Typical Sherlock Mystery with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
Film based on the comic strip by Al Capp.
An Union Engineer, Sterling Hayden, is sent in secrete to assist and not stir the local politics. The elderly Kansas Pacific Engineer's daughter resents the idea of this stranger pushing her father out of a job. This film has the hallmarks of a classic western as the Confederacy sympathizers blaze their cannons to stop military supplies westward. Directed by Ray Nazarro and an Allied Artist Production 1953 (Public Domain)
Warned not to take the short-cut, a farm hand (Lon McCallister) and an adopted daughter's (Allene Roberts) curiosity about the old abandoned house finds the farmer (Edward G Robinson) has dark secrets. Directed Delmer Daves and produced by Sol Lesser at United Artists (1947)
The Demille version Italiano
John Wayne as Pappy, the Wing Commander of conscript fighter pilots for China, recruits civil bounty aviators to shoot down invading Japanese craft. This is a story about military bearing versus individualism with several levels of heroism and misunderstandings along the way. The setting is at China on the weeks before the Japanese attack on American Pearl Harbor, Dec 7th, 1941. Directed by David Miller in 1942 by Republic Productions (Public Domain)
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