Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against “Yankees”. He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of night riders set out to drive him out of town. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
Director: Lewis D. Collins
Writers: Edward Eggleston (novel), Charles Logue
Stars: Norman Foster, Charlotte Henry, Dorothy Libaire
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father’s wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury’s birth. Written by Les Adams
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Writer: Robert Ellis (screenplay)
Stars: Lila Lee, Dickie Moore, Onslow Stevens
Mary just lost her job after a fight with her boyfriend. Chasing her pay check blown over a bridge she almost loses her life as well. She is saved by Kenneth Alden, a drunken millionaire who’s just lost alll his money. They both assume the other person is on the bridge to commit suicide. Mary kcome up with a plan that would benefit both of them. He will get enough money together to teach her how tob e a lady in order to introduce her to his rich friends. This is how she would find a husband — and pay him a finder’s fee. In reality, things turn out not that easy.
Stars: Ann Corio, Jack La Rue, Mary Hull
Director: Elmer Clifton
Writers: George Arthur Durlam (screenplay), Fred McConnell (story)
Into the vast swamplands hurry three people; honky tonk dancer Annabelle Tollington (Ann Corio), cheap promoter “Flash” Bland (Jay Novello) trying to catch Annabelle, and escaping convict Jeff Carter (Richard Deane), only a few steps ahead of the bloodhounds of Police Lieutenant Rance (Ian MacDonald). Jeff reaches the cabin of Lizbet Tollington (Mary Hull), Annabelle’s niece, and fiancée of trapper Pete Oliver (Jack La Rue), Annabelle’s ex-sweetheart. Lizbet, seeing Jeff in the mirror as she tries on her wedding gown, believes him to be the man she will eventually marry, as stipulated in an old proverb of the swamps. She hides Jeff from the law. Annabelle, determined to break Lizbet’s engagement to Pete, tells him that Lizbet is hiding a man in her cabin. The enraged Pete cools off when he realizes that Lizbet loves Jeff and determines to help him. Rance arrives and recognizes Annabelle as “The Swamp Woman” of the honky tonk, whose testimony saved “Flash” from a prison sentence on the murder charge that sent the innocent Jeff to the chain gang. Rance locates Lizbet’s cabin and arrests Jeff. “Flash” comes out of hiding to talk to Annabelle. Having experienced a gradual regeneration through the efforts of Pete, Annabelle makes “Flash” admit to her that he was the actual killer. Jeff is cleared of the crime and remains to marry Lizbet, while Pete and Annabelle resume their old romance. Corio keeps all of her clothes on most of the time, and most of her clothes on all the time. Sorry.
Two war friends go for a Mexican fishing trip. While driving they pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a psychotic killer and is wanted in nine states. He forces them to drive him through the desert and tells them that he will kill them later.
Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Toomey, Alan Hale
Director: Phil Rosen
Writers: Charles E. Blaney, Harry Clay Blaney
A TALE OF TROPICAL LUST! Two guys on the rlamp take off for the jungles of Brazil. They go to work in a diamond mine, and “order” mail-order brides. When the young women get to their destination, they find out that everything isn’t quite what it’s cracked up to be!
Stars: Russell Hopton, Lola Lane, George F. Marion
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Writer: John W. Krafft (story)
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.