Noah Beery Jr.

A wartime drama based on the real-life Makin Island raid by the U.S. Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion, led by Colonel Evans Carlson. Randolph Scott plays the officer who assembles a volunteer unit of "Carlson's Raiders" from civilians and soldiers, trains them in jungle warfare, and leads them on a mission to attack a Japanese-held Pacific island. The film was made with the cooperation of the Marine Corps and was released less than a year after the raid it dramatizes. A young Robert Mitchum appears in one of his earliest credited roles. The film entered the public domain due to non-renewal of its copyright.

War · Drama

The East Side Kids rescue Sylvia, a young girl fleeing her abusive stepfather Morley, and hide her in their clubhouse dressed as a boy. When Morley turns up dead — killed by racketeer McGaffey for a stolen stash of money — Danny is arrested for the murder after returning to the girl's apartment for her clothes. Muggs is then blackmailed into joining a warehouse robbery, leaving the kids to clear their friend's name and catch the real killer, with help from Rusty, a former East Side Kid home on leave from the Navy. The eleventh East Side Kids picture, directed by Wallace Fox for Monogram, and one of the series' more dramatic entries. The film entered the public domain because its copyright was not renewed.

Comedy · Crime · Drama

Ace Drummond is a 1936 Universal Pictures film serial in thirteen chapters, based on the comic strip of the same name by the World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker and drawn by Clayton Knight. John 'Dusty' King stars as Ace Drummond, a dashing pilot sent by Washington to a remote corner of Mongolia to investigate the disappearance of aircraft on an airway being opened to the East. He finds a mysterious villain called "The Dragon" terrorizing the region in search of a mountain of jade, and allies himself with the daughter of a captured scientist (Jean Rogers) and his own mechanic (Noah Beery Jr.) to smash the ring. Directed by Ford Beebe and Clifford Smith, the serial is a brisk chapterplay of aerial stunts, cliffhanger endings, and exotic intrigue.

Adventure · Action · Serial