An orphanage faces closure because the local cattlemen’s association, which supports it, is facing bankruptcy, owing to payouts to ranchers whose stock has been rustled. The Three Mesquiteers — Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Ray Corrigan), and Lullaby Joslin (Max Terhune) — are trustees of the orphanage, and they take steps to keep it …
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A scientific experiment goes wrong, and soon the local doctor on an isolated island is faced with an odd corpse. He turns to a famed medico on the mainland for help, and a wealthy young woman inserts herself into the expedition to determine the cause of the calamity — and put an end to it. …
The sons of the aging Genghis Khan jockey for position as the Polish kingdom prepares to try to wrest back the city of Tuleda, which is in Mongol hands. Bianca (José Greci), the rightful heir, has been raised ignorant of her status, while her father languishes in a Mongol dungeon. Bianca loves and is loved …
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As a new money-making venture, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and the boys turn Louie’s into an escort bureau, with the guys as the sophisticated escorts, while Louie (Bernard Gorcey) and his wife are away on vacation. They soon obtain some beautiful (and unlikely!) clients, including Joan Marshall (Adele Jergens), but the gals are part of a …
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It’s another road rally for Jimmy Bondi (Rudolf Zehetgruber) and Dudu, in Switzerland, where Dudu’s ability to fly comes in handy. At stake this time around are a hotel (whose one employee occupies a variety of roles) and an orphanage (on whose behalf two nuns, one played by Zehetgruber’s wife, Kathrin Oginski, enter the race). …
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Heiress Elinor Bentley Fairchild (Alexis Smith) has a problem: her fiancés encounter terrible fates, either dying or ending up crippled. Her desperate grandmother (Helen Westley) turns to a newspaper ad in an effort to attract another potential groom to serve as bait to break the apparent curse, and Lucky Downing (Wayne Morris), who doesn’t know …
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as rival scientists — one of whom has made a find of an ancient anthropoid that in fact (a) still has life and (b) is immensely evil — are the chief reasons to watch this horror film, originally titled Pánico en el Transiberiano, largely set upon a train traveling through …
Several years before their costarring roles in The Great Treasure Hunt and The Devil’s Wedding Night, Mark Damon and Rosalba Neri appeared together in this western. Here, Neri plays Samantha Felton, who with her brother has murdered Damon’s uncle (her brother actually pulled the trigger); she now must eliminate her dead husband’s heir, Johnny Yuma …
Slow pacing and some confusing storytelling undermine this horror film, originally titled La orgía de los muertos and better known, perhaps, in English as The Hanging Woman. After his uncle’s death, a young man journeys to the avuncular home and along the way discovers the body of a woman hanging in the cemetery, a woman …
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