All Films

The Stranger From Pecos

1943 • 55 min • United States of America

Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943 • 60 min • United States of America

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

Super Mouse Rides Again

1943 • 6 min • United States of America

Super Mouse visits some hardworking farmer-mice, who are thrilled to meet this super-celebrity. Three cats wait until the hero is gone before they set upon the defenseless creatures.

No Mutton fer Nuttin'

1943 • 8 min • United States of America

Blackie the Lamb has two goals in life: to keep his nephews from listening to swing music, and to keep from getting caught by Wolfie the Wolf.

Rumors

1943 • 4 min • United States of America

Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.

The Return of the Rangers

1943 • 55 min

The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.

Cowboy in the Clouds

1943 • 54 min • United States of America

A rancher who becomes a pilot staunchly defends the newly formed Civil Air Patrol from the cattle barons who fail to see the value of airplanes on the range.

Keep 'Em Slugging

1943 • 60 min • United States of America

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

Law of the Northwest

1943 • 57 min • United States of America

Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.

Pandora's Box

1943 • 6 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 June 1943. As the story unfolds, viewers are introduced to the valiant Super Mouse, whose courage knows no bounds. When a mysterious box descends from the heavens, chaos ensues as bat-like cats emerge, threatening to unleash havoc upon the land. Amidst the turmoil, a female mouse finds herself in peril, her fate hanging in the balance.

Death Valley Rangers

1943 • 59 min • United States of America

When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in the Trail Blazers (Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele) -- a legendary trio of law enforcers -- to find the gold and figure out who's behind the thefts.

Home Defense

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a model airplane filled with gingerbread men with parachutes; Donald shoots it down, and cowers in fear when he sees the parachutes (and hears a simulated battle), until one lands on his beak. Donald kicks his nephews out until he mistakes a bee for an airplane, and calls them back to fight this menace.

The Girl from Monterrey

1943 • 58 min • United States of America

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...

The Screwball

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

It's the day of the big baseball game between the Drips and the Droops and Woody Woodpecker is trying to crash the gate and get in without paying for a ticket. A policeman keeps tossing him out but Woody puts on a baseball uniform---including a baseball-cap, since baseball players do not wear hats---gets inside and soon gets involved with the game. He ends up pinned to the scoreboard by a deluge of baseballs thrown by everybody in the ballpark.

The Fighting Buckaroo

1943 • 58 min • United States of America

In this western, a lonesome cowpoke trots into a town and helps clear his pardner's name. The trouble began when the friend was framed by the leader of the Cattlemen's association who made it seem like he was a rustler. Because the friend was an ex-con, the evidence against him seems airtight. The wandering hero must work extra hard to prove his friend's innocence.

Arizona Trail

1943 • 57 min • United States of America

A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.

Ration Bored

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

"Is this trip really necessary?" asks a road sign. "Sure, it's necessary," replies Woody Woodpecker. "I'm a necessary evil." Patriotic gestures are evidently not Woody's strong suit. When he goes to the gas station for a refill, he doesn't even know what a ration book is. The attendant thinks Woody is a wise guy and takes a large mallet and knocks him and his car into a junkyard several miles away. What luck! The old cars still have a bit of gas in them. Woody takes a rubber hose and siphons the gasoline from some of them. Unluckily, one of the cars he picks is brand new. And it's a cop car. Woody is soon at odds with a bulldog police officer.

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

1943 • 57 min • United States of America

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Fighting Tools

1943 • 3 min • United States of America

Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.

Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform

1943 • 10 min • United States of America

Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone Power as a Marine drill instructor; Rudy Vallee leading a military band; and Glenn Ford in the everyday grind of a Marine private.

Trail of Terror

1943 • 54 min • United States of America

Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach robbers.

The Man from Thunder River

1943 • 57 min • United States of America

In this western, a cowboy and his pals must stop outlaws from stealing a cache of gold ore. Action ensues, and they succeed.

The Egg Cracker Suite

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, in his last animated short, conducts a symphony with a whole gaggle of hens (and one ostrich) to lay eggs for Easter.

Wild Horse Stampede

1943 • 59 min • United States of America

Two cowboys try to protect railroad workers from rampaging Indians.