All Films

Navajo Trail Raiders

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

Outlaw gangs are plundering the freight lines that bring supplies into Yellow Creek. The only thing that will save the town is the insurance money on the freight, but the outlaws are looking to steal that also. Lane comes to town as the best man for the wedding of Tom and Judy, but it will be up to him to find the outlaw boss.

Kitchen Mechanics

1949 • 9 min • United States of America

Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying - to get their own quarters cleaned up.

Roaring Westward

1949 • 58 min • United States of America

After claim jumper Sanders kills a miner, he changes clothes with Perry. In pursuit, the Marshal kills Perry claiming he was the murderer. Setting out to clear Perry's name, Jimmy works his way into the outlaw game. But Sanders overhears Jimmy's plans and he and his boss Morgan set a trap to kill Jimmy.

Knights Must Fall

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs must joust with Sir Pantsalot of Drop Seat Manor when he tosses a partially eaten carrot into a suit of armor.

Challenge of the Range

1949 • 54 min • United States of America

Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.

The Magic Fluke

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

The Fox and Crow have a band-act in a nightclub, but the Fox walks out on his partner when he gets the position of a symphony-orchestra conductor. The Fox becomes while his old partner is on skid row, cold and hungry. One night, the Crow appears backstage at the concert Hall and hands a magician's wand to the Fox as he goes onstage. Using the wand as a baton, everything that can go wrong goes wrong for the snooty maestro.

French Fried Frolic

1949 • 16 min • United States of America

Wally and Tim pose as the husbands of two French women so they'll receive their dowry from their eccentric uncle, but mayhem ensues when first their wives show up and then the actual husbands.

Shadows of the West

1949 • 59 min • United States of America

U.S. Marshal Whip Wilson (Whip Wilson) decides to take a vacation and visit his old friend Winks Grayson (Andy Clyde), the ex-sheriff. Upon his arrival Whip learns of Winks' suspicions regarding newly-elected Sheriff Tanner (William Ruhl as William H. Ruhl), and the story of a frame-up of Paul Davis (Ted Adams) and his son Bud (Riley Hill), now being released from prison. Following a holdup and a killing, a band of outlaws hide at the Davis ranch, implicating them again. Paul is hot and Bud goes to jail. Whip and Winks work to clear Bud and expose the real leader of the outlaw gang.

Jerks of All Trades

1949 • 20 min

The Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wreck a hapless couples home.

Bashful Romeo

1949 • 16 min • United States of America

Slim gets a job as a door-to-door salesman but soon winds up, through a case of mistaken identity, as the target of a very jealous husband.

Bandits of El Dorado

1949 • 54 min • United States of America

Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the killing of Henley. Not only is he now in trouble as both the Rangers and the Mexican Rurales are after him, but Smiley knows him and may expose his masquerade to the bad guys.

Berlin Air-Lift: The Story of a Great Achievement

1949 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Brief summary of the Berlin airlift taken from newsreel material.

Paul Gauguin

1949 • 14 min • France

A short documentary on Paul Gauguin, a French painter and sculptor.

Riders of the Pony Express

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

In a rigged gunfight Tom Blake is forced to shoot a man in self defense and is then hunted for murder. After a long trip fleeing the posse he uses a false name and joins the Pony Express which is just about to commence operatons. Relegated to the most dangerous section of the route, he finds himself fighting the District Manager's scheme to sabotage the inital run. But just then a wanted poster with his picture on it arrives.

Trapped by a Blonde

1949 • 16 min • United States of America

Hugh goes on a camping trip with his brother-in-law and innocently gets involved with the sheriff's wife.

Henhouse Henery

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Little Henery the Chicken Hawk goes hunting chickens with a hammer and clunks Foghorn Leghorn on the noggin. Foghorn sends Henery after the barnyard dog by misleading him into thinking the dog is a chicken. The dog sets Henery straight and helps him build a tree trap to catch Foggy for supper.

The Charms of Life

1949 • 25 min • France

An incisive exploration of the dubious beauty of "official" art.

Bailing Out

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

Part of the FLIGHT SAFETY series, instructing U.S. Navy pilots in the history of parachutes and the correct use of parachutes.

The Lion and the Hare

1949 • 10 min

The action of the animation film takes place in an oasis. Beasts (a Hare, a Monkey, a cub of a Zebra) look at the well, discover that the water reflects them. The Monkey nearly dies, trying to quarrel with her reflection. Meanwhile, a Lion goes hunting, catches up and kills an adult Zebra. The animals consoled the orphaned cub of Zebra. The Lion, on the advice of the Snake, orders that the beasts themselves later come to him for dinner.

Sheriff of Wichita

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy. While claiming that he gave the money to Major Bishop, neither the money or Bishop have ever been found and Raymond was convicted of the theft. Now he is at the abandoned fort, an escaped convict with a letter, looking to find the truth about the robbery. Members of his old command are also there and Rocky shows up to return Raymond to prison.

Gun Runner

1949 • 54 min • United States of America

Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians. After she short-changes smuggler Stacey, his men attempt to steal the hidden guns, and attack her foreman Nebraska, but he is saved by Jimmy and "Cannonball" on their way to file a homestead claim at Canyon City. Jimmy renews a long acquaintance with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. The sheriff is wounded by half-breed Danny when he finds a rifle hidden in the latter's wagon, but Jimmy captures the outlaw, a go-between for Kate and the Indians.Wounded and in bed, Sheriff Harris ask Jimmy not to tell Jessica that she is only adopted and that Nebraska is really her father, although he believes her to be dead.

Renegades of the Sage

1949 • 56 min • United States of America

The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.

Frontier Investigator

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

Rocky Lane, out to find the murderer of his brother, runs into a battle between two stage lines for a mail contract.

Mr. Adam's Bomb

1949 • 20 min • United States of America

Father dances to Jazz in the kitchen with the maid, his family won't tolerate his behaviour anymore. And now he has to deal with Uncle Adam's strange antics.