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- DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga BaclanovaA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsDorothy ShortKenneth CraigLillian MilesCautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBilly CurtisYvonne Moray'Little Billy' RhodesAn evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsBill WoodsHorace B. CarpenterTed EdwardsA former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsMary AinsleeBetty CompsonWilly CastelloA rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsWilly CastelloVeola VonnDean BentonA gang boss sees a new way to make money--kidnapping high school girls and forcing them to work in the brothels he owns.
- DirectorS. Roy LubyStarsWilly CastelloLona AndreCarleton YoungA district attorney goes after an illegal abortion ring that preys on desperate young girls.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsLois JanuaryNoel MadisonSheila BromleyA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
- DirectorHarry RevierStarsShirley MillsBob BollingerWarner RichmondA schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.
- DirectorHerman E. WebberStarsConstance WorthWilly CastelloBlanche MehaffeyA hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsViolet HiltonDaisy HiltonMario LavalA Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsLila LeedsAlan BaxterLyle TalbotA chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
- DirectorPhil TuckerStarsTimothy FarrellLenny BruceBernie JonesA gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line.
- DirectorFrank O'ConnorStarsRobert FiskeHelene LeBerthonArthur GardnerA wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsSally RandHenry KingEsther MuirSmall-time showgirl, loved by two decent men, poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
- DirectorPat CarlyleStarsCharles MauriceDon HirstDiane WinthropIn this vintage "adults-only" exploitationer, whiskey and fast cars lead an innocent young girl into a life of prostitution and murder.
- DirectorArthur J. BeckhardJoseph LernerStarsRichard CooganRosemary PettitFrank AlbertsonPolice investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsLita GreyWill CharlesWilliam ThomasonThe head of an illegal drug ring uses a women's health spa as a front for his sleeping-pill racket.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsPaul DaleLorraine MillerWill GeerHarry Musk is one in a million. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsDorothy DukeWilliam ThomasonTimothy FarrellA happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered to be quite scandalous.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsVivian McGillRose TapleyAl RigaliThis exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsHarley WoodHugh McArthurPat CarlyleA young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
- DirectorRobert C. DertanoStarsPeaches PageTimothy FarrellClara MortensenA money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.
- DirectorDwain Esper
- DirectorDwain EsperEarly "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune as the booming voice of the narrator announces that the addict has perished.
- DirectorDwain EsperJames P. HoganStarsStuart JamesVictoria VintonGeorge LeMaireYou shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.
- DirectorDwain EsperVival Sodar'tStarsHarry CordingJoan DixPatricia FarleyExploitation film which follows the downward spiral of an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow, swanky drug parties, dingy brothels, and finally the barrel of his own revolver.
- DirectorDwain EsperA young newlywed couple try to decide whether to live the high life or have their child.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsRoy GardnerLouis Sonney
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsElaine BarrieTrixie FriganzaHal RichardsonA "Peeping Tom" likes to look through windows at women undressing. The viewer follows him as he sneaks peeks at two "subjects." His first one, a woman who apparently has a major lingerie fetish, is young, shapely, and attractive. His second one, to put it charitably, is not, but that does not stop him and the viewer from getting an eyeful.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsThurston KnudsonA group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsGeorge BryanPhillip StahlAdolf Hitler(1948, aka "CONFIRM OR DIE") A poorly edited yet intriguing documentary about Hitler and Mussolini. There are some interesting home movies of Eva Braun and her scantily-clad girlfriends swimming, too. More vivid is the gut-wrenching footage of Nazi atrocities (NO. We do NOT recommend this for the kids).
- DirectorLéon PoirierStarsThomy BourdelleRama-TahéA stoker, dissatisfied with his job, escapes from his ship to an island where he lives with a native girl. Eventually he is picked up by a passing steamer.
- DirectorPer-Axel BrannerStarsEdvin AdolphsonInga TidbladBirgit TengrothOlof Koskela, a family's only son, is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids while standing on a log.
- DirectorGeorge M. MerrickStarsWilfred LucasJ.S. HorneFred HumesBasically a travelogue featuring footage of Angkor Wat (in Cambodia) shot by a couple of explorers in the WWI years, with additional footage shot on a Hollywood set by George M. Merrick . Roadshown for years as part of a double feature with Inyaah (Jungle Goddess) (1934) (also called "Virgin of Sarawak" and later "Jungle Virgin" and "Strange Adventures") with the result that "Inyaah" also carries "Forbidden Adventure, 1938" as an incorrect alternate title in some quarters.
- StarsWedgwood NowellClyde BarrowJohn DillingerA recounting of some of the most famous and infamous crimes in recent American history, featuring such notorious figures as Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd, and John Dillinger, with many of their crimes and/or captures re-enacted. Also featured are lawmen such as FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover and Judge Edgar North, who sentenced the kidnappers of wealthy beer magnate Charles F. Urschel to life sentences in prison.
- DirectorLouis SonneyStarsJohn DillingerRoy GardnerEdward HickmanA series of scenes that comprised both new material (featuring frontal nudity), and old footage from an Italian version of Dante's Inferno (also featuring frontal nudity) and vignettes from the March of Crime series.
- StarsElaine BarrieA woman explains how to take a bath.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsNoreen NashDarryl HickmanTerry MooreA teenager involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
- DirectorDorothy DavenportMelville ShyerStarsHelen FosterNell O'DayGlen BolesA young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsWilliam FarnumTom SantschiPatty Lou LyndA man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsJoy ReynoldsGeri MoffattMarko PerriA girl visiting her sister in Hollywood hopes for a modeling career, but is tricked by pimps into working at a brothel.
- DirectorKlaytan W. KirbyStarsDorothy AbbottThad SwiftPhil RhodesA young female newspaper reporter is assigned by her editor to investigate the seamier side of Hollywood.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLona AndreDonald ReedWheeler OakmanBerrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsMartha ChapinWheeler OakmanBryant WashburnYoung girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsJune CarlsonHardie AlbrightLois AustinWhen a high-school girl gets pregnant and her boyfriend dies, the sex-ed teacher shows her a film about childbirth and the dangers of venereal disease.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsJune CarlsonFifi D'OrsayTeala LoringA town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLuana WaltersArthur GardnerDorothy ShortA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
- DirectorEdward KayeStarsBetty CompsonMargaret MarquisRobert KellardA pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus.
- DirectorEugene FrenkeJames P. HoganStarsOnslow StevensLois WilsonValerie HobsonA doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsThe Dionne QuintupletsYvonne DionneCecile DionneAt age four-and-a-half the Dionne quintuplets star in their third movie - singing, dancing, playing with puppies - and being charming.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJean HersholtThe Dionne QuintupletsCecile DionneThe Chamber of Commerce brings together the Dionne quintuplets and other people Dr. John Luke delivered. He hands out wisdom and advice to all.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsThe Dionne QuintupletsYvonne DionneCecile DionneA doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsDiane SinclairDonald DouglasJohn PrestonA young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her brothers are crippled, have mental problems or are jailed--she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any more children. Her boyfriend and a kind priest desperately search for a way to stop the forced sterilization before it's too late.
- DirectorRichard C. KahnStarsS. Dana HubbardMorgan WallaceLuana WaltersAn exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.
- DirectorDorothy DavenportMelville ShyerStarsMischa AuerPhyllis BarringtonEarl McCarthyA phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.
- DirectorJack TownleyStarsJean LacyGlen BolesDonald KeithA young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
- DirectorClifton ChildsPaul WithingtonStarsClifton ChildsLowell ThomasPaul WithingtonAn expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.
- DirectorElmer CliftonLewis D. CollinsStarsJoy ReeseWarren BurrKay MorleyA young teen girl tries to get support for a 'milk-club' for peers while covering for her older sister who's got a crush on an older man with antisocial tendencies.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsClara BowGeorge HackathorneElliott DexterAn experiment in death penalty. A man is accused of a murder, that never happened. Complications arise.
- DirectorWilliam MartinStarsPatty McCormackRichard MeadeDouglas RutherfordA young delinquent is sent to prison for a statutory rape.
- DirectorClaude Bernard-AubertStarsGordon HeathFrançoise GiretAram StephanDaniel and Françoise are an interracial couple. When Daniel is introduced to Françoise's conservative family, their love for each other is soon tested as tensions rise between the two races.
- DirectorPhil GoldstoneStarsPedro de CordobaPhyllis BarryDouglas WaltonA warning about the dangers of sexually-transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis.
- DirectorS. Roy LubyWilliam A. O'ConnorMelville ShyerStarsWilly CastelloLloyd IngrahamLona AndreOn the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsJoseph CrehanMarcia Mae JonesJean FenwickNaive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist.
- DirectorMichael MindlinStarsLeo DonnellyVincent BurkeIlka DieballUsing some stock footage and voice-over narration, this film examines the phenomenon of nudism throughout the world. Beginning in ancient Greece, the film tells of the origins of the nudist movement in the 4th and 5th centuries to the present.
- DirectorWilliam MartinStarsJeanne RainerRonald LongArt KouliasAn innocent girl is held captive by a public relations, white slavery gang and is threatened with torture if she doesn't go to work for them, but her will remains strong.
- DirectorRobert W. LarsenStarsArt GilmoreSharon StrandDarlene HendricksSemi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.