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- Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.
- During the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson.
- In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.
- Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
- Alan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America.
- An elderly woman whose son disappeared refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She grows attached to a student whom she believes is her grandson.
- A mysterious detective called The Masked Marvel battles Japanese saboteurs intent on blowing up America.
- It's intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates.
- To boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. Jason and co worker Cleo Arden, not Eve, ( played by Gloria Dickson) lead the hunt . which takes them to a small and previously quiet town. There is little tough guy Mousey (George Stone, who else ?), who becomes over zealous over the possibility of winning the reward. There is Bonnie (Ruth Terry), Mike's teen girlfriend , who adds further mayhem. The original film was cut to 54 minutes due to its' B movie billing and later television. At times. scenes may seem unconnected, for that reason.
- On graduation day at the Hattie Greenfield Agricultural College, crabby Hattie, who donated the land and buildings for the college twenty-one years previously, is angered by the students' good-natured attempt to poke fun at her. Hattie refuses to donate more money to the school, despite the pleas of the college's president, Professor Edgar Boggs. Determined to raise enough money for needed buildings, Edgar and the school's veterinarian, Dr. Hall, organize the students and turn the school into a summer vacation lodge called the "Hi, Neighbor Lodge." A better-equipped lodge across the lake threatens to monopolize the tourists until the kids hit upon a scheme involving a pen-pal Lonely Hearts club. The students write to the club's members, inviting them to come to the lodge to meet other single people. Soon business is booming, and only one more month's bookings are needed to raise all of the required funds. A newspaper story about the lodge and the club raises the ire of Hattie, who deems the proceedings inappropriate. She descends upon the lodge with her niece Dorothy, sister Vera and lawyer, Don Wilson, who is engaged to Dorothy. Hattie insists on reclaiming the school property and orders everyone to leave. Determined to thwart Hattie, some of the boys decide to trick her into staying. They arrange for Don to come into contact with some poison ivy that night, and the next morning, Dr. Hall diagnoses his rash as measles. A quarantine is ordered for one month, and Don is bundled off to bed. While Vera pursues Roy, one of the students, Dr. Hall and Dorothy spend time together and fall in love. Even Hattie discovers a touch of romance at the lodge when Edgar, who was her childhood sweetheart, tries to recapture the days of their youth. Everyone's good humor is destroyed, however, when Don sneaks out to a local hospital and learns that he does not have measles. He exposes Dr. Hall's deception, and an angry Hattie declares that the school will be shut. Dorothy tells Hattie that she is staying to marry Dr. Hall, but when he learns of Hattie's plans, Dr. Hall makes a deal with her that he will give up Dorothy if she will keep the school open for Edgar's sake. Dr. Hall breaks off his relationship with Dorothy, who then returns with her relatives to the city. Brokenhearted over Dr. Hall, Dorothy resumes her engagement to Don, but on the day of the wedding, Vera returns to the school and informs everyone of Dr. Hall and Hattie's pact. Edgar and the kids rush to Hattie's mansion and establish a picket line to protest her unfairness. Don and Dorothy call off their wedding, and Hattie finally accepts Edgar's comforting. The Greenfields then travel to the school, where Dorothy and Dr. Hall are reunited.
- On 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines, a Japanese carrier ship off the coast transmits a coded message to the contraband radio of Nazi spies. The spies then stick the message, which states that a Tokyo battleship is approaching Pearl Harbor, to a bottle of German liquor called Kümmel. Just then, the womanizing private Steve "Lucky" Smith meets his fellow soldiers Bruce Gordon and "Portly" Porter in the Casa Marina bar, and Lucky and Steve both try to attract a beautiful woman, who soon informs them she is Portly's sister Marcia. Portly arranges a job for Marcia as the secretary to Andy L. Anderson, the owner of the bar. When a businessman named Littlefield slips into Marcia's booth and bothers her while reading the message on the bottle of Kümmel, Lucky defends her by attacking Littlefield, and Bruce and Portly join the fight. Captain Hudson disciplines the three by assigning them to find the spy's radio. Though Lucky is in charge of the mission, he soon returns to the bar to find Marcia. Bruce and Portly, meanwhile, pick up a coded radio transmission from a Japanese boat and follow the beam to the hideout of Littlefield and his two henchmen. A gunfight erupts during which Portly is killed and Littlefield escapes, and when Lucky later admits to the captain that he was not there, the captain court-martials him and promotes Bruce to corporal. Lucky quickly escapes from jail and soon after, Anderson, who is one of the spies, meets with Van Hoorten, another Nazi who is posing as a Dutch Indian. They discuss the success of their plan to stockpile ammunition and gas for the Japanese troops who plan to invade. Anderson agrees to kill Littlefield and arrange for the gas to be transported to their warehouse, and when Lucky turns to Anderson for help, believing the bar owner to be a friend, Anderson slyly tips him off to Littlefield's whereabouts. That night, Lucky attacks Littlefield and Anderson shoots him, then offers Lucky the job of transporting some "crude oil" to his warehouse. On the way, Bruce stops Lucky's truck and asks him to turn himself in that evening. At the warehouse, Lucky realizes that the cargo is not crude oil but gasoline, and when he and Marcia sneak into Van Hoorten's office that night, they find ammunition and a Nazi flag. Just then, Van Hoorten bursts in and attacks them, forcing Lucky to shoot him. Then Bruce, who has tracked Lucky to the warehouse, runs in just as the radio announces that Pearl Harbor has been bombed. Before the three can leave, Japanese planes land in the nearby field and the soldiers enter the office with Anderson. The three Americans run into the hills, where they find a radio and wire Captain Hudson for help. When the American troops arrive, Hudson spots another Japanese aircraft carrier in the bay. Understanding that the Japanese will soon outnumber them, Lucky courageously saves the Americans by flying the armed Japanese plane into the carrier in a suicide mission. Bruce receives a Distinguished Service Cross while Marcia collects the award on Lucky's behalf.
- This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we see the criminal, who is listening to the show, become alarmed and start to make his escape. The scene shifts to the police department where the chief, fearing for his job, assigns officers to get something, anything, on Sherman and get him off the air. Meanwhile, Greg and his pretty wife Beth are parting company. He's going to a party and she's going to visit her pregnant sister in the hospital. The next morning Greg wakes up and nudges his sleeping wife. When she doesn't respond, he pulls off the covers and finds not his wife but a strange woman, dead and with the murder knife still sticking up out of her back. While he's still recovering from the shock, Beth walks into the bedroom. Thinking that she has discovered her husband with another woman, she leaves and calls the police. The police are delighted of course, but Greg escapes as they are arresting him. Now he must solve the mystery by himself...
- Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good. His friends, the Hutters, are a white family living on an ark in the middle of a lake. The Hurons attack them and Deerslayer enlists the aid of scout Harry March, who is escorting sixty-five brides to the near-by settlement. Deerslayer and Harry are both in love with Judith Hutter, who is secretly in love with Harry. The Hurons succeed in capturing her father and Harry, where-upon Judith's sister Hetty, playing on an Indian superstition never to harm an insane person, feigns madness and makes an escape. Hutter, Judith, Hetty and Princess Wah-Tah return to the ark, where they ate attacked by the waiting Hurons and Hetty is killed. Deerslayer, Harry and the settlement men arrive to time to drive the Hurons away.
- In 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, police-sergeant Timothy J. Delaney, is gunned down by rubber racketeers. With the help of his brave friend and radio disc-jockey Linda Ward and police-lieutenant William 'Bill' Decker, Eddie goes after the racketeers. During their search, Eddie, Linda, and Bill must deal with various criminals, like Marty Clark and unscrupulous businessman John J. Underwood, who owns the nightclub "The One Spot."
- Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been sent to break it up. When Bill intercepts a shipment of tickets to New Mexico he forces Shelby to send incriminating papers in the next shipment. Bill captures these also and now has the evidence he needs to go after Shelby.
- Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
- A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
- Night raiders are burning down the ranchers' barns and poisoning their cattle. Sheriff Gabby, unable to cope, goes east to get help from Roy, descendant of two famous sheriffs. Roy is a young entomologist who would rather study bugs than strap on guns. He finally gives in to Gabby's wishes and ends the terror.
- Saboteurs are blowing up government warehouses (during World War II). Roy and his pals work undercover to put an end to their operations.
- Two mulatos, Mateo and Caridad, grow up together in a port in Havana, Cuba. Caridad is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and a black laundry-woman. As the years pass, Mateo falls in love with Caridad, but she falls in love with a Mexican captain, Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara, owner of the cantina where Caridad dances. When Martin returns to Vera Cruz, Mexico, to resolve his troubles, Guevara feels he "owns" Caridad. What will Caridad do when Martin returns? This film has great music and dancing, including a risque performance of African "bembe", in which women tear off their tops and roll around in the sand.
- The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe (Dennis O'Keefe), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-Amrical girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
- An arrogant young actress doesn't want to play "young" parts anymore, and runs off. The studio replaces her with the president of her fan club, who just happens to be a lookalike. Meanwhile, some other former child actors, trying to put on a show for the GIs, will be able to do it only if they can get the young actress to be in it, so they set out to persuade her to be in their show--not knowing that she's isn't who they think she is.
- American, British and Chinese secret agents battle the Japanese Black Dragon Society, a secretive ring that smuggles enemy agents into the U.S. disguised as mummies.
- Gene and Smiley help an all-too-proper girl Connie in her attempt to run a cattle ranch.
- An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a German spy ring.
- World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Dad Mathews, a rancher with a huge government contract order for beef, has trouble with the cattle rustlers, led by Henry Judson and Lefty Lewis, who are taking advantage of the situation to steal his herds. John Paul Revere, Special State Investigator, arrives, and upon meeting Mathews' daughter, Betty, gets the idea of recruiting the hard-riding daughters of the district into the WAPS, an organization which will be to the cattle country what the WACS and WAVES are to the Army and Navy. He trains them in military procedure and provides them with radio sending-and-receiving sets. Johnny's sidekick, Frog Millhouse, finds himself the possessor of a "walkie-talkie" which he considers just a "doo-dad" at first, but which is instrumental in the end, in helping Johnny and the WAPS trap the gang of rustlers in their hideout.
- The foreman of a mining company is out to steal the mine from its owners, and Gene must stop him.
- The chapter-crunched version of this 196 minutes, 12-episode serial from Republic finds Canada being bombed mercilessly by a mysterious-enemy plane (shaped like a boomerang) called the Falcon, under the supervision of Admiral Yamata, Count Baroni and Marshal von Horst, chiefs of the Axis Fifth Column in Canada. No one can identify the plane until American inventor, Professor Marshall Brent, and his daughter Carol arrive with a new type of airplane detector. This poses a threat to the Axis chiefs in preparing western Canada for an invasion and they have him kidnapped by local Quisling Gil Harper. RCMP Sergeant Tom King attempts to rescue Brent, but the inventor is killed when a plane in which he is held captive crashes into a riverboat. Carol, determined to carry on her father's work and with King's aid, manages to prevent the enemy agents from capturing the detector, and destroys the device (many chapters later) when the agents make a last desperate attack on the cabin where it is hidden. She is captured and taken to the crater of a volcano, where the ring makes its headquarters.
- Gerald Payne, a psychology professor at Cotchatootamee College, irritates the students with a teaching experiment in which all students are referred to as numbers. Payne's system, which attempts to prevent favoritism, requires much hard work and restricts dating, and so the students decide to ruin Payne by creating a false student. They pool their papers and soon their creation, number 79, has won all the academic awards for the semester. Number 79, whom the students have named Patty Flynn, is to receive an award at a school assembly, and the co-eds, led by Sally Carlyle, are chuckling over their victory when they are overheard by Payne's secretary, Agatha Frost. Agatha, who is known as Frosty, tells the girls that Payne will be fired and they will be expelled if their scheme is revealed, and so Sally calls New York, where fellow student Bingo Brown is picking up orchestrations for the music he composed for the upcoming school show. After Sally tells Bingo to hire someone to play Patty, he approaches would-be singer Betty Reilly. At first Patty refuses his proposal, despite his assertion that she could be discovered by Broadway producer Max Hillman, who will be at the school show. Betty changes her mind, however, when her bumbling brother Eddie and his pal, Nick Cramer, reveal that they "borrowed" a race horse, entered it in a race in her name and are now wanted by the police. Betty goes to the college to hide out and arrives at the assembly just in time to collect the award for Patty Flynn. Payne is astonished by Betty's slang-filled speech, and in order to substantiate the charade, Betty convinces him that overwork due to his experimental system has caused her to have a nervous breakdown. She further convinces him that only relaxing his edicts about dating will prevent the other students from suffering a similar fate. Betty arranges for Payne to escort Sally to an upcoming dance, and after he kisses Sally during a rehearsal for the show, they realize that they are in love. Eddie's arrival ruins everything, however, for when he is picked up by the police, he is taken to Payne, to whom he reveals Betty's true identity. Furious about the deception but wanting to protect the kids, Payne resigns without telling Dean Andrew Wharton about their scheme. Payne then breaks up with Sally and castigates the students for their interference. He also tells them that they must stay in college rather than rush to join the military and fight in the war, for gaining knowledge is serving their country as well. The contrite students confess to Wharton, who agrees to reinstate Payne and expel them. When Wharton forbids them to hold the show, Payne and Frosty conspire to distract him while the kids perform. Wharton hears the music, however, and is about to cancel the show when the kids' final number, "You Got to Study, Buddy," wins the approval of two visiting military officials with its theme of staying in school. Wharton signals his approval, Payne and Sally are reconciled and Betty is a success.
- New Mexico is the scene of undeveloped gold mines and kidnapping. Modern elements include tommy guns, an airplane, two-way radios, fast cars, and big city gangsters.
- Roy's boss has inherited a very large ranch, but the will keeps him from selling it--although his widow could. Lucky Miller is out to get control of the ranch, so he has a girl come West to marry him, then after the wedding he has his henchman kill the owner. Roy is nearby, and when the murder gun is switched with his, he finds himself in jail.
- Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl.
- Mrs. Hensley (Evelyn Brent),president of the Spring Valley bank, is also the leader of a gang that rob banks in the surrounding communities. Despite her protests, the Bankers Association offers a$5,000 reward for each bank robber killed. Mrs. Hensley then devises a scheme to turn the reward offer into a bonanza for herself and her aide Rick West (Donald Curtis.) Coffee (Budd Buster), a member of the gang is to accost each stranger that comes to Spring Valley, pretend to be drunk, and ask them to take him to the bank so he can deposit his money. At the bank, it is made to appear that the stranger is attempting a hold-up and he is shot to death by Coffee's accomplice Dallas (Kenne Duncan.) Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) nearly falls victim to this trap but is rescued by his pals, Story Brooke (Tom Tyler) and Tucson Smith (Bob Steele.) he trio ten joins forces with the sister Anne Henderson (Lois Collier) and brother Jimmy Henderson (John James) of an earlier victim, Wayne Henderson (Tom Seidel), and soon put an end to the Healey gang.
- It's 1941 and three Nazis escape from a Canadian prison. Two are killed but the third kills Paul Schiller and assumes his identity. This leads him to the Three Mesquiteers ranch where his uncle Dr. Steiner is developing a chemical that will extract rubber from a local plant. The Nazis are out to stop the project and they get the fake Schiller to sabotage the Doctor's formula.
- Gene heads some cattlemen who have been swindled by McCoy. McCoy needed their money to pay off his gambling debt.
- Bill Raymond, a hotshot newspaper reporter will all the trappings, is following a story about and looking for the leaders of an alien smuggling gang. Along the way he gets the aid of a screwball heiress, Bonnie Parker (no, not Clyde Barrow's Bonnie), and a couple of ex-pugilists, Biff and Bang.
- A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
- A man helps the authorities uncover a ring of murderous German spies in wartime London.
- Roy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang.
- After four unprofitable years in Alaska, gold prospector Steve Bentley prepares to return to the United States. His friend Ravenhill, who is known as Rave, tries to convince him to participate in a scheme to acquire 9,000 ounces of gold. Rave explains that he followed Mountie Travis as he was escorting a newcomer, Matt Donovan, to a remote location where Donovan was to help prospector "Boomer" McCoy and his son Pete take the gold out of Alaska. Travis was forced to leave the man when word came that a woman had been killed in Fort Nelson. Rave wants to follow the newcomer to McCoy's strike and steal the gold, but Steve turns him down. He then indulges in a drunken farewell party with his friends, during which he thinks he hears a wolf outside and attempts to shoot it. The next morning when he awakens, Steve is horrified to learn that Travis has been shot to death, and that the evidence indicates Steve is the culprit. Rave's cohort Frayne offers to help Steve escape, but when Rave escorts Steve to the pass, he threatens to turn him over to the Mounties if he does not cooperate with his plan to steal the gold. Rave reveals that the newcomer, Donovan, died mysteriously on the trail, and that Rave has possession of the letter introducing him to the McCoys. Steve bitterly agrees to impersonate Donovan, whom the McCoys have never met, and continues north, accompanied by his faithful dog "Tolo." They are soon found by Charley and Pelly, the McCoys' workers, and Steve discovers that Pete is the nickname of Boomer's daughter Mary. Pete explains that Boomer is dead, and that she has already sent away her other workers. Anxious that the workers have spread the news about the strike, Steve begins loading the gold for the trip out. Before they can leave, however, Rave and Frayne arrive and state that the McCoy workers have stirred things up with news of the gold. Steve is forced to allow Rave and Frayne to join the party, but his growing affection for Pete makes him determined to protect her. Soon after they begin, the group encounters a stampede of prospectors heading for the McCoy mine, and Steve uses the confusion as an opportunity to send Charley and Pelly off with Pete. While Steve is fighting off Frayne, Rave brings the Mounties, who arrest Frayne as Steve escapes. Steve hides in a nearby cave but is soon found by Rave, who reveals that Frayne killed the woman at Fort Nelson. Pete appears soon after and tells them that she hid the gold and came back because she cannot live without Steve. Rave then admits that Frayne killed Travis, but that he allowed Steve to believe he was the murderer in order to get his cooperation. After congratulating them on their good fortune, Rave leaves, and Steve yells after him that they will invite him to the wedding.
- In 1871, the Rangers are disbanded due to lack of funds so Monroe County sets up it's own police force. All ranchers must pay for protection, but those who do not are quickly robbed and/or killed. Johnny Steele, is head of the police, but his second in command is working for Judge Morgan, who leads the outlaws. When the Three Mesquiteers try to help Ben Walker, they are accused of his murder and of trying to rob the stage.
- Chris Waring (William Wright) is a government investigator trying to gather the necessary evidence to convict a shipping magnate, DeBrock (J.Edward Bromberg), of selling his ships to the United States but is suspected of holding up and preventing their delivery because of bribes from foreign powers. DeBrock's conscience, nor his flirty wife, Valerie DeBrock (Osa Massen), give him any peace of mind.
- Roy returns to his hometown to make a radio appearance as a singing cowboy. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between sheep raisers and cattlemen.
- The town of Granville has been shaken by a series of fur pelt thefts from a trading post, and a murder.
- Gene goes after a gambling ring and learns it is headed by McKenzie's father.
- During World War II, a yodeling hillbilly singer goes undercover to expose a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States.
- When her competitor gets too rough rodeo owner Jennifer gets help from Gene.
- On the night of his biggest bout, boxer Billy Conn's coach, Pop Mallory, suddenly dies. A rival manager, Max Ellison, offers to take over Billy's contract, promising to place him immediately in several lucrative fights. Pop's daughter Patricia, however, refuses to sell Billy's contract and instead proposes that she manage his career with a slow, steady buildup. Billy is resentful of Pat's interference and only partially follows her training, choosing instead to spend time with Ellison's daughter Barbara, who hopes to lure Billy back to her father. Barbara's attentions to Billy aggravate her boyfriend, nightclub owner Joe Barton, but Pat intervenes to prevent trouble between him and Billy. Gradually, under Pat's guidance and heavy promotion by reporter Cliff Halliday, Billy's career flourishes and he comes to trust Pat's decisions, especially after he is offered a match with Ellison's world championship title holder. One evening before the bout, Barbara visits Billy, and both are surprised by the appearance of Barton and his henchman Devlin, who have been following Barbara. Barton threatens Billy and in the ensuing struggle, accidentally kills himself with a gun. Devlin and Barbara disappear, and Billy is arrested and charged with Barton's murder. With the help of Halliday and eventually Barbara, Pat tracks down Devlin, who admits the truth to the district attorney. Billy is released from jail in time for the big bout, but Pat is convinced that Billy loves Barbara and stays away from the fight. Disappointed to find Pat absent, Billy fights poorly in the opening round. Realizing the situation, Barbara rushes to find Pat to persuade her that she and Billy are not in love. Pat gets to the match in time to inspire Billy, who wins the fight.
- "Perfect Movie Fan" Joe Ruddy is brought to Hollywood as a publicity stunt and put in charge of a production company as a gag, but everybody isn't in on the gag, and Joe imports a notorious gangster, "Buggsy" Malone, to play "himself" in a film based on his life. "Buggsy" has gone straight, more or less, but retains some of his old habits to the extent of assuming control of the film, and the whole studio. His sister Molly comes along and falls in love with Joe. The head of the studio, R. B. Harris, quickly becomes disenchanted with the idea of publicity stunts.