 Flash Gordon 1936  N/R, 245 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
aka: Space Soldiers
Atomic Rocketship
Director: Frederick Stephani
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson, Frank Shannon, Richard Alexander, Jack "Tiny" Lipson, George Cleveland, Duke York, Earl Askam, Theodore Lorch, Richard Tucker, James Pierce, Muriel Goodspeed, House Peters Jr.
The comic strip comes to life with this 13-episode serial, which was also cut down into a feature-length film. The characters are quite interesting and well-developed as Planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. So, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) and friends, including his companion Dale (Jean Rogers) blast off to see what's going on out there. Mongo turns out to be ruled by Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) who has all sorts of creatures ready to do his dirty work as he carries out his plan for Earth.
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 Horse Feathers 1932  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Florine McKinney, Nat Pendleton, James Pierce, Robert Greig
The Marx Brothers are at their very funniest in this film about a college dean (Groucho) who is determined to have a winning football season after years of being on the losing end.
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Timber War 1936  N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Kermit Maynard, Lucille Lund, Lawrence Gray, Robert Warwick, Wheeler Oakman, Lloyd Ingraham, Roger Williams, James Pierce, Horace Murphy, Patricia Royale, Ted Mapes, George Morrell, Ed Cassidy, Tex Phelps, Horace B. Carpenter
The logging company is being sabotaged, and Jim (Kermit Maynard) arrives in town to help owner Sally (Lucille Lund) uncover the culprit who just happens to be the company's manager (Wheeler Oakman). Jim does not fail.
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 Zorro's Fighting Legion 1939 N/R, 212 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English, William Witney
Cast: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb, John Merton, C. Montague Shaw, Budd Buster, Carleton Young, James Pierce
This good 12-episode serial takes place in Mexico shortly after the country gained independence. A member of a group opposing the council setting up the government masquerades as Don del Oro, in full armor, pretending to be a god of the Yaqui Indians and intending to become emperor. Don Diego (Reed Hadley), a relative of resident Volita (Sheila Darcy), enters the scene. The foppish Don Diego works with the council while, as the masked Zorro, he deals with the henchmen of Don del Oro. Traps, explosions, avalanches, and other assorted hazards will not stop Zorro in his quest for justice, and the real identity of Don del oro is revealed. Some of the best cliffhangers of any serial.
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| 1. Flash Gordon (1936)
aka: Space Soldiers
aka: Atomic Rocketship
2. Horse Feathers (1932)
3. Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
4. Timber War (1936)
5. Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
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