Stars: Angela Lansbury, Mark Stevens, Patric Knowles Director: Edward Dmytryk Writers: Hollister Noble (story) Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. First mate Ben Waldridge recruits his former gun crew who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they …
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Directors: Clinton Childs, Ralph P. King Writer: Lowell Thomas (narrative) Stars: Lowell Thomas An expedition is sent into the primitive Australian outback to search for a lost white woman who was shipwrecked and married to a tribal Aborigine! source
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! …
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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 …
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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! source
Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson Director: Dudley Murphy Writers: Eugene O’Neill (play), DuBose Heyward (screenplay) Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island. source
Stars: Steffi Duna, Dennis Morgan, Douglas Walton Director: Victor Halperin Writers: Richard Carroll (story), Howard Higgin (dialogue) In a Newfoundland whaling village, a love triangle develops among two brothers and a woman. source
Stars: Frank McCormick, Loretta Young, Ralph Forbes Director: Herbert Brenon Writers: Percival Christopher Wren An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend. source
Stars: Richard Talmadge, Alberta Vaughn, George Walsh Director: Harry S. Webb Writers: Leon Metzetti (story) A sailor finds an ancient vase on an uncharted island. He is later hired by archaeologists to lead them back to the island. They discover the temples of a lost civilization. source
Stars: George O’Brien, Constance Worth, William Hall Director: Ewing Scott Writers: Daniel Jarrett (screenplay), James Gruen (screenplay) In this high-seas adventure, an assistant state’s attorney must serve a subpoena upon a wealthy yacht owner. To do this, he poses as a playboy and signs on as a crewmember for a race across the Pacific to …
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