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Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Fireman Bob Darrow invents an original chemical fire extinguisher, and his rival, Dan Mitchell, for June Madison, also has his eyes on Bob's invention. Chapter 1: The Red Peril, Chapter 2: Flaming Hate, Chapter 3: The Fire Trap, Chapter 4: Death's Chariot, Chapter 5: The Avalanche, Chapter 6: The Jaws of Death, Chapter 7: Forest of Fire, Chapter 8: Blank Cartridges, Chapter 9: The House of Terror / The House of Horror, Chapter 10: The Depths of Doom, Chapter 11: A Flaming Death, Chapter 12: The Last Alarm.
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
Hoot is a cowpuncher, somewhat addicted to liquor (when he can get it). His sweetheart, the rancher's daughter, tells him that if he ever takes another drink, their engagement is at an end.
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12 episode serial of a brother and sister searching Australia for a gold mine that their father had discovered before his death. Episodes: 1. A Treacherous Friend, 2. The Man Trap, 3. Trapped. 4. Face to Face, 5. Ambushed, 6. Unmasked, 7. In Wolf's Clothing, 8. An Attack in the Dark, 9. A Ride for Life, 10. The Blast of Death, 11. The Living Dead, 12. The Reward.
Crossed Clues is a 1921 silent Western.
In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after ivory and by a tribe of hostile natives.
Dynamite -- Universal's answer to Warner Bros.' canine star Rin Tin Tin -- and his owner Jerry Matthews (Edmund Cobb) come to the aid of a beleaguered rancher in this typical low-budget "doggie melodrama" set in the West.
Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the cardinal does his best to protect the townspeople.
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
Bandits Beware is a 1921 silent Western.
A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
Jess, a country girl, leaves home when her sister tries to boss her. Later she secures employment in a department store in the city. There she meets Jake, a good-for-nothing, who promises to marry her. Jane, Jess's elder sister, follows her to the city and secures employment in the same store. Jane soon learns that Jake does not intend to marry her sister, and, pretending to be infatuated with him herself, decides to give her sister proof of her supposed sweetheart's true character. Jess hides in Jake's rooms and Jane enters with the ne'er-do-well. Jake attempts to force Jane to his will with a revolver. Jane promises to be his sweetheart, provided he signs a note, presumably to Jess, saying, "I am tired of this life," etc. Jake signs the note, and when Jane fails to keep her promise there is a struggle for possession of the weapon. In the confusion the revolver is accidentally discharged and Jake is killed.
Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope artist Trixie Tremaine, and such studio stalwarts as Slim Cole, Sam Polo, Monte Montague, and Albert Prisco
During a protracted drought, Larry Day and his riders from the Bar None find and rescue Professor Parkinson, an alleged rainmaker.
A girl advocate foils a Jewish usurer's claim for a pound of a debtor's flesh.(IMDb)
The District Attorney came face to face with the man who he believed had murdered his father years before. This man was held for murder. The District Attorney made every effort to find his victim guilty. The night before the execution, however, a dying companion's confession placed the guilt where it belonged. Should he now, as District Attorney, destroy the confession or uphold the honor of the law?
