Theodore's World

Stars: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers
Director: William Nigh

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl “Captain J” on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the initial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there’s fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun.

Stars: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings
Director: William Nigh

When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers a international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim’s company.

Stars: Bruce Cabot, Judith Allen, H.B. Warner
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening “beat” gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complications ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman’s daughter!

Stars: Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Jimmy Wallington
Director: David Howard

A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.

Stars: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Sally O’Neil
Writer/Director: Frank R. Strayer

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor’s office, the physician–feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn’t save her–takes an interest in the woman’s young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn’t particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her–even though she’s engaged to his fiancé’s brother.

Stars: Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Hugh Trevor
Director: Lowell Sherman
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood (play)

In this Pre-code Comedy, the hapless king of a fictional European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a scheming son, a daughter who wants to elope, and a peasant revolt. Based on Robert E. Sherwood’s play “The Queen’s Husband.”

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Stars: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, Nat Pendleton
Director: Del Lord

An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.

Stars: J. Farrell MacDonald, Polly Ann Young, Warren Hull
Director: William West

A veteran firefighter is forced to retire at age 65 by the Fire Department. However, when one of his friends dies in a blaze set by a serial arsonist, the now retired fireman teams up with his daughter and her fiancé, who is an investigator for an insurance company, to hunt down and capture the arsonist.

Stars: William Gargan, Wallace Ford, June Lang, Gilbert Roland
Director: Elmer Clifton

When a beautiful aviatrix crash-lands on an isolated Pacific Island, a nefarious gun-runner uses her as bait in an illicit arms deal. A Marine pilot rushes to her rescue from a nearby base, but will his desperate mission succeed?