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- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsWarren WilliamIda LupinoRita HayworthA group of spies is after the plans for an anti-aircraft gun, and the leader uses the opportunity to embroil the Lone Wolf in the plot. Trying to settle an old score, this shady character implicates his old nemesis by forcing him to crack the safe where the plans are stored.Lone Wolf
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsWarren WilliamEric BloreJoan PerryDelia's father murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires reformed thief Michael to find killer and jewels before police suspect him.Lone Wolf
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsWarren WilliamEric BloreJean MuirA hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, and Jamison set out to find the real killer.Lone Wolf
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsWarren WilliamFrances RobinsonBruce BennettComplicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Miami trying to solve the crime and make a profit.Lone Wolf
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsWarren WilliamJune StoreyHenry WilcoxonThe Lone Wolf Michael Lanyard takes Inspector Crane's challenge that he can't keep out of trouble for 24 hours. No sooner accepted when Lanyard is sucked into a case of murder and kidnapping in which he is sole suspect. Lanyard pursues the perpetrators, a gang of cunning thieves with engraving plates belonging to the U.S. Treasury, even as he is being hunted by police.Lone Wolf
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsWarren WilliamRuth FordRoger ClarkMichael Lanyard is hired to safeguard gems intended to finance a foreign nation's battle for liberty.Lone Wolf
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsWarren WilliamEric BloreHillary BrookeThe Lone Wolf tracks down German spies in London during the German bombing.Lone Wolf
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsWarren WilliamEric BloreMarguerite ChapmanA "Lone Wolf" advenure. The Lone Wolf tries to clear himself of a charge of murdering a blackmailer.Lone Wolf
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsWarren WilliamAnn SavageEric BloreThe Lone Wolf undercover to foil the Nazis stealing the plans!Lone Wolf
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsLloyd NolanMarjorie WeaverJoan ValerieAfter gumshoe Mike Shayne is hired by a millionaire to keep his daughter away from gambling and gamblers, he becomes involved in the murder of a racetrack tout.Michael Shayne
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsLloyd NolanLynn BariMary Beth HughesMike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.Michael Shayne
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsLloyd NolanMary Beth HughesSheila RyanDetective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.Michael Shayne
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsLloyd NolanMary Beth HughesHelene ReynoldsDetective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a German smuggling ring.Michael Shayne
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsLloyd NolanMarjorie WeaverHelene ReynoldsA man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.Michael Shayne
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsLloyd NolanMarjorie WeaverPhil SilversPrivate detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is serving on the jury trying Lillian Hubbard (Janis Carter) for the murder of Harley Forsythe. A witness with information that could clear Lillian is killed by a knife hurled from inside the courtroom. Shyane hides the knife in the ensuing confusion. He slips out of the jury room that night and, with the aid of reporter Judy Taylor (Marjorie Weaver), traces the knife to a professional blade-slinger, Count Edmond Telmachio (Alexander Lockwood). Shayne finds the Count murdered in a warehouse and a brooch discovered on his body now points the finger of suspicion at nightclub singer Rita Darling (Joan Valerie) and the owner of the club where she works, George Dolphin(Don Costello). Rita was the fiancée of Forsythe and Dolphin is in love with her. The trial begins the next day, with Shayne back in the jury box, after giving the information he picked up to defense counsel John Logan (Richard Derr). The trial takes a surprise twist when Shayne is permitted to cross examine everyone, including the defense lawyer, who has been in love with Miss Hubbard for years.Michael Shayne
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsLloyd NolanHeather AngelDoris MerrickA private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from an old dowager to pay off a blackmailer. The private eye soon finds himself up to his ears in cover-ups, a timid secretary, fights, more blackmail, hysterical women and murder.Michael Shayne
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsChester MorrisRochelle HudsonRichard LaneWhen a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.Boston Blackie
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsChester MorrisHarriet NelsonRichard LaneBlackie is accused of murdering a man at an art auction, which leads to the uncovering of an art racket.Boston Blackie
- DirectorLew LandersStarsChester MorrisAdele MaraRichard LaneBlackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.Boston Blackie
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsChester MorrisWilliam WrightConstance WorthBoston Blackie and his pal, The Runt, are ready to board a train for Florida when Blackie gets a telegram from his friend Arthur Manleder asking Blackie to go to Manleder's New York apartment, get $60,000 from a wall safe and fly to Hollywood. Blackie has just removed the money when Police Inspector Farraday and his assistant, Sergeant Matthews arrive and accuse him of robbery. They let him escape so they can follow as they think he knows something about the stolen Monterey Diamond. Blackie arrives in Hollywood and learns that Manleder has fallen for Gloria Lane, in cahoots with a gang of crooks, and had been holding the missing diamond in trust for the owner. Gloria had asked Arthur to let her wear the diamond and it was stolen. Two gangsters had appeared at the apartment and offered to recover the diamond for $60,000, which had prompted the telegram to Blackie. The two crooks also steal the money from The Runt. Blackie's plan to catch the crooks and recover the money and the diamond goes awry when another crook, Slick Barton, steals both from his two crook pals. Farraday and Matthews now arrive and accuse Blackie of both thefts.Boston Blackie
- DirectorLew LandersStarsChester MorrisAnn SavageGeorge E. StoneBlackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.Boston Blackie
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsChester MorrisJanis CarterWilliam WrightBlackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit.Boston Blackie
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsChester MorrisLynn MerrickRichard LaneBlackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.Boston Blackie
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsChester MorrisNina FochSteve CochranBlackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.Boston Blackie
- DirectorLew LandersStarsChester MorrisLynn MerrickRichard LaneSleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.Boston Blackie
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsChester MorrisJeff DonnellRichard LaneBlackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession. Story involves sinister seances and ghostly apparitions.Boston Blackie
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsChester MorrisTrudy MarshallConstance DowlingBlackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.Boston Blackie
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsChester MorrisJune VincentRichard LaneBlackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.Boston Blackie
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsChester MorrisMayliaRichard LaneBlackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.Boston Blackie
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsGeorge SandersWendy BarrieAllen JenkinsThe Falcon investigates jewel thieves who are working with hard up socialites to defraud insurance companies. First of the Falcon series.The Falcon
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsGeorge SandersWendy BarrieJames GleasonA scientist has discovered how to make synthetic diamonds and a criminal gang (closely pursued by the Falcon) are out to discover the formula.The Falcon
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsGeorge SandersLynn BariJames GleasonThe Falcon and reporter Ann Riordan try to solve a string of murders after an ex-wrestler, released from jail, goes looking for his girl friend.The Falcon
- DirectorStanley LoganStarsGeorge SandersTom ConwayJane RandolphTom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination.The Falcon
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRichard DixJanis CarterPorter HallA drifter claims the money in an old bank account by impersonating someone else with the same name. Soon he finds himself the target of a man who turns out to be the son of the old partner of the impersonated man's father, who caused his partner to do time in prison.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRichard DixGloria StuartJ. Carrol NaishA depressed man hires an assassin to kill him when he least expects it, but when his life takes an upward turn, he finds he now wishes to live.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsRichard DixJanis CarterJeff DonnellA woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRichard DixLynn MerrickRhys WilliamsThe 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation. Heading for the Great Lakes, he becomes ill in the cab operated by Ernie Sparrow an is taken to a clinic where he meets nurse Joan Martin, who is engaged to intern Fred Graham. Doctors now tell him he has only a few months to live and advise him to go to Maine (where, evidently, it will seem longer.) He asks Joan to marry him, promising to leave her his fortune. She, no dummy, accepts but hard-loser Fred doesn't like it even though she says she is doing it for him. After six months of living in a lighthouse with only Joan and Sparrow, whom he has hired as his aide, Sinclaie seemingly regains his health and has really fallen in love with Joan. She tells him she can no longer tolerate the loneliness just as Fred arrives for a visit, and John invites him to stay. In a chess game, John facetiously outlines to Fred how he would murder him if he chose to. Fred, decides to beat him to the punch and enters his bedroom that night and attempts to kill John with a poker. The figure in the bed turns out to be a dummy and John, who has been hiding, clubs Fred to death. He tries to throw the body from the bedroom window but it won't open and, planning to return and force it open later, he carries the body to the rocks and then hits Fred's head with a stone. Returning to the lighthouse, John meets Sparrow and tells him that Fred fell from a window but Sparrow knows all the windows have been nailed shut. And Joan, who saw John carry the body out, has summoned the police.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsRichard DixLeslie BrooksMichael DuaneAn artist married to a wealthy but ill woman begins an affair with one of his models, who is after him solely for his money. His wife discovers the affair and threatens to cut him out of her will. In order to be able to keep both the wife's money and his girlfriend, he begins to secretly poison his wife - but events take a surprising turn after she eventually dies.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsMichael DuaneLenore AubertRichard LaneOn the eve of his marriage, a young man's fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiance's dead ex-husband and his wealthy, corrupt family.