Batman and Robin 1949  N/R, 263 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane(2) Adams, Lyle Talbot, Ralph Graves, Don C. Harvey, William Fawcett, Leonard Penn, Rick Vallin, Michael Whalen, Greg McClure, House Peters Jr., John Doucette, Wally West, Frank Ellis
In this 15-episode serial, Batman and Robin (Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan) must outwit the black-hooded "Wizard" who sets out to use his stolen remote-controlled device to no good. They must also periodically rescue photographer Vicki Vale (Jane Adams) from assorted perils.
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Charlie Chan in Reno 1939  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, Slim Summerville, Kane Richmond, Victor Sen Yung, Pauline Moore, Robert Lowery, Eddie Collins, Kay Linaker, Louise Henry, Charles D. Brown, Hamilton MacFadden, Iris Wong, Morgan Conway
Mary Whitman (Pauline Moore) goes to Reno seeking to divorce her husband Curtis (Kane Richmond) and checks into a hotel where Jeanne Bentley (Louise Henry), who is also divorcing her husband, is found murdered. Police suspect Mary, and she calls on the services of Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler). Chan shows up with Number 2 son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) and, while investigating the murder, engages in a battle of wits with local sheriff Tombstone Fletcher (Slim Summerville) who questions Chan's investigating abilities.
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 Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise 1940 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Eugene Forde
Cast: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Victor Sen Yung, Lionel Atwill, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Lowery, Don Beddoe, Cora Witherspoon, Kay Linaker, Charles Middleton, Leonard Mudie, Harlan Briggs, Claire De Brey, James Burke, Richard Keene
A Scotland Yard detective is murdered, and Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) goes aboard a cruise ship sailing from Honolulu to San Francisco to solve the crime when it appears that the killer is one of the ship's passengers. With help from his Number 2 son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) and the widow (Kay Linaker) of the murdered Scotland Yard detective, Charlie investigates suspicious passengers who include Dr. Sudermann (Lionel Atwill), Prof. Gordon (Leo G. Carroll), and Mr. Walters (Charles Middleton). This is a remake of the lost Charlie Chan movie of 1931, "Charlie Chan Carries On."
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Dangerous Passage 1944  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: William Berke
Cast: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack La Rue, Victor Kilian, Alec Craig, John Eldredge, William Edmunds, Will Wright
Joe Beck (Robert Lowery) inherits a fortune, but he must sail from South America to the U.S. in order to claim his money in Texas. On the voyage, he falls in love with sultry singer Nita Paxton (Phyllis Brooks) and, at the same time, finds himself the victim of attempts on his life by another traveler who wants the inheritance.
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Dark Mountain 1944  N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Berke
Cast: Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan, Elisha Cook Jr., Ralph Dunn, Walter Baldwin, Virginia Sale, Byron Foulger, Johnny Fisher, Alex Callam, Eddie Cane
Forest Ranger Don Bradley (Robert Lowery) loves Kay (Ellen Drew), but by the time he gets a promotion that would allow him to marry Kay, she marries another–gangster Steve (Regis Toomey). But it turns out that the marriage was a convenience for Steve, and now she is being held by Steve against her will in a mountain cabin. Don comes to the rescue.
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Dawn on the Great Divide 1942  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, Mona Barrie, Rex Bell, Robert Lowery, Harry Woods, Betty Blythe, Christine McIntyre, Robert Frazer, Tristram Coffin, Lee Shumway, Roy Barcroft
The Rough Riders are back with Rex Bell replacing Tim McCoy (who was serving in the military during World War II). A gang disguised as Indians is raiding wagon trains carrying settlers and railroad supplies across the plains. Buck (Buck Jones) and Sandy (Raymond Hatton) guide the latest wagon train while Jack (Rex Bell) infiltrates the gang to end the raids once and for all. This is the popular Western actor Buck Jones' last film. He died in a Boston fire shortly before the film was released.
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Drums Along the Mohawk 1939 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine, Eddie Collins, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Shields, Robert Lowery, Roger Imhof, Ward Bond, Dorris Bowdon, Francis Ford, Kay Linaker, Spencer Charters
As settlers encroached more and more on Indian lands, those on the frontier outskirts were often victims of Indian attacks. This is the sympathetic story of one young couple (Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) who tried to start life anew on the fringes of American civilization during the Revolutionary War.
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Four Sons 1940 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Beth Hughes, Alan Curtis, George Ernest, Robert Lowery, Lionel Royce, Sig Ruman, Ludwig Stossel, Michael Visaroff, Greta Meyer
The sons are on different sides as this Czech family is in the middle of the Nazi invasion.
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Lay That Rifle Down 1955 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jil Jarmyn, Jacqueline deWit, Richard Deacon, Robert Burton, James Bell, Leon Tyler, Pierre Watkin, William Fawcett, Marjorie Bennett, Edmund Cobb
Overworked Judy (Judy Canova) is also paid little for her tasks at her aunt's hotel. So, she decides to enroll in a charm school, which turns out to be a scam, and that leads to more troubles–and fun for the viewer.
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 The Mark of Zorro 1940  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Western / Romance
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, George Regas, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery, Chris-Pin Martin, Bell Mitchell, Eugene Borden, Frank Puglia, John Bleifer
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is an aristocrat who returns to California in the early 1800s and fights the injustice of dictator Don Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg) and his henchman Capt. Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) who are now ruling the district after displacing Don Diego's father Don Alejandro (Montagu Love) as governor. Don Diego is in love with Quintero's niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), but he dons his mask and becomes Zorro, fighting against Quintero's corruption and leaving his mark as he battles for justice. Lots of fun and adventure.
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McLintock! 1963 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western / Comedy / Romance
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Chill Wills, Jerry Van Dyke, Edgar Buchanan, Strother Martin, Aissa Wayne, Jack Kruschen, Bruce Cabot, Perry Lopez, Robert Lowery, Hank Worden
Rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) tries to keep peace between cattlemen and homesteaders, although he almost has more than he can handle with his estranged wife, Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), in this Comedy/Western version of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island 1939 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Danger Island
Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Cast: Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt, Amanda Duff, Warren Hymer, Richard Lane, Leon Ames, Douglass Dumbrille, Paul Harvey, Robert Lowery, Ward Bond
Peter Lorre again plays Japanese intelligence agent Mr. Moto in this story about diamond smuggling operations in Puerto Rico.
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The Mummy's Ghost 1944 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Reginald LeBorg
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames, Barton MacLane, George Zucco, Frank Reicher, Harry Shannon, Emmett Vogan, Lester Sharpe, Claire Whitney, Oscar O'Shea, Ivan Triesault, Steve Barclay, Bess Flowers
This sequel to "The Mummy's Tomb" is yet another horror story involving Kharis the Mummy (Lon Chaney) who gets help from Cult of Akran member Yousef Bey (John Carradine) in the search for his lost love, Princess Ananka (Ramsay Ames). They travel to New England and learn that Ananka's soul has been taken over by an exchange student, Amina Mansouri (also played by Ames), who is studying with Egyptologist Norman (Frank Reicher) and has a boyfriend Tommy (Robert Lowery). Kharis stalks Amina, and when he learns that Yousef Bey is in love with his princess, he kills him. Now, with his reincarnated princess in his arms, the Mummy sinks into a bog and disappears. Followed by "The Mummy's Curse."
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Murder Over New York 1940 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Harry Lachman
Cast: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Ricardo Cortez, Victor Sen Yung, Donald MacBride, Melville Cooper, Kane Richmond, Joan Valerie, Clarence Muse
During a police convention in New York City, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called on to investigate espionage and possible sabotage at an airplane plant.
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The Navy Way 1944  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Berke
Cast: Robert Lowery, Jean Parker, William Henry, Roscoe Karns, Sharon Douglas, Robert Armstrong, Tom Keene, Larry Nunn, Mary Treen, Joseph Crehan
Disgruntled boxer Johnny (Robert Lowery) has a tough time adjusting to regimented life as he learns the "Navy Way" during boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. But he finally sees the need for teamwork in one of a series of World War II propaganda films.
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Queen of the Amazons 1947 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Edward Finney
Cast: Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg, John Miljan, Amira Moustafa, Bruce Edwards, Keith Richards, Jack George, Wilson Benge, Cay Forester, Vida Aldana, Darby Jones
After her fiancee, Gary (Robert Lowery), is captured by a tribe of Amazon women, Jean (Patricia Morison), hires a guide to take her through the jungle in search of Gary.
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Revenge of the Zombies 1943 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: Steve Sekely
Cast: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele, Mantan Moreland, Veda Ann Borg, Barry Macollum, Mauritz Hugo, James Baskett, Sybil Lewis, Franklyn Farnum, Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Dr. von Alterman (John Carradine) works in his Louisiana mansion creating zombies to become soldiers in the Nazi Army. When the doctor's wife, Lila (Veda Ann Borg), dies under mysterious circumstances, she is also turned into a zombie for the cause. But his plan is foiled when Lila's brother Scott (Mauritz Hugo), heroine Jen (Gale Storm), and undercover FBI Agent Larry (Robert Lowry) arrive on the scene and are aided by Zombie Lila who seems to have a will of her own.
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Shooting High 1940 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Jack Carson, Kay Aldridge, Hobart Cavanaugh, Charles Middleton, Eddie Acuff, George Chandler
Lovers Marjorie (Marjorie Weaver) and Will (Gene Autry) overcome a family feud to live happily ever after.
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery 1943 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Thiele
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger, Robert Lowery, Joe Sawyer, Lloyd Corrigan, Frank Puglia, Philip Van Zandt, Nestor Paiva
An Aroh sheik frames Tarzan for a theft he did not commit while Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) is on a mercy mission during WWII.
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They Made Me a Killer 1946 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William C. Thomas
Cast: Robert Lowery, Barbara Britton, Lola Lane, Frank Albertson, Elisabeth Risdon, James Bush, Edmund MacDonald, Ralph Sanford, Byron Barr, Paul Harvey, John Harmon, Will Wright
Wrongfully accused of robbery and murder, Tom Durling (Robert Lowery) escapes from the police and gets help from the sister (Barbara Britton) of the man he is accused of killing. Together, they track down the real criminals.
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| 1. Batman and Robin (1949)
2. Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
3. Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
4. Dangerous Passage (1944)
5. Dark Mountain (1944)
6. Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
7. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
8. Four Sons (1940)
9. Johnny Reno (1966)
10. Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
11. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
12. McLintock! (1963)
13. Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
aka: Danger Island
14. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
15. Murder Over New York (1940)
16. The Navy Way (1944)
17. Queen of the Amazons (1947)
18. Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
19. Shooting High (1940)
20. Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
21. They Made Me a Killer (1946)
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