William Beaudine

Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective (imdb)

Glimpy's surprisingly beautiful sister is getting married to Jack, a young engineer, and moving to a 'bargain' suburban house neither has ever seen. During the honeymoon, the East Side Kids decide to fix up the house for the newlyweds...but mistakenly pick the 'haunted' house next door, which is occupied by some mysterious live men, dodging in and out of secret panels and clearly up to no good... (imdb)

Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton (J.B. Morton, "Beachcomber") (imdb)

Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein's granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse's slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor. (imdb)

Arrested for loitering in a cemetery, wigmaker and operetta company proprietor Everett P. Digberry (Byron Foulger) claims to have been lured there by a blackmailer known only as the Black Panther. But as Colt and his lieutenant, Anthony Abbott (Rick Vallin), soon discover, the paw print on the blackmail note belongs to Digberry's own pet cat... (All Movie Guide)

The Great McGonigle's traveling theatrical troupe prepare to put on a production of "The Drunkard". Cleopatra Pepperday puts up money for the show provided she can have a part. In spite of being pursued by several sheriffs, he puts on the show. (IMDB)

Tough slum girl (Mary Pickford) faces a crisis of the heart when the boy she loves (William Haines) is accused of shooting her cop father. Her brother stalks the accused slayer and finally shoots him down in the street. Mary rushes to the hospital and offers her blood for a life-saving transfusion, even though she thinks she'll die. (imdb)

Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving him in a zombified state. Trayne and his perky assistant Billie Hilton have their work cut out for them as they must sift through a houseload of possible suspects to get at the culprit. (imdb)

Because a high school girl's parents refuse to discuss sex education (called "personal hygiene" in the film) with her, she gets pregnant by her boyfriend, who conveniently dies. Her parents are blamed, and the local sex education teacher uses this opportunity to show a film showing the dangers (and results) of VD and the birth of a baby. (imdb)

A church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot. (imdb)

Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's sarong-clad daughter Nona, and mad scientist Dr. Zabor conducting experiments in evolution. Jealous of Mitchell's relations with Nona, Zabor has just the thing to make a monkey of him... (imdb)

Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her. (imdb)

At a week-end house party a robbery occurs, and a bowl of goldfish goes missing. Several guests try to replace the bowl of fish, and are all suspects when the sheriff arrives. (imdb)

A young man takes his friend's advice to find a nice girl and settle down. He spots a pretty young girl and follows her home. She has him arrested. When he gets out of jail, he determines to show her that his intentions are honorable, but things don't quite turn out the way he intended. (imdb)

A spoiled young man from a rich family likes to race his car through town and then try to outrun the police who chase him, although he's usually caught. After his latest incident his father warns him to cease and desist, and the man promises to reform. However, he soon goes back to his old ways, but this time while fleeing two motorcycle cops he crashes his car. Thinking he has killed one of the officers, he flees town and winds up penniless in a small town many miles away... (imdb)

The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time. (imdb)

Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time. (imdb)

A young woman is being pressured by her father to marry a cad because he has something on the father. However, the boy who really loves her is determined to stop the wedding at any and all costs and marry her himself. (imdb)

Poor Henry Baxter, a lowly clerk in a newspaper office, is in love with Beulah, the beautiful office stenographer, but Beulah barely knows he exists. As if Henry's unrequited love isn't bad enough, he has to put up with office manager Higgins, a devious bully who is Henry's constant nemesis. Unable to win the lovely Beulah on his own, Henry resorts to flights of fantasy where he gets to play the hero, win Beulah and vanquish the evil Higgins. (imdb)

Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of. (imdb)

A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes. (imdb)

The premise that a beautiful girl can become a successful artist is tested by an Indiana girl who, after a lot of effort, finds herself as a salesgirl behind the counter of a department store. There, her Prince Charming, in the guise of a chauffeur, comes to her rescue. (imdb)

A young girl falls in with a gang of criminals. One of their capers is robbing the house of a wealthy socialite who happens to look just like her. In the process of cleaning out the house, the young girl discovers that the socialite is actually her long-lost twin sister. Complications ensue. (imdb)

The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I. (imdb)

Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps. (imdb)

Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent, but actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he fails in that, but the way he fails makes her think that he could be a good comedian. She persuades the studio to put him in a western parody, not telling him what they're really planing, because they know that he does not like comedies. (imdb)

A doctor who is also a "mentalist" confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he's confessed to hasn't happened yet--although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the "mystery". (imdb)

An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery. (imdb)

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. (imdb)

Torchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case. (imdb)

The owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he's been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde on the night of their 20th wedding anniversary. He has to find a way to convince her that the "beautiful blonde" in question was actually a store mannequin that he was taking in for repairs. (imdb)

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it. (imdb)

Gang of criminals hijacks a clipper ship with two girls on their way to the U.S. (imdb)

Beverly Blake, the 'Blonde Comet," and the daughter of a tire-manufacturer, gets behind the wheel of a race-car, and is soon tearing up the tracks and winning races in Italy, France and Germany... (imdb)

Two down-on-their luck friends suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. They wind up in a sanitarium that's being used as an exclusive, though illegal, gambling club and get mixed up with beautiful women, jealous gangsters and ghosts. (imdb)

A crooked deputy warden at San Quentin Penitentiary tries to frame a sergeant of the guards, Jack Holden, for the killing of a guard and a prisoner during a jailbreak. (imdb)

A young newlywed couple from a small town decide to spend their wedding night at a posh hotel in New York City, since they only have one day before the husband has to report for duty in the army. However, instead of a romantic evening together, they find themselves mixed up with gangsters, stolen loot and missing bodies. (imdb)

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders. (imdb)

Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure. (imdb)

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family--including Glimpy as his sister, "Annabelle." Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it. (imdb)

Because of his hot, often-flaring temper, Jimmy Kelly loses another job, much to the disappointment of his mother and the disgust of his fiancee, Margie. Margie is a secretary for lawyer L. Herbert Oakley, who advises Jimmy to study law, but that doesn't last long. His friend, Sammy Cohen gets him a job with him as a process server. He serves a summons on a night club dancer, Carmencita, who says she owes a bill because she had a fight with her sweetheart - one L. Herbert Oakley... (imdb)

Muggs, ordered by a judge to get a job "or else", is hired by a society matron as the chauffeur for her wacky family. An engagement party is thrown for the family's daughter, and the rest of the gang is hired as servants for the party. However, a valuable necklace disappears during the festivities, and all the gang is blamed for the theft. (imdb)

A young woman's father hosts a dinner party for 13 guests, and he mysteriously dies. Thirteen years later, the woman believes that someone connected to the fatal party is trying to kill her. (imdb)

Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion to attempt to revivify his beautiful, but long-dead wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion. (imdb)

A girl and her boyfriend are suspected of murdering her employer. They have to clear their names and find the real killer. (imdb)

After they get home from the army, Muggs and Glimpy learn that Danny has been jailed in connection with a warehouse robbery. Knowing that he couldn't have done it, they set out to discover the real robbers. Suspicion falls upon Spider, a new member of the gang whom Muggs has taken a dislike to. (imdb)

Private Investigator Terry Moran, who is in love with Nora O'Brien the daughter of Police Detective Tim O'Brien, is hired by Mrs. Hamilton to solve the murder of her husband, a fur dealer... (imdb)

Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate. (imdb)

Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house. (imdb)

When a top fashion model is murdered, a stockboy is suspected of the crime. He and another model set out to clear his name and find the real killer. (imdb)

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his sissy son. (imdb)

Totally engrossed in his project to bring the dead back to life, Dr. Randolph fails to notice his wife Elaine's interest in Randolph's young lab partner, Dr. Cochran. Ancient housekeeper Maria doesn't, however, and will do anything, including using her voodoo powers, to see to it that Elaine is happy. (imdb)

The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla. (imdb)

Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter. (imdb)

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend Philo Vance to help find the killer. Even as they talk, the killer strikes again and Philo hears Larry fall dead... (imdb)

Sach and Slip go to a private detective agency to collect money Sach earned for working there. A woman comes in, mistakes the two for private detectives, and hires them to find a missing woman. The case isn't quite what it seems to be, and the boys find themselves mixed up in intrigue, blackmail, and a crooked fortune teller. (imdb)

Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) accepts an assignment to investigate a gang of pari-mutuel race tickets counterfeiters over the protests of his secretary, Phyllis Hamilton (Trudy Marshall), who wants him to join her on a vacation. (imdb)

Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring. Unfortunately, their eagerness has unforeseen consequences when the leader of the criminal gang slaps a $4-million libel suit on the newspaper. (imdb)

The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends. (imdb)

Princess Mei Ling pays a visit to the Chan residence, where upon being admitted by man-of-all-work Birmingham Brown she refuses to give her name, but hands Birmingham her ring to show to Charlie. While Chan is being summoned, a mysterious figure shoots a dart at the beautiful Princess who manages, before she dies of poison, to scrawl the name "Captain K" on a handy piece of paper... (imdb)

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring. While trying to help Jimmy get out of the gang, Slip is implicated in a warehouse break-in that was actually committed by Jimmy and the auto theft ring. (imdb)

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers. (imdb)

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites. (imdb)

A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right... (imdb)

Slip mistakenly believes that he has inherited an old Long Island estate, and he and the gang go to see what their new "home" looks like. Unbeknownst to them, the real owners of the estate have hired a caretaker to run it in their absence, and the caretaker is running a smuggling operation. He determines to get rid of the boys before they can expose his activities. (imdb)

In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice. (imdb)

In order to investigate a modern-day cattle rustling operation, a newspaper reporter and his girlfriend infiltrate the gang. (imdb)

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients. What they don't know, however, is that the girls are part of a gang of bank robbers who want to use the Sweet Shop in order to tunnel into the vault of a bank next door. (imdb)

To solve the death of a friend, the boys go to gambling school, then go undercover as croupiers in an illegal gambling house. (imdb)

After undergoing a throat operation, Sach discovers that he now possesses a beautiful singing voice. Slip and the gang try to figure out ways to make money off of it. (imdb)

In order to trap some spies, the Bowery Boys join the Army. (imdb)

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor. (imdb)

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors. (imdb)

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers. (imdb)

In a precursor to Trading Places (1983), the Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game. (imdb)

The boys get drafted into the Marines. On their first day in basic training, their commanding officer discovers that Sach's dad is an old war buddy of his, so he makes Sach a sergeant and places him in charge of the boys. While on the drill field, they discover the body of a dead Marine, and find a playing card on him that they trace to a local gambling house, where they suspect that the Marine was murdered. (imdb)

The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance. (imdb)

Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers. (imdb)

Sach acquires super strength through a magic spell, which the boys attempt to cash in on by turning him into a professional wrestler. (imdb)

Those wacky Bowery Boys invent a superfast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn't this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad guys just before the big race... (imdb)

Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel. (imdb)

Girl (Vera Miles) owns a horse. Girl hires boy (Lloyd Bridges)as a trainer. Horse (Gypsy Prince)enters a race and is injured. (imdb)

Sach is informed that he is the heir to the fortune of a high society mogul. When he arrives for the reading of the will, he discovers that the real heir is a young boy, and that Sach's birth certificate had been forged by family members who don't want the youngster to inherit all the money. Sach and the gang determine to expose the relatives' scheme and see that the boy gets what is rightfully his. (imdb)

Chuck, one of the gang, is working undercover in a prison to try to expose corruption. After he is badly beaten, the boys strike a deal with the newspaper's editor: he will see that they get a phony conviction and are sent to prison, and they will finish the story that Chuck was working on. (imdb)

A dancing woman of the future wants her hubby to buy every car she sees. (imdb)

The adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West. (imdb)

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil. (imdb)

Sach is hired as the companion for a poodle on an ocean voyage from New York to London. What he doesn't know is that the people who hired him are actually diamond smugglers, and there is a cache of diamonds hidden in the poodle's coat. (imdb)

Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature. (imdb)

Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature. (imdb)

In order to get an idea of how he and his church can better serve their community, a pastor visits a young girl who is incarcerated in the local jail. (imdb)

In Lawton, Oklahoma, the Reverend Mark Wallock's younger sister and her six-year-old daughter Ginger arrive for an extended stay. Ginger determines to reconcile Mark with his estranged brother Jonathan, the town banker. The brothers have been estranged since the death of their father, who bequeathed thousands of acres of land as a site for the Easter pageant, thus embittering Jonathan, whose interests lie in the monetary world. (tcmuk.tv)

Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case. (TCM.com)

The story is the familiar one about a young man cheated out of his birthright by his wicked, covetous uncle. Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Balfour escapes and makes his way back to Scotland, where he befriends the swashbuckling Breck and the lovely Aileen. Several exciting adventures later, Balfour returns to his ancestral home to settle accounts with his uncle. (allmovie.com)

Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band. (imdb)

A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. (imdb)

A veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner (Ramsay Ames), persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow. (imdb)

Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.

A stockbroker is jumped one night and beaten up by gangsters; it turns out they mistook him for another gangster, whom he closely resembles. Determined to find the intended victim and ensure that he doesn't get assaulted again, he finds himself involved with a beautiful blonde who gets him entangled in a plot involving hijacking and murder. (imdb)

A husband hires a killer to murder his wife, then arranges for it to look like he committed the crime. At his trial, he presents irrefutable evidence that he could not have committed the crime - which, of course, he didn't - and is acquitted, thereby assuring that he can't be tried again for the murder. (imdb)

Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle. As he rides into town, he takes a bullet meant for gambler Matt Daggett and across the street lies his uncle, victim of the gambler's gun. Dagget looks on Bill as 'good luck' and nurses him back to health and gives him the job of training "Blue Chip", the fastest quarter horse in the west, for a big race. (imdb)

The family heads to the Wild West when Maggie's grandfather passes away and leaves her his gold mine, near the town of Gower Gulch. When they get to town, however, they discover that they don't know quite where grandpa's gold is (even though his ghost is trying to help), and furthermore a mysterious "Big Boss" is out to prevent them from finding it. (imdb)

A Keystone Slapstick comedy with Claire Anderson & Joseph Belmont in the lead. (imdb)

Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. These include a man with a machine gun, a woman who empties waste baskets on the floor, and a trio of musicians who play "Marching Through Georgia" on various instruments. (imdb)

Dandridge plays a young heiress pursued by two young men, both of whom want to marry her. In addition to this love triangle and Haitian zombies, is the mystery of four deaths which Mantan Moreland, as a detective, tries to solve.

Bobby is in love with a stage actress and hangs around backstage during the performance. He makes a mess of things from time to time. (imdb)

Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF? (imdb)

Timmy and Lassie are swept away in a carnival hot air balloon which eventually comes to rest far from home in the Canadian wilderness. Unsure of their surroundings, the boy and dog hunt for food, battle a wild boar, and brave whitewater rapids on a handmade raft. After being rescued by a mysterious Indian, the two adventurers are finally reunited with their family through the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Wikipedia)

Dragging along her spineless boyfriend Johnny, hare-brained secretary Kitty O'Day is unstoppable as she tries to determine her boss's murderer. In her exuberance she and Johnny keep running into more corpses, as well as the unbelievabley inept team of Inspector Clancy and his sergeant, Mike. Their luck seems to run out, though, as they deliver themselves right into the hands of the murderer. (imdb)

County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat unsavory reputation. He redeems himself by arranging for near-impoverished matron Florence Bates to win an important race. It's all for the love of a good woman--in this case, Bates' niece Jane Nigh. (allmovie.com)

An employee of a record manufacturing company comes up with a hit song. (imdb)

Suspecting that enemy agents are out to snare the plans for plastic aircraft that are being developed for the war effort, a federal agent goes undercover as an executive with the aircraft's manufacturer. It turns out that he was right about the enemy agents, and soon they send in one of their sexiest operatives to seduce the company's new "representative." (imdb)

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a broadway production starring Collier. (imdb)

The ambassador of a South American country is just about to close a $5-million loan to his country from a ditzy millionaire when the ambassador's beautiful young daughter accidentally blows the deal. Soon the millionaire finds himself involved in spies, gypsies, fortune-tellers, gossip sheets, divorce scandals and revolutionaries. (imdb)

The "sugar daddy" of a broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other. (imdb)

Joe Novak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to their publicity woman Marge Stevens if she can entice Joe into quitting Bentley to join their company. When Joe takes repeated unnecessary risks in the air, Bentley fires him and Joe goes to work for the competitor. (imdb)

Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court. (imdb)

While his wife Maggie, a desperate social climber suffering from sneezing fits, rides a stationary horse in their Park Avenue, New York apartment, Jiggs, who would rather climb onto a barstool than mix with the city's socialites, listens to a radio trivia contest. The two make so much noise that their upstairs neighbor is driven to distraction and jumps out of his window. (TCM.com)

Paul Kimberly (Robert Lowery), a newspaper reporter, quits his job in order to investigate crooked dealings in the local veterans' housing administration. The editor assigns reporter Anne Arnold (Anabel Shaw) to lure him back to the newspaper. Together, the two reporters expose the embezzling ring and discover that Anne's father, Vincent Arnold (Charles Evans), is the head of the ring. In true newspaper fashion, Anne writes the story herself. (allmovie.com)

Conway Tearle stars as Jack Norton, a diamond smuggler operating in South America who is strong-armed into participating in a blackmail scheme. Norton is to obtain several compromising photos of Margaret Townsend (Billie Dove), the wife of American consulate Charles Townsend (Sidney Blackmer). The plan collapses when the "hero" falls in love with Margaret. As one of several "comeback" attempts for silent-film beauty Billie Dove, The Lady Who Dared was a flop. (allmovie.com)

Unknown to his clients, publicity man Al Bolger handles the accounts for both Madame Gloria and J. Hamilton Gibbs, who run rival body building institutes. When Gibbs sets out to select the annual Gibbs Physical Culture Girl, his physical training director and none-too-good professional boxer, Jimmy Conley, tips off his fiancée, Pat Hilton. Gibbs learns that she is the secretary of Madame Gloria, and awards her first prize as an example of the benefits of his club. (imdb)

Party-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave man, Bobby jumps at the chance.

Two cut-rate private detectives are broke, hungry and down to their last nickel. They decide to hock their banjo in order to get some money for food, and while one partner is negotiating the deal, the other one falls asleep and dreams that a wealthy society matron has hired them to investigate a string of suitors.

While reading the newspaper in his jail cell during his stint as a "guest of the county", Wallingford reads a story that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a hotel from an uncle who has recently died. Upon hearing the news, Schenectady falls asleep and dreams of what kind of life he'll lead now that he owns a hotel. It turns out he has a surprise in store.

Mantan Moreland and Shelton Brooks play two parolees out looking for a job. they apply and get a job on a wealthy estate as a butler and a maid. Mantel plays a big-chested maid and Shelton the butler. The plot involves a shady swamie trying to steal the lady of her jewelry and succeeding. Enter Mantan and Shelton to trick the swamie into getting the jewelry back and him arrested.

This is a story about Mr. Cohen, a father who owns a large department store in London and cares about being a good shopkeeper and good person. Mr. Cohen's elder son and a friend's son work there and have slowly taken on more and more responsibility with the inadvertent result that Mr Cohen has begun to feel unimportant. Mr. Cohen longs to start over with a small shop to regain what he feels he has lost. (imdb)

This George Morris story was based on an article that appeared in "Woman's Home Companion" and later reprinted in "Reader's Digest." Eddie Condon, a two-bit racketeer, teams up with an alcoholic doctor, Judson, to set up a maternity home with free facilities to expectant mothers, with the proviso that the women sign away all rights to their newborns. The babies are then offered for adaptation to couples willing to make a substantial "contribution" to the home. (imdb)

While Kentucky is known as 'the blue grass state', the use of the term in this title is the name of the horse. The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentucky Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race-track career. (imdb)

Estelita is an entertainer in a Cuban cigar-factory and gets into trouble for mimicking her employer, but is fawned over after she inherits $20,000,000. On her way to Los Angelese to collect her inheritance, she decides to make herself unattractive to discourage suitors who want only her money. Tommy Pomeroy, son of the manager of her inherited oil company, proves to want only her (not knowing she is the heiress), and ignoring her other identity as an old, ugly hag. (imdb)

Jack (Earle Rodney) wants to marry Betty (Helen Darling) but inadvertently offends her parents, who demand "anybody in the world but that whippersnapper!" With the help of an "old time actor friend" (Eddie Barry), he makes his prospective in-laws rue their words.

The grandparents, Daniel Mason(William Halligan) and Mrs. Mason (Laura Treadwell) of Danny Mason (Robert 'Buzz' Henry)), an orphaned boy, are trying to have him put into their custody rather than that of his uncle, Jim King (James Seay), a racetrack veterinary, as they object to the track environment in which he is being raised. (imdb)

Few novels are as loved as Penrod and Sam, Booth Tarkington's warmhearted evocation of growing up in small-town America. This first talkie film version is a charmer, capturing the adventures, laughs and sorrows of the book. Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale.

A newspaper publisher and his Asian valet/martial arts expert battle crime as the feared Green Hornet and Kato. (imdb)

The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.

Rusty was orphaned in an Indian raid. He and his dog Rin Tin Tin were adopted by the troops at Fort Apache in Arizona, and helped establish law and order in and around Mesa Grande.

Indian Agent Tom Jeffords makes friends with Chief Cochise, becoming a blood brother of the Apache. Together they fight white schemers and renegade Indians.

On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. An hour after announcing that he's through with women, he meets pretty Helen Raynor. Schuyler Van Loon, who is after Helen, comes up with a scheme to embarrass Alan in Helen's eyes and ruin his reputation in the bargain - he comes up with a baby that he claims is Alan's illegitimate son. (imdb)

A retired businessman in Scotland, who is also a golf fanatic, will not let his daughter marry an Irish-American boy, Terry O'Reilly. Then one day O'Reilly's father shows up for a "visit"--which, as it turns out, is because he's on the run from the police in New York. (imdb)

The Gas House Kids take a job delivering an automobile to California, unaware that it is a stolen car. Upon their arrival, they discover a hot-car ring run by a crooked ranch foreman with lecherous designs on the rancher's daughter.

Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indaanapolis 500. (imdb)

While on furlough, U. S. Navy sailors "Breezy" Duke and his pal, "Cookie" are offered the use of the Duke suite, belonging to a wealthy candy magnate, at an expensive hotel because of Breezy's last name. The offer was tendered when "Breezy" hinted he was the son of Mr. Duke.

A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.

The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart (who does not appear in the IMDB cast-list) is in need of repairs and her nephew is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beauties) while having to deal with the arrival of his own fiancée and her parents who between them provide most of what few laughs there are and a sheriff with a debt to collect.

A young law student takes a tuna-fishing job so that he may pay a debt and gain the respect of his family.

Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own kidnapping to raise the ransom money from her uncle. Things get sticky when the phony abduction turns real.

Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.

Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave home, Dave, a handsome young plumber, arrives to repair a leaky faucet. Her vacation turns into a bust when it rains at the beach, but a hunky lifeguard shows up to brighten her day. Then, of all people, Dave the plumber shows up, too. Complications ensue. (imdb)

Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has run off with the cash receipts. Slim and Nancy fall in love and the rodeo is beginning to prosper under her guidance. A thoughtless remark by her to Barbecue Jones, a one-time champion, now an old man, forces him to prove his fitness as a rider

Lillian Peacock is set to inherit her uncle's house, now that he's dead and all, but she must live there. Housekeepers Gale Henry and Dan Duffy will inherit it if she leaves, so they're trying to scare her off. And into this mess walks innocent burglar Heinie Conklin.

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".

Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in, because Georgie's parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town. Finally the boys agree to let Georgie join, but first they demand that he undergo an "initiation", and they're determined to make it one that Georgie won't soon forget.

Matt Blaine and his son, Jim, and their men, rob John Dawson's bank, although Jim doesn't approve, even though Dawson jumped Matt's mining claim. Their accomplices double-cross them and the Blaines escape by canoe. They are followed and meet Royal Candian Mounted Policeman Bob McDonald, who helps them fight until all three men are wounded. Aided by Chinook, McDonald's dog, they escape but Matt dies. McDonald then sets out to prove that Dawson was the real culprit.

Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty who's dad believes Cash Is King.

This series dramatizes confidence games which fall under the jurisdiction of Captain John Braddock.

It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and Matilda thought her hubby was crazy because he did not recognize her. Frank had forgotten his badge, and so could not prove his identity, and was taken to the insane asylum. But Bess discovered that Frank left his badge and went to the first house on his list to give it to him. At the corner she met John looking for the wallet.

The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.

Marjorie (Marjorie Beebe) is being wooed by the effete and broke Sir Herbert in this Mack Sennett production for Educational Pictures. Her mother wants Marjorie to marry this upper class twit, though the audience sure doesn't! Marjorie plans on pleasing her mother but soon meets a very handsome young man and is smitten...but he's just a 'lowly ice man' and mother doesn't approve.

A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.

Ken Keeler, a lawyer in the small town of Fairview, learns that children from "The Patch", a run-down migrant camp outside of town, will be attending the town's school. Not long afterwards a migrant family, the Ashbys, is driving through Fairview when their old junker of a car breaks down in front of the Keeler home. As Mr. Ashby works on the car, his young son Nathaniel talks to Ken's young son Kenny and they strike up a friendship.

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.

Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?

A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage; they were young people who got married in the average way, lived average lives, raised two sons and realize that most of the incidents in their lives were counterpoint to most people---hard times, salary raises, promotions, loss of a son in war, discharge of social and economic obligations.

A society woman falls for a man she meets on the beach. The man decides to teach her a lesson by masquerading as his butler.

A jewelry store in Chicago is receiving a valuable necklace to show to potential buyers, but the owner is scared it might be stolen. A man arrives from the NY office to oversee the necklace's arrival, but suspicion begins to fall on all involved.

A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.

A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.

Corporal Rod Webb (Kirby Grant)of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police follows a murder trail deep into the Klondike. He becomes involved with the niece,Marie Briand (Martha Hyer), of the murdered man, and with Nan Duval (Frances Charles), who is a partner in a no-limit gambling saloon. He also has problems with a gang of unscrupulous promoters who have gunmen under their hire.