Colonel #2 (segment "To Serve Man)
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Maxwell Scott
Un anciano senador del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart), relata a un periodista la verdadera historia de por qué ha viajado junto a su mujer Hallie (Vera Miles) para acudir al funeral de un viejo amigo, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). Todo comenzó muchos años atrás, cuando Ransom era un joven abogado del este que llegó en diligencia a Shinbone, un pequeño pueblo del Oeste, para ejercer la abogacía e imponer la ley. Poco antes de llegar a su destino, es atracado y golpeado brutalmente por el temido pistolero Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin).
Capt. Bart Macklin
An American army unit is trapped in a small town during a German counterattack and discovers that a spy in the town is providing the Germans with information about them.
Judge Richter
Un ambicioso artísta circense provocará la desgracia de sus familiares.
Herald (uncredited)
Hacia el año 75 antes de Cristo, un esclavo llamado Espartaco es vendido a una escuela de gladiadores donde le adiestran para combatir en la arena de los circos romanos. Pronto, Espartaco lidera una rebelión por el maltrato sufrido.
Colonel Evans Carlson
1942. William F. "Bull" Halsey recibe una orden que entraña una gran responsabilidad: debe encontrar y destruir al ejército japonés para salvar Guadalcanal. Las tropas de Halsey se lanzan a la caza de un enemigo cada vez más próximo y amenazante al tiempo que Guadalcanal se tambalea... (FILMAFFINITY)
George Gordon
A young gangster in 1920's New York quickly rises through the ranks of the mob, then sets up his own murder-for-hire organization. When he starts kidnapping other mobsters for ransom, the New York gangs band together for revenge.
Capt. Shattuck - prosecutor
En Arizona, en el Fuerte Linton, se celebra un consejo de guerra para juzgar a un sargento negro acusado de la violación y el asesinato de una joven blanca. El sargento Rutledge, ha sido siempre un militar valiente y ejemplar, un modelo para todos sus soldados, pero ahora el ejército le cree culpable.
Fanning Nelson (uncredited)
Debido a un malentendido, a Roger O. Thornhill, un ejecutivo del mundo de la publicidad, unos espías lo confunden con un agente del gobierno llamado George Kaplan. Secuestrado por tres individuos y llevado a una mansión en la que es interrogado, consigue huir antes de que lo maten. Cuando al día siguiente regresa a la casa acompañado de la policía, no hay rastro de las personas que había descrito.
Col. Jonathan Miles, CSA
Un severo coronel de La Unión (Wayne) está al frente de un regimiento que debe infiltrarse en pleno territorio confederado para cumplir una difícil misión. En esta aventura lo acompaña un médico de buenos sentimientos (Holden). Para evitar que revele sus planes al enemigo, se ven obligados a llevarse como rehén a una joven rebelde sureña (Constance Towers).
Burton
The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.
Winslow
En un mundo cambiante en el que la televisión se ha convertido en la principal fuente de información, Adam Caulfield, un joven periodista deportivo, es testigo de cómo su tío, Frank Skeffington, un veterano y honesto político, alcalde de una ciudad de Nueva Inglaterra, intenta ser reelegido mientras banqueros y empresarios conspiran en la sombra para colocar en el ayuntamiento a un candidato débil y manejable.
Roger Adams
Un grupo de terroristas ha anunciado la colocación de una bomba en un avión de pasajeros. Para asegurarse la entrega del dinero que solicitan, los delincuentes secuestran a la familia del ingeniero que diseñó el artefacto. Hay que destacar el excelente reparto con el que contó la película y el esquema expertamente narrado partiendo de una base más bien convencional.
Major Harrison
Tras varios años de sacerdocio, Dean Hess llega a la conclusión de que ha fracasado en su misión apostólica. La causa es que vive atormentado por los remordimientos que le ocasiona haber sido, durante la guerra, piloto de un bombardero.
Jesus Christ
The Book of Acts is a 10-part series of short Bible films dramatizing the 28 chapters that comprise the Acts of the Apostles. The series was produced in 1957 by Family Films on behalf of Broadman Films, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Airport control tower official
Julie Benton vive atemorizada, bajo la constante amenaza de su actual marido, un hombre de personalidad psicópata y obsesiva. Además pronto descubrirá que fue él el que asesinó a su primer marido, haciendo creer a todo el mundo que había sido un suicidio.
Allan Kirk
El editor de un periódico, que quiere demostrar un punto sobre la insuficiencia de pruebas circunstanciales, convence a su posible yerno Tom de que cometa un engaño en un intento de exponer la ineptitud del fiscal de distrito de línea dura de la ciudad. El plan es que Tom plante pistas que conduzcan a su arresto por matar a una bailarina de club nocturno. Una vez que Tom es declarado culpable, debe revelar la configuración y humillar al fiscal.
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
Col. Gibson
Colorado, principios de 1861. En Denver, Owen Pentecost, un pistolero carente de escrúpulos, originario de Carolina del Norte, se convierte en el dueño de un hotel tras ganar una partida de cartas. Dos mujeres se enamoran de él: la empleada del saloon del que es propietario y una forastera que ha llegado con la intención de abrir una tienda de ropa femenina. Los conflictos que preceden a la guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) y, finalmente, el estallido de la contienda sitúan a Owen ante dilemas de difícil resolución.
Police Interrogator (uncredited)
Los periodistas del Sentinel están a punto terminar la edición del periódico. En los pasillos y en las mesas se conspira y se intriga para hacerse con la dirección del diario. Mientras tanto, un criminal que se dedica a matar mujeres jóvenes, tras cada asesinato, deja a la policía un mensaje escrito con pintalabios. En el periódico se establece una feroz competición: el primero que consiga la noticia de la captura del asesino "del pintalabios", tendrá todas las de ganar. Un redactor sin ambiciones consigue convencer a una secretaria de la que está enamorado para que sirva de cebo a fin de atraer al asesino, contando, por supuesto, con vigilancia policial.
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Colonel Drury (uncredited)
Eugene y Rick son dos cómicos que comparten piso. Rick no soporta a Eugene porque éste, que es un fanático de los cómics de Pulp Fiction, tiene constantes pesadillas. Pronto, la tolerancia de Rick aumenta, pues las pesadillas de Eugene son un material excelente para aprovechar en un nuevo cómic que tiene en mente.
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
John Howard
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Julio Verne. En 1870, debido a los relatos de marineros que aseguran haber visto un monstruo marino al sur del Pacífico, los Estados Unidos fletan un buque de guerra para destruir a la bestia que altera la tranquilidad de los mares. Pero, cuando el monstruo los ataca, de nada sirve todo su poderío bélico para evitar el desastre. Tras el hundimiento del buque, los tripulantes son rescatados por el propio "monstruo", que resulta ser un buque capaz de sumergirse en el mar, algo inédito hasta entonces.
Maj. Andy Pepperis
Un desertor del ejército se encuentra con una caravana que necesita protección frente a los indios. Decide entonces hacerse pasar por un oficial muerto y lleva a los viajeros hasta su destino. Entonces se presenta a las autoridades. (FILMAFFINITY)
Quentin Allen
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
Captain of the Guards Barrett
Tras salir de prisión, donde cumplió una condena por haber disparado contra un presunto amante de su esposa, el productor Walter Wanger se propuso hacer una película sobre su experiencia carcelaria. Un grupo de presidiarios se amotinan y se les une la mayoría de los presos, que toman como rehenes a numerosos guardia. Su intención es protestar contra las infrahumanas condiciones de vida que tienen que soportar.
Glenn Miller fue uno de los más famosos músicos de jazz de la "era del swing". En 1925 empezó a tocar el trombón en una pequeña banda de provincias y, después de una gira por pueblos y ciudades, se instaló en Nueva York. Hasta allí llegó su novia para casarse. La boda fue una histórica sesión musical dirigida por el gran Louis Armstrong. A partir de entonces la carrera de Glenn Miller estuvo llena de éxitos.
Slick Caruthers
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
Don Holden
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.
Frank Connelly (Uncredited)
Cuando la sobrina de Whitney Cameron fallece, un matrimonio amigo le sugiere que por los síntomas que presentó pudiera haber sido envenenada. Whitney, pensando en el otro sobrino que sigue al cuidado de su madrastra, y a pesar del afecto que se tienen, da parte a la policía.
Colin
A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.
Jim Granby
A singing frontier judge (Gene Autry) dismisses a case of double jeopardy.
Charles Darnay
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
A prisoner undergoes experimental brain surgery in order to get early parole. He released but has no memories. Things get dangerous when a group of thugs go after him in search of loot he hid before his amnesia.
Maj. Lanning (uncredited)
El sargento de caballería Matt Trainor (Broderick Crawford) es uno de los pocos supervivientes de un ataque comanche acaudillado por Nube Negra. Trainor y los demás supervivientes deberán recorrer cien millas de desierto para llegar al fuerte más cercano. El grupo deberá afrontar no sólo los peligros del terreno, sino también el hecho de que apenas les queda agua, y los indios les acechan para hacerse con sus escasas reservas.
Scott
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Feature version of the film serial Buck Rogers by Universal Pictures, 1940.
Briggs, airline clerk
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
Martin
Cuatro ladrones atracan un camión blindado huyendo con más de un millón de dólares en efectivo. Joe Rolfe (Payne), un conductor de camiones de reparto de flores que está pasando por una mala racha, es acusado de estar involucrado y es interrogado duramente por la policía local. Liberado por falta de pruebas, Joe, siguiendo la pista a un balneario mexicano, decide buscar a los culpables tanto para limpiar su nombre y para vengarse.
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
Doctor
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
Carnot
Intrigas cortesanas inspiradas en la obra de Alejandro Dumas. Sigue a Carlos Delargo, desterrado de Mandorra y con sangre real, que vuelve al terruño para afrontar la acusación de asesinato. Allí se encuentra con un complot para matar al rey, al que no es ajeno Napoleón. Puede ser la ocasión de rehabilitarse.
Captain Haggarty
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Lt. Morgan
Hacia el final de la Guerra Civil Norteamericana (1861-1865), un oficial del ejército Confederado se ve involucrado en los delitos de una cuadrilla de bandidos que recorren el territorio robando y asesinando.
Pirate Mate
El capitán Providence, el último de los grandes piratas es, en realidad, una mujer, Anne, que siente un profundo odio hacia los ingleses porque mataron a su hermano. Tras el abordaje de un navío inglés, Anne libera a un francés que dice ser corsario y es enrolado en el barco de la mujer pirata, el Reina de Saba.
Segunda Guerra Mundial. El Afrika Korps del Mariscal Edwin Rommel dominó el norte de África hasta su derrota en El Alamein. A medida que pasa el tiempo, Rommel, cada vez más decepcionado, llega a la terrible conclusión de que el Führer acabará destruyendo Alemania. Así las cosas, su estricto sentido del deber lo llevará a participar en una conspiración contra el tirano. Al fracasar el atentado del 20 de julio de 1944, recibe la orden de suicidarse.
Zone Five Lieutenant Colonel
El mundo entero queda conmocionado el día en que, sin previo aviso, un O.V.N.I. aterriza en Washington y de él sale Klaatu, un alienígena de aspecto humano, acompañado de Gort, un androide. Klaatu pide reunirse simultáneamente con todos los gobernantes de la Tierra, para entregarles un mensaje muy importante, pero su petición es rechazada. Klaatu se da cuenta de que necesita comprender mejor cómo viven los humanos y, para ello, se hospeda en la casa de una mujer, madre de un chico, con el que Klaatu traba amistad.
Technician (uncredited)
Cary Grant es un médico con un misterioso pasado, razón por la que es investigado por sus celosos colegas de la universidad donde trabaja. Mientras tanto, se casa con una joven que está embarazada de otro hombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Col. Riley
Hawai, verano de 1942. Los aviones surcando constantemente el cielo contrastan con la placidez de las playas y ponen de manifiesto una trágica realidad: la guerra. Los japoneses dominan las islas hasta Guadalcanal. El mayor Dan Kirby es nombrado comandante del escuadrón de combate VMF-247, noticia que no es muy bien recibida por los soldados, que esperaban el ascenso de Carl Griffin, su capitán. Los caracteres de Kirby y Griffin chocan al principio, aunque el capitán irá descubriendo poco a poco el valor y la entereza de Kirby, sobre todo cuando deban emprender la gran batalla del Pacífico.
Lt. Sands
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
Wilson
Jeff Clanton, un ex oficial de la Unión, persuade a un grupo de guerrilleros pro-Confederación para deponer las armas y llevar una vida honrada; mientras tanto, un hombre de Pinkerton quiere cobrar las recompensas por las cabezas de los guerrilleros. Para ese fin, encierra a Jeff por asesinato, pero Jeff conseguirá escapar y se convertirá en uno más de los guerrilleros a los que había querido volver al buen camino.
Pierre Lablond
Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help.
Colonel
El oficial Talbot está decidido a usar misiles teledirigidos en su submarino. La marina todavía no ha dado el visto bueno, por lo que él decide saltarse a la torera las órdenes de sus superiores y comienza a probarlos. La iniciativa no puede resultar peor pues en las pruebas mueren varios de sus hombres, lo que le acaba provocando un colapso mental.
Reno Sebastian
An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.
Soldados Americanos varados en las Filipinas después de la invasión Japonesa forman guerrillas para contraatacar.
Fred Elliott
Despues de casarse con Ken Conway, un cantante casi desconocido, Angie Evans, una famosa cantante de cabaret, hace uso de todas sus influencias para que su marido triunfe. Tras conseguir la fama, se trasladan al campo y tienen una hija, pero ella se siente muy sola y empieza a beber, y cuanto más famoso se hace su marido más se hunde en la bebida
Steve Hurley
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
Steward (Uncredited)
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Major Harris
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
Program Director
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Lem - Henchman
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Narrator (voice)
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.
Henchman Steve
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
Nolte
En 1868, el explorador del Ejército Johnny Ware es obligado a ayudar a los indios contra sus opresores blancos, pero escapa y se encuentra en la pedanía de Desert Center. Allí se cruza con Christine Larson, que está a punto de casarse con uno de los malvados agentes indios... pero no si Johnny puede evitarlo.
Henchman
After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
Grover Harrison
Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.
Jeff
When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temporary Sheriff.
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Un piloto de acrobacias decide unirse a las fuerzas aéreas, pero no consigue acostumbrarse a la fuerte disciplina militar. Sus dos asistentes de acrobacias que han decidido acompañarlo tampoco logran aclimatarse...
Henchman Luke Allen
Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars. Barry decides to use his bad reputation to his advantage by infiltrating the criminal gang.
Lashan Cowhand
1866. Recién terminada la guerra civil (1861-1865), dos antiguos combatientes vagan por Texas en busca de dinero, comida o trabajo. Pero lo único que encuentran son problemas. Primero se convierten en profesionales del boxeo, luego presencian el asalto a una diligencia, consiguen arrebatar el dinero a los ladrones y horas después están frente a un grupo de hombres que quieren ahorcarlos.
Ben Mercer
Bob Holliday, propietario de un saloon, envía a su hermano Jim al este para que le traiga a su prometida. Pero durante el camino, Jim se enamora de ella y ambos se casan antes de regresar a su hogar.
Jeff
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where Fuzzy is made Marshal. But Hardy and his outlaw gang control the town and none of the previous Marshals survived for very long.
Supply Sergeant (uncredited)
Bud y Lou se alistan en el ejército para poder escaparse de la cárcel; lo que ignoran es que en el cuartel se encontraran con un instructor de armas tomar.
Marshal Jeff Carson
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy sees the wanted posters and learns of the murders he supposedly committed, he sets out to find the imposter. His sidekick Fuzzy is there to help him but his friend Jeff, now a Marshal, is also after him.
Jeff Blanchard
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
Norton
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
Ace Hutchinson
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
Gil Bonney aka Gil Cooper
In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being held on a trumped-up murder charge in a Mexico jail. He escapes and meets his pal, Fuzzy Jones, in Corral City, Texas, which is taking a holiday to allow the cowpunchers of the Lazy A Ranch their periodic spree. In the saloon, Billy is recognized by Dave Hendricks and Flash, two the Lazy A's bed men, as the rider who had held them up after they had robbed the express wagon a few hours earlier. Outside, Billy is ambushed and slightly wounded, and is taken to the express office by Jim Morgan where Mary Barton, the local agent, agrees to tend him until the doctor arrives. Billy turns over the loot he took from the outlaws and he is appointed sheriff, with Fuzzy as his deputy. The Lazy A gang brings in a noted gunfighter, Gil Cooper, who turns out to be Billy's brother. Billy, Gil and Fuzzy eventually rout the outlaw gang, and Gil remains behind with Mary as Billy and Fuzzy ride off.
Band Leader Dick Stevens
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
Nick Cuttler
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.
Henchman Slim Doyle (as Carlton Young)
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
Jeff Travis
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...
Sheriff Dade
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
Jeff Grey
Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.
Benito Juarez
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
Herb Crenshaw
Bob rides into a border town where he runs into trouble with Lambert and his gang. Herb arrests him claiming he is the outlaw El Diablo. But it was just to save him from Lambert's gang and the two now plan to trap the outlaws.
Fox
The Pal From Texas features the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal from being swindled by an unscrupulous tavern owner.
Bert Lee, Gang Leader
Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
Hank
Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting enough money together to get back to his beloved Arizona. Frank Gordon, while drunk, is about to be rolled by the club bouncer, but Ken interferes and earns Clark's gratitude. Gordon gets a telegram from Kay Burke, the daughter of his partner in Arizona, notifying him that her father, Jim Burke, has been killed by rustlers.The ranch has a U.S. Army contract to furnish horses, but she sees little hope of being able to make good because the stock is being rustled, and she asks Gordon for his help.
Reporter
A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.
Radio Actor (uncredited)
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
Don Cameron
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
Tony - Band Leader
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
Luke Halsey
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from the gang known as the Riders of the Sage.
Reporter Trent
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
Thompson, Luger Henchman
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Sands (as Gordon Roberts)
It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
Eddie, lying trial witness
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Benedict) and Yap (David Gorcey). The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis (Harry Carey), Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay (Paul Fix) is innocent.
Scott
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Mort - Henchman
Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
Logan
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
Pete Jennings
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
Russ Whitley
Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.
Twin brothers Bob and Don Ramsay are on opposite sides of the law. Bob is the Sheriff and Don is the famous outlaw the Black Bandit. When the Black Bandit strikes, he is seen and his look-alike brother Bob arrested. Refusing to implicate his brother, Bob escapes and heads after Don.
Connors
In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.
Bruce
A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.
Henchman Ramon
Bradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who are being killed to prevent the Spanish Land Grant papers going to Washington for registration.
Jack
El Dr. Alfred Carroll, director de un instituto, relata a una audiencia de padres que la marihuana puede tener efectos devastadores en los adolescentes: un proveedor de drogas atrae a varios adolescentes inquietos, Mary y Jimmy Lane, hermana y hermano, y a Bill, el novio de Mary, para que frecuenten un fumadero. Poco a poco, Bill y Jimmy se ven arrastrados a fumar droga, lo que afecta a su vida familiar.
Johnson, 'Aurora' Crewman
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
Trampy Gambler at Roulette Table
Learning of Walters' inheritance, Larson kills him and assumes his identity. When Larson's men try to kill Walter's niece Lola, Jack Lane breaks it up. This leads to a showdown with Jack outnumbered by Larson and his gang. Having saved Loma's life earlier, he has Fuzzy ride for him and his men.
Hotel Clerk
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
Jeff Caffrey
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
Peabody
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.
Polo Game Timekeeper (uncredited)
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
Parker
A District Attorney decides to go after a doctor who is targeting young women and talking them into having illegal abortions.
Spike Dolan
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. John and Tom set out in their patrol cars in hopes of capturing the killers, followed by Freddie who hopes some day to qualify as a trooper. Freddie encounters the two two bandits, Spike Doland and Butch and manages to get away with the bag of gold they had stolen. While chasing Freddie they are recognized by John who they kill when he tries to arrest them. Freddie then takes matters into his own hands in seeking to capture the killers of his brother.
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
Henchman Dodds [Ch. 4]
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Tango
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Spencer
A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian with glasses and a bookish appearance. When he pursues her, he discovers that she is quite beautiful and that he has competition -- but his rival has more sinister intentions than anyone imagines.
Holdup man
When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town.
Gordon Tracy, after
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
Corporal
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
Henchman Smokey
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
Drunk
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Al
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
