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An insurmountable gambling debt is owed to crooked bar owner Bob Harmon by naive teenager Jimmy Rowell. Holding a stack of IOUs from Jimmy, Harmon threatens to ransack Rowell's family's homestead when the lad cannot pay up. Harmon is in cahoots with killer Bart Gills, and their crimes have drawn the attention of the Range Busters. Crash, Dusty and Alibi smell a rat and ride in to investigate.One of the twenty-four Range Busters movies produced between 1940 and 1943 for Monogram Pictures, The...

The town of Burlap, Pennsylvania is just too provincial for fast- talking Joe Miller, a self-possessed ham with big, big plans for radio stardom. His job at the railroad station pays peanuts and the girl he planned to give a tiny engagement ring to has accepted an offer from a wealthier suitor. After slipping the ring onto the finger of a pretty young woman as she sleeps in a train car bound for New York City, Joe decides to follow the girl and the ring to the Big Apple. His grand dreams of...

Johnny Darrel believes he accidentally killed his best friend during a shootout and swears to never use a gun again. Darrel may have to break his vow, however, when he gets mixed up in a deadly feud between Joan Williams' Sundown Construction Company and Brace Stevens' Tin Cup Ranch. Joan's company is building a dam on the land where Brace's gang drives their stolen cattle. Desperate to stop progress on the dam, Brace's partner, Menendez, takes Joan hostage. Armed with only his wits and his...

Sharpshooting Mountie Jim Sullivan (Kermit Maynard) goes undercover as a fugitive from justice to capture outlaw Pete Drago and his henchman, Slager. Along the trail, Jim rescues beautiful Elizabeth Henry (Ann Sheridan) from Drago's thug and learns that the cunning bandit is holding her uncle for ransom. Not knowing where to turn or who to trust, Elizabeth finds comfort in Jim's arms as he pledges to save her beloved uncle.Red Blood of Courage co-stars Kermit Maynard with Ann Sheridan, whose...

Crime boss Cardigan and his band of high-flying thugs steal an experimental plane invented by brilliant engineer F. S. Reynolds. The loss could bankrupt Reynolds unless hotshot pilot, Hal Foster, can retrieve the stolen aircraft before it is sold on the black market. After a dizzying, roof-vaulting chase through Chinatown and a daring mid-air battle, Hal tracks Cardigan to a remote desert airstrip for a final deadly confrontation.Exciting aerial stunts and choreographed fistfights highlight...

Veteran newspaperman, Ellery Cushing, is the struggling breadwinner for a very ungrateful family. His oldest son is a lazy would-be socialist, his pretty daughter is flirting with gold-digging debauchery, and his meddlesome wife constantly nags him to "be a man" and demand a salary increase from his stingy boss. Instead of getting a raise, Ellery gets fired. His best friend on the paper, Phil, quits in a move of solidarity, and the two men secretly embark on new careers in radio, with great...

Out of the many genres in the AV Geeks Educational Film Archive, venereal disease films are one of the most popular, simply because they provide a revealing glimpse into the secret history of sex in the United States. During the first half of the twentieth century, society was conservative in regards to sexuality, but only on the surface. VD films tell quite a different story - one of a nation struggling with epidemic levels of syphilis and gonorrhea being spread by rampant premarital sex. In...

Economics Professor Reginald Jones finds himself in trouble when he refuses to give an unearned passing grade to Irene Corning, the daughter of a very wealthy university contributor. Using his "crack-pot" theories of economics as an excuse for his dismissal, the Board of Trustees and Irene's father deliver an ultimatum to Professor Jones - pass Irene, or leave the university until he "has a million dollars." Still refusing to give Irene a passing grade, Jones sets out to strike it rich.Pleased...

With a colorful cast of characters that includes the slippery proprietor of Air Cathay, Chopstick Joe, blonde bombshell Burma, and the beautiful arch-villainess known as the Dragon Lady, Terry and his trusted sidekick, Hotshot Charlie, fight villainy at every hair-pin turn!This exciting TV series, based on the popular terry and the pirates comic strip and radio series, aired in 1952-1953. Brainchild of artist Milton Caniff, Terry made his newspaper debut in 1934, and his war-time adventures...

Jack Hoxie was as popular as Hoot Gibson during the heyday of Universal Studios' silent westerns. Gold and Gun Law, both produced in 1932 at the dawn of the sound film era, marked the final chapters of Hoxie's screen career. Although he starred in over a hundred silent movies (mostly westerns) in the 1920s, the advent of sound was unforgiving to the very physical actor whose line-reading talent paled beside his champion horsemanship.Gun Law: Three members of an outlaw gang - The Sonora Kid,...

Shell Shock (1964, B&W): Sadistic Sergeant Rance (Beach Dickerson) and a small unit of men are sent on patrol behind enemy lines to find Pvt. Johnny Wade after he goes AWOL from base camp. The young soldier had been exhibiting symptoms of combat fatigue syndrome, commonly known as 'shell shock,' after nearly being killed in an ambush. Rance assumes Johnny is faking his condition in a bid to get a ticket home to the states and he's determined to prove it. First he must find the boy and return...

Produced in Europe for American audiences, the "Sherlock Holmes" 1954 TV series captures the essence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and themes. Ronald Howard (son of film star Leslie Howard) stars as the intensely analytical Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson (H. Marion Crawford) and antagonized by the Inspector Lestrade (Archie Duncan).Case Of The French Interpreter: A ruthless criminal gang holding a foreigner captive coerces interpreter Claude Dubec to translate their prisoner's responses...