Charlie Chan's Courage 1934  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: George Hadden
Cast: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Donald Woods, Paul Harvey, Murray Kinnell, Jerry Jerome, Si Jenks, Harvey Clark
Murder amidst a jewelry delivery confronts Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) who sets out to solve the case. This film, like several other Charlie Chan movies in the early 1930s, was lost in the archives.
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 Down to Earth 1932  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Dorothy Jordan, Matty Kemp, Clarence Wilson, Mary Carlisle, Brandon Hurst, Henry Kolker, Harvey Clark, Theodore Lodi, Louise Mackintosh
This sequel to "They Had to See Paris" again stars Will Rogers as the suddenly rich Oklahoman. Now his family will not stop spending money, so he hatches a scheme to make them believe he has gone bankrupt.
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Man's Castle 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl, Marjorie Rambeau, Dickie Moore, Helen Jerome Eddy, Harvey Clark, Kendall McComas
Trina (Loretta Young) and Bill (Spencer Tracy) are a young couple trying to cope with the Great Depression. She becomes pregnant, and Bill turns to the criminal world to support Trina and her expected family.
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Millie 1931 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, Joan Blondell, John Halliday, James Hall, Anita Louise, Edmund Breese, Frank McHugh, Charlotte Walker, Charles Delaney, Harry Stubbs, Harvey Clark
Millie (Helen Twelvetrees) has been unlucky in love more than a few times over the years, but, unlike her gold digging friends Angie and Helen (Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman), Millie has made a living on her own. Now, one of her long-lost suitors, Jimmy (John Halliday), has returned and is pursuing Millie's 16-year-old daughter, Connie (Anita Louise). Millie warns Jimmy to stay away from Connie, he ignores her, and Millie shoots and kills him when she catches him seducing Connie. Millie is acquitted, however, after Connie testifies and tells what really happened the night Jimmy was killed.
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Partners of the Plains 1938  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: William Boyd, Harvey Clark, Russell Hayden, Gwen Gaze, Hilda Plowright, John Warburton, Al Bridge, John Beach, Al Hill, Earle Hodgins
A lone woman is an inept rancher when she arrives in the West. However, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) proves to be an able friend as he helps her over the rough spots and wards off an evil land grabber.
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Peck's Bad Boy 1934 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Jackie Cooper, Thomas Meighan, Dorothy Peterson, Jackie Searl, O.P. Heggie, Gertrude Howard, Charles E. Evans, Larry Wheat, Harvey Clark, Lloyd Ingraham
Young Bill Peck (Jackie Cooper) and his widower father, Henry (Thomas Meighan), live a good, quiet life–until Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and Bill's cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) move in and attempt to ruin the father/son relationship.
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Picture Brides 1934  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Regis Toomey, Dorothy Mackaill, Dorothy Libaire, Alan Hale, Will Ahern, Mary Kornman, Fred Malatesta, Harvey Clark, Gladys Ahern, Esther Muir, Brooks Benedict, Viva Tattersall, Al Hill, Michael Visaroff
Five mail-order brides arrive at a remote mining community in the jungles of Brazil where all does not go as planned after the women are introduced to the harsh environment, lecherous men, and the unscrupulous mine boss (Alan Hale).
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A Shriek in the Night 1933 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Director: Albert Ray
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Purnell Pratt, Harvey Clark, Arthur Hoyt, Lillian Harmer, Maurice Black, Louise Beavers, Clarence Wilson, Cyril Ring, Tiny Sanford, Jim Farley, Dick Rush
Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot are reunited (after starring together in "The Thirteenth Guest"). This time they play rival reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Kord who team up to solve a series of murders in which the killer leaves a card behind that contains a drawing of a coiled snake.
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Singing Cowboy 1936 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Mack V. Wright
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lois Wilde, Ann Gillis, Earle Hodgins, Frankie Marvin, Lon Chaney Jr., Harvey Clark, John Van Pelt, Earl Eby, Ken Cooper, Harrison Greene, Wes Warner, Jack Rockwell, Tracy Layne
After his boss is murdered by Martin (Lon Chaney Jr.) and the boss's daughter is injured, Gene Autry puts on a broadcast in the Big City so he can raise money for an operation to allow a little girl to walk again.
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| 1. Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
2. Down to Earth (1932)
3. Man's Castle (1933)
4. Millie (1931)
5. Partners of the Plains (1938)
6. Peck's Bad Boy (1934)
7. Picture Brides (1934)
8. A Shriek in the Night (1933)
9. Singing Cowboy (1936)
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