The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand 1936  N/R, 305 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Clutching Hand
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Jack Mulhall, Rex Lease, Mae Busch, Ruth Mix, William Farnum, Marion Shilling, Bryant Washburn, "Snub" Pollard, Robert Frazer, Yakima Canutt, Jon Hall, Robert(2) Walker
In this confusing low-budget 15-episode serial, Dr. Gironda (Robert Frazer) invents a formula for making synthetic gold, and a mysteriously cloaked villain–"The Clutching Hand"–wants the formula. After Gironda's kidnapping, Detective Craig Kennedy (Jack Mulhall) is on the trail. An edited feature-length movie is also available.
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Cavalcade of the West 1936 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Harry L. Fraser
Cast: Hoot Gibson, Rex Lease, Marion Shilling, Adam Goodman, Nina Guilbert, Earl Dwire, Phil Dunham, Robert McKenzie, Steve Clark, Jerry Tucker, Barry Downing
Separated when they were young, brothers Clint (Hoot Gibson) and Ace (Rex Lease) took different routes in life. Clint became a Pony Express rider, while Ace, brought up by bandits, became one himself. Now the two meet when Ace robs a stagecoach and Clint comes to the rescue. Ace is taken prisoner, and the two find that they are brothers. Can Clint make a good man out of Ace?
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A Shot in the Dark 1935  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Charles Starrett, Robert Warwick, Edward Van Sloan, Marion Shilling, Doris Lloyd, Helen Jerome Eddy, James Bush, Julian Madison, Ralph Brooks, Eddie Tamblyn, Robert McKenzie, Jane Keckley, Herbert Bunston, John Davidson
After college student Byron Coates is found murdered, Byron's roommate Ken Harris (Charles Starrett) and his father Joseph Harris (Robert Warwick) set out to investigate. When another student is murdered, suspicions begin to zero in on Professor Bostwick (Edward Van Sloan), but there is more murder in the future before the case is solved.
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| 1. The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)
aka: The Clutching Hand
2. Cavalcade of the West (1936)
3. A Shot in the Dark (1935)
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