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- Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.
- Detective Ellery Queen tries to find a missing man, and gets embroiled in a case of murder and embezzlement.
- A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
- Fearing that his recently acquired stepmother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell, in the first film of the long-running "Rusty" series, seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, German-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning World War II veteran. The stepmother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
- An airplane pilot and a criminal battle for the woman they love.
- Mortimer build a fence for the cattle brought by Ken Morley. To retaliate, Slater who wants access to the land, builds a dam cutting off Mortimer's water supply. When Ken confronts Slater, he is captured. Then lightning destroys the dam and Ken, imprisoned in a shack, is in the path of the oncoming surge of water.
- Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
- A reporter sets out to prove that the woman who rejected his marriage proposal is a murderer. Meanwhile, she's hiding in plain sight: posing as her missing twin sister.
- Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal.
- The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.
- Following the murder of a policeman and unable to get proof against the real killer, District attorney Walter Forbes takes a novel approach to get there. He induces an ex-convict to stand trial for the killing and gets the set-up conviction he wanted. His purpose is to make the head of the criminal underworld and killer come out into the open, under the impression that because of the conviction of the ex-convict he is no longer in any danger. He then calls the real killer on the telephone, which he has wired to be broadcast over the radio.
- An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.
- A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
- Two bumpkins leave working in the oil fields for the excitement of the big city. Of course, things don't work out.
- The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
- Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
- Jewlery smuggled into the United States from China.
- Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
- The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton (Ina Ray Hutton), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller (Ross Hunter) and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his room-mates have between them. But Miller's beauty parlor girlfriend, Janet Wilson (Ann Savage), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue.
- When Bill Kellogg, a headstrong airline pilot flies during bad weather and manages to land safely, he is fired. However, when Jim Horne, Bill's boss, learns that Bill has secretly wed Joan Hammond, the daughter of the airline's owner, he decides to keep Bill on. A fellow pilot, Ike Matthews, is told to make the first flight over the South American jungle to photograph potential landing fields, but Bill steals the plane to do the job himself. Bill continues even when he is radioed that there is insufficient fuel on board. Out of gas, Bill crash lands near an Indian village. The residents refuse to help Bill get back to his civilization. Finally an Indian woman, L-Ana, helps Bill, but he is unable to get the radio working. Jim and Ike fly over the jungle, but a storm prevents them from spotting the village, so they continue on to Rio Vista. The two men meet Joan and for her sake, Jim organizes a rescue expedition. Led by natives, the convoy finds a village holding a doctor captive. A fierce battle follows and the doctor is freed from his captors. Meanwhile, Bill, despondent over his predicament, has taken on the native's ways by marrying L-ana. Jim's expedition finally locates the tribe, but when he sees Bill's living arrangements, the two men argue. Bill is ready to thoughtlessly desert L-ana, but as he leaves the village, L-ana's brother kills him. After returning to Rio Vista, Jim tells Joan that he learned Bill had died in the crash, sacrificing himself to avoid landing in a field full of women and children, many of whom might have died.
- Toots and Casper think they are going on a relaxing vacation until their rich relative decides to come along.
- In 1848, the U.S. Army sends Major John Freeman (Bill Elliott) to investigate the Lower California Company, headed by Howard Brunton (Charles King), which is abusing its semi-governmental powers. Disguised as a settler, Freeman and his scout, Kit (Hal Taliaferro), dismount at the Cervantes hacienda which Brunton has illegally seized and is auctioning off. Freeman outbids a Brunton flunky and the sale is postponed. Freeman sends Romero (Joe de la Cruz), a former landowner unjustly evicted, into Los Treos to have his last tax receipt notarized in a move made to justify Freeman having the Army move in and take action against Brunton. He moves his regiment into Los Treos, where Brunton, realizing that his game is up, is looting the town prior to escaping to the border.
- George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow , is an exact-double for Storm. Eye-witnesses testify that the gang leader was the company's most-trusted construction engineer George Storm. The latter has no alibi as Tom Farrow has sent his wife, Patricia Farrow , over to distract Storm during the holdup. Storm is convicted and sent to prison.
- Bill Harding's love for Ann Baldwin causes him to become involved with a gang of criminals when he tries to convince Ann's brother Ted to quit the gang. Arrested as an accomplice of the gang, Bill is sent to jail despite the belief of Sheriff Lawson that the boy is innocent. Lawson has an idealistic plan of establishing a work prison camp to which young first offenders may be sent in order to keep them apart from the hardened criminals in the prisons. Bill is sent to Lawson's camp and is assigned to work on a road job on which a crooked contractor is defaulting. Realizing that the road is about to be completed, the contractor bribes Chester Russell, the county engineer, to sabotage the project. Following the unheeded warning Sheriff Lawson gives Russell about a dangerous safety condition on the work site, a rockslide occurs and some of the prisoners are injured. Meanwhile, Bill, discouraged when the court rejects his appeals, decides to break out of jail with Slugger Martin, Russell's operative in the sabotage attempts. After the break, Bill seeks refuge at Ann's, while Martin and the others are intercepted and gunned down by the police. Tracking Bill to Ann's house, Lawson tells him that in a deathbed confession Martin exonerated him of any complicity in the gang, and he is now a free man. A 1940 Larry Darmour production for Columbia Pictures, directed by Lewis D. Collins, from a screenplay written by Albert DeMond, based on a story by Albert DeMond & Stanley Roberts.
- After Suzanne's wealthy fiance takes back his ring and makes it clear he used her, she's determined to use men in a similar way.
- A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
- As the Sonora Kid, Blackjack, and Tony Andrews are escaping from the Sheriff, Tony is mortally wounded. Arriving at the Andrews ranch, Tony's blind mother mistakes the Kid for her son. Unable to tell her the truth they stay on. But there is trouble when Nevada Smith and his gang arrive and threaten to expose the hoax unless the Kid lets them rustle the Andrews cattle.
- Cowboy fights to keep his land after oil is discovered on it.
- Bull is after the money in the express office. Posing as a notorious outlaw, Ken joins Bull's gang. With the big raid planned, Ken tries to get a note to the Sheriff. But the note is intercepted, the money taken from the safe, and Ken now known to be on the side of the law left for dead.
- Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife Virginia and their young son Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes Steve with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
- Marshal Jeff sends for his friend Whit Gordon to help bring law and order to Tombstone. Bull and his gang with the help of the Sheriff and the Judge control the town. After foiling Bull's attempt to stuff the ballot boxes, newly elected Marshal Whit and his pals head to the corral for the showdown with Bull and his men.
- In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was.
- Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lopez's foreman Barnes is one of Daggett's men and he frames Montana for murder.
- Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash and his men. When Bob plans to file on a ranch, Nash finds out and heads for the Registrar ahead of him.
- When Edith overhears Bart's plan to rob the bank she informs Ken. But she is also overheard and when Ken goes to investigate, Bart's Henchman Prod frames him for the robbery. Thrown in jail, Ken's pal Pedro arrives with a plan to get him out.
- Wagon trains bringing supplies are being robbed and Marshal Pat Barrett has been sent to investigate. Posing as an outlaw he gets into Buck's gang. When the Ranger Captain sends for more troops, Buck's inside man brings the message to him. Buck then plans to substitute his men for the Rangers but he tells Pat and Pat rides off to try and warn the Ranger Captain.
- Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story. Jeane Sandford arrives in town to visit her aunt, Muffin Wilder, wearing a necklace given to her by an eccentric uncle who has been dead for a year and whose will is scheduled to be read on the anniversary of his death. Steve falls for Jeane and, as a joke, steals her necklace. Enroute to replace the necklace, Steve discovers his pocket has been picked, and the intrigued Nagel decides the necklace has some significance in the Sandford family affairs, so he and Steve attend the reading in the old deserted family mansion. The will reads that all of the family except Jeane has been cut off without a penny and that the necklace contains the information necessary to uncovering the inheritance secreted in the old house. The attorney, clutching part of the necklace, and the jeweler who made it are murdered before Nagel solves the case, in which each family member is a suspect at one time or another.