward cleaver.

[@IrvONeil-fn6cp]

Enjoyed this, never heard of it before. Nice change of pace role for Hugh, and Frances Rafferty was very appealing. Thanks for posting it.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

This movie was Before the Beave'!!! The Beave' was his chge of roles!!!!

[@IrvONeil-fn6cp]

@@elizabethbowie9753 You're right, of course! How I should have phrased it is that it's more of a change of pace for us Hugh Beaumont fans to see him in this film after being so familiar with him playing Ward Cleaver later in his career. Before the Beave', he did indeed play some other shady characters, as well as detectives too.

[@nildacrespo1683]

I O N. F R was not good performer

[@IrvONeil-fn6cp]

@@nildacrespo1683 No great shakes as an actress, I agree, but I found her attractive & appealing despite that.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Love TV personalities in "other" roles, usually in movies. Hugh B. was excellent in this "B" movie. Frances was very good, I thought. She was definitely very attractive. BTW Lucille Ball is an excellent example of TV person doing some excellent non-comic Hollywood roles.

[@walte153]

Good job by Hugh Beaumont. This is the kind of role that Robert Ryan excelled in. Cold, creepy, scary.

[@binyon7]

Walt - you are spot on....

[@phoenixtimes2]

Excellent film noir! Great change of pace for Hugh Beaumont.

[@jennyjerome5669]

Not entirely, see him in 'The Lady Confesses' (1945).

[@phoenixtimes2]

@@jennyjerome5669 Thanks Jenny. I didn’t know about that one.

[@janeevapauck7774]

Whoa…Ward sure became touchy and psycho quick. Loved his mugshot. He was really good in these noirs. The loudmouth at the malt shop was the mayor of Mayberry. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@daisycassidy2448]

Strange to see the Beaver's dad in such a mean role. Good film and good quality. Thanks for uploading.

[@SuperIliad]

Money Madness, released USA 15 April 1948, UK 1 September 1949 (London). Hugh Beaumont as Steve Clark; Frances Rafferty as Julie Saunders; Harlan Warde as Donald Harper; Cecil Weston as Cora; Ida Moore as Mrs. Ferguson; Danny Morton as Jack Rogers; Joel Friedkin as Dr. Wagner; Lane Chandler, Policeman; Gladys Blake as Martha - Waitress; Carole Donne, Photo Shop Assistant; Dick Elliott, Malt Shop Customer; Don C. Harvey as Harry; Nolan Leary, Taxi Company Boss; Carl Milletaire as Charlie; Garry Owen as Vance - Reporter; Walter Soderling as Mr. Haines; Pierre Watkin, Judge.

[@davidmansfield9167]

WARNING SPOILER. For the period, a very odd ending. I expected we'd flip back to the opening scene and see some kind of reprieve, but no. Not even a scene with Julie being released after six months. She got ten years, for poor judgement. She wasn't complicit by choice. She must have had the worst defence in the world. Is the message meant to be 'women shouldn't let themselves be swept off their feet' ? Cruel. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@BGNOLA]

Probably added on there because of the Hays Code; she was complicit in her aunt's death and getting away with it was against the censorship rules

[@dk60ish]

Actually a very good film noir.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

No. It's a film Blanche!! Light. The story is creepy & dark, but, It Wakes Women Up!!! Don't fall for their crap!!! Use your women's intuition!!/aka Discernment!!!!

[@Prof.Tarfeather]

Hugh Beaumont was an accomplished Actor, playing Private Detective, News Reporter tangled in an affair that leads to Murder, A Man Who's estranged Wife ends up Murdered while he seems to have a solid alibi? And even a Lutheran Minister. Convincing Roles Portrayed in the Film Noir era of Films during the late 1940's -1950's. Watching him as a cold-blooded and calculating ex-con, bank robber, murderer, and brutal womanizer is pretty disturbing when most of us grew up watching him in the 1960's TV Series " Leave it to Beaver". Playing the Role of Ward Cleaver. The all-knowing, wise, and loving father of Wally and Theodore aka; the Beave, Cleaver

[@davidb5728]

hugh beaumont did this a good decade before leave it to beaver..he did quite a few low budget noir/crime films in the 40's and 50's

[@johnindo6771]

Just goes to show what a great actor, Hugh Beaumont was! That he could slip into the role of Ward Cleaver and then into roles playing psychopathic murderers!!! Maybe it was on You Tube that I read a blurb about what Hugh Beaumont’s kids said about their father. They said that their father was as as warm, loving, nurturing, and forgiving as Ward Cleaver was with Wally and the Beaver on the TaV series.

[@kathyh4804]

Poor Julie! She has a bad choice of men like me.... think you are dating Ward Cleaver and he turns into a freak !😂

[@elizabethbowie9753]

This movie was made Before the Beave!!! The Beave' was his change!!!!

[@rclc93]

Lol

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@elizabethbowie9753 But in real life, actor Hugh Beaumont had a master's degree in theology.

[@dwightpowell6673]

@@JudgeJulieLit was it from a reputable institution?

[@jimdep3530]

IT could be that June liked dating a freak but then he turned into Ward.

[@shaun5944]

Thank you F D, great film 👍

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

Now, what kind of example is that for the Beaver???

[@RealBigBadJohn]

⭐⭐Baylor School salutes Hugh Beaumont, Class of 1930⭐⭐

[@johnindo6771]

2 other good Hugh Beaumont movies on You Tube are: The Lady Confesses and Apology for Murder

[@FatManDoubleZero]

HUGH BEAUMONT was always A CLASS ACT in everything he did!!!

[@coyotedelanube8572]

The same blithe congeniality that Hugh Beaumont used to benevolent and avuncular effect in Leave It to Beaver I used in this episode to sinister effect. Kind of reminds me of Jack Lord, who used his polysemic smile to convey goodness and benevolent authority in Hawaii Five-O, but also used the same exact smile to sinister effect in some of his earlier roles. I think Chuck Conner did something similar. He used that glint in his eyes to portray a kind, fatherly figure in The Rifleman, but in earlier roles the same glint in his eye conveyed something dark and degenerate. I would have liked to see Hugh Beaumont develop the sinister side of his blithe congeniality.

[@lousteinberg5624]

Not use to seeing Hugh playing a killer.....but he played both parts very well. Good movie.

[@ollierobinson4339]

The Beaver would say dad you told me to never hit a girl

[@cathy5072]

Wonderful!

[@deezynar]

The lesson to learn from this movie is that you better not turn your radio up too high in that town or the cops will shoot you.

[@zorromaskedman685]

This is the third noir Hugh plays a despicable wiseguy. As for June Cleaver, she was blackmailing Ward, they were undercover criminals hiding out in the suburbs. Wally and Beaver were embezzlers, that's why the Cleaver house was so happy in the 50's, just making ends meet.😂⚖️💵

[@lizlocher3612]

Yikes!! Old Hugh Beaumont is playing a real CREEPY character in this movie!!! At the point where he unravels his plot to her n it is a SHOCKER!!!

[@dave1283]

So a cab driver, after a bad date forces a kiss on the girl, stalks her at work, asks if she likes him. She says she doesn't know but a girl that beautiful marries him without even a first date. 😂What a bunch of malarkey.

[@sparkysmom7149]

Wow! Ward Cleaver as a psycho! And he did it great!

[@tomlovejoy1534]

Mr.Cleaver playing a psycho! 🤯

[@jorgeestomba9888]

Really enjoyed Great ploy, unfortunately the ending could have been better Enjoyed Beaumont's acting !

[@marksinger3067]

Good flick and the Beaver's real Dad was my High school Principal..Mr. Mathers..

[@sharpear1031]

This guy Sidney Neufeld who created these B movies starring Hugh Beaumont has women marrying two minutes after they meet a guy. Even for noir films, that's a bit much. She also abandons her sick aunt. Tch, tch. And she had so many chances to escape him. I don't know about this one. But i do know Hugh Beaumont played one of the best psychopaths I have ever see on the screen. All he had to do was follow the script. He should be acknowledged under that category.

[@mistervacation23]

Ward Cleaver driving a taxi cab

[@seosamhofionnaghain5555]

Good Video 1.

[@auletjohnast03638]

I REMEMBER THIS MOVIE NOW. BEAVER'S DAD WAS A BAD BAD BOY IN THIS MOVIE.

[@MrSkokiaan]

Plot hole: he didn't have his real name on the marriage certificate, so they weren't actually married.

[@MA_808]

This was right before he met June who got to spend the $200,000 on pearl necklaces.

[@ixamxmsright]

Hmmm the END ??? What?!!! Hated the ending .😤

[@Nefarioso]

Noir films are not SUPPOSED to end on a high note.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

Back in the day, & even 2day, no one got cremated so Quickly, unless they wanted to cover up a crime. I know ppl who were cremated. Their Choice. But to be cremated, so Quickly.....!!!

[@nildacrespo1683]

Actually some cultures believe in same day c it’s a religion thing

[@DavidRice111]

So~ 'The Film Detective' "celebrates black history month" ? How about at least a tip o' the hat to white history, or Oriental history, which would necessarily take 24-7 coverage for at least two months? So damn tired of the "special treatment" handed to the "victim du jour' in this woke country.

[@aspenrebel]

Why did he confess everything to her?

[@arieswaters]

I don't know why but my whole life I've had to Beaumont and Fred MacMurray kind of mixed-up kind of in the same headspace in my head

[@BGNOLA]

Apology for Murder is a Double Indemnity ripoff with Beaumont in the McMurray role; it's on KZbin

[@VillemarMxO]

Both did noirs in their younger years then switched over to iconic dad roles later on television. Fred's were more famous (ie Double Indemnity) but Hugh got some good work in.

[@sunnyadams5842]

LoL! I know whatchu mean 😄 me too.

[@miapdx503]

I've done that too. I'm an Aries too. 😏

[@arieswaters]

Hugh Beaumont was much more Charming

[@leelarson107]

It would be nice to see Comments about Hugh Beaumont that don't dwell on his role as 'Ward Cleaver'.

[@ChrisCarlin-is8wv]

Ward went from driving a hack to the stock market profession with Fred Rutherford. June was a good influence on him apparently.

[@harrietetter9321]

just cant watch ward cleaver be so mean

[@laradavenport903]

Lord, it is called acting.😅

[@mickeybitsko1676]

This is the Ward we never. Saw behind closed doors with june

[@lizdoyle7158]

This movie had a bad ending not a great movie

[@mickeybitsko1676]

Shyster mouthpiece zeroing on on the money real quick like

[@jimdep3530]

I wonder if June. Knew that Ward was married before...

[@victor-oq7dl]

Tea bags in 1948 hmmm.

[@binyon7]

I see Ward... but no June Cleaver. A little rough on The Beaver?

[@chester777ful]

Slow but ok

[@timothymacdonnell9079]

This guy has to be one of the most evil men in film noir!

[@Mimi-ex6jo]

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[@johnindo6771]

It is hard to visualize the Beaver’s father, actor Hugh Beaumont, is such a vile villain here. I saw him play an equally villainous part in another film noir movie. He played an evil man who. murdered his wife and several others before being caught.

[@templedrake6890]

what was the name of such a picture?

[@johnindo6771]

@@templedrake6890 I will look up and report back.

[@VillemarMxO]

Yeah a lot of the actors who ended up in television in the '50's and '60's were in these bleak noir movies in the '40's when they were younger. The obvious example is Fred MacMurray who was in the noir classic Double Indemnity but then went on to do My Three Sons and Disney movies. But yeah a lot of them are there and it's really cool to see them in their younger days playing the opposite of how they came to be typecast. I even saw June Cleaver in one (a cameo as a secretary) who gets knocked out by a detective who wants her bosses' files. It's pretty crazy

[@aspenrebel]

Who got the $200K?

[@coolroy4300]

BACK THE BLUE 👍🇺🇸

[@dwightpowell6673]

What blue are you talking about.?

[@margaretwilliams6224]

Wow. I hope no woman would ever be that stupid. Totally unbelievable story.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

If he was Focused on his wife, instead of $$$, He would've taken her out to dinner. Then he calls Her, a Tramp???!!!! IDIOT! (&we know, she wasn't cheating...) Hugh Beaumont is the greatest actor. Yeah, so, we know him as the minister who did the Leave it to Beaver show, to make $ for his church. Then he plays an evil guy, who calls his wife a Tramp then slaps her, when she's done nothing wrong. Reminds me of Rob Lowe. He did a life time movie @ Scott Peterson. I couldn't believe it! Men who we thought of as, "Mr. Wonderful," ... playing men who are so evil!!! I hated Rob Lowe in that movie. I hate Hugh B. in This movie. That's Acting!!!!