Enemy of Women 1944  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Mad Lover
Director: Alfred Zeisler
Cast: Claudia Drake, Wolfgang Zilzer, Donald Woods, H.B. Warner, Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Morgan, Gloria Stuart, Robert Barrat, Beryl Wallace, Byron Foulger, Lester Dorr, Crane Whitley
Presumably based on Hitler's propaganda chief, Dr. Goebbels (Wolfgang Zilzer), this wartime propaganda film follows Goebbels from his beginnings as a young playwright and his later womanizing. He had fallen in love with Maria (Claudia Drake) when acting as a tutor and later helped, unknown to her, with her acting career.
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Quicksand 1950  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes, Art Smith, Wally Cassell, Richard Lane, John Gallaudet, Minerva Urecal, Patsy O'Connor, Sidney Marion, Jimmy Dodd, Kitty O'Neil, Lester Dorr
Auto mechanic Dan (Mickey Rooney) falls for conniving waitress Vera (Jeanne Cagney). Needing money to take her out, Dan lifts $20 from the garage cash register, intending to return it before the accountant checks the books. But, this initiates a downward spiral when he takes on ever more debt to pay the last one, which leads to destruction.
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Riders of the Purple Sage 1931 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
Cast: George O'Brien, Marguerite Churchill, Noah Beery, Yvonne Pelletier, Frank McGlynn Jr., Stanley Fields, James Todd, Lester Dorr, Shirley Nail, Cliff Lyons
The Zane Grey novel is again brought to the screen, as Jim Lassiter (George O'Brien) is out to rescue his sister and her daughter from a kidnapper (Noah Beery). Taking a job at a ranch, he finds that the kidnapper is living under a pseudonym and is the local judge. There are no religious undertones in this OK version.
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Robin Hood of Texas 1947 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: Gene Autry, Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, James Cardwell, Al Bridge, Edmund Cobb, Paul Bryar, James Flavin, John Kellogg, Ray Walker, Archie Twitchell, Dorothy Vaughan, Stanley Andrews, Lester Dorr
When a band of bank robbers shows up at Gene Autry's ranch, he plays along with them to bring them to justice and get the loot returned to its rightful owners. Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys perform the songs "Good Old-Fashioned Hoedown," "Goin' Back to Texas," "The Merry-Go-Round-Up," and "You're the Moment of a Lifetime."
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Star Reporter 1939  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt, Morgan Wallace, Wallis Clark, Clay Clement, Virginia Howell, Paul Fix, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Kane, William Ruhl, Lester Dorr, Monte Collins
After gangsters murder his father, John Randolph (Warren Hull) inherits his father's newspaper and races to expose those responsible for the crime. More than a few surprises lie ahead as he sorts out clues, but the one that throws John for a loop is when he learns that the man who pulled the trigger is his own birth father.
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Without Honor 1949 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Laraine Day, Dane Clark, Franchot Tone, Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Frank Marlowe, Harry Lauter, Peter Virgo, Marjorie Stapp, Lester Dorr
Jane (Laraine Day) argues with her lover (Franchot Tone) and stabs him. Believing he is dead, she lugs him into the laundry room before her husband, Fred (Bruce Bennett), arrives home. Fred's brother, Bill (Dane Clark), arrives on the scene and tells Fred of Jane's extramarital affair, which causes Jane to confess and then try to kill herself. She is rushed to the hospital where she discovers that her lover, who was not dead after all, managed to drag himself to the hospital for treatment.
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| 1. Enemy of Women (1944)
aka: The Mad Lover
2. Quicksand (1950)
3. Riders of the Purple Sage (1931)
4. Robin Hood of Texas (1947)
5. Star Reporter (1939)
6. Without Honor (1949)
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