The Sargent
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Bothers, aided the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appeared in this two-reeler courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
Will Duffy
Después de probar fortuna en Nueva York y no tener éxito, Susan Applegate decide regresar a su pueblo en Iowa. Previendo esta situación había reservado 27,50$ para el tren, pero como la tarifa ha aumentado decide disfrazarse de niña de 12 años para pagar la mitad. Los revisores del tren dudan que en realidad sea una niña y para escapar de ellos entra en el camarote de un apuesto militar, el Mayor del título, y es donde comienzan los enredos.
Constable Brady
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
Lieutenant Burke
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.
Gang Member
Glenn Ford interpreta al nuevo sheriff de Headstone. Él y su mujer acaban de llegar al lugar que padece los ataques constantes de una banda de forajidos. El matrimonio pronto es víctima del "comité de bienvenida" que les han preparado, aunque pronto aprenden y optan por reponerse para acabar con ellos para siempre.
Ace Quinn
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Red, Fight Timekeeper
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.
Jesse Gordon
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
Kentucky Lane
Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe. Riding into a small town, Dr. Monroe finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.
Third Photographer
Durante la huida que emprende un grupo de personas tras la invasión de las tropas alemanas, el príncipe austriaco Kurt von Rotenberg se enamora de Marta Keller. Al ser descubiertos por los nazis en Checoslovaquia, Von Rotenberg decide entregarse a cambio de que liberen a cuatro detenidos, entre ellos el novio de Marta. (FILMAFFINITY)
'Strangler' Gus Zabina
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
Clint Wilson
Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly fictional western from Columbia. Unlike the historic character, Elliott's gunfighter survives his encounter with the South Dakota hellhole, where he arrives to aid beleaguered livery stable owner Clint Wilson (Richard Fiske) and his sister, Madge (Dorothy Fay), in their battle against self-appointed town czar "Flash" Kirby (Arthur Loft). But before he gets that far, there is a little matter of proving Kirby guilty of wrongdoing and to achieve that, Wild Bill earns the enmity of both the Wilsons.
Henchman Britt
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
Larry Armstrong
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
Dr. Richard Sayles
Un científico se ve obsesionado con la posibilidad de comunicarse con su esposa ya muerta y utiliza a su hija como medium, durante un peligrosa experiencia que ya ha costado la vida a otro medium.
The Sergeant
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
Teamster
Phoebe (Jean Arthur) transforma ella sola un triste almacén en lo que ahora se conoce como Tucson, en Arizona, el orgullo del Oeste americano. Allí construye su rancho, que pronto será el más grande del territorio. Recién llegado de la ciudad, Peter Muncie (William Holden) comienza a trabajar en la propiedad de Phoebe entablándose entre ellos una relación que culmina con planes de boda. Pero el éxito del negocio de Phoebe no tarda en generar envidias y se cruza en su camino Jefferson Carteret (Warren William), un vecino que planea estafar a Phoebe y asesinar a Peter el día de su boda.
Dutch, Jewel Thief
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
Croupier With Check
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Nelson (uncredited)
La familia Bumstead va a ver a unos parientes en el campo, cuando Blondie se topa con Charlie y Millie, una pareja en fuga que necesita ayuda.
Adams
Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want any more settlers on their land.
Club Bartender (uncredited)
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Mandish
Un médico condenado a la pena de muerte por practicar la eutanasia recibe permiso para experimentar con un suero, utilizando la sangre de asesinos, pero se lo inyecta en secreto. Se le conmuta la pena, pero descubre que se ha convertido en Jekyll y Hyde.
Detective
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
Detective Jackson
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Workman
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
Hale (uncredited)
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Crowley
Johnny Adams llega a una brutal prisión tras hacerse detener con la intención de matar al hombre que asesinó a golpes a su padre.
KId Dixon
Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
Ted Crissman - Racketeer
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
Thug
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Henchman Bart
The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the title character who discovers that his uncle Mort (Lafe McKee) has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley (Dick Curtis). But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims (Dub Taylor) and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy (Dorothy Comingore) plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.
Aunt Martha's Chauffeur
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
Hank (uncredited)
Betty Andrews, aunque inocente, es condenada por un robo en una tienda y, a pesar de los grandes esfuerzos de su abogada y trabajadora social, Mary Ellis, y de un reportero, Jim Brent en su nombre, es condenada a un año en una casa correccional. La Matrona Brackett gobierna con mano de hierro con la ayuda de las presas Frankie Mason, "La Duquesa" y Nita Lavore...
Officer in Chase Car
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Man with Damaged Car in Detroit
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
Ned Browning
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides of the confrontation against one another, the better to move in and claim all the livestock.
Ring Announcer (uncredited)
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
Dithers' Employee (uncredited)
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Gus
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
Steve Calhoun
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
Agent Lyman
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
Lt. David Brent
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
Tom Kellogg
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
Angry conductor
Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
Student (uncredited)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Ferdinand the Bullfighter
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
Mart Duncan
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
Nelson
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Bart Davis
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
Hank
Un delincuente es detenido por presunto asesinato, pero es liberado poco después de una campaña periodística contra los métodos usados por la policía. Un agente sabe que es culpable, sin embargo, y continúa la investigación por su cuenta para tratar de descubrir la verdad.
Nelson (uncredited)
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Jackson
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
'Sugar' - Myras First Dance Partner (uncredited)
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Spectator at Accident (uncredited)
Cuando no puede salvar a su cliente de la silla eléctrica, un abogado de oficio ayuda a la hermana del hombre a limpiar los bajos fondos.