The 1916 silent film “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” is an adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel, directed by Stuart Paton. It is notable for being one of the earliest feature films to use underwater photography, creating a groundbreaking visual experience for its time.

The story begins with reports of a mysterious sea monster attacking ships, causing widespread panic. An expedition is organized aboard the ship Abraham Lincoln, with Professor Pierre Aronnax, his assistant Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land joining the crew. They set out to capture or kill the creature.

During their voyage, they encounter the “monster,” which turns out to be a technologically advanced submarine named the Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. The trio is taken aboard the submarine, where they learn about Nemo’s mission to explore the ocean’s depths and escape the tyranny of the surface world.

The film portrays various underwater adventures, showcasing the wonders of marine life, sunken treasures, and even an underwater burial. Captain Nemo reveals his deep hatred for war and oppression, explaining that he uses the Nautilus to strike against warships of oppressive nations.

A significant subplot involves the backstory of Nemo, who is revealed to be Prince Dakkar, a royal who lost his kingdom and family due to colonial aggression. This personal tragedy fuels his crusade against the surface world.

The climax of the film involves a thrilling battle with a giant octopus, a sequence that highlights the film’s innovative special effects. Ultimately, the film ends with the fate of Captain Nemo left ambiguous, as the Nautilus disappears into the ocean’s depths.

“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (1916) is a pioneering work in cinematic history, blending adventure, drama, and early special effects to bring Jules Verne’s visionary tale to life. Its technical achievements and imaginative storytelling set a high standard for future adaptations of Verne’s works.

A WW2 U-boat crew is stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral USA.

A drama about an idealistic law student from Hell’s Kitchen who unites his neighborhood pals against a gang. And possibly the saddest Christmas movie ever made.

A cardsharp comes to the aid of a Mexican family.

Two rivals join the Air Corps during WWII.

Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos–his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can’t stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company.1

A country boy trains to be a paratrooper at Fort Bragg.

Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company’s past and plans for an optimistic future.

Cary Grant plays Earnest Bliss a rich socialite who makes a bet with his doctor that he can make a living for one year using none of his current wealth.

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf…then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind…

Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

John Wayne plays Quirt Evans, a gunslinger with a nasty rep who is injured and nursed back to health by a Quaker family.

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their “Flying R” ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town.

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs—and then find themselves involved in the real thing.

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her.

A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

When gang chief Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, “Doc” Rogers re-organizes the mob. Learning that Morgan has a son named Edward , living in the country with his mother, Rogers has him brought to the city, and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency, which is a blind for gang’s shakedown activities with local merchants.

Arthur Pilbeam wants to find a job away from women after being jilted by his fiancé. He finds a job at a remote lighthouse that’s being used as meteorological station., but even in these isolated conditions he still can’t help but run into women.

Johnny Fraser, a small town boy, leaves his mother for the big city. He gets a job with an architectural firm, there he meets a fellow employee who introduces him to gambling and a gold-digging night club singer. From that point on things don’t go well for Johnny.

Evicted from the roof of Broadcasting House, Arthur Askey and Stinker Dickie Murdoch move into Droon Castle in Sussex. Not realising that the television equipment they discover is in use by German secret agents they do the obvious thing – put on a show.

An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a series of bank robberies thus jeopardizing his sister, the girlfriend of the gang’s ringleader.

Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend, Pige Bennett, and punky Kenneth get involved with a “haunted” house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a “better man” out of Kenneth.

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a “rescue” effort which nearly gets both of them killed.

Eddy Crane (Tony Travis) is a newly discovered singer who must choose between his gang or becoming a professional singer.

Set on a mysterious island where scantily clad warrior women hold all the power and men are regarded as disposable beings useful only for breeding purposes. Comic scenes result when four airmen arrive on the island and become the object of native womenfolk’s desires.

John “Flint” Dawson (Lionel Atwill) is a down to earth steel mill general manager who loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident and manipulated by a lecherous lawyer and unfaithful wife to sign over his power of attorney. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his factory.

When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill’s undoing – the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.

Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the “Firefly”, being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three times, finally “joins” when, during an air raid, he is mistaken for a real sailor. He soon unwittingly stumbles into the secret hideout of the Nazi spies trying to destroy the Firefly. Complications ensue.

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.

The record of an expedition deep into the Malayan jungle.

A police lt. is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown, because he hasn’t been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown’s girlfriend who despises him, for information instead.

Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.

Unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias…but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.

Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.

A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb.

A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money.

The Range Busters almost lose one of their own in a payroll robbery.

Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw’s traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.

“Bowery at Midnight” is a 1942 horror film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Bela Lugosi, John Archer, and Wanda McKay. The movie weaves a tale of crime, deception, and horror centered around the character of Professor Brenner, played by Bela Lugosi.

Professor Brenner is a seemingly respectable college professor by day, but he leads a double life as Karl Wagner, a ruthless criminal mastermind by night. Wagner runs a soup kitchen in the Bowery district of New York City, which he uses as a front for recruiting criminals and planning robberies. His loyal henchmen carry out these crimes, and Wagner ensures that anyone who becomes a liability is killed. The bodies are then disposed of by Dr. Brooks, a former surgeon who works for Wagner.

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

Two musical producers are trying to scrape enough money together to finance their show. When one of their backers doesn’t show. They convince female impresonator Tim Moore to impresonate the second female backer. Although it’s release date is is 1947 it was passed by the National Board of Review in 1946.

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend’s head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

Jolley is the leader of the Devil’s Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending not to know each other. But eventually their identities become known and they are captured by the gang.

As day breaks in Hollywood, California, many women make their way to Tom Breneman’s popular radio show Breakfast in Hollywood. Among them are Elvira Spriggens, who hopes Breneman will notice her crazy hat; Dorothy Larsen, who is trying to find her fiancé, a sailor; Annie Reed, an elderly woman who lives alone with her old dog, Tippy; and Frances Cartwright, a dowdy, middle-aged woman with a philandering husband.

A young Mennonite boy runs away from home to earn money for his widowed mother.

On the day of her wedding a young woman’s fiancé doesn’t show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night’s wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom.

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson’s ranch to find him missing. While Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and marked cards, Blake tries to find Jackson. Learning that Thorne and his gang hold him prisoner, he and his men trail them. When Thorne’s gang gets the drop on them, Slim puts his ventriloquism to work.

A talentless coffee shop bus boy discovers a horrible way to gain notoriety amongst the beatnik crowd he so disparately wants to be accepted by.

Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he tries to protect a beautiful heiress from an espionage organization.

On the eve of his wedding Captain Hugh Drummond is off to Morocco when Scotland Yard’s Colonel J.A. Nielson is kidnapped by international criminal Richard Lane. With his fiancée Phyllis Clavering, friend ‘Algy’ Longworth and his trusty valet ‘Tenny’ Tennyson, Bulldog flies his own plane 1200 miles only to find the local British Consul ordering him home without delay. Drummond isn’t an easy man to get rid of however and they soon mount their rescue plan.

A bank-robbery in London prevents – again – the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend.

The intended wedding of Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond to Phyllis Clavering at her villa in Switzerland is stopped short (once again) when someone murders the Swiss policeman who is guarding their wedding presents. The killer makes off with their prize possession, a synthetic diamond, made by a secret process by Professor Bernard Goodman, the father of their good friend Gwen Longworth. A guest, Sir Raymond Blantyre, head of the Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate, disappears at the same time, and Drummond suspects that Sir Raymond, who has the most to lose if Professor Goodman proceeds with his plans to publish his secret process, has something to do with the theft.

Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond, while on a drive with his friend Algy Longworth and valet Tenny, is the first to discover a mysterious suitcase that is parachuted from an aircraft above, minutes before the plane crashes. The case is found to contain a highly explosive chemical, the plans for which have been stolen, and despite the urging of his fiancee Phyllis Claverling, Drummond is dragged into the mystery surrounding the whole affair, traveling by both train and ship to recover the formula.

Captain “Bulldog” Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation.

A songwriter finds out that his beautiful girlfriend is going to be an artist’s model.

Caesar the Dog is on the trail of a killer mountain lion.

A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

A pretty young factory worker is window-shopping at a Rolls-Royce dealership, and dreamily mentions that she would love to have a car like that. The son of the factory’s owner happens to be there and, falling for her, winds up buying the car for her. He doesn’t tell her who he is, but he doesn’t know that she is one of his father’s employees.

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Rin Tin Tin, Jr. helps mounties find the killer of a fur trapper.

Lady Lebanon tells her son, Lord William Lebanon that he must marry his cousin Isla Crane to continue the family line. However, William has no intention of marrying Isla and matters are made more complicated due to Isla falling in love with architect, Richard Ferraby, who has come to Mark’s Priory to draw up renovation plans.

Mr. Jones is a invalid husband who wrongly thinks his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck’s involvement with Eddie’s fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.

Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy’s daughter Hope.

A female head of a Chinatown crime syndicate will use any lethal means available to acquire a valuable jewel.

Climaxing a long series of mysterious disappearances of young girls, dancer Thalia Arnold is found murdered. Police-detective Captain McVeigh believes that King Peterson, a nightclub operator and owner of the Crescent School of Fine Arts, knows something about the missing girls.

Muggs’ rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs’ late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family–including Glimpy as his sister, “Annabelle.” Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs’ deception and threatens to expose it.

A young man whose brother was killed flying planes in World War I also wants to become a pilot. However, he fails flying school due to a sudden storm. Then he discovers that his brother is not only still alive, but is a government agent after a ring of thieves.

Blackton wins a low bid to supply the army with beef, the only way to fulfill those orders is to steal cattle. Tim McCoy as ‘Lighting’ Bill Carson goes under cover as Mexican rustler to infiltrate Blackton’s gang to discover the leader of the cattle rustlers.

A thug robs and kills a fur trapper. He is caught and locked up by the Mounties, but is soon broken out by his partner. As the Mounties investigate, they discover that the two are part of a ruthless crime ring run by a female gangster.

A colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.

A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group’s air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over Hitler’s Germany.

Widower Gary Farrell can’t afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey, to a high-priced military school and decides to enter heavyweight-boxing tournament in an effort to win the $500 prize money.

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it’s famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he’s vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.

A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that the landowner is also a key British military inventor.

A group secret society of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results. Much cut from the play, but dialogue not rewritten.

“D.O.A.” (Dead on Arrival) is a classic film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, featuring Edmond O’Brien as Frank Bigelow, an accountant and notary public from a small California town. The film opens with Bigelow stumbling into a police station to report his own murder. He tells the police that he has been poisoned and has only a few days to live, prompting a flashback that narrates the events leading up to this moment.

Frank Bigelow takes a short vacation in San Francisco, where he ends up in a nightclub. Unbeknownst to him, someone switches his drink, and he is poisoned with a “luminous toxin.” The next day, he visits a doctor and learns that he has only a few days to live. Determined to find out why someone would want to kill him, Bigelow embarks on a frantic search for answers.

As Bigelow investigates, he uncovers a complex web of deceit involving a stolen shipment of iridium, forged documents, and a suspicious suicide. The trail leads him through a series of dangerous encounters with shady characters, including gangsters and corrupt businessmen. Each clue brings him closer to the truth but also closer to his impending death.

Bigelow discovers that he notarized a bill of sale for the stolen iridium, making him an unwitting participant in the crime. The poisoning was intended to eliminate him as a loose end. In the end, he identifies the masterminds behind the scheme, but it is too late for him. With his last breath, Bigelow completes his report to the police and collapses, his life extinguished by the poison coursing through his veins.

“D.O.A.” is a gripping tale of suspense and desperation, characterized by its intense narrative, dark atmosphere, and a protagonist who, despite his fatal condition, pursues justice to his dying breath.

Captain Matthews (John Elliot) is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad (Bryant Washburn, who also played an attorney in ‘Prison Mutiny’) for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he’s lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad’s henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason (Lawrence Gray) witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.

Tailspin Tommy is flying through a severe storm to deliver a payroll. What he doesn’t know is that a gang of crooks is setting a trap for him in order to get their hands on the money.

The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have been two attempts on his life.

“Dark Alibi” is a mystery film directed by Phil Karlson, featuring Sidney Toler in the role of the legendary Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. The film is notable for its intricate plot and atmospheric tension.

The story begins with a bank robbery that results in the wrongful imprisonment of Thomas Harley, an ex-convict who is framed for the crime. Harley claims he has an alibi, but no one believes him except his daughter, June Harley. Desperate to clear her father’s name, June seeks the help of Charlie Chan.

Chan, along with his trusted assistants, Birmingham Brown and Number Three Son, Tommy Chan, delves into the investigation. The detective discovers that the robbery was an inside job, orchestrated by a gang of criminals who have cleverly manipulated evidence to implicate Harley. As Chan and his team follow the clues, they uncover a web of deceit involving several key figures, including bank employees and associates of Harley.

The plot thickens when another murder occurs, adding urgency to Chan’s quest to find the true culprits. Through a series of clever deductions and daring confrontations, Chan pieces together the puzzle. He exposes the real mastermind behind the crimes, exonerates Harley, and ensures that justice is served.

The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.

John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won’t get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran dies if John is dead. Louise forges a letter from John to convince the rest of his family he’s been called to New York on important business, and goes to his Irish ancestral home, Castle Haloran, to meet the family and look for a way to ensure a cut of the loot. Seven years earlier John’s sister Kathleen was drowned in the pond, and the Halorans enact a morbid ritual in remembrance. Secrets shroud the sister’s demise, and soon the family and guests begin experiencing an attrition problem.

“Detour” is a seminal film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Tom Neal as Al Roberts and Ann Savage as Vera. The film is known for its dark, fatalistic tone and stark, low-budget production, which enhance its gritty, desperate atmosphere.

Al Roberts is a down-on-his-luck pianist working in a New York nightclub. Despondent and longing to reunite with his girlfriend Sue, who has moved to Hollywood to pursue her singing career, Al decides to hitchhike across the country to join her. His journey, however, takes a fateful and tragic turn.

A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.

A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a Billy “The Kid” Carson to stop them.

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

Dick is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

After a Diamond Merchant is murdered aboard a ocean liner. Dick Tracy begins the hunt for the infamous Cueball.

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

The daughter of a murdered financier is working as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks those among her father’s colleagues who plotted against him

Hedy Lamar play fashion editor Madeleine Damien who’s social life has given her a questionable reputation. Enviably she succumbs to the pressures of work and a tarnished image and suffers an emotional breakdown. She seeks professional help from a kindly psychiatrist who recommends a complete change in lifestyle.

A former burlesque queen needs to acquire some culture to give herself some legitimacy.

Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate’s murder.

A gambling joint run by Fay Saunders is raided by the police. Fay grabs the pistol of her sweetheart, police officer Steved Bronson, and kills one of the raiding policemen.Steve seizes the gun from her and is riddled by hie fellow officers who think he has turned on them. Steve, on his hospital death-bed tells his friend and fellow officer, Jim Murray, the real story, and Jim sets out to clear Steve’s name.

A NY magazine editor sends a job offer to an Iowa photographer, and is surprised to find out that Pat is a Patricia instead of a Patrick. He falls for Pat. But Pat is still in love with Ben, who has followed her to NY.

Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, along the way they meet Buster Crabbe doing his best Doc Savage impression as Dr. Robert Hammond, aka Drums of Africa.

Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn’t really know anything about tractors, and since the old-fashioned Johnson is opposed to tractors of any kind, it isn’t going to be an easy sell. But Botts perseveres, encouraged by Johnson’s daughter.

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man’s pastoral farm and decide to go straight.

An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.

Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical.

A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together.

When Captain Street’s best friend Dan O’Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer.

In Mexico, a young boxer uses his winnings to buy guns to avenge his family’s murder.

Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly , of the RCMP are dispatched to rescue a kidnapped Ann Fenwick who was a witness to a bank robbery.

When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves LaFarge’s life and this gets him into …

“First Spaceship on Venus” (1960) is a science fiction film directed by Kurt Maetzig. The movie is based on Stanisław Lem’s novel “The Astronauts” and was a joint production between East Germany and Poland.

The story begins with the discovery of an ancient, mysterious spool by a construction worker in the Gobi Desert. Scientists identify it as an extraterrestrial object and decode its message, revealing that it originated from Venus. The message suggests that Venusian civilization planned an attack on Earth.

In response, an international crew is assembled to travel to Venus and uncover the truth behind the message. The crew includes scientists and astronauts from different countries, highlighting the film’s theme of global cooperation.

Newspaper reporter “Scoops” is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts of Archduke Julio.

A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.

The Flapper is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas. Directed by Alan Crosland, the film was the first in the United States to portray the “flapper” lifestyle which would soon become a 1920’s fad.

A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.

“Forbidden Planet” (1956) is a landmark science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox. It is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.” The story is set in the 23rd century and follows the crew of the United Planets starship C-57D, led by Commander John J. Adams (played by Leslie Nielsen), as they travel to the distant planet Altair IV to investigate the silence of a previous expedition.

Upon arrival, the crew discovers that the planet is inhabited by only two survivors of the original expedition: Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter Altaira (Anne Francis). Morbius reveals that the rest of the crew was mysteriously killed by an unknown force. He also introduces the visitors to his advanced robot, Robby, and the remnants of an incredibly advanced alien civilization known as the Krell.

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster.

Musical Romance starring Forrest Tucker from F-Troop.

The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw’s hideout in Fugitive Valley.

The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley’s main antagonist is his childhood friend Mike McGlennon. McGlennon, now a police lieutenant, is determined to stop the gambling activities of Hadley. Hadley’s and McGlennnon’s relationship becomes more complex, when they notice, that they both are in love with the attractive Mary Hayes. Mary sings in nightclubs under the stage name ‘Vi Parker’.

A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.1938

Circumstances force naive Dorothy Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

Tex Haines put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing them to work for them in the gold mines.

The Crazy Gang’s mobile fish and chip shop is accidentally tied to a barrage balloon and the gang is carried to Nazi Germany. They are captured but break out of prison, impersonate Adolf Hitler and return to England in a stolen secret weapon. The film was a morale-booster at a period of the war when Britain looked in real danger of defeat.

When Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

Tim McCoy plays undercover federal agent Tim Caverly who’s sent to investigate plane crashes caused by a mysterious ray gun.

Arthur Askey starts in this WWII era British comedy. Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.

During a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.

An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.

A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O’Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined.

A conceited college track star, used to being “big man on campus”, gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.

The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes.

A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson’s prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is.

Reporter Steve Haines (Boyd), on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.

Chan discovers a conspiracy when a low paying gold mine seemingly starts to become profitable, and attempts are made on the owner’s life.

A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks. Also look for a very young Clive Dunn who has small uncredited roll. Dunn played Mr. Jones the butcher in the Dad’s Army BBC TV series.

Glen Ford plays Michael Blake a WWII veteran who retuns to France to find a mysterious Green Glove he had discoverd during the early days of Normandy invasion.

Flagg is relocating flood victims to Gunsmoke Ranch. The Three Mesquiteers know Flagg to be a crook and try to warn them.

Heath Haldane tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage.

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are privates in WWI France who chase girls, trade bad jokes and win battles.

When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.

Bradley is after Dennison’s radium mine and it appears that his henchman Conners has killed him. When Blake arrives at Dennison’s, Bradley and Conners arrive at the same time. When Blake leaves he drops a glove. Bradley kills Conners and uses the glove to frame Blake. Learning of Bradley’s plan to kill Dennison’s daughter, Blake escapes jail and sets out to reach her,

Both the Range Buster and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden.

The Hawk is a secret leader of an outlaw gang. She wants the Chambers ranch and after Chambers is killed she sends her men to kill his daughter who is arriving on the stage.

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown. It becomes know, except to Erwin, that the property is being considered for the new airport and the owner will make a small fortune. He is swarmed upon by an unscrupulous swami (Russ Vincent)and his equally-crooked business partner, and Erwin is soon convinced that he hasn’t long to live.

Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him and he must hide both himself and the horse until race time.

Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.

Hercules is summoned to oppose the evil Queen Samara, who has allied herself with aliens and is sacrificing her own people in a bid to awaken a moon goddess.

Flash Casey, after working his way through college by taking pictures, finds the newspaper world harder to break into than he had expected.

Gangster Moran gives Joe Murphy several thousand dollars to bet on a horse race, the horse wins and Joe takes off with the money. Moran informs Mike Murphy, Joe’s father, that no harm will come to Joe if Mike doesn’t interfere with the robbing of stores on his beat. Joe’s policeman brother, Terry Murphy, learns of the plot and sets out to free his father and brother of Moran’s threats.

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.

Nazi spies mistake Pvt. Snuffy Smith’s (Bud Duncan) moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the “formula.”

Screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation.

Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle’s newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.

A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town’s problems and disputes.

An English anthropologist (Christopher Lee) has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one.

College student Nan Barlow visits the village of Whitewood as research for her paper on witchcraft in New England, particularly the case of Elizabeth Selwyn. Her tutor, Professor Alan Driscoll(Lee), recommends the Raven’s Inn, run by a Mrs. Newless.

After his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back into racing so he can take his title–and he’s already taken his girlfriend.

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house.

Told in flashback, this is the story of the man that shot Wild Bill Hickok.

Set in London during World War II Blitz period, the story sees Askey & Murdoch as a couple of variety entertainers who find themselves out of work. In desperate need of money to put on a show, the pair dress up as house servants (Murdoch a servant and Askey in drag as a cook) and bluff their way into the home of Lady Randall, an ex-music hall star known to give financial aid to performers in the arts close to her heart. However, chaos reigns.

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town’s corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they’ve been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.

Inspector Hornleigh and Sgt. Bingham join the military to go undercover to catch 5th columnists.

The town’s leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Buzzy O’Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother.

1952 re-release of the 1929 film, narrated by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Based on the Futher Adventures of the Three Musketeers.

Kenny Delmar reprises his character Senator Claghorn from Fred Allen’s radio program. In this film Senator Claghorn runs for office to defeat a crooked “northern” politician.

Psudo-Documentary of the Amazon Jungle with many staged action sequences and herpetological errors.

Abbott & Costello’s version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

This short biography of Jackie Robinson is a suprisingly good movie. More than anything it represents a significant milestone in baseball and the civil right movement. Jackie doesn’t do a terrible acting job which you don’t really notice because the screen play, although light, is very face paced.

Set in the futuristic world of 1980, the film explores the advancements and societal changes that have taken place over the past 50 years. The story follows a man named J-21 who lives in a highly regulated society where names have been replaced by numbers, and personal freedoms are restricted. The government controls almost every aspect of life, including marriage.

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman’s pretty daughter Barbara.

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Johnny Bradley is a jockey accused of murder. He plans to serve his sentence under an assumed name, telling his family he will be racing in South America. He’s later befriended by a reporter who helps to prove his innocence.

EastSide boxing champion Muggs, has been challenged to fight the West Side champ but is kidnapped before the match. Leo’s friend (Bobby Jordan) takes his place and wins the fight only to have Muggs think that Bobby was responsible for his kidnapping.

Leonard Nimoy is “Kid” Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in “Little Italy” New York.

Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.

African American musical variety show featuring The Nat King Cole Trio, the Clark Brothers and other musical and comedy acts.

On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane.

A scientist monitoring atomic tests, killed in a plane crash, is revived by aliens so he can spy on the tests and help them conquer the world.

Set during World War II, the diminutive Arthur joining the army to prove himself to his girlfriend Susan who is in the same unit as him. Here, his idealistic notions about King Arthur prompt his messmates to trick him into believing that a sword they have dug up is the fabled Excaliber. Armed with this talisman Arthur strides forth to deal with the Wehrmacht.

On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.

Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong’s Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong’s son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell’s last patient had. Mark talks Cromwell into performing the same operation again and, this time, it is a success. Or would have been if Jim hadn’t decided to fake it being a failure.

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye. This film also features one of Boris Karloff’s earliest film appearances in a small uncredited role as a Native American.

Germany’s Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy’s Mussolini and Japan’s Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.

Outraged by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Muggs, Danny, and the rest of their gang want to enlist. Turned away because of their age, they take out their frustration by harassing an Asian shopkeeper. When the shopkeeper is found dead soon afterward, the boys learn that he was Chinese, not Japanese. Determined to atone for their behavior, the gang stumbles across evidence that a real group of Japanese spies is operating in the area, and they become determined to expose them. Meanwhile, Danny is troubled further by the news that his older brother has been dishonorably discharged from the Navy.

Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland and Keye Luke in the tale of a college rowing team. It seems that the new guy and hope for the team to win the state championship has been drafted. Not wanting to let the girls down the boys end up getting a guy off the street to pretend to be the great new rower at a party. Unfortunately now that “Herc” has a taste for college life he won’t leave and now its up to the guys to get him through classes and to make him into a great rower.

Set in the mythical town of Dogpatch. Dogpatch has a serious unemployment problem. Men spend their days idling away fishing, and the single women spend time scheming about how to catch their preferred single men come the next Sadie Hawkins Day. Daisy Mae has her sights set on Li’l Abner, but rival, Cousin Delightful, has other plans.

Lightning Carson’s nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican cattle rustler.

When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as missing in action however, her life goes from one of plenty to that of a poor house maid. Mrs. Minchin agrees to keep her on at the school, but in the absence of her tuition payments, she has to work for her keep. She is soon cleaning out the fireplace and scrubbing floors and is dubbed the little princess by her former schoolmates. She also refuses to accept that her father is dead and prowls the hospitals in the hope of locating him.

Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Early all-talking adventure starts with a classic love triangle, and works its way up to high drama, as explorers attempt to reach the South Pole in a dirigible. There is some impressive f/x work, especially in the miniatures of the doomed ship floating over barren ice-scapes. This film also highlights the decade’s obsession with radio, which becomes a most essential part of the drama.

Rising young male movie star, bizarrely preoccupied with death and involved with his older-woman dramatic coach, meets an innocent sweet-young-thing.

Andy wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew “Andy” Hardy met his sweetheart Kay Wilson in college, but has since served in the military and is now being discharged. Getting back to Kay may be the hardest thing of them all to accomplish. He arrives in town alright, but things start to go awry from there.

A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, who is a police detective, doesn’t believe she did it and sets out to prove her innocence.Robert Earl Jones plays Detective Wenzer, the father of James Earl Jones’ father.

Two truck drivers from Brooklyn travel to Mexico to deliver an elephant named “Bunny”, but they have lost the address of where Bunny is to be delivered to. Adopting the elephant as their own, the two stumble into a travelling carnival headed by Alberto Cordoba and his daughter Nita. The carnival is destitute and menaced by loan sharks. The two Americans sell Bunny to the carnival to replace their recently departed flea circus but agree not to accept their payment until the carnival regains its fortune thanks to Bunny and Brooklyn “ballyhoo”. The loan sharks attempt a variety of dirty tricks against the gringos.

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories – and exact revenge.

Young lawyer meets and marries girl after knowing her one day. Takes bride home to meet his mother who disapproves of the marriage. Lawyer thinks everything will be fine as he moves up the ladder of the law firm. He doesn’t and things get tough. A baby makes things even tougher.

The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.

A group of Navy pilot buddies take on the task of protecting a fellow pilots newborn baby after her mother and pilot father are killed.

Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds’ ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder.

Rangers Dave and Panhandle arrive and are joined by Lawyer Tex to try and stop the range war between the ranchers and the sheep men.

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate “Doe.” Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it’s worth, until the made-up “John Doe” philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously…but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan. Look for Sterling Holloway as the lunch counter attendant, the original voice of Winnie the Pooh.

“Metropolis” is a groundbreaking science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, released in 1927. Set in a dystopian future, it explores themes of class struggle, technology, and social justice.

The film is renowned for its innovative special effects, art direction, and its influential depiction of a dystopian future. It addresses themes of industrialization, the dehumanizing effects of technology, and the importance of empathy and cooperation between different societal classes. The film’s striking visuals and ambitious scope have made it a lasting classic in the science fiction genre.

Paid for by Westinghouse, it’s a promotional effort for that company and its exhibit at the New York World’s Fair of 1939.

Stolen diamonds are at the heart of a game of body, body, who’s got the body played by two reporters, a crook, two employees of a wax museum, and the police.

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.

Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) becomes involved in a brawl which ends up with Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion being knocked out cold, and everyone believing Burleigh was responsible for taking the champ down. McFarland’s boss, the crooked Gabby Sloan (Adolphe Menjou), decides to promote Sullivan in a series of fixed fights that will culminate in him being knocked out in a real fight

The gang is befriended by a millionaire whom they save from a mugging. However, they begin to suspect that the man’s son was actually one of the muggers. Knowing that the boy’s father is still grieving for an older son he lost during the war, and would be devastated if he learned his only remaining son was a criminal, the gang sets out to reform the boy.

A third-rate boxer who loses most of his fights suddenly finds himself knocking out almost every one of his opponents. His sleazy manager spreads the word that the fighter has “the evil eye” and casts a spell on the men he’s fighting. A female reporter sets out to find the truth.

The owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he’s been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde on the night of their 20th wedding anniversary. He has to find a way to convince her that the “beautiful blonde” in question was actually a store mannequin that he was taking in for repairs.

This musical comedy stars Arthur Askey as Arthur Bowden, the head of an escort agency in wartime London. He is assisted in this role by Evelyn Dall and soon has railway clerk Anne Shelton on the books. The opening sequence of the film features the latter singing “The 8.50 Choo Choo For Waterloo Choo” at Waterloo Station before she is recruited by Bowman for his agency. As usual, Ronald Shiner’s character (Sailor Meredith) plays a decisive role. The film is notable for a surreal self parodying sequence in which Bowman, to gain entrance to a hotel, pretends to be the famous Arthur Askey, using some of his choice catchphrases. Other spoofs include Askey and Dall doing a routine as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and, with Shiner in addition, as the three Marx Brothers.

Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Oliver Boggs is typical office worker with gift for statistics. After winning a contest he take his money and buys a barrel factory, and falls in loves.

Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.

While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various ‘Rube Goldberg’ type contraptions constructed from local materials.

The kids are sent to reform school after being falsely accused of stealing a truck.

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers a international spy ring.

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl “Captain J” on a sheet of paper.

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.

The Cotton Club in London’s Soho district is operated by American gangster Steve Marco who, when Joe Lane threatens to tell the police of his past, has no qualms about killing him as he figures if he could outwit America’s G-Men, he has little to fear from Scotland Yard.

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn’t do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall…who wants revenge; and Pa’s ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis.

A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.

Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor’s office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop.

Ditzy socialite with a heart of gold, Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) finds “forgotten man” Godfrey Smith (William Powell) in a scavenger hunt. Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue.

Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy’s. When the Sovereign and Roy’s horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville slips and reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees a chance to clear his name.

Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong, desperately trying to complete his collection of the twelve gold coins of Confucius, with which he will be able to acquire the power to become ruler of a large province in China.

A scientist has devised a system for controlling ships from a laboratory on land, shortly after a demonstration of this new technology, he is attacked and fatally injured by enemy agents.

Mr Wong tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as “The Eye of the Daugther of The Moon.”

In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father’s bank years earlier.

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew’s daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She “covers” the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn’t think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence, and they stumble onto the identity of the real killer.

On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven’t learned, however, is that the marksman’s enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.

Stagecoach drivers Roy and Gabby go up against the evil Black Bart who is trying to pit the stage and train lines against each other.

A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her.

Non-Stop New York is a 1937 British crime film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring John Loder, Anna Lee and Francis L. Sullivan. It is based on the novel Sky Steward by Ken Attiwill. A woman who can clear an innocent man of the charge of murder is pursued by gangsters onto a luxurious transatlantic flying boat.

Mountie Matt O’Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost.

Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble–his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.

Fuzzy opens a store only to find that everyone buys on credit. The absence of cash is due to the range war between the cattlemen and the farmers started by Kinney. The Sheriff being worthless, hero Billy Carson is quickly drawn into the conflict.

Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper.

Attracted to Kay Larkin, Mountie Renfrew gets the assignment of escorting her to a northern outpost to find her father. Arriving he learns a Mountie and another man are dead, money is missing, and her father is wanted for murder. Now traveling by dogsled Renfrew catches Larkin who claims he is innocent and doesn’t know where the money is.

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will. Rutherford’s will won’t be read until he is properly entombed and the heirs are forced to stay on the premises or be denied their inheritance. Tuttle soon finds himself mixed up in shenanigans involving Rutherford’s niece, secret passages, a missing body and murder.

When Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.

Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden’s strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison.

Scandalous for it’s time, “The Outlaw” directed by Howard Hughes, is the story of Billy the Kid, Doc Holiday, and Pat Garrett. The plot is thin at best, but we are introduced to a 22 year old Jane Russell which makes the film almost worthwhile.

11th of 16 films in PRC’s “Lone Rider” series, Tom Cameron/The Lone Rider and Fuzzy Jones rescue a wounded man from a gang of outlaws and discover he is their old friend Smoky Hammer, half-owner of the B-X Ranch whom they are on the way to meet. Smoky’s father was murdered years before, leaving a daughter Tess, who has been raised by ranch foreman Sid Clayton as his own daughter.

Gang leader Trigger Mallory is about to be released from prison. When Bill Carson notices the resemblance, he gets the Warden to hold Mallory and he assumes his identity.

Based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher, Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe’s mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. But when a shady boxing manager discovers Joe’s natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father’s path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer Nina Madero. The film also stars William Cagney, the younger brother of actor James Cagney.

The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he’s not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person–calling himself “The Black Panther”–and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.

In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel’s estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. Their training at Fort Benning, Georgia is followed in semi-documentary style, with time out for personal dramas and the romantic rivalry of Bill and Don over the sergeant’s daughter.

A blind artist is on his way to Java to see a doctor about an operation to restore his sight when the ship sinks and he washes up on a tropical island.

When several notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on parole, the Federal Government smells a rat and sends ace agent Richard Hendricks to investigate. Hendricks infiltrates the gang, responsible for the parole racket by posing as a much-wanted convict Rick Carson. However, the wily Barney Rodescu, who is the brain behind the racket, soon finds out Carson’s true identity. Carson’s life is now in grave danger.

The city’s District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn’t quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.

Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill’s cousin Horace upsets Bill’s plans. Horace’s brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.

Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.

A gang of robbers steals the deed to the Pecos Ranch and kill the family. The young son escapes, and years later he returns to the ranch to find the killers and reclaim his property.

As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.

Bill Collins meets up with his look-alike the Phantom and is soon involved in his fight with Buck Houston. Houston has a big robbery planned but the Phantom beats him to it. Bill fights off Houston’s men only to find the Phantom shot and dying and unaware that Houston is about to finish him off also.

An engineer at the throttle of a locomotive speeding through a tunnel sees the lights of a train approaching from the other end. Although the signals say the track is clear, he still sees the train’s lights. He grinds the train to a halt, derailing it. He survives, but many passengers are killed. He is fired in disgrace, but sets out to prove his innocence by finding the “phantom express.”

“Phantom Lady” is a 1944 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. The movie is a suspenseful thriller that revolves around a man named Scott Henderson who is wrongfully accused of murdering his wife.

An actor is killed during the performance of a play and critic Tony Woolrich sets out to solve the crime. Claudia Moore, the girl he loves, is suspected, but when two more deaths occur, she is also threatened by the Phantom Killer.

Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.

A man has died leaving a fortune somewhere on his ranch. Brandon and his cohorts think a map is hidden in a picture frame. But when they bid on the picture at the auction, newcomer Jerry Lane outbids them. He also buys the ranch so they place their housekeeper there to get the picture. And then to keep Jerry out of the way, they frame him for murder.

A deranged killer escapes into the Canadian woods. He tries to fool the locals by pretending he is a well known mystery writer, but the local Mountie starts to get suspicious.

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet’s exotic atmosphere.

A cowboy called The Thunderbolt Kid comes to the aid of a town that is being threatened by outlaws who don’t want a railroad to go through the town.

A group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.

Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big “X” painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.

Plan 9 from Outer Space is considered one of the worst and most unintentionally funny movies ever made. The plot involves aliens who are trying to stop humans from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe.

The aliens, whose costumes consist of Styrofoam plates and paper towel tubes for heads, raise the dead to intimidate humans and thwart the nuclear weapon plans. Among the resurrected are a vampire ghost, a zombie cop, and the recently deceased husband of one of the main characters.

Much of the movie consists of these undead beings stumbling around cemeteries and suburbs, tripping over tombstones and getting tangled in living room furniture. The dialogue is stilted, the visual effects are amateurish, and there are numerous continuity errors.

The actors frequently flub their lines or appear as if they don’t know what’s happening. The plot makes little sense and has substantial holes and inconsistencies. Despite its ambition to denounce nuclear weapons, the disjointed storytelling makes the message incoherent.

While a critical and commercial failure on release, over time Plan 9 gained a cult following and reputation as the epitome of a so-bad-it’s-good movie spectacle. It showcases the earnest but incompetent filmmaking of Ed Wood, now beloved for his endearingly shoddy approach to low-budget science fiction.

Buck Rogers (1939) re-edited from serial to feature format and re-released for theatrical distribution in 1953; an American soldier suspended in time wakes up to find himself in the futuristic world of the year 2500.

A lawyer wins an acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal. Guilt-ridden, and knowing that she can’t be tried again for the murder, he devises a plan to bring her to justice.

The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what’s considered the toughest job in the Police Department–the Riot Squad.

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle’s worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly!

After a crash a test pilot and his designer brother create a new experimental airplane.

Shannon wants Hank Stoner’s land for the vanadium ore it contains. He has chemist Wainwright, who can change the ore into gold, held prisoner. But the Frontier Marshals are on the job.

A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.

East side kid Muggs is tricked into joining a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) Camp. Thinking it’s a boxing training camp.

Playboy Johnny Gray is framed and sent to prison after his stolen car is found at a holdup.

WWII era Musical starring Dick Foran, the Andrew Sisters, Harry James, and Joe E Lewis. Dick Foran play a western style crooner who’s anxious to join the Army. After he’s enlisted he thinks he’s to good for basic training which raises the ire of his fellow soldiers.

Comic strip mountain man and moonshiner, Snuffy Smith joins the Army.

A woman’s husband has disappeared on an expedition into the jungle. She hires a guide to take her into the jungle to find him. However, they discover that he has been captured by a savage female tribe.

After borrowing $20 from his employer’s cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.

Grand Ole Opry western with country western singers Faron Young and Marty Robbins. Evil former US Army officers threaten Mexican soldiers out of their land. Marshal Young and Judge Ward arrive to set things right.

Marshal Reb Russell’s reputation precedes him and when he arrives the outlaw gang that includes the Sheriff and that has been doing all the rustling, captures him and plans to hang him.

Pa Wallace, an ardent member of the Whales, is offered a chance to invest $5,000 in a gold mine by the head of the Whales, Grand Harpoon F. Q. Whitney. Mrs Wallace is opposed but the four Wallace children, Willie, George, Edna and Mary are all for it, on the premise that if Pa makes some easy money.

Cautionary tale features a fictionalized and highly exaggerated take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to “reefer” cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.

A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn’t there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother’s spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony “psychic” for the charlatan he is.

Ann Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother. This also stars Ann Savage who starred in the noir film Detour.

Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice.

Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers.

A gentleman is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime. A young detective weaves his way through danger and an intricate set of clues to catch the killer.

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

A young teenage girl desperately tries to earn enough money to buy a dress for a school rock and roll dance.

In India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and, when the local Maharajah refuses to help, sets out alone to battle his enemy.

An old man and his Chinese servant are in danager of becoming victims of the ruthless killer, “The Raven.”

The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnaping her and marrying her to the devil.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller takes a new identity, with ironic results.

From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and a mysterious figure in a blue mask.

Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.

Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who’s visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marley’s Ghost and its Expressionistic cinematography. This is the uncut 78 minute version.

When perennial college students Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw’s band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.

Sex Madness (1938) is an exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, along the lines of Reefer Madness, supposedly to warn teenagers and young adults of the dangers of venereal diseases, specifically syphilis. Wild parties, lesbianism, and premarital sex are some of the forms of ‘madness’ portrayed. The educational aspect of the film allowed it to portray a taboo subject which was otherwise forbidden by the Production Code of 1930, and its stricter version imposed by Hollywood studios in July 1934.

British detective Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by “famous stamp collector” and millionaire.

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as “The Shadow”, to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney’s office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.

With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent ot help his friend Fuzzy who is the town’s Sheriff, Judge, and barber.

Chinese are being smuggled into the U.S. via Mexico. Viola Avery is a rich socialite who is being wooed by the head of the human trafficking enterprise. Luckily she is has also attracted the interest of the detective assigned to investigate the smuggling case.

A Russian school teacher in China is entrusted with a valuable amulet by her pilot brother who was shot down by discredited, Russian Agent, Igor Sargoza. She teams with a British friend of her brother’s and an American reporter to smuggle her and the amulet out of China and escape Sargoza’s gang.

Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in Cornwall one spring for the former’s health, but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Mr. Mortimer Tregennis, a local gentleman, and Mr. Roundhay, the local vicar, come to Holmes to report that Tregennis’s two brothers have gone insane, and his sister has died.

Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend’s illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk anything in three days.

Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class, Neville St. Clair, may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.

Violet Hunter visits Holmes, asking whether she should accept a job as governess; a job with very strange conditions. She is enticed by the phenomenal salary which, as originally offered, is £100 a year, later increased to £120 when Miss Hunter baulks at having to cut her long hair short (Her previous position paid £48 a year). This is only one of many peculiar provisos to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions.

“Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon” is a 1943 film directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. It’s the fourth film in the series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films produced by Universal Pictures.

In this film, Holmes helps a Swiss scientist, Dr. Franz Tobel, escape from the Nazis and bring his revolutionary bomb-sight invention to England. Once in London, Tobel decides to divide his invention into four parts and gives them to four different scientists for safekeeping, writing the locations in a code only Holmes can decipher.

Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. Also stars an early Ginger Rogers.

A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she’s menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city’s criminal underworld to find her.

A wandering cowboy attempts to locate a pal who has struck it rich in mining. When he gets to town, no one seems to have heard of the friend. Our hero learns the truth with the aid of a female bandit.

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss’ marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.

When football player Tex Fletcher arrives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex’s identity, sends his men to kill him. But when Tex kills one of the attackers, Davis’ stooge Sheriff puts Tex in jail.

Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry to flush the thieves into the open.

“Tailspin Tommy” Tompkins and “Skeeter” Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed ‘Sky Patrol,’a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and coast-lines, on the lookout for smugglers. Carter Meade, whose father is the Colonel in charge of the patrol, has a terror of firing guns and his father insists he conquer this fear.

Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray’s unwanted advances.

Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them. Complications ensue when the crook that Danny helped capture escapes from jail and comes looking for him.

After Abner accidentally discovers a synthetic rubber he and Lum travel to Washington with the hopes that this new discovery will help the war effort.

A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders as is falsely accused of being notorious murderer “Ma Parker.”

Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life. He falls for a dancer in a bad stage show, and with his new money decides to buy the show and take it to Broadway.

A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime.

John Randolph (Warren Hull), an idealistic young newspaper owner who uses his paper as an instrument for the public good, uses a campaign against crime to successfully run grafting politicians out of town. District Attorney William Burnette (Wallis Clark), father of Barbara Burnette (Marsha Hunt) who John loves, learns that John’s father (unknown to John) is a criminal they are seeking. He refuses to prosecute him and John, not knowing the real reason, turns against Burnette and tries to run him out of office.

U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.

Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.

A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director’s feisty leading lady.

Members of a secret “trust” that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim’s widow enlists Sherlock Holmes’ help.

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast’s top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina’s life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.

Starring Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe both olympic swimmers and both former Tarzan actors. Swamp Fire takes place in the Louisiana Delta where two swamp men are rivals for the same woman.

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she’s forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship Maggie and his career.

An old concertmaster of the Cosmopolitan Orchestra and he is about to realize his life-long ambition of appearing as a soloist with the orchestra, when an accident robs him of use of his right hand.

Storm is out to wreck Ace’s stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm. Also features Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance. Ben lleu Bey wants to add her to his 100-woman harem. Tarzan wants her too.

A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts.

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

A would-be playwright and a young woman escaping from a job at a gas station meet and fall in love.

In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram’s “Range Buster” series, Texas ranch owner Conroy returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range Busters, Dusty, Davy and Alibi, are selected to take the horses there but, before leaving, they capture three spies who are trying to steal the horses.

The film begins on Mother’s Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy’s youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment and finds her mother, Natalie, drinking with a strange man.

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse.

A businessman’s daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train.

Boxer Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield) knocks out a rival in a postfight brawl. Thinking he committed murder, he flees to an Arizona ranch run by hard-as-nails Goldie (Ann Sheridan) and her feisty mother(May Robson) and staffed by Leo Gorcey and the Dead End Kids. Though Johnny is relentlessly dogged by Detective Monty Phelan (Claude Rains), the Kids convince him to finance their future gas station by training for and winning a high stakes prizefight. But just as things seem to going “swell” for both Johnny and the Kids, Phelan shows up ready to take Johnny back east in handcuffs? Or is he?

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

A trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the twenties come roaring back with immorality and in-fighting.

Lullaby and his World War I buddies head west to farmstead. When the Canfield brothers try to stop them, they get help from Stony and Tucson as Livingstone and Corrigan start their long run as Mesquiteers.

Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder.

A young reporter’s grandfather wins a sweepstakes, but it turns out that his ticket is phony. The reporter finds out that the police are looking for the criminal ring responsible for the phony-sweepstakes racket, so he and his young brother set out to track down the gang responsible and expose them.

The bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank Hammond, son of Marshal Jim Hammond, is killed. The Marshal sends for the Range Busters, Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Alibi Terhune, to come and restore order to the town. Ed Cole, head of the local vigilantes, and secretly the head of the outlaws, promptly orders the trio out of town. They visit an old friend, Rancher Mike Rand and his daughter Mary. Mary’s brother Jeff has unwittingly become a gang member, and carries out Cole’s orders by taking a shot at Davy, but the latter makes him a prisoner during a subsequent fight in the town café. Jeff confesses to Cole’s involvement, and the Range Busters, with the help of town banker Harrison, set a trap for Cole and his outlaw vigilantes.

Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. His biggest supporter is Varlia Lloyd, daughter of one of the backers, and she uses her influence more than once to keep the project going. Mack’s wife Ruth is also supportive, although his constantly being away on the tunnel project strains their marriage, and affects his relationship with their son. After years of financial skulduggery and physical obstacles under the ocean floor, the tunnel proceeds as Mack’s marriage and his friendship with Robbie deteriorate.

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.

When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.

Rancher Roy and his boys track down a gang who have stolen Trigger and are holding him for ransom.

A pretty young circus trapeze artist is pushed by her domineering aunt to be the best aerialist in the world. When she begins to fall for one of the two men in her act, her mother determines to break up the romance. So does the other trapeze artist, who is also in love with her.

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed “Black Friday” attempt to corner the gold market. The government sends the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, to Gold Butte, an important bullion dispensing center, to put an end to the stage robberies.

A none-too-popular radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery

When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann …

Two astronauts, accompanied by their robot, set out to explore the surface of Venus. Things seem to be going well until violent changes begin to rework the surface. Will they be able to escape the planet with their lives? This film is also known as “Prehistoric Planet” and “Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet”.

This film began life as a Soviet-produced work. An American producer then added some new footage and changed the credits to hide the film’s Soviet origin. The original film, “Planeta Bur”, is also known as “Cosmonauts on Venus”, “Planet of Storms”, “Planet of Tempests”, “Planeta Burg”, and “Storm Planet”.

UFO’s are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth.

While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteor weapon.

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.

A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould them into a good team.

The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott (Carl Schell) with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith (Mary McNeeran), who is blackmailing another teacher – Sir Alfred Whiteman (Maurice Marsac) – with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla (Barbara Lass) believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.

A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance.

A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

In the tropical island of Wongo, a tribe of beautiful women discover that the other side of the island is inhabited by a tribe of handsome men. They also discover that a tribe of evil ape men live on the island, too, and the ape men are planning a raid on the tribe in order to capture mates.

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Six women from the main Allied Nations battling the German-Japanese Axis in WW2 are arrested by the Germans in Shanghai University, under the false accusation they are accomplices of the killing of a German officer in the Hospital. Two Asian women will join the group, and eventually it is revealed that there are at least three underground spies amongst the small group. Some will survive, others will die heroic deaths for their religious beliefs, nationalist ideals, or the sake of humankind.

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven’t turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they’re being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband’s old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.

It’s 1942. rubber is a valuable commodity during WW2. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the army, but also a private detective. Eddy swings into action, when his father, police-sergeant Timothy J. Delaney, is gunned down by rubber racketeers. With the help of his brave friend and radio disc jockey Linda Ward and police-lieutenant William ‘Bill’ Decker, Eddy goes after the racketeers.

American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence.

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.

Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.

A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man’s problems. However, Zontar has other ideas, like disabling the power supply of the entire world and taking possession of important officials with mind control devices.