The Brute Man 1946  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Rondo Hatton, Jane(2) Adams, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley, Peter Whitney, Donald MacBride, Fred Coby, Janelle Johnson Dolenz, Tristram Coffin, Joseph Crehan
Hal Moffet "The Creeper" (Rondo Hatton) seeks revenge for a lab accident that grossly disfigured him years ago in college. (Fred Coby takes on the role of Hal before the disfigurement.) After finding and killing his former classmates, "The Creeper" seeks refuge in the home of blind, piano teacher Helen Page (Jane Adams). But, an unrelenting police officer, Lt. Gates (Peter Whitney), is on his trail, and capture appears to be a certainty for "The Creeper."
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The Challenge 1948  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Tom Conway, June Vincent, John Newland, Eily Malyon, Terry Kilburn, Richard Stapley, Stanley Logan, Oliver Blake, Houseley Stevenson, Leyland Hodgson
Tom Conway is Bulldog Drummond for the second (and last) time in this weak episode. A sea captain, who is thought to know the location of a hidden treasure of gold, is murdered by greedy relatives. Bulldog Drummond is out to bring those responsible to justice.
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The Devil Bat 1940  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama / Sci-Fi
aka: Killer Bats
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Donald Kerr, Edmund Mortimer, Gene O'Donnell, Alan Baldwin, John Ellis, Hal Price, Arthur Q. Bryan, John Davidson, Wally Rairden
Deranged scientist Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) sets out to destroy the cosmetics firm where he is employed. (They don't pay him enough!) His "bats" kill people who wear a certain cologne. There is a sequel: "Devil Bat's Daughter."
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Follow the Band 1943 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Eddie Quillan, Mary Beth Hughes, Leon Errol, Anne Rooney, Samuel S. Hinds, Robert Mitchum, Russell Hicks, Irving Bacon, Frank Faylen, Benny Bartlett
A Vermont farmer heads to NYC with his trombone under his arm and hopes of hitting it big. What do you know? He does, and soon becomes a popular nightclub and radio success. But what about the girl back home? Lots of songs in this minor movie.
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Freckles Comes Home 1942 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland, Irving Bacon, Bradley Page, Betty Blythe, Marvin Stephens, Walter Sande, Max Hoffman Jr., Laurence Criner, John Ince, Gene O'Donnell
Freckles (Johnny Downs) arrives home from college with big plans for himself and his hometown. But he begins with a rough start when gangsters have holed up in town with the intent of robbing the bank. Freckles must deal with the situation while also dealing with his sweetheart, Jane (Gale Storm). Based on Gene Stratton-Porter's stories.
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Gang's All Here 1941 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: In the Night
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Marcia Mae Jones, Keye Luke, Jackie Moran, Irving Mitchell, Ed Cassidy, Pat Gleason, Jack Kenney, Laurence Criner, Paul Bryar, Jack Ingram, Robert Homans
Young truck drivers Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) work for a firm that is being put out of business by a rival that forces trucks off the road and then hijacks the contents. Frankie, Jefferson, and their friends Chick and Patsy (Jackie Moran and Marcia Mae Jones) decide to take action.
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Here Come the Co-Eds 1945  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Ryan, Martha O'Driscoll, Lon Chaney Jr., Donald Cook, Charles Dingle, June Vincent, Richard Lane, Joe Kirk
Janitors Slats (Bud Abbott) and Oliver (Lou Costello) help raise funds for the posh girl's school where they work.
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Hillbillys in a Haunted House 1967 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Ferlin Husky, Joi Lansing, Don Bowman, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Basil Rathbone, Molly Bee, Merle Haggard, Sonny James
In this sequel to "Las Vegas Hillbillies," two Country/Western singers (Ferlin Husky and Joi Lansing) head for Nashville, but along the way they stop for the night in a creepy old mansion.
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Jack and the Beanstalk 1952 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Ford, Barbara Brown, Buddy Baer, William Farnum, Joe Kirk, David Stollery, Shaye Cogan, James Alexander, Johnny Conrad, Mel Blanc, Arthur Shields, Jack Shea, Almira Sessions
While babysitting for young Donald (David Stollery), Jack (Lou Costello) reads the story "Jack and the Beanstalk" to Donald and falls asleep. Jack enters a fairytale world inhabited by real people in his life. Mr. Dinklepuss (Bud Abbott) talks Jack into selling his cow for magic beans. The beans grow into a beanstalk, which Dinklepuss and Jack climb and run into the Giant (Buddy Baer) who captures them and puts them in prison with a prince (James Alexander) and princess (Shaye Cogan). Now, Jack and Dinklepuss plot their escape and the rescue of the prince and princess.
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King of the Zombies 1941 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer, Patricia Stacey, Guy Usher, Marguerite Whitten, Leigh Whipper, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, James Davis, Laurence Criner
A U.S. agent, his pilot, and his man-servant are sent to the Caribbean to locate an admiral whose plane crashed. They also crash on a tiny island where a German doctor is making zombies out of the inhabitants through hypnosis. He had also caused the admiral's plane to crash, planning to hypnotize the admiral and then extract secrets from him. But our heroes stop that nonsense in this World War II propaganda film–though the U.S. had not yet entered the war.
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Let's Go Collegiate 1941 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
aka: Farewell to Fame
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Gale Storm, Frank Sully, Barton Yarborough, Frank Faylen, Marguerite Whitten, Paul Maxey, Tristram Coffin
After members of a collegiate crew team–Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Jeff (Mantan Moreland)–tell their girlfriends that they will win the big race, their star rower is drafted. But that doesn't stop Frankie and Jeff who get a truck driver, Herk Bevans (Frank Sully), to fill in. They win, but Herk turns out to be a criminal on the run, and more than a few problems await the boys.
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Lost in Alaska 1952 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell, Bruce Cabot, Emory Parnell, Jack Ingram, Rex Lease, Joe Kirk, Minerva Urecal
In the 1890s, Tom Watson (Bud Abbott) and George Bell (Lou Costello) are in Alaska prospecting for gold when they save Nugget Joe McDermott (Tom Ewell) from taking his life. They discover that McDermott has a fortune in gold, and–to make matters worse–evil folks are on his trail. The race is on as they try to outdistance the villains in a dogsled race to the finish.
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Man from Headquarters 1942 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Frank Albertson, Joan Woodbury, John Maxwell, Dick Elliott, Byron Foulger, Robert Kellard, Arthur O'Connell, Mel Ruick, Gwen Kenyon, Jack Mulhall, Paul Bryar, Maynard Holmes, Max Hoffman Jr., Christine McIntyre, Charlie Hall
After helping to solve a gangland murder, Chicago police reporter Larry Doyle (Frank Albertson) is kidnapped by mobsters and dumped on a train to prevent him from testifying. He wakes up in St. Louis and befriends Ann (Joan Woodbury). Together, they return to Chicago and–despite problems with the mobsters along the way–out-fox the gang boss Louis Padroni (Max Hoffman Jr.) at his own game.
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The Over-the-Hill Gang 1969 TV, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Walter Brennan, Pat O'Brien, Edgar Buchanan, Chill Wills, Jack Elam, Andy Devine, Edward Andrews, Ricky Nelson, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kristin Harmon, Dennis Cross, Rex Holman, Lillian Bronson, Myron Healey, Bruce Glover
Four old-timers (Pat O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Edgar Buchanan), all retired Texas Rangers, come the aid of a town that is held hostage by political corruption. They must resort to bluffs and trickery to get the job done in this fun reunion of some great Hollywood senior citizens.
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She-Wolf of London 1946 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Curse of the Allenbys
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley, Lloyd Corrigan, Dennis Hoey, Martin Kosleck, Eily Malyon, Frederick Worlock, James Finlayson
A series of grisly murders have the authorities baffled in early-1900s London. Phyllis Allenby (June Lockhart) is convinced that she is the perpetrator, since she is an ancestor of a family that had a werewolf curse. Her fiance (Don Porter) sets out to prove her innocence.
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So's Your Aunt Emma 1942 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Meet the Mob
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Zasu Pitts, Roger Pryor, Douglas Fowley, Warren Hymer, Gwen Kenyon, Elizabeth Russell, Tristram Coffin, Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart, Stanley Blystone, Jack Mulhall, Dick Elliott, Wheeler Oakman
Spinster Aunt Emma (Zasu Pitts) travels to the big city to attend the boxing match of Mickey O'Banion (Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart) who is the son of her long-dead beau. Emma uncovers the fact that Mickey is a victim of mobsters controlling the boxing matches, and the gangsters mistakenly believe that Emma heads up the Ma Barker gang. Emma goes along with the deception, joins forces with a reporter (Roger Pryor), and frees Mickey from gang control.
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| 1. The Brute Man (1946)
2. The Challenge (1948)
3. The Devil Bat (1940)
aka: Killer Bats
4. Follow the Band (1943)
5. Freckles Comes Home (1942)
6. Gang's All Here (1941)
aka: In the Night
7. Here Come the Co-Eds (1945)
8. Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
9. In Society (1944)
10. Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
11. King of the Zombies (1941)
12. Let's Go Collegiate (1941)
aka: Farewell to Fame
13. Lost in Alaska (1952)
14. Man from Headquarters (1942)
15. Naughty Nineties (1945)
16. The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
17. She-Wolf of London (1946)
aka: The Curse of the Allenbys
18. So's Your Aunt Emma (1942)
aka: Meet the Mob
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