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.
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