Two small-time (aspiring to be big-time) producers are trying to convince a Chicago businessman to finance half of their show, while the other half is to be financed by a mysterious Mme. Deborah. But when Madame Deborah is not on hand to meet the money-man from Chicago, an ex-prizefighter is dressed to pose as her. Music and dancing provided by Deek Watson and His Brown Dots, 'Big' Sid Catlett and his band, and Ann Cornell and the International Jitterbugs. Drummer Gene Krupa has a drumming cameo.
Summary written by Les Adams :)
Aug 30, 2005
Boy! What a Girl! (1947)
Two small-time (aspiring to be big-time) producers are trying to convince a Chicago businessman to finance half of their show, while the other half is to be financed by a mysterious Mme. Deborah. But when Madame Deborah is not on hand to meet the money-man from Chicago, an ex-prizefighter is dressed to pose as her. Music and dancing provided by Deek Watson and His Brown Dots, 'Big' Sid Catlett and his band, and Ann Cornell and the International Jitterbugs. Drummer Gene Krupa has a drumming cameo.
Summary written by Les Adams :)
East Side Kids - 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
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.
The East Side Kids take on a gang of Japanese spies.East Side Kids - Kid Dynamite (1943)
EastSide boxing champion (Leo Gorcey) has been challenged to fight the West Side champ but is kidnapped before the match.
East Side Kids - Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
Aug 28, 2005
Barefoot Boy (1938)
Billy Whittaker, a country lad whose idyllic lifestyle is thrown into confusion upon the arrival of arrogant reform-school graduate Kenneth Hale. Not only does Kenneth tear down everything that Billy holds dear, but he also has the audacity to make a play for Billy's sweetheart Pige Blaine.
Aug 27, 2005
Fighting Renegade (1939)
A government agent falsely accused of murdering a professor takes the identity of "The Puma", a Mexican vigilante leader, to hide his real identity and find the actual killers.
Aug 26, 2005
Death in the Air (1936)
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.
The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-em-Down general store Abner Peabody (Norris Goff) because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine (Zasu Pitts) so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lun writes a proposal note but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy (Constance Purdy) who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff (Irving Bacon) appears with the Widders long-gone and hiding husband.
Summary written by Les Adams :)
Aug 25, 2005
Outlaws' Paradise (1939)
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. He fools both the gang and Trigger's girlfriend Jessie as he sets them up to be captured. But Trigger escapes from prison and returns to expose the hoax and Bill is made a prisoner.
Summary written by Maurice VanAuken :)
Hawaii Calls (1938)
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
Summary written by Alessandro Martini :)
Aug 24, 2005
The Law of 45's (1935)
Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, Tucson and Stoney arrive and things begin to change
Summary written by Maurice VanAuken :)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
Aug 23, 2005
Labors of Hercules (1958)
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Summary written by Rod Crawford :)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
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.
The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
An actor is killed during the performance of a play and critic Tony Woolrich undertakes 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. During a production of "Julius Caesar" the killer makes a final attempt.
Aug 21, 2005
Swamp Women (1955)
A plucky police woman infiltrates a group of hardened female criminals who are planning to break jail and retrieve their loot of diamonds from its swampy hiding place. Complications arise when the women abduct Connors and begin fighting each other.
Lumberjack (1944)
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hopalong Cassidy warns against this but she does so anyway.
Aug 20, 2005
Beat the Devil (1953)
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen
Aug 19, 2005
Flight to Nowhere (1946)
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
Border Vengeance (1935)
A rancher is murdered after discovering that his cattle have been rustled. A neighboring family is accused of the crime and flees across the border and tries to find the real killers.
The Fighting Deputy (1937)
The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl Deputy Tom plans to marry.
Spoilers of the North (1947)
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?
Aug 18, 2005
The Mad Monster (1942)
The blood of a wolf he placed in the veins of a man... and created a monster such as the world has never known!
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
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.
Aug 17, 2005
Phantom Thunderbolt (1933)
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
House of Secrets (1936)
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940)
A "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short time if they follow his regimen of strict diet and a particular type of diet pill. Dr. Christian tries to warn them that the man is a dangerous charlatan but, mesmerized by the prospect of almost instantaneous weight loss, the women ignore his warnings
Aug 16, 2005
Two Weeks to Live (1943)
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
Code of the Cactus (1939)
When Blackton outbids Bill Carson. Bill suspects he will have to rustle cattle to fulfill the contract. So Bill arrives posing as an Mexican. When he rustles the cattle from the rustlers, it gets him into the gang. Hoping to bring them all to justice, he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
Aug 14, 2005
Oliver Twist (1933)
An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Aug 13, 2005
The Crime Patrol (1936)
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.
AKA Sensation Hunters
Reckless Girls Who Travel the Road of Broken DreamsAug 12, 2005
Call of the Yukon (1938)
A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.
Dixie Jamboree (1944)
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
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.
Aug 11, 2005
Roy Rogers - South of Santa Fe (1942)
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnappers.
Doomed to Die (1940)
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Aug 10, 2005
Tombstone Canyon (1932)
Maynard hears the cry of the weird masked "phantom" of Tombstone Canyon. The plot thickens when Maynard discovers a man with a key to his past has been murdered by the phantom.
Law of the Rio Grande (1931)
Escaping from the Sheriff, Jim and Cookie decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they are outlaws and they are in trouble again.
City of Missing Girls (1941)
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.
Aug 9, 2005
The Ghost Walks (1934)
During a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.
Devil Riders (1943)
A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.
Reefer Madness (1936)
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.
Aug 8, 2005
Alias John Law (1935)
Classic western star Bob Steele gets deputized to go after some bad guys trying to angle in on some valuable land. He gets help from his deaf sidekick who can read lips. Black & White.
A Bride for Henry (1937)
When a stuck-up debutante is stood up at the altar she marries a lawyer for purely social reasons, intending never to consummate the marriage. But her new husband hatches a scheme to make her forget the man who jilted her and win her true love in this screwball comedy.
Aug 7, 2005
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
At his English manor, Lord Greystoke - aka Tarzan - recounts his recent adventures in Guatemala. He had been there assisting Major Martling and Ula Vale in their quest for the Green Goddess, a totem worshipped by a primitive jungle tribe inside of which was hidden a formula for a super-explosive.
The Inspector General (1949)
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
Aug 6, 2005
Gangsters of the Frontier (1944)
Tex 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 Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)
Cappy Ricks and his family are stranded on a south sea island, and there his daughters learn that their choice of future husbands is faulty. Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne
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