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Skip Taylor (1953)
Character: N/A
This USAF flight training recruitment film follows a trio of aviation cadets as they struggle through the initial "Pre-flight" phase of their training. Dreams of future flying adventures motivate the cadets to persevere and succeed.
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Sweet Genevieve (1947)
Character: N/A
The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship...until racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses, become overly fond of stripped-down racing cars, and Genevieve Rogers (Jean Porter) suspects her father of being too fond of the school principal's secretary. Town nerd Bill Kennedy (Jimmy Lydon) invents a new fuel amidst rumors that - horrors - the basketball game might be fixed. River City is not the only town that has trouble starting with a "T" and there's not a pool hall in sight.
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Spooky Wooky (1950)
Character: N/A
Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to live there, and so, a wacky plan is conceived to make Leon change his mind about moving.
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No Way Out (1950)
Character: Terry (uncredited)
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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Stars in My Crown (1950)
Character: Tom Isbell (uncredited)
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.
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Mysterious Island (1951)
Character: Herbert 'Bert' Brown
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
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Heading for Heaven (1947)
Character: Danny Wingate
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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Two Dollar Bettor (1951)
Character: Chester Mitchell
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
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Bruce Gentry (1949)
Character: Frank Farrell
Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be directed at moving or stationary targets. The disc was master-minded by an enemy agent known only as "The Recorder" because...he speaks entirely via recordings. Aided by rancher Frank Farrell and his sister Juanita "Nita" Hodges, Gentry consistently foils "The Recorders" schemes, which are carried out by "The Recorder's" henchmen, Krendon, Allen and Chandler, including an attack on the Panama Canal.
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The Sea Hound (1947)
Character: Jerry
Columbia's 34th serial production starring Buster Crabbe, the Serial King himself
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