Universal (1944)
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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTeresa WrightJoseph CottenMacdonald CareyA teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsThe Andrews SistersRobert PaigeGrace McDonaldA song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJohnny Mack BrownTex RitterFuzzy KnightIn order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to prevent the building of the road.
- DirectorBruce ManningJean RenoirStarsDeanna DurbinEdmond O'BrienBarry FitzgeraldA missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsAl RitzHarry RitzJimmy RitzEntertainers get stranded in a small boom town and open up a restaurant.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsDick ForanHarriet NelsonRobert PaigeA military-flavored, World War Two, song-and-dance B-feature in which a fund-raising effort save a boys club from being closed.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsLon Chaney Jr.Ilona MasseyPatric KnowlesThe resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloGrace McDonaldThe horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsDick ForanIrene HerveyJoan DavisThe former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsHuntz HallBobby JordanGabriel DellTommy Banning (Bobby Jordan) and his pals,"Pig" (Huntz Hall), "Ape" (Norman Abbott) and "String" (Gabriel Dell) have jobs in a department store where store executive Frank Moulto (Frank Albertson) is romantically attracted to Sheila Banning (Evelyn Ankers), Tommy's sister. Frank is also secretly involved with a gang of truck hijackers. When a load of silk is to be hi-jacked, he tries to involve Tommy in the theft, but Tommy rejects his proposition. Frank frames Tommy with the theft of some jewelry. Tommy is jailed and his friends are fired. Tommy is befriended by Jerry (Don Terry), who also has an interest in Sheila, but Sheila remains loyal to Frank without knowing of his criminal activities. Released on bail, Tommy follows Frank to a warehouse where the gang is plotting to hi-jack one of the store's trucks. Tommy rounds up his pals and they return to the warehouse and the slug'em donnybrook is on.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsGloria JeanIan HunterDonald O'ConnorVictoria Peabody (Gloria Jean) and her younger sister, Constance (Mary Lou Harrington), go to New York City to live with with their father, Tom Peabody (Ian Hunter). The two girls become involved with his love life, in which two rivals are competing to become his wife.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsJohnny Mack BrownTex RitterFuzzy KnightA gang of outlaws takes over El Dorado, a ghost town, just before gold is rediscovered there. With the boom comes easy money for Gils Brandon and his henchmen. Meanwhile, vigilantes, seeking to curb the lawlessness of the town, offers the job of Marshal to Steve Rawlins. On the day that Gil's fiancée, Ellen Randall, arrives in town, Gil is shot when he makes an attack on the new Marshal. Discovered in a dying condition by his twin brother, Buck Brandon, Gil regrets his outlaw past and asks Buck to make El Dorado a decent place. Steve learns of the relationship and enlists the aid of Buck in cleaning up the town.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsAllan JonesJane FrazeeAndy DevineOn the only Pacific island untouched by and unaware of World-War-Two, American beachcombers Tommy (Allan Jones) and Eddie Dolan (Andy Devine) sell off Paradise Island to American millionaire Holton (Ernest Truex) who has a daughter, Joan (Jane Frazee), ready to fall in love with Tommy. None of this sets too well with the island natives.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsMaria MontezJon HallSabuA shark hunter falls in love with the beautiful ruler of a tropical island.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceMarjorie LordSherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy hands.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsLeon ErrolMary Beth HughesEddie QuillanA farmer goes to New York to become a singer, has success and marries his neighbor's girl-friend.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJohnny Mack BrownTex RitterFuzzy KnightAn outlaw gang is stealing land under the pretense that they are getting it for a railway.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsMervyn JohnsJohn ChandosNova PilbeamA gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsDennis O'KeefeLouise AllbrittonMary Beth HughesA songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
- DirectorFrank WoodruffStarsFrances LangfordRobert PaigeLeon ErrolBob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsDonald O'ConnorGloria JeanPeggy RyanAt the Davis School of the Theatre, run by Jeremy Taswell, where teenagers study drama and the serious arts, instructors Johnny Hanley and Alice Taswell are in love. The students, including Donald, Patricia and Peggy, secretly want to become singers. Patricia's aunt, Mrs. Davis, who owns the school, disapproves. Donald has written a musical comedy for the year's class play, which the students want to do; but Mrs. Davis has selected and insists they do Sophocles' "Antigone." Taswell agrees to let the kids do Donald's show. Donald manages to keep Mrs. Davis away on the day of the show, and when Broadway producers in attendance rave about Donald's play, she becomes a backer.
- DirectorCharles LamontErle C. KentonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloGinny SimmsTwo newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJohn CarradineEvelyn AnkersMilburn StoneAn insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsRosemary LaneEvelyn AnkersPatric KnowlesCareer woman Jean, almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark who is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. After Jean finds out, she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val. Of course it backfires, things get more and more tangled, people fall in and out of love, and finally it gets sorted out into two happily married couples.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsMichèle MorganAlan CurtisC. Aubrey SmithAccused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.