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Conrad Brooks is the Gielgud of bad movies. -- The New York TimesA 50,000 year-old monster caveman, Jan-Gel, is thawed from its icy Arctic grave and stalks the residents of backwoods West Virginia! With a belly as large as his unearthly appetite, the hideous creature roams the countryside, emitting a blood-curdling cry that heralds death, doom and destruction. A teenage girl is kidnapped by the monster and the locals fear the beast may have something other than murder on its mind! Conrad...

After man falls, there will come an empire of the apes!!In a distant galaxy, three escaped female convicts land on what they assume is a barren, post-apocalyptic world. They couldn't be more wrong. The planet is ruled by super-intelligent apes who find the women ideal for furthering their race. They are pursued by both sex-starved primates and an alien bounty hunter sworn to return them to prison. Escape may be impossible on a planet where apes rule and humans are nothing more than breeding...

Scrappy pilot-in-training "Ace" Holden (Billy Halop), together with his wacky motormouth mechanic "Bolts" (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the Dead End Kids, are caught up in a fiendish plot to overthrow the government by the Black Dragon Society. Led by the evil Baron (Lionel Atwill), the Black Dragons are out to destroy America's defenses so they can seize control. The FBI has enlisted the aid of the Junior G-Men Aviators, who are too "square" for the Dead End Kids, but when Ace's brother Eddie...

There are people who can slap you on the back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other - and it could happen to you. Ripped from the case files of police forces across the country, "Racket Squad" sought to expose the devious machinations of the con man. Running from 1951-1953, "Racket Squad" was one of the first series to portray the gritty reality of criminal investigation and was twice nominated for an Emmy award.Accidentally on Purpose: After a young couple purchases a used car...

Murderer Harold Dunlap (Charles Russell) is trapped in a small town when a flood washes out all the bridges. He has just killed his unfaithful wife. As Dunlop disposes of the body, he is witnessed by a young boy who becomes the madman's next target.Inspired by the radio show of the same name and reminiscent of both Shadow of a Doubt and The Night of the Hunter, Inner Sanctum features a tart and witty script crammed with lascivious one-liners and shadowy photography. A fluid camera prowls...

In true stories of fraud and deception from the closed files of the United States Treasury Department, agents investigate corruption throughout the nation in this classic television series starring Walter Greaza.Bad Bargain: A U.S. Agent goes undercover to bust an opium smuggling ring that operates out of an east coast port.Black Sheep: A gang of bootleggers strike a deal with a legitimate businessman to use his shipping company to transport their illegal goods.Buried Treasure: Rather than...

A popular TV series in the late 1950's, "Lock-Up" dramatizes how innocent citizens can be accused and punished for serious crimes, and that a thorough investigation - without prejudice, is the unalienable right of every citizen. The inspiration for these weekly stories (78 episodes from 1959 through 1961), came from the personal files and case histories of prominent, Philadelphia lawyer, Herbert L. Maris, a man who strongly believed in the major canon of American jurisprudence: That we are all...

Struggling small-town realtor Henry Elkins (Stuart Erwin) stubbornly refuses to sell off valuable property that has been in his family for generations, driving his wife Nora (Glenda Farrell) crazy. Instead, he clings to a long-held dream of using the land to develop an idyllic residential neighborhood. Everything changes when the bumbling fellow is convinced that he doesn't have long to live. Henry now stands to make a fortune for his loved ones when the site is considered for an airport. An...

Sensual Dragon Lady Carney (Evelyn Brent) poses as a simple geisha during the day, but commands the Tong's crime army by night. She and her men hold Chinatown in a stranglehold of opium, vice and contraband. Bribery and assassination keep the local politicians at bay. When the Tong draw unwanted attention from the local newspapers, Carney seeks a patsy to take the fall for her gangster syndicate. She settles on notorious ex-con Gallagher, who, fresh from his release from prison, heads west to...

Jim Hale (Bob Steele) and his sidekick Fuzz ride into town and find themselves caught up in a vicious range war between the greedy Brady Gang and the beautiful rancher Helen Green. Cattleman Ed Brady and his henchmen use every trick in the book to put Helen out of business. Jim and Fuzz decide to play both sides against the middle to aid Helen in delivering her cattle to the buyer on time and to stop the Brady gang from ruling the range with fear and bloodshed.No Man's Range was one of the...

A falling corpse rudely interrupts the honeymoon plans of ace reporter Wally Williams and young country beauty, Alice. Not even a lovely bride awaiting him in the penthouse honeymoon suite can keep Wally from following a hot tip. His investigation soon leads him to a hotel room containing another corpse. Local hood, Sparrow McGraun, warns Wally that this is big stuff and involves the Guard America Movement, a mysterious foreign organization trying to undermine the government. Sparrow may be a...

Doris Evans' brother is on Death Row and she's certain he is innocent. She suspects the real killer is out-of-work actor, Gordon Wayne, and she enlists her fiance, self-righteous reporter John Franklin, to help bring the man to justice. The pair book passage on an ocean liner that Wayne and his pal Eddie are traveling on, but their plans are dashed when the ship runs aground on a reef, killing almost everyone aboard. Washed ashore on a deserted jungle island, Doris, John, Gordon and Eddie...