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Director: William Nigh    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gertrude Hoffman, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Selmer Jackson, George Cleveland, Ray Corrigan, Mary Field

 In need of spinal fluid to cure a young girl's paralysis, Dr. Adrian (Boris Karloff) camouflages himself in an ape skin and murders townsfolk to obtain their spinal fluids for his serum.

Director: Christy Cabanne    More Info
Starring: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran, Vinton Haworth, Herbert Corthell, Harry C. Bradley, Sandra King, Landers Stevens, John Holmes, Jack Rice

 "Pop" O'Shea (Herbert Corthell) and his mechanic "Guppy" Wexel (Andy Divine) are working on an experimental oil-fueled auto engine for car racing when their car is in an accident that nearly destroys the engine. Larry Taylor (Richard Arlen) has plans of his own for the oil-fueled engine and secretly installs it in his race car. He enters a race with the engine, wins the race–and the girl (Peggy Moran) as well.

Director: William Keighley    More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Dennis Morgan, Dick Foran, William Lundigan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

 This film is based on facts from the 69th regiment's World War I records. Jerry Plunkett (James Cagney) is a smart-aleck recruit who buckles under fire and causes the death of some men in his company. Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) helps in the rehabilitation. Great battle scenes.

Director: Ford Beebe    More Info
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne, Frank Shannon, John Hamilton, Herbert Rawlinson, Shirley Deane, Lee Powell, Roland Drew

 Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) is back in action in this 12-episode serial as the "Purple Death," a lethal plague, hits Earth. Flash's nemesis, Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) of the planet Mong, is behind it. So, Flash and friends return to Mong seeking the antidote. Of course, the powers of Ming will make that difficult.

Director: William West    More Info
Starring: J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hull, Polly Ann Young, George Pembroke, Mary Gordon, Bruce MacFarlane, Joel Friedkin, Eddie Hart, Charles Anthony Hughes, Eddie Kane

 Captain Jim Hadley (J. Farrell MacDonald) is bored after reaching required retirement age. When a fireman friend is killed fighting a fire that appeared to be arson, Jim and his daughter's (Polly Ann Young) boyfriend/insurance investigator (Warren Hull) team up to find the arsonist.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian    More Info
Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, George Regas, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery

 Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is an aristocrat who returns to California in the early 1800s and fights the injustice of dictator Don Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg) and his henchman Capt. Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) who are now ruling the district after displacing Don Diego's father Don Alejandro (Montagu Love) as governor. Don Diego is in love with Quintero's niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), but he dons his mask and becomes Zorro, fighting against Quintero's corruption and leaving his mark as he battles for justice. Lots of fun and adventure.

Director: Lewis Seiler    More Info
Starring: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson, Eddie Foy Jr., Robert Warwick, Dick Rich, William Gould, Victor Zimmerman, Kenneth Harlan

 Government agents "Brass" Bancroft (Ronald Reagan) and Saxby (John Litel) fight espionage threats to the country.

Director: Carol Reed    More Info
Starring: Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Naunton Wayne, Roland Culver, Margaret Lockwood, Basil Radford, Felix Aylmer, Eliot Makeham, Raymond Huntley, Austin Trevor

 This film adaptation of Gordon Wellesley's novel "Report on a Fugitive" is about a Czech scientist who has escaped the Nazis only to be recaptured. A British spy (Rex Harrison) is assigned the duty of retrieving the scientist from the clutches of his captors. A real good thriller.

Director: Michael Curtiz    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Gilbert Roland, William Lundigan, Montagu Love, Francis McDonald

 Errol Flynn is definitely at his swashbuckling best as 1850s' British pirate Geoffrey Thorpe leads the Sea Hawk pirates on raids and captures more than 50 Spanish ships. In the process, he learns that the Spanish are planning to attack England and have placed spies in Queen Elizabeth's (Flora Robson) court. But, Elizabeth does not approve of Thorpe's pirating tactics and demands that he change his ways. Meanwhile, Thorpe falls in love with Dona Maria (Brenda Marshall), and now he must expose the treachery to save his country and win the love of Dona Maria.

Director: Tay Garnett    More Info
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Albert Dekker, Billy Gilbert, Oskar Homolka, Anna Lee, Samuel S. Hinds, Reginald Denny

 Bruce (John Wayne) is a young Naval officer who, along with Dr. Martin (Albert Dekker), fights for the love of Bijou (Marlene Dietrich), a young cafe singer in the South Pacific.

Director: James W. Horne    More Info
Starring: William Tracy, Jeff York, Joyce Bryant, Dick Curtis, Allen Jung, Victor DeCamp, Sheila Darcy, J. Paul Jones, Jack Ingram, Charles King

 Based in Milton Caniff's comic strip, this 15-episode adventure follows young Terry (William Tracy) and his friends as they head off to rescue his archeologist father (J. Paul Jones) who has been kidnapped by Asian warlord Fang (Dick Curtis).

Director: Raoul Walsh    More Info
Starring: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, George Tobias

 After Paul (Humphrey Bogart) loses his arm in a truck accident, his brother Joe (George Raft) goes to work for Ed's (Alan Hale) trucking firm and runs into trouble via Ed's bitchy wife, Lana (Ida Lupino). Brothers Paul and Joe make a good team as they truck along the highways.

Director: William Keighley    More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, George Tobias, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan, George Reeves, Victor Kilian, Frank Puglia

 Central American planter Nick Butler (James Cagney) is a plantation foreman working for Baldwin Fruit Company executive Steve Case (Pat O'Brien). Butler is preparing to head back to Chicago and leave his plantation job behind, but he encounters problems from Case who wants O'Brien to work on another plantation. Butler does agree and goes to the plantation where problems lie ahead in the form of Gloria (Helen Vinson) who is the wife of former foreman Bob Anderson (Jerome Cowan), sexy nightclub singer Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), and Latino bandits led by Rosario "Rosie" La Mata (George Tobias).

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet    More Info
Starring: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dennis Moore, Kathryn Sheldon, Tristram Coffin, Horace Murphy, Slim Whitaker, I. Stanford Jolley

 In this first of a series of "Rough Riders" films, the Rough Riders–Buck Roberts (Buck Jones), Tim McCall (Tim McCoy), and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton)–are called in to save Ruth Masters' (Luana Walters) stage line when a dastardly gang, led by Steve Taggert (Tristram Coffin), begins robbing the stages and shooting the drivers.

Director: William Beaudine    More Info
Starring: Virginia Vale, Robert Kent, Barney Oldfield, Vince Barnett, William Halligan, Joey Ray, Red Knight, Diana Hughes

 Veteran racer Barney Oldfield plays himself as a mechanic inventor who hires Jim Flynn (Robert Kent) to test out one of his newly designed carburetors on the racing circuit. At the same time, "The Blonde Comet" Beverly Blake (Virginia Vale) races on the circuit trying to save her father's tire business. When the rival drivers meet, they fall in love, but they also manage to gain success for Beverly's father's tire business and Oldfield's new carburetor as well.

Director: William Beaudine    More Info
Starring: Ralph Byrd, Carol Hughes, Julie Duncan, Jack Mulhall, I. Stanford Jolley, Richard Clarke, Paul Bryar, Kenneth Harlan, Johnstone White, Thornton Edwards

 Clipper-ship crewman Tony Bronson (Ralph Byrd) comes to the rescue of two chorus girls, Peggy and Ann (Carol Hughes and Julie Duncan), who are stranded in a South American village. He invites them on board his ship, which is headed toward their home. But problems arise when bad guys try to steal the ship's money. Luckily, Tony also comes to the ship's rescue.

Director: John English    More Info
Starring: Ralph Byrd, Michael Owen, Jan Wiley, John Davidson, Ralph Morgan, Robert Frazer, Howard C. Hickman, Nora Lane, Jack Mulhall, David Sharpe

 In this last in a series of serials, Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is on the trail of "Ghost," who has the ability to become invisible. He is going too far in destroying members of a group of influential citizens trying to get rid of crime in the city. (15 episodes)

Director: James W. Horne    More Info
Starring: Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, Tristram Coffin, C. Montague Shaw, Ted Adams, Joe McGuinn, John Ward, Edward Hearn, Ray Parsons, Jack Cheatham

 This 15-episode film follows the exploits of Agent Jack Holt (Jack Holt) as he takes on counterfeiters. There are plenty of cliffhangers for the audience.

Director: Harry L. Fraser    More Info
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Sheila Darcy, Charles Middleton, Vince Barnett, Weldon Heyburn, Robert Carson, Paul Scott, Hal Price, Floyd Shackelford

 Dr. Hammond (Buster Crabbe) has developed a serum to cure a dangerous jungle fever and is now on his way to deliver it when his ship is sunk by a German U-Boat. But fear not, our hero is also a great diver, and he recovers the serum and saves the day.

Director: Joseph Kane    More Info
Starring: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, George Cleveland, Billy Lee, Fred Kohler Jr., Pierre Watkin, Joseph Crehan, Jack Ingram, Yakima Canutt

 In the early 1860s, Jeff and Gabby (Roy Rogers and George "Gabby" Hayes) are stagecoach drivers when the railroad is coming to the West. Their boss, Mark Benton (Joseph Crehan), is concerned that the railroad will take over and is feuding with Hank Liddell (George Cleveland) who owns the railroad. Jeff and Gabby try to get Benton and Liddell to reconcile but are not successful. When financier Amos Norton (Pierre Watkin) hires outlaw Black Bart (Fred Kohler Jr.) to raid both the stagecoaches and the railroads, matters worsen–until Liddell and Benton finally work together, and Gabby and Jeff stop the robberies.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland    More Info
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva, Faye Emerson, Edward Brophy, Charles Drake, Peter Whitney, Vera Lewis, Ben Welden

 Matt Sawyer is a newspaper reporter who captures a big story while on the trail of a murderer and then is sued for libel.

Director: Ford Beebe    More Info
Starring: Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Reed Hadley, Roy Gordon, John Holland, Irving Mitchell, Robert Armstrong, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alex Callam, Kathryn Adams

 In this 12-episode serial, a new, top secret fighter plane is nearing completion and ready for testing. But there are plenty of enemy agents who have designs on the plane.

Director: John Rawlins    More Info
Starring: Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson, Billy Gilbert, Edgar Barrier, Richard Lane, Turhan Bey, John Qualen, Shemp Howard

 After his brother Kamar (Leif Erickson) tries and fails to kill him, Haroun-Al-Raschid (Jon Hall) is nursed back to health by the sultry Scheherazade (Maria Montez). Now–with help from Ali Ben Ali (Sabu), Sinbad (Shemp Howard), and Aladdin (John Qualen)–Haroun-Al-Raschid sets out to regain his position as the legal heir to the throne of the Kalif of Baghdad.

Director: Sam Newfield    More Info
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart, Anne Jeffreys, Glenn Strange, Walter McGrail, Ted Adams, Jack Ingram, Milton Kibbee, Eddie Phillips

 Billy (Buster Crabbe), Fuzzy (Al St. John), and Jeff (Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart) are rescued by outlaws Montana (Budd Buster), Pete (Wally West), and Curley (George Chesebro) who then assume disguises as Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff. They rob and murder, and now Billy and his friends must work to clear their names.

Director: Arthur Lubin    More Info
Starring: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce, Leif Erickson, Jon Hall, Gladys Cooper, Alan Hale Jr., Rhys Williams

 Great aerial shots highlight this film about Americans who volunteered to join the RAF and fight Nazis before America entered the war.