Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture 1949  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Chester Morris, Maylia, Richard Lane, Don McGuire, Joan Woodbury, Sid Tomack, Frank Sully, Charles Arnt, Luis Van Rooten, Philip Ahn, Peter Brocco, Benson Fong, Edgar Dearing, Fred F. Sears, Pat O'Malley
This film represents the last episode in the "Boston Blackie" series. Once again, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his sidekick The Runt (Sid Tomack replaces George E. Stone for this final episode.) are accused of murder. This time around, they are reported to be leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered. Blackie and The Runt, as usual, escape from the police and manage to find the real murderer in Wong's Curio Shop where they also find stolen jewels hidden in tea bags.
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The Delicate Delinquent 1957   N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Don McGuire
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer, Robert Ivers, Horace McMahon, Richard Bakalyan, Milton Frome, Emory Parnell, Don Megowan, Emile Meyer
Sidney Pythias (Jerry Lewis) leaves his janitorial job to enter police officer training as part of a program to give outcasts a chance for respectability.
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Double Dynamite 1951 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Don McGuire, Howard Freeman, Harry Hayden, Nestor Paiva, Lou Nova, Joe Devlin, Frank Orth, William Edmunds, Russell Thorson, Charles Coleman, Ida Moore, Hal K. Dawson
Bank tellers Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and "Mibs" Goodhug (Jane Russell) want to get married but just don't have enough money. Their friend Emil J. Keck (Groucho Marx) jokingly suggests that they rob the bank to get the needed funds, but Johnny remains on the side of honesty. Then, Johnny wins $60,000 at the race track, but before he and Mibs can spend the money on their marriage, word leaks out that Johnny is the chief suspect in a $70,000 embezzlement at their bank. By story's end, it is learned that Mib's adding machine has a mechanical problem, no money is missing from the bank, and, maybe just maybe, Johnny and Mibs can live happily ever after.
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The Fuller Brush Man 1948  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Cast: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Adele Jergens, Ross Ford, Hillary Brooke, Trudy Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Donald Curtis, Arthur Space
A novice door-to-door salesman (Red Skelton) gets involved in a murder plot while he earnestly tries to ply his trade.
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Pride of the Marines 1945  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp, Ann Doran, Anthony Caruso, Moroni Olsen, Warren Douglas, Don McGuire
U.S. Marine Al Schmid (John Garfield) was blinded during the World War II Guadalcanal battle. When he returns to his Philadelphia home he must adjust to a new lifestyle.
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Three Guys Named Mike 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan, Phyllis Kirk, Anne Sargent, Jeff Donnell, Herbert Heyes, Robert E. Sherwood, Don McGuire, Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Sanders
Flight attendant Marcy (Jane Wyman) knows that three "Mikes" are romantically interested in her. When Mike Lawrence (Van Johnson), Mike Jamison (Howard Keel), and Mike Tracy (Barry Sullivan) find out about each other, Marcy must choose from the three.
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| 1. Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
2. The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
3. Double Dynamite (1951)
4. The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
5. Pride of the Marines (1945)
6. Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
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