After Midnight with Boston Blackie 1943  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Chester Morris, George E. Stone, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall, George McKay, Al Hill, Walter Sande, Jan Buckingham, Walter Baldwin, Dick Elliott, Don Barclay, John Harmon, Heinie Conklin
In this episode of the "Boston Blackie" series, reformed thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage) retrieve a sack of diamonds that her father had hidden after a robbery. Betty wants her father, Diamond Ed Barnaby (Walter Baldwin), to change his ways, but he is killed, and now Blackie is arrested for the crime. Of course, Blackie escapes, saves Betty who is kidnapped by those who murdered her father, stops the gang, and returns the jewels to the owners.
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Christmas in Connecticut 1945 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Shayne, Una O'Connor, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton, John Dehner, Dick Elliott, Marie Blake, Walter Baldwin, Emmet Smith, Jack Mower
Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) writes for a homemaker magazine, but, in reality, she does no housework herself. When she is coerced into entertaining a young World War II veteran (Dennis Morgan), Elizabeth must find a phony husband, baby, and house to ensure that her boss (Sydney Greenstreet) does not catch on to her deceptive business practices.
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Heading for Heaven 1947  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis D. Collins
Cast: Stuart Erwin, Glenda Farrell, Russ Vincent, Irene Ryan, Milburn Stone, George O'Hanlon, Janice Wilson, Ralph Hodges, Dick Elliott, Charles Williams, Selmer Jackson, Ben Welden
Nervous, small-town realtor Henry (Stuart Erwin) is misdiagnosed as having three months to live. When his clothes are found, it is assumed that he had committed suicide, and the fun begins.
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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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Man of the West 1958  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord, John Dehner, Royal Dano, Robert J. Wilke, Frank Ferguson, Emory Parnell, Guy Wilkerson, Chuck Roberson, Tom London, Dick Elliott, Tina Menard
While on a train to Fort Worth, the train is robbed, and Link Jones (Gary Cooper), saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London), and Sam Beasley (Arthur O'Connell) are stranded. Link leads them to his uncle's cabin where they learn that Link is a former outlaw and nephew of the gang's leader, Dock Tobin (Lee J. Cobb). Now a bank heist is planned. Will Link revert back to his former lifestyle and again enter the world of outlaws?
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So's Your Aunt Emma 1942 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Meet the Mob
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Zasu Pitts, Roger Pryor, Douglas Fowley, Warren Hymer, Gwen Kenyon, Elizabeth Russell, Tristram Coffin, Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart, Stanley Blystone, Jack Mulhall, Dick Elliott, Wheeler Oakman
Spinster Aunt Emma (Zasu Pitts) travels to the big city to attend the boxing match of Mickey O'Banion (Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart) who is the son of her long-dead beau. Emma uncovers the fact that Mickey is a victim of mobsters controlling the boxing matches, and the gangsters mistakenly believe that Emma heads up the Ma Barker gang. Emma goes along with the deception, joins forces with a reporter (Roger Pryor), and frees Mickey from gang control.
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Sunset in Wyoming 1941 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Morgan
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maris Wrixon, George Cleveland, Sarah Edwards, Monte Blue, Robert Kent, Dick Elliott, John Dilson, Stanley Blystone, Syd Saylor
Gene Autry just can't accept the stripping of all the timber from the land, which can result in flooding.
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Thunder Mountain 1947 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Tim Holt, Martha Hyer, Richard Martin, Steve Brodie, Virginia Owen, Jason Robards Sr., Robert Clarke, Tom Keene, Harry Woods, Harry Harvey, Dick Elliott
Marvin Hayden (Tim Holt) returns to his ranch and finds that not only is his ranch about to be auctioned off, but the old Jorth-Hayden feud has again raised its ugly head. Why, you ask. Greedy townsfolk have found out that the land is valuable (the government wants it for a dam) and so have not only rekindled the feud but try to pin a murder on Marvin. A good story that is based (loosely) on a Zane Grey novel–not "Thunder Mountain," but "To the Last Man."
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Up in the Air 1940 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds, Mantan Moreland, Lorna Gray, Gordon Jones, Tristram Coffin, Clyde Dilson, Dick Elliott, John Holland, Carleton Young
Ambitious radio station pageboy Frankie (Frankie Darro) pushes management to air a comedy program starring him and his porter pal (Mantan Moreland). Just when it appears he will be successful in his quest, the station's stars start getting killed while on the air. C'mon Frankie, solve this case.
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| 1. After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
2. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
3. Heading for Heaven (1947)
4. Li'l Abner (1940)
5. Man of the West (1958)
6. So's Your Aunt Emma (1942)
aka: Meet the Mob
7. Sunset in Wyoming (1941)
8. Thunder Mountain (1947)
9. Up in the Air (1940)
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