Call of the Yukon 1938  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: B. Reeves Eason, John T. Coyle
Cast: Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot, Garry Owen, Mala, Ivan Miller, Jimmy Lono, Emory Parnell, Al St. John, Charles Anthony Hughes
Author Jean (Beverly Roberts)–along with her bear cubs, a collie, and a talking rook–heads to the Yukon to find material for a novel. She meets a trader, Gaston (Richard Arlen), and the two decide to head home when winter conditions deteriorate. The ice breaks and they lose the dog sled. But help is on the way from another traveler, and the adventures and romances continue. Cheap.
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Country Gentlemen 1936  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Staub
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Joyce Compton, Lila Lee, Pierre Watkin, Donald Kirke, Ray Corrigan, Sammy McKim, Wade Boteler, Ivan Miller, Olin Howland, Frank Sheridan
The comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson play con men who fleece residents of a veterans' home by selling stock in a non-producing oil well. The furious vets discover the scam and prepare for a lynching party–until the well, surprisingly, begins gushing oil.
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 Jesse James at Bay 1941  N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne, Pierre Watkin, Ivan Miller, Gale Storm, Hal Taliaferro, Roy Barcroft, Jack Kirk, Edward Peil Sr.
The railroad is coming and the railroaders need the land. So, they will grab the land from the settlers. Jesse James (Roy Rogers) helps the settlers by robbing the trains and distributing the proceeds among the settlers. But a local villain (also played by Roy Rogers) is a dead-ringer for Jesse, and the battle begins.
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Man from Music Mountain 1938  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Sally Payne, Ivan Miller, Ed Cassidy, Lew Kelly, Howard Chase, Frankie Marvin, Earl Dwire
Gene Autry rides to the rescue and outwits would-be land swindlers in the West.
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Man Made Monster 1941 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
aka: Atomic Monster
Director: George Waggner
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds, William B. Davidson, Ben Taggart, Constance Bergen, Ivan Miller, George Meader, Frank O'Connor, Byron Foulger, Russell Hicks, John Dilson, Chester Gan
Lon Chaney Jr. plays "Dynamo" Dan McCormick who is a carnival side-show performer using his immunity from absorbing large volts of electricity as his act. After riding on a bus that crashes into an electric pole, Dan is the sole survivor. Dan recuperates at the home of mad scientist Dr. Paul Rigas (Lionel Atwill) where Rigas uses him for experiments and turns Dan into a "man made monster" controlled by Rigas. When Rigas' colleague Dr. John Lawrence (Samuel S. Hinds) wants him to stop the experiment, Rigas orders Dan to kill him. The deed is done, but Dan is arrested and sentenced to the electric chair where he absorbs the electricity and again becomes a superhuman–now ready to seek revenge.
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The Man with Nine Lives 1940 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Behind the Door
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Boris Karloff, Byron Foulger, Roger Pryor, Stanley Brown, Charles Trowbridge, Jo Ann Sayers, Hal Taliaferro, Ivan Miller, Bruce Bennett, Ernie Adams
A doctor (Boris Karloff), frozen for many years, is thawed out and then accused of unethically freezing a very wealthy patient to use as a guinea pig in his experiment.
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The Old Barn Dance 1937 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Helen Valkis, Sammy McKim, Roy Rogers, Ivan Miller, Earl Dwire, Hooper Atchley, Carleton Young, Earle Hodgins
A tractor company comes to town, resulting in downfall of Gene Autry's horse-selling business. When the tractors turn out to be real junk, Gene is there to get the con men. Roy Rogers is one of Gene's singers.
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Under Fiesta Stars 1941 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Frank Darien, Joseph Strauch Jr., Pauline Drake, Ivan Miller, Sam Flint, John Merton, Jack Kirk, Inez Palange, Lee Shumway
When Gene Autry inherits a gold mine, trouble can't be far away.
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Wall Street Cowboy 1939 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Raymond Hatton, Ann Baldwin, Pierre Watkin, Paul Fix, Craig Reynolds, Ivan Miller, Reginald Barlow, Adrian Morris
Roy (Roy Rogers) has a good vein of the prized mineral molybdenum on his ranch and Wall Street crooks are out to get it. So Roy heads back to NY to make everything right.
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| 1. Call of the Yukon (1938)
2. Country Gentlemen (1936)
3. Jesse James at Bay (1941)
4. Man from Music Mountain (1938)
5. Man Made Monster (1941)
aka: Atomic Monster
6. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
aka: Behind the Door
7. The Old Barn Dance (1937)
8. Under Fiesta Stars (1941)
9. Wall Street Cowboy (1939)
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