Lady Against the Odds (1992)

Actors: Daniel T. Cahn (editor), Sean Whalen (actor), Bradford May (director), Dan Castellaneta (actor), Annabeth Gish (actress), Polly Bergen (actress), Joel McNeely (composer), John Finn (actor), Ron Talsky (costume designer), Kevin Kilner (actor), Roy Thinnes (actor), Ken Abraham (actor), BarBara Luna (actress), Crystal Bernard (actress), Rob Estes (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

The Sacketts (1979)

Actors: Tom Selleck (actor), Gene Evans (actor), Gilbert Roland (actor), Lee de Broux (actor), Paul Koslo (actor), L.Q. Jones (actor), Slim Pickens (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), Shug Fisher (actor), Glenn Ford (actor), James Gammon (actor), Jack Elam (actor), Sam Elliott (actor), Ben Johnson (actor), Buck Taylor (actor),

Plot: Two part TV adaptation of Louis L'Amour's third novel in the Sackett series. The story follows the three Sackett brothers out west from their Tennessee home. Along the way the oldest, Tell, prospects for gold, while the two younger Orin and Tye herd cattle and later help bring order to a racially divided Santa Fe.

Keywords: 1860s, abilene-kansas, based-on-book, based-on-novel, brother-brother-relationship, buggy, card-playing, card-shark, cattle, cattle-drive
Genres: Western,

Backtrack! (1969)

Actors: Hal Baylor (actor), Neville Brand (actor), Peter Brown (actor), Philip Carey (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), L.Q. Jones (actor), Doug McClure (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), William Smith (actor), Rhonda Fleming (actress), Ida Lupino (actress), Fernando Lamas (actor), Borden Chase (writer), Earl Bellamy (director),

Plot: Trampas, a cowhand from Medicine Bow, Wyoming, is sent to Mexico to buy a bull for his employer. The ranch foreman warns him to watch out for himself in Laredo, a tough town on the Texas/Mexican border. Despite the warning, in a western version of the Dumas classic, "The Three Musketeers", Trampas manages to get himself engaged to fight three separate Texas Rangers within an hour of his arrival. Unlike D'Artagnan, he has no notion of actually fighting the Rangers: all he wants is out of Laredo. He's on his way out of town when he runs into the three Rangers--who turn out to be partners--on their way to track down a missing train carrying a payroll. The Rangers, learning Trampas is headed in the same direction they are, suggest they all ride together--that way, they can fight him after they have fulfilled their mission. Without much choice, Trampas wryly agrees. When they find the train, however, they quickly forget their quarrels--the train was robbed and everyone aboard killed, except for one infant covered by his mother's body. Concerned the baby won't survive long without care, they proceed across the Rio Grande to the nearest town, where they know of a cantina owner with innumerable children. They get the baby to Mama Dolores, but not without run-ins with Mexican Urales and marauding Yaquis. Somewhere along the way, the Rangers begin to suspect it was the Yaquis who robbed the train--but Yaquis don't rob trains and they have no use for money...and where did they get those fancy new rifles?

Keywords: edited-from-tv-series, yaqui-indian
Genres: Drama, Romance, Western,
Taglines: Gunfighting Was Their Business They Lived, Loved, and Battled Across the Face of Texas

Hell's Outpost (1954)

Actors: Harry Woods (actor), Chill Wills (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), John Russell (actor), Arthur Q. Bryan (actor), John Dierkes (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor), Edward Clark (actor), Taylor Holmes (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Barton MacLane (actor), Ruth Lee (actress),

Genres: Action, Crime,
Taglines: IT'S DYNAMITE! (original ad - all caps) EXPLOSIVE ACTION...as two desperate men struggle atop tons of TNT! He'd blast his way through mountains to get what he wanted...and he wanted her! From the Novel SILVER ROCK by LUKE SHORT (original ad - several caps) IT WAS NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN! (original ad - all caps)

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)

Actors: Gabriel Dell (miscellaneous crew), Joe Besser (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Curt Bois (actor), Donald MacBride (actor), Knox Manning (actor), Don McGuire (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Ray Walker (actor), Pamela Blake (actress), Lillian Bronson (actress), Bernard W. Burton (producer), Hal E. Chester (producer), Jean Yarbrough (director), Otho Lovering (editor),

Plot: Joe Palooka and Anne Howe go to Harrow Hot Springs to spend their honeymoon and shortly after they arrive, Humphrey Pennyworth, good-natured, small-town blacksmith, who has repaired their car, arrives and explains that he always guarantees his work for 30 days and wants to be on hand to ensure the motor works okay. Before long, Joe is matched in a benefit bout with Johnson, but the latter is replaced by Humphrey after being kayoed by him after he insulted Joe. Johnson's manager, Belden, quickly tries to arrange to manage Humphrey, but Joe's manager Knobby Walsh realizes that Humphrey's amazing super strength is a menace to Joe's career, so he poses as English fight manager Lord Cecil Poole and takes over the management of Humphrey. Belden has a couple of his henchmen kidnap Poole/Walsh.

Keywords: arkansas, automobile, b-movie, based-on-comic, benefit, blacksmith, boxing, boxing-gloves, bride, brother-sister-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Sport,
Taglines: THE CHAMP And The CHUMP! It's TONS Of FUN! Meet Humphrey... The King-Sized Cut-Up of the Comic Strips!

Mary Ryan, Detective (1949)

Actors: Paul Bradley (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), John Dehner (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), John Litel (actor), Jimmy Lloyd (actor), James Nolan (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor),

Plot: Police detective Mary Ryan is given an assignment to break up a gang of jewel thieves and fences. She, using an alias as a convict, is placed in the cell with a suspected member of the gang. Upon release she becomes a gang member but the gang leader is suspicious of her.

Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alias, archive-footage, b-movie, big-city, butler, cell-mate, character-name-in-title, cigar-smoking
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama,

SOS Coast Guard (1937)

Actors: Frank Ellis (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Thomas Carr (actor), Frank Fanning (actor),

Plot: A 12-episode serial. The government of Marovania hires the wicked Boroff to manufacture a powerful gas that causes mass disintegration. Boroff is en route to Marovania with a boatload of arnatite to make the gas when his steamer runs aground off the California coast. Boroff soon commits a murder. The Coast Guard, led by Lt. Terry Kent, must hunt Boroff, figure out his plan and where the arnatite is, capture and dispose of any gas Boroff manages to make, and protect the safety of civilians, including Terry's special friend, ubiquitous reporter Jean Norman, and her chatty photographer, Snapper McGee. Aiding Boroff is his slave Thorg, a formidable giant. Kent must often use his fists.

Keywords: acid, action-hero, air-pocket, airplane, ambulance, ambulance-driver, antidote, b-movie, beard, brother
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: ADVENTURE....THAT SWEEPS THE SEA! ROMANCE...THAT SWEEPS THE HEART! SUPER THRILLS! SEE disastrous shipwrecks...a mastodon of crime...the atom destroyer at work...a fight for life a mile in the air! SEE the undersea battle...behind the scenes with the G-Men...the exploding ring of death...and a thousand more sights! (original poster) ACE HERO VS. KING OF CRIME! BIGGEST MAN-HUNT IN HISTORY! The daredevil of "Dick Tracy" pitted against the screen's horror man! (original poster) A UNITED STATES HERO CHALLENGES THE KING OF CRIME..IT'S THE BIGGEST MAN-HUNT IN HISTORY! (original poster) on land...on sea...and in the air...SEE THE BIGGEST MAN-HUNT IN HISTORY! Who can save the world from the diabolical scheming of a madman! (original poster) A PRE-VIEW OF THE STARTLING PARADE OF NEVER-ENDING THRILLS IN STORE FOR YOU! (original poster) THE HERO OF "DICK TRACY" PITTED AGAINST THE SCREEN'S "HORROR MAN"! 12 episodes of unforgettable thrills! (original print ad)

Quotes:

Lt. Terry Kent: You might as well surrender, Boroff. You can't get away from the Coast Guard.

The Lawless Nineties (1936)

Actors: Chris Allen (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Henry Hall (actor), James Harrison (actor), George 'Gabby' Hayes (actor),

Plot: Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.

Keywords: barricade, dynamite, evil-man, murder, newspaper, spittoon, statehood, telegraph, wagon-train, wiretapping
Genres: Western,

Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)

Actors: Keye Luke (actor), Tony Merlo (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Jon Hall (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Russell Hopton (actor), Gladden James (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Eddie Lee (actor), James B. Leong (actor), Torben Meyer (actor),

Plot: On his return to China, Charlie is honored at a Shanghai banquet for his many accomplishments. Prior to his speech Sir Stanley Woodland, a prominent official in the colony, confides to Charlie that he has discovered some sinister activities and wants to share the information with the detective as soon as they are alone. When Sir Stanley is silenced by a booby-trapped box, Charlie seeks to discover the undivulged secret as well as the killer. Along with Col. Watkins, the police commissioner, and G-Man James Andrews, Charlie works to expose an international opium-smuggling ring operating out of Shanghai. With the help of son Lee, he survives a kidnapping and murder attempt while exposing the identity of the head of the drug ring.

Keywords: asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-stereotype, banquet, booby-trap, character-name-in-title, cruise-ship, exotic-dancer, father-son-relationship, fingerprint
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: AND NOW YOU SEE HIM IN CHINA! (original print ad - all caps)

Quotes:

Charlie Chan: Holiday mood like fickle girl - privileged to change mind.

Ship's officer: [seeing Charlie on the deck playing leap-frog with a bevy of little kids] They seem to have you down, Mr. Chan.::Charlie Chan: Sixty summers young, sixty winters old.

Sir Stanley Woodland: I made an important discovery this afternoon. That's what prevented me from meeting you. We can get together after this is over.::Charlie Chan: [softly] Two ears for every tongue.

Colonel Watkins, police commissioner: Sir Stanley had so many friends, but few enemies.::Charlie Chan: Only *one* enemy necessary to commit *murder*.

Charlie Chan: Motive like end of string - tied to many knots. End may be in sight but hard to unravel.

Lee Chan: Hi, Pop!::Charlie Chan: [softly] Hi. [embracing Lee] Joy equals astonishment at seeing offspring in Shanghai.

Charlie Chan: [seeing that Lee has no money to pay the cab driver] Pocket book, of course, left in other suit?::Lee Chan: Believe it or not!::Charlie Chan: Eh! Old excuse like ancient billy goat - has whiskers.

Charlie Chan: [looking at photo of his children] Distance no hindrance to fond thoughts.::Lee Chan: [from other bedroom] Good night, Pop.::Charlie Chan: Good night. Do not forget your prayers. May need 'em.

Charlie Chan: Cold omelet like fish out of sea - does *not* improve with *age*.

Charlie Chan: [to Lee] Let capture be good lesson of virtue of silence.