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- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnBrenda MarshallClaude RainsGeoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsTyrone PowerLinda DarnellBasil RathboneA young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandRaymond MasseyIn 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
- DirectorsFord BeebeRay TaylorStarsGordon JonesWade BotelerKeye LukeA newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsVictor JoryIris MeredithJames CravenThe struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
- DirectorsJohn EnglishWilliam WitneyStarsHenry BrandonWilliam RoyleRobert KellardThe nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesis, Dr. Nayland Smith, and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsVictor JoryVeda Ann BorgRoger MooreThe Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
- DirectorsFord BeebeRay TaylorStarsBuster CrabbeCarol HughesCharles MiddletonA ravaging plague has struck the Earth threatening no less than global extinction. This alien disease is believed to be the evil spawn of Ming, the merciless Emperor of Planet Mongo. The world's only hope now rests with Flash Gordon.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsLouis HaywardJoan BennettGeorge SandersGeneral Gurko Lanen is the dictator of Lichtenburg, a country set in the Balkans. With the help of Napoleon II, the rightful ruler Grand Duchess Zona aims to overthrow the general. She is also helped by the visiting Count of Monte Cristo.
- DirectorsJohn EnglishWilliam WitneyStarsDon 'Red' BarryNoah BeeryTommy CookA local politician subjects the country to a reign of terror in order to secure the right of way for a contemplated railroad. Red Ryder is on hand to see that justice prevails.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollPaulette GoddardIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsWalter PidgeonDonald MeekKaren VerneA body is found in a locked airplane compartment and a German female refugee is a suspect. Passenger, detective Nick Carter, is convinced she didn't do it and works to solve the mysterious murder.
- DirectorsFord BeebeRay TaylorStarsDick ForanAnne NagelTom FaddenKing Carter, despot of the prairie domain, will stop at nothing to prevent the Hartford Transcontinental Railroad from running through Hellgate Pass. Jeff Ramsay, railroad official, and his aide, set out to put an end to Carter's tyranny.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsRonald ReaganJohn LitelLya LysThe corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsJames StephensonMargot StevensonHenry O'NeillDespite an exclusive contract with the U.S. government, designer Archer Coe's design is being bid on by German, Japanese, and Italian agents - until he's murdered.
- DirectorDavid HowardStarsGeorge O'BrienVirginia ValeHerbert HeywoodLawyer Jeff Toland arrives in Ivestown and quickly runs into trouble with Harper. The railroad is coming and Harper is planning to buy up all the town businesses. When it is learned the railroad is going to East Ivestown instead, Harper heads there planning to force everyone to sell but Jeff breaks it up. Harper returns with all his gang, but Jeff has organized the citizens of East Ivestown.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsRichard DixKent TaylorEdmund LoweAlcoholic pilot struggles to turn his life around.
- DirectorOtto BrowerStarsCesar RomeroSheila RyanRobert SterlingThe Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.