Angel and the Badman 1947  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Romance / Western
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Irene Rich, Bruce Cabot, Lee Dixon, Stephen Grant, Tom Powers, Olin Howland, Paul Hurst, Craig Woods, John Halloran, Kenne Duncan, Joan Barton, Marshall Reed
In this John Wayne movie, he plays wounded gunslinger Quirt Evans who becomes the patient in a family of Quakers. The daughter, Penelope Worth (Gail Russell), of the house falls for him and tries to keep him from going after his enemy Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot) who had murdered his foster father. Over time, Quirt changes his ways and begins life anew with Penelope.
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Apache Rose 1947  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Witney
Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Olin Howland, George Meeker, Minerva Urecal, John Laurenz, Bob Nolan, Russ Vincent, LeRoy Mason, Donna Martell, Terry Frost, Conchita Lemus, Tex Terry, Pat Brady, Ken Terrell
Oil prospector Roy Rogers tries to get drilling rights to an old Spanish land grant in California. Problems arise when Roy has to contend with boat gamblers who are after the oil-rich land themselves. Meanwhile, Billie Colby (Dale Evans) finds her life is threatened, and she teams up with Roy to get the goods on the gamblers.
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 Belle Starr 1941  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Randolph Scott, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Shepperd Strudwick, Elizabeth Patterson, Chill Wills, Louise Beavers, Olin Howland, Paul E. Burns, Joe Sawyer
The real Belle Starr was not a nice person, but her story is romanticized in this film with Gene Tierney as the outlaw. Belle, who lost all her land during the Civil War, marries guerilla leader Sam Starr (Randolph Scott) and they continue to take on the Yankees after the war. Tierney is wonderful to look at but certainly is miscast in this one.
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 The Blob 1958  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Irvin S.Yeaworth Jr.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Olin Howland, Earl Rowe, Alden "Stephen" Chase, John Benson, George Karas, Lee Paton, Elbert Smith, Hugh Graham, Vincent Barbi, Audrey Metcalf, Jasper Deeter, Tom Ogden, Elinor Hammer
When two teenagers Steve Andrews and his girlfriend Jane Martin (Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut) report that a hunk of protoplasm has dined on a doctor and his nurse, they have trouble convincing the town that there is anything amiss. This was Steve McQueen's first break and is still a fun movie to watch.
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Bombers B-52 1957 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Marsha Hunt, Don Kelly, Ann Doran, Nelson Leigh, Robert Nichols, Ray Montgomery, Robert Hover, Nicky Blair, Russ Conway, John Doucette, James Garner, Olin Howland
In the 1950s, during the Cold War, a B-52 Superfortress takes a test flight from the U.S. to Africa and then back home again. When not flying his B-52, Air Force pilot Col. Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is romancing young Lois (Natalie Wood). The problem is that Lois is the daughter of ground-crew chief Sgt. Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden) who has no trust or respect for Herlihy and has trouble believing this could be a match made in heaven.
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Brother Rat 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Henry O'Neill, Olin Howland, Gordon Oliver
Three cadets (Eddie Albert, Wayne Morris, and Ronald Reagan) at Virginia Military Institute conceal a forbidden marriage that would mean dismissal from the cadet corps if discovered. This film was remade in 1952 as the musical "About Face." There is also a sequel: "Brother Rat and a Baby."
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The Case of the Velvet Claws 1936 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Wini Shaw, Bill Elliott, Joe King, Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Olin Howland, Kenneth Harlan, Clara Blandick
Well, what-do-you-know, Perry Mason (Warren William) marries his faithful secretary, Della Street (Claire Dodd). But before they can take off on their honeymoon, Perry is hired (at gunpoint) to stop an article from being printed in a scandal sheet. It turns out that the woman behind the gun is the wife of the publisher of the paper, and she will do anything to ensure that her affair with another is not made public. Fast-paced, fun mystery.
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Chad Hanna 1940 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Roscoe Ates, Olin Howland, Si Jenks, Frank Conlan
The circus in the 19th century is the world of Chad Hanna (Henry Fonda); the story follows his adventures, which aren't all that great.
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Country Gentlemen 1936 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Staub
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Joyce Compton, Lila Lee, Pierre Watkin, Donald Kirke, Ray Corrigan, Sammy McKim, Wade Boteler, Ivan Miller, Olin Howland, Frank Sheridan
The comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson play con men who fleece residents of a veterans' home by selling stock in a non-producing oil well. The furious vets discover the scam and prepare for a lynching party–until the well, surprisingly, begins gushing oil.
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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt 1946 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Castle
Cast: Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew, William Frawley, Frank Sully, Claire Carleton, Bernard Nedell, Jack Lee, Olin Howland, Francis Pierlot, Myron Healey
Forensic psychologist Doctor Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) gets involved in a case of Irene Cotter's (Ellen Drew) murder of two gangsters who had killed her brother.
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Dakota 1945 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ona Munson, Hugo Haas, Ward Bond, Mike Mazurki, Paul Fix, Grant Withers, Pierre Watkin, Olive Blakeney, Nick Stewart, Robert Livingston, Olin Howland
In this so-so Western, John Devlin (John Wayne) is in a territorial dispute over a railroad line. John's love interest, Sandy (Vera Ralston), is the daughter of the railway tycoon.
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Dixie 1943 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Marjorie Reynolds, Billy De Wolfe, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn, Eddie Foy Jr., Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Olin Howland
This is the biography of Dan Emmett (Bing Crosby), the writer of the title song, "Dixie."
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Earthworm Tractors 1936 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Natural Born Salesman
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Gene Lockhart, Olin Howland, Joseph Crehan, Irving Bacon, Sarah Edwards, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson
This Depression Era film provides plenty of laughs when natural born salesman Alexander Botts (Joe E. Brown) plies his trade selling Earthworm tractors. Botts works on Sam Johnson (Guy Kibbee) to sell him tractors, and after a series of near disasters Botts makes a deal with Johnson that includes not only tractors but the affections of Johnson's daughter, Mabel (June Travis), as well.
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The Falcon and the Co-eds 1943 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Lita Ward, Dorothy Malone, Isabel Jewell, Ian Wolfe, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Olin Howland
A professor is murdered at his girls' school, and the Falcon (Tom Conway) is called in to solve the mystery. Look for Dorothy Malone amongst the students.
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Fallen Angel 1945 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews, Charles Bickford, John Carradine, Bruce Cabot, Anne Revere, Percy Kilbride, Olin Howland, Hal Taliaferro, Harry Strang, J. Farrell MacDonald, Garry Owen, William Haade, Paul E. Burns
Dana Andrews plays the villain, Eric Stanton, hatching the devious plot to marry wealthy spinster June Mills (Alice Faye), take her money, and then divorce her. This will give him the money he needs to take up with diner waitress Stella (Linda Darnell) who will have nothing to do with Eric unless he has money. Plans go awry when, after Eric marries June, Stella is found murdered. Eric is the chief suspect in the murder case, and, with June by his side, he investigates to uncover the murderer whose identity will prove shocking.
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Gold Diggers of 1937 1936 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon, Osgood Perkins, Charles D. Brown, Joseph Crehan, William B. Davidson, Olin Howland, Rosalind Marquis, Irene Ware, Charles Halton, Paul Irving, Harry C. Bradley
This is the third–and final–"Gold Diggers" film, and Busby Berkeley, though not in the director's chair for this one, still handled the choreography. This time around, unemployed chorus girls Genevieve Larkin (Glenda Farrell) and Norma Perry (Joan Blondell) are in on a plot to buy insurance from Rosmer Peak (Dick Powell) to insure J.J. Horbart (Victor Moore) in order to make money when he dies. Meanwhile, Horbart's partners lost his money in the stock market, and he has no money to finance his next Broadway show. Now, Genevieve falls in love with Horbart who suffers a breakdown when he learns that he is broke. The only way to restore Horbart's health is to put on the show without financial backing. And the show goes on.
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The Great Lie 1941 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, Thurston Hall, Olin Howland, J. Farrell MacDonald, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Virginia Brissac, Addison Richards, Sam McDaniel
Mary Astor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Sandra Kovak, a woman pregnant with Maggie Patterson's (Bette Davis) deceased husband, Pete's (George Brent), child. Maggie plans to raise the child as her own, but Pete turns up alive, and Maggie and Sandra vie for custody and for Pete's love as well.
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Home in Wyomin' 1942 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Morgan
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Olin Howland, Joseph Strauch Jr., Charles(2) Lane, James Seay, Chick Chandler, Forrest Taylor, Hal Price, George Douglas, Frankie Marvin
Radio singing star Gene Autry comes to the rescue of a former boss who is about to lose his rodeo.
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I'll Be Seeing You 1944 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle, George Cukor
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully, Chill Wills, John Derek, Olin Howland, John James, Kenny Bowers, Gary Gray, Dorothy Stone, Eddie Hall, Margaret Bert, Earl Johnson
While serving time in prison for manslaughter, Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) is given a prison furlough to visit relatives for Christmas. She meets Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten) while riding on a train, and the two fall in love. But, Zachary is a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Will they be able to deal with their pasts and form a relationship?
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Little Tough Guy 1938 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, David Gorcey, Hal E. Chester, Helen Parrish, Robert Wilcox, Marjorie Main, Olin Howland, Jackie Searl, Peggy Stewart
When the father is wrongly convicted of murder, his son (Billy Halop) puts together a group of youngsters to form a gang, and a crime spree follows. The "Little Tough Guys" were formed from a group that had formerly been in "Dead End Kids" movies, and a series of films followed with the new group. .
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Man Hunt 1936 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Marguerite Churchill, Ricardo Cortez, Charles "Chic" Sale, William Gargan, Dick Purcell, Olin Howland, Addison Richards, George E. Stone, Maude Eburne, Milton Kibbee, Russell Simpson, Eddie Shubert, Anita Kerry, Nick Copeland, Kenneth Harlan
Schoolteacher Jane Carpenter (Marguerite Churchill) is bored with her dull, small town, so she tries to spice up the classroom with tales of Old West outlaws. When bank robber Frank Kingman (Ricardo Cortez) escapes and hides in the school, Jane helps him. As the town's newspaper and citizens become interested in the case, Jane discovers that outlaw life is not so glamorous.
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Nancy Drew, Reporter 1939 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Mary Lee, Dickie Jones, Larry Williams, Betty Amann, Thomas E. Jackson, Olin Howland, Sheila Bromley
This likeable entry in the series features Nancy Drew (Bonita Granville) entering a newspaper contest that requires a news story be submitted. She stumbles onto a real story–MURDER–and is off with friend Ted (Frankie Thomas) to prove that the accused girl is innocent. There's even a song by the four young stars.
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Nothing Sacred 1937  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman, Frank Fay, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Margaret Hamilton, Olin Howland, Hedda Hopper
When Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is told that she has only six weeks to live, reporter Wally Cook's (Fredric March) newspaper sends her to New York City for an all-expense-paid final fling. There is one little problem: the diagnosis is wrong! An excellent film that was remade in 1954 as "Living It Up" starring Jerry Lewis.
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Ridin' Down the Canyon 1942 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Nolan, Robert "Buzz" Henry, Linda Hayes, Addison Richards, Hal Taliaferro, Tom London, James Seay, Lorna Gray, Olin Howland, Forrest Taylor, Roy Barcroft, Pat Brady, Jack Kirk
The military needs horses, so, of course, horse rustlers can't be far away trying to make some money. Roy Rogers and his pals, the Sons of the Pioneers (played by themselves), are planning a one-night stand performing at the Lariat Lodge, which is managed by Gus Jordan (Addison Richards) who, unknown to Roy, is the leader of a gang of horse rustlers. Roy figures out what is going on, and he and his pals save the day.
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Santa Fe 1951 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson, John Archer, Warner Anderson, Roy Roberts, Billy House, Olin Howland, Allene Roberts, Jock Mahoney, Harry Cording
Britt Canfield (Randolph Scott) fought as a Confederate in the war, but now he finds a job working with ex-Union forces building the Santa Fe Railroad. He tries to keep his brothers–Terry, Tom, and Clint (Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson, and John Archer)–out of trouble, but after they try to rob the railroad, Britt is forced to help bring them to justice.
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Satan Met a Lady 1936 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Treacher, Marie Wilson, Barbara Blane, Wini Shaw, Porter Hall, Olin Howland, Charles C. Wilson
This lackluster film is based loosely on "The Maltese Falcon." However, it is a ram's horn instead of a falcon that is being used to transport stolen jewels.
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Stand-In 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, C. Henry Gordon, Jack Carson, Tully Marshall, J.C. Nugent, William V. Mong, Olin Howland
In this satire, Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) goes to Hollywood with a mission–to save a studio.
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A Stranger in Town 1943 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Porter Hall, Robert Barrat, Donald MacBride, Walter Baldwin, Andrew Tombes, Olin Howland, Chill Wills, Irving Bacon, Eddie Dunn
It is election time in this small town, and honest mayoral candidate Bill Adams (Richard Carlson) is trailing his opponent, the incumbent Mayor James Connison (Robert Barrat) who runs a corrupt administration. When a hunter, John Josephus Grant (Frank Morgan), appears on the scene, he offers legal advice that helps Adams' campaign. How did Grant gain his legal knowledge? Why, he just happens to be a vacationing Supreme Court justice.
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 Them! 1954 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Ann Doran, Dub Taylor, Fess Parker, Leonard Nimoy, Sandy Descher, Chris Drake, Mary Alan Hokanson, Olin Howland, Don Shelton
This is one of the best early films of the science fiction genre. The story begins when New Mexico state troopers Ben Peterson and Ed Blackburn (James Whitmore and Chris Drake) discover a gutted trailer home and a catatonic young girl who utters, "Them." This sets off an investigation, and FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness), along with entomologists Dr. Harold Medford and his daughter Dr. Pat Medford (Edmund Gwenn and Joan Weldon), join in the hunt. They learn that secret nuclear testing has created gigantic ants, and now they must destroy the queen ants before more ants are hatched.
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Treasure Island 1934 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Lewis Stone, William V. Mong, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles "Chic" Sale, Charles McNaughton, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, Olin Howland, Charles Irwin, Edward Pawley
In this good rendition of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale, South Seas adventures abound. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) has obtained a treasure map from former pirate Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) following his death. Jim tells Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce) about the map, and the three of them book passage on a ship to recover the treasure. But problems lie ahead because among the ship's crew are pirates, including Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), who are plotting to get their hands on Jim's treasure map.
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Wagon Wheels 1934 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Caravans West
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Jan Duggan, Leila Bennett, Olin Howland, Howard Wilson, Julian Madison, Donald Gray, Colin Tapley
This film, based on a Zane Grey novel, involves the perils that befall a wagon train of settlers heading West. Randolph Scott plays the leader of the wagon train who must overcome attacks of not only bad weather, but Indians and fur traders who do not want settlers in their area.
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap 1947 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Main, Audrey Young, George Cleveland, Gordon Jones, William Ching, Peter M. Thompson, Olin Howland, Glenn Strange
Chester Primm (Lou Costello) accidentally kills a man and then learns that he is responsible for his victim's debts and family. So, he is saddled with Widow Hawkins (Marjorie Main) and her six children in this very funny movie.
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Young and Willing 1943 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Martha O'Driscoll, James Brown, Barbara Britton, Mabel Paige, Paul Hurst, Olin Howland
Young and aspiring show-business hopefuls share an apartment building as well as their dreams and love as they strive for success.
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Zenobia 1939 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Billie Burke, Stepin Fetchit, Harry Langdon, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Hattie McDaniel, June Lang, Olin Howland, J. Farrell MacDonald
Oliver Hardy–without Stan Laurel–stars in this film about a doctor who treats an ailing elephant. Following its recovery, the elephant will not forget the man who saved him, and the poor doctor finds that the elephant has become his shadow.
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| 1. Angel and the Badman (1947)
2. Apache Rose (1947)
3. Belle Starr (1941)
4. The Blob (1958)
5. Bombers B-52 (1957)
6. Brother Rat (1938)
7. The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
8. Chad Hanna (1940)
9. Country Gentlemen (1936)
10. Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
11. Dakota (1945)
12. Dixie (1943)
13. Earthworm Tractors (1936)
aka: Natural Born Salesman
14. The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)
15. Fallen Angel (1945)
16. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
17. The Great Lie (1941)
18. Home in Wyomin' (1942)
19. I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
20. Little Tough Guy (1938)
21. Man Hunt (1936)
22. Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939)
23. Nothing Sacred (1937)
24. Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942)
25. Santa Fe (1951)
26. Satan Met a Lady (1936)
27. Stand-In (1937)
28. A Stranger in Town (1943)
29. Them! (1954)
30. Treasure Island (1934)
31. Wagon Wheels (1934)
aka: Caravans West
32. The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
33. Young and Willing (1943)
34. Zenobia (1939)
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