Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie (Johnny Mack Brown) and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) are on the trail of horse thieves who murdered another U.S. Marshal in this entry in their 18-movie series. This time around, Nevada goes undercover as an outlaw hoping to join up with the horse-stealing ring, while Sandy pretends to be an unsavory …
Read the full post →“<em>The Navajo Trail</em> (Monogram, 1945)”
Experience clashes with youth and learns a thing or two in 1943’s Destroyer. Edward G. Robinson stars as a retired sailor turned shipyard worker who returns to active duty to serve aboard the new John Paul Jones, built as a replacement for a heroic vessel on which he had sailed in the past. His “Old …
In Mission to Venice, a woman who says she’s the wife of one of his father’s old friends persuades young Michael Newman (Sean Flynn, son of Errol Flynn) to head to Venice to look for her husband, who has disappeared. He learns from the authorities that the missing Paul Trégard is thought to be a …
When a scientist experimenting with revivification brings a young man (Edward Norris) back to life after a car crash, something is very different about the boy. He soon is heading out of the house and taking up with a gang of crooks and proving himself a vicious member of the gang, even as he neglects …
Read the full post →“<em>Man with Two Lives</em> (Monogram, 1942)”
While visiting Paris for a convention and a vacation, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is drawn into the case of a mentally unstable young man who may have killed his father in an argument over the young man’s marriage. Among the oddities of the situation is the fact that the family lawyer, though no criminal …
Read the full post →“<em>The Crime Doctor’s Gamble</em> (Columbia, 1947)”
In this, the sixteenth entry in the long-running series of Mr. & Mrs. North mysteries penned by husband and wife writing team Richard and Frances Lockridge, a noted palaeontologist published by Jerry North’s firm is being harassed by means of fake ads in newspapers claiming he wishes to hire, e.g., tree surgeons, the ads resulting …
Read the full post →“<em>Dead as a Dinosaur</em>, by Frances & Richard Lockridge”
The final Inspector Trent film starring Ralph Bellamy is rather a thriller than a mystery. A young woman out for thrills (Shirley Grey) helps a thief but soon finds she’s in over her head when the partners he was double-crossing come after the loot. Inspector Trent seems quite on the ball from the beginning in …
Read the full post →“<em>Girl in Danger</em> (Columbia, 1934)”
