The Black Raven 1943  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: George Zucco, Robert Livingston, Wanda McKay, Glenn Strange, I. Stanford Jolley, Noel Madison, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass, Charles Middleton, Jimmy Aubrey
Amos (George Zucco) is host at a remote, spooky inn where mysterious strangers, each with their own secrets, stop by on a rainy night. Before the night is out, murder takes over the scene. An "old dark house" mystery.
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Bowery at Midnight 1942 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Wallace Fox
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, John Archer, Tom Neal, John Berkes, Vince Barnett, Ray Miller, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lew Kelly, Anna Hope, Lucille Vance, Wheeler Oakman, Dave O'Brien, George Eldredge, "Snub" Pollard
Respected Professor Frederick Brenner (Bela Lugosi) is a teacher by day and runs a mission soup kitchen at night. But, the mission is a front for his criminal activities, which include killing his victims and burying them in the cellar where they become zombies.
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Corregidor 1943 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Nigh
Cast: Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Donald Woods, Frank Jenks, Rick Vallin, Wanda McKay, Ian Keith, Ruby Dandridge, Eddie Hall, Frank Jaquet, Ted Hecht, Ted Adams
On the island of Corregidor, U.S. and Philippine troops took a stand against the Japanese advances early in World War II. This is the backdrop for a story which really focuses on a love triangle of three doctors who treat injured soldiers on the island. Stock footage from years earlier was used along with the staged scenes in this low-budget effort that, nonetheless, helped to keep the home folks supportive of the War.
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The Golden Eye 1948  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
aka: The Mystery of the Golden Eye
Charlie Chan and the Golden Eye
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Roland Winters, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Bruce Kellogg, Wanda McKay, Evelyn Brent, Ralph Dunn, Lois Austin, Forrest Taylor, Lee "Lasses" White, Edmund Cobb, John Merton, George Spaulding, Lee Tung Foo
Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) visits an Arizona dude ranch where a defunct gold mine, mysteriously, has become active and, once again, is producing gold. The mine owner, Mr. Manning (Forrest Taylor) has called on Chan to help him when he learns that he is the intended victim of a murderer. Chan, his son Tommy (Victor Sen Yung), and chauffeur Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) pose as tourists, and the investigation begins. Clues lead to mine operator Driscoll (Ralph Dunn) who is smuggling gold from Mexico and passing it off as coming from the mine. But solving this case will prove difficult–and dangerous.
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Hollywood and Vine 1945  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis
Cast: James Ellison, Wanda McKay, June Clyde, Ralph Morgan, Franklin Pangborn, Leon Belasco, Emmett Lynn, Vera Lewis, Robert Greig, Charles Williams, Ray Whitley, Dewey Robinson
This amusing parody on the film industry is set in a drugstore at Hollywood and Vine where screenwriter Larry Winters (James Ellison) has come to research his next story.
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The Monster Maker 1944  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay, Terry Frost, Glenn Strange, Alex Pollard, Sam Flint
Mad Dr. Igor Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) conducts his acromegaly (a disease that enlarges the body's bones) experiments on humans, turning them into grotesque-looking creatures. He falls in love with pianist Anthony Lawrence's (Ralph Morgan) daughter, Patricia (Wanda McKay), but she will have nothing to do with him. So, of course, he injects Anthony with his acromegaly-inducing drug thinking that, when he cures Anthony, Patricia will love him, AND he may be able to extort money from the victim. But, alas, life isn't that simple.
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The Pioneers 1941 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Tex Ritter, Slim Andrews, Red Foley, Doye O'Dell, Wanda McKay, Del Lawrence, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Lynton Brent, Gene Alsace, Chief Many Treaties, Charles Soldani, Red Foley's Musicians, Art Dillard, Tex Palmer
Travel guides Tex and his pal Slim Hunkafeller (Tex Ritter and Slim Andrews) save a wagon train of settlers from an Indian attack. The land office owner, J.W. Carson (Karl Hackett), is not pleased because he had encouraged the attack so that he could scare the settlers and take the land for himself. Meanwhile, Tex has fallen in love with settler Suzannah (Wanda McKay) whose father was killed in the raid. A series of misadventures follow, after which Carson is caught, and Suzannah joins Tex on a new wagon train and continues with her plans to settle in the West. Loosely based on James Fenimore Cooper's "The Leatherstocking Tales."
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| 1. The Black Raven (1943)
2. Bowery at Midnight (1942)
3. Corregidor (1943)
4. The Golden Eye (1948)
aka: The Mystery of the Golden Eye
aka: Charlie Chan and the Golden Eye
5. Hollywood and Vine (1945)
6. The Monster Maker (1944)
7. The Pioneers (1941)
8. Voodoo Man (1944)
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