Across the Plains 1939  N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Addison Randall, Frank Yaconelli, Joyce Bryant, Hal Price, Dennis Moore, Glenn Strange, Bob Card, Bud Osborne, Monte Rawlins, Wylie Grant, Iron Eyes Cody, Buddy Cox, Texi-Ray Cox
Outlaws attack a wagon train, and the parents of young brothers Jack (Buddy Cox) and Jimmy (Texi-Ray Cox) are killed. Jack is adopted by Indians, and Jimmy is kidnapped by the outlaws. They grow up apart but are reunited when Jimmy, now known as the Kansas Kid (Dennis Moore), leads his outlaw gang in an ambush of Jeff (Glenn Strange) and his daughter Mary's (Joyce Bryant) wagon train. Jack, now known as Cherokee (Addison Randall) tries to lead them to safety, and now the gang sets out to eliminate Cherokee. They kidnap Buckskin (Hal Price) who has teamed up with Cherokee, and he overhears them talking about killing the Kid's parents. Cherokee rescues Buckskin, and he tells Cherokee the truth about his brother. The gang attacks, but the brothers bond together in battling the outlaws. Jimmy is mortally wounded while avenging his parents' death, but Jack's future looks brighter, and he asks Mary to marry him.
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East Side Kids 1940  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert F. Hill
Cast: Leon Ames, Dennis Moore, Joyce Bryant, Hal E. Chester, Harris Berger, Frankie Burke, Vince Barnett, Dave O'Brien, Ted Adams, Maxine Leslie
Ex-street gang member, and now detective, Pat O'Day (Leon Ames) helps to keep the East Side Kids from leading a life of crime on the streets on NYC. His immediate task is to save them from a counterfeit gang they are involved with and also free an innocent man from jail.
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Mr. Ace 1946  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sara Haden, Jerome Cowan, Sid Silvers, Alan Edwards, Roman Bohnen, Joyce Bryant, Joe Gray
Eddie (George Raft) heads a dirty political machine, and Margaret (Sylvia Sidney) is running for governor. Margaret needs Eddie's support, but, being a male chauvinist, he is reluctant to come to her aid. Eddie even sides with her opponent and tries to ruin Margaret's name. Eddie eventually sees the light and backs her. Now he's in trouble with the law for election fraud while Margaret falls for him. Got the picture? Not one of Raft's best, but Sidney is pretty good.
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Terry and the Pirates 1940 N/R, 270 min.
Genre: Action
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: William Tracy, Jeff York, Joyce Bryant, Dick Curtis, Allen Jung, Victor DeCamp, Sheila Darcy, J. Paul Jones, Jack Ingram, Charles King, Constantine Romanoff, Forrest Taylor
Based in Milton Caniff's comic strip, this 15-episode adventure follows young Terry (William Tracy) and his friends as they head off to rescue his archeologist father (J. Paul Jones) who has been kidnapped by Asian warlord Fang (Dick Curtis).
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That Gang of Mine 1940 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Clarence Muse, Dave O'Brien, Joyce Bryant, Donald Haines, Milton Kibbee, Ernest Morrison, David Gorcey, Eugene Francis, Hazel Keener
The East Side Kids are back, and Muggs (Leo Gorcey) decides he wants to be a jockey. Despite ridicule from the other Kids, he persists, and the group finds a thoroughbred owned by a poor man (Clarence Muse). Now they must come up with the money for the entry fee. But, the benefactor will not put up the money unless a different jockey is in the saddle (since Muggs has proved to be a terrible jockey).
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| 1. Across the Plains (1939)
2. East Side Kids (1940)
3. Mr. Ace (1946)
4. Terry and the Pirates (1940)
5. That Gang of Mine (1940)
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