When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

San Quentin’s new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory…

Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood…

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl…

In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked businessmen try to swindle both sides.

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most…

Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named “Ace” Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of…

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid…

A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding–namely, murder.

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance’s father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There’s only one hitch:…

A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn’t have the right kind of dress to wear, so her…

Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam… Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia’s series of comedy films based on Chic Young’s…

George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. “The Saint,” in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps,…

Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. “The Saint” the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by…

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father’s release. As assistant to mobster…

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill’s prying wife wants to…

The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn’t…

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy,…

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador’s daughter.

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded…

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising…

A horse breeder’s granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This “tense, thrilling mystery” (‘California Congress of Parents and Teachers’) pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic…

When a friend of Charlie’s is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling…

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it…

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When…