The Bat 1926  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roland West
Cast: Tullio Carminati, Charles Herzinger, Louise Fazenda, Emily Fitzroy, Arthur Housman, Robert McKim, Jack Pickford, Eddie Gribbon, George Beranger, Jewel Carmen, Sojin, Lee Shumway
Based on a popular Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the story takes place in an old mansion. A killer, who dresses as a giant bat and flashes a bat-shadow on the wall when he strikes, goes after an assorted group of guests at the mansion. Remade by the director in 1930 as a talkie ("The Bat Whispers").
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Hidden Gold 1932  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Arthur Rosson
Cast: Tom Mix, Raymond Hatton, Judith Barrie, Wallis Clark, Eddie Gribbon, Donald Kirke, Roy Moore, Bud Osborne, Jay Wilsey
On the lookout for a cache of stolen gold, Tom Mix finds the fortune via an outlaw gang.
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Mr. Muggs Steps Out 1943 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William "Billy" Benedict, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Stone, Buddy Gorman, David Durand, Jimmy Strand, Joan Marsh, Betty Blythe, Halliwell Hobbes, Eddie Gribbon
To avoid reform school, Muggs (Leo Gorcey) takes a job with wealthy socialite Margaret Murray (Betty Blythe). He brings in his East Side Kids to be servants for Margaret's spoiled daughter's engagement party. When a valuable necklace is stolen, the East Side Kids are blamed, and they set out to find the real thief.
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Search for Beauty 1934 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong, Gertrude Michael, Roscoe Karnes, Verna Hillie, James B. "Pop" Kenton, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ann Sheridan, Bradley Page, Nora Cecil, Virginia Hammond, Eddie Gribbon
Olympic swimming champions Don and Barbara (Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino) have won a contest given by a "physical culture" magazine and find themselves in a power struggle with the magazine publishers. Don and Barbara have been hired as editors, but the publishers want them to pose in swim suits and show skin. But, Don and Barbara want the magazine to focus on health. They give up their positions in exchange for a health farm, which they refurbish and then invite beauty pageant workers to take jobs as health instructors for the guests. But more than a few problems lie ahead between Don and Barbara and the publishers before they find success.
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| 1. The Bat (1926)
2. Hidden Gold (1932)
3. Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)
4. Search for Beauty (1934)
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