A young couple struggles to raise their adopted daughter, but a mysterious murder reveals the child’s unknown fortune and a greedy lawyer who is out to steal it. Read More »
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Lightnin’ Crandall (1937) Sam Newfield, Bob Steele, Lois January, Charles King, Romance, Western
Gunfighter Lightnin’ Crandall puts away his gun and heads west posing as a tenderfoot. But he quickly gets in the middle of a range war between the Shannon’s and Blaine. Read More »
Hold That Woman! (1940) Sam Newfield, James Dunn, Frances Gifford, George Douglas, Comedy, Crime, Romance
A skip tracer–someone who collects late payments from people who’ve purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don’t pay–repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who’s skipped payments. Read More »
Jungle Siren (1942) Sam Newfield, Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe, Evelyn Wahl, Adventure, Romance, War
A woman who was raised in the jungle helps a man fight Nazis who are trying to start a native uprising. Read More »
The Monster Maker (1944) Sam Newfield, J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed. Read More »
Shadows of Death (1945) Sam Newfield, Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Dona Dax, Western
With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent ot help his friend Fuzzy who is the town’s Sheriff, Judge, and barber. Read More »
White Pongo (1945) Sam Newfield, Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Adventure
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.
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Frontier Gambler (1956) Sam Newfield, John Bromfield, Coleen Gray, Kent Taylor, Western
A marshal investigating the death of a woman who owned a gambling house finds that he’s developing an attraction to the image of the dead woman, and then she shows up very much alive.
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Hi-Jacked (1950) Sam Newfield, Jim Davis, Marcia Mae Jones, Sid Melton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A truck driver stops on a rainy road at night to help a stranded motorist, but it turns out to be a ruse–he is attacked, knocked out and his truck stolen. Since he has a criminal record, the police immediately suspect he’s involved in the hijacking, and their suspicions are reinforced later when he is discovered–unknown to him–to be hauling stolen merchandise. He realizes he is being set up as a fall guy by the organization behind the truck hijackings, and he and a friend set out to determine who is trying to set him up, and why.
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