Broken Dreams (1933)

Broken Dreams (1933)

Plot Summary

 Medical intern Robert Morley (Randolph Scott) is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son Billy (Buster Phelps) and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt (Beryl Mercer) and uncle (Joseph Cawthorn) and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. (Martha Sleeper) He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.

To the Last Man (1933)

To the Last Man (1933)

Plot Summary

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby (Noah Beery) being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. Mark Hayden, (Egon Brecher) The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden (Randolph Scott) and Ellen Colby's (Esther Ralston) plans to marry.

Man of the Forest (1933)

Man of the Forest (1933)

Plot Summary

Beasley, (Noah Beery) who is after Gayner's (Harry Carey) land, plans to kidnap his daughter Alice. (Verna Hillie) But Brett Dale (Randolph Scott) overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff (Tom Kennedy) arrest Dale for the murder.

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Murders in the zoo (1933)

Plot Summary

 Eric Gorman (Lionel Atwill) returns with his wife Evelyn (Kathleen Burke) from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals, having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman. On board a ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, (John Lodge) who falls in love with her. After delivering his animals to the zoo, Gorman plots a way to dispose of Hewitt using one of his latest specimens, then continues using the zoo's non-human residents to do his beastly work.

The Thundering Herd (aka Buffalo Stampede) (1933)

The Thundering Herd (a.k.a. Buffalo Stampede) (1933


Plot Summary

Both Sprague (Harry Carey) and Jett (Noah Beery) and their crews are hunting buffalo. Doan (Randolph Scott) is with Sprague and is looking for the Jett outfit where his girlfriend Milly (Judith Allen) is being held against her will. In addition to the thieving Jett who is stealing Sprague's furs, the Indians are gathering to attack all the white buffalo hunters.

Hot Saturday (1932)

Hot Saturday (1932)


Plot Summary

 Bank employee Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll) has a reputation around town for being fast-and-easy but none of the panting suitors has made her yet. She disillusions them one after the other, but the Connie (Edward Woods) is a bad sport and starts a gossip scandal, among the hens and roosters, about her and millionaire playboy Romer Sheffield (Cary Grant) which causes Ruth to lose her job. Meanwhile old sweetheart Bill Faddon (Randolph Scott) arrives and town and she quickly tries to marry him but things don't go as planned.

Kaiju Fri..er, Saturday: Terror of Mechagodzilla(1975)

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Plot Summary

Aliens from a dying galaxy plan to destroy our cities and build their new home on Earth. Their weapon is Mechagodzilla, a 400-foot-tall robot armed with powerful lasers and guided missiles. Only Godzilla is mighty enough to stop the colossal machine, but when Professor Mafune (Akihiko Hirata) joins the aliens, not even Godzilla will be able to defeat them. Mafune controls Titanosaurus, a gigantic amphibious dinosaur, through a biochemical connection with his cyborg daughter, Katsura. (Tomoko Ai) Godzilla is no match for Titanosaurus and Mechagodzilla together, but Interpol agents have discovered Titanosaurus' weakness, which may give Godzilla the fighting chance he needs to save the world!

Heritage of the Desert (1932)

Heritage of the Desert (1932)

Plot Summary

Adam Naab (J. Farrell MacDonald) controls the pass and lets all the ranchers through except  Judson Holderness (David Landau) and his stolen cattle. When Naab refuses to sell, Holderness works on his son Snap (Gordon Westcott) who has run up gambling debts. There is more trouble when Snap becomes jealous of Naab's step-daughter Judy's (Sally Blane) attraction to the surveyor Jack Hare. (Randolph Scott) When Holderness has Snap killed, everyone heads to town for the showdown.

Runaway (1984)

It's been a while huh? Well i'm determined not to make this yet another blog I abandon in midstream. So here's a movie I watched over the weekend but first, I WILL do another Godzilla movie on Friday. I kind of got burned out on watching them every week. This Godzilla movie is the last of the Hesei series which will lead nicely into a couple month break. I'm sure seeing Godzilla 1984 will recharge my batteries when we start up again. I will get back to the X-movie X-travaganza starting on the 25th with X-Men United. Til then you'll notice a trend as i'll be starting to go through as many of Randolph Scott's filmography as is possible among other things.

BTW I should explain something else before I go on, If you notice I started this blog more or less in the '30s and now this movie is from the '80s. I tend to cycle through what I have and go chronologically. The way it looks right now the next cycle will end in 1980.

And now for our Feature Presentation.....

Runaway (1984)


Plot Summary

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

Peeping Tom (1960)

Peeping Tom (1960)


Plot Summary

In London, lonely photographer Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) works in a film studio and moonlights by taking cheesecake photos for a magazine store. He lives in the huge house that he had inherited from his parents that is rented to tenants to help him pay the bills and keep the building. Mark was the subject of bizarre experiments on the effects of fear conducted by his scientist father since he was a child and he has become a disturbed man obsessed by the face of frightened women in the moment of death. He kills women filming their faces while he stabs them in the throat. When Mark meets his neighbor and tenant Helen Stephens (Anna Massey) on the day of her birthday, he befriends her and soon he dates the young woman. Mark has a crush on Helen and does not want to film her. But Mark is one of the suspects in the serial killings and a detective is tracking him down.

Running Target (1956)

Running Target (1956)


Plot Summary

In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, (Arthur Franz) heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and though it is his sworn duty to return the men dead or alive, he is, as always, reluctant to kill his fellow man. He is accompanied by Jaynes, (Richard Reeves) a tavern owner, who takes much delight in his telescopic rifle, and by "Smitty," (Doris Dowling) a gas station owner held up by the escapees and more than ready to show she can be as tough as any man, although she seems to have some other motive for getting to the leader of the convicts, Kaygo.