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- A man who dropped out of medical school to raise money for his education, keeps promising he'll finish his degree "next fall semester." But after hearing the same promise for 5 years, the townspeople believe his plans are empty talk. London helps remedy the situation.
- A German Shepherd dog wanders endlessly, only stopping to do a good deed or help a person in need, before returning to his road without end.
- The adventures of frontier lawyer Temple Houston, son of the legendary Sam Houston.
- Rynning orders Frank Seldom to meet a stagecoach heading from New Mexico to Wilcox, Arizona to ensure its cargo of six lovely mail-order brides arrive unscathed. Seldom has his hands full fending off marauding Apache Indians, crooked stagecoach drivers and an outlaw gang who intends to kidnap the women and sell them to white slavers in Mexico.
- Rynning offers Vin Carter, Tucson's tough and honest marshal, a position in the Rangers, but Vin turns him down because of his sour relationship with the town's business community. When Carter's fiancée is seriously injured and desperately needs an operation, Vin begins to reconsider his stance on integrity.
- While Travis tries to convince a representative from Washington that Arizona no longer subscribes to gun law, Rynning tries to prevent an ex-convict from exacting revenge upon a Yuma businessman whose perjured testimony sent him to prison.
- An ex-convict, declared legally dead by his wife when he went to prison under an assumed name, returns to Yuma to kill her new husband, a former partner-in-crime who has reformed.
- Johnny Broderick, arson squad investigator, and his assistant, Ben Howard,, investigate a warehouse fire and find evidence of arson. Lawyer William Yarbo is behind the series of incendiary fires that have been plaguing the city. Keely Hariss, an actress, inherited the warehouse from her father. Yabro calls on her and says that he and her father had heavily insured the building and planned to burn it and collect, and also tells her she must accept half of the insurance money or he will see that she is blamed for the arson. "Pop" Bergen, the father of Marily Bergen, is the torch man hired by Yarbo, and he perishes in one of the conflagrations. Yarbo learns that Keely is cooperating with Broderick and he enters the movie studio where she is working, determined to kill her.
- Ralph Kincaid, a wealthy rancher, catches his son, Juro, stealing money from his desk so he can pay his gambling debts and brutally beats him. The next day, the father is found murdered and the evidence seems to point to his son as the killer. During the trial, Captain Rynning discovers incontrovertible that the young man was incarcerated in another town at the time of the murder after suffering from a blackout. The ranger thinks the explanation is too pat, though, and searches for Juro's murderous accomplice.
- A card shark agrees to help Rynning and Travis break up a gang of sheep rustlers.
- A murderous escaped prisoner returns to his ranch and finds his wife has departed. He forces one of her old friends to find her while he holds the friend's wife as a hostage.
- When teacher after teach is run out of a small gold mining town, Rynning is order to investigate. His first day in the schoolhouse involves some two-fisted lessons.
- A poker game in Nogales, Arizona turns sour when one of the participants is accused of crooked dealing. After the accused shoots the accuser and makes off with all the cash, the manhunt for the perpetrator quickly leads to an arrest - the real killer's identical twin brother. The rangers desperately search for murderer before a lynch mob hangs an innocent man.
- A green ranger, accused of cowardice by his fellow lawmen, must lead his compatriots in a desperate attack on an Apache camp to rescue a young captive.
- An American in the French Foreign Legion learns that his commanding officer is a traitor who has formed an alliance with several tribes in the Sahara desert.
- A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen.
- When four murderers break out of Yuma Prison, Rynning mobilizes his entire force to capture the escapees.
- Rynning and Travis investigate the hijacking of a valuable freight wagon and are aided by the youngest member of the outlaw gang who has second thoughts about a criminal career.
- Bud Larch, a short man constantly being teased about his height, turns robber and killer to prove he's as tough as anyone in Arizona.
- Captain Rynning sends Travis to Duncan, Arizona to investigate reports that legendary lawman Ben Salem has thrown in with the crooked town boss to keep the residents under his thrall. Travis can't believe the reports since he lived with Salem in his salad days, but soon learns that the his former idol was crippled by a gunshot and was forced to find work as a hired gun.
- Kevin Hardy, a rancher who is about to be released from prison gets a visit from his crippled brother, Arron, who goads him into taking revenge against the former sheriff who arrested him for manslaughter. Meanwhile Arron has hired an outlaw to kill his brother and frame the ex-lawman for the crime.
- Rynning and Travis assist the Mexican Rurales hunt down the remnants of an army of bandits who sought to overthrow the government. During the chase, one of the outlaws is killed by the border patrol and incorrectly identified as the movement's commander, Romero. Meanwhile, the erstwhile leader assumes the identity of a poor peon and goes in search of the loot from a train robbery hidden nearly ten years earlier.
- A Ranger suddenly resigns without explanation. Rynning tries to discover what's behind it and finds that the man is hiding a secret that he won't take a chance on anyone finding out about.
- Travis goes after escaped con Cain Devers, a bank robber and counterfeiter who is using his counterfeit plates as part of a plot to destroy his father and younger brother.
- When Clint Travis is falsely accused of Murder. Rynning sends him into Galioro Mountains to prove his innocence by finding the cattle rustlers who actually committed the crime.
- A gang of convicts has escaped from prison, but Capt. Rynning's can't get any more men to help capture them.
- At the end of the Mexican-American War, a crooked U.S. Cavalry Captain and his men force a captive Mexican officer to sign the deeds to his vast lands and large hacienda over to the Captain.
- True stories of the Arizona rangers around 1900.
- Efficient Sheriff Caleb Wells is fired by the short-sighted town council, thus clearing the way for a group of hoodlums to vandalize the peaceful and defenseless town.
- A pseudo-marshal, a local doctor and the town sheriff must join forces to battle a greedy cattle-baron whose herd, locally sold, is contaminated with a contagious disease.
- Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
- The lost Dutchman mine story but set some where else. A very similar movie would be "Lust for Gold" with Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford.
- The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
- Unscrupulous ranchers feud among themselves for control of the valley but a newcomer owns the water rights to the sole water source, without which grazing lands are useless.
- A stage coach contract is at stake but one of the competing lines appears to be haunted by a dead Native American chief.
- The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the time, though, to romance the sister of his biggest rival.
- Bill and Jingles are on the trail of counterfeiters.
- A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
- Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.
- A husband hires a killer to murder his wife, then arranges for it to look like he committed the crime. At his trial, he presents irrefutable evidence that he could not have committed the crime - which, of course, he didn't - and is acquitted, thereby assuring that he can't be tried again for the murder. A police detective, however, is convinced that the man was responsible for the wife's murder, and sets out to prove it.
- Frame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done...
- In 1870, widowed farmer Zachary Hallock secretly joins a group of outlaws as a solution to his money problems.
- Craig Kennedy is a prominent scientist at a prestigious university. He uses his knowledge of chemistry plus newer devices such as lie detectors to solve difficult cases.
- Murder is performed before the eyes of a dozen witnesses on a Hollywood motion-picture set when a killer switches a real gun for a prop gun during the filming of a dramatic sequence. Walt Jameson, Evening Star reporter, with a nose for news and eye for beauty---both blonde and brunette---is on the set when the murder occurs. James calls Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, and Police Inspector J. J. Burke, who become involved in a game of wits and another murder attempt when they order the killing scene re-enacted. Jameson's routine interview turns into a sensational scoop when Kennedy's trap reveals the murderer.
- A photograph, with two hoodlums, of a crusading councilman threatens the career of a courageous public official until Craig Kenney conducts some revealing experiments in trick photography. Even Walt Jameson's city editor at the Evening Star has been fooled by the damaging picture. Before justice wins out, however, a striking brunette model pays with her life for her amorous attachment to a clever but unscrupulous photographer.
- A planned fishing trip turns into a murder mystery when Fleming Lewis, a wealthy chemist, who is host to Craig Kennedy, Walt Jameson, Evening Star reporter, and inspector J. J. Burke, is killed by a bomb. Several suspects, each of whom has a motive for the murder, balk at Kennedy's efforts to solve the crime. But Kennedy's laboratory examinations reveal the murder was accomplished by poison blasted into Lewis' body by fragments of a glass bomb. The killer is trapped when Kennedy, aided by Jameson and Burke, baits a trap for the culprit.
- An amnesia victim, a gardener who hates flowers and green grass, and a million-dollar art collection are part of the plot in this episode featuring the crime-breaking trio of criminologist Craig Kennedy, newspaper reporter Walt Jameson and police inspector J. J. Burke. Kennedy is confronted by Alice Woodwine, a frightened girl seeking his aid,and Kennedy is knocked unconscious by an unseen assailant. The mystery deepens when Kennedy identifies the girl as the wealthy heiress pictured in one of Jameson's news stories. Jameson, ostensibly on an interview assignment, discovers that the girl is held in terror by three scheming servants who are plotting a gigantic fraud. Kennedy poses as an Austrian psychiatrist to uncover the plot.
- A would-be murderer demands payment for killing a victim who is still very much alive, while criminologist Craig Kennedy unravels the mystery of a criminal who hunts his victims with a bow-and-arrow. Aided by Police Inspector J. J. Burke and Evening Star reporter Walt Jameson, Kennedy breaks up a wedding, rescues a kidnap victim, and reveals to the loyal-but-naive housekeeper, the source of "voices" which has been misguiding her activities. Along the way, Kennedy and the forces of law get an assist from the criminals themselves, who liquidate one of their own gang in a dispute over the $250,000 in loot.
- A phony doctor, a notorious smuggler, and a sultry secretary combine their talents to outwit U. S. Customs officials. Walt Jameson, Evening Star reporter, finds the corpse of a famous dancer in a New York City hotel room. He proceeds to get his scoop when Craig Kennedy, famed Criminologist, examines a plaster cast in his laboratory and discovers that the clever criminals have used this device in their smuggling racket. U.S. taxpayers are spared the customary legal expenses when the crooks fall out under the pressure of Kennedy's pursuit. One is shot in a rooftop gun battle, and another accidentally eliminates himself in a 12-storyfall to an unpadded concrete sidewalk.
- Joe Sawyer and William Tracy return in another wacky service comedy, Sawyer as the exasperated sergeant of a GI trainee (Tracy) who remembers everything he has ever heard. Their misadventures include reassignment to Korea, an enemy spy and the offer of a Congressional Medal of Honor for Sawyer, if he can control his temper long enough to get it!
- Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
- Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
- Made during the period when Clayton Moore had been replaced on the Lone Ranger television series by John Hart, but actually appears to have been made during the dawn of the sound era because of the excessive amounts of stock footage culled from earlier westerns made by producer Edward Finney, who never let much film from his productions be used only once, which accounts for some Monogram stock with Tex Ritter and Tris Coffin. Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.
- A nightclub singer has a racketeer for a manager and a rivalry with his pianist for a girl.
- Craig Kennedy and his friend, Evening Star reporter Walt Jameson, pose as a couple of seafaring men to save an old man from murder. Kennedy's detective skills pay off as he unravels the mystery of a hoodlum who forces the operator of a lonely-hearts club to furnish him with a groom for a brunette beauty. Kennedy also discovers that glamour and sex appeal, as well as rat poison, can be dangerous tools for a criminal.
- Unjustly accused of robbing the train he was riding home, Bill Doolin re-joins his old gang, participates in other robberies and becomes a wanted outlaw.
- Paroled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery.
- Hickok rode Buckshot while 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. Jingles described Hickok as "the bravest, strongest, fightingest U.S. Marshal in the whole West." And that's about it: he beat up all the bad guys and somehow kept his good looks.
- When the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for treatment and recuperation. There, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries, daughter of the magistrate and all-but-fiancée to rancher Martin Shannon. She also finds herself attracted to Kirk, and a rivalry develops between the two men. Meantime the pirates, led by Captain Hackett, decide to raid the colony and, in the process kidnap Elaine and her friend. Nancy. Kirk, and Shannon lead the pursuit, having not only the romantic triangle to resolve, but the pirates to overcome and, along the way, being stranded on a volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs.
- A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands.
- This is an edited version of a ten-year-old film, _Sea Fiend, The (1936)_.
- En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
- On the way to a performance, Cal Shrum and his musical group, the Rhythm Rangers, are fired at by a masked bandit. Soon after, they encounter Cal's brother Walt and his group, the Colorado Hillbillies. The two brothers decide to team up, but Walt changes his mind when he learns that Cal is heading for Big Bend. Despite Walt's warning that entertainers are being shot in Big Bend, Cal and the Rhythm Rangers resolve to continue to the town. When Frank Lawson, the hotel's owner, refuses to rent them rooms, they proceed to the theater, where manager James Beeton warns them that no one will come to their show because they are worried about the danger. After the sole member of the audience leaves the theater, Cal orders Max "Alibi" Terhune, one of the performers, to open the theater doors so that the townspeople can hear them. Shortly afterward, they are shot at by a masked gunman. After learning that the gunman earlier murdered a magician who was performing in town, Cal vows to catch the killer. Using a recording and Elmer, Alibi's dummy, Cal sets a trap for the gunman, who later eludes him during a chase. Alibi discovers that some townspeople believe that Beeton is the killer, because his daughter Mary ran away with Tom, a man in a magic show. He has not been jailed, however, because the sheriff is out of town. After a group of men led by Beeton demand that Cal leave town, he agrees to go at daybreak. In the morning, the Fargo agent offers to let Cal and the Rhythm Rangers stay with him, if they will play a few songs. They then continue their investigation and determine from the bullets that the gunman was using an old Sharp's rifle. Together with Don Weston, Cal follows the gunman's trail. During their investigation, they encounter the sheriff and explain their dilemma. Meanwhile, Mary returns to town, having changed her mind about marrying Tom. As she rides into town alone, the masked man kidnaps her. Cal and Don find her abandoned horse and follow the masked man's tracks to a shack, where Mary has been confined. They free her and, while Cal waits for her kidnapper to return, Don accompanies Mary to town, where she is reunited with her father. When the masked man returns to the shack, Cal struggles with him and discovers that he is Lawson, the only man in town who owns a Sharp's rifle. Lawson reveals that he tried to make the theater fail so that he could buy it cheaply. He kidnapped Mary so that people would continue to believe Beeton was behind the shootings. Now that the mystery is cleared up, the show goes on to great acclaim.
- Criminologist Craig Kennedy, aided by his friends Police Inspector J. J. Burke and Evening Star reporter Walt Jameson, investigate the murder of a friend who was engaged to marry an actress. The friend, Dr. Armstrong, was a famous research doctor and dietitian, engaged to blonde actress Jean Roget but also involved with Wilma Gray, a glamorous brunette. As a counterpoint to the title formula, Kennedy brews his own formula for justice when he proves that professed love can be greed and jealously, and that avarice leads not only to crime, but prison as well.
- Craig Kennedy, famed Criminologist, hears the murder shots as a welching gambler makes a telephone appeal that is too late. Kennedy, Evening Star reporter Walt Jameson, and Police Inspector J. J. Burke have two clues---an untraceable telephone call and some apparently illegible doodlings on a page of a phone book. Kennedy uses his training in psychology to translate these hieroglyphics into the thoughts that occupied the mind of the murdered man in his last living moments. Miss Thompson, a cleaning shop clerk who "doesn't have anything to do with gamblers and bookies," falls hard for Kennedy's urbane charm and aids in setting up a trap for the killer.
- A ghost who wasn't a ghost, and two spiritualists come off second-best in a battle of wits with Craig Kennedy, famed criminologist, who finds himself in an uncomfortable position between a gullible matron with a guilt complex, and a racketeering combine with a yen for $200,000 in cash. Walt Jameson, Evening Star reporter, is dismayed when his expose brings a violent reaction not from the racketeers but from one of the intended victims. The mysterious Professor Zachary and the glamorous Princess Henrietta, whose spiritual qualities fail to stack up with her physical charms, are finally brought to justice after their scheme is unraveled by Kenney, aided by Jameson and Police Inspector J. J. Burke.
- Craig Kennedy's knowledge of minerals and precious stones uncovers a cruel hoax, while taking Kennedy from a desert in Mexico to a lavish penthouse in an American city. Kennedy, Evening Star reporter Walt Jameson and Police Inspector J. J. Burke, work together to overcome one of their most vicious opponents. DEsert tragedy, a bold impersonation, attempted blackmail and murder involve a group of people in a sordid whirlpool of greed before Kennedy's deductions and actions bring about a solution.