Archive for the 'Action' Category

Directed by: Samuel Diege
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan’s men keep the ranchers from testifying. But Shirley has a second plan to return water to the valley.
Runtime: 55 min

Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer
Runtime: 62 min

Directed by: Scott Pembroke
Suddenly…disaster struck at the happiness of these two lovers…as raging flood waters swept them into the dark terror of the night!
Runtime: 53 min

Directed by: D. Ross Lederman
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.
Runtime: 70 min

Directed by: Edward A. Kull
Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D’Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D’Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the latter falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.
Runtime: 72 [...]

Directed by: Sam Newfield
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, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both [...]

Directed by: Samuel Diege
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen’s own ranch. When Harkins’ brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
Runtime: 57 [...]

Directed by: Burt Lynwood
“Shadows of the Orient” was originally (and still is) a Larry Darmour production made under the Empire Films banner in 1935 and released in August of 1935, although Motion Picture Herald did not review it until February of 1936. Following the reorganization of Monogram, after W. Ray Johnston, Scott R. Dunlap, Trem [...]

Directed by: Charles E. Roberts
The family of a wealthy young heir is appalled and worried when the fellow decides to amuse himself by becoming a high speed auto racer.
Runtime: 56 min

Directed by: Robert F. Hill
Tyler, a boxer whose career ends after he loses a fixed fight, winds up with a job as a ranch hand. When his new boss gets involved with a crooked fight promoter, Tyler winds up back in the ring with a chance to vindicate himself.
Runtime: 54 min

Directed by: Albert Herman
Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson to make a new plate, he inscribes a tiny help message on it. Renfrew catches a henchman who has one of the new bills. A magnifying glass lets him [...]

Directed by: Charles Hutchinson
Noticing the resemblance between himself and noted author Steven Norris, wanted gangster Dan Geary kidnaps Norris and assumes his identity. His charade is successful for a while but when his new stenographer reads some of his latest writing to Mountie McGregor, McGregor become suspicious.
Runtime: 54 min

Directed by: Joseph Kane
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
Runtime: 53 min

Directed by: Sam Newfield
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, Billy is quickly drawn into the conflict.
Runtime: 55 min

Directed by: Edward A. Kull
The Green Goddess is a totem worshiped by the primitive natives of a lost city deep in the jungles of Guatemala, which contains both a fortune in jewels and an ancient formula for a super-explosive which could threaten the world in the wrong hands. From Africa, Major Martling launches an expedition [...]

Directed by: Otto Brower
The Murdock’s bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money plus the insurance, Bonner and his two pals recover the money only to be thrown in jail.
Runtime: 62 min

Directed by: Leigh Jason
When Mark ‘High Gear’ Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track.
Runtime: 62 min

Directed by: Lynn Shores
Flash Casey (Eric Linden), after working his way through college by taking pictures, finds the newspaper world harder to break into than he had expected. Free-lancing, he snaps a picture of Rodney Addison (Matty Kemp), son of the Globe-Press owner Major Addison (Holmes Herbert), kissing French dancer Mitzi LaRue (Suzanne Kaaren) and [...]

Directed by: Forrest Sheldon
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.
Runtime: 70 min

Directed by: Clarence Bricker
Runtime: 57 min

Directed by: Sam Newfield
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.
Runtime: 56 min

Directed by: George Melford
After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.
Runtime: 54 min

Directed by: Leslie Goodwins
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.
Runtime: 61 min

Directed by: Sam Newfield
Six Fugitives Break For Freedom!
Runtime: 66 min

Directed by: Stuart Paton
Mickey Lofton (William Janney), young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry (Lloyd Hughes), fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U. S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to [...]

Directed by: Bernard B. Ray
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!
Runtime: 58 min

Directed by: B. Reeves Eason & John T. Coyle
A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.
Runtime: 66 min

Directed by: William Beaudine
Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton (Chuck Courtney) rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle.
Runtime: 75 min

Directed by: Lesley Selander
Hoppy, California and Johnny are Texas Rangers trying to end a scheme which smuggles Mexicans into the United States to become essentially slaves in a silver mine owned by Orestes Krebs. The three are captured, sentenced to hang, and then escape. They free the slaves and capture the bad guys.
Runtime: 65 min