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: W. Lee Wilder
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the [...]
Directed by: Ewing Scott
The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O’Brien (preceded by “Daniel Boone”, “Park Avenue Logger” and “Hollywood Cowboy”) that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O’Brien’s contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O’Brien that ended when O’Brien went into the Navy at [...]
Directed by: Walter Shumway
Runtime: 57 min
Directed by: Joseph Santley
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.
Runtime: 68 min
Directed by: Steve Sekely
A Nazi spy operating as an optometrist on the San Francisco waterfront discovers that his code book, which also has the names of his fellow Nazi agents and saboteurs, has been stolen. His attempts to track it down before it falls into the hands of the authorities result in a trail of [...]
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
Runtime: 50 min
Directed by: Karl Brown
The Post Combined Circus draws the biggest crowd ever when pretty Penelope (Anne Nagel) does her heart-stopping blindfolded trapeze act In the course of events she falls in love with Pablo (Grant Richards) , her co-artist. Pablo and his brother Ricardo (Jack La Rue) are shown the door when Sara Post (Marjorie [...]
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Runtime: 60 min
Directed by: Frank McDonald
Runtime: 66 min
Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet
The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken (George Nesie) and Harry (Charles Rogers). Inga (June Duprez), a Norwegian girl to whom Falken [...]
Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer
Runtime: 62 min
Directed by: Alfred Santell
Runtime: 94 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: Frank R. Strayer
An aging concert violinist ignored by his grown children who becomes a music teacher. His most promising student, with whom he intends to make a comeback, turns out to be his own grandson!
Runtime: 73 min
Directed by: Chester M. Franklin
When Dick (Monte Blue), the owner of a large corporation, finds out that the board of directors is about to vote him out of the company he fires back that he’s already got the money from his wife’s estate to buy them out first. While his faithless wife Vera (Natalie Moorehead) [...]
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
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 [...]
Directed by: Richard Sale
An evil fisherman cons his former girlfriend to finance a cannery that will be illegally stocked by Native American friends of his current girlfriend. But has he gone too far?
Runtime: 66 min
Directed by: William Nigh
A sailor hitchhiking to his base at San Pedro and an orphan boy who has taken along his dog in a search for a mother and father meet up on the road. The sailor decides it would be easier to get a ride if they pretended to be father and son; the [...]
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
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Madame Helene Smith (Adrianne Ames) operates a swanky salon for renovations of women’s faces and bodies, with her partner Mazie Mason (Pert Kelton) who grew up with Helene on New York’s not-so-swank Tenth Avenue. Mazie is in love with newspaper columnist Terry Kent (William Newell), who frequents the place for juicy items [...]
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
Runtime: 59 min
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: William Curran
This sex exploitation film includes wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. After going to a “casting couch”, a chorus girl contracts syphilis. The film then focuses on the effects this lifestyle and disease have on her marriage.
Runtime: 57 min
Directed by: Charles Vidor
Dale Jordan (Marion Burns) is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell (Juanita Hansen) enroute for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City. This makes no difference to Tom Baylor [...]
Directed by: William A. Berke
Old time rodeo performer Raymond Hatton and his grandson, (Buzz Henry as Robert Dee ‘Buzzy” Henry) arrive in a small town with an injured horse, and local minister Russell Hayden tends the horse’s injured leg. Jean Parker, a wealthy but selfish young widow, lives in the town. The church is in [...]
Directed by: Phil Rosen
Runtime: 71 min
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 [...]
Directed by: Sidney Meyers
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
Runtime: 65 min
Directed by: Robert F. Hill
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
Runtime: 65 min
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 [...]
Directed by: James P. Hogan
Runtime: 68 min
Directed by: Arthur Greville Collins
Love is different on Paradise Isle…where a woman pledges her life for the man she loves! Come to the South Seas for a thrilling lesson in love!
Runtime: 73 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: Leslie Goodwins
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.
Runtime: [...]
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, [...]
Directed by: Robert F. McGowan
Teen-ager Betty Elliott (Marcia Mae Jones) has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott (Charles D. Brown). She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper (Leatrice Joy), of her boyfriend Chris Harper (Jackie Moran). Doc has been a real friend and [...]
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 [...]
Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Runtime: 64 min
Directed by: William A. Berke
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Runtime: 74 min
Directed by: Arthur Dreifuss
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. And hanging around is Marshall’s murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it [...]
Directed by: Oscar Micheaux
Runtime: 68 min
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Runtime: 69 min
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo’s heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan’s foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots [...]
Directed by: Paul Guilfoyle
After a married woman has had an illicit affair, mysterious accidents began happening to her husband.
Runtime: 76 min
Directed by: Bernard B. Ray
The H&L Lumber Company headed by Henry Lorimer (Jack M. Holmes) and his daughter “Perry” (Marjorie Reynolds), receives a hugh national defense order, and prepares to cut the dangerous Antler Valley tract. Eastern dude John Gordon (Hal Brazeal) applies for a lumberjack’s job and Lorimer hires him. Soon, a series of [...]
Directed by: Ford Beebe
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Directed by: Frank R. Strayer
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate (Onslow Stevens) has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He [...]