The Admiral Was a Lady 1950  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie, Richard Erdman, Hillary Brooke, Richard Lane, Garry Owen, Fred Essler, Lurene Tuttle, Warren Douglas
Problems of entering the stage of readjustment to civilian life for many World War II servicemen is evidenced in this story about unemployed ex-sailors who plan to evade work indefinitely and meet regularly at a social club. When a WAVE (Wanda Hendrix) enters the club looking for a lost boyfriend, she immediately catches the eye of Jimmy (Edmond O'Brien) but shuns him because of his deadbeat lifestyle. To win her love, Jimmy enters a boxing contest to win $100, and the chase begins.
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 The Black Cat 1941 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Comedy
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi, Gale Sondergaard, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper, Alan Ladd, Claire Dodd, John Eldredge, Cecilia Loftus
When cat-loving dowager Henrietta Winslow (Cecilia Loftus) dies, her greedy relatives converge on her haunted mansion for the reading of her will looking for their fortunes. Now, they must deal with screams in the night and hidden passages.
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City Streets 1938 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo, Tommy Bond, Mary Gordon, Helen Jerome Eddy, Arthur Loft, Joe King, Frank Reicher, Frank Sheridan
A grocer (Leo Carrillo) sells his store so that a crippled orphan, Winnie Brady (Edith Fellows), can get the money for a needed operation.
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In Old Oklahoma 1943 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Western
aka: War of the Wildcats
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Fix, Irving Bacon
Daniel (John Wayne) and Despirit (George "Gabby" Hayes) take on villains involved in the oil business. Not bad.
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Li'l Abner 1940 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Jeff York, Martha O'Driscoll, Mona Ray, Johnnie Morris, Buster Keaton, Billie Seward, Kay Sutton, Maude Eburne, Edgar Kennedy, Charles A. Post, Bud Jamison, Dick Elliott, Johnny Arthur, Walter Catlett, Lucien Littlefield
In this film version of Al Capp's comic strip, Jeff York takes on the role of that elusive bachelor Li'l Abner on whom Daisy Mae (Martha O'Driscoll) has set her eyes and determines to wed. When Li'l Abner is told he has just 24 hours to live, he kisses Daisy Mae–an act that is the same as proposing in Dog Patch. Too late, Abner learns that the medical prognosis is wrong. Now, what is he to do? As if that were not bad enough, Li'l Abner is trapped in the woods and saved by Wendy Wilecat (Kay Sutton) who performs her service on the promise that Li'l Abner will marry her. Now, how will Li'l Abner get out of his predicament of being engaged to two women?
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The Lone Wolf in Paris 1938 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leona Maricle, Olaf Hytten, Albert Dekker, Bess Flowers, Eddie Fetherston, Dick Curtis
Francis Lederer takes on the role of the jewel-thief-turned-sleuth in this second of the series, three years after the first entry. Weaker that the original, the Lone Wolf helps a Princess in retrieving the crown jewels from the dastardly Grand Duke.
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True to the Army 1942 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Allan Jones, Ann Miller, Judy Canova, Jerry Colonna, Clarence Kolb, William Demarest, Arthur Loft, Rod Cameron, Eddie Acuff, Mary Treen
This film is a remake of "She Loves Me Not," and was later remade as "How to Be Very, Very Popular." The plot involves a young woman (Judy Canova) who witnesses a murder and then hides out from the perpetrators.
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| 1. The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
2. The Black Cat (1941)
3. City Streets (1938)
4. Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
aka: Change of Heart
5. In Old Oklahoma (1943)
aka: War of the Wildcats
6. Li'l Abner (1940)
7. The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938)
8. True to the Army (1942)
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