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Black Arrow (1944)
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941’s “White Eagle”, Columbia’s 24th serial (following “The Desert Hawk-1944” and ahead of 1945’s “Brenda Starr, Reporter”), “Black Arrow” finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
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The Return of the Vampire (1943)
In 1918, an English family are terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
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Redhead from Manhattan (1943)
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine (both parts played by Lupe Vélez), who’s having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine’s husband or Rita’s saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Murder in Times Square (1943)
An actor (Edmund Lowe) becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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Submarine Raider (1942)
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier “Hiranamu”, orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the “Sea Serpent”, commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil’s Island (1941)
A ship’s officer is sentenced to Devil’s Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
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La Conga Nights (1940)
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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The Girl and the Gambler (1939)
An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.
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Fixer Dugan (1939)
Actor Lee Tracy plays the title role in director Lew Landers’ 1939 drama, about the quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas. The cast also includes Virginia Weidler, Peggy Shannon, Rita La Roy, William Edmunds, Edythe Elliott, Edward Gargan and Irene Franklin.
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Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)
An ace reporter (Richard Dix) with a girlfriend (Lucille Ball) nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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