And Sudden Death (1936)

And Sudden Death (1936)


Plot

An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.

Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)

Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)


Plot Summary

 A mining engineer named Larry Sutton (Randolph Scott) teams up with crusty deputy sheriff Tex Murdock (Chic Sale) to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.

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.

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.

Navy Secrets (1939)

Navy Secrets (1939)


Plot Summary

Due to the work of a Naval-intelligence officer, Carol Mathews, (Fay Wray) posing as Carol Evans, Chief-Petty-Officer Jimmy Woodford is arrested and charged with selling military secrets to agents of a foreign government, via the ruse of buying-and-selling foreign postage stamps. Chief Petty Officer Steve Fletcher, (Grant Withers) posing as Steve Roberts is assigned to find the members and leader of the gang by delivering an envelope to them with the explanation that Jimmy asked him to do so as a favor as Jimmy was spending a few days in the brig for being A.W.O.L. Steve Fletcher/Roberts has no idea of where to start other than knowing the name of Jimmy's girl-friend. But Navy "intelligence" neglects to inform him that the "girl-friend" is also an agent working undercover. He contrives to meet her accidentally at a shoe-shine stand with an explanation that he is a buddy of Jimmy's, and have her take him on Jimmy's usual route. She agrees, and they start at Nick Salado's café, have a fine grilled-fish dinner but Nick will not accept deliverance of the envelope. But Nick suggests that they take the envelope to Joe Benji's cocktail lounge, but not before Nick has a waiter spill soup on Steve so that Steve will need to go to the restroom and clean up...where Nick has a pickpocket, posing as a singing drunk, ready to relieve Steve of the envelope. But Steve has left the envelope at the table. Steve and Carol glide over to Joe Benji's, and Joe thinks Slavins might take the envelope and Slavins passes them on to Eldredge, posing as Peter Drake for no evident reason, and it takes a while before a man with a German-accent shows up ready to pay for the envelope.

Slave Ship (1937)

Slave Ship (1937)


Plot Summary

This period adventure drama was directed by Tay Garnett and adapted from a story by William Faulkner. The skipper of a slave trading vessel operating along the West African coast in 1860, Captain Jim Lovett (Warner Baxter) is troubled by his flesh-peddling trade. He's marrying the beautiful Nancy Marlowe (Elizabeth Allan) and wants to replace his morally-indefensible business with a more respectable foray into standard goods shipping. So he orders his first mate, Jack Thompson (Wallace Beery) to fire most of the crew and replace them with new hands. However, the ship's swabbies are accustomed to their lucrative line of work and, under the sway of the greedy Lefty (George Sanders), they mutiny, resulting in high seas histrionics with a nuanced performance provided by Mickey Rooney as Swifty the cabin boy.

An Announcement and Special Investigator (1937)

Before we get into the review i'd like to make an announcement for a semi-regular feature that'll turn up on Sundays where I just talk about movie stuff (mostly the old time stuff) as it'll give a glimpse into my perspective on cinema history and whatnot. Another event that'll happen pretty soon is a week where i'll be reviewing recent films rather than the stuff from the vaults. Hopefully that'll be a good change up.

Anywho off to the review!

Special Investigator (1937)


Plot Summary

Bill Fenwick, (Richard Dix) criminal lawyer, is becoming a mouthpiece for mobsters, when his brother George, a Justice Department investigator, is killed by mob chief Edward Selton. (J. Carroll Naish) In atonement, Bill leaves his practice and his venal girlfriend and goes undercover in Nevada to investigate a scheme for "laundering" stolen gold bullion. He starts making progress when he pursues attractive Virginia, (Margaret Callahan) who's somehow involved with the gang; in fact, unknown to Bill, she's Selton's sister.