Joey (1982)

Actors: Brian Downey (actor), Brian Downey (actor), Brian Downey (actor), Brian Downey (actor), Brian Downey (actor), David Fox (actor), David Fox (actor), David Fox (actor), David Fox (actor), David Fox (actor), David Fox (actor), David Fox (actor), Rick Hollett (actor), Kevin Noble (actor), Brian Downey (actor),

Up in Arms (1944)

Actors: Fred Aldrich (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Sig Arno (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Al Benault (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Peter Chong (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), James Conaty (actor), Maryon Adair (actor),

Plot: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.

Riders of Death Valley (1941)

Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), James Blaine (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Frank Brownlee (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Leo Carrillo (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),

Plot: Promoted and advertised as "The Million Dollar Serial", most of which appears to have been spent on advertising and the most elaborate pressbook ever put out by Universal on a serial (or 95% of their feature films for that matter), Universal's 51st sound-era serial (following "Sky Raiders" and before "Sea Raiders" and, to quote the late Oliver Drake who wrote the original story,..."we were lucky they didn't call it 'Land Raiders'), "Riders of Death Valley" remains a favorite for the 7-12 year-old kids who saw in on original release in 1941, and a major disappointment for those who came later and never saw it in the 35mm version shown on a screen in a 350-seat grind-house theatre, and now question what all the excitement was about. Hey, you had to have been there. Actually, it is just one long prolonged chase after another for the most part and, even worse, it is usually the 5-6 good guys running from 2-3 of the bad guys (which even had eight-year-old kids of 1941 wondering what's up with this?) and has lots of stock-footage cliffhangers from earlier Universal western serials and features. The plot has Jim Benton (Dick Foran) as the head of a vigilante group, known as the Riders of Death Valley, organized to protect the miners from the take-over plots hatched by Joseph Kirby (James Blaine) and Rance Davis (Monte Blue.) They hire Wolf Reade (Charles Bickford) and his motley crew to do their dirty work, and spend most of their time lamenting their choice of sub-contractee as Reade deals his employees as much misery as he does the "Riders" and miners. Benton's "Riders" are Tombstone (Buck Jones), Pancho (Leo Carrillo), Smokey (Noah Beery, Jr, who is a no-show in most episodes), Borax Bill (Big Boy Williams) and Tex (Glenn Strange.) Always worth watching just for Foran, Jones, Carillo, and Jeanne Kelly (Jean Brooks), and especially if one flash forwards the chase scenes, which will serve to basically make a seven chapter offering out of the original 15.

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Washington Melodrama (1941)

Actors: Frederick Burton (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Dan Dailey (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Dick French (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor), James Millican (actor), Frank Morgan (actor), George Noisom (actor), Bert Roach (actor), Lee Bowman (actor),

The Argyle Case (1929)

Actors: John Darrow (actor), Douglas Gerrard (actor), Lew Harvey (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Thomas Meighan (actor), James Quinn (actor), Bert Roach (actor), H.B. Warner (actor), Gladys Brockwell (actress), Lila Lee (actress), Alona Marlowe (actress), Zasu Pitts (actress), De Leon Anthony (writer), William J. Burns (writer), Harriet Ford (writer),

13 Washington Square (1928)

Actors: Jerry Gamble (actor), Jean Hersholt (actor), George J. Lewis (actor), Jack McDonald (actor), Helen Jerome Eddy (actress), Helen Foster (actress), Julia Swayne Gordon (actress), Alice Joyce (actress), Zasu Pitts (actress), Walter Anthony (writer), Harry O. Hoyt (writer), Harry O. Hoyt (writer), Leroy Scott (writer), Melville W. Brown (director), Ray Curtiss (editor),

His First Flame (1927)

Actors: Irving Bacon (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Christian J. Frank (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Harry Langdon (actor), William McCall (actor), Margaret Cloud (actress), Dot Farley (actress), Evelyn Francisco (actress), Ruth Hiatt (actress), Thelma Hill (actress), Natalie Kingston (actress), Thelma Parr (actress), Elsie Tarron (actress), Mack Sennett (producer),

Plot: Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.

Ranger Dave Morgan (1920)

Actors: Jack Carlyle (actor), J.B. Warner (actor), Magda Lane (actress), George W. Pyper (writer), Martin Murphy (director),

The Call of the Sea (1915)

Actors: Richardson Cotton (actor), Alfred Gronell (actor), Tommy Harper (actor), Herbert Heywood (actor), Darwin Karr (actor), Howard Lang (actor), Betty Brown (actress), Joseph Anthony Roach (writer), Joseph Byron Totten (director),

Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913)

Actors: Robert Lawrence (actor), Jack Regan (actor), Robert Vaughn (actor), Gladys Egan (actress), Violet Horner (actress), Marie Trado (actress), William Steiner (producer), Timothy Shay Arthur (writer), Lee Beggs (writer), Lee Beggs (director),