Along the Navajo Trail 1945  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Douglas Fowley, Nestor Paiva, Bob Nolan, Sam Flint, Emmett Vogan, Roy Barcroft
An oil pipeline is planned, and it will go through Dale's dad's ranch. So, of course, the bad guys attempt to get his land. But Deputy Marshal Roy Rogers is on the job. A couple of Western "biggies" are sung: "Cool Water" and the title song.
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie 1946 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Comedy
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully, George E. Stone, Claire Carleton, Erik Rolf, Charles(2) Lane, Mark Roberts, Emmett Vogan, Russell Hicks, Doris Houck, Ruth Warren
Once again, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) works to clear his name. This time around, Blackie tells his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone) to take his ex-girlfriend Gerry Peyton (Lynn Merrick) and her baby away from the crime scene where her husband has been killed while Blackie was calling Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) for assistance. Later, Gerry tells the police that Blackie shot her husband as part of a scheme to extort money from her husband's wealthy family. Blackie and The Runt investigate and learn that Gerry is the one planning to extort the money. Now they must bring proof to Inspector Farraday who, it turns out, is only trying to teach Blackie a lesson about being careful when picking girlfriends.
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Criminals Within 1941  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Eric Linden, Ann Doran, Constance Worth, Donald Curtis, Weldon Heyburn, Ben Alexander, Dudley Dickerson, Bernice Pilot, I. Stanford Jolley, Emmett Vogan, Boyd Irwin, William Ruhl
Corporal Greg Carroll (Eric Linden) is accused of stealing secret plans for a weapon. He decides to find the real culprits and breaks out of prison to do so. A cheap ho-hummer.
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Dangerous Lady 1941  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Bernard B. Ray
Cast: June Storey, Neil Hamilton, Douglas Fowley, John Holland, Emmett Vogan, Evelyn Brent, Greta Granstedt, Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart, Jack Mulhall, Terry Walker, Carl Stockdale, Kenneth Harlan
Detectives Phyllis and Duke Maratindel (June Storey and Neil Hamilton) stay just one step ahead of the police as they try to prove that Hester (Evelyn Brent) is not a "dangerous lady" by tracking down the real killer.
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Down Dakota Way 1949 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Witney
Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Monty Montana, Elisabeth Risdon, Byron Barr, Roy Barcroft, James Cardwell, Foy Willing, Emmett Vogan
How do you get rid of cattle infected with hoof-and-mouth disease? Well, you get rid of the veterinarian first to cover-up the disease and then start making the deals. Come on, Roy Rogers, help us out.
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The Lady Confesses 1945 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont, Edmund MacDonald, Claudia Drake, Emmett Vogan, Edward Howard, Dewey Robinson, Barbara Slater, Carol Andrews, Jack George
About to be divorced, Norma Craig (Barbara Slater) returns after a seven-year disappearance and tells her husband Larry's (Hugh Beaumont) fiancee Vicky (Mary Beth Hughes) that she cannot marry Larry. That same night, Norma is murdered, and Larry is the prime suspect. Vickie sets out on her own to prove Larry's innocence and finds her own life in peril.
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The Lost Weekend 1945  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Frank Orth, Byron Foulger, Lillian Fontaine, Lewis L. Russell, James Millican, Emmett Vogan, David Clyde
Ray Milland won the Oscar for his portrayal of Don Birnam, writer and alcoholic. Birnam's problem reaches a crisis during one long weekend of drinking, after which he suffers the D.T.s as his girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) begs him to stop drinking. Ray Milland: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation." This film also won the Best Picture Academy Award, as did Billy Wilder for his directing and writing.
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Manhattan Love Song 1934 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leonard Fields
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Dixie Lee, Nydia Westman, Helen Flint, Franklin Pangborn, Cecil Cunningham, Harold Waldridge, Herman Bing, Harrison Greene, George Irving, Emmett Vogan, Eddie Dean
Geraldine (Dixie Lee) and Carol (Helen Flint) are wealthy sisters who are in for a shock when they find that a crooked investor has lost their money. Their chauffeur, Williams (Robert Armstrong), and the maid, Annette (Nydai Westman), have enough money to buy the sisters' home, and the sisters reverse roles with them and become their servants.
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The Mummy's Ghost 1944 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Reginald LeBorg
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames, Barton MacLane, George Zucco, Frank Reicher, Harry Shannon, Emmett Vogan, Lester Sharpe, Claire Whitney, Oscar O'Shea, Ivan Triesault, Steve Barclay, Bess Flowers
This sequel to "The Mummy's Tomb" is yet another horror story involving Kharis the Mummy (Lon Chaney) who gets help from Cult of Akran member Yousef Bey (John Carradine) in the search for his lost love, Princess Ananka (Ramsay Ames). They travel to New England and learn that Ananka's soul has been taken over by an exchange student, Amina Mansouri (also played by Ames), who is studying with Egyptologist Norman (Frank Reicher) and has a boyfriend Tommy (Robert Lowery). Kharis stalks Amina, and when he learns that Yousef Bey is in love with his princess, he kills him. Now, with his reincarnated princess in his arms, the Mummy sinks into a bog and disappears. Followed by "The Mummy's Curse."
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The Mummy's Tomb 1942  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Elyse Knox, John Hubbard, Turhan Bey, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Mary Gordon, Virginia Brissac, Cliff Clark, Paul E. Burns, Frank Reicher, Emmett Vogan, Harry Cording, Rex Lease
In this sequel to "The Mummy's Hand," Lon Chaney Jr. makes his debut in the role of Kharis, the Mummy. Although it was assumed in the earlier film that archaeologist Steve Banning (Dick Foran) had killed the Mummy, he was only injured. Now, the Mummy is hiding in a Mapleton, Massachusetts, graveyard waiting for the first full moon in order to seek revenge against those who had desecrated Princess Ananka's tomb 30 years ago.
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The Oil Raider 1934 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Gloria Shea, George Irving, Max Wagner, Emmett Vogan, Harold Minjir, Hal Taliaferro, Tom London, Tetsu Komai, Chuck Morrison
Dave Warren's (Buster Crabbe) crew is drilling for oil in Oak Glenn Basin when they run into trouble caused by the corrupt financier, J.T. Varley (George Irving), who is plotting to delay drilling so that he can foreclose on the loan for the oil rig.
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Pals of the Golden West 1951 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Witney
Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pinky Lee, Anthony Caruso, Roy Barcroft, Pat Brady, Eduardo Jiminez, Ken Terrell, Emmett Vogan, Maurice Jara
Rustlers along the border have a deal with Mexico. Roy Rogers joins the action when a border patrol officer is murdered by the bad guys.
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San Quentin 1937  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Barton MacLane, Marc Lawrence, Joe Sawyer, Veda Ann Borg, Joe King, Garry Owen, Raymond Hatton, James Robbins, Gordon Oliver, Emmett Vogan, Ernie Adams, William Pawley
Former Army Captain Stephen Jameson (Pat O'Brien) is hired by San Quentin prison to bring military order to the rowdy yard. Meanwhile, he falls for May (Ann Sheridan) but keeps his occupation a secret from her when she tells him that her brother Joe "Red" Kennedy (Humphrey Bogart) is a prisoner at San Quentin. When "Red" learns about the romance from stoolie "Sailor Boy" Hansen (Joe Sawyer), he plots his escape. It works, and he appears at May's apartment and shoots at and wounds Jameson–only to be gunned down on his way to surrender.
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Sergeant Murphy 1938 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: B. Reeves Eason
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr., William B. Davidson, Edmund Cobb, Emmett Vogan, Tracy Lane, Janet Shaw, Rosella Towne
This so-so film is about a young soldier (Ronald Reagan) who is devoted to a very special U.S. Army horse.
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Stardust on the Sage 1942 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Morgan
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, William Henry, Edith Fellows, Louise Currie, Emmett Vogan, George Ernest, Vince Barnett, Roy Barcroft, Tom London
Gene Autry sets out to stop the crooked foreman from stealing his bosses' mine.
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| 1. Along the Navajo Trail (1945)
2. A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)
3. Criminals Within (1941)
4. Dangerous Lady (1941)
5. Down Dakota Way (1949)
6. The Lady Confesses (1945)
7. The Lost Weekend (1945)
8. Manhattan Love Song (1934)
9. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
10. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
11. The Oil Raider (1934)
12. Pals of the Golden West (1951)
13. San Quentin (1937)
14. Sergeant Murphy (1938)
15. Stardust on the Sage (1942)
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