Missing Girls

Missing Girls 1936

5.00

A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.

1936

The Girl Who Came Back

The Girl Who Came Back 1935

5.70

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.

1935

Ring Around the Moon

Ring Around the Moon 1936

3.00

Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he doesn't love. Turmoil ensues for Ross as he tries to make his marriage work.

1936

The Adorable Cheat

The Adorable Cheat 1928

1

The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother. In order to prove to her dad that she can handle the job, she disguises herself as an ordinary "working girl" and gets a job in her dad's plant. There she meets and falls in love with a clerk. She brings the young man home to meet her folks, but during the evening the family safe is robbed, and all signs point to her new boyfriend.

1928

The Little Red Schoolhouse

The Little Red Schoolhouse 1936

5.50

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.

1936

August Week End

August Week End 1936

5.00

At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man.

1936

Red Lights Ahead

Red Lights Ahead 1936

5.20

A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.

1936

Lady Luck

Lady Luck 1936

5.00

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.

1936

The House of Secrets

The House of Secrets 1936

5.60

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

1936

The Devil Plays

The Devil Plays 1931

4.50

A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.

1931

Death from a Distance

Death from a Distance 1935

4.80

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.

1935

The Midnight Special

The Midnight Special 1930

1

A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)

1930

The World Accuses

The World Accuses 1934

1

When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.

1934

The Quitter

The Quitter 1934

1

When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.

1934

Avenging Fangs

Avenging Fangs 1927

1

A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.

1927

The Call of the Wilderness

The Call of the Wilderness 1926

1

In a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land.

1926

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial Evidence 1929

1

Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.

1929

The Lawless Woman

The Lawless Woman 1931

1

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at all costs to cover the case to obtain exclusivity and impress his hierarchy. He falls in love with the young woman, but Ed Baker's former friends, determined to take revenge, have not said their last word ...

1931

The Peacock Fan

The Peacock Fan 1929

1

A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.

1929