Dynamite Ranch 1932  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Forrest Sheldon
Cast: Ken Maynard, Ruth Hall, Jack Perrin, Arthur Hoyt, Alan Roscoe, Albert J. Smith, John(2) Beck, George C. Pearce, Martha Mattox, Lafe McKee, Edmund Cobb, Charles LeMoyne
Blaze (Ken Maynard), falsely accused of a train robbery, escapes and–with the help of a rancher's daughter (Ruth Hall) and the rancher's assistant–comes up with the real culprit. Plenty of good action, despite the ultra-low budget and old sets.
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 The Last of the Mohicans 1920  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown
Cast: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward, Theodore Lorch, Boris Karloff, James Gordon, George Hackathorne, Nelson McDowell, Harry Lorraine, Jack McDonald, Sydney Deane, Joseph Singleton, Chief Tahachee
This early version of "The Last of the Mohicans" was the last major work of director Maurice Tourneur. It is the story of the French and Indian War of the 1700s and the role, as allies, that Indian tribes played for both sides. This film is close to the original James Fenimore Cooper book as it relates the efforts of Hawkeye (Harry Lorraine) and the last of the Mohicans–Uncas (Alan Roscoe) and Chingachgook (Theodore Lorch)–to rescue Alice and Cora Munro (Lillian Hall and Barbara Bedford) from the evil Magua (Wallace Berry). Can you find Boris Karloff as an Indian?
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Madame X 1920  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh, Casson Ferguson, Hardee Kirkland, Lionel Belmore, Alan Roscoe, Maude Louis, John Hohenvest, Correan Kirkham, Sidney Ainsworth, Willard Louis, Cesare Gravina, Maude George
This is one of the best of all versions of "Madame X," the sad story in which the heroine (Pauline Frederick) becomes pregnant and is forced to give up her son. Years later, she returns and kills a man who is intending to blackmail her husband (William Courtleigh). In the subsequent trial, her attorney is her own son (Casson Ferguson)–neither knows of their relationship.
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The Royal Bed 1931  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Queen's Husband
Director: Lowell Sherman
Cast: Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Nance O'Neil, Anthony Bushell, Hugh Trevor, Robert Warwick, Gilbert Emery, Alan Roscoe, J. Carrol Naish, Frederick Burt, Nancy Lee Blaine, Desmond Roberts
Eric VIII (Lowell Sherman) has allowed his Queen (Nance O'Neil) to control the kingdom. But he now has problems: the country is in the throes of a revolution, his daughter (Mary Astor) wants to marry a commoner, AND the Queen is out of the country. Can the wimpy King take control of the situation?
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A Strange Adventure 1932 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Wayne Murder Case
Director: Phil Whitman, Hampton Del Ruth
Cast: Regis Toomey, June Clyde, Lucille La Verne, William V. Mong, Jason Robards Sr., Eddie Phillips, Dwight Frye, Isabelle Vecki, Alan Roscoe, Nadine Dore, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, Harry Myers
A hooded killer is on the loose after murdering Silas Wayne (William V. Mong) in the presence of his would-be heirs. Now it is up to police Detective-Sergeant Mitchell (Regis Toomey) and news reporter "Nosey" Toodles (Jane Clyde) to solve the case.
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The Vagabond Lover 1929  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Marshall Neilan
Cast: Rudy Vallee, Sally Blane, Marie Dressler, Charles Sellon, Edward J. Nugent, Nella Walker, Danny O'Shea, Alan Roscoe, Malcolm Waite
College senior Rudy Bronson (Rudy Vallee) talks his way out of a tight spot by claiming to be his saxophone teacher: the famous Ted Grant. Believing he is Ted Grant, wealthy Mrs. Ethel Bertha Whitehall (Marie Dressler) hires Rudy and his band, and Rudy goes along with the ploy–but not without worrying about risking losing the love of his life (Sally Blane) because of the deception.
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| 1. Dynamite Ranch (1932)
2. The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
3. Madame X (1920)
4. The Royal Bed (1931)
aka: The Queen's Husband
5. A Strange Adventure (1932)
aka: Wayne Murder Case
6. The Vagabond Lover (1929)
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