 The Bank Dick 1940  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, George Moran, Dick Purcell, Pierre Watkin, Eddie Acuff, Russell Hicks, Al Hill, Jack Norton, Bill Wolfe
After a bank robber trips over the park bench that barfly Egbert Souse (W.C. Fields) is lying on, the robber is caught, and Egbert becomes the town hero. Egbert is given a job at the bank as a guard and becomes involved in a bank scam convincing Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton)–who happens to be the fiance of Egbert's daughter Myrtle (Una Merkel)–to embezzle funds to buy shares in the Beefsteak Mines. When bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn) arrives on the scene, mayhem ensues culminating in a great car chase. W.C. Fields' mastery of the comic art makes this film a classic.
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The Desperadoes 1943  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan, Raymond Walburn, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Porter Hall, Joan Woodbury, Irving Bacon, Roy Bucko, Tex Cooper, Silver Harr, Tex Phelps, Bill Wolfe
Ex-gunslinger Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford) rides into Red Valley, Utah, in the 1860s to visit his friend, Sheriff Steve Upton (Randolph Scott). When the town's bank is robbed by Uncle Willie McLeod (Edgar Buchanan) and some of the locals, Cheyenne is accused and sent to jail. Sheriff Upton helps Cheyenne escape, and the two of them work together to track down the culprits.
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Poppy 1936  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Granville Bates, Catharine Doucet, Lynne Overman, Maude Eburne, Bill Wolfe, Adrian Morris, Rosalind Keith, Wade Boteler, Ralph Remley, Frank Sully, Dewey Robinson, Dell Henderson
Poppy (Rochelle Hudson), the daughter of carnival con-man Professor McGargle (W.C. Fields), falls in love with Mayor Farnsworth's (Granville Bates) son Billy (Richard Cromwell). Meanwhile, McGargle is wooing "Countess" Maggie Tubbs De Puizzi (Catharine Doucet) who is a phony claimant to the valuable Putnam estate. McGargle plots with Attorney E.G. Whiffen (Lynne Overman) to pass Poppy off as the real heir. By story's end, it is learned that Poppy was adopted by McGargle and, in fact, really is the heir to the Putnam estate. Now, Poppy plans to marry Billy and live happily ever after.
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She 1935 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Samuel S. Hinds, Noble Johnson, Lumsden Hare, Jim Thorpe, Ray Corrigan, Julius Adler, Jerry Frank, Arnold Gray, Noble Johnson, Bill Wolfe
She (Helen Gahagan) has ruled over the lost land of Kor for 500 years, her immortality being maintained by the Flame of Life. Along comes a trio of people (Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, and Nigel Bruce) seeking this land and bringing problems as She falls for Scott. Based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard (who also wrote "King Solomon's Mines") and was remade in 1965.
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| 1. The Bank Dick (1940)
2. The Desperadoes (1943)
3. Poppy (1936)
4. She (1935)
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