The Film Detective

Dependable bush pilot Red North (Austin Willis) finds his steady business on the line when his spiteful half-brother (Jack La Rue) relocates his own bush pilot business to the same Canadian territory. Not only that, but the brothers end up fighting over the same girl (Rochelle Hudson). This tale of rugged daredevils comes from director Sterling Campbell, who served as a flight and military advisor on such films as Wings, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Passage to Marseille, and features...

A millionaire whose personal life is crumbling decides to disappear and start a new life. Directed by Phil Rosen, with a story idea credited to Franklin D. Roosevelt, this is the only film where a sitting President of the United States has been given a writing credit. It features such performers as Henry Wilcoxon and Betty Furness, plus an impressive musical score by Oscar nominee Hugo Riesenfield (Make a Wish, Hells' Angels, Abraham Lincoln).<

Culled from the 12 part serial The New Adventures of Tarzan, this stirring feature has been singled out as the only Tarzan film between the silent era and the 1960s to present the character as Edgar Rice Burroughs meant him to be, as a sophisticated English nobleman who preferred living outside of society and could speak to animals in their own language... Olympic athlete Herman Brix (aka Bruce Bennett) stars as the Lord of the Jungle. Watch as he searches for an ancient formula that can be...

Cruel and duplicitous prospector Chet Kasedon hires mining engineer Randolph Gale to locate a hidden Indian gold mine after their Chief Moya refuses to disclose its location. But when kind-hearted Gale witnesses Kasedon's vicious cruelty towards Moya, he switches sides in this bold adventure film starring screen legend Buster Crabbe as the proud Indian Chief. This exciting adaptation of adventure novelist Zane Grey's literary work also features some excellent work from cast members Marsha Hunt...

Hollywood's first Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln, stars in this surprisingly faithful adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous novel. Nearly a century after it was first released, it's still a stirring tale of the orphaned child who grows to become king of the apes! Enid Markey stars as Jane, while True Boardman and Kathleen Kirkham appear as Lord and Lady Greystoke. Director Scott Sidney, who was in charge of over 100 silent shorts and features, would team with Lincoln again in 1921 for The...

A classic 1940's noir set almost entirely aboard an ominous freighter travelling from Central America to Galveston, Texas, this film revolves around the ill-fated Joe Beck (portrayed by none other than the original Batman, Robert Lowery) as he attempts to retrieve his deceased grandfather's fortune. With a cast filled out by B-movie royalty like Phyllis Brooks (In Old New York) and Jack LaRue (A Farewell to Arms), this little-known Golden Era gem packs a surprising amount of twists and turns...

An unholy alliance! Marking the feature film debut of one of Hollywood's most influential and widely referenced auteur directors, Sam Peckinpah, The Deadly Companions centers on a redemptive journey to escort a funeral procession through dangerous Indian Territory. Featuring fine work from a top-notch cast that includes the inimitable Maureen O'Hara at the height of her illustrious career, Peckinpah's first foray into film provides a promising glance into the energetic and violent nature of...

This "bold, daring and frank" exploitation film features famed conjoined twins, the vaudeville sensations Violet and Daisy Hilton, portraying fictionalized versions of themselves in a narrative that reflects their tragic and unfortunate lives. Used and mistreated by their craven manager, the Siamese twins find themselves in trouble with the law when one of them murders a duplicitous scamp after he jilts her sister following a devastating sham marriage. Equal parts compelling and heartbreaking,...

When a boy is captured by a Native American tribe after his family is massacred, he finds solace in befriending a wild colt. Years later, following his escape, he is recaptured by a tribe who force him to battle their vicious devil horse. Yet, the horse looks familiar. Is this mysterious devil horse and the wild colt he knew years earlier one and the same? Produced by Hal Roach, who wrote the script with an assist from Stan Laurel, this little treasure was the fourth of 15 features to star Rex...

The vaudeville team of Olson and Johnson embark on a shady moneymaking scheme in this delightful 1936 comedy from Republic Pictures. Selling worthless stock to gullible small town citizens gets these two con men nothing but a room behind bars, though they eventually learn to rely on the kindness of the very people they'd been swindling. Director Ralph Staub guides a cast that includes Lila Lee as a retired film queen, as well as the always funny Joyce Compton. You'll also see Ray "Crash"...

Inbreeding is destroying a family of vampires in this depraved gem from low budget legend Andy Milligan (Bloodthirsty Butchers, The Man With Two Heads). Everything you could possibly want in a movie like this is here, including vampires disguised as ministers, ghouls, hunchbacks, and a diabolical plot to abduct a mortal woman and use her as a breeder for vampire babies. It's all presented in bone chilling color, filmed in the graveyards of England! "They may be tacky or crudely made," Milligan...

The stories of John Dillinger, Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde are told in this anthology weaved together from the old Gangbusters television show. With such stars as Lyle Talbot, Lash La Rue, and Jeanne Carmen on hand, this feature is bound to leave you breathless. Not only will you come to believe that guns don't argue, but you'll also understand that dead men don't talk!