Trail Riders is a 1942 American film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey, one of the Range Busters series. The film is also known as Dead Men Don’t Ride (American pre-release title).
The sheriff of Gila Springs is murdered by a gunmen, leaving the town wide open for many corruptions. Three traveling cowboys known as the “Range Busters” ride into the town to clean things up.
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Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey, produced by Anna Bell Ward (associate producer) and George W. Weeks (producer), Frances Kavanaugh (screenplay) and Robert Emmett Tansey (story), starring John Dusty King as Dusty King, David Sharpe as Davy Sharpe, Max Terhune as Alibi Terhune, Elmer as Elmer, Alibi’s Dummy, Evelyn Finley as Mary Rand, Forrest Taylor as Mike Rand, Charles King as Ed Cole, Kermit Maynard as Henchman Ace Alton, Lynton Brent as Jeff Rand, Jack Curtis as Ranch Hand Tiny, Steve Clark as Marshal Jim Hammond, Kenne Duncan as Marshal Frank Hammond.
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Source: “Trail Riders” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 22 June 2012. Web. 25 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_Riders
Told in flashback by police detective Dick Chasen (Showalter), the movie concerns a 72-hour period of horror for the main characters. Charles “Butcher” Benton (Chaney) is a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who was executed in the gas chamber. His body is unlawfully sold to a scientist (Robert Shayne of Adventures of Superman fame), who plans to move his testing to human subjects. The corpse is subjected to chemical injection and massive jolts of high-frequency electricity in order to study the effect on human tissues. But Benton’s heart is restimulated and he completely revives (though rendered mute due to electrical damage to his vocal cords), immensely strong and with skin virtually impervious – even to bazooka shells.
After killing the doctor and his assistant (Joe Flynn, pre-McHale’s Navy), Benton sets out to avenge himself on his attorney and the lawyer’s henchmen who, in collusion with the attorney, had betrayed Benton in order to steal his loot. Benton had left the location of his stash to his stripper-girlfriend (Carr), who had since gone straight and begun dating the detective who brought Benton to justice, after she had rejected the lawyer’s own advances.
The story then follows Benton’s revenge on his enemies; the police who first learn of a wave of mysterious killing, then of Benton’s reanimation; and the developing relationship between the detective and the stripper. The lawyer, fearing for his life after the two henchman are murdered, confesses the plot to the police, and reveals that Benton had always used the sewer system to evade detection; and to find a hiding place for the money, as it turns out.
Tracked down by the police, Benton is weakened but not killed when he takes a direct hit in the solar plexus from a bazooka, and is disfigured by a flame thrower. He runs to a power station, where he maneuvers metal equipment and himself into position to trigger a high-voltage jolt of electricity, which kills him. At the fade-out, Chasen proposes to his girlfriend.
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Directed and produced by Jack Pollexfen, written by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins, starring Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott, Stuart Randall, Ken Terrell, Marjorie Stapp, Robert Shayne, Peggy Maley, Robert Foulk, Reita, Roy Engel and Madge Cleveland.
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Source: “Indestructible Man” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 15 March 2013. Web. 22 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indestructible_Man.
“I’m from Arkansas” is a 1944 American film directed by Lew Landers. The movie is not quite a classic, but it has a delightful surprise for the viewers.
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Directed by Lew Landers, produced by E.H. Kleinert and Irving Vershel, written by Marcy Klauber (screenplay) and Joseph Carole (screenplay), starring Slim Summerville as Juniper Jenkins aka Pa, El Brendel as Oly, Iris Adrian as Doris, Bruce Bennett as Bob Hamline, Maude Eburne as Matilda Alden Jenkins aka Ma, Cliff Nazarro as Willie Childs, Al St. John as Farmer, Carolina Cotton as Abigail ‘Abby’ Alden, Danny Jackson as Efus Jenkins, Paul Newlan as Farmer, Harry Harvey as Stowe Packing Company Representative, Arthur Q. Bryan as Commissioner of Agriculture, John Hamilton as Harry Cashin, Vice President of, Slowe Packing Company, Douglas Wood as Governor of Arkansas, Walter Baldwin as, Packing Company Attorney, Flo Bert as Showgirl, The Pied Pipers as Quartet, The Sunshine Girls (including Mary Ford) as Girl Trio and Jimmy Wakely as Jimmy Wakely.
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Source: “I’m from Arkansas” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 20 March 2013. Web. 22 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_from_Arkansas.
The film opens with a scene of FBI agent Richard Hendricks (Michael O’Shea) bedridden in a hospital bed, dictating the results of his investigation for a report to the California Governor. The dictation scenes are interrupted by long flashbacks scenes showing how the investigation proceeded. After a number of paroles granted to dangerous career criminals, the California Governor and State Attorney General suspected corruption in the state parole board. They called upon Hendricks to investigate and expose those involved. Hendricks decided to go undercover as an ex-convict wanting to buy a parole for a criminal partner currently in jail. He then proceeded to infiltrate the social circle of another recent parolee of dubious character, Harry Palmer, and ask him how to purchase a parole. However, the people operating the parole purchase ring were quite secretive and ready to take extreme measures to prevent their exposure.
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Directed by Alfred Zeisler, produced by Constantin J. David (producer) and Anthony Z. Landi (associate producer), written by Sherman L. Lowe (story), Royal K. Cole (story)
and Sherman L. Lowe (screenplay), starring Michael O’Shea as Richard Hendricks, Turhan Bey as Barney Rodescu, Evelyn Ankers as Jojo Dumont, Virginia Lee as Glenda Palmer, Charles Bradstreet as Harry Palmer, Lyle Talbot as Police Commissioner Hughes, Michael Whalen as Kid Redmond, Charles Williams as Titus Jones, James Cardwell as Duke Vigili, Paul Bryar as Charley Newton, Noel Cravat as Blackie Olson and Charles Jordan as Monty Cooper.
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Source: “Parole, Inc.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 14 December 2012. Web. 22 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole,_Inc..
Tex and sidekick Grass join McGill’s traveling show. When Price has McGill’s wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay.
Boston Blackie rescues a women being attacked by two men. She turns out to be Geraldine “Gerry”, his old flame. She begs him to help protect her baby from her recently paroled husband John. When John sees them together, he thinks the child is Blackie’s and gets his gun out.
Thaddeus Merrydew, a lawyer leads a secret club in London which collects the assets of deceased members and then divides them between the remaining members. Many members are dying and Sherlock Holmes is brought in to solve the mystery.
A mobster is hiding from the law in a small town and he’s running out of money, so he robs a bank and rakes in some big bucks. However, now, not only are the cops after him, but so is the local mob boss who is jealous that an outsider pulled such a job in his territory, and especially without giving him a piece of the pie.
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Directed by Walter Matthau, produced by Jonathan Daniels (producer) and Wayne Mitchell (associate producer), written by Richard Grey (story), Paul Purcell (writer) and V.J. Rheims (story), starring Walter Matthau as Jack Martin, Carol Grace as Carol Logan, Librarian, Bruce MacFarlane as Earl J. Dawson, Garry Walberg as Adolph, Raikin Ben-Ari as ‘Plumber’ a Hood, David Leonard as Bank President W. Palmer, John Albright as Henchman and Clegg Hoyt as Caretaker at Country Club.
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Source: “Gangster Story” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 1 February 2013. Web. 17 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster_Story.
The suave Don Juan Ricardo ‘Rick’ De Villa (John Bromfield) and his married lover Fritzi Darvel would like to take off together, but his lack of money prevents them from doing so. A chance encounter introduces Rick to the young, but terminally ill socialite Valerie Bancroft (Martha Vickers), in whom Rick sees the solution to his predicament. Rick sweeps her off her feet and they soon marry, although Valerie’s entourage are suspicious of him. Rick then proceeds to try and bring about Valerie’s demise so he can inherit her wealth and live the good life with Fritzi.
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Directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder, written by Mindret Lord (story) and Fred Freiberger (screenplay), starring John Bromfield as Ricardo ‘Rick’ De Villa, Martha Vickers as Valerie Bancroft, Robert Hutton as Dr. Peter Kirk, Rosemarie Stack as Fritzi Darvel, Eve Miller as Marsha Jordan, Max Palmer as Detective Sgt. John Fullmer, Eddie Bee as Don Darvel, Robert Bice as Dr. Tom Harrison, Pierre Watkin as Jim Winthrop, Beal Wong as Art Dealer, Rusty Wescoatt as Husky Detective at Finale, Mitchell Kowall as Coroner, Jack, Daly as Master of Ceremonies, Paul McGuire as William (the butler), George Conrad as Bell Boy and Kay Garrett as Waiter.
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Source: “The Big Bluff” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 28 November 2012. Web. 17 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bluff.