Lost Jungle (1934) JUNGLE ADVENTURE



Stars: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd Saylor
Directors: David Howard, Armand Schaefer
Writers: Sherman L. Lowe (story), Al Martin (story)

Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the island. When he locates Ruth, he learns that her father has disappeared. The ensuing search is hindered by greedy gold hunters and wild animals.

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Love Island (1952) EVA GABOR



Stars: Eva Gabor,Paul Valentine, Malcolm Lee Beggs
Director: Bud Pollard
Writers: John E. Gordon (story), Daniel Kusell (screenplay)

US-Navy pilot Lt. Richard Tabor crash-lands on a south Pacific isle called Love Island in English. Richard befriends the Balinese beauty Sarna. The bad and jealous Jaraka doesn’t like their friendship, so he has Sarna’s father Aryuna arrested on a vague charge. Jaraka tells Aryuna that he only will be released when his daughter marries him.

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Monsoon (1943) EDGAR G. ULMER



Stars: John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Writers: Edgar G. Ulmer (story), Raymond L. Schrock (story)

The owner of a seedy dive and brothel on a South Seas island meets two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship with a $3-million cargo of gold. She persuades them to let her in on the deal. Complications ensue because of intrigue, double-crosses and an approaching violent monsoon. Also known as ISLE OF FORGOTTEN SINS.

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Klondike (1932) – Full Movie



Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong’s Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong’s son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell’s last patient had. Mark talks Cromwell into performing the same operation again and, this time, it is a success. Or would have been if Jim hadn’t decided to fake it being a failure. Written by Les Adams

Director: Phil Rosen
Writers: Tristram Tupper (story), Tristram Tupper (adaptation)
Stars: Thelma Todd, Lyle Talbot, Henry B. Walthall

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Jacaré (1942) JUNGLE ADVENTURE



Stars: Frank Buck, Jim Dannaldson, Miguel Roginsky
Director: Charles E. Ford
Writer: Thomas Lennon

Universal newsreel editor Charles E. Ford was responsible for this filmed record of James Dannaldson’s hunting expedition into the jungles of the Amazon River. The film is jam-packed with wild-animal footage, including a pulse-pounding attack by a 28-foot anaconda. The music for Jacare was provided by no less than Miklos Rosza!

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No Hands on the Clock (1941) DETECTIVE



Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart
Director: Frank McDonald
Writers: Daniel Mainwaring (novel), Maxwell Shane (screenplay)

The first of three Pine-Thomas productions for Chester Morris finds him as wise-cracking private detective Humphrey Campbell who impresses his boss, Oscar Flack, no end by not only finding a missing girl but also marrying her in the process. So Flack sends him to celebrate his honeymoon in the Divorce Capital of the world, Reno, Nevada, to find a missing man. Along the way, in a mixture of big city crime and old-west settings, Humphrey encounters a large assortment of suspicious characters, all of whom are also suspicious of the others. A comedy that also includes some killings along the way.

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