Recently released convicts attempt to kill the marshal (Buck Jones) who sent them to prison, so his pals, fellow marshals Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), go undercover to thwart the bad guys’ plans. The easy performances of the likable leads make this another entertaining entry in Monogram’s Rough Riders series. Recommended.
Monogram Monday: Trail of the Yukon (1949)
In the first of ten movies pairing Kirby Grant and the dog actor Chinook as a Mountie and his canine assistant, the duo are pursuing bank robbers when a battle involving a split in the gang ends with one crook dead and Grant’s character (here named Bob McDonald, though for most of the series he …
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Monogram Monday: Port of Missing Girls (1938)
A woman (Judith Allen) who has witnessed a murder stows away aboard a freighter, but she is discovered by the first mate (Milburn Stone). The gruff captain (Harry Carey) warms to the fugitive despite his initial misgivings, and the two ship’s officers look for ways to help her out of her predicament. Mildly recommended.
Monogram Monday: Call of the Klondike (1950)
Mountie Rod Webb (Kirby Grant) and his dog Chinook investigate a series of unexplained disappearances. They are aided by Nancy Craig (Anne Gwynne), the daughter of one of the victims. The Mountie’s suspicions soon turn toward the only productive gold mine in the area, and the film thus involves some underground sequences as well as …
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Monogram Monday: The Mystery Man
Brash but able reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) is out of a job and nearly out of money, too. He nevertheless comes to the aid of another unfortunate, Anne Ogilvie (Maxine Doyle), and together they contrive to get lodging and food. Complications and opportunities arise when they become embroiled in a bank robbery and murder. …
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Monogram Monday: Dark Alibi (1946)
An ex-con who has been convicted of murder and bank robbery has just nine days left before his execution, but fortunately for him, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) volunteers to help prove his innocence before time runs out. The man had been convicted largely based on the fact that his fingerprints were found at the scene …
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Monogram Monday: The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
Charlie Chan investigates when bank employees are inexplicably murdered by cobra venom, and the sleuth (Sidney Toler) suspects a connection to a pre-war case that involved the same means. Adding interest to the setting is a “jukebox” which allows the patron to place a request to a live disc jockey — and this device forms …
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Monogram Monday: The Scarlet Clue (1945)
A building housing an experimental radio-television station and a nearby research laboratory is the central location for this Charlie Chan mystery. As the detective (Sidney Toler) investigates a murder tied in with the station’s staff and performers, he suspects that someone may be targeting the improved radar being developed in the lab. There are a …
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Monogram Monday: The Jade Mask (1945)
An unpleasant scientist works in his home, which is peopled by employees and relatives whom he mistreats, and who hate him. When he is apparently slain by his own death trap, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is on hand to investigate, assisted once again by one of his children (No. 4 son Eddie, played by Edwin …
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Monogram Monday: Black Magic (1944)
In this series entry, also known as Meeting at Midnight, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) investigates when a psychic is murdered during a séance his daughter Frances (Frances Chan) is attending. Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), who has taken a job with the psychics because Chan is planning to return to Hawaii, is also on hand for …
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