... And The Ugly Of The 1930s
by Akira_Chimera | created - 18 Mar 2014 | updated - 04 Jan 2022 | PublicHave you ever been in a situation when you read a flims title or summary or saw a movie poster, a trailer or just some screen shots of a movie (especially of B-films) and you thought: "Wow, this looks like heaps of fun!"? You rented that film and after one and a half hours (at the most) you got that nagging feeling that someone stole that exact amount of precious quality lifetime from you. Well, basically this list is about those films. No matter how reduced your expectations had already been, no matter how much you care for flicks of that genre in general - these films did not even meet those expectations, not by a far shot. Even as a fan of trash films you refuse to acknowledge the existence of this list's entries, simply because a good trash film, even considering its manifold shortcomings, is at least fun. So beware, the films on this list are everything - except fun. Needless to say, I had quite some fun in doing this list, although it brought back painful memories.
Feel free to comment on my choice of movies.
PS: This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.
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1. Ingagi (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch ... See full summary »
Director: William Campbell | Stars: Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton, Louis Nizor
Votes: 212 | Gross: $4.00M
2. Pardon My Gun (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race.
Director: Robert De Lacey | Stars: Sally Starr, Tom Keene, Mona Ray, Lee Moran
Votes: 68
3. The Light of Western Stars (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ... See full summary »
Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Harry Green, Regis Toomey
Votes: 175
4. The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Warner Oland, June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes, Clara Blandick
Votes: 343
5. Chinatown After Dark (1931)
59 min | Crime, Drama
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Carmel Myers, Rex Lease, Barbara Kent, Edmund Breese
Votes: 168
6. The Mystery Train (1931)
Passed | 62 min | Mystery
A group of passengers is trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Hedda Hopper, Marceline Day, Nick Stuart, Bryant Washburn
Votes: 149
7. The Phantom (1931)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
Director: Alan James | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Allene Ray, Niles Welch, Tom O'Brien
Votes: 422
8. The Man from Death Valley (1931)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
Dave and Hank ride out of Death Valley, heading for the town of Mesa, but stop to rest in Alkali Springs, twenty miles from Mesa. Walking along the saloon porch, they overhear through an ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Nosler | Stars: Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, John Oscar, Si Jenks
Votes: 29
9. The Monster Walks (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 1,085
10. The Savage Girl (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy
A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Walter Byron, Harry Myers, Adolph Milar
Votes: 243
11. Strangers of the Evening (1932)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall
Votes: 266
12. Son of Oklahoma (1932)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Verdugo found a young boy on the desert and raised him as his son. Now a grown man, Dan is framed for a stagecoach robbery by Brent, the same man who shot his father and tried to take him and his mother away 20 years earlier.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Josie Sedgwick, Carmen Laroux, Julian Rivero
Votes: 47
13. Mark of the Spur (1932)
Passed | 59 min | Western
A young ranch foreman, Bud Drake aka The Kid, is wrongfully arrested for the theft of six-thousand dollars from ranch-owner "Hardshell" Beckett. He escapes and with the aid of Beckett's adopted daughter, Alice, sets out to clear his name.
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Bob Custer, Lillian Rich, George Chesebro, Lafe McKee
Votes: 59
14. Mason of the Mounted (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Nancy Drexel, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 85
15. Partners (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Western
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Tom Keene, Nancy Drexel, Otis Harlan, Victor Potel
Votes: 72
16. The World Gone Mad (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Evelyn Brent, Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian
Votes: 597
17. Galloping Romeo (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers and Grizzly get the job driving the stage, the same thing happens.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Ed Brady
Votes: 72
18. Lightning Range (1933)
Passed | 53 min | Western
Hester and Hezekiah plan to get Dorothy Horton's inheritance. But when Black Pete and his men rob the stagecoach, they learn of the scheme and send gang member Jim to replace Hezekiah. The ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Adamson | Stars: Buddy Roosevelt, Patsy Bellamy, Lafe McKee, Olin Francis
Votes: 35
19. The Trail Drive (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash. Ken is leading the cattle drive not knowing that when they cross... See full summary »
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, William Gould, Frank Rice
Votes: 29
20. Narcotic (1933)
Not Rated | 57 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
Exploitation film which follows the downward spiral of an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow, swanky drug parties, dingy brothels, and finally the barrel of his own revolver.
Directors: Dwain Esper, Vival Sodar't | Stars: Harry Cording, Joan Dix, Patricia Farley, Jean Lacy
Votes: 422
21. Damaged Lives (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams, George Irving, Almeda Fowler
Votes: 282 | Gross: $1.80M
22. The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
Mr. Wong stops at nothing to gain the possession of 12 coins of Confucius, which will bring him great power.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, E. Alyn Warren
Votes: 875
23. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese
Votes: 137
24. The Rawhide Terror (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Western
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens.
Directors: Bruce Mitchell, Jack Nelson | Stars: Art Mix, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, William Barrymore
Votes: 183
25. Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)
Approved | 62 min | Drama
A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Olive Borden, Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Francis Joyner
Votes: 329
26. The Beast of Borneo (1934)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Horror
A crazed scientist needs primates to conduct experiments to prove his own theory of evolution, so he organizes an expedition into the jungles of Borneo to capture the animals he needs.
Director: Harry Garson | Stars: Mae Stuart, John Preston, Eugene Sigaloff, Alexander Schoenberg
Votes: 156
27. Maniac (1934)
Not Rated | 51 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller
Votes: 2,706
28. Hollywood Mystery (1934)
Passed | 53 min | Drama
A PR man for a low-budget studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick: to make a gangster picture with a real gangster in the lead role! He convinces a director--a ... See full summary »
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: June Clyde, Frank Albertson, José Crespo, Tenen Holtz
Votes: 64
29. Mystery Ranch (1934)
Approved | 56 min | Western
The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Tom Tyler, Roberta Gale, Louise Cabo, Jack Perrin
Votes: 91
30. 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Drama, Western
A cowboy escorts a little girl, whose mother made her the heir of a cash-able oil company, and must protect her from an outlaw as they search for the girl's father.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jack Rockwell
Votes: 1,136
31. Cowboy Holiday (1934)
Passed | 56 min | Western
A cowboy tries to help his lawman friend, who will lose his job if he doesn't bring in a bandit known as the Juarez Kid.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Janet Chandler, Julian Rivero, Richard Alexander
Votes: 77
32. Thunder Over Texas (1934)
Approved | 61 min | Western
A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Marion Shilling, Helen Westcott, Philo McCullough
Votes: 77
33. Ridin' Thru (1934)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Dad Brooks is in financial trouble and needs to sell a lot of horses. But they are being rustled and needing help, he sends for Tom. Tom looks for the rustlers but eventually realizes that ... See full summary »
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Ruth Hiatt, Lafe McKee, Philo McCullough
Votes: 32
34. Frontier Days (1934)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch, has him killed, and then presents the note.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bill Cody, Ada Ince, Wheeler Oakman, Bill Cody Jr.
Votes: 114
35. Fighting Hero (1934)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Tyler abducts a young Mexican girl to save her from a lynching when she is accused of the murder of a VIP whom she killed in self defense. They soon fall in love, but Tyler discovers she may actually be in cahoots with a gang of robbers.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Renee Borden, Edward Hearn, Dick Botiller
Votes: 24
36. The Boss Cowboy (1934)
Passed | 51 min | Western
Both Nolan and Ross are losing cattle and Ross' foreman Kerns is the culprit. When Taylor finds a wanted poster of Kerns he goes after him.
Director: Victor Adamson | Stars: Buddy Roosevelt, Frances Morris, Sam Pierce, George Chesebro
Votes: 59
37. The Fighting Trooper (1934)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Western
When the Mountie Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves LaFarge's life and this gets him into ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Kermit Maynard, Barbara Worth, LeRoy Mason, Charles Delaney
Votes: 65
38. The Road to Ruin (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Drama
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
Directors: Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer | Stars: Helen Foster, Nell O'Day, Glen Boles, Robert Quirk
Votes: 341
39. Murder by Television (1935)
Passed | 53 min | Mystery, Thriller
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send ... See full summary »
Director: Clifford Sanforth | Stars: Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, Huntley Gordon, George Meeker
Votes: 766
40. Life Returns (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
Directors: Eugene Frenke, James P. Hogan | Stars: Onslow Stevens, Lois Wilson, Valerie Hobson, Frank Reicher
Votes: 263
41. Hong Kong Nights (1935)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Tom Keene, Wera Engels, Warren Hymer, Tetsu Komai
Votes: 64
42. The Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A disturbed doctor is obsessed with finding the cure for a strange disease and experimenting with his patients, who are slowly dying of their medical failures. Desperate, he embarks with ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Carlos Villarías, Beatriz Ramos, Natalia Ortiz, Manuel Noriega
Votes: 61
43. The Law of the 45's (1935)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, ... See full summary »
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Molly O'Day, Al St. John, Ted Adams
Votes: 134
44. Big Boy Rides Again (1935)
Approved | 57 min | Western
A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets out to find who did it.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Constance Bergen, Charles K. French, Lafe McKee
Votes: 99
45. Texas Terror (1935)
Approved | 51 min | Drama, Western
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend Dan in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters Dan's daughter who takes over her father's ranch. Then she finds out about his past.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Lucile Browne, LeRoy Mason, Fern Emmett
Votes: 1,055
46. The Silver Bullet (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Tom Henderson is made Sheriff of Chico to fight Slim Walker's gang. Unknown to Tom, banker Luke Hargrave is the gang's real boss. Dad Kane is looking for the man that blinded him whom he ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Tom Tyler, Jayne Regan, Lafe McKee, Charles King
Votes: 44
47. Trigger Tom (1935)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Tom Hilton and Stub Macey are heading out to the Jergenson ranch to buy his cattle. However, Jeckyl and Sheriff Slater control the cattle market that forces the ranchers to buy at their ... See full summary »
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Al St. John, William Gould, John Elliott
Votes: 40
48. The Rider of the Law (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Bob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger, Si Jenks, Lloyd Ingraham
Votes: 86
49. Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
Approved | 78 min | Musical, Romance, Western
Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian singer on her way to play an engagement in a Buenos Aires cabaret. THe plane she is flying... See full summary »
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian, John Miljan, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 126
50. Born to Battle (1935)
Passed | 63 min | Western
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to investigate recent cattle rustling at one of their ranches and to see if a pair of nesters ... See full summary »
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Jean Carmen, Earl Dwire, Julian Rivero
Votes: 77
51. Frontier Justice (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Western
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range. When Wilton kills a rancher, Brent is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Jane Barnes, Richard Cramer, Roger Williams
Votes: 86
52. The Cactus Kid (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Perrin and his partner get paid a big sum of money at the end of their cattle drive. Shortly thereafter, the partner is found with a knife in his back and Perrin is blamed for the murder.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Jack Perrin, Fred Humes, Philo McCullough, Slim Whitaker
Votes: 47
53. Border Vengeance (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Western
A rancher is murdered after discovering that 40 head of his cattle have been rustled. A neighboring family is accused of the crime and flees across the border, then tries to find the real killers to clear their name.
Director: Ray Heinz | Stars: Reb Russell, Rebel, Mary Jane Carey, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 72
54. The Red Blood of Courage (1935)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan arives posing as a wanted man... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Kermit Maynard, Ann Sheridan, Reginald Barlow, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Votes: 120
55. Gun Play (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Western
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Marion Shilling, Frank Yaconelli, Hal Taliaferro
Votes: 46
56. Unconquered Bandit (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Tom plans to revenge his fathers death at the hands of Cleyburn's men. He makes a deal with wanted outlaw the Nighthawk. Then posing as the Nighthawk, he plans to rob Cleyburn until he is ... See full summary »
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Lillian Gilmore, Slim Whitaker, William Gould
Votes: 32
57. Desert Mesa (1935)
Approved | 55 min | Western
This bottom-of-the-barrel entry from Victor Adamson/Art Mix/Denver Dixon productions finds jobless cowpuncher Jim Kirk riding into Cottonwood, Arizona looking for the man who swindled his ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Adamson | Stars: Wally West, Tanya Beauford, Franklyn Farnum, Bill Patton
Votes: 77
58. Trails of the Wild (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Kermit Maynard, Billie Seward, Monte Blue, Theodore von Eltz
Votes: 33
59. Heir to Trouble (1935)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Cowboy fights to keep his land after oil is discovered on it.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Ken Maynard, Joan Perry, Harry Woods, Martin Faust
Votes: 31
60. Loser's End (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Jack Perrin, Tina Menard, Frank Rice, William Gould
Votes: 65
61. North of Arizona (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Western
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Jack Perrin, Blanche Mehaffey, Lane Chandler, Al Bridge
Votes: 70
62. Sagebrush Troubadour (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Ranger Gene and sidekick Frog trail a murderer, with time out for lots of songs.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Barbara Pepper, Smiley Burnette, Champion
Votes: 107
63. The Vanishing Riders (1935)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bill Cody, Bill Cody Jr., Ethel Jackson, Hal Taliaferro
Votes: 68
64. Social Error (1935)
Approved | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled from college. Later on, though, he comes to the aid of a kidnapped heiress.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger, Monte Blue, Lloyd Hughes
Votes: 55
65. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Horror
An international expedition is sent into Cambodia to destroy an ancient formula that turns men into zombies.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Noland
Votes: 1,879
66. A Face in the Fog (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Mystery, Thriller
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes, Lawrence Gray, Jack Mulhall
Votes: 224
67. The Lion Man (1936)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure
A young British boy whose father was murdered by a treacherous Arab sheik finds himself in a position to exact revenge as an adult.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Jon Hall, Kathleen Burke, Ted Adams, Jimmy Aubrey
Votes: 92
68. Midnight at the Wax Museum (1936)
Not Rated | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: James Carew, Charles Oliver, Lucille Lisle, Kim Peacock
Votes: 129
69. The Macabre Trunk (1936)
79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Director: Miguel Zacarías | Stars: Ramón Pereda, René Cardona, Manuel Noriega, Esther Fernández
Votes: 55
70. Ouanga (1936)
Approved | 56 min | Horror
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.
Director: George Terwilliger | Stars: Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 123
71. Prison Shadows (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Lucille Lund, Joan Barclay, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 167
72. Ghost Patrol (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
A professor invents a radium tube that makes internal combustion engines stop running. He and his invention are captured by a gang of robbers. A federal agent is sent to rescue him.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Claudia Dell, Walter Miller, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 241
73. Marihuana (I) (1936)
Not Rated | 57 min | Crime, Drama
A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Harley Wood, Hugh McArthur, Pat Carlyle, Paul Ellis
Votes: 969
74. Happy-Go-Lucky (1936)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A singer (Venable) believes her marine pilot husband, accused of treason, has died in the Pacific. She finds a man who looks exactly like her husband dancing in a club act. Realizing it is ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Phil Regan, Evelyn Venable, Jed Prouty, William Newell
Votes: 84
75. Captain Calamity (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Crane Wilbur
Votes: 158
76. Racing Blood (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A jockey transforms an injured colt into a champion Thoroughbred after saving it from the glue factory.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Gladys Blake, Arthur Housman
Votes: 48
77. Song of the Gringo (1936)
Passed | 62 min | Western
Tex is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tex Ritter, Ted Adams, White Flash, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 182
78. Gun Grit (1936)
Approved | 55 min | Western
Big city gangster muscle in on ranch territory with a cattle protection racket. Out to stop them is federal agent Jack Perrin.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Jack Perrin, Ethel Beck, David Sharpe, Roger Williams
Votes: 59
79. Wildcat Saunders (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Romance, Sport
Perrin plays a boxer whose manager takes him out to a ranch for training, but Perrin soon discovers the ranch foreman is responsible for a $100,000 jewel heist.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Jack Perrin, Starlight the Horse, Blanche Mehaffey, William Gould
Votes: 35
80. Ridin' On (1936)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O'Neil. Tom Rork has found a bullet with markings on it that he hopes will clear Danny.
Director: Ira Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Joan Barclay, Rex Lease, John Elliott
Votes: 36
81. Oh, Susanna! (1936)
Passed | 59 min | Western
While riding to Mineral Springs Autry is robbed by thieves and then tossed off the train.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Earle Hodgins
Votes: 253
82. Hair-Trigger Casey (1936)
Approved | 59 min | Western
After having been gone for some time, a cowboy comes home to his ranch to find himself up against a gang involved in smuggling Chinese into the country.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Jack Perrin, Betty Mack, Ed Cassidy, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Votes: 52
83. Wildcat Trooper (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Western
A Royal Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in a criminal called "The Raven." The problem is that no one has ever seen him.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Kermit Maynard, Hobart Bosworth, Fuzzy Knight, Lois Wilde
Votes: 59
84. Desert Justice (1936)
Approved | 58 min | Western
A gang of bank robbers holes up at a cowboy's ranch. One of the robbers turns out to be his brother. After the brother is killed by the gang, the cowboy tracks them across the desert.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Jack Perrin, Warren Hymer, Marion Dowling, David Sharpe
Votes: 35
85. Santa Fe Bound (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Western
When Crenshaw kills a bushwhacker he takes his letter of introduction. This letter saves him from hanging when Stanton thinks he is the outlaw he has hired. But Crenshaw is in more trouble when Denton arrives and exposes him as a fake.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Jeanne Martel, Richard Cramer, Slim Whitaker
Votes: 87
86. We're in the Legion Now (1936)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston, Vince Barnett, Eleanor Hunt
Votes: 100
87. Headin' for the Rio Grande (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Music, Western
Ike Travis runs a protection racket. When the herd owners refuse his services, his men rustle their cattle. But when Tex Saunders shows up and starts thwarting their attempts, Travis plans to get rid of him.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, White Flash, Eleanor Stewart
Votes: 59
88. Gambling with Souls (1936)
Unrated | 70 min | Drama
Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gay Sheridan
Votes: 211
89. The Big Show (1936)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Music, Western
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double.
Directors: Mack V. Wright, Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Sally Payne
Votes: 299
90. Ambush Valley (1936)
Approved | 57 min | Western
When Clay Morgan kills Joel Potter, Marshal Manning has to arrest the brother of the girl he plans to marry. When the Morgans effect Clay's escape, the Potters take Ann Morgan as a hostage.... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Bob Custer, Victoria Vinton, Vane Calvert, Eddie Phillips
Votes: 90
91. Vengeance of Rannah (1936)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Insurance Agent Ted Sanders has been called in to investigate a robbery and murder. A deputy also arrives to investigate. But unknown to Ted, the Deputy is a fake and actually part of the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Bob Custer, John Elliott, Victoria Vinton
Votes: 60
92. The Kid Ranger (1936)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Ranger Ray plans to marry stage driver Bill Mason's daughter Mary. Unknown to Mary, twenty years earlier when he was Sheriff Mason had to kill her father.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, William Farnum, Joan Barclay, Earl Dwire
Votes: 73
93. Outlaws of the Range (1936)
Approved | 59 min | Western
When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson is killed, Steve's gun is found nearby and he as arrested. Jimmy Wilson breaks him out of jail and he heads after the real killer.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Bill Cody, Marie Burton, William McCall, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 59
94. Atlantic Flight (1937)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Atlantic Flight was designed as a vehicle for Dick Merrill, a real-life pilot then very much in the news because of his record-breaking flights.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Dick Merrill, Jack Lambie, Paula Stone, Weldon Heyburn
Votes: 95
95. The Shadow Strikes (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney.
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Agnes Anderson, James Blakeley, Walter McGrail
Votes: 587
96. Arizona Days (1937)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Tex and sidekick Grass join McGill's traveling show. When Price has McGill's wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay.
Director: John English | Stars: Tex Ritter, Syd Saylor, White Flash, Ethelind Terry
Votes: 182
97. Trouble in Texas (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Rita Hayworth, White Flash, Earl Dwire
Votes: 300
98. Hittin' the Trail (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
This was one of the earlier uses of Robert Tansey's favorite plot (only the 3rd time he had trotted it out of the stable, but he got six more films out of it in later years) in which a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Earl Dwire, White Flash, Jerry Bergh
Votes: 131
99. Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step in to help Madge keep the freight line going. When they foil the gang's further attempts, Kalmus gets the Judge to jail the two.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Karl Hackett, White Flash, Louise Stanley
Votes: 189
100. Riders of the Rockies (1937)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Tex and his pals join the Rangers to fight rustlers along the border. When Doc and Pee Wee get framed for rustling and then jailed, Tex deserts the Rangers, crosses the border, and joins up... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, White Flash, Louise Stanley, Horace Murphy
Votes: 87
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