Alien Dead 1980  R, 71 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: It Fell from the Sky
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Mike Bonavia, John Leinier, Buster Crabbe, Raymond Roberts, Linda Lewis, George Kelsey, Dennis Underwood, Rich Vogan, Martin Nicholas, Norman Riggins, Fred Olen Ray, Nancy Kranz
Meteor showers in the Florida swamps bring aliens, which, in turn, turn people on a houseboat into zombies that feast on alligators and locals. Low, low budget that features 72-year-old Buster Crabbe–in his final film role–as the sheriff.
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Arizona Mahoney 1936  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joe Cook, Robert Cummings, Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Marjorie Gateson, John Miljan, Dave Chasen, Irving Bacon, Billy Lee, Fred Kohler, James P. Burtis, Frank Mayo, Jim Mason, Jack Perrin
Arizona Mahoney (Joe Cook), who makes a living being shot out of a cannon in the circus, and his piano-playing partner Phillip Randall (Robert Cummings) decide to settle down in the West, and, with help from the circus elephant, they round up a gang of rustlers.
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The Arizona Raiders 1936  N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western / Comedy
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Raymond Hatton, Marsha Hunt, Betty Jane Rhodes, Johnny Downs, Grant Withers, Don Rowan, Arthur Aylesworth, Richard Carle, Petra Silva, Herbert Heywood, Bob Card, Ken Cooper
Laramie (Buster Crabbe) saves himself from a hanging, saves horse thief Tracks (Raymond Hatton) from a hanging, springs young Lonesome (Johnny Downs) from jail, and the threesome head out on a variety of humorous escapades. Based on a Zane Grey story.
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Billy the Kid Trapped 1942  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart, Anne Jeffreys, Glenn Strange, Walter McGrail, Ted Adams, Jack Ingram, Milton Kibbee, Eddie Phillips, Budd Buster, Wally West, Herman Hack, Horace B. Carpenter, George Chesebro
Billy (Buster Crabbe), Fuzzy (Al St. John), and Jeff (Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart) are rescued by outlaws Montana (Budd Buster), Pete (Wally West), and Curley (George Chesebro) who then assume disguises as Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff. They rob and murder, and now Billy and his friends must work to clear their names.
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Cattle Stampede 1943 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Charles King, Glenn Strange, Frank Ellis, Ed Cassidy, Ray Bennett, Roy Brent, Steve Clark, Budd Buster, John Elliott
Billy and Fuzzy (Buster Crabbe and Al St. John) come to the rescue when cattle rustlers begin their operations in Oklahoma. Plenty of action amid Fuzzy's antics.
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 The Contender 1944 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Donald Mayo, Glenn Strange, Milton Kibbee, Roland Drew, Sam Flint, George Turner, Jimmy Aubrey, Jack Ingram, Donald Kerr
As the means of getting his hands on money needed to send his son, Mickey (Donald Mayo), to an elite military academy, widower Gary Farrell (Buster Crabbe) enters a boxing tournament. But, he fails–thanks to alcohol addiction and a gold-digging girl. Gary's friends step in to help, and he learns that Mickey did not want to go to that military school after all.
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Daughter of Shanghai 1937 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Florey
Cast: Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Frank Sully, Paul Fix, Evelyn Brent
While avenging her father's murder, Lan Ying Lin (Anna May Wong) uncovers a smuggling ring led by the diabolical Otto Hartman (Charles Bickford).
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Deadly Ray from Mars 1966 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Flash Gordon: Mars Attacks the World
Director: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon, Donald Kerr, Beatrice Roberts, Richard Alexander, C. Montague Shaw, Warner Richmond, Kenne Duncan, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Mulhall, Lane Chandler, Anthony Warde, Ben Lewis
This is a feature-length version of 1938's 15-episode serial "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" and was released in 1966. A deadly ray is sucking up Earth's nitrogen, so Flash (Buster Crabbe) and his crew must save the day. They find that Flash's enemy Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) is behind it, working from Mars. Then, there's Ming's ally Queen Azara (Beatrice Roberts), who has the power to turn people into clay.
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Desert Gold 1936 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, Tom Keene, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Leif Erickson, Frank Mayo, Walter Miller, Si Jenks, Art Mix, Robert McKenzie
An Indian tribe led by Maya (Buster Crabbe) guards the secret of a vast gold deposit on their land. But a gang led by Chetley (Monte Blue) intends to extract the secret of the tribe. Based on a Zane Grey novel.
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Drift Fence 1936 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Texas Desperadoes
Director: Otho Lovering
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Tom Keene, Katherine DeMille, Benny Baker, Leif Erickson, Stanley Andrews, Richard Carle, Irving Bacon, Jan Duggan, Effie Ellsler, Walter Long, Chester Gan, Richard Alexander, Budd Fine
Jim Traft (Benny Baker) meets Jim Travis (Tom Keene) at a rodeo and tells Travis of his troubles with cattle rustlers. Travis, who is actually a Texas Ranger, suggests that he impersonate Traft in building a fence to keep the rustlers out. But Travis must not only fight the rustlers, but he needs to convince neighbor Slinger Dunn (Buster Crabbe) that the fence must be built. Travis wins not only the battle of the rustlers but also wins the love of Slinger's sister, Molly (Katherine DeMille).
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 Flash Gordon 1936  N/R, 245 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
aka: Space Soldiers
Atomic Rocketship
Director: Frederick Stephani
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson, Frank Shannon, Richard Alexander, Jack "Tiny" Lipson, George Cleveland, Duke York, Earl Askam, Theodore Lorch, Richard Tucker, James Pierce, Muriel Goodspeed, House Peters Jr.
The comic strip comes to life with this 13-episode serial, which was also cut down into a feature-length film. The characters are quite interesting and well-developed as Planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. So, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) and friends, including his companion Dale (Jean Rogers) blast off to see what's going on out there. Mongo turns out to be ruled by Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) who has all sorts of creatures ready to do his dirty work as he carries out his plan for Earth.
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 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 1940 N/R, 225 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne, Frank Shannon, John Hamilton, Herbert Rawlinson, Shirley Deane, Lee Powell, Roland Drew, Tom Chatterton, Don Rowan, Ben Taggart, Victor Zimmerman, Edgar Edwards
Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) is back in action in this 12-episode serial as the "Purple Death," a lethal plague, hits Earth. Flash's nemesis, Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) of the planet Mong, is behind it. So, Flash and friends return to Mong seeking the antidote. Of course, the powers of Ming will make that difficult.
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 Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars 1938 N/R, 300 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon, Beatrice Roberts, Donald Kerr, Richard Alexander, C. Montague Shaw, Warner Richmond, Kenne Duncan, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Mulhall, Lane Chandler, Anthony Warde, Ben Lewis
The gang from the original 1936 "Flash Gordon" is back in this 15-episode serial that is still fun to watch. A deadly ray is sucking up Earth's nitrogen, so Flash (Buster Crabbe) and his crew must save the day. They find that Flash's enemy Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) is behind it, working from Mars. Then, there's Ming's ally Queen Azara (Beatrice Roberts) who has the power to turn people into clay. A full-length feature was made from the serial, known as "Deadly Ray from Mars."
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Forlorn River 1937 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
aka: River of Destiny
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Harvey Stephens, John Patterson, Syd Saylor, William Duncan, Chester Conklin, Ray Bennett, Ruth Warren, Lew Kelly, Barlowe Borland, Larry Lawrence, Lee Powell, Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian
In this Zane Grey tale, Nevada (Buster Crabbe) and his sidekick "Weary" (Syd Saylor) are in pursuit of Les Setter (Harvey Stephens) and his gang. Nevada finds Les, but the outlaw is clever and frames Nevada for rustling, and the ineffective sheriff (Chester Conklin) jails Nevada. By story's end, Nevada eventually gets his man–and also gets the lady (June Martel).
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Fuzzy Settles Down 1944 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Patty McCarthy, Charles King, John Merton, Frank McCarroll, Hal Price, John Elliott, Ed Cassidy, Robert F. Hill, Ted Mapes, Tex Palmer
Despite Billy's (Buster Crabbe) pleas, sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) decides to settle down and buy a newspaper in a small town. When he is falsely accused of stealing the newspaper's money, Billy is close by to save the day. Fuzzy thinks that perhaps the countryside might be a better place to retire.
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Gangster's Den 1945 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Sydney Logan, Charles King, Emmett Lynn, I. Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard, Ed Cassidy, George Chesebro, Karl Hackett, Michael Owen, Patricia Knox
Crooked lawyer Horace Black (I. Stanford Jolley) intends to take over a saloon and a ranch, but Billy and Fuzzy (Buster Crabbe and Al St. John) are there to stop the bad man and his henchmen.
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Jungle Man 1941  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Harry L. Fraser
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Sheila Darcy, Charles Middleton, Vince Barnett, Weldon Heyburn, Robert Carson, Paul Scott, Hal Price, Floyd Shackelford
Dr. Hammond (Buster Crabbe) has developed a serum to cure a dangerous jungle fever and is now on his way to deliver it when his ship is sunk by a German U-Boat. But fear not, our hero is also a great diver, and he recovers the serum and saves the day.
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The Kid Rides Again 1943 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Iris Meredith, Glenn Strange, Charles King, I. Stanford Jolley, Ted Adams, Edward Peil Sr., Slim Whitaker, Kenne Duncan
In a continuation of the "Billy the Kid" series, Billy (Buster Crabbe) is falsely accused of robbing a train, so he breaks out of jail in order to find the real culprits. It's a sure bet that he won't fail.
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Law of Vengeance 1933  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
aka: To the Last Man
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Buster Crabbe, Jack La Rue, Barton MacLane, Noah Beery, Muriel Kirkland, Fuzzy Knight, Gail Patrick, Egon Brecher, John Carradine, Shirley Temple
The feuding Kentucky Hayden and Colby families suffered a casualty when a Hayden was murdered by Jed Colby (Noah Beery). The feuding resumes when Jed gets out of jail, this time in Nevada where the Haydens have relocated. But there is a complication: Lynn Hayden (Randolph Scott) plans to marry Ellen Colby (Esther Ralston). An early feature film appearance by Shirley Temple.
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Million Dollar Legs 1939 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Betty Grable, John Hartley, Donald O'Connor, Jackie Coogan, Peter Lind Hayes, Buster Crabbe, Richard Denning, Thurston Hall, William Holden, Roy Gordon
Greg (John Hartley) is an able college athlete and student who strives to succeed without the financial backing of his father (Thurston Hall). The college kids buy a racehorse to get the school out of debt. Holden's appearance is very brief-look fast.
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Nabonga 1944 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Gorilla
Jungle Woman
Nabonga Gorilla
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Fifi D'Orsay, Julie London, Bryant Washburn, Herbert Rawlinson, Prince Modupe, Jackie Newfield, Ray Corrigan, I. Stanford Jolley, Fred "Snowflake" Toones
Ray Gorman (Buster Crabbe) heads to the African jungles to clear his father's name. Years earlier, his father's bank had been embezzled, and the trail leads to Africa. Ray meets Doreen (Julie London in her screen debut), the embezzler's daughter who, as a child, survived a plane crash and was raised by a gorilla, Nabonga, that is now her protector. Doreen, Nabonga, and Ray team to fight the bad guys who want the embezzled money. Really cheap, with Black stereotyping that was common for the day.
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The Oil Raider 1934 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Gloria Shea, George Irving, Max Wagner, Emmett Vogan, Harold Minjir, Hal Taliaferro, Tom London, Tetsu Komai, Chuck Morrison
Dave Warren's (Buster Crabbe) crew is drilling for oil in Oak Glenn Basin when they run into trouble caused by the corrupt financier, J.T. Varley (George Irving), who is plotting to delay drilling so that he can foreclose on the loan for the oil rig.
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Pirates of the High Seas 1950 N/R, 260 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Lois Hall, Symona Boniface, Gene Roth, Tristram Coffin, Stanley Price, Marshall Reed, I. Stanford Jolley, Terry Frost, Pierce Lyden, Neyle Morrow, Tommy Farrell
There's a lot happening on a tropical island what with pirates raiding the place and the search for a cache of diamonds stolen by Nazis during World War II (among other goings-on). The pirate ship is particularly troublesome since it can turn into a submarine. Things change for the good guys when Navy-buddy Jeff (Buster Crabbe) is called in by his friends in this cheap, but fun, 15-episode serial.
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Search for Beauty 1934 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong, Gertrude Michael, Roscoe Karnes, Verna Hillie, James B. "Pop" Kenton, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ann Sheridan, Bradley Page, Nora Cecil, Virginia Hammond, Eddie Gribbon
Olympic swimming champions Don and Barbara (Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino) have won a contest given by a "physical culture" magazine and find themselves in a power struggle with the magazine publishers. Don and Barbara have been hired as editors, but the publishers want them to pose in swim suits and show skin. But, Don and Barbara want the magazine to focus on health. They give up their positions in exchange for a health farm, which they refurbish and then invite beauty pageant workers to take jobs as health instructors for the guests. But more than a few problems lie ahead between Don and Barbara and the publishers before they find success.
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Sophie Lang Goes West 1937 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Reisner
Cast: Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Buster Crabbe, Barlowe Borland, Jed Prouty, C. Henry Gordon, Rafael Storm, Fred Miller, Guy Usher
There have been one too many in this series, and the writers didn't seem to figure out what they wanted Sophie to do next. So, Sophie goes off to the West Coast, still avoiding the law. There she helps finish a screenplay and then helps the writer find a valuable stolen necklace.
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Stagecoach Outlaws 1945 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Ed Cassidy, I. Stanford Jolley, Kermit Maynard, Bob Kortman, Steve Clark, George Chesebro, Hank Bell
This very low budgeter still works due to Buster Crabbe's presence and Al St. John's comedy as Billy (Crabbe) comes to the aid of his girlfriend's father whose stagecoach line is routinely being robbed by a gang.
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Swamp Fire 1946 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William H. Pine
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Virginia Grey, Buster Crabbe, Carol Thurston, Pedro de Cordoba, Pierre Watkin, Marcelle Corday, William Edmunds, Frank Fenton, David Janssen, Edwin Maxwell
Navy war veteran, riverboat captain Johnny (Johnny Weissmuller) plies the waters of the lower Mississippi River and fights it out with evil trapper Mike (Buster Crabbe) over the woman (Virginia Grey) he loves. The only highlight: the fight in the alligator-filled swamp. Look for a young David Janssen.
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Tarzan the Fearless 1933 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action
Director: Robert F. Hill
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Julie Bishop, E. Alyn Warren, Edward Woods, Philo McCullough, Frank Lackteen, Mischa Auer, Matthew Betz, Carlotta Monti, Al Kikume, Symona Boniface, Darby Jones, George DeNormand, Everett Brown, Philip Sleeman
After Dr. Brooks (E. Alyn Warren) is kidnapped by the followers of Zar, God of the Jeweled Fingers, his daughter Mary (Julie Bishop) and her boyfriend Bob (Edward Woods) team up with Tarzan (Buster Crabbe) to rescue him. Problems are inevitable because Mary's safari guides Jeff and Nick (Philo McCullough and Matthew Betz) have ulterior motives in the search for Dr. Brooks–including collecting a bounty for proof of Tarzan's death and stealing the lost treasure of the Zar.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland 1935 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Otho Lovering
Cast: Dean Jagger, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Monte Blue, Buster Crabbe, Trixie Friganza, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, Charles Waldron, Anna Q. Nilsson, Leif Erickson, Tammany Young, Kenneth Harlan, Benny Baker, Stanley Andrews
Based on a Zane Grey story, this is the tale of Adam (Dean Jagger) who is on the lam when he is wrongfully accused of murder. Now lost in Death Valley, he is saved by wanderer Dismukes (Edward Ellis). He reunites with his girl friend Ruth (Gail Patrick), is cleared of the murder charge, and deals with villainous Big Ben (Buster Crabbe). This is the second rendition of Grey's tale and was again remade in 1945. The first film was made in 1924 and was the first Technicolor Western.
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Wild Horse Phantom 1944 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Elaine Morey, Kermit Maynard, Budd Buster, Hal Price, Robert Meredith, Frank Ellis, Frank McCarroll, John L. Cason, John Elliott
Billy Carson (Buster Crabbe) talks the governor into allowing Link (Kermit Maynard) and his gang to escape from jail so that Billy and his sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) can follow them to the stolen money. But the task becomes difficult as Link searches for the loot.
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You're Telling Me 1934  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter, Kathleen Howard, Dell Henderson, Robert McKenzie, George Irving, Nora Cecil, Tammany Young, James B. "Pop" Kenton, Don Brodie, Eric Mayne, George MacQuarrie
W.C. Fields develops the complicated character of Sam Bisbee, an eccentric inventor, in this vintage film made great by Fields' acting and comedy skills. Sam has become nothing more than a joke in his town because of his inability to sell his inventions. But, when he meets Princess Lescaboura (Adrienne Ames) and tells her how he wants to market his inventions as the means to aid his family, Princess Lescaboura steps in. She tells the townsfolk how much she admires Sam, and Sam rises to new heights among the town's citizens and finally earns their respect.
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| 1. Alien Dead (1980)
aka: It Fell from the Sky
2. Arizona Mahoney (1936)
aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
3. The Arizona Raiders (1936)
4. Billy the Kid Trapped (1942)
5. Cattle Stampede (1943)
6. Colorado Sunset (1939)
7. The Contender (1944)
8. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
9. Deadly Ray from Mars (1966)
aka: Flash Gordon: Mars Attacks the World
10. Desert Gold (1936)
11. Drift Fence (1936)
aka: Texas Desperadoes
12. Flash Gordon (1936)
aka: Space Soldiers
aka: Atomic Rocketship
13. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
14. Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
15. Forlorn River (1937)
aka: River of Destiny
16. Fuzzy Settles Down (1944)
17. Gangster's Den (1945)
18. Jungle Man (1941)
19. The Kid Rides Again (1943)
20. Law of Vengeance (1933)
aka: To the Last Man
21. Million Dollar Legs (1939)
22. Nabonga (1944)
aka: Gorilla
aka: Jungle Woman
aka: Nabonga Gorilla
23. The Oil Raider (1934)
24. Pirates of the High Seas (1950)
25. Search for Beauty (1934)
26. Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
27. Stagecoach Outlaws (1945)
28. Swamp Fire (1946)
29. Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
30. Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)
31. Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
32. You're Telling Me (1934)
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