Boots and Saddles 1937  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Judith Allen, Ronald Sinclair, Guy Usher, Bill Elliott, John Ward, Frankie Marvin, Chris-Pin Martin, Stanley Blystone, Bud Osborne, Jerry Frank, Bob Reeves, Duke Taylor, Lynton Brent
Gene Autry has his hands full trying to turn an Englishman, Spud (Ronald Sinclair), into a Westerner after he inherits a ranch. Autry convinces Spud to keep the ranch and raise horses for the Army, but many problems ensue.
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Jungle Girl 1941  N/R, 225 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John English, William Witney
Cast: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr, Eddie Acuff, Frank Lackteen, Tommy Cook, Robert Barron, Al Kikume, Bud Geary, Joe McGuinn, Jerry Frank
Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, this is the story of Nyoka (Frances Gifford) who was raised in the African jungle and now searches for a fortune in diamonds. But the dastardly Slick Latimer (Gerald Mohr) and Nyoka's crooked uncle (Trevor Bardette)–who had killed Nyoka's father–also want the diamonds as do other shady characters. Americans Jack and Curly (Tom Neal and Eddie Acuff) come to Nyoka's aid often in this good 15-episode serial.
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She 1935  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Samuel S. Hinds, Noble Johnson, Lumsden Hare, Jim Thorpe, Ray Corrigan, Julius Adler, Jerry Frank, Arnold Gray, Noble Johnson, Bill Wolfe
She (Helen Gahagan) has ruled over the lost land of Kor for 500 years, her immortality being maintained by the Flame of Life. Along comes a trio of people (Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, and Nigel Bruce) seeking this land and bringing problems as She falls for Scott. Based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard (who also wrote "King Solomon's Mines") and was remade in 1965.
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Voodoo Island 1957 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Silent Death
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Cast: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Elisha Cook Jr., Murvyn Vye, Rhodes Reason, Jean Engstrom, Friedrich von Ledebur, Glenn Dixon, Owen Cunningham, Herbert Patterson, Jerry Frank, Adam West
Boris Karloff plays investigator Phillip Knight whose assignment is to check out bizarre events occurring in an area planned as an island resort. Knight arrives on the island with his secretary Sarah Adams (Beverly Tyler), and, after witnessing plants eating people, he realizes that voodoo really does exist on the island.
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Zorro Rides Again 1937 N/R, 210 min.
Genre: Western / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Director: John English, William Witney
Cast: John Carroll, Helen Christian, Reed Howes, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery, Richard Alexander, Nigel De Brulier, Bob Kortman, Roger Williams, Edmund Cobb, Mona Rico, Tom London, Harry Strang, Jerry Frank, Forrest Burns
James (John Carroll), the great-grandson of Zorro, becomes the new Zorro when called in to deal with a gang trying to take control of the new-construction California-Yucatan Railroad. It takes 12 episodes to get the job done in this serial.
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| 1. Boots and Saddles (1937)
2. Jungle Girl (1941)
3. She (1935)
4. Voodoo Island (1957)
aka: Silent Death
5. Zorro Rides Again (1937)
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