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Cowboy Counsellor  (1932)

A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.

Director: George Melford

Cast: Hoot Gibson, Sheila Bromley, Jack Rutherford, Skeeter Bill Robbins, Al Bridge, Fred Gilman, Bobby Nelson, William Humphrey, Gordon De Main, Merrill McCormick, Sam Allen

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Cowboy Holiday (1934)

A cowboy tries to help his lawman friend, who will lose his job if he doesn't bring in a bandit known as the Juarez Kid.

Director: Robert F. Hill

Cast: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Janet Chandler, Julian Rivero, Richard Alexander, John Elliott, Julia Bejarano, Alma Chester

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.

Crashing Through Danger  (1938)

The story of 3 men who risk their lives maintaining the utilities in a large U.S. city in the late 30's and their romances.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Ray Walker, Sally Blane, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, James Bush, Guy Usher, Robert Homans

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Creature from the Haunted Sea  (1961)

When a Carribean Island is engulfed by a revolution, one unscrupulous American mobster, Renzo Capeto plans to clean up with a get-rich-quick scheme. His diabolical plan is to provide refuge for the loyalists, and the contents of the government coffers, on his boat. He would then murder his passenger and escape with a fortune. Planning to blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster, no one is more surprised than Renzo, when the real monster appears with its own agenda.

Director: Roger Corman

Cast: Edmundo Rivera Alvarez, Robert Bean, Antony Carbone, Roger Corman, Beach Dickerson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Sonya Noemi, Edward Wain

Comedy, Crime, Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 75 minutes.

Crime Patrol (1936)

Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force.

Director: Eugene Cummings

Cast: Ray Walker, Geneva Mitchell, Herbert Corthell, Hooper Atchley, Wilbur Mack, Russ Clark, Max Wagner, Virginia True Boardman, Hal Taliaferro, 'Snub' Pollard, Henry Roquemore, Robert McKenzie

Crime, Drama, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.

The Crooked Circle (1932)

Hilarious blend of comedy and mystery follows a secret society of occultists as they meet at midnight to perform strange and terrifying rituals. Led by a sinister swami, the group finds their trickery threatened when they are tailed by a squad of amateur detectives. When both factions meet up at a haunted manor, the stage is set for a shocking--and side-splitting--showdown.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast: Spencer Charters, Burton Churchill, Ethel Clayton, Robert Frazer, James Gleason, C. Henry Gordon, Raymond Hatton, Roscoe Karns, Tom Kennedy, Ben Lyon, ZaSu Pitts, Irene Purcell, Frank Reicher, Christian Rub

Comedy, Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.

Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)

Jose Ferrer won an Academy Award for his stunning portrayal of the fabled 17th-century swordsman and wit, forced to hide his love for the beautiful Roxanne, in this stirring filming of Edmond Rostand's play.

Cast: Richard Avonde, Edgar Barrier, Don Beddoe, Arthur Blake, Morris Carnovsky, Albert Cavens, Virginia Christine, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan, John Crawford, Paul Dubov, Virginia Farmer, Jose Ferrer, Percy Helton, Robin Hughes, Jerry Paris, Francis Pierlot, Mala Powers, William Prince, Eric Sinclair, Elena Verdugo, Gil Warren, Philip Van Zandt

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 113 minutes.

D.O.A. (1950)

A masterpiece of low-budget "noir" cinema, with Edmond O'Brien as a businessman vacationing in San Francisco who learns he has been poisoned with a "luminous toxin" and has mere days to live. A desperate search for his own killer follows.

Director: Rudolph Mat

Cast: Luther Adler, Lynne Baggett, Bill Baldwin, Neville Brand, Pamela Britton, Frank Cady, Beverly Campbell, William Ching, Frank Conlan, Larry Dobkin, Roy Engel, Douglas Evans, William Forrest, Cay Forrester, Frank Gerstle, George Guhl, Henry Hart, Carol Hughes, Frank Jaquet, Jess Kirkpatrick, Virginia Lee, Peter Leeds, Laurette Luez, George Lynn, Harold Miller

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 84 minutes.

Damaged Lives (1933)

The horrors of venereal disease are explored in this social drama that had a tough time with censors upon its release. The story centers on a young couple whose future is endangered when the husband makes a terrible mistake.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast: Marceline Day, Almeda Fowler, Harrison Greene, George Irving, Murray Kinnell, Charlotte Merriam, Harry Myers, Cecilia Parker, Vic Potel, Diane Sinclair, Phillips Smalley, Lyman Williams

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 53 minutes.

Damon and Pythias (1962)

Guy Williams stars in this classic tale from ancient Greece in which he plays Damon, who volunteers himself to die in place of close friend Pythias, who has been accused of plotting the assassination of King Dionysis I.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Cast: Maurizio Baldoni, Marina Berti, Carla Bonavera, Vittorio Bonos, Andrea Bosic, Don Burnett, Franco Fantasia, Arnoldo Foà, Carlo Giustini, Enrico Glori, Tiberio Mitri, Lawrence Montaigne, Tiberio Murgia, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Franco Ressel, Carlo Rizzo, Aldo Silvani, Guy Williams

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 99 minutes.

Dancing Pirate  (1936)

A dancing instructor is kidnapped by pirates, and manages to escape in a charming little Mexican village.

Director: Lloyd Corrigan

Cast: Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni, Victor Varconi, Jack La Rue, Alma Real, William V. Mong, Mitchell Lewis, Julian Rivero, John Eberts, Eduardo Cansino

Musical, Color, Runtime: 84 minutes.

Danger Ahead (1935)

Captain Matthews (John Elliot) is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad (Bryant Washburn) for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretense and robbed by Conrad's henchmen.

Director: Albert Herman

Cast: Lawrence Gray, Sheila Bromley, J. Farrell MacDonald, Fuzzy Knight, Bryant Washburn, Fred Kelsey, John Elliott, Eddie Phillips, Arthur Loft, Herschel Mayall, Gordon Griffith, Earl Dwire, Richard Cramer, George Chesebro

Crime; Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.

Danger Flight (1939)

Drama based on the comic strip "Tailspin Tommy" concerns a man who works with juvenile delinquents, showing them how to build model airplanes that can sky-write words. Little does he know how soon his life will depend on one boy's "getting the message"!

Director: Howard Bretherton

Cast: Tommy Baker, Joe Bernard, Harry Harvey Jr., Dennis Moore, Edwin Parker, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Julius Tannen, John Trent, Walter Willis

Action, Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.

Danger Lights (1930)

The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.

Director: George B. Seitz

Cast: Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert, Frank Sheridan, Robert Edeson, Alan Roscoe, William P. Burt, Jim Farley

Adventure, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

Dangerous Passage (1944)

After inheriting $20,000, a fortune-seeking adventurer in South Africa books passage on a boat for America in order to travel to Texas and claim his loot. During his journey, he falls in love with a sultry singer while encountering a seedy lawyer and suffering through an attempt on his life.

Director: William Berke

Cast: Charles Arnt, Phyllis Brooks, Alec Craig, William Edmunds, John Eldredge, Victor Kilian, Jack LaRue, Robert Lowery

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 58 minutes.

Daniel Boone: Trail Blazer (1957)

Bruce Bennett stars as the coonskin-capped pioneer in this exciting saga about the opening of the American frontier.

Directors: Albert C. Gannaway, Ismael Rodrguez

Cast: Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., Kem Dibbs, Jacqueline Evans, Freddy Fernandez, Fred Kohler Jr., Carol Kelly, Lee Morgan, Eduardo Noriega, Damian O'Flynn, Nancy Rodman, Faron Young

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 76 minutes.

The Dark Hour (1936)

A pair of detectives convene the likely suspects in the attempted murder of an already dead man. Ray Walker stars as one of the gumshoes, and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper makes an appearance as a supposed murderess.

Director: Charles Lamont

Cast: William Bakewell, Hobart Bosworth, Berton Churchill, E. E. Clive, Harold Goodwin, Aggie Herring, Hedda Hopper, Fred Kelsey, Michael Mark, William V. Mong, Miki Morita, John St. Polis, Ray Walker, Irene Ware, Lloyd Whitlock

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 69 minutes.

Daughter of Horror (1955)

Also known as Dementia. This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.

Director: John Parker

Cast: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron, Ed Hinkle, Lucille Rowland, Jebbie VeSota, Faith Parker, Gayne Sullivan, Shorty Rogers, Ed McMahon

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.

David And Goliath (1960)

Colorful and exciting Biblical adventure about the legend of David and his fierce fight with the giant Philistine Goliath. Orson Welles turns in a magnetic performance as King Saul, who awards the hand of his daughter, Merab, to David after he kills the giant.

Directors: Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Pottier

Cast: Kronos , Emma Baron, Pierre Cressoy, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Edward Hilton, Dante Maggio, Furio Meniconi, Ivo Payer, Giulia Rubini, Ugo Sasso, Massimo Serato, Renato Terra, Gabriele Tinti, Luigi Tosi, Orson Welles

Drama, Religion, Color, Runtime: 92 minutes.

David Copperfield (1970)

This lavish British production of the Charles Dickens classic is told in flashback from the 28-year-old David Copperfield's point of view. He recalls his incredible experiences with his mean stepfather, days at a boarding school, romances, and encounter with the swindler Uriah Heep.

Director: Delbert Mann

Cast: Richard Attenborough, Jeffrey Chandler, Sinead Cusack, Cyril Cusack, James Donald, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire, James Hayter, Wendy Hiller, Megs Jenkins, Anna Massey, Andrew McCulloch, Ron Moody, Laurence Olivier, Robin Phillips, Michael Redgrave, Corin Redgrave, Liam Redmond, Ralph Richardson, Gordon Rollings, Emlyn Williams, George Woodbridge

Drama, Color, Runtime: 118 minutes.

Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)

In what turned out to be his last film before his death, Buck Jones leads Rough Riders Rex Bell and Raymond Hatton into action against what they think are hostile Indians. It turns out ruthless white hombres are wearing war paint and feathers to crash a railroad settlement.

Director: Howard Bretherton

Cast: Roy Barcroft, Mona Barrie, Rex Bell, Betty Blythe, Steve Clark, Tristram Coffin, Maude Eburne, Robert Frazer, Raymond Hatton, Silver, a horse, Warren Jackson, Buck Jones, Robert Lowery, Christine McIntyre, Dennis Moore, Lee Shumway, Jan Wiley, Harry Woods

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 70 minutes.

Dead Men Walk (1943)

George Zucco plays both mild-mannered Dr. Lloyd Clayton, who kills his "evil-twin" in self defense (played also by Zucco). Clayton's evil-twin comes back from the dead, exacting revenge of Dr Clayton's family. Dwight Frye (Dracula, Frankenstein) is the revivified Clayton's partner in this dastardly sibling rivalry.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Mary Carlisle, Fern Emmett, Sam Flint, Dwight Frye, Hal Price, Robert Strange, Nedrick Young, George Zucco

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Deadwood '76 (1965)

A whacked-out sagebrush saga with Arch Hall, Jr. as a handsome young gunslinger who arrives in a frontier town only to be mistaken for Billy the Kid and forced into defending himself...against Wild Bill Hickok! With Jack Lester, Melissa Morgan and Arch Hall, Sr..

Director: James Landis

Cast: Harold Bizzy, John Bryant, John Cardos, LaDonna Cottier, Richard S. Cowl, Robert Dix, Arch Hall Jr., Jack Lester, Little Jack Little, Rex Marlow, Read Morgan, Melissa Morgan, David Reed, Gordon Schwenk, Ray Vegas, William Watters, Willard Willingham

Western, Color, Runtime: 96 minutes.

Death From A Distance (1936)

It's murder under the star-stuff, when a detective and a newsman head out to a mountaintop observatory and discover a veritable black hole of suspicious astronomers. Russell Hopton, Lola Lane star.

Director: Frank R. Strayer

Cast: Capt. E. H. Calvert, John Davidson, John Dilson, Robert Frazier, Russell Hopton, Cornelius Keefe, Lew Kelly, Lee Kohlmar, Lola Lane, Wheeler Oakman, John St. Polis, George Marion Sr.

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 70 minutes.

Death in the Air (1936)

A group of WWI flying aces are gather to combat a psychotic flyer who is shooting down passenger planes.

Director: Elmer Clifton

Cast: Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames, Henry Hall, Hans Joby, Gaston Glass, Pat Somerset, Wheeler Oakman, Reed Howes, John Elliott, Willard Kent

Action, Adventure, Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 67 minutes.