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People Are Funny (January 11, 1946)  

Released on January 11, 1946: A fictionalized story of how the famous "People Are Funny" radio show was created, using audience members as the stars of the show.
Directed by Sam White
Written by David Lang, Maxwell Shane, Dorcas Cochran and John Guedel.
The Actors: Jack Haley (Pinky Wilson), Helen Walker (Corey Sullivan), Rudy Vallee (Ormsby Jamison), Ozzie Nelson (Leroy Brinker), Phillip Reed (John Guedel), Bob Graham (Luke), Roy Atwell (Mr. Pippensigal), Barbara Roche (Aimee), Clara Blandick (Grandma Wilson), Art Linkletter (himeself, Art Linkletter), Frances Langford (herself, guest), William 'Billy' Benedict (NBC usher), Ann Jenkins (boogie woogie piano player), The Vagabonds (musicians), Wheaton Chambers (program participant), Joe DeRita (Mr. Hinkley), Casey Johnson (contestant), Lillian Molieri (Hey Jose singer), Byron Foulger (Mr. Button, Rudy Vallee's assistant).
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Dynamite (January 18, 1949)  

Released January 18, 1949: An explosive story about the men who play with dynamite, danger, death and pretty women.
Directed by William H. Pine
​Written by Milton Raison.
The Actors: William Gargan (Gunner Peterson), Virginia Welles (Mary), Richard Crane(Johnny Brown), Irving Bacon (Jake), Mary Newton (Nellie Brown), Frank Ferguson ('Hard Rock' Mason), Douglass Dumbrille (Hank Gibbons), Phil Arnold (photographer), Paul Bryar(Christmas party guest), Lane Chandler (aggressive motorist), Bill Kennedy (construction worker), Ralph Montgomery (Christmas party guest), Keith Richards (Danbury), Jason Robards Sr. (quarry superintendant Hook), Lee Roberts (Christmas party guest), Almira Sessions (Jennie), Dan White (Skipper Brown).
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Midnight Manhunt (July 27, 1945)  

Released on July 27, 1945: A girl reporter finds the body of a long-missing gangster on the stairs to her apartment and hides him in a wax museum until she can write the story, but the body keeps disappearing.
Produced by William C. Thomas and William H. Pine
Directed by William C. Thomas
Written by David Lang
The Actors: William Gargan (Pete Willis), Ann Savage (Sue Gallagher, reporter), Leo Gorcey (Clutch Tracy), George Zucco (Jelke), Paul Hurst (Policeman Murphy), Don Beddoe (Detective Leutenant Max Hurley), Charles Halton (Henry Miggs), George E. Stone (Joe Wells), Robert Barron (cop with Hurley), Edgar Dearing (Police desk Sergeant), Mike Donovan (the court warden), Pat Gleason (the Police Dispatcher), Paul Harvey (Mr. McAndrews, the night editor), and Ben Welden (the hotel manager)
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No Hands on the Clock 1941 

​Released on December 1, 1941: A private detective on his honeymoon in Reno Nevada gets mixed up with three beautiful women and murder.
Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Maxwell Shane from a novel by Daniel Mainwaring
The Actors: Chester Morris (Detective Humphrey Campbell), Jean Parker (Mrs. Louise Campbell), Rose Hobart (Mrs. Marion West), Dick Purcell (Red Harris), Astrid Allwyn (Gypsy Toland), Rod Cameron (Tom Reed, Benedict's ranch foreman), Lorin Raker (Clyde Copley, Reno private detective), Billie Seward (Rose Madden), George Watts (Oscar Flack), James Kirkwood (Warren Benedict), Robert Middlemass (Police Chief Bates), Ralph Sanford (Officer Gimble), Grant Withers (Harry Belding, West's ranch foreman), Ralph Dunn (policeman), Edward Earle (passerby below the clock), John Gallaudet (henchman Alex), Gertrude Hoffman (passerby below the clock), Eddie Kane (nightclub owner Halloran), Keye Luke (houseboy Severino), Jack Norton (bartender), Milburn Stone (FBI Agent), Pat West (henchman Marty), George J. Lewis (Dave Paulson, casino pianist)
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Alaska Highway (June 24, 1943)

Released June 24, 1943: Two brothers (Richard Arlen, Bill Henry) woo the same girl (Jean Parker) while blazing a tundra trail for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Richard Arlen as Woody Ormsby, Jean Parker as Ann Coswell, Ralph Sanford as Frosty Gimble, William Henry as Steve Ormsby, Joe Sawyer as Roughhouse, Eddie Quillan as Pompadour "Shorty" Jones, Jack Wegman as Sergeant Swithers, Harry Shannon as John "Pop" Ormsby, Edward Earle as Blair Caswell, Keith Richards as Hank Lincoln
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Wrecking Crew (November 7, 1942)

​Released on November 7, 1942: A wrecking crew worker seems to be jinxed and everyone around him is hurt or dies, until he meets his lucky charm.
Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Robert T. Shannon, Mauri Grashin, Maxwell Shane and Richard Murphy
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Matt Carney), Chester Morris (Duke Mason), Jean Parker (Peggy Starr), Joe Sawyer (Fred Bunce), Esther Dale (Mike O'Glendy), Alexander Granach (Joe Poska), Evelyn Brent (Martha Poska), Billy Nelson (Tom Kemp), William Hall (Red), Frank Melton (Pete), Fred Sherman (Emil), Alec Craig (Charlie), Nigel De Brulier (Father Zabinsky), Byron Foulger (mission worker), Ralph Dunn (bartender), Dick Elliott (traveling salesman), Jody Gilbert (Henrietta, Duke's blind date), Ralph Sanford (traffic cop)
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Wildcat (September 3, 1942)  

Released on September 3, 1942: Johnny Maverick, an oil wildcatter will do whatever it takes to bring in the first well in Antril Bend, a wild town in oil country, filled with adventurous men and designing women.
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by North Bigbee , Richard Murphy and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Johnny Maverick), Arline Judge (Nan Deering), William Frawley (Oliver Westbrook), Buster Crabbe (Mike Rawlins), Arthur Hunnicutt (Watchfob Jones), Elisha Cook Jr. (Harold 'Chicopee' Nevins), Ralph Sanford (Grits O'Malley), Alec Craig (Joseph D. Campbell), John Dilson (Gus Sloane), Will Wright (John 'Paw' Smithers), Jessica Newcombe (Martha 'Maw' Smithers), Willy 'Billy' Benedict (Bud Smithers), Dick Elliott (Harris, the man with Nan), Johnny Fisher (Cully, oil worker), Sam Flint (banker Giles), William Hall (Eben, bar brawler), Edward Keane (oil investor), Tom Kennedy (Fred, bartender), Billy Nelson (Peters), Cy Schindell (bar brawler), Fred-Sherman (Culley), Pierre Watkin (banker).
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Gambler's Choice (April 27, 1944)

Released on April 27, 1944: Two boys and a little girl grow up in trouble, one boy becomes a cop, one boy becomes a gambler, and the girl is loved by both.
Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Howard Emmett Rogers, James Edward Grant, Maxwell Shane and Irving Reis
The Actors: Chester Morris (Ross Hadley), Nancy Kelly (Mary Rogers and Vi Parker), Russell Hayden (Mike McGlennon), Lee Patrick (Fay Lawrence), Lloyd Corrigan (Ulysses S. Rogers), Sheldon Leonard (Chappie Wilson), Lyle Talbot (Yellow Gloves Weldon), Maxine Lewis (Bonnie D'Arcy), Tom Dugan (Benny), Charles Arnt (Alderman ‘Honest’ John McGrady), Billy Nelson (Danny May), Boots Brown (boy), Bob Burns (court policeman), Jimmy Conlin (Nicky), Joseph Crehan (Toby, bartender), Dick Curtis (Ross' father), Joe Devlin ('Studs' Franco), Dick Elliott (barber), Jim Farley (politician), Sammy Finn (henchman), Sam Flint (family court judge), Byron Foulger (phony robbery victim), Jack Gardner (croupier), Eddie Hall (court stenographer), George Humbert (street vendor), Jack Mulhall (barber customer), Milton Parsons (henchman), Bert Roach (Bob), Dewey Robinson (gambler), Virginia Sale (Mary's aunt), Syd Saylor (husband at police court), Milburn Stone (doctor), Ralph Dunn (Police Sergeant Lonergan), Jack Gordon (passerby), Thomas E. Jackson (Police Sergeant), Michael Jeffers (bar patron), Dick Johnstone (man in voting line), Wilbur Mack (casino patron), Frank Marlowe (Chappie's friend), Thomas Martin (club customer), Pat McKee (man in voting line), Robert Middlemass (Thomas J. Dennis), Al Murphy (waiter), William Pawley (Monk Gibson), Lee Phelps (policeman), Cosmo Sardo (roulette croupier), Ted Stanhope (Chappie's friend), Hal Taggart (club patron), Pat West (Eddie)
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Adventure Island 1947 

Released on August 13, 1947: Three Men and a woman are stranded on an uncharted South Seas Island that is home to a mad maniac who thinks he is God.
Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
Directed by Sam Newfield
Written by Robert Lewis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne with screenplay by Maxwell Shane
The Actors: Rory Calhoun (Mr. Herrick), Rhonda Fleming (Faith Wishart), Paul Kelly (Captain Donald Lochlin), John Abbott (Huish), Alan Napier (Attwater), Douglas Spencer (prisoner), Iris Bynam (Bathsheba), Val Carlo (Joseph), Delmar Costello (Sally Day), Gerardo Sei Groves (a Kanaka), Mailoa Kalili (a Kanaka), Bob Lugo (native guard), Joe Medina (a Kanaka), George Piltz (a Kanaka), Julian Rivero (Uncle Ned), Tony Urchel (native guard), Lilo Yarson (David)
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One Body Too Many (October, 1944)  

Released in October, 1944: When a wealthy old man dies suddenly, all of the heirs gathered at his mansion waiting for their inheritance must survive the night to receive their money, with Bela Lugosi as the butler.
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Winston Miller and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Jack Haley (Albert L. Tuttle), Jean Parker (Carol Dunlap), Bela Lugosi (Merkil), Blanche Yurka (Matthews), Lyle Talbot (Jim Davis), Douglas Fowley (Henry Rutherford), Fay Helm (Estelle Hopkins), Bernard Nedell (Attorney Morton Gellman), Lucien Littlefield (Kenneth Hopkins), Dorothy Granger (Mona Rutherford), Maxine Fife (Margaret Hopkins), William Edmunds (Professor Hilton), Lyle Latell (manager of Atlas Detective Agency), Ralph Peters (insurance agent), Bob Reeves (unknown).
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Forced Landing (July 11, 1941)  

Released on July 11, 1941: A pilot flying on a South Pacific Island falls for the girlfriend of the local Colonel who sends him on a suicide mission.
Directed by Gordon Wiles
Written by Edward Churchill and Maxwell Shane
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Dan Kendall), Eva Gabor (Johanna Van Deuren), J. Carrol Naish (Andros Banshek), Nils Asther (Colonel Jan Golas), Evelyn Brent (brunet who turns in Andros), Mikhail Rasumny (Christmas), Victor Varconi (Hendrick Van Deuren), John Miljan (the General), Frank Yaconelli (Zomar the grocer), Harold Goodwin (Petchnikoff the Russian pilot), Thornton Edwards (Felig, rebel Lieutenant), Bobby Dillon (Nando Banshek), John Gallaudet (Major Xanders), Harry Worth (Doctor Vidalek), Gino Corrado (Cousin Easter), Charles Stevens (native)
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Fear in the Night (April 18, 1947)

Released on April 18, 1947: Can a man MURDER in a dream? Here is the spine-tingling, blood-freezing answer . . . different from any mystery you've ever seen! You'll also see DeForest Kelley (the doctor in the original Star Trek) in his movie debut.
Directed by Maxwell Shane
Written by Maxwell Shane, from a story by Cornell Woolrich.
The Actors: Paul Kelly (Cliff Herlihy), DeForest Kelley (Vince Grayson), Ann Doran (Lil Herlihy), Kay Scott (Betty Winters), Charles Victor (Captain Warner), Robert Emmett Keane (Lewis Belknap), Jeff York (Deputy Torrence), Loyette Thomson (waitress), Gladys Blake (bank clerk), Jack Collins (man), Leander De Cordova (man), Chris Drake (elevator operator), Stanley Farrar (bank patron), Julia Faye (rental home owner), John Harmon (Clyde Bilyou), Michael Harvey (Bob Clune), Stuart Holmes (man with packages in elevator), Richard Keene (Mr. Kern), Janet Warren (Mrs. Dorothy Belknap).
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Dark Mountain (September, 1944)  

Released in September, 1944: A black market gangster and his wife hide out in an old cabin on Dark Mountain in this noir murder thriller.
Directed by William Berke
Written by Paul Franklin , Charles F. Royal and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Robert Lowery (Don Bradley), Ellen Drew (Kay Downey), Regis Toomey (Steve Downey), Eddie Quillan (Willie Dinsmire), Elisha Cook Jr. (Whitey), Ralph Dunn (Chief Sanford), Walter Baldwin (Uncle Sam Bates), Rose Plumer (Aunt Pattie Bates), Virginia Sale (Aletha Bates), Byron Foulger (Harvey Bates), Johnny Fisher (henchman Hunk), Alex Callam (Detective Dave Lewis), Eddie Kane (waiter), Angelo Desfis (bookkeeper), Lee Phelps (police dispatcher in the montage), Kay Garrett (waiter).
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Flying Blind 1941

A foreign spy (Nils Asther) makes trouble for a pilot (Richard Arlen) who flies honeymooners to Las Vegas.
Directed by    Frank McDonald
Produced by    William H. Pine (producer)
John W. Rogers (associate producer)
William C. Thomas (producer)
Written by    Maxwell Shane (original screenplay)
Richard Murphy (original screenplay)
The film stars Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Marie Wilson, Roger Pryor, Eddie Quillan and Dick Purcell.
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Double Exposure (December 18, 1944)  

Released on December 18, 1944: A lady photographer helps her editor solve a murder in the process of wooing him in New York City, where half the girls are working girls, and the other half are working men.
Directed by William Berke
Written by Ralph Graves, Winston Miller and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Chester Morris (Larry Burke), Nancy Kelly (Pat Marvin), Jane Farrar (Dolores Tucker), Phillip Terry (Ben Scribner), Richard Gaines (James R. Tarlock), Charles Arnt (Sonny Tucker), Claire Rochelle (Smitty), Roma Aldrich (Mavis), Edward Earle (District Attorney Merkle), Kit Guard (Butch, cab driver), Eddie Hall (newspaper photographer), Dewey Robinson (Mac).
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Dangerous Passage (December 18, 1944)  

Released on December 18, 1944: Joe Beck books passage on a ship going from Hondouras to the U.S. to claim an inheritance, but he discovers that more than one person doesn't want him to arrive alive.
Directed by William Berke
Written by Daniel Mainwaring
The Actors: Robert Lowery (Joe Beck), Phyllis Brooks (Nita Paxton), Charles Arnt (Daniel Bergstrom), Jack La Rue (Mike Zomano), John Eldredge (Vaughn), Victor Kilian (Buck Harris the First Mate), Alec Craig (Dawson the Steward), William Edmunds (Captain Saul), Al Hill (crewman), Will Wright (postal clerk).
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​High Powered (February 1945)  

Released in February 1945: A boilermaker who survived a fall from his high working area is afraid to climb again and is helped by a spunky gal who helps him find the courage to climb.
Produced by William H. Pine
Directed by William Berke
Written by Milton Raison and Maxwell Shane
The Actors: Robert Lowery (Tim Scott), Phyllis Brooks (Marian Blair), Mary Treen (Cassie McQuade), Joe Sawyer (Spike Kenny), Roger Pryor (Rod Farrell), Ralph Sanford (the Sheriff), Billy Nelson (Bill Madden), Edward Gargan (Cal Williams), Vince Barnett (worker at dance), Ernie Adams (Joe, worker at dance), Lane Chandler (worker at dance), Clancy Cooper (plant boss), Victor Cox (worker at dance), Wade Crosby (worker at dance), Dick Curtis (worker), Jack Gordon (worker at dance), Ray Jones (worker at dance), Lyle Latell (worker at dance), George Lynn (Joe Jackson), Al Murphy (bartender), Ralph Peters (worker), Dewey Robinson (worker at dance), Robert Robinson (worker at dance), Jack Roper (worker), Charles Sullivan (worker at dance), Forrest Taylor (dance host), Will Wright (Jeff Hines)
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I Live on Danger (June 16, 1942)

Released on June 16, 1942: A hot-shot radio reporter helps the sister of an accused killer prove his innocence.
Directed by Sam White
Written by Lewis R. Foster, Alex Gottlieb, Richard Murphy and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Chester Morris (Jeff Morrell), Jean Parker (Susan Richards), Elisabeth Risdon (Mrs. Morrell), Edward Norris (Eddie Nelson), Dick Purcell (Norm Thompson), Roger Pryor (Bert Jannings), Douglas Fowley (Joey Farr), Ralph Sanford (Angie Moss), Edwin Maxwell (Wingy Keefe), Patsy Nash (Dilly), Joe Cunningham (Inspector Conlon), Bernadene Hayes (Jonesy), Billy Nelson (George 'Longshot' Harrison), Vickie Lester (Keef's secretary), William Bakewell (Mac), Charlotte Henry (nurse), Anna Q. Nilsson (Mrs. Sherman), Herbert Rawlinson (unknown).
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Minesweeper (November 10, 1943)  

Released on November 10, 1943: A Navy deserter redeems himself after the war begins when he enlists in the Navy under a phony name.
Directed by William Berke
Written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Richard Houston, aka Jim 'Tennesee' Smith), Jean Parker (Mary Smith), Russell Hayden (Seaman Elliot Nash), Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith), Emma Dunn (Mom Smith), Charles D. Brown (Commander Lane), Frank Fenton (Lieutenant Ralph Gilpin), Chick Chandler (Seaman 'Corny' Welch), Douglas Fowley (Cutter Lieutenant Wells), Ralph Sanford (Seaman Cox), Billy Nelson (Bos'un 'Freshwater' Heims), Grant Withers (CPO Gregg, in charge of the diving crew), William 'Billy' Benedict (inoculations Corpsman), Robert Mitchum (Seaman Chuck Ryan), Dewey Robinson (gambler wearing an eyeshade), Edwin Stanley (officer), Dub Taylor (Seaman Stubby Gordon, USO club prankster), Will Wright (Naval captain).
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Mr. Reckless (March 26, 1948)  

Released on March 26, 1948: Oil well driller Jeff Lundy returns to the big city and discovers that his best girl is about to marry someone else.
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Maxwell Shane and Milton Raison.
The Actors: William Eythe (Jeff Lundy), Barbara Britton (Betty Denton), Walter Catlett (Joel Hawkins), Minna Gombell (Ma Hawkins), Lloyd Corrigan (Hugo Denton), Nestor Paiva (Gus), Frank Jenks (cab driver), Ian MacDonald (Jim Halsey), James Millican (Pete), Lane Chandler (driller), Harry Cheshire (doctor at wedding), Russ Conway (Al, a wise guy), Tom Dillon (Patrol Officer), Franklyn Farnum (wedding guest), Julia Faye (wedding guest), Sam Flint (oil field guard), Bess Flowers (wedding guest), Donald Kerr (craps player), Frank Marlowe (cab driver), Tom Monroe (drilling worker), Francis Pierlot (Reverend Stanislaus), Tom Quinn (customer), Bob Reeves (patrol driver), Keith Richards (a friend), Lee Roberts (oil driller).
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​The Navy Way (February 26, 1944)  

Released on February 26, 1944: Johnny Jersey, a tough boxer inducted into the Navy, finds it difficult to learn to live and work The Navy Way.
Released on February 26, 1944: Johnny Jersey, a tough boxer inducted into the Navy, finds it difficult to learn to live and work The Navy Way.
Directed by William Berke
Written by Maxwell Shane
The Actors: Robert Lowery (Johnny Zumano, aka Johnny Jersey), Jean Parker (Ellen Sayre), William Henry (Malcolm Randall), Roscoe Karns (Frankie Gimble), Sharon Douglas (Trudy), Robert Armstrong (CPO Harper), Tom Keene (Steve Appleby), Larry Nunn (Billy Jamison), Mary Treen (Agnes), Wallace Pindell (sailor Joslin), John 'Skins' Miller (recruit Pop Lacy), Joseph Crehan (Chaplin Benson), Hjalmar F. Hanson (Great Lakes Naval Station Choir Director), Art Lasky (fighter), John J. 'Red' Madigan (sailor), Olive Blakeney (Mrs. Will Jamison), Barbara Brown (Mrs. Malcolm Randall Sr.), Edward Davies (choir soloist), Edward Earle (Commandant), Benny Friedman (sailor), Rosina Galli (Mrs. Zuamano), Roy Gordon (Malcolm Randall Sr.), Al Hill (shore patrol gate guard), George Humbert (Mr. Zumano), Edward Keane (Randall guest), Lyle Latell (Agnes' kissing cousin), Horace McMahon (sailor Saxon), Sarah Padden (Mrs. Margaret Gimble), Ralph Peters (Hammy Jerome), Tom Tyler (Triangle A ranch hand), Pat West (bartender), Will Wright (Baldy, Triangle A ranch hand)
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Power Dive (June 4, 1941)  

Released on June 4, 1941: Fans of vintage aircraft will love this noir thriller about a secret new airplane made out of plastic.
Directed by James P. Hogan
Written by Paul Franklin, Maxwell Shane and Edward Churchill.
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Brad Farrell), Don Castle (Doug Farrell), Jean Parker (Carol Blake), Cliff Edwards (Squid Watkins), Roger Pryor (Dan McMasters, company president), Thomas W. Ross (Professor Blake), Billy Lee (Brad Coles), Helen Mack (Betty Coles), Louis Jean Heydt (Johnny Coles), Alan Baldwin (young reporter), Pat West (burly mechanic), Ralph Byrd (Jackson, draftsman), Tom Dugan (the waiter), Helen Lynd (giggly blonde), James Seay (Army radio operator), William Hall (Army Sergeant).
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Seven Were Saved (March 28, 1947)

Released on March 28, 1947: A plane carrying a Japanese war prisoner with his guards, a newlywed couple, an amnesiac and others crashes into the sea, and eight survivors try to escape death on the wild sea.
Directed by William H. Pine
Written by Maxwell Shane and Julian Harmon.
The Actors: Richard Denning (Captain Allen Danton), Catherine Craig (Susan Briscoe), Russell Hayden (Captain Jim Willis), Ann Doran (Alice, Mrs. Rollin Hartley), Byron Barr (Lieutenant Martin Pinkert), Richard Loo (Colonel Yamura), Don Castle (Lieutenant Pete Sturdevant), George Tyne (Sergeant Blair), Keith Richards (Smith / Philip Thompson), John Eldredge (Rollin Hartley).
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Special Agent (July 22, 1949)  

Released on July 22, 1949: Johnny Douglas is a Special Agent for the railroads who chases a pair of murdering railroad bandits.
Directed by William C. Thomas
Written by Milton Roison, Whitman Chambers and Lewis R. Foster.
The Actors: William Eythe (Johnny Douglas), Kasey Rogers (Lucy Peters), Paul Valentine (Edmond Devereaux), George Reeves (Paul Devereaux), Carole Mathews (Rose McCreary), Tom Powers (Chief Special Agent Wilcox), Raymond Bond (Sheriff Babcock), Robert Bice (Dr. Harrison), Frank Puglia (Grandfather Devereaux), Walter Baldwin (Pop Peters), Jeff York (Jake Rumpler), Virginia Christine (Mabel Rumpler), Robert Williams (Superintendant Olmstead), Joseph Granby (Sheriff Dodson), Morgan Farley (Doctor Bowen), John Hilton (Frank Kent), Peter Miles (Jake Rumpler Jr.), Jimmy Hunt (Tim Rumpler), Arthur Stone (Tad Miller), Truman Bradley (narrator), James Griffith (candy vendor on train), Paul Harvey (rancher), Thomas Browne Henry (railroad detective Benton).
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Speed to Spare (May 14, 1948)  

Released on May 14, 1948: A girl chasing, car racing stunt man gets a job driving a semi and tries to survive the mechanic that would like to see him dead.
Directed by William Berke
Written by Milton Raison.
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Cliff Jordan), Jean Rogers (Mary McGee), Richard Travis (Jerry McGee), Roscoe Karns (Kangaroo), Nanette Parks (Jane Chandler), Pat Phelan (Pete Simmons), Ian MacDonald (Pusher Wilkes), Paul Harvey (Al Simmons), John Bagni (truck driver), George Eldredge (truck driving instructor), Roy Gordon (Mr. Maxton), Sol Gorss (Joe), Donald Kerr (Checker), Gloria Marlen (Molly, waitress), Alphonse Martell (headwaiter in restaurant), Lee Phelps (waiter), Brick Sullivan (truck driver in coffee shop), Eddy Waller (Charlie Blane, explosives driver), Guy Wilkerson (Pop, truckers cafe owner).
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Big Town Scandal (May 27, 1948)  

Released on May 27, 1948: A lady newspaper reporter convinces her boss to help young teen delinquents stay out of trouble by playing basketball, but the gangsters have other ideas.
Directed by William C. Thomas
Written by Daniel Mainwaring, Milton Raison and Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Phillip Reed (Steve Wilson), Hillary Brooke (Lorelei Kilbourne), Stanley Clements (Tommy Malone), Darryl Hickman (Harold 'Skinny' Peters), Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer (Frankie Snead), Roland Dupree (John 'Pinky' Jones), Tommy Bond (Waldo 'Dum-Dum' Riggs), Vince Barnett (Louie Snead, bondsman), Charles Arnt (Amos Peabody, publisher), Joseph Allen (Wally Blake, reporter), Donna Martell (Marion Harrison), John Phillips (Joe Moreley), Reginald Billado (Cato, henchman), Sam Balter (basketball game announcer), Lane Chandler (irate store owner), Lester Dorr (man passing Steve in hallway), Edward Earle (court clerk), Franklyn Farnum (squad car policeman), Mary Gordon (Mary, cleaning woman), Don C. Harvey (Police Lieutenant Peterson), Thomas E. Jackson (Police Chief), Richard Keene (Jimmy O'Brien), Ralph Montgomery (basketball crowd extra), Grandon Rhodes (Judge Hogan), Frank J. Scannell (Smiling Charlie Kaye), Harry Shannon (Police Captain Henry), Archie Twitchell (newspaper man), Charles C. Wilson (editor of the Chronicle).
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Submarine Alert (June 28, 1943)  

Released on June 28, 1943: German fifth columnists have stolen a new experimental short wave radio that can communicate with Japanese submarines and relay shipping information to sink American ships.
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Maxwell Shane.
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Richard Arlen), Wendy Barrie (Ann Paterson), Nils Asther (Doctor Arthur Huneker), Roger Pryor (G.B. Fleming), Abner Biberman (Comander Toyo), Marc Lawrence (Vincent Bela), John Miljan (Mr. Banbridge / Captain Haigas), Patsy Nash (Tina Deerhold), Ralph Sanford (Agent Freddie Grayson), William Bakewell (Agent Pomeroy), Jack Carr (old mill gate guard), Edward Earle (shipping merchant), Edward Fielding (shipping merchant), Dwight Frye (Haldine, fifth columnist), John George (man in FBI raid), Harry Hayden (Larson), Eddie Kane (FBI Agent), Edward Keane (J.D.'s boss), Donald Kerr (FBI Agent), Robert Middlemass (Johnny's father), Fred Sherman (FBI operative), Stanley Smith (clerk), Edwin Stanley (COmmanding officer at finish), Milburn Stone (Lieutenant Winston, naval intelligence), Dale Van Sickel (radio man), Edward Van Sloan (Doctor Johann Bergstrom), Pat West (radio listener), Will Wright (local sheriff).
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Swamp Fire (July 24, 1946)  

Released on July 24, 1946: Johnny Weismuller and Buster Crabbe are fighting each other for the love of a woman in this bayou swamp classic. The advertising tagline for this film is: Death Lurks Beneath The Burning Bayou...as Mighty Water Kings Clash For A Tiger Girl's Love!
Directed by William H. Pine
Written by Daniel Mainwaring
The Actors: Johnny Weissmuller (Johnny Duval), Virginia Grey (Janet Hilton), Buster Crabbe (Mike Kalavich), Carol Thurston (Toni Rousseau), Marcelle Corday (Grandmere Rosseau), William Edmunds (Emile Ledoux), Edwin Maxwell (Captain Pierre Moise), Pierre Watkin (P.T. Hilton), Charles Gordon (Captain Hal Peyton), Frank Fenton (Captain Pete Dailey), William Challee (barfly), Joseph Crehan (Captain Sorenson), Edward Earle (Baxter), David Janssen (Emile's eldest son), I. Stanford Jolley (Coast Guard Skipper), Libby Taylor (Hilton's maid), Emmett Vogan (Engstead), Crane Whitley (Coast Guard Skipper).
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They Made Me A Killer (May 3, 1946)  

Released on May 3, 1946: Our hero gets unwittingly caught in the middle of a bank robbery, and is accused of being one of the robbers. His girlfriend helps him discover the real robbers and clear his name.
Directed by William C. Thomas
Written by Daniel Mainwaring, and Winston Miller.
The Actors: Robert Lowery (Tom Durling), Barbara Britton (June Reynolds), Lola Lane (Betty Ford), Frank Albertson (Patrolman Al Wilson), Elisabeth Risdon ('Ma' Conley), Byron Barr (Steve Reynolds), Edmund MacDonald (Jack Conley), Ralph Sanford (Patrolman Roach), James Bush (Frank Conley), Paul Harvey (District Attorney Booth), John Harmon (Joe Lafferty), Robert Dudley (station master), Edward Earle (Dr. Reeves), Gil Frye (hospital intern), William Hall (Policeman that was shot during the robbery), Chuck Hamilton (the police broadcaster), Harry Hayden (Pat Travers, the garage owner), Donald Kerr (Police Detective), Al Murphy (the Riverford Inn bartender), Victor Potel (Willoughby), Hugh Prosser (the cop at the railroad station), Cap Somers (the cop at the hospital), Dorothy Vaughan (Nancy the blacksmith's wife), Will Wright (Henry the blacksmith).
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Timber Queen (January 13, 1944)  

Released on January 13, 1944: A returning war vet helps show business nightclub people cut enough timber to save the timber company before the bad guys can stop them.
Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Maxwell Shane and Edward T. Lowe Jr.
The Actors: Richard Arlen (Russell Evans), Mary Beth Hughes (Elaine Graham), June Havoc (Lil' Boggs), Sheldon Leonard (Smacksie Golden), George E. Stone (Squirrel), Dick Purcell (Milt Holmes), Charles Anthony Hughes (Harold Talbot), Edmund MacDonald (Joe Birsdell), William Haade (Rawson), Clancy Cooper (Barney), Dewey Robinson (Wenzel), Horace McMahon (Rodney), Jimmy Ames (Strudel), Paul Bradley (nightclub patron), Garry Owen (taxi cab driver), Suzanne Ridgway (hat check girl), Garry Owen (taxi cab driver)
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Scared Stiff (Treasure of Fear) - June 25, 1945  

Released on June 25, 1945: A milquetoast, sissy reporter is given one chance to report on a wine festival or lose his job, and he gets into the middle of a murder mystery that only he can solve, despite his best efforts not to.
Directed by Frank McDonald
Written by Daniel Mainwaring and Maxwell Shane
The Actors: Jack Haley (Larry Elliot), Ann Savage (Sally Warren), Barton MacLane (George 'Deacon' Markham), Veda Ann Borg (Flo Rosson), Roger Pryor (Richardson), George E. Stone (Mink), Robert Emmett Keane (Professor Wisner), Lucien Littlefield (Charles Waldeck and Preston Waldeck), Paul Hurst (the Sheriff), Arthur Aylesworth (Emerson Cooke), Eily Malyon (Mrs. Cooke), Buddy Swan (Oliver Waldeck), Walter Baldwin (the deputy with a rifle), Dick Curtis (the bus driver), Edward Earle (Joshua Elliot), Charles Williams (reporter).
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Big Town After Dark (December 12, 1947)  

Released on December 12, 1947: A newspaper man and his star reporter get involved with a mobster and his gambling joint, with a surprising finish.
Directed by William C. Thomas
Written by Daniel Mainwaring, Maxwell Shane and Whitman Chambers.
The Actors: Phillip Reed (Steve Wilson, managing editor), Hillary Brooke (Lorelei Kilbourne), Richard Travis (Chuck LaRue), Ann Gillis (Susan Peabody), Vince Barnett (Louie Snead), Joe Sawyer (Monk), Robert Kent (Jake Sebastian), Charles Arnt (Amos Peabody, newspaper owner), Joseph Allen (Wally Blake, reporter), William Haade (Marcus), Fred Aldrich (police car driver), Don Barclay (gambler), Benny Bartlett (McGonigle), Gregg Barton (detective), Gladys Blake (gambler), Sumner Getchell (reporter Harvy Cushman), John Holland (District Attorney Harding), Richard Keene (photographer Jimmy O'Brien), Frank Marlowe (hoodlum in LaRue's office), Mary Newton (nurse), Anne O'Neal (gambler), Marin Sais (Mrs. O'Hara, game operator), Arthur Space (city editor Fletcher), Forrest Taylor (dealer), Dorothy Vaughan (charwoman), Guy Wilkerson (newspaper building custodian).
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Aerial Gunner (March 20, 1943)  

Released March 20, 1943: It is the middle of WWII, and this is the story of two men that fought each other, the enemy, and fought for the love of the same woman.
Directed by Maxwell Shane
Written by Maxwell Shane and Jack F. Dailey.
The Actors: Chester Morris (Sergeant 'Foxy' Pattis), Richard Arlen (Sergeant/Lieutenant Jonathan 'Jon' Davis), Jimmy Lydon (Private Sanford 'Sandy' Lunt), Amelita Ward (Peggy Lunt), Dick Purcell (Private Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine), Keith Richards (Sergeant Henry 'Jonesy' Jones), William 'Billy' Benedict (Private Jackson 'Sleepy' Laswell), Olive Blakeney (Mrs. Sanfod Lunt), Kirk Alyn (Officer in canteen), Jeff Corey (flight crew member), Edward Earle (Squadron Commanding Officer), Frank Fenton (Colonel HAGS Co.), Gil Frye (Lieutenant Brandt, bomber pilot), John Hamilton (doctor), John James (Johnson, failed gunnery trainee), Charles J. Jordan (trainer), William Marshall (Sprague, Air Corps stenographer), Robert Mitchum (Sergeant Benson), Barbara Pepper (blonde at shooting gallery), Ralph Sanford (Private Barclay, target tow operator), Beth Stone (girl at canteen), Brick Sullivan (man at Coney Island), Allen Wood (leave pass checker).
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