Lyle Talbot
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They Raid by Night
(1942)The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken (George Nesie) and Harry (Charles Rogers). Inga (June Duprez), a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter (Victor Varconi), betrays their hiding place. The three overpower the Gestapo men sent after them, take their uniforms and enter the prison camp and free Heden. The four men then start for the coast to meet the Commando expedition. Inga, who the men still trust, again informs von Ritter and Falken is captured but Bob and Harry escape with the aid of Dalberg, who they thought was a Quisling stooge.

Jail Bait
(1954)A sinister gangster who on the run after a botched robbery blackmails a plastic surgeon into giving him a new face and identity.

Torture Ship
(1939)A deranged scientist tries to cure the criminal mind by performing medical experiments on a group of convicts trapped aboard his private ship.

Trapped by Television
(1936)An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.

The Thirteenth Guest
(1932)Thirteen years after a mysterious dinner party at which the wealthy host died, a black-hooded maniac begins killing off the dead man’s heirs.

The Purchase Price
(1932)This offbeat melodrama was directed by the iconoclastic William A. Wellman and stars Barbara Stanwyck as Joan Gordon, a hardboiled nightclub singer on the lam who becomes a farmer's mail-order bride. After Joan gets fed up being the kept woman of her married boss, bootlegger Ed Fields (Lyle Talbot), she flees New York City and ends up in North Dakota as the mail-order bride of wheat farmer Jim Gilson (George Brent). The film features one of the weirdest wedding ceremonies ever shot, and Stanwyck's rendition of "Take Me Away" marks the first time she sang on screen.

She Had to Say Yes
(1933)A secretary pads her salary by dating prospective buyers for her company.

Ladies They Talk About
(1933)A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she's sent to prison.

The Old West
(1952)When an outlaw gang interferes with Gene Autry’s deal to tame and sell wild horses to a stagecoach line, gunfights and a wild stagecoach race ensue.

Affairs of Cappy Ricks
(1937)Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage at sea to discover that his family and business are in chaos.

Call of The Yukon
(1938)A writer being hunted by a pack of wolves is rescued by a fur trader, who guides her and her animals safely out of the Yukon territory.

Wild Weed
(1949)Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!

Glen or Glenda
(1953)Glen has a secret which threatens to destroy his happily-ever-after with Barbara -- the other woman in his life is Glen himself!

The Case of the Lucky Legs
(1935)A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Devil's Cargo
(1948)The Falcon comes to the rescue of a man imprisoned for murder by tracking down and exposing the real killer.

Mandalay
(1934)A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Heat Lightning
(1934)The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering, desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga (Aline MacMahon), a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra (Ann Dvorak), her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance. The film: Heat Lightning, an edgy, femme prenoir that turns incendiary when visitors arrive – two bejeweled divorcees and Olga's old love, a killer on the lam. Guiding a cast that also includes Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Ruth Donnelly, FrankMcHugh and Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) ramps up pre-Code wisecracking and vise-like tension into an emotional wallop of an ending.

North of the Border
(1946)Rancher Utah Neyes crosses the border into Canada to meet his partner, only to find that he has been murdered by a gang led by Nails Nelson.

The Hot Angel
(1958)A Korean War veteran uses his aviation skills to win over the reckless younger brother of a deceased combat buddy.

Mesa of Lost Women
(1953)Passengers on a hijacked plane are stranded on a desert mesa, where a mad scientist experiments with giant spiders, dwarves, and indestructible women.