AFRICA SCREAMS  1949  Dir Charles Barton

 79 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bud Abbott ...  Buzz Johnson

 Lou Costello ...  Stanley Livington

 Clyde Beatty ...  Himself

 Frank Buck ...  Himself

 Max Baer ...  Grappler McCoy

 Buddy Baer ...  Boots Wilson

 Hillary Brooke ...  Diana Emerson

 Shemp Howard ...  Gunner

 Joe Besser ...  Harry

 Burt Wenland ...  Bobo (as Burton Wenland)

 Charles Gemora ...  The Ape (uncredited)

 Arthur Hecht ...  Elevator Starter (uncredited)

 Bill Walker ...  Interpreter (uncredited)

 Martin Wilkins ...  Cannibal chief (uncredited)     

Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke) is in the book department of Klopper's Department store looking for a copy of the book Dark Safari, written by the famed explorer Cuddleford. Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) overhears Diana saying that she will pay $2,500 for a map that is inside that book. He devises a plan to pass off his friend Stanley Livington (Lou Costello) as a great explorer who accompanied Cuddleford on the expedition described in the book. With claims that he can reproduce the map, the two men go to Diana's home that very night. They agree to accompany her on an African expedition, and when Bud overhears that Clyde Beatty has been offered $20,000 to lead the expedition, he feels that the map is worth considerably more than $2,500. They travel to Africa, along with Diana's team of explorers, including Harry (Joe Besser), 'Boots' Wilson (Buddy Baer), 'Grappler' McCoy (Max Baer) and Gunner (Shemp Howard), a nearsighted gunman. The boys learn that the true expedition is for diamonds rather than exploration, and Buzz plans to renegotiate the deal. Unfortunately Stanley cannot reproduce the map, as he has never seen it, and the two attempt to bluff their way around the jungle. Eventually the entire expeditionary team arrives at a Ubangi tribal village, where the chief offers several diamonds in exchange for Stanley, whose carcass can feed many of his people. They start to chase Stanley all over the place, while Buzz buries the diamonds before the tribespeople are finally frightened away by a large gorilla. Meanwhile, another gorilla has dug up the diamonds that Buzz has hidden.
Some time after returning to the United States, Stanley owns the department store, along with the gorilla, and Buzz works for them as the elevator operator(!).

ALEXANDER NEVSKY  1938  Dir Sergei M. Eisenstein

112 mins RUSSIA ( English Subtitles ) B/W Sound

 Nikolai Cherkasov ...  Aleksandr Nevsky (as N. Cherkasov)
 Nikolai Okhlopkov ...  Vasili Buslai (as N. Okhlopkov)
 Andrei Abrikosov ...  Gavrilo Oleksich (as A. Abrikosov)
 Dmitri Orlov ...  Ignat - the Master Armorer (as D. Orlov)
 Vasili Novikov ...  Pavsha - Governor of Pskov (as V. Novikov)
 Nikolai Arsky ...  Domash Tverdislavich - a Novgorod Boyar (as N. Arsky)
 Varvara Massalitinova ...  Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother (as V. Massalitova)
 Vera Ivashova ...  Olga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod (as V. Ivashova)
 Aleksandra Danilova ...  Vasilisa - a Maid of Pskov (as A. Danilova)
 Vladimir Yershov ...  Von Balk - Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (as V. Yershov)
 Sergei Blinnikov ...  Tverdilo - Traitorous Mayor of Pskov (as S. Blinnikov)
 Ivan Lagutin ...  Anani - a Monk (as I. Lagutin)
 Lev Fenin ...  The Archbishop (as L. Fenin)
 Naum Rogozhin ...  The Black-Hooded Monk (as N. Rogozhin)
           

It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. A Russian knyaz', or prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. This is a true story based on the actual battle at a lake near Novgorod.

ALGIERS          1938     Dir John Cromwell

95 mins USA B/W Sound

 Charles Boyer ...  Pepe le Moko
 Sigrid Gurie ...  Ines
 Hedy Lamarr ...  Gaby
 Joseph Calleia ...  Inpector Slimane
 Alan Hale ...  Grandpere
Gene Lockhart ...  Regis
 Walter Kingsford ...  Chef Inspector Louvain
 Paul Harvey ...  Comissioner Janvier
 Stanley Fields ...  Carlos
 Johnny Downs ...  Pierrot
 Charles D. Brown ...  Max
 Robert Greig ...  Giraux
 Leonid Kinskey ...  L'Arbi
 Joan Woodbury ...  Aicha
 Nina Koshetz ...  Tania (as Mme. Nina Koshetz)
           

Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French official insists that he be captured, but sly Inspector Slimane knows he need only bide his time. The suave Pepe increasingly regards his stronghold as also his prison, especially when he meets beautiful Parisian visitor Gaby, who reminds him of the boulevards to which he dare not return...and arouses the mad jealousy of Ines, his Algerian mistress.

AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY     1916       Dir  Lloyd Ingraham   

80 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Cassius Lee
 Jewel Carmen ...  Geraldine Hicks
 C.A. de Lima ...  Leander Hicks (as Charles De Lima)
 Albert Parker ...  Percy Horton
 Artie Ortego ...  Delgado (as Arthur Ortego)
             

Fairbanks plays the scion of an old, established and very wealthy Virginian family, who believes in democracy rather than plutocracy. He takes it upon himself to puncture the pretensions of a bunch of would-be snobs at a vacation resort, finding time to quell a plan to sell arms to Mexican insurgents. It goes without saying that he wins the heroine (Jewel Carmen), a would-be snob who turns out to be a "regular fellow" at heart.

AMERICANO THE         1916     Dir John Emerson

  78 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Blaze Derringer
 Alma Rubens ...  Juana de Castalar
 Spottiswoode Aitken ...  Presidente de Castalar
 Carl Stockdale ...  Salsa Espada
 Tote Du Crow ...  Alberto de Castille
 Charles Stevens ...  Colonel Gargaras
 Mildred Harris ...  Stenographer
 Lillian Langdon ...  Senora de Castille
 Thomas Jefferson  
 Tom Wilson ...  Hartod Armitage White
 Marguerite Marsh
           

Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana (Rubens). Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives. His company's local office has been ransacked, but he finds loyal caretaker Dan (Wilson) in hiding there. He is contacted by former Prime Minister Castille, now in disguise as a peddler... Valdez writes the mysterious date "23 Noviembre 1899" on scraps of paper which are then thrown from the prison window as garbage. Juana checks her father's diary. That date contains an account of a successful escape from San Mateo, using the secret tunnel! But Garcia demands that Juana marry him the next day or Valdez will die...

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN     1947     Dir James Edward Grant           

100 mins USA  B/W Sound

 John Wayne ...  Quirt Evans
 Gail Russell ...  Penelope Worth
 Harry Carey ...  Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock
 Bruce Cabot ...  Laredo Stevens
 Irene Rich ...  Mrs. Worth
 Lee Dixon ...  Randy McCall - Quirt's Partner
 Stephen Grant ...  Johnny Worth
 Tom Powers ...  Dr. Mangram
 Paul Hurst ...  Frederick Carson - Worth's Neighbor
 Olin Howland ...  Bradley - Town Telegrapher (as Olin Howlin)
 John Halloran ...  Thomas Worth
 Joan Barton ...  Lila Neal - Saloon Singer ("The Western Nightingale") in Red Rock)
 Craig Woods ...  Ward Withers
 Marshall Reed ...  Nelson - Quaker Blacksmith
           

Quirt Evens an all round bad guy is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth a quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose from his world or the world from which Penelope lives by.

APE THE          1940   Dir William Nigh

 61 mins USA B/W Sound

 Boris Karloff ...  Dr. Bernard Adrian
 Maris Wrixon ...  Miss Frances Clifford
 Gene O'Donnell ...  Danny Foster
 Dorothy Vaughan ...  Mother Clifford
 Gertrude Hoffman ...  Jane, Adrian's Housekeeper (as Gertrude W. Hoffman)
 Henry Hall ...  Sheriff Jeff Halliday
 Selmer Jackson ...  Dr. McNulty
           

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.He keeps human life in test tubes, and prowls at night in the skin of an ape!

ARCH OF TRIUMPH        1948   Dir Lewis Milestone

 114 mins USA B/W Sound

Ingrid Bergman ...  Joan Madou
Charles Boyer ...  Dr. Ravic
Charles Laughton ...  Ivon Haake
 Louis Calhern ...  'Col.' Boris Morosov
 Ruth Warrick ...  Kate Bergstroem
 Roman Bohnen ...  Dr. Veber
 J. Edward Bromberg ...  Hotel manager at the Verdun
 Ruth Nelson ...  Madame Fessier
 Stephen Bekassy ...  Alex
 Curt Bois ...  Tattooed waiter
 Art Smith ...  Inspector
 Michael Romanoff ...  Capt. Alidze
           

In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day war is declared.

ARIZONA STAGECOACH          1942   Dir S. ROY LUBY          

58 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ray Corrigan ...  Crash Corrigan (as Ray 'Crash' Corrigan)
 John 'Dusty' King ...  Dusty King
 Max Terhune ...  Alibi Terhune (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune)
 Elmer ...  Elmer, Alibi's dummy
 Nell O'Day ...  Dorrie Willard
 Charles King ...  Tim Douglas
 Riley Hill ...  Ernie Willard (as Roy Harris)
 Kermit Maynard ...  Henchman Strike Cardigan
 Carl Mathews ...  Henchman Ace
Slim Whitaker ...  Henchman Red
 Slim Harkey ...  Panhandle
 Steve Clark ...  Jake - Stage Driver-Henchman
 Frank Ellis ...  Dan - Stage Shotgun-Guard / Henchman
 Jack Ingram ...  Sheriff Denver
 Stanley Price ...  Tex Laughlin - Hold-Up Man     

In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan (Ray Corrigan), Dusty King (John King) and Alibi Terhune (Max Terhune), are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows (Forrest Taylor) and his niece Dorrie Willard (Nell O'Day). Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard (Riley Hill as Roy Harris), Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin (Stanley Price) who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas (Charles King), a supposed friend of the Willards

ASSASSIN OF YOUTH      1937     Dir Elmer Clifton     

60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Luana Walters ...  Joan Barry
 Arthur Gardner ...  Art Brighton
 Fay McKenzie ...  Linda Clayton
 Michael Owen ...  Jack Howard
 Dorothy Short ...  Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
 Dorothy Vaughan ...  Mrs. Mary Barry
 Earl Dwire ...  Henry 'Pop' Brady
 Fern Emmett ...  Henrietta Frube
 Henry Roquemore ...  Judge George Herbert
 Hudson Faucett ...  Otto (as Hudson Faussett)
 Gay Sheridan ...  Edith
 Edwin Johnson ...  Charlie
           

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers, not realizing that she is being framed by greedy relatives out to prevent her from getting an inheritance, and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends and save the clean and wholesome youth of the town from the horrors of marijuana addiction

BANK ALARM THE       1938     Dir Louis J. Gasnier

58 mins USA B/W Sound

 Conrad Nagel ...  Alan O'Connor
 Eleanor Hunt ...  Bobbie Reynolds
 Vince Barnett ...  Clarence 'Bulb' Callahan
 Wheeler Oakman ...  Joe Karlotti
 Nat Carr ...  Yoritz
 Frank Milan ...  Jerry Turner
 Marlo Dwyer ...  Kay O'Connor (as Wilma Francis)
 William L. Thorne ...  Police Inspector J. C. Macy (as William Thorn)
 Charles Delaney ...  Henchman Duke
 Phil Dunham ...  Leon Curtis, Bank Clerk (as Philip Dunham)
 Sidney D'Albrook ...  Coroner (as Syd D'Albrook)
 Pat Gleason ...  Henchman Barney
 Wilson Benge ...  Overman, Bank Bookkeeper
 Henry Roquemore ...  Nevada Sheriff
 Ed Schaefer ...  Tracy
           

An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a rash of bank robberies. What he doesn't know is that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang's ringleader .

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN            1925    Dir Sergei M. Eisenstein
             

70 mins RUSSIA B/W Silent

 Aleksandr Antonov ...  Grigory Vakulinchuk, Bolshevik Sailor
 Vladimir Barsky ...  Commander Golikov
 Grigori Aleksandrov ...  Chief Officer Giliarovsky
 Ivan Bobrov ...  Young Sailor, flogged while sleeping (as I. Bobrov)
 Mikhail Gomorov ...  Militant Sailor
 Aleksandr Levshin ...  Petty Officer
 N. Poltavseva ...  Woman With Pince-nez
 Konstantin Feldman ...  Student Agitator
 Prokopenko ...  Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
 A. Glauberman ...  Wounded Boy
 Beatrice Vitoldi ...  Woman With Baby Carriage
 Brodsky ...  Student
 Julia Eisenstein ...  Woman With Food for Sailors
 Sergei M. Eisenstein ...  Odessa Citizen
 Andrei Fajt ...  Recruit (as A. Fait)
 Korobei ...  Legless Veteran
 Marusov ...  Officer
 Protopopov ...  Old Man
 Repnikova ...  Woman on the Steps
 Vladimir Uralsky  
 Zerenin ...  Student
           

The movie revolves around an uprising on board the Battleship Potemkin (Bronenoset Potemkin) in 1905. Conditions on the ship are unbearable, which in turn incites revolutionary fervor among the sailors, most notably within the character of Vakulinchik. After the ship's doctor declares rancid meat safe to eat, the sailors buy provisions at the canteen in a show of protest. The Admiral then orders all those who ate the borsch made with the meat to step under the cannons in a show of loyalty. Those who do not are covered under a tarp and ordered shot. Vakulinchik then implores his shipmates to rise up against those who oppress them, namely the officers of the ship. All the officers are killed and the ship is liberated. During the uprising, Vakulinchik dies. His body his placed on the docks in the Odessa harbor as a symbol of the revolution. The citizens of Odessa rally around his body and join the Potemkin in their revolt. Cossaks then come, in one of the most famous scenes of the film, and slaughter the helpless citizens on the steps leading to the harbor, effectively ending the revolt in Odessa. A fleet of battleships then comes to destroy the Potemkin...

BEGGARS OF LIFE       1928   Dir William A. Wellman

110 mins USA B/W Silent

Wallace Beery ...  Oklahoma Red
Louise Brooks ...  The Girl (Nancy)
Richard Arlen ...  The Boy (Jim)  Bob Perry ...  The Arkansaw Snake (as Robert Perry)
Blue Washington ...  Black Mose (as Edgar Washington)
Roscoe Karns ...  Lame Hoppy
            After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

BEHIND GREEN LIGHTS           1946     Otto Brower       Carole Landis ...  Janet Bradley
 William Gargan ...  Lt. Sam Carson
 Richard Crane ...  Johnny Williams, Reporter
 Mary Anderson ...  Nora Bard
 John Ireland ...  Det. Engelhofer
 Charles Russell ...  Arthur Templeton
 Roy Roberts ...  Max Calvert
 Mabel Paige ...  Flossie
 Stanley Prager ...  Ruzinsky, Milkman
 Charles Tannen ...  Ames, Reporter
           

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.

BEAU BRUMMELL        1924        Dir Harry Beaumont 

104 mins USA B/W Silent

 John Barrymore ...  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
 Mary Astor ...  Lady Margery Alvanley
 Willard Louis ...  Prince of Wales
 Carmel Myers ...  Lady Hester Stanhope
 Irene Rich ...  Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
 Alec B. Francis ...  Mortimer
 William Humphrey ...  Lord Alvanley
 Richard Tucker ...  Lord Stanhope
 George Beranger ...  Lord Byron
 Clarissa Selwynne ...  Mrs. Wertham
 John J. Richardson ...  Poodles Byng
 Claire de Lorez ...  Lady Manly
 Michael Dark ...  Lord Manly
 Templar Saxe ...  Desmond Wertham
 James A. Marcus ...  Snodgrass the Innkeeper
           

John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial splendor and quick wit, Brummel is a favorite of the Prince of Wales (Willard Louis)--and with several ladies, though his heart belongs to the beautiful, unobtainable Lady Margery Avanley (played by 17-year-old Mary Astor, who during filming was carrying on a most passionate affair with her leading man). The arrogant Brummel falls from grace after insulting the Prince and then refusing to apologize. We last see Brummel in an asylum, dressed in rags, but with still enough pride to turn away his true love rather than allow her to throw her life away on him. John Barrymore is superb throughout, especially in the poignant sequences after his descent into poverty and disgrace

BIRTH OF A NATION THE    1915    Dir D.W. GRIFFITH

185 mins USA B/W Silent

Lillian Gish ...  Elsie Stoneman        

Mae Marsh ...  Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall ...  Col. Ben Cameron 

Miriam Cooper ...  Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden ...  Lydia Brown
Ralph Lewis ...  Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann ...  Silas Lynch
Walter Long ...  Gus
 Robert Harron ...  Tod Stoneman
 Wallace Reid ...  Jeff (blacksmith)
 Joseph Henabery ...  Abraham Lincoln / 13 other bits
 Elmer Clifton ...  Phil Stoneman
 Josephine Crowell ...  Mrs. Cameron
 Spottiswoode Aitken ...  Dr. Cameron
 George Beranger ...  Wade Cameron (as J.A. Beringer)
           

Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan

BIG SHOW THE     1936     Dir Mack V. Wright

59 mins USA B/W Sound

 Gene Autry ...  Gene Autry / Tom Ford
 Smiley Burnette ...  Frog
 Kay Hughes ...  Marion Hill
 Sally Payne ...  Toodles Brown
 William Newell ...  Lee Wilson
 Max Terhune ...  Ventriloquist
 Charles Judels ...  Swartz - Studio Head
 Sons of the Pioneers ...  Musicians
 The Jones Boys ...  Singers (as Jones Boys)
 The Beverly Hillbillies ...  Musicians (as Beverly Hill Billies)
 The Light Crust Doughboys ...  Musicians (as Light Crust Dough Boys)
 Champion ...  Champion - Studio Horse
 Rex King ...  Fred Collins
 Harry Worth ...  Tony Rico
 Mary Russell ...  Mary
           

Cowboy Tom Ford (Gene Autry), star of Mammouth Film Productions, goes on vacation before Wilson (William Newell), studio publicity man, can notify him that he is to make a personal appearance at the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration in Dallas.Unable to locate Ford,the desperate Wilson substitutes Fords exact-double and stunt man,Gene Autry (Gene Autry again.) Gene goes along only to help Wilson out but wants to reveal his true identity throughout the hoax. Enroute to Dallas, Gene's car and trailer collide with the cattle truck of Marion Hill (Kay Hughes), turning losse a herd of steers she is hauling for show purposes. Gene unloads his horse Champion (Champion, or at least one of them) and rounds up the cattle. Gene, still posing as Ford and singing over the radio (although Ford is not a singer) is a sensation. Ford hears a broadcast and is peeved and threatens to sue the studio. Meanwhile, a group of blackmailers (in snappy-brim hats and double-breasted suits) demand $25,000 from the studio to keep quiet about hoax.Things work out okay after six or seven songs.FYI for those who don't seem to know; this was not filmed at the Texas State Fair. It was filmed (some of it) at the 1936 Texas Centennial site, which is now the fairgrounds for the Texas State Fair.

BLACK DRAGONS    1942    Dir William Nigh  

64 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bela Lugosi ...  Dr. Melcher / Monsieur Colomb
 Joan Barclay ...  Alice Saunders
 George Pembroke ...  Dr. William Saunders
Clayton Moore ...  FBI Agent Richard 'Dick' Martin
 Robert Frazer ...  Amos Hanlin
 Edward Peil Sr. ...  Ryder (as Edward Piel Sr.)
 Robert Fiske ...  Phillip Wallace
 Irving Mitchell ...  John Van Dyke
 Kenneth Harlan ...  FBI Chief Colton
 Max Hoffman Jr. ...  Kearney
 Frank Melton ...  FBI agent
 Joseph Eggenton ...  Stevens, the butler
I. Stanford Jolley ...  The Dragon (as Stanford Jolley)
           

Prior to the beginning of World War II, the Nazis, at the request of Japan's Black Dragon Society, sends Doctor Melcher (Bela Lugosi) to Japan to transform six Japanese into identical likenesses of six prominent Americans. The Americans are done away with and Melcher, on the orders of High Dragon Yakhamea (I. Stanford Jolley), is imprisoned so his secret will die with him. In his cell, Melcher switches places with the soon-to-be-released Colomb and, when he is freed, follows the six Japanese to America, where they have assumed the positions of the industrialists and are causing sabotage in the Monogram defense plants that didn't exist yet as the war hadn't started. One by one Melcher kills the imposters, despite the fact they are performing for-free work for his employer Adolph, and dumps their bodies on the steps of the Japanese Embassy, which still existed as the war hadn't started. FBI Chief Colton (Kenneth Harlan) and agent Dick Martin (Clayton Moore) finally piece together what the five murdered men had in common---aha, a visit to Japan---and stake out the sixth man as bait for Melcher

BLACK RAVEN THE        1943    Dir Sam Newfield      

61 mins USA B/W Sound

 George Zucco ...  Amos Bradford aka The Raven
 Wanda McKay ...  Lee Winfield
 Robert Livingston ...  Allen Bentley (as Robert Randall)
 Noel Madison ...  Mike Bardoni
 Byron Foulger ...  Horace Weatherby
 Charles Middleton ...  Sheriff (as Charlie Middleton)
 Robert Middlemass ...  Tim Winfield
 Glenn Strange ...  Andy
 I. Stanford Jolley ...  Whitey Cole
           

The Black Raven is one of a trio of PRC horror-melodramas starring George Zucco. The title refers to a remote country inn, presided over by the sinister Mr. Bradford (Zucco). During a dark and stormy night, the Black Raven becomes the gathering place for an escaped convict (I. Standford Jolley) with a personal vendetta against Bradford, a bank clerk (Byron Foulger) who has embezzled $50,000, and a couple of young elopers (Wanda McKay, Bob Randall). Before the night is over, greed and murder rear their ugly heads. Comedy relief is provided by Charles "Ming the Merciless" Middleton as a county sheriff and Glenn "Frankenstein" Strange as a lumbering lummox

BLACK PIRATE THE    1926     Dir Albert Parker          

110 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  The Black Pirate
 Billie Dove ...  Princess Isobel
 Tempe Pigott ...  Duenna
 Donald Crisp ...  MacTavish
 Sam De Grasse ...  Pirate Lieutenant
 Anders Randolf ...  Pirate Captain
 Charles Stevens ...  Powder man
 Charles Belcher ...  Chief passenger (Nobleman)

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in the capture of a ship, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a young woman on board whom he wishes to protect from the threat of rape.
A certain pirate of the Spanish Main makes a practice of blowing up with all hands the ships he has looted. By a fluke, one man and his dying father survive such a disaster. Swearing vengeance, the son joins the pirates; soon, "the black pirate" swashbuckles his way into their black hearts, capturing a merchantman singlehanded. Can he now save the life of lovely Isobel? Can he, opposed by a treacherous rival, rise to lead the pirates and thereby deliver them to justice?
 

BLAKE MURDER MYSTERY THE     1940           Dir Robert F. McGowan

70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Marcia Mae Jones ...  Mildred 'Millie' Henshaw
 Jackie Moran ...  Jimmie Atkins
 George Cleveland ...  Albert Henshaw
 Christian Rub ...  Olaf Jensen
 Henry Hall ...  Cyrus W. 'Cy' Burton
 John St. Polis ...  Simkins
 Clarence Wilson ...  Eph, Service Station Owner
 Mary Carr ...  Grandma
 Jessie Arnold ...  Mrs. Emily Henshaw
 Hooper Atchley ...  Prosecuting Attorney
 Marcelle Ray ...  Lucy Peters
 Buddy Swan ...  Junior Henshaw (as Buddy Swann)
           

Jimmie (Jackie Moran), the Brownsville Bugle's office boy, and Millie (Marcia Mae Jones), niece of editor Henshaw (George Cleveland), turn amateur detectives in order to help a friend who is accused of murder. With more zeal than direction, they pick the owner of a gas station as the killer, and when he turns out to be innocent, Henshaw fires Jimmie. The two go on searching and next suspect Lawyer Cy Burton (Henry Hall) but have no conclusive evidence and are about to give up when Millie finds a clue that leads to the hidden fortune of the murdered Mrs. Blake

BLIND HUSBANDS       1919        Dir Erich von Stroheim
             

100 mins USA B/W Silent

 Sam De Grasse ...  Dr. Armstrong
 Francelia Billington ...  Margaret Armstrong
 Erich von Stroheim ...  Lieutenant Erich von Steuben
 Gibson Gowland ...  Silent Sepp (as T.H. Gibson Gowland)
 Fay Holderness ...  The 'Vamp' Waitress
 Ruby Kendrick ...  A Village Blossom
 Valerie Germonprez ...  The Newlywed
 Jack Perrin ...  The Newlywed
 Richard Cummings ...  The Village Physician
 Louis Fitzroy ...  The Village Priest
 William De Vaull ...  Man from 'Home'
 Jack Mathis ...  Man from 'Home'
 Percy Challenger ...  Man from 'Home'
             

The story concerns an unhappy romantic triangle involving an upper class American couple, Dr. Robert Armstrong and his wife Margaret, and a Lieutenant Eric von Steuben, whom they encounter while vacationing at a resort in the Austrian Alps. The tension between the three is apparent from the beginning, as they share a carriage ride uphill to the resort. The husband is inattentive to his wife; she is frustrated; and the lieutenant, having quickly analyzed the situation (and Margaret's legs) begins a determined campaign to seduce her away from her seemingly indifferent husband.

BLOOD ON THE SUN   1945   Dir Frank Lloyd  

  96 mins USA B/W Sound

 James Cagney ...  Nick Condon
 Sylvia Sidney ...  Iris Hilliard
 Porter Hall ...  Arthur Bickett
 John Emery ...  Premier Giichi Tanaka
 Robert Armstrong ...  Col. Hideki Tojo
 Wallace Ford ...  Ollie Miller
 Rosemary DeCamp ...  Edith Miller
 John Halloran ...  Capt. Oshima
 Leonard Strong ...  Hijikata
 James Bell ...  Charley Sprague
 Marvin Miller ...  Yamada
 Rhys Williams ...  Joseph Cassell
 Frank Puglia ...  Prince Tatsugi
           

In pre-World War II Tokyo an American newspaper editor working for an English-language daily paper aimed at the American business community is given a document relating to Japan's foreign affairs which could have political ramifications if found. He meets up with Iris Hilliard, a woman who wants to secure the document even if it means dealing with the Japanese secret police and their threats. SPY

BLONDE COMET  1941  Dir William Beaudine
           

   60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Virginia Vale ...  Beverly Blake
 Robert Kent ...  Jim Flynn
 Barney Oldfield ...  Barney Oldfield
 Vince Barnett ...  Curly
 William Halligan ...  Cannonball Blake
 Joey Ray ...  Red
 Red Knight ...  Tex
 Diana Hughes ...  Jennie
           

PRC Pictures' final 1941 release was the auto-racing melodrama Blonde Comet. Virginia Vale stars as female race-car champion Betty Blake, the toast of the European racing circuit. Upon arriving in America, Betty finds she has a staunch rival in the form of devilishly handsome Jim Flynn (Robert Kent). The plot hinges on Jim's attempts to design a powerful new carburator, the efforts of the villain to scuttle this invention, and Jim and Betty's inevitable romance. Veteran racer Barney Oldfield appears as himself, delivering a appealingly amateurish performance.

BLUE LIGHT THE    1932   Dir Béla Balázs

  60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Leni Riefenstahl ...  Junta
 Mathias Wieman ...  Vigo
 Beni Führer ...  Tonio
 Max Holzboer ...  Innkeeper
 Martha Mair ...  Lucia
 Franz Maldacea ...  Guzzi
           

Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a mysterious blue light glows when the moon is full. Many young men of the village have died trying to follow her. She is driven out of town, and takes to living in the mountains. Eventually she shares the secret of the blue light with one man, and he betrays it.

BORNEO            1937   Dir Truman H. Talley
           

80 mins USA B/W Sound

Martin E. Johnson ...  Himself
 Osa Johnson ...  Herself
 Lowell Thomas ...  Serious Narrator
 Lew Lehr ...  Interrupting Narrator
           

A very good depression-era propaganda film disguised as an anthropological and natural study which lies somewhere between King Kong and a Margaret Mead journal. As Mr & Mrs. Johnson travel upland and upriver they encounter flying snakes, various simians and apes, climbing fish, tree oysters and indolent natives. A scientist with a fake German accent gives explanations. Assumed to be filmed on location, the natives converse in rehearsed, broken English and are dressed according to Christian decency. Lowell Thomas' narration is quite humorous at first until the real reason for their expedition is divulged. The film culminates in the American management of the capture of a 300lb. orang-utan (literally meaning the "wild-man of the jungle") who will live the rest of his life in "some American city zoo lazily eating bananas". 

BORROWED HERO    1942     Dir Lewis D. Collins
           

 64 mins USA B/W Sound

 Alan Baxter ...  Roger Andrews
 Florence Rice ...  Ann Thompson
 Constance Worth ...  Mona Brooks
 John Hamilton ...  William Brooks
 Mary Gordon ...  Mrs. Riley
 Marlo Dwyer ...  Carol Turner (as Wilma Francis)
 Stanley Andrews ...  Mr. Taylor, Defense Attorney
 Richard Terry ...  Dixie Nelson
 Jerry Marlowe ...  Johnny Gray
 Paul Everton ...  Trial Judge
 Guy Usher ...  District Attorney
 John Maxwell ...  City Editor
           

A young prosecutor in the District Attorney's office begins to suspect that a "civic reform" organization may actually be a front for the city's organized crime ring. His girlfriend, a reporter, knows how vicious the criminal organization is and fears that it will kill her boyfriend if he's correct about the organization being a mob front.

BROKEN BLOSSOMS    1919     Dir D.W. Griffith
           

  105 mins USA B/W Silent

 Lillian Gish ...  Lucy Burrows (as Miss Lillian Gish)
 Richard Barthelmess ...  Cheng Huan (as Mr. Richard Barthelmess)
 Donald Crisp ...  Battling Burrows
 Arthur Howard ...  Burrows' manager
 Edward Peil Sr. ...  Evil Eye (as Edward Peil)
 George Beranger ...  The Spying One
 Norman Selby ...  A prizefighter
           

Young Lucy Battling lives under her father's iron rule. Out one day, she falls in love with Cheng Huan, newly arrived in London from China. This does not please her father, who attempts to break the bond by brute force. Cheng Huan is a missionary whose goal is to bring the teachings of peace by Buddha to the civilized Anglo-Saxons. Upon landing in England, he is quickly disillusioned by the intolerance and apathy of the country. He becomes a storekeeper of a small shop. Out his window, he sees the young Lucy Burrows. She is regularly beaten by her prizefighter father, underfed and wears ragged clothes. Even in this deplorable condition, Cheng can see that she is a priceless beauty and he falls in love with her from afar. On the day that she passes out in front of his store, he takes her in and cares for her. With nothing but love in his heart, he dresses her in silks and provides food for her. Still weak, she stays in his shop that night and all that Cheng does is watch over her. The peace and happiness that he sees last only until Battling Burrows finds out that his daughter is with a foreigner.

BOOTS AND SADDLES    1937 Dir Joseph Kane         

   58 mins USA B/W Sound

 Gene Autry ...  Gene Autry
 Smiley Burnette ...  Frog
 Judith Allen ...  Bernice Allen
 Ronald Sinclair ...  Spud aka Edward, Earl of Grandby (as Ra Hould)
 Guy Usher ...  Colonel Allen
 Bill Elliott ...  Jim Neale (as Gordon Elliott)
 John Ward ...  Henry 'Windy' Wyndham
 Frankie Marvin ...  Shorty
 Chris-Pin Martin ...  Greeter at fiesta (as Chris Martin)
 Stanley Blystone ...  Sergeant
 Bud Osborne ...  Henchman Larkins
           

When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
Boots and Saddles finds Gene Autry the foreman of a ranch that is inherited by young Ronald Sinclair, the Earl of Granville. His father owned the ranch and passed away and the son comes over from the United Kingdom. A lot of British folks came over and did buy property in the American west, the most known probably is Henry Tunstall, patron of Billy the Kid and who got killed in the Lincoln County War.
Anyway the young Earl under Gene's tutelage becomes a real cowboy, but the ranch has problems until Gene comes up with an idea to break and sell horses to the cavalry. Unfortunately Gordon Elliott also has the same idea and he's pretty ruthless about getting what he wants. Yes, that's the same Gordon Elliott who later became Wild Bill Elliott, a cowboy hero of no mean proportion later on.
Judith Allen plays the colonel's daughter and some of the romantic capers that she and Autry engage in is very similar to what later went on with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Smiley Burnette is around also for laughs because he certainly doesn't help Autry too much. He has some funny moments when he almost gets enlisted in the army after trying to locate Gene on the army post

BULLDOG DRUMMOND ESCAPES    1937   Dir James P. Hogan
           

   73 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ray Milland ...  Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
 Guy Standing ...  Inspector Col. Sir Reginald Nielson (as Sir Guy Standing)
 Heather Angel ...  Phyllis Clavering
 Reginald Denny ...  Algy Longworth
 Porter Hall ...  Norman Merridew
 Fay Holden ...  Natalie Merridew Seldon
 E.E. Clive ...  'Tenny' Tennison
 Walter Kingsford ...  'Professor' Stanton
 Patrick J. Kelly ...  Stiles, the butler
 Charles McNaughton ...  Chief Constable Higgins
 Clyde Cook ...  Constable Alf
 Frank Elliott ...  Bailey
 David Clyde ...  Gower
 Doris Lloyd ...  Nurse
           

Captain High 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England. As he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He misses her, but she falls to the ground. As he tries to revive her, he hears a shout for help, then gunshots. As he goes to investigate, the woman drives away with Drummond's car. He is soon able to trace her to nearby Greystone Manor, and when he goes there to meet her, she urges him to help her get out of a desperate situation.

CALL IT MURDER         1934    Dir Chester Erskine      

70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Sidney Fox ...  Stella Weldon
 O.P. Heggie ...  Edward Weldon
 Henry Hull ...  Nolan
 Margaret Wycherly ...  Mrs. Weldon
 Lynne Overman ...  Joe Biggers (as Lynn Overman)
 Katherine Wilson ...  Ada Biggers
 Richard Whorf ...  Arthur Weldon
 Humphrey Bogart ...  Gar Boni
 Granville Bates ...  Henry McGrath
 Cora Witherspoon ...  Elizabeth McGrath
 Moffat Johnston ...  Dist. Atty. Plunkett
 Henry O'Neill ...  Ingersoll (as Henry O'Neil)
 Helen Flint ...  Ethel Saxon
             

(Universal, 1934), directed by Chester Erskine, based on a stage play, is reproduced as such in this screen adaptation reportedly filmed and produced in New York City. Headed by Sidney Fox, in one