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Jungle Terror 1946
Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.

The Black Coin 1936 star_border 6
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand 1936 star_border 4.8
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.

Custer's Last Stand 1936
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand.

Custer's Last Stand 1936 star_border 4.5
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.

The Drunkard 1935
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

Cyclone of the Saddle 1935 star_border 5.2
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.

The Cowboy and the Bandit 1935 star_border 6
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a job on the Barton ranch and joins in the fight against gang leader Larkin. Finding a wounded Scarface he helps him recover. Arrested by Larkin's stooge Sheriff, and with another lynch mob after him, he once again needs Scarface's help.

Without Honors 1932 star_border 5
Jack Marian isa gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Jack plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gang of smugglers. Along the way, he clears the name of the brother of Texas ranger Mike Donovan, and helps patch up the romance between Donovan and heroine Bernice.

Half a Hero 1930
A short comedy film.

Sock and Run 1929
Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.

Taking the Count 1929
A dubious count comes on a visit.

Springtime Saps 1929 star_border 8
Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback find comic situations as bums, night cops and seance attendees in this silent short.

Circus Daze 1928
Circus employee Poodles gets into plenty of monkey business while competing with the bully ringmaster for the love of equestrienne heroine Betty. But when she faints before an important performance, he must don drag so the show can go on.

Better Behave 1928
Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end.

Fare Enough 1928
Poodles loses a job working at a car dealer so he gets a job working for the Hardly Able Cab Company. How he got from driving a cab to fighting with a horse is an odd and contrived situation, though the horse appears to be his co-star from CIRCUS DAZE.

Once Over 1928
A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.

Thick and Thin 1928
Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food.

Rudolph's Revenge 1928 star_border 1
Relentless Rudolph is back with another scheme to capture Belinda and humiliate Hairbreadth Harrry.

Have a Heart 1928
In this lively late silent two-reeler, blundering blowhard Jimmy is "always looking for work; someday he'll find it, then he'll have to quit." But meanwhile he applies for a job at a newspaper whose editor really, really wants to solve the mystery of the "haunted" Klutz Mansion. So our hero and the boss' daughter go to investigate a spooky abode that may not have actual ghosts but does have an actual mad scientist in residence.

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