Accidents Will Happen 1938  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell, Sheila Bromley, Addison Richards, Hugh O'Connell, Janet Shaw, Elliott Sullivan, Anderson Lawler, Milton Kibbee
Eric Gregg (Ronald Reagan) is a claims adjuster for an insurance company, and he is on the trail of insurance fraud.
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Born to Fight 1938  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Hutchinson
Cast: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Jack La Rue, Frances Grant, Sheila Bromley, Monte Collins, Eddie Phillips, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, Philo McCullough, Hal Price, Donald Kerr, Gino Corrado
Boxing trainer Tom "Bomber" Brown (Kane Richmond) goes on the lam after accidentally injuring a crooked gambler, Smoothy (Jack La Rue). While traveling incognito, Brown finds up-and-coming fighter "Baby Face" Madison (Frankie Darro) who he trains for the Championship title.
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Calling Philo Vance 1940 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill, Edward Brophy, Ralph Forbes, Donald Douglas, Martin Kosleck, Sheila Bromley, Jimmy Conlin, Edward Requello, Creighton Hale, Harry Strang
This updated remake of the successful "The Kennel Murder Case" brought this series of Philo Vance films to an end, with a new Vance (James Stephenson). Another, shorter series would follow in 1947. A designer of warplane equipment is murdered and Vance, who is now a government investigator, is on the trail of the killer.
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Desert Phantom 1936  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Western
Director: S. Roy Luby
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Sheila Bromley, Ted Adams, Karl Hackett, Hal Price, Nelson McDowell, Charles King, Forrest Taylor, Frank Ball, Steve Clark, George Morrell, Horace B. Carpenter
Sharpshooter Billy Donovan (Johnny Mack Brown) arrives in town posing as an ammunition salesman but is actually looking for the man who killed a family member. He meets Jean Halloran (Sheila Bromley) who has been receiving notes from "Desert Phantom" warning her to leave her ranch. Is there any connection between the notes and the fact that the ranch is adjacent to an abandoned gold mine? Billy comes to her aid and deals with assorted bad guys and murders. Above average oater.
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Girls on Probation 1938  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William C. McGann
Cast: Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill, Sheila Bromley, Henry O'Neill, Elisabeth Risdon, Sig Ruman, Susan Hayward, James Spottswood
After a young woman (Jane Bryan) is arrested for her unwitting involvement in a bank robbery, her lawyer (Ronald Reagan) falls in love with her.
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King of the Newsboys 1938 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Lew Ayres, Helen Mack, Alison Skipworth, Victor Varconi, Sheila Bromley, Alice White, Horace McMahon, William "Billy" Benedict, Ray Cooke, Jack Pennick, Mary Cornman, Gloria Rich, Oscar O'Shea, Marjorie Main
After Jerry Flynn's (Lew Ayres) girlfriend Mary Ellen Stephens (Helen Mack) gives in to her materialism and leaves him for gangster Wire Arno (Victor Varconi) who can give her all that she thinks she wants, Jerry pours his time and energy into a newspaper trucking business. His efforts pay off, Jerry obtains wealth, and sets out to regain Mary's affections. By story's end, Jerry has lost the business–but not Mary.
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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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Torture Ship 1939 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Victor Halperin
Cast: Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel, Julie Bishop, Sheila Bromley, Anthony Averill, Eddie Holden, Russell Hopton, Julian Madison, Wheeler Oakman, Stanley Blystone, Skelton Knaggs
Intent on curing criminal minds, Dr. Herbert Stander (Irving Pichel) transports escaped criminals on Lt. Bob Bennett's (Lyle Talbot) ship with plans to operate on them at a remote island.
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Westward Ho 1935 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jack Curtis, Dickie Jones, Yakima Canutt, Hank Bell, Bradley Metcalfe, Jim Farley, Mary MacLaren, Glenn Strange
While traveling West with their parents, John Wyatt (John Wayne) and his brother, Jim (Frank McGlynn Jr.), were the only survivors of a wagon train attack. Jim was kidnapped by the band of outlaws. Years later, John forms a vigilante posse, The Singing Raiders, and seeks revenge the outlaws–not knowing that his brother now leads the gang.
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| 1. Accidents Will Happen (1938)
2. Born to Fight (1938)
3. Calling Philo Vance (1940)
4. Desert Phantom (1936)
5. Girls on Probation (1938)
6. King of the Newsboys (1938)
7. Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939)
8. Torture Ship (1939)
9. West of Shanghai (1937)
10. Westward Ho (1935)
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