Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and

The Secret Seven

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a s

Phantom of Chinatown

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Bent

Easy Living

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bou

Think It Over

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

North of Shanghai

In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the S

Doctors Don't Tell

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for night

Two Latins from Manhattan

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and

Flying G-Men

Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The B

Gun to Gun

Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve R

The Monster and the Girl

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized c

Girls Under 21

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some

They Meet Again

Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement c

The President's Mystery

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra

Marked Men

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into

Women in Prison

The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame On

Scandal Sheet

The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.

Johnny Eager

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Who Killed Gail Preston?

A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

Three of a Kind

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama

The Drag-Net

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabo

Happiness C.O.D.

A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get mon

Adventures of Red Ryder

Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad

Racketeers of the Range

A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent mea

Gang Bullets

A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities im

Wildcat

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person wh

The Wagons Roll at Night

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V

A Man's Game

During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy

Pioneers of the West

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Or

The Leather Pushers

A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspi

The Girl Who Came Back

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the memb

Every Night at Eight

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphon

The Man with Nine Lives

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an e

Twin Triplets

Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.

Midnight Taxi

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit

Racket Busters

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

I'll Tell the World

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo

We're Only Human

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

Woman Wanted

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth

Love Is on the Air

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

The Ghost That Walks Alone

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.

Tarnished Angel

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist o

Stand Up and Fight

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

They Made Me a Criminal

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Cheers of the Crowd

To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowi

Nancy Drew... Reporter

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a

Blackwell's Island

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can

Each Dawn I Die

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h

In Name Only

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive

The Man They Could Not Hang

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unj

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme

Stage to Chino

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the

Reno

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Bad Little Angel

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Man-Made Monster

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Kentucky

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby

You, the People

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "

King of the Royal Mounted

The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paral

Danger Ahead

The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold sh

Drums of Fu Manchu

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a

The Big Premiere

It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the fe

Fixer Dugan

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kan

The Country Doctor

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu

Thundering Frontier

After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thund

Here I Am a Stranger

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

Sunset in Wyoming

By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more m

Five Little Peppers at Home

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their c

Jesse James at Bay

When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for t

Music in My Heart

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Legion of the Lawless

Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way

Brother Rat and a Baby

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f

Edison, the Man

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star

Father Steps Out

Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an

Trouble in Sundown

The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John a

Money to Loan

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks ab

Easy Money

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean

All by Myself

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark,

The Lady from Cheyenne

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde

Dark Command

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,

Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact th

Happy Land

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli

Sergeant York

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the

This Land Is Mine

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn bet

My Love Came Back

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran

Gallant Sons

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to fin

City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug

I Love You Again

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love

The Golden Fleecing

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

No, No, Nanette

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr

Millionaires in Prison

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton wa

Madame Spy

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US,

Beyond the Sacramento

Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the sal

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

Hold That Woman!

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or

The Great Profile

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,

Women Without Names

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of

Weather Wizards

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to

The Mayor of 44th Street

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the sa

And Sudden Death

An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the tw

Hitch Hike To Heaven

A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his fa

Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich

The Shadow Strikes

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an

The Deadly Game

A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed a

Across the Sierras

Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knoc

Sabotage

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to

I'll Fix It

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.

Queen of Broadway

There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of B

Cyclone on Horseback

Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Co

Sabotage Squad

A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts t

The Great Gildersleeve

A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nep

Idaho

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for

King of the Cowboys

Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russel

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual pro

The Leopard Man

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

S.O.S Tidal Wave

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a

New York Town

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s

Over My Dead Body

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s

The Great Mr. Nobody

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Obliging Young Lady

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor

Slightly Dangerous

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne

A Woman is the Judge

Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woma

A Clean Sweep

Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living

Beautiful But Broke

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to h

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dim

Around the World

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on

Borrowing Trouble

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l

Naval Academy

So's Your Uncle

Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p

The Public Pays

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro

Public Deb No. 1

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challe

Mission to Moscow

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th

Princess O'Rourke

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Ex-Champ

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

A Night to Remember

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect

The Chaser

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,

Glamour for Sale

A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.

The Calling of Dan Matthews

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the d

Special Agent

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster'

Highway West

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Private Affairs

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love

Whistling in the Dark

Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou

Drunk Driving

In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too m

Great Guy

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold t

She Has What It Takes

Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a rec

You Can't Escape Forever

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi

For Me and My Gal

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Fly By Night

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t

1-2-3-Go!

While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When

The Westerner

A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business.

Wives Never Know

The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J.

The Face Behind the Mask

A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of

Death from a Distance

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of t

Unfinished Rainbows

Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbo

Too Hot to Handle

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi