Ace Drummond 1936  N/R, 255 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith
Cast: John "Dusty" King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr., Guy Bates Post, Lon Chaney Jr., Jackie Morrow, Selmer Jackson, Robert Warwick, Arthur Loft, C. Montague Shaw, Frederick Vogeding, Al Bridge, James B. Leong, James Eagles, Chester Gan
Based on events in the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker (who also created the comic strip character of Ace Drummond), Ace (John "Dusty" King) is a flying G-man who is sent to Mongolia to uncover the identity of a villain known as "The Dragon." While there, he meets Peggy (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her missing father. It takes 13 episodes, but together they take care of both problems.
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Along Came Jones 1945  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western / Comedy / Romance
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea, Frank Sully, Lane Chandler, Russell Simpson, Arthur Loft, Don Costello, Walter Sande, Ray Teal, Willard Robertson, Ray Teal, Horace B. Carpenter, Lee Phelps
Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) and his sidekick George Fury (William Demarest) ride into the town of Payneville where Melody is mistaken for highway robber Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea). A gunman shoots at Melody, but Monte Jarrad's girlfriend Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young) saves Melody and takes him home to her ranch. Melody falls in love with Cherry, and, as a result, he is chased not only by the law but also by Jarrad.
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Back in the Saddle 1941  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Edward Norris, Julie Bishop, Addison Richards, Arthur Loft, Edmund Elton, Edmund Cobb, Joe McGuinn, Robert Barron, Frankie Marvin
This tuneful tidbit has Gene Autry inheriting a ranch, and guess what. Copper is found and Gene must fight the bad guys who want to frame him in a crime so they can get the copper.
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Bars of Hate 1936  N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Regis Toomey, Sheila Terry, "Snub" Pollard, Molly O'Day, Robert Warwick, Fuzzy Knight, Gordon Griffith, Arthur Loft, John Elliott, Jack Cowell
After District Attorney Ted Clark (Regis Toomey) saves pickpocket Danny ("Snub" Pollard) from an angry mob, he returns the stolen purse to its owner, Ann Dawson (Sheila Terry). When they learn that Ann is carrying evidence that her brother on death row is innocent, Ted and Danny join forces to protect her from gangsters and take the proof to the Governor (John Elliott).
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Carson City Kid 1940 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery Jr., Pauline Moore, Francis McDonald, Hal Price, Arthur Loft, Ted Mapes, Chester Gan
The Carson City Kid (Roy Rogers) is on the trail of the man who killed his brother, and the search leads him to a town where the killer runs a saloon.
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Caught in the Draft 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken, Clarence Kolb, Irving Bacon, Paul Hurst, Ferike Boros, Arthur Loft, Edgar Dearing
Movie star Don Bolton (Bob Hope) decides to evade the draft but ends up–through a comedy of errors–enlisting in the army.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu 1938 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, Eddie Collins, Robert Barrat, Philip Ahn, Paul Harvey, Marc Lawrence, George Zucco, Claire Dodd, John "Dusty" King, Richard Lane, Layne Tom Jr., Al Kikume, Arthur Loft
Sidney Toler debuted as the replacement for the deceased Warner Oland in the title role of Charlie Chan in this film about murder aboard a ship docked in the port of Honolulu. Charlie's Number Two Son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) wants to be a detective and intercepts his father's telephone call to investigate the shipboard murder. Jimmy arrives aboard the ship, introduces himself as Charlie Chan, and begins the investigation. Charlie arrives later, straightens out who is really "Charlie Chan," and orders all to stay aboard. Meanwhile, the ship's Captain Johnson (Robert Barrat) wants to take the ship out of the harbor, and the pressure is on Charlie to find clues to the murder, which just might point to Captain Johnson.
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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service 1944 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Gwen Kenyon, Benson Fong, Arthur Loft, Sarah Edwards, George J. Lewis, Marianne Quon, Muni Seroff, Barry Bernard, Gene Roth, Eddy Chandler, Lelah Tyler, George Lessey, Davison Clark
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is appointed as an agent for the Secret Service when a government scientist is killed and his secret plans to fight off German U-boats are stolen. Charlie gets aid from Number Three Daughter Iris (Marianne Quon) and Number Two Son Tommie (Benson Fong), and, despite the killer targeting Charlie twice, Charlie continues in his quest to weed out the real killer from a list of suspects.
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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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Colorado 1940 N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Milburn Stone, Maude Eburne, Arthur Loft, Pauline Moore, Hal Taliaferro, Vester Pegg, Fred Burns, Lloyd Ingraham
Lt. Jerry Burke (Roy Rogers) must find out who is arousing the Indians.
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 Days of Jesse James 1939  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Pauline Moore, Harry Woods, Arthur Loft, Wade Boteler, Scotty Beckett, Glenn Strange, Monte Blue, Eddie Acuff
A Pinkerton detective (Roy Rogers), infiltrates the James Gang and learns that a robbery blamed on the gang was really the work of bank officials.
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Down Mexico Way 1941 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Santley
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer, Joe Sawyer, Paul Fix, Andrew Tombes, Murray Alper, Arthur Loft, Duncan Renaldo, Julian Rivero
Gene Autry comes to the aid of the townspeople of Sage City who were victims of a scam.
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Footlight Glamour 1943 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Cast: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Ann Savage, Jonathan Hale, Irving Bacon, Danny Mummert, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft, James Flavin
One of Dagwood's clients has a daughter who is more than a little stage-struck. So, of course, the Bumstead family gets involved with predictable results.
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Gang Bullets 1938 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Crooked Way
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge, Morgan Wallace, J. Farrell MacDonald, John T. Murray, Arthur Loft, John Merton, Donald Kerr, Carleton Young, Benny Bartlett
As a last resort to gain enough evidence to put racketeer Big Bill Anderson (Morgan Wallace) in jail, Asst. Dist. Atty. John Carter (Robert Kent) pretends to be crooked and joins the racketeering gang. In the meantime, John's girlfriend Patricia (Anne Nagel), who does not know about the subterfuge, questions her choice in men.
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Hangmen Also Die 1943 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Lest We Forget
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Alexander Granach, Margaret Wycherly, Nana Bryant, Lionel Stander, Arthur Loft
Following the assassination of the hated Nazi, Reinhardt Heydrich, by Czechoslovakian Doctor Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), Germans retaliate against the Czechs through a reign of terror.
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Hell's Kitchen 1939 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ewald Andre Dupont, Lewis Seiler
Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Fields, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Grant Mitchell, Arthur Loft, Bernard Punsly, Frankie Burke
This remake of "The Mayor of Hell," is about ex-con Buck's (Stanley Fields) attempts to turn the Dead End Kids around and steer them in the right direction.
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Lights of Old Santa Fe 1944 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Lloyd Corrigan, Tom Keene, Arthur Loft, Lucien Littlefield, Pat Brady, Bob Nolan
While Dale Evans is deciding which rodeo to bring her Wild West Show to, one owner is not honest and resorts to sabotage of the show. Roy Rogers and the Sons Of The Pioneers come to the rescue.
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The Magnificent Dope 1942 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton, George Barbier, Frank Orth, Roseanne Murray, Arthur Loft, Hobart Cavanaugh, Pierre Watkin
Country versus city is the theme for this film in which two men (Henry Fonda and Don Ameche) vie for a school secretary's (Lynn Bari) attention.
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Man from Oklahoma 1945 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Musical / Romance
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Roger Pryor, Arthur Loft, Maude Eburne, Si Jenks, Bob Nolan, Robert J. Wilke, Sam Flint, Elaine Lange, Edmund Cobb, Charles Soldani, Eddie Kane, George Sherwood
Even some of the songs aren't too good in this relatively weak entry as Roy Rogers sings such songs as "Dragin' the Wagon" as he comes to the aid of Dale Evans often during the Oklahoma land rush.
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Postal Inspector 1936 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Brower
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis, Michael Loring, Bela Lugosi, Wallis Clark, Arthur Loft, David Oliver, Guy Usher, Spencer Charters, Hattie McDaniel, Harry Beresford
Gambling debts force nightclub owner Gregory Benez (Bela Lugosi) into a life of crime. When he hires a beautiful singer (Patricia Ellis) to perform in his club, she and Benez are put under the watchful eye of U.S. Postal Inspector Bill Davis (Ricardo Cortez).
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Public Cowboy No. 1 1937 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, James C. Morton, Frank LaRue, Frankie Marvin, Hal Price, William Farnum, Arthur Loft, House Peters Jr.
Set in the current time, cattle rustlers are still around–now using planes, refrigerated trucks, and shortwave radios to get the job done. But here comes our singing cowboy, Gene Autry, with his trusty horse and six-gun to foil the bad guys.
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Rawhide 1938 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Taylor
Cast: Smith Ballew, Lou Gehrig, Evalyn Knapp, Arthur Loft, Cy Kendall, Dick Curtis, Si Jenks, Carl Stockdale, Lafe McKee, Slim Whitaker
Baseball great Lou Gehrig makes his one-and-only screen appearance as he retires from baseball in favor of the peaceful life of a rancher. But peace is not in the cards, since a dastardly group of men harass him and the other ranchers into selling their land. But Lou and lawyer Larry (Smith Ballew) lead the charge against the conniving cads. AND, along the way, Larry warbles a few songs.
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The Rogues' Tavern 1936 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Robert F. Hill
Cast: Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper, Joan Woodbury, Jack Mulhall, Clara Kimball Young, John Elliott, John Cowell, Earl Dwire, Vincent Dennis, Arthur Loft, Ed Cassidy
Detective Jimmy Flavin (Wallace Ford) and his bride-to-be Marjorie (Barbara Pepper) check in at an inn. They must put off their wedding plans when they investigate a series of deaths at the inn that are thought to be caused by a mad dog. Together they find the real culprit in this poorly written–but fun–entry.
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 Scarlet Street 1945 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan, Jess Barker, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Loft, Vladimir Sokoloff, Russell Hicks, Charles Kemper, Lou Lubin, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Cy Kendall, Lee Phelps
An amateur painter, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), is also the henpecked husband of Adele (Rosalind Ivan). Christopher is a sitting duck for extortion when the seductive Kitty March (Joan Bennett) arrives on the scene with big plans for making money off Christopher's art work. Kitty persuades Cross to embezzle money to pay for her apartment. Meanwhile, what Cross does not know is that Kitty's lover is con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea), and he is removing Cross' name from the paintings and replacing them with Kitty's name. Now the art work proves successful, and Johnny claims they are Kitty's and makes money off of them. Cross finally catches on, kills Kitty, and then suffers a mental breakdown. This is a remake of Jean Renoir's classic "La Chienne."
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The Shanghai Cobra 1945 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Joan Barclay, Walter Fenner, James Cardwell, James Flavin, Addison Richards, Arthur Loft, Janet Warren
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) and his son, Tommy Chan (Benson Fong), heed the U.S. government's call for help in solving a case of suspicious deaths following cobra bites.
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South of Santa Fe 1942 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Linda Hayes, Paul Fix, Judy Clark, Arthur Loft, Pat Brady, Bob Nolan, Charles F. Miller, Sam Flint, Jack Kirk
Gangsters have gone modern, with planes, Tommy guns, etc. to do their dastardly deeds, this time in New Mexico where investors are interested in land. Roy Rogers saves the day while singing several songs.
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Southward Ho 1939 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, George "Gabby" Hayes, Wade Boteler, Arthur Loft, Lane Chandler, Tom London, Charles R. Moore, Ed Brady, Earl Dwire, Spade Cooley, George Chesebro, Curley Dresden, Art Dillard, Bob Burns
During the post-Civil War era, Texas citizens are being terrorized, and ranchers Roy and Gabby (Roy Rogers and George "Gabby" Hayes) become involved in uncovering the culprit. They come to the aid of Union officer Col. Denbigh (Wade Boteler) who has been assigned as the Military Governor of the district. When Denbigh is killed, it turns out that Capt. Jeffries (Arthur Loft), who served under Denbigh's command, is responsible for the bloodshed. Now, Roy and Gabby rally the ranchers to secure their area.
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To Each His Own 1946 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Roland Culver, Mary Anderson, Virginia Welles, Bill Goodwin, Victoria Horne, Griff Barnett, Frank Faylen, Arthur Loft
The elements of adoption are enlightened in this story of a mother (Olivia de Havilland) who gives up her son. Later, she wants to regain custody but decides to leave him with the adoptive parents he loves. Olivia de Havilland won the Oscar for her role in this film.
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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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What Price Crime? 1935 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Charles Starrett, Noel Madison, Virginia Cherrill, Charles Delaney, Jack Mulhall, Nina Guilbert, Henry Roquemore, John Elliott, Arthur Loft, Jack Cowell, Lafe McKee, Fred "Snowflake" Toones
G-man Allen Grey (Charles Starrett) goes undercover as a prizefighter in order to catch the gang that is smuggling firearms that they steal from the government. The trail leads to nightclub owner Douglas Worthington (Noel Madison) who turns out to be the gang leader. Our hero's task becomes more difficult when he falls in love with Worthington's sister (Virginia Cherrill).
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The Woman in the Window 1944  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey, Joan Bennett, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Robert Blake, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas E. Jackson, Arthur Loft, Frank Dawson, Bess Flowers, Frank McClure
When his family is out of town, the very proper Professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) meets the subject of a painting (Joan Bennett) and becomes involved in a murder. Great thriller.
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| 1. Ace Drummond (1936)
2. Along Came Jones (1945)
3. Back in the Saddle (1941)
4. Bars of Hate (1936)
5. Carson City Kid (1940)
6. Caught in the Draft (1941)
7. Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
8. Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)
9. City Streets (1938)
10. Colorado (1940)
11. Days of Jesse James (1939)
12. Down Mexico Way (1941)
13. Footlight Glamour (1943)
14. Gang Bullets (1938)
aka: The Crooked Way
15. Hangmen Also Die (1943)
aka: Lest We Forget
16. Hell's Kitchen (1939)
17. Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944)
18. The Magnificent Dope (1942)
19. Man from Oklahoma (1945)
20. My Friend Flicka (1943)
21. Postal Inspector (1936)
22. Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)
23. Rawhide (1938)
24. The Rogues' Tavern (1936)
25. Scarlet Street (1945)
26. The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
27. South of Santa Fe (1942)
28. Southward Ho (1939)
29. To Each His Own (1946)
30. True to the Army (1942)
31. What Price Crime? (1935)
32. The Woman in the Window (1944)
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