Stars: William Farnum, Priscilla Dean, Wally Albright
Director: Otto Brower
Writers: Lee Chadwick (story)
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she’s the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before!
Stars: Heather Angel, Roger Pryor, Ford Sterling
Director: William Nigh
Writers: Jack Natteford (story), Claire Church (story)
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father’s paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy’s widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying–Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes’ uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles and Bruce Cabot
Director: James Whale
Writers: Harold Buckley (story and screenplay)
During a violent storm, an airplane bound for China crash-lands on an uncharted South Sea island. All of the passengers, including a nurse, a fugitive criminal, a blonde strumpet, a crooked former senator, a “radical” heiress, a munitions salesmen Honeyman, survive unscathed but now must fight fortheir survival.
From the director of Frankenstein!
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Stars: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, and Jackie Gleason
Director: Robert Florey
Writers: Anthony Coldeway (screenplay), Dorothy Mackaye (play)
An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before she’s sent to prison.
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Stars: George Houston, Ruth Coleman, Douglas Walton
Director: Charles Lamont
Writer: Bennett Cohen (screenplay)
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a pricelessource of pearls in the South Pacific. But when an associate puts the whole operation in jeopardy, an unscrupulous rival decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim’s claim!
A boy is found stealing food at Horse Davis’ ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse’s daughter Abby, believes the boy to also be a horse thief and possibly worse. Given the nickname Cooncat by the cook, the boy explains that he was wrongfully accused of murdering a man named Shell and has fled from the law. Shell owed him money, he says, and two strangers known as Smiling Man and Roper gave him a gun to confront Shell. He wound up unconscious and next to Shell’s bullet-riddled body.
Horse doubts the boy’s story, though youngest daughter Meagan believes it. At an engagement party for Pat and Abby, word comes that Pat’s parents have been found murdered. A livid Pat is ready to hang Cooncat for the crime. Horse talks him out of it, creating a rift between the two old friends. Smiling Man and Roper turn up in the bunkhouse. They laugh at Cooncat’s predicament and call him their lucky charm. Boatwhistle is shot by Smiling Man, and just as Horse is about to be ambushed, Cooncat calls out to warn him and is wounded. Pat rides up just in time to save Horse’s life. The two ranchers agree to take Cooncat under their wing.
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Directed by Alfonso Brescia, produced by Luigi Alessi, written by Alfonso Brescia and Aldo Crudo, starring John Drew Barrymore as Cooncat, Chill Wills as Boatwhistle, John Archer as Pat Farrell, Lois Butler as Meagan Davis, Kristine Miller as Abby Davis, Basil Ruysdael as “Horse” Davis, Jack Elam as Smiling Man, Dave Kashner as Roper, Frank Cordell as Frank, Clem Fuller as Dixie, Hugh Aiken as Art Simms, Howard Joslin as Jim Shell.
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Source: “High Lonesome (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 27 September 2013. Web. 29 December 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Lonesome_(film).