Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoriety by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities. Read More »
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Broadway Hostess (1935) Frank McDonald, Wini Shaw, Genevieve Tobin, Lyle Talbot
Winnie Wharton gets an audition to sing at the Intime nightclub at the urging of Ted “Lucky” Lorimer, and with Tommy Blake as her pianist, she becomes a big hit. Read More »
Midnight Court (1937) Frank McDonald, Ann Dvorak, John Litel, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Victor Shanley had once been New York City’s most-acclaimed crime-fighting, crusading District Attorney and the scourge of the underworld. Read More »
13 Lead Soldiers (1948) Frank McDonald, Tom Conway, Maria Palmer, Helen Westcott, Crime, Mystery
Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Read More »
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947) Frank McDonald, Ron Randell, Gloria Henry, Patrick O’Moore, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Treachery Rides the Range (1936) Frank McDonald, Dick Foran, Paula Stone, Craig Reynolds, Music, Western
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. Read More »
Yukon Gold (1952) Frank McDonald, William Beaudine, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Martha Hyer, Action, Adventure, Western
Corporal Rod Webb (Kirby Grant)of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police follows a murder trail deep into the Klondike. Read More »
Submarine Alert (1943) Frank McDonald, Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Thriller, War
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. Read More »
Boulder Dam (1936) Frank McDonald, Ross Alexander, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot, Action, Drama
“Rusty” Noonan, a hard-boiled, cynical, selfish smart-aleck, working as a mechanic in a Detroit garage Read More »
Under Fiesta Stars (1941) Frank McDonald, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Action, Adventure, Music
A mine owner dies and leaves half to Gene and half to easterner Barbara Erwin. Gene wants to continue operation of the mine as requested in the will but Barbara wants to sell and leave with her half of the money. Read More »
The Purple Gang (1959) Frank McDonald, Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards, Crime, Drama
A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard, teams with adult hijackers during prohibition and in three years controls the city’s underworld. Detective Bill Harley is given a special assignment to break the gang.
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Ringside (1949) Frank McDonald, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Tom Brown, Sheila Ryan, Drama, Romance, Sport
Joe O’Hara, a hard fighter, wants the championship title for the money to finance the concert pianist career of his brother Mike, who also could be a good fighter. When Joe fights the title bout someone tells his opponent, Tiger Johnson, that one of his eyes is bad and Johnson works on it until Joe loses the fight and his eyesight. Mike is enraged and starts training for the ring. He works himself up to the title bout with Tiger Johnson.
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Grand Ole Opry (1940) Frank McDonald, Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Comedy, Music
Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from ‘The Grand Ole Opry,” and the antics and help of his family and the local citizens, manages to pass a legislative bill to help the farmers, and also wins the election for state government from a group of crooked politicians.
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Her Husband’s Secretary (1937) Frank McDonald, Jean Muir, Beverly Roberts, Warren Hull, Drama
Carol likes her boss, but does not get involved with him as so many other secretaries would. She instead falls for a poor riveter and leaves to be married. She soon finds that the poor riveter is the son of Dan Kingdon and is loaded. When she gets her pretty ex-roommate a job as Bart’s secretary, she now has to stand by her convictions as she “trusts” Diane. Aunt Agatha does not and tells Carol that she is foolish.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936) Frank McDonald, Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge, Mystery
Crotchety hospital administrator Peter Melady, self-proclaimed developer of a new wonder anaesthetic, is about to undergo a delicate operation to be performed by the glib Dr. Leo Harrigan, Melady’s longtime mutual adversary. Police are called when the murdered body of Harrigan is found in an elevator, and Melady, last seen being wheeled on a gurney to surgery by Harrigan, has disappeared.
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