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With rodeo champions mysteriously dying just before important competitions, government agent Carmen Serano (Rita Hayworth) joins a gang of racketeers in hopes of uncovering the killers. She gets help from singing rodeo star Tex Masters (Tex Ritter), along with his harmonica-playing sidekick Lucky (Horace Murphy), who is looking for the gang that killed his brother. In the process they foil a bank robbery and stop a runaway carriage filled with dynamite.

On a ship bound from San Francisco to Shanghai, the Japanese sleuth becomes curious about some of the people on board, including the son of the owner of the shipping line, who falls in love with a mysterious woman who disappears when they arrive in Shanghai. Mr. Moto eventually uncovers the link between a mysterious letter, smuggling, and a murder back in San Francisco. Peter Lorre as Mr. Kentara Moto Virginia Field as Gloria Danton Thomas Beck as Bob Hitchings Sig Ruman as Nicolas Marloff Murray Kinnell as Joseph Wilkie John Rogers as Carson Lotus Long as Lela Liu George Cooper as Muggs Blake J. Carrol Naish as Adram

Escaping by plane from a war-torn city in China, a British diplomat and a small group of civilians crash land in the mountains of Tibet, where they are rescued by a group of monks who live in a mysterious, Eden-like valley called Shangri-la. It offers them a seductive escape from the outside world, where the clouds of World War II are gathering. Directed by Frank Capra. Based on the novel by James Hilton. Ronald Colman as Robert Conway Jane Wyatt as Sondra Edward Everett Horton as Lovett John Howard as George Conway Thomas Mitchell as Barnard Margo as Maria Isabel Jewell as Gloria H.B. Warner as Chang Sam Jaffe as the High Lama Hugh Buckler Lord Gainsford

Caught lurking at a crime scene, the Shadow is forced to pretend to be an attorney and help an aging millionaire re-write his will. When the old man is murdered, he tries to determine who did it and why. Rod La Rocque as Lamont Cranston Norman Ainsley as Hendricks Lynn Anders as Marcia Delthern James Blakeley as Jasper Delthern Walter McGrail as Winstead Comstock Bruce Kellogg as Humphrey Comstock Cy Kendall as Brossett Kenneth Harlan as Captain Breen Wilson Benge as Wellington John Carnivale as Warran Berranger

Adaptation of the Chester Gould comic strip in which a master criminal known as The Spider has the mind of the famous detective's brother altered so as to turn him against Dick. 15-chapter cliffhanger serial Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy Kay Hughes as Gwen Andrews Smiley Burnette as Mike McGurk Lee Van Atta as Junior John Picorri as Moloch Carleton Young as Gordon Tracy Fred Hamilton as Steve Lockwood Francis X. Bushman as Chief Clive Anderson

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to force him to help them commit robberies. Boris Karloff as David Mallory Warren Hull as Jim Travers Jean Rogers as Joan Mallory Alan Baxter as John Baron aka The Kid Hobart Cavanaugh as Petty Louie Samuel Hinds as Stephen Ranger David Oliver as Mike Callahan Ward Bond as Fingers

During the brutal French and Indian War, the famed scout Hawkeye (Randolph Scott) agrees to provide safe escort for an army commander's two daughters (Binnie Barnes & Heather Angel) and an army major (Henry Wilcoxon). Based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Directed by George B. Seitz Randolph Scott as Hawkeye Binnie Barnes as Alice Munro Henry Wilcoxon as Major Duncan Heyward Bruce Cabot as Magua Heather Angel as Cora Munro Phillip Reed as Uncas Robert Barrat as Chingachgook

G-Man Allan O'Connor (Conrad Nagel) is asked by the U.S. Immigration Service to track down the leaders of a human smuggling ring on the West Coast, who are operating under the guise of an independent motion picture company to bring Asians into the U.S. in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act. When O'Connor is met at the airport by reporter Bobbie Reynolds (Eleanor Hunt), who mistakes him for a New York actor in search of a movie job in Hollywood, he falls in with the idea so that he can meet some producers. Vince Barnett provides comedy relief as news photographer "Bulb" Callahan. Written and directed by Crane Wilbur. Originally titled "Yellow Cargo"

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

A scientist (Claude Rains) discovers the secret of invisibility, but in rendering himself invisible, he gradually becomes murderously insane, to the horror of his sweetheart (Gloria Stuart). Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man Gloria Stuart as Flora Cranley William Harrigan as Dr. Arthur Kemp Henry Travers as Dr. Cranley Una O'Connor as Jenny Hall Forrester Harvey as Herbert Hall Holmes Herbert as Chief of Police E.E. Clive as Constable Jaffers

sinister character (Conrad Veidt) boards the express train from Paris to Rome on the trail of a valuable Van Dyck painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train a hotbed of intrigue, populated with a motley assortment of passengers, including adulterous lovers, a annoyingly sociable golf fanatic (Gordon Harker), a French police inspector (Frank Vosper) and an American silent film star (Esther Ralston), any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks. (Remade in 1948 as "Sleeping Car to Trieste" with the scenario changed to a stolen diplomatic diary aboard the Orient Express.) Conrad Veidt as Zurta Esther Ralston as Asta Marvelle Harold Huth as George Grant Cedric Hardwicke as Alistair McBain Joan Barry as Mrs. Maxted Gordon Harker as Tom Bishop Donald Calthrop as Poole Hugh Williams as Tony Frank Vosper as M. Jolif Finlay Currie as Sam the Publicist Eliot Makeham as Mills Muriel Aked as Spinster

A man invites a woman to have her wedding at his Haitian plantation in order to lure her away from her fiancé, but things go wrong when he attempts to fake her death and bring her under his control by means of a zombie potion. Bela Lugosi as 'Murder' Legendre Madge Bellamy as Madeline Short Parker Joseph Cawthorn as Dr. Bruner Robert Frazer as Charles Beaumont John Harron as Neil Parker Brandon Hurst as Silver

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers an international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim's company. Boris Karloff as James Lee Wong Grant Withers as Police Captain Sam Street Maxine Jennings as Myra Ross Evelyn Brent as Olga Petroff George Lloyd as Devlin Lucien Prival as Anton Mohl John St. Polis as Carl Roemer William Gould as Theodore Meisle Hooper Atchley as Christian Wilk John Hamilton as Simon Dayton

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) Universal Pictures Chapter 10 "Incense of Forgetfulness" AI colorized and image enhanced, mostly by Iain Petrie. Flash, Dale, and Dr. Zarkov return from their former space adventures only to find that their enemy, Ming the Merciless of planet Mongo, has a new weapon: a deadly ray that crosses space to wreak havoc on earth. Earth's only hope is for our heroes to take off again and stop the ray at its source on Mars, where they (and a stowaway) must battle Ming's ally, Queen Azura, who turns her enemies into lumpish clay people. Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon Jean Rogers as Dale Arden Charles Middleton as Emperor Ming Frank Shannon as Dr. Alexis Zarkov Beatrice Roberts as Queen Azura Donald Kerr as Happy Hapgood Richard Alexander as Prince Barin

Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends naive real estate agent Renfield to his will so that he can move to London. He takes up residence at an estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. After turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina. But Mina's father calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration in Mina's health. Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula Helen Chandler as Mina Seward David Manners as John Harker Dwight Frye as Renfield Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing Herbert Bunston as Doctor Seward Frances Dade as Lucy Weston

Frankenstein 1931 colorized (Colin Clive, Boris Karloff) Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with re-animating the dead. He succeeds in assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses, creating a confused monster. Directed by James Whale Based on the book by Mary Shelley (in which Dr. Frankenstein is named Victor) Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein Mae Clarke as Elizabeth John Boles as Victor Moritz Boris Karloff as The Monster Edward Van Sloan as Doctor Waldman Frederick Kerr as Baron Frankenstein Dwight Frye as Fritz

A motley group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process. directed by John Ford cast: Claire Trevor as Dallas John Wayne as Ringo Kid Andy Devine as Buck John Carradine as Hatfield Thomas Mitchell as Doc Josiah Boone Louise Platt as Mrs. Lucy Mallory George Bancroft as Marshal Curley Wilcox Donald Meek as Samuel Peacock Berton Churchill as Ellsworth Henry Gatewood Tim Holt as Lt. Blanchard Tom Tyler as Luke Plummer

A Connecticut Yankee (1931) Fox Film Corporation (Twentieth Century Fox) Hank Morgan (Will Rogers) takes a trip back in time to King Arthur's Court. Based on the novel by Mark Twain. mildly colorized Will Rogers as Hank Martin William Farnum as King Arthur Frank Albertson as Emile le Poulet / Clarence Maureen O'Sullivan as Alisande Brandon Hurst as Merlin Myrna Loy as Queen Morgan le Fay Mitchell Harris as Sagramore

A bored WWI veteran gets a request for help from a young woman whose uncle is being held captive in a nursing home by villains trying to extort his fortune from him. Ronald Colman as Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond Claud Allister as Algy Lawrence Grant as Dr. Lakington Montagu Love as Peterson Wilson Benge as Danny Joan Bennett as Phyllis Lilyan Tashman as Irma Charles Sellon as Travers

Chicago's top newspaper reporter (Pat O'Brien) plans to move to New York to take a higher paying advertising job and marry his sweetheart (Mary Brian). But he can't resist going after the story when a high-profile prisoner (George E. Stone) escapes a scheduled hanging. The newspaper's editor (Adolphe Menjou) goes to extraordinary lengths to keep him working on getting the scoop. A wild melee ensues when the possibly-innocent escapee hides in the courthouse press room. Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Adolphe Menjou), and Best Director (Lewis Milestone)

Bar 20 cattle are being stolen by unknown rustlers. Casino owner Earl Brennan & rancher Dave Talbot (Stanley Ridges) are twin brothers who each provide an alibi while the other is out committing a crime. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) goes undercover as a gambler from the East, getting a job in the casino to learn more, but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him. With Russell Hayden and Gabby Hayes.

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters. Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt, Harry Davenport, Maude Eburne, Donald Kirke Edited for television.

Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) is leading an archaeological expedition through part of California, but some Chinese are tryig to stop it because they have a hidden settlement nearby. Outlaw Slade Salters (Douglas Fowley) and his gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. In an attack by Salters' men, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file a claim for the Chinese and heads after Salters in a chase to the land office. With Andy Clyde as California Carlson, Brad King as Johnny Nelson, and introducing Barbara Britton as Jennifer Kendall.

A distinguished English gentleman has led a secret life as the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". But when he meets a woman and falls in love, he decides to retire from that life. Then an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job. Ronald Colman as A.J. Raffles Kay Francis as Gwen David Torrence as Inspector McKenzie Frederick Kerr as Lord Harry Melrose Bramwell Fletcher as Bunny John Rogers as Crawshaw Wilson Benge as Barraclough Alison Skipworth as Lady Kitty Melrose

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to take back to Germany, even as the chaos of retreat descends upon his troops. But he French Resistance is determined to stop the train without damaging the cargo, and the station master devises an elaborate ruse to divert the train so that it never leaves French territory. directed by John Frankenheimer Burt Lancaster as Paul Labiche Paul Scofield as Colonel Franz Von Waldheim Jeanne Moreau as Christine Suzanne Flon as Mademoiselle Villard Michel Simon as Papa Boule Wolfgang Preiss as Major Herren Albert Rémy as Didont Charles Millot as Pesquet