Al Baffert

Al Graham runs a trucking business in Alaska, America’s final frontier which confronts him with washed out bridges, female hitchhikers and mayhem concerning his partner Gerard Mason and his scheming wife.

Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.

전직 스포츠 전문 기자 에디 윌리스가 권투 기획자 닉 벤코와 일을 하게 된다. 에디는 닉이 아르헨티나에서 스카우트한 토로 모레노의 홍보를 전담한다. 덩치만 큰 토로는 아직 경기 기술이 부족했지만 닉은 모든 수단을 동원해 토로를 스타로 만들기로 한다. 에디는 닉의 계획이 못마땅했지만 돈 때문에 거절하지도 못한다. 조작된 승부 속에서 토로가 명성을 쌓아 가던 중 토로와 경기를 하던 챔피언 던디가 경기 도중 쓰려져 사망하고 만다. 토로는 사람을 죽였다는 죄책감에 절망에 빠지고, 그런 토로를 지켜보는 에디의 마음도 편하지 않다. 비정한 권투 세계를 배경으로 한 누아르. 카리스마 넘치는 연기로 누아르 영화에서 크게 활약했던 험프리 보가트의 마지막 작품으로, 그는 1956년 초에 암 선고를 받았다.

The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers.

Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.

Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.