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Signing 'em Up (1933)
Character: Himself
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
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Il mantello rosso (1955)
Character: Captain Raniero of Anversa
Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
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Shadows of Sing Sing (1933)
Character: Bob Martel
Muriel Rossi (Mary Brian), the sister of a racketeer, Al Rossi (Harry Woods), falls in love with Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot), the son of a police detective, Joe Martel (Grant Mitchell). Their love affair causes bot families problems when Bob is framed, but saved as a result of his father's access to police department films.
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Midshipman Jack (1933)
Character: Jack Austin
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Hatari! (1962)
Character: Little Wolf (aka "The Indian")
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
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The Desert Song (1943)
Character: Col. Fontaine
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
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Scarlet River (1933)
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
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Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Character: Big Steve Holloway
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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Avalanche (1946)
Character: Steve Batchellor
Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.
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Disgraced! (1933)
Character: Kirk Undwood, Jr.
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
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Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Character: Doc Baxter
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Town Tamer (1965)
Character: Riley Condor
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
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Night Alarm (1934)
Character: Hal Ashby
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
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Black Spurs (1965)
Character: Bill Henderson
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
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Let 'em Have It (1935)
Character: Joe Keefer
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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Fancy Pants (1950)
Character: Cart Belknap
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
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WUSA (1970)
Character: King Wolyoe
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detachment challenged by a lady friend, Geraldine, and by Rainey, a neighbour and troubled idealist who becomes aware of WUSA's sinister, hidden purpose. And when events start spinning out of control, even Rheinhardt finds he must take a stand.
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The Great Jasper (1933)
Character: Roger McGowd (adult)
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.
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Men of the Night (1934)
Character: Det. Sgt. 'Stake-Out' Kelly
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
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Il tesoro di Rommel (1955)
Character: Welles
The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's treasure. Some are intent on the valuables, while others seek only the documents. The searchers, each working for individual reasons, are: von Brunner, an ex-officer of Rommel's staff who seeks the treasure to aid families of the fallen; Wells, a famous American news photographer out for a scoop; Mrs. Fischer, owner of a luxury riverboat nightclub, who seeks the documents for a foreign power, and Krikorian, pretending to be helping Mrs. Fischer but is really interested in making what he can for himself. Sofia, a cabaret star for Mrs. Fischer, is in love with von Brmmer and unwittingly endangers her life when Mrs. Fischer discovers she is helping von Brunner in his quest.
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Don't Gamble with Love (1936)
Character: Jerry Edwards
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959)
Character: il pilota
An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.
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The Green Berets (1968)
Character: Colonel Morgan
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: Steve Lawrence
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Their Big Moment (1934)
Character: Lane Franklyn
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
Character: Student at Dance
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
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Il terrore dei barbari (1959)
Character: Alboino
When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.
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The Comancheros (1961)
Character: Maj. Henry (Ranger CO)
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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Homicide Bureau (1939)
Character: Jim Logan
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Totò, lascia o raddoppia? (1956)
Character: Nick Molise
The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
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Susan and God (1940)
Character: Michael
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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The Story of William Tell (1953)
Character: Captain Jost
A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.
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The Big Game (1936)
Character: Cal Calhoun
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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Sinner Take All (1936)
Character: Ernie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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The Undefeated (1969)
Character: Jeff Newby
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
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Legends of the West (1992)
Character: Jeff Surrett in 'Dodge City' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral
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Gunfighters (1947)
Character: Bard Macky
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.
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Redhead (1934)
Character: Ted Brown
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
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Finishing School (1934)
Character: Ralph McFarland
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
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Mickey the Kid (1939)
Character: Jim Larch / Jim Adams
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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Silver Queen (1942)
Character: Gerald Forsythe
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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Lost in Alaska (1952)
Character: Jake Stillman
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
Character: Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
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Best of the Badmen (1951)
Character: Cole Younger
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
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The Lost Spider Pit Sequence (2005)
Character: Jack Driscoll (archive footage)
What the "spider-pit" sequence from the original King Kong (1933) probably looked like (the original sequence was cut out of the original movie because it was deemed "too gruesome" and was subsequently lost).
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Lucky Devils (1933)
Character: Happy White
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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Smoky (1946)
Character: Frank Denton
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he must have some dreadful secret in his past. Clint and Smoky become close to each other, weathering the hardships of Western life and the suspicions of others together, until one day, Smoky tragically vanishes. Will Clint ever see him again?
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King Kong (1933)
Character: Jack Driscoll
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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Sinners in Paradise (1938)
Character: Robert "The Torpedo" Malone
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
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The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Character: Robert Latour
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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The War Wagon (1967)
Character: Frank Pierce
An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
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La ragazza del palio (1957)
Character: Mike
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
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Sundown (1941)
Character: William Crawford
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
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Big Jake (1971)
Character: Sam Sharpnose
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
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Bad Guy (1937)
Character: John 'Lucky' Walden
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Kirby Dawson
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Love Takes Flight (1937)
Character: Neil Bradshaw
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
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Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
Character: Pitch
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
Character: Jack
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
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Hellfighters (1968)
Character: Joe Horn
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
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Ann Vickers (1933)
Character: Captain Lafe Resnick
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Traitor Spy (1939)
Character: Carl Beyersdorf / Ted Healey
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
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Captain Caution (1940)
Character: Lehrman Slade
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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The Slowest Gun in the West (1960)
Character: Nick Nolan
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Finsterwald, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
Character: actor 'In Harm's Way' (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Character: Albert R. Saxby
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
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John Paul Jones (1959)
Character: Gunner Lowrie
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
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The Gallant Legion (1948)
Character: Beau Laroux
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Legion of Terror (1936)
Character: Frank Marshall
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
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Law of the Lawless (1964)
Character: Joe Rile
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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In Harm's Way (1965)
Character: Quartermaster Quoddy
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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Kid Monk Baroni (1952)
Character: Mr. Hellman
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
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The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
Character: Chester "Black Jack" McCreedy
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
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My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Character: Ritzy Kerry
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
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Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
Character: Stevens
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
Character: Bill Warren
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Rock Island Trail (1950)
Character: Kirby Morrow
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Lady with a Past (1932)
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
Character: Dykes
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
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Divorce (1945)
Character: Bob Phillips
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
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The Chase (1966)
Character: Sol
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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The Quiet American (1958)
Character: Bill Granger
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936)
Character: Robert Webster - Alias Bat Williams
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Cat Ballou (1965)
Character: Sheriff Maledon
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
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Girls Under 21 (1940)
Character: Smiley Ryan
Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.
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Without Children (1935)
Character: David Cole
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
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Chisum (1970)
Character: Sheriff Brady
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
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Dodge City (1939)
Character: Jeff Surrett
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
Character: Dave Atkins
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Tenth Avenue Kid (1938)
Character: Jim 'Silk' Loomis
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
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Angel and the Badman (1947)
Character: Laredo Stevens
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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McLintock! (1963)
Character: Ben Sage
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Character: Magua
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.
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