Cast: Iris Adrian

Direction George Waggner

Cast Dick Foran · Leo Carrillo · Peggy Moran · Fuzzy Knight

Plot Down-on-his luck entrepreneur Bill Martin and sidekick Stuff Oliver try to stay one step in front of creditors in their seedy waterfront office when they meet "The Captain," an idiosyncratic...

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast Brian Aherne · Constance Bennett · Barry Sullivan · Michael O'Shea

Plot The last credited screenplay by Alvah Bessie, using his own name, as he was soon to become one of the Hollywood Ten. This one is a 1940s gender-clasher involving a...

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Richard Carlson · Jane Randolph · Jane Darwell · Barton MacLane

Plot Rich, nerdish Tommy Van Steel seldom leaves his home gadget workshop, but somehow has become engaged to socialite Ellen Cromwell, who treats him badly. Innocently becoming drunk, Tommy takes to...

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Rudy Vallee · Helen Parrish · Lon Chaney Jr. · Jerome Cowan

Plot A man whose girlfriend turned him down and married another man tries to break up their marriage.

Direction W. Lee Wilder

Cast Cesar Romero · June Havoc · Marie McDonald · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as...

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Don McGuire · Tracey Roberts · John Abbott · Eddie Quillan

Plot A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the...

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Kent Taylor · Margaret Lindsay · John Carradine · Dean Jagger

Plot A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Charles Ruggles · Peggy Ann Garner · Richard Ney · Alan Mowbray

Plot A businessman and his partner are about to go bankrupt when the partner gets an idea to sail away and somehow find the money they need. Meanwhile, the one left...

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Roland Winters · Keye Luke · Mantan Moreland · Noel Neill

Plot All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course,...

Direction Hal Walker

Cast Betty Hutton · Barry Fitzgerald · Don DeFore · Robert Benchley

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Eddie Albert · Patsy Kelly · Max Baer

Plot A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. His teammates try to get him to settle down with one woman so they can start winning...

Direction Arthur Dreifuss

Cast Chester Morris · Nina Foch · Steve Cochran · Richard Lane

Plot Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Direction Albert H. Kelley

Cast John Litel · Alan Baxter · Eric Blore · Georges Metaxa

Plot Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman...

Direction Marion Gering

Cast George Raft · Carole Lombard · Margo · Lynne Overman

Plot A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Robert Lowery · June Storey · Grant Withers · Clarence Kolb

Plot A young attorney cannot defend himself against accusations that he murdered his business partner, as he has no memory of the night it happened. A fraternity pin found at the...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Milton Berle · Virginia Mayo · Ruth Roman · Bert Lahr

Plot Kip Cooper, a successful comedy star and the hot of the nation starring on his own television show. His agent, in flashback, tells a young, inexperienced comedian how Cooper rose...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Joan Woodbury · Pat Gleason · George Pembroke

Plot A condemned murderer on the eve of his execution decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder. However, he's killed by a poison dart in front...

Direction Alexander Esway

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Gladys George · Ruth Terry · Robert Livingston

Plot A prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly...

Direction William Beaudine

Cast William Wright · Vivian Austin · Leon Belasco · Clara Blandick

Plot Playboy Larry Blendon (Damian O'Flynn) introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon (Clara Blandick) to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux (Ramsay Ames). Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia...

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Bing Crosby · Bob Hope · Dorothy Lamour · Una Merkel

Plot Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades, they've finally saved enough to return to the USA, when...