Directed by: Phil Rosen
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.
Runtime: 53 min
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Directed by: Wallace Fox
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.
Runtime: 65 min
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Directed by: Louis J. Gasnier
Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae’s apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One youngster becomes so addicted to the killer weed that a judge orders him to be committed for life to a mental hospital! Dr. Carroll advises us to not incur the same tragedy.
Runtime: 68 min
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Directed by: Phil Rosen
Playboy Johnny Gray (Edward Norris) is framed and sent to prison after his stolen car is found at a holdup committed by Rico (William Castello as Willy Castello), and while the latter is not suspected, his henchman Harry (Mauritz Hugo), Creeper (Charles Jordan) and Red (Sam Bernard) are convicted with Johnny. Stung by the injustice, when even his fiancee (Inna Gest) believes him guilty, Johnny becomes an unruly prisoner and is put in a cell with Cain (Jack La Rue), head of the prison gang planning a break. The new warden, Frank Sanders (Milburn Stone), wins Johnny over by changing his cellmate and giving him a chance to work in the prison gardens. Here, he meets Amy Duncan (Joan Woodbury), daughter of prison guard Duncan (Robert Homans). In an failed escaped, engineered from the outside by Rico, who is killed, one of Rico’s men confesses that Johnny is innocent.
Runtime: 63 min
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Directed by: Raymond Cannon
Bob Terry (Ben Alexander) is in love with Lois Borden (Kay Linaker) the daughter of his employer, John Borden (Ralph Morgan.) 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. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cellmate Todd (Eddie Acuff) and a gangster, John Carmody (Charles Brokaw.) Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
Runtime: 63 min
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Directed by: Raymond Cannon
A wife catches her husband messing around with another woman. Outraged, she proceeds to Reno, Nevada, for a quickie divorce. Since Reno requires a six-week wait for a divorce to become final, the wife must find something to do during that time, so she decides to take advantage of the night life of the city, which she finds out to be a lot wilder than she thought it was.
Runtime: 58 min
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Directed by: William West
Captain Hadley (J. Farrell MacDonald, who also appeared as the City Editor in “Danger Ahead”) reaches the age limit for firefighter and is retired. While he is bored out of his mind at home, an arsonist (George Pembroke), who evidently is called Wendell, despite the fact that noone ever calls him by name, starts to burn the city down, building by building.
Runtime: 53 min
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Directed by: Steve Sekely
A young woman is on death row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiance, a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state’s executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she is strapped into the electric chair. A famous criminologist, believing her to be innocent, rushes to investigate the case and clear her before her execution date.
Runtime: 55 min
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Directed by: Charles Lamont
Lamont Cranston, amatuer criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas Jackson.)
Runtime: 62 min
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Directed by: Walter Matthau
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. Now he has not only the cops and the FBI after him, but also the local crime boss, who’s outraged that an outsider can pull off a heist like that in his territory and not cut him in on it.
Runtime: 65 min
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Directed by: Eugene Cummings
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
Runtime: 59 min
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Directed by: Elmer Clifton
A number of young girls turns up dead or missing, and the one connection they have is that they were all students at a drama school. The town District Attorney suspects that the school is a front for a prostitution racket, and when he is framed and blackmailed in an attempt to stop his investigation, a female reporter goes undercover to try to expose the racket and clear the D.A.’s name.
Runtime: 71 min
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Directed by: W. Lee Wilder
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Playing the part of a faithful and doting husband, he carries on a torrid affair with sexy exotic dancer Fritzi Darvel while avoiding the suspicious eyes of her jealous bongo-playing husband. When his wife’s condition seems to go into remission, the impatient De Villa decides on action that will hasten her seemingly inevitable death.
Runtime: 70 min
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Directed by: Charles Lamont
Molly Fitzgerald (Cecilia Parker), who works for Abrams and Co. Jewelers (although the company safe reads “Adams & Co. Jewelers”), is accosted on the street by a stranger who asks her for a date, but her fiance, police officer Terry Mulvaney (Russell Hopton)chases him away. Spike (Jack Gardner), the stranger, is interested in Molly other than for her pretty face; he is a member of a gang of jewel thieves who are planning to rob Abrams (John St. Polis)and want to use her to obtain information regarding the merchant’s shipments of jewels. Through another ruse, gang member Flash Ackroyd (Theodor Von Eltz)gets the information and, through careful planning, frames Terry for the robbery. One of Abrams’ assistants is killed and Terry is charged with robbery and murder. Terry escapes but Molly is fired as Abrams thinks she was in on the robbery. Molly gets a job in a nightclub ran by the gangsters. The train on which Terry is escaping is wrecked and he is transported to a hospital more dead than alive.
Runtime: 69 min
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Directed by: Herbert Meyer
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson, a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily and takes some of the firm’s money to cover his losses. Steve also introduces Johnny to Madelon Kirby, a gold-digging night club singer. When the firm’s boss, McNeil, learns that Johnny has embezzled some money, he fires him and has him jailed. Johnny’s mother comes to the aid of her son, but he can not find work when he is released. Through Steve Carson, Johnny becomes the head of a shady firm, Business Engineers, and is making a lot of money. Madelon enters the scene again and she and Johnny are married, and he is unaware that Steve is not only doublecrossing him in the business but with Madelon also.
Runtime: 70 min
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