Director: Sam Peckinpah, in his feature film debut
Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran
It’s an unholy alliance when a former Union Army sergeant and a pair of trigger-happy outlaws escort
a dancehall hostess through dangerous Apache territory.
Stars: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Zasu Pitts
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a “rescue” effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder’s long-gone and hiding husband.
Stars: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louis Payne
Director: Gregory La Cava
Steve Banks is a hard-drinking newspaper reporter. His wife Margaret, a reporter for a rival paper, threatens to divorce him if he doesn’t quit his drinking. Steve pursues a story about drug dealers even when his editor fires him. When the editor is murdered, Steve is accused of the killing!
Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Richards, Tom Conway
Director: Leigh Jason
When an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman’s husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the US. But the father, now a successful architect, claims not to remember ever having gotten married or having any children.
Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy
Director: John M. Stahl
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Stars: John Wayne, Evalyn Knapp, Reginald Barlow
Director: Phil H. Whitman
In this Romantic Comedy, a young John Wayne is atypically cast as a tycoon’s irresponsible playboy son.
Algy, Bulldog Drummond’s right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body – which disappears when he summons a bobby. Bodies keep disappearing as Drummond keeps summoning the authorities, particularly his long-suffering upstairs neighbor, Captain Nielsen; the ever faithful Algy also finds his wedding night disrupted by, among other things, some emergency code-breaking. And of course, there’s a beautiful woman (there’s always a beautiful woman in the case), Lola, who turns out to be the daughter of the dead man who started all this.
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