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1	Freckles Comes Home (1942) more movies like this directed by Jean Yarbrough featuring Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland, Bradley Page, Betty Blythe The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff ever since the early 1930s. This cinemazation of Stratton-Porter's Freckles Comes Home stars Johnny Downs as the title character, who returns from college to his sedentary home town. Freckles' efforts to bring the community ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
2	The Gang's All Here (1941) more movies like this directed by Jean Yarbrough featuring Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Mantan Moreland, Keye Luke The Monogram publicity machine advertised Gang's All Here as a story of "Young Americans Fighting for Their Rights." Young driver Frankie (Frankie Darro) decides to take on a gang of truck hijackers single-handed, running into opposition from the crooked district manager behind the crime spree. Frankie is aided and abetted by undercover insurance ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
3	Up in the Air (1940) more movies like this directed by Howard P. Bretherton featuring Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds, Mantan Moreland, Gordon Jones In this fast paced mystery, an eager page boy for a radio station tries to convince the owners to let him do a comedy show with his pal, a porter. A hopeful singer and the station receptionist support the lads with the former hoping to make her debut there. Things are looking up for the young folk when suddenly several of the station's star acts ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $4.57!
4	You're out of Luck (1941) more movies like this directed by Howard P. Bretherton featuring Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Kay Sutton, Billy Snyder, Tristram Coffin The curious but harmonious screen team of Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland are back again in You're Out of Luck. Elevator boy Frankie (Darro) is the brother of a detective (Richard Bond), and as such is eager to solve a crime himself. He gets his chance when a couple of mob murders occur in Frankie's hotel. With the tremulous assistance of ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
5	Let's Go Collegiate (1941) more movies like this directed by Jean Yarbrough featuring Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland In this collegiate drama, a team of college oarsmen promise their gals that they will win the big race. Unfortunately, it looks as if their victory will go to another team after their strongest rower is drafted. The sly, enterprising lads end up replacing him with a truck driver on the sly. Songs include "Look What You've Done to Me", "Sweet 16", ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $4.99!
6	King of the Zombies (1941) more movies like this directed by Jean Yarbrough featuring Joan Woodbury, Dick Purcell, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer Set in the Caribbean shortly before the U.S. was drawn into WWII, this zombie chiller tells the tale of an American special agent who, along with his butler and a pilot, is sent out to find a missing American Admiral, whose plane crashed on one of the islands. Unfortunately, the hero's plane also crashes. Fortunately, a suave but sinister German ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $4.57!
7	Drums of the Desert (1940) more movies like this directed by George Waggner featuring Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, Peter George Lynn, Mantan Moreland Twixt and tween his Dick Tracy movies, Ralph Byrd plays a Foreign Legionnaire in Drums of the Desert. Byrd and his pal Peter George Lynn alternately fight off the Riffs and fight each other over the affections of lovely Lorna Gray. Gee...we always thought that people joined the Foreign Legion to forget women. Monogram's resident black comedian ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
8	The Chinese Cat (1944) more movies like this directed by Phil Rosen featuring Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better efforts. Director Phil Rosen keeps things moving at a reasonably expedient pace -- especially for a Monogram programmer -- and although the denouement is no big surprise, armchair detectives at least have no trouble keeping ... see all copies from $2.04! new only from $8.23!
9	The Shanghai Cobra (1945) more movies like this directed by Phil Karlson featuring Sidney Toler, Addison Richards, Benson Fong, James B. Cardwell, James Flavin, Joan Barclay, Mantan Moreland, Walter Fenner, Arthur Loft, Gene Roth, George Chandler, Janet Warren, Joe Devlin, Paul Newlan, Roy Gordon Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production values to his advantage in two Charlie Chan whodunits: The Shanghai Cobra (1945) and Dark Alibi (1946). Karlson added touches of film noir to the usual hoary Chan melodramatics and the result was arguably the best of the ... see all copies from $2.73! new only from $10.19!
10	The Watermelon Man (1970) more movies like this directed by Melvin Van Peebles featuring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber, a white, middle class husband to Althea (Estelle Parson) and father of two who is also a mild bigot. One morning, Jeff wakes up to discover that he has become a black man overnight. After trying in vain to remove his new ... see all copies from $10.25! new only from $10.25!
11 view cover	The Jade Mask (1944) more movies like this directed by Phil Rosen featuring Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke, Janet Warren, Edith Evanson An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old House melodramatics and a generous dose of comedy. The venerable Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) is this time assigned by the government to establish the whereabouts of Harper (Frank Reicher), a scientist experimenting with a ... see all copies from $8.23! new only from $8.23!
12 view cover	Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) more movies like this directed by Phil Rosen featuring Sidney Toler, Gwen Kenyon, Mantan Moreland, Marianne Quon, Arthur Loft Having ended its 11-year run at 20th Century-Fox, the "Charlie Chan" series set up shop at Monogram with the singularly uninspiring Charlie Chan in the Secret Service. Sidney Toler returns as the famed oriental detective, who, per the title, is now a government agent. His first assignment is to solve the murder of an inventor and recover the ... see all copies from $6.84! new only from $6.84!
13	Spirit of Youth (1938) more movies like this directed by Harry L. Fraser featuring Clarence Brooks, Joe Louis, Clarence Muse, Edna M. Harris, Mae Turner, Mantan Moreland World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis stars in Spirit of Youth. Often mistakenly referred to as a biography of Louis, the film is actually the fictional story of aspiring boxer Joe Thomas, who hopes to make millions in the ring. He does, but as consequence he falls into the hands of a predatory nightclub singer (Edna Mae Harris). Only after ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
14	Sign of the Wolf (1941) more movies like this directed by Howard P. Bretherton featuring Michael Whalen, Grace Bradley, Darryl Hickman, Mantan Moreland, Louise Beavers In this drama, a young woman shows two dogs at the championship competition at Madison Square Garden and when the two dogs get into a fight, they are both disqualified. The girl decides that she cannot keep them both and decides to sell her least favorite. Unfortunately, her servant loves that dog and secretly smuggles it aboard his mistress' ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
15	Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938) more movies like this directed by Richard Kahn featuring Herb Jeffries, Marguerite Whitten, Mantan Moreland The first of three all-black music Westerns released by white-operated Sack Amusement Enterprises, Two Gun Man from Harlem was filmed at N.B. Murray's African-American dude ranch near Victorville, California, and starred popular black entertainer Herb Jeffries (who billed himself Herbert Jeffrey for the occasion). Slightly more adult in tone than ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
16	Next Time I Marry (1938) more movies like this directed by Garson Kanin featuring Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates, Mantan Moreland The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by marrying an American citizen. In love with a handsome foreigner, the young heiress marries the first man she comes across--a ditch-digger (James Ellison) whom she intends to divorce immediately after collecting the money. While ... see all copies from $28.99! new only from $28.99!

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