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- This French made documentary surveys the situation in mid to late 1930s Spain: the revelations of a plot by Italy and Germany to subvert the new Republican government ;the progress made by the Popular Front since 1936 in fighting off the Franco rebels who are largely foreign Moorish troops, mercenaries, and Spaniards forced to join ;but the need for international aid because the governments of England and France have decided to look the other way and not intervene.
- How the Hitler Youth, an organization to indoctrinate children into the Nazi cause, contributes to the war effort.
- 1939. Drama. Directed by Walter Tennyson. Starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren & Ernest Sefton. This murder mystery poses the dilemma of a vanishing corpse.
- Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.
- The Prowler is terrorizing Willits, California residents gobbling up all the milk and pep in the town. But fortunately Willits News Reporter Scoop Kenworthy is hot on the trail of this pesky thief
- Original Documentary of the horse Seabiscuit, made in 1939 by the horse's owner Charles Howard.
- Cartwright's racket is to sell a ranch and then have Mason and his men drive the ranchers away so he can resell it. If they want their money back he gives it to them and then has them killed. Jack arrives and learns that Mason and his men are the culprits but that they have a boss. He suspects Cartwright and sets trap to expose him.
- Played in Southwestern of Utah. Mormon Willard Smith with his wagon-train across the Virgin river after an Apache Indian signed it. From a High cliff overlooking the evening camp Jud and Vic Gunnison (enemies of the Mormon) and plan to kill an Indian in a way that they feel will arouse the enmity of the Red Man against the defenseless settlers.
- Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent because one of the tribe has been murdered by a gang of outlaws. The primary town of the mail route is also being used as a hideout and base of operations for a gang of counterfeiters led by Joe Polini. Jack and an undercover federal agent, Duke Evans, round up the counterfeiters and turn Polini over to the Indian Chief as the killer of the brave.
- Sylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums.
- Foxes are mysteriously disappearing from fox farms and Agent Don has been sent to investigate. Brad and Pete are the culprits and they are using a dog that can climb the security fence to steal the foxes. Don brings a dog with him and when Carol sees a dog stealing a fox, she accuses Don.
- The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest.
- To win the prize, a mechanic learns to box and becomes champion; in the meantime he gets involved with a vampire but eventually returns to his wife.
- Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his own. He counts on Rickson's inability to stay away from gambling as the means to his ultimate success. Government investigator Oliver Shea and his assistant, Dan Haggerty, start a fight in Doyle's place when they see Rickson being cheated and are invited to the Bar-X where Oliver and Helen Rickson, Rufe's daughter, discover interest in each other and Dan finds himself pursued by Bell, the ranch cook. Sheriff Larson brings the prize money for the $5,000 race of the Rodeo Association, and that night it is stolen from her safe. The next day, Doyle says it was paid to him by Rickson for a gambling debt. Realizing that she must be free in order to prove her father's innocence, and that now her horse, Snowy, must win the race, Helen confesses to the theft and makes good her escape. Her sleuthing establishes that Doyle has been engaged in ore-smuggling activities, and his intent to gain the Bar-X is because the ranch offers a perfect crossing place for his gang, who salt the smuggled silver into a non-productive mine and ship it to the Mint as domestic production.
- Before he was killed, Martin hid a half million dollars worth of bonds on his ranch. Brainard, who killed him, Inspector Carson posing as Sam Brown, and Martin's niece Margaret all want the ranch, and it's being sold at auction.
- In a quiet, all-black Oklahoma community live the Wilsons, whose pretty daughter Margaret is courted by awkward Buster and suave stage mentalist Prince Alihabad. On one busy night, Mr. Wilson shows his valuables to Alihabad, who plans to elope with Margaret; a mysterious man hangs around while another burglarizes the house; and someone murders Mr. Wilson! Will the killer be caught by the police, or by bumbling correspondence-school detective Junior Lingley?
- The first (and last) in an intended series about 'The Hobby Family', in which every family member was immersed in a hobby-pursuit of some kind: Here, Tom Leslie must choose between losing his job or publishing news in a manner he thinks is unfair. His wife, whose hobby is stamp-collecting, diverts his attention from his troubles at the newspaper by stirring up his interest in his own hobby, photography. Tom arranges to take his son, whose hobby is short-wave radio, on a vacation in the mountains at a site near a Civilian Conservation Corps camp and a forest-ranger station. A forest fire breaks out, and each family-member's hobby proves to have value.
- Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying.
- An Italian officer marries an Austrian girl but their happiness is blighted by the outbreak of the First World War. She leaves him when he is forced to shoot her brother for spying, but they are reunited after the war.
- Marshal and his men disguise themselves as gypsies to catch a gang of cattle thieves.
- 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.
- With fences cut and livestock disappearing, Jeff Browning suspects his new neighbor, Dan Murdock. Sheriff Fletcher appeals to the U.S. Marshal for help, and Tom Murdock, Dan's son, is sent. Tom arrives in Buffalo Springs, posing as cattle buyer Tom Morgan, with the Sons of the Pioneers as his foreman and ranch hands. Browning's foreman, Bat Springer, is alarmed at the news of the impending sale of the Browning herd. He and Murdock's foreman, Carver, have been rustling cattle from both ranches, changing the brands and loading them into railroad cattle cars at a distant siding. Dan discovers that the brands from both ranches have been changed to the Bar-X, a brand that is registered to Browning's son Ned. As he is telling this to Browning, he is killed from ambush and Browning is knocked unconscious. But Tom has seen Bat steal Browning's unfired gun, the only clue to Browning's innocence, and tells his suspicions to Ned and his sister Jean. But Bat shows the sheriff a letter showing that the Bar-X brand is in Ned's name and Ned is also arrested. Tom and the sheriff set a trap for Bat and his henchmen by announcing that Ned and his father have escaped but, in reality, they have been transferred to the sheriff's home. But Bat learns of the plan and he and his partner capture Ned and Jeff and take them along as hostages on an escape to the border.
- It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
- The Middleton family visits the 1939 New York World's Fair and witnesses the advent of the future, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
- Kent wants the Allen ranch. So he has Steve and his men rustle their cattle using Pete as an informant. When the Trigger Pals Lucky, Stormy, and Fuzzy fight back, Kent frames Stormy for the rustling.
- Duncan is secretly shipping explosives by ship and needs the Flying U ranch which has shore access. Chip breaks up his murder and robbery attempts and eventually captures two of his henchman. Duncan has to show his hand to rescue his men and now Chip and the posse know who they are after.
- When they are forced to work together, rival detectives fall in love.
- Bill Saunders arriving in a lawless town is quickly made Marshal. But when he arrests the gang members, the victims refuse to testify. However one rancher is willing to testify and when the gang kills him, Bill jails the killers. This causes the gang leader Rawhide to reveal the identity of the big boss and Bill goes after him.
- When Carl Pearson is wrongful accused of killing his brother, it's clear that he has been a pawn in a conspiracy to steal the blueprints to a new plane.
- Federal agent Smitty assists Butch Cooper, leader of a gang that robbed a train in which the loot was never recovered, in making an escape and accompanies him to the Utah badlands. Parker, leader of a gang of cattle rustlers, recognizes Butch. The latter takes Smitty to the spot where the loot was buried, but it has disappeared. Butch suspects his former comrades of making off with the money. Smitty and Butch have acquired jobs on a nearby ranch and Cookie, a former gang member, is questioned about the missing money. Butch encounters two members of his old gang and they take him to Parker. Both suspect the other of having the money, but they finally conclude that Cookie either has it or knows where it is. They kidnap him and he confesses he dug up the money and it is in the safe at the ranch of Judge Carlton. Smitty comes in and, in the struggle that follows, is revealed as a federal agent working undercover. He is left guarded while Butch, Parker and the gang ride to Carlton's ranch.
- Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
- Singer Jimmy Williams' father Joe is a chemist who recently lost his job to George Elliott. Since then, Joe has been investigating the "Adam and Even" brand of canned goods sold in Harlem. Soon after Joe tells his friend, lawyer Stanley Jackson, that racketeers are forcing storekeepers to sell the rotten canned food, he is framed for the murder of George. When the police find cyanide in Joe's laboratory, they believe that it was used to kill George. Stanley tells Joe's wife Ida that she must get a job and fight for Joe's freedom, but when offered a job by "Lucky" John Simon, the head of the racketeers distributing the food, she refuses it. Jimmy, however, decides to take a job from Lucky and goes to the Trocadero, where he performs a song and dedicates it to his mother. When Joe's appeal fails, Stanley offers to quit as his lawyer because the only piece of evidence he has found to prove Joe's innocence, an Apex salt shaker, has led them nowhere. Ida, who knows that Lucky is fond of her, gathers evidence on her own, while Stanley agrees to join Lucky's racketeers as an undercover agent. At the Trocadero, Ida sings a song and then goes to Lucky's office, where she accepts his gift of pearls. Jimmy witnesses the act and, misunderstanding his mother's intentions, commits a minor theft in order to be jailed with his father. Stanley finally breaks the case when he learns that Lucky is a former owner of the Apex Café in St. Louis, and thus connects him with the salt shaker clue and with the murder. The police return Jimmy to the Trocadero, but when Stanley tells Lucky what he knows, Lucky abducts him and Jimmy and takes them to his estate, where he and the gang force Jimmy to pace back and forth without water. The police eventually arrive and rescue them, and Stanley gets the truth out of Lucky, who is exposed in the newspapers. Reunited, the Williamses proudly listen to their son sing a song on the radio.
- Two hearing protection product sales reps have mixed fortunes in the exercise of their trades. They first have to face a female singer who... slams her door at them! Second they try to a influence a man by giving one of his friends'name as a reference whereas the aforementioned friend is... on the spot! As for the third client, he seems to be willing to buy one of their articles until the two salesmen realize that he is... hard of hearing!
- The border boat "Brave" detains a schooner off the coast of Kamchatka, on which Japanese spies are disguised as fishermen, and takes it in tow, leaving the sailor Kositsyn to observe. A strong storm is played out, the Japanese cut off the towing ropes. The schooner is thrown onto the rocks near the shore. Red Navy sailor Kositsyn and the detainees reach a deserted island. The most difficult task falls on Kositsyn: in the conditions of an uninhabited island, he is forced to guard seven Japanese spies from escaping without sleep and rest, without food and drink. With no hope of salvation, he nevertheless fulfills the duty of a Soviet border guard.
- In an attempt to drive out settlers of the Los Trancos valley, through which the railroad proposes to run a line, railroad representative Clyde Barton conspires with Dirk to cause a range war between the two largest ranchers, Tom Gray and Harvey Allen.
- A doctor falls in love with a young woman who is blind, whose father is a writer who does not want to cure her so that she does not see the wickedness of the world, finally resulting in the doctor being the writer's son.
- A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch. ]
- Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.