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Baby Face Morgan 1942, A young man's father, who lives in the big city, dies and his business associates bring his son to the city to take over his father's business. What the young man doesn't know is that his father was one of the city's biggest racket bosses and that he's being placed in charge of the gang's profitable shakedown operations, disguised as an insurance agency.oldtimeradiodvd.com

British Intelligence 1940,Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.Stars: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay and Bruce Lester. oldtimeradiodvd.com

Parole, Inc. 1948,Parole officers fight against gangsters trying to infiltrate the parole system.Stars: Michael O'Shea, Turhan Bey and Evelyn Ankers. oldtimeradiodvd.com

Marie Galante 1934, Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a cafe in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett.Stars: Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian and Ned Sparks. oldtimeradiodvd.com 

Submarine Alert 1943 ,Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.Stars: Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie and Nils Asther. oldtimerdiodvd.com 

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.Stars: Walter Brennan, Fred Astaire and Edgar Buchanan Made for TV 1970

A retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town.Stars: Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan and Andy Devine  1969 TV Show

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.Stars: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and James Gleason 1954

Thelma Jordon is in love with a jewel thief, Tony Laredo, and he persuades her to go live with her rich aunt, and steal her jewels. During the robbery, she shoots her formerly-rich aunt, but makes it look like an outside job. Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, is assigned the case, promptly falls in love with Thelma (and she with him), and he maneuvers and presents the state's case against her in such a manner that she wins an acquittal. And, then, Tony shows up. And nothing, from this point, works out favorable for THelma, Clive or Tony.Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey and Paul Kelly  1945

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field and J. Carrol Naish  1945