Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, Tucson and Stoney arrive and things begin to change. Starring Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Molly O'Day, and Al St. John. A classic Western!
Bad gunslinger Ed Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the local ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher that will stand up with him against Saunders. He finds him when Lou Gehrig retires from baseball to take up ranching. Lou expects to relax on his ranch but quickly joins Larry in the fight. Starring Smith Ballew, Lou Gehrig, and Evalyn Knapp.
Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City. Starring John Wayne, Mary Kornman, and Paul Fix. A great retro-western with John Wayne!
When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned. Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Judith Allen. A classic retro-western!
Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to out scoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. Starring Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, and Harvey Clark. A great retro-murder mystery-chiller of the 40s starring Ginger Rogers!
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during WW I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power of turning men into zombies. As the priest in his prison cell is preparing to burn the parchment containing the location of the secret formula, Colonel Mazovia kills the priest and takes the partially-burned parchment. Fade to after the war to an expedition of representatives from all the Allied countries being sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the Secret of the Zombies. Starring Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, and Roy D'Arcy. An early movie filmed at Angor Wat in Cambodia!
A serial in 12 chapters based on the popular 1930s comic strip by Alex Raymond. Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance. An exciting retro-serial full of pith helmets, gorillas, women in trouble and cliff-hanger action! Grant Withers stars as Jungle Jim, and Henry Brandon played the villainous Cobra. Betty Jane Rhodes is the gorgeous woman on safari.
When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Patsy Kelly portrays a newly hired maid who wants to quit because the butler, played by Bela Lugosi, scares her. Is it an escaped gorilla or is it bigfoot? A fun movie starring the Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Art Miles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Patsy Kelly. It was based on a play of the same name by Ralph Spence.
The Savage Girl is a 1932 movie starring Rochelle Hudson as The Girl. A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla. A great early jungle girl and gorilla gone ape-shit movie for your retro-enjoyment! Look out jungle girl!
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a mad scientist (Bela Lugosi) whose inventions can destroy the world. First use of a crazed robot used in the movies. Yow!
Two early cargo airlines clash over a government mail contract. “Tailspin” Tommy (Maurice Murphy), a young mechanic, gets a job with Three Points Airlines, who win the contract. Their opponents resort to sabotage in order to have the contact for themselves. Wade “Tiger” Taggart (John Davidson) becomes their crazy enemy, a man who will do anything to stop the airline from doing business. Amazing airplane stunts are featured in this exciting serial. Based on a popular comic strip of the 30s. Aerial acrobatics galore!
Bela Lugosi plays Boroff, a mad scientist who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain difficult to find ingredients and the villain is thwarted at every step by US Coastguard agent Terry Kent (Ralph Byrd and crusading newspaper woman Jean Norman (Maxine Doyle). Mad Scientists and Death Rays gone wild! Yow!
Agent Mala, an intelligence operative, investigates sabotage on remote Clipper Island in the South Pacific. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which Mala is blamed. He convinces the native Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival High Priest and spy collaborator Porotu and discover the identity of spy ringleader H.K. A great retro-serial set on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. Starring Ray Mala as Mala, operative of the United States Intelligence Department undercover as a Pacific Dirigible Airlines radio operator. Also starring Rex the Wonder Horse and Buck the Dog.
At the dawn of the Tesla age was this incredible serial from 1935 which featured Tesla’s wireless transmission of power and other inventions. Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after realizing that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had been detected in the area. There he finds Zolock, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex under a mountain. Zolock had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist their hostage with his daughter. He had also forced the scientist to create mindless “giant” slaves out of the natives as a private army. As the serial progresses we learn that the scientist had also turned another tribe, the Wangas, into white burley haired midgets. Lots of Tesla technology and futuristic hallways and rooms with numerous gadgets on the walls. plus a remote viewing television screen, a death ray that eats through metal and threatens the strapped-down Gordon in a scene identical to Goldfinger’s laser burning toward James Bond’s crotch, plus tons more 1930s superscience. This is the world of Tesla Technology that we were supposed to have, shown to us from 1936. This may be partly the source of the “myth” of Marconi’s secret city in the jungles of South America.
The Lost Jungle (1934). Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who have gotten lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the island. When he locates Ruth, he learns that her father has disappeared. The ensuing search is hindered by greedy gold hunters and wild animals. The classic retro-serial and eventual movie that all the later adventure animal shows were based on. Go lost jungle!
THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM: THE MOVIE. This great 1936 serial, now an edited and digitally enhanced movie, is the story of Ray “Crash” Corrigan, Athlete and Navy Lieutenant, who joins Professor Norton in a Rocket Submarine to inspect an enigmatic location beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Following a suspicious earthquake, and detecting a series of signals, Professor Norton leads an expedition, including Crash and reporter Diana Compton, three sailors (Briny Deep, Salty, Joe) and their pet parrot Sinbad. Unknown to the expedition until it is underway and in trouble, Billy has stowed away on the Rocket Sub as well. Finding a lost kingdom they become embroiled in an Atlantean civil war between Sharad (with his White Robes) and the usurper Unga Khan (with his Black Robes) who wishes to conquer Atlantis and then destroy the upper world with earthquakes generated by his Disintegrator. Thus he will rule the world—unless he can be stopped in time! Great 30s Tesla death rays and other weird Atlantean technology. The original movie about Atlantis! Plus period trailers.
The Shadow vs International Crime (1937) stars Rod LaRoque as The Shadow., a man with mysterious powers that he acquired in Tibet. In the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow was an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through the Orient," "the mysterious power to cloud men's minds, so they could not see him." This feature of the character was born out of necessity: time constraints of 1930s radio made it difficult to explain to listeners where The Shadow was hiding and how he was remaining concealed. Thus, the character was given the power to escape human sight. Voice effects were added to suggest The Shadow's seeming omnipresence. To explain this power, The Shadow was described as a master of hypnotism, as explicitly stated in several radio episodes.
The Shadow Strikes (1937) stars Rod LaRoque as The Shadow., a man with mysterious powers that he acquired in Tibet. In the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow was an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through the Orient," "the mysterious power to cloud men's minds, so they could not see him." This feature of the character was born out of necessity: time constraints of 1930s radio made it difficult to explain to listeners where The Shadow was hiding and how he was remaining concealed. Thus, the character was given the power to escape human sight. Voice effects were added to suggest The Shadow's seeming omnipresence. To explain this power, The Shadow was described as a master of hypnotism, as explicitly stated in several radio episodes.
Gene Autry battles Lemurians (or Muranians) living underground near a ranch in California (shades of Mount Shasta) in the bizarre 1935 science fiction western The Phantom Empire. The first and only science fiction singing cowboy western. Gene Autry the singing cowboy plays… “Gene Autry” the singing cowboy—who broadcasts a daily radio program from his Radio Ranch. Unfortunately, his radio career is being constantly upset by gangsters who want to get their hands on his ranch and its rich radium deposits. If that wasn't enough problems for a singing cowboy, his ranch is also the entry point of the very advanced and very hostile Lost City of Murania, which lies 20,000 feet beneath the Earth's surface. Each week, Autry has to deal with murder attempts, sabotage, frame-ups, and execution as he fights to make his daily radio singing gig or lose the ranch. A great old serial with lots of 1930s Tesla Technology—still science fiction today! This 12-chapter Mascot serial offered singing cowboy Gene Autry his first starring role, in what has to be one of the most sublimely, surpassingly surrealistic serials ever made. Consider the following-- 5 or 6 miles underground below the dude ranch owned by Gene Autry is the long-lost super-scientific civilization of Murania. Shades of reality—30s style?
Bela Lugosi plays the good magician Chandu in his only role as the hero in a movie! Chandu travels to the island of Lemuria to rescue a kidnapped Egyptian princess named Nadji (Maria Alba) from the black magic cult of the Ubasti, who believe that she is the reincarnation of their long-dead goddess Ossana. With his family also held for sacrifice in ancient temples on the island, Chandu must discover the way through an endless maze of caverns, shrouded from his own powers by the evil priest Vindhyan’s dark forces. It’s a battle between white and black magic as Chandu must escape the many terrors that await him on the remarkable island of Lemuria. This restored and enhanced 1934 film comes with trailers, retro-commercials and more!
