William Beaudine

The Green Hornet (2005)

Fury of the Dragon (1976)

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

The Green Hornet (1974)

After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced ...

Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession (1972)

A two-part episode of the original Lassie television series (that aired in 1971) made into a single TV-movie. ...

The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show (1968)

The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show originally aired on the Wonderful World of Disney television program. ...

Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar (1967)

When livestock falls prey to a wild dog, local farmhands mistakenly accuse a mother cougar and her cubs of hunting their heard. It's up to Lassie and her owner, Forest Ranger Corey Stuart, to identify the real culprit and keep the young cougar family out h ...

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)

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. ...

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are fa ...

Look Homeward (1965)

After being separated from her companions in a canyon plane crash, Lassie endures captivity, hops a freight train with runaway boys, battles a wolf, stops a stampede, saves a man, and overcomes injury—guided by a hawk—until she finally returns home. ...

Lassie: The Wayfarers (1964)

Young Timmy Martin's world falls apart when he learns that his family must move to Australia. Lassie is to remain in America, so the Martins search for a new home for the Collie. Neighbor Cully Wilson takes Lassie in, but the old man already has a dog, the ...

Lassie's Great Adventure (1963)

While in Canada Timmy and Lassie encounter a downed hot air ballonist. By accident they end up in the balloon which takes them into the wilderness. The young boy and his dog must find a way to survive even fending off a wild pig. ...

Disneyland After Dark (1962)

Taking a look at Disneyland following nightfall, including nighttime entertainment and appearances by many celebrities of the day. ...

Moochie of Pop Warner Football (1960)

Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor's son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disneyland Bowl, and get to enjoy a visit to the park. ...

Ten Who Dared (1960)

The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon. ...

Moochie of the Little League (1959)

A young newspaper boy who is on a Little League team works hard to persuade an elderly Englishman, with whom he had a previous run-in, to donate land for a baseball diamond. ...

In the Money (1958)

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise. ...

Up In Smoke (1957)

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

Westward Ho, The Wagons! (1956)

The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite overwhelming odds. A calm, clear-thinking pioneer attempts to lead a wagon train through territory occupie ...

The Plausible Impossible (1956)

Walt Disney explains some of the techniques of animation, and includes for the first time the pencil test footage of the "Soup Eating Sequence" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt references a book called "The Art of Animation" which shows a techniq ...

3D Jamboree (1956)

3D film showcasing the Mousketeers, produced for the Disneyland Resort. ...

A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris (1956)

Walt looks at the history of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories. ...

The Story of the Animated Drawing (1955)

Walt Disney discusses the history of animation, beginning with J. Stuart Blackton and his Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906, and including Gertie the Dinosaur. ...

Jail Busters (1955)

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story. ...

High Society (1955)

Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the right ...

City Story (1954)

When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the pastor she doesn't come to church because the congregation is too cold and unfriendly. Realizing that she ...

Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)

A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race. ...

Paris Playboys (1954)

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. ...

Yukon Vengeance (1954)

In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers. ...

Murder Without Tears (1953)

A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it. ...

Roar of the Crowd (1953)

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 aft ...

Born to the Saddle (1953)

A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western. ...

Jalopy (1953)

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns ...

No Holds Barred (1952)

One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler. ...

Feudin' Fools (1952)

Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers. ...

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

The entertainment duo Mitchell & Petrillo, en route to a USO show for troops in Guam, fall out of their plane and end up on the jungle island of Cola Cola, where the mad scientist Dr. Zabor is conducting evolutionary experiments. ...

Yukon Gold (1952)

In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female gambler. Action ensues, but justice prevails. ...

The Rose Bowl Story (1952)

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. ...

Here Come the Marines (1952)

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left fo ...

Jet Job (1952)

Joe Kovak 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 i ...

Hold That Line (1952)

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. ...

Rodeo (1952)

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 ...

The Congregation (1952)

Religious film starring a just starting out Peter Graves was produced by the Protestant Film Commission. ...

Havana Rose (1951)

Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upse ...

Crazy Over Horses (1951)

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

Let's Go Navy! (1951)

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

Ghost Chasers (1951)

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

Cuban Fireball (1951)

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek ...

Bowery Battalion (1951)

Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army. ...

Again Pioneers (1950)

Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school. ...

Blues Busters (1950)

The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice. ...

Second Chance (1950)

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. ...

A Wonderful Life (1950)

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 mon ...

County Fair (1950)

"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding. Unfortunately, Loretta mistakenly places the bet on the wrong horse. When she discovers her error she tries to ge ...

Lucky Losers (1950)

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion ...

Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950)

Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Ma ...

Blonde Dynamite (1950)

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into a male escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients. ...

Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950)

The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race- ...

Tough Assignment (1949)

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictur ...

Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949)

With Maggie laid low with sneezing fits, Jiggs spends his time listening to radio trivia contests. Maggie, an inveterate social climber, wants to join the prestigious Northchester Hunt Club, and sends them a check for the $38,000 membership fee. When Jiggs ...

Trail of the Yukon (1949)

When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the m ...

Forgotten Women (1949)

A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big ...

Tuna Clipper (1949)

Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fol ...

The Lawton Story (1949)

Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of The Lawton Story was directed by Harold Daniels and narrated by radio announcer Knox Manning. To bring the ...

The Feathered Serpent (1948)

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 jun ...

Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948)

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 synd ...

Kidnapped (1948)

In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer. ...

Incident (1948)

An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him. ...

Smuggler's Cove (1948)

Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip ...

The Golden Eye (1948)

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 ...

The Shanghai Chest (1948)

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man. ...

Jinx Money (1948)

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. ...

Angels' Alley (1948)

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. ...

The Chinese Ring (1947)

Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle. ...

Bowery Buckaroos (1947)

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 Klo ...

News Hounds (1947)

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. ...

Gas House Kids Go West (1947)

The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation. ...

Killer at Large (1947)

Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's father. ...

Too Many Winners (1947)

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track. ...

Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces ...

Philo Vance Returns (1947)

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 telephone ...

Mr. Hex (1946)

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

Spook Busters (1946)

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 torm ...

Below the Deadline (1946)

A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his way ...

Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946)

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

One Exciting Week (1946)

The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks... ...

Behind the Mask (1946)

Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer. ...

The Shadow Returns (1946)

The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics. ...

The Face of Marble (1946)

The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his wor ...

Girl on the Spot (1946)

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 ...

Black Market Babies (1945)

Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little ...

Come Out Fighting (1945)

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son. ...

Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own. ...

Blonde Ransom (1945)

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. Thin ...

Fashion Model (1945)

When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy. ...

Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)

A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police. ...

Mom and Dad (1945)

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child. ...

Crazy Knights (1944)

Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house. ...

Bowery Champs (1944)

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. ...

Shadow of Suspicion (1944)

Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offices, recently the victim of a jewel robbery. ...

Oh, What a Night! (1944)

An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his niece. ...

Leave It to the Irish (1944)

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. ...

Follow the Leader (1944)

Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a la ...

Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)

Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector ...

Hot Rhythm (1944)

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. ...

Voodoo Man (1944)

After several female motorists begin disappearing en route to Twin Falls, a Hollywood screenwriter and the cousin of his bride-to-be discover that they've all been abducted by the mysterious Dr. Marlowe, who is attempting to resurrect his dead wife. ...

What a Man! (1944)

Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster h ...

The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows. ...

Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)

Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help. ...

Spotlight Scandals (1943)

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. ...

Here Comes Kelly (1943)

Cocky Kelly's girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server. ...

Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men. ...

Clancy Street Boys (1943)

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. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' decepti ...

The Ape Man (1943)

A scientist is turned into an ape man. ...

Foreign Agent (1942)

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

Phantom Killer (1942)

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. ...

The Living Ghost (1942)

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie. ...

One Thrilling Night (1942)

A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed. ...

Gallant Lady (1942)

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. ...

Men of San Quentin (1942)

A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison. ...

Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)

While serving time in county prison, Wallingford sees a story in the newspaper that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a mansionfrom his recently deceased uncle. Hearing this, Schenectady dreams of luxury. ...

The Panther's Claw (1942)

The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a black ...

Professor Creeps (1942)

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 societ ...

Lucky Ghost (1942)

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. ...

Broadway Big Shot (1942)

This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into ...

Duke of the Navy (1942)

A fake general sends two sailors on a wild-goose chase for buried treasure. ...

Blonde Comet (1941)

A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer. ...

The Miracle Kid (1941)

A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring. ...

Mr. Celebrity (1941)

A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment. ...

Desperate Cargo (1941)

When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The he ...

Federal Fugitives (1941)

A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash. ...

Emergency Landing (1941)

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. ...

Up Jumped the Devil (1941)

Two ne'er-do-wells, Washington and Jefferson, just out of prison are looking for jobs so they won't get arrested for vagrancy. They find out that the wealthy Mrs. Brown is looking to hire a butler and a maid, and Jefferson talks Washington into dressing up ...

Misbehaving Husbands (1940)

Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman". ...

Four Shall Die (1940)

Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to pursue a romance with reporter Bill Summers. Covey, determined to get at Helen's inheritance, vows to win h ...

Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters. ...

Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands. ...

Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937)

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 ...

Feather Your Nest (1937)

A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song. ...

Transatlantic Trouble (1937)

Max Miller plays a boxer's manager who fails to get fights for his simple-minded boxer. The manager sets up a scene in an American nightclub whereby his fighter gets the chance to knock down the reigning champion. The ruse fails to get the fighter a job bu ...

Windbag the Sailor (1936)

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 me ...

Educated Evans (1936)

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought. ...

Where There's a Will (1936)

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. ...

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935)

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it. ...

Get Off My Foot (1935)

A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune. ...

Boys Will Be Boys (1935)

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor ...

Dandy Dick (1935)

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what's left of his savings on Dan ...

So You Won't Talk (1935)

The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month. ...

The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff. ...

The Big Idea (1934)

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 baske ...

Her Bodyguard (1933)

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 ...

See You Tonight (1933)

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. ...

Dream Stuff (1933)

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? ...

The Crime of the Century (1933)

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it. ...

Make Me a Star (1932)

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent. ...

Three Wise Girls (1932)

Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two friends, Dot and Gladys, soon have romantic troubles. ...

Men in Her Life (1931)

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 ...

The Great Junction Hotel (1931)

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 inc ...

Penrod and Sam (1931)

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. But there's also plenty of time to play pr ...

The Mad Parade (1931)

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

The Lady Who Dared (1931)

A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim. ...

Misbehaving Ladies (1931)

Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her ...

Father's Son (1931)

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 a ...

One Yard to Go (1931)

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 he ...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies. ...

Forgotten Women (1931)

Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city ...

Movie-Town (1931)

A Baron attempts to sell Mack Sennett and William Beaudine on the idea of casting his new prodigy in one of their films. ...