Adventures of Gallant Bess 1948  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Long, Fuzzy Knight, James Millican, John Harmon, Edward Gargan, Harry Cheshire, Cliff Clark, Evelyn Eaton
Good scenery enhance this otherwise tame, but heartwarming, story. Ted (Cameron Mitchell) wanders from rodeo to rodeo performing amazing tricks with his horse, Bess. But when love comes in the form of pretty Peggy (Audrey Long), he must make decisions concerning his future.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie 1943  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Chester Morris, George E. Stone, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall, George McKay, Al Hill, Walter Sande, Jan Buckingham, Walter Baldwin, Dick Elliott, Don Barclay, John Harmon, Heinie Conklin
In this episode of the "Boston Blackie" series, reformed thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage) retrieve a sack of diamonds that her father had hidden after a robbery. Betty wants her father, Diamond Ed Barnaby (Walter Baldwin), to change his ways, but he is killed, and now Blackie is arrested for the crime. Of course, Blackie escapes, saves Betty who is kidnapped by those who murdered her father, stops the gang, and returns the jewels to the owners.
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Alias Boston Blackie 1942 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Walter Sande, Larry Parks, George McKay, Lloyd Bridges, Cy Kendall, Mike Donovan, Paul Fix, Ben Taggart, Edmund Cobb
In this "Boston Blackie" episode, reformed thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone), along with Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane), attend a magic show at a prison during which one of the convicts (Larry Parks) escapes. Blackie pursues–and he not only gets his man but clears another man's name in the process.
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Back in the Saddle 1941 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Edward Norris, Julie Bishop, Addison Richards, Arthur Loft, Edmund Elton, Edmund Cobb, Joe McGuinn, Robert Barron, Frankie Marvin
This tuneful tidbit has Gene Autry inheriting a ranch, and guess what. Copper is found and Gene must fight the bad guys who want to frame him in a crime so they can get the copper.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You 1942 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Jeff Donnell, Larry Parks, Maude Eburne, Don Beddoe, Frank Puglia, George McKay, Frank Sully
To help with the war effort, Professor Billings (Boris Karloff) and Doctor Lorentz (Peter Lorre) plan to turn corpses into supermen who will fight for the Allies in World War II.
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas 1953  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Clarke, Stuart Randall, James Seay, Philip Van Zandt, Shepard Menken, Douglass Dumbrille, Anthony Eustrel, William Cottrell, Henry Rowland
The legend of Captain John Smith and Indian princess Pocahontas is the theme of this story in which Pocahontas saves Smith's life and continues through their ill-fated romantic future in the colony of Jamestown.
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie 1946 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Comedy
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully, George E. Stone, Claire Carleton, Erik Rolf, Charles(2) Lane, Mark Roberts, Emmett Vogan, Russell Hicks, Doris Houck, Ruth Warren
Once again, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) works to clear his name. This time around, Blackie tells his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone) to take his ex-girlfriend Gerry Peyton (Lynn Merrick) and her baby away from the crime scene where her husband has been killed while Blackie was calling Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) for assistance. Later, Gerry tells the police that Blackie shot her husband as part of a scheme to extort money from her husband's wealthy family. Blackie and The Runt investigate and learn that Gerry is the one planning to extort the money. Now they must bring proof to Inspector Farraday who, it turns out, is only trying to teach Blackie a lesson about being careful when picking girlfriends.
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Crime, Inc. 1945 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell, Harry Shannon, Danny Morton, Virginia Vale, Don Beddoe, George Meeker
Crime reporter Jim Riley (Tom Neal) takes on a gang of racketeers, and the case against them is made more difficult when the jury foreman (Leo Carrillo) is the gang leader.
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Davy Crockett, Indian Scout 1950 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Indian Scout
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Philip Reed, Noah Beery Jr., Paul Guilfoyle, Chief Thundercloud, Addison Richards, Robert Barrat, Erik Rolf, Billy Wilkerson, John Hamilton, Vera Marshe, Jimmy Moss, Kenne Duncan, Ray Teal
This film was made five years before Disney made Davy Crockett a national craze. This story involves the nephew and namesake of Davy Crockett (George Montgomery), who is a U.S. military scout, and his cohort Red Hawk (Philip Reed). They lead a wagon train through the hostile Indian Territory, but someone in Crockett's military unit is spying on the wagon trains and tipping off the Indians who then attack. At first, Red Hawk is suspected, but he is vindicated when the real culprit is revealed.
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Doughboys in Ireland 1943 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Kenny Baker, Jeff Donnell, Lynn Merrick, Guy Bonham, Harry Shannon, Dorothy Vaughan, Robert Mitchum, Pedro de Cordoba, Herbert Rawlinson, George Tyne
Orchestra leader Danny O'Keefe (Kenny Baker) is drafted into the Army and sent to Ireland where he helps entertain the troops. He strikes up a romance with a local girl (Jeff Donnell), but things get dicey when his state-side girlfriend (Lynn Merrick) shows up as part of a USO troupe. Not much, but another one of many such World War II tension-relievers.
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The Enchanted Forest 1945 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, William Severn, Harry Davenport, John Litel, Clancy Cooper
Old John (Harry Davenport) lives in a hollow redwood tree deep in the forest and even talks to animals. He also has a running battle with loggers who are cutting down trees. Along comes a lost boy (William Severn) who learns about nature from Old John, and the boy's mother learns even more, as does a doctor (who also lives in the forest). OK family entertainment with an environmental point of view.
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The Return of the Vampire 1944 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Roland Varno, Miles Mander, Matt Willis, Ottola Nesmith, Gilbert Emery, Leslie Denison, Billy Bevan
As if the bombings during the World War II Battle of Britain were not enough, vampire Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London to add more terror to the moment.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow 1941 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Carol Adams, Ferris Taylor, Georgia Caine, Tom London, Byron Foulger, Ralf Harolde, Jimmy Conlin, Guy Usher, Forrest Taylor
Gene Autry is after a bank robber, leading him to a steamboat performer. It turns out that he robbed a bank to provide for his talented daughter.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate 1947 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Arthur Shields, Jason Robards Sr., Margaret Lindsay, Jimmy Conlin, Tom Keene, Tony Barrett, Pierre Watkin
Based on George M. Cohan's play, which in turn was taken from Earl Derr Biggers' book, this story has been filmed a number of times. The plot centers on a mystery writer who heads for the Baldpate Inn where he plans to complete the writing of his novel in 24 hours.
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The Singing Hill 1941 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters, George Meeker, Gerald Oliver Smith, Wade Boteler, Harry Stubbs, Monte Montague, Hal Price
Gene Autry sings and sings and fixes a problem. It appears that Virginia Dale would like to give up her land, but if she does, bad guy John Ramsey (George Meeker) can charge high prices for grazing land.
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Submarine Raider 1942 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Philip Ahn, Bruce Bennett, Marguerite Chapman, John Howard, Warren Ashe, Larry Parks, Forrest Tucker, Stanley Brown, Roger Clark, Eileen O'Hearn
Great battle scenes highlight this film about submarine warfare at the beginning of America's entry into World War II.
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Tailspin Tommy 1934 N/R, 230 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Maurice Murphy, Noah Beery Jr., Patricia Farr, Walter Miller, Grant Withers, Charles A. Browne, Monte Montague, Edmund Cobb, Bryant Washburn, John Davidson, Harrison Green, William Desmond
Tailspin Tommy Tompkins (Maurice Murphy) and cohort Skeeter Milligan (Noah Berry Jr.) are working for a mail-delivery airline when a rival airline sends out its dogfighting planes with the mission of destroying Tommy's plane and seizing control of the mail-delivery business. A 12-part serial for the 1930s' Saturday matinees.
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Thunder Mountain 1947 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Tim Holt, Martha Hyer, Richard Martin, Steve Brodie, Virginia Owen, Jason Robards Sr., Robert Clarke, Tom Keene, Harry Woods, Harry Harvey, Dick Elliott
Marvin Hayden (Tim Holt) returns to his ranch and finds that not only is his ranch about to be auctioned off, but the old Jorth-Hayden feud has again raised its ugly head. Why, you ask. Greedy townsfolk have found out that the land is valuable (the government wants it for a dam) and so have not only rekindled the feud but try to pin a murder on Marvin. A good story that is based (loosely) on a Zane Grey novel–not "Thunder Mountain," but "To the Last Man."
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Tokyo Rose 1946 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Byron Barr, Osa Massen, Keye Luke, Leslie Fong, Grace Lem, Donald Douglas, Blake Edwards, Richard Loo, Lotus Long, H.T. Tsiang
While selling propaganda as a radio commentator for the Axis powers during World War II, Tokyo Rose becomes the object of a kidnapping plot.
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Torpedo Alley 1953 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Charles Winninger, Bill Williams, James Seay, Carleton Young, James Millican, Warren Douglas, John Alvin, William Henry
An ex-pilot is sent on a dangerous mission aboard a submarine where he must deal with his part in the death of two cohorts.
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Two-Man Submarine 1944 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, J. Carrol Naish, Abner Biberman, Robert Williams, George Lynn, Alex Havier, Shelley Winters
The Japanese and Germans team up to steal a secret drug being developed by the U.S. during World War II. To get into the area, a two-man submarine is used, which had been developed by the Japanese shortly before the war's start. But, the U.S. has a surprise of its own. Look for a young Shelley Winters in a bit part.
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Under the Tonto Rim 1947 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Tom Keene, Carol Forman, Tony Barrett, Harry Harvey, Jason Robards Sr., Robert Clarke, Jay Norris, Lex Barker, Steve Savage
After Brad's (Tim Holt) stagecoach is held up and one of his drivers is killed, he sets out for revenge. But the gang is holed up in a secret hideout, so Brad has work to do, which includes befriending a prisoner. Very loosely based on a Zane Grey story.
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| 1. Adventures of Gallant Bess (1948)
2. After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
3. Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
4. Back in the Saddle (1941)
5. The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
6. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
7. A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)
8. Crime, Inc. (1945)
9. Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
aka: Indian Scout
10. Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
11. The Enchanted Forest (1945)
12. The Return of the Vampire (1944)
13. Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941)
14. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
15. The Singing Hill (1941)
16. Submarine Raider (1942)
17. Tailspin Tommy (1934)
18. Thunder Mountain (1947)
19. Tokyo Rose (1946)
20. Torpedo Alley (1953)
21. Two-Man Submarine (1944)
22. Under the Tonto Rim (1947)
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