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A list of motion pictures which feature characters and/or stories based on radio programs from the USA's Golden Age of Radio.
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- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsWilliam GarganMarjorie LordRalph ByrdAn investigative reporter tells his assistant about a book called "The Argyle Album", which contains a list of people who were traitors and war profiteers during World War II. After the reporter is murdered in the hospital, his assistant is framed for the killing and must elude the police and a gang of international criminals who are looking for the album to use for blackmail.Based on the Suspense episode "The Argyle Album" (December 13, 1945)
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsKay KyserMischa AuerJoan DavisBandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.Based on Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge series (1939-1949)
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsChester LauckNorris GoffZasu PittsLum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.Based on Lum and Abner series (1931-1954)
- DirectorPhil KarlsonWilliam BeaudineStarsKane RichmondBarbara ReadGeorge ChandlerLamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his hands full as the murder of blackmailing reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him. Not only does the real murderer seem one step ahead of him as Lamont tries to discover his identity, but he is continually hampered from gaining crucial evidence by his jealous, interfering fiancée Margo Lane. Cranston perseveres and is rewarded with the clue he needs at one of Mann's victims' nightclubs.Based on The Shadow series (1937-1954)
- DirectorHarry HornerStarsIda LupinoRobert RyanTaylor HolmesA mentally disturbed handyman on the run, for reasons even he doesn't understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow in 1918.Based on the Suspense episode "To Find Help" (January 18, 1945)
- DirectorArch ObolerStarsEdmund GwennPhyllis ThaxterHenry H. Daniels Jr.A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.Based on the Lights Out episode "Alter Ego" (November 18, 1936)
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsJohn BromfieldMartha VickersRobert HuttonWhen a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.Based on the Suspense episode "I Had an Alibi" (January 4, 1945)
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsStuart ErwinBing CrosbyLeila HyamsA radio-singer, Bing Crosby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his fiancée, Anita Rogers, station manager Leslie McWhinney buys the station, gives Hornsby his job back, and goes on a honeymoon with Anita.Features various radio stars
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJack OakieGeorge BurnsGracie AllenSpud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.Based on Burns and Allen series (1934-1950)
- DirectorWilliam C. ThomasStarsPhillip ReedHillary BrookeRobert LoweryA newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.Based on the Big Town series (1937-1952)
- DirectorWilliam C. ThomasStarsPhillip ReedHillary BrookeRichard TravisA crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.Based on the Big Town series (1937-1952)
- DirectorWilliam C. ThomasStarsPhillip ReedHillary BrookeStanley ClementsSteve Wilson, crusading editor of the Big Town's Illustrated Press, with the aid of police-beat reporter Lorelei Kilbourne battles against the core of the city's vice - its young delinquents. He takes five of the worst young offenders and molds them into the town's best basketball team. The leader of the kid gang, Tommy Malone, ties in with two hoodlums and agrees to throw the basketball game.Based on the Big Town series (1937-1952)
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsTom BrenemanBonita GranvilleBeulah BondiBased on a current (1946) radio series with a live audience. It is the story of some of the people who attend the show. Nat King Cole sings.Based on Breakfast in Hollywood series (1941-1948)
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsJack BennyEllen DrewEddie 'Rochester' AndersonJack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.Based on the Jack Benny Program series (1932-1955), particularly the 1936-1937 'Buck Benny' skits.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLon Chaney Jr.Patricia MorisonJ. Carrol NaishA doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.Based on Inner Sanctum Mysteries series (1941-1952)
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsDave O'BrienDorothy ShortJames CravenSecret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America. When murderous bombing attacks are made on West Coast munitions plants, Steel sends for Albright and asks him to track down the mysterious Ivan Shark (James Craven), the foreign agent mastermind behind the attacks. Shark has learned about an ingenious range finder, invented by John Edwards (Bryant Washburn) and makes plans to obtain a model of the invention. Edwards instructs his daughter, Joyce (Dorothy Short), to bring the model to Albright for safekeeping in his mountain laboratory. Shark takes Edwards prisoner by Albright assures Joyce that her father will be saved and an end put to Shark's reign of terror. Dressing as Captain Midnight and enlisting the aid of his friends, Chuck (Sam Edwards) and Ichabod Mudd (Guy Wilkerson), Captain Midnight delivers on his promises fourteen chapters later.Based on the Captain Midnight series (1938-1949)
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsKay KyserAnn MillerVictor MooreBand Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to get married, the plant owner's daughter Julie sings instead. But Kay dislikes her idea of joining the band.Based on Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge series (1939-1949)
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesMarcel VarnelStarsEdmund LoweIrene WareBela LugosiWhen delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.Based on Chandu the Magician series (1932-1950)
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEdgar BergenCharlie McCarthyMortimer SnerdScotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. However, Hamilton's friend Edgar Bergen solves the case (without much help from Charlie McCarthy).Based on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy series (1936-1956)
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsEdgar BergenRichard TravisDon WilsonThe residents of a small town are haunted by the ghost of Charlie McCarthy, who doesn't like the fact that they are a very careless bunch and are constantly putting themselves in danger.Based on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy series (1936-1956)
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsFreeman F. GosdenCharles J. CorrellSue CarolTypical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.Based on Amos 'n' Andy series (1928-1960)
- DirectorDerwin AbrahamsStarsLyle TalbotDouglas FowleyJulie GibsonDetective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub. Joe planned the theft in order to pay a debt to Nick Pollo (George Meeker)with the $100,000 insurance money he would collect. Sherry double-crossed Joe by wearing an imitation one, while she threw the real one, hidden in a cotton snowball, to Nick during the floor show. But Spud Warner (Eddie Acuff), a newspaper photographer, there with newspaper reporter Rusty Farrell (Douglas Fowley, takes a snowball from her basket and Nick receives an empty one. The Blue Diamond disappears. Aided by a private investigator, Ellen Dale(Pamela Blake), Chick finds himself pitted against the criminals searching for the missing Blue Diamond.Based on Chick Carter, Boy Detective series (1943-1945)
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsHoward St. JohnAmanda BlakeRon RandellWhen enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile reservation, the chief of America's counterspy division (Howard St. John) and Scotland Yard's best investigator Ron Randell get on an investigative trail which quickly leads to a reservation secretary (Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty, Amanda Blake).Based on the Counterspy series (1942-1957)
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsJean HersholtDorothy LovettRobert BaldwinA doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.Based on Dr. Christian series (1937-1954)
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsWarner BaxterMargaret LindsayJohn LitelAmnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsWarner BaxterHillary BrookeJerome CowanDr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsWarner BaxterStephen DunneLois MaxwellDr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterMicheline CheirelRoger DannOn a lecture/vacation visit to Paris, Dr. Ordway drops in on his friend, the Prefecture of Police. He becomes involved in a case involving the stabbing of an old man. The man's son, not all that mentally stable, believes he killed his own father in a rage because his father disliked his new bride, the daughter of a cabaret knife-thrower. Investigating the case, Ordway finds that the business of the legal copying art masterworks may also be involved.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterEllen DrewWilliam FrawleyThe Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsWarner BaxterLynn MerrickGloria DicksonThe Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of a young man with a reputation for using poison.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterJohn LitelDusty AndersonThe Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of an artist accused of murdering his model during one of his blackout spells.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsJohn PayneSonny TuftsEllen DrewWar hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.Based on a radio play
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsHugh BeaumontEdward BrophyRichard TravisClaire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. O'Brien then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of "Professor" Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her co-conspirator lover, Edgar Spadely---another private-detective who had gotten O'Brien involved to begin with---and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.Based on Pat Novak, for Hire series (1946-1949)
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsJeanne CrainMichael RennieMax ShowalterWhen a beautiful bride boards an ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.Based on the Suspense episode "Cabin B-13" (March 16, 1943)
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsCharlton HestonLizabeth ScottViveca LindforsGamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.Based on the Suspense episode "No Escape" (December 16, 1948)
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryJane PowellElizabeth TaylorHyperactive teenager Judy Foster (Jane Powell) challenges, and is challenged by, her overly-proper parents, pesky brother Randolph (Jerry Hunter), and boyfriend Ogden "Oogie" Pringle (Scotty Beckett).Based on A Date with Judy series (1941-1950)
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsWillard ParkerAudrey LongHoward St. JohnBased on the long-running radio program created by Philips H. Lord, the film opens with a radio commentator blasting the U. S. government for the manner in which a certain foreign power has obtained secret information during WWII. The commentator is brought to the secret headquarters of "David Harding, Counterspy" where he learns that the story was deliberately planted with the commentator to fool the enemy. Harding them tells, in flashback, a specific story to illustrate how counter-espionage works. Jerry Baldwin, a U.S. Navy officer is brought to a city where torpedoes are manufactured for the Navy, and his assignment is to find out information is leaking out to the enemy.Based on the Counterspy series (1942-1957)
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLon Chaney Jr.Jean ParkerPaul KellyWhen an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.Based on Inner Sanctum Mysteries series (1941-1952)
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsAnita LouiseJim BannonMichael DuaneA crashed plane that had a shrunken head aboard is the only clue to a mystery involving a secret code.Based on I Love a Mystery series (1939-1944, 1949-1952)
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsJean HersholtDorothy LovettEdgar KennedyA "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short time if they follow his regimen of strict diet and a particular type of diet pill.Based on Dr. Christian series (1937-1954)
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbBen AlexanderRichard BooneTwo homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.Based on Dragnet series (1949-1957)
- DirectorTom MankiewiczStarsDan AykroydTom HanksChristopher PlummerThe equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.Based on Dragnet series (1949-1957)
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsChester LauckNorris GoffFrances LangfordLum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.Based on Lum and Abner series (1931-1954)
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsEd GardnerBing CrosbyBetty HuttonThe staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.Based on Duffy's Tavern series (1941-1951)
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJ. Scott SmartJulie LondonRock HudsonA dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan.Based on The Fat Man series (1946-1951)
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsLon Chaney Jr.Evelyn AnkersMilburn StoneA stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.Based on Inner Sanctum Mysteries series (1941-1952)
- DirectorNoel M. SmithRay TaylorStarsKent TaylorIrene HerveyRalph MorganDetective lieutenant Bill Bannister is assigned to run down an unknown gang of terrorists who have spread a net of crime over the city.Based on Gang Busters series (1936-1957)
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsHarold PearyBillie BurkeClaire CarletonOn a mission to New York, two women pursue Gildersleeve...then his fiancée shows up.Based on The Great Gildersleeve series (1941-1958)
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsHarold PearyJane DarwellNancy GatesGildersleeve gets himself into trouble while on jury duty.Based on The Great Gildersleeve series (1941-1958)
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsHarold PearyMarion MartinRichard LeGrandGildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.Based on The Great Gildersleeve series (1941-1958)
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsPaul KellyDouglas FowleyAnne GwynneJoe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. He and his girlfriend, Belle Martin (Anne Gwynne (I)', are planning on Linda soon dying from her heart ailment. But, renewed by love, Linda's condition is rapidly improving, which prompts her impatient husband to scheme the "perfect" murder, but police homicide-detective, Max Anderson (Paul Kelly), is asking a lot of questions.Based on the Suspense episode "I Had an Alibi" (January 4, 1945)
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsMae WestPaul CavanaghGilbert EmeryFormer dance hall queen Cleo Borden, newly rich, falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman.Based on Lum and Abner series (1931-1954)
- DirectorWalter HartStarsGertrude BergPhilip LoebEli MintzThe warm, human story of famous Bronx radio & TV family the Goldbergs, and their everyday problems.Based on The Goldbergs series (1929-1946)
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsHarold PearyJane DarwellNancy GatesGildersleeve, a small town bachelor, has slapstick troubles with a husband-hunting woman and two helpful kids.Based on The Great Gildersleeve series (1941-1958)
- DirectorJosé FerrerStarsJosé FerrerDean JaggerKeenan WynnJoe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.Based on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts series (1946-1956)
- DirectorGeorge StevensJean NegulescoStarsMax von SydowDorothy McGuireCharlton HestonAn all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.Based on The Greatest Story Ever Told series (1947-1956)
- DirectorFord BeebeRay TaylorStarsGordon JonesWade BotelerKeye LukeA newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.Based on The Green Hornet series (1936-1952)
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsSeth RogenJay ChouChristoph WaltzFollowing the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.Based on The Green Hornet series (1936-1952)
- DirectorFord BeebeJohn RawlinsStarsWarren HullWade BotelerAnne NagelA wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.Based on The Green Hornet series (1936-1952)
- DirectorHoward EstabrookStarsJim JordanMarian JordanEugene PalletteFibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.Based on Fibber McGee and Molly series (1935-1959)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonJune PreisserMary AndersonComplications arise when Henry Aldrich runs for Centerville High School Student Body President.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelHenry Aldrich becomes the most sought after guy in town when he wins a date with a movie star.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelHenry Aldrich swallows a serum by accident and ends up in a "haunted" house.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelHenry Aldrich (James Lydon) tries to match his unfriendly teacher, Mr. Bradley (vaughan Glaser) with a wife. Henry hopes the teacher will become friendly enough to let him graduate with honors so he can use an inheritance for college.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelComplications arise when Henry, in love with the new music teacher, joins the band. He accidentally gets a Stradivarius that belongs to another man.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelAs a boy scout leader, Henry (James Lydon), repeatedly takes the blame for problems caused by a scout in his patrol.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelHenry (James Lydon) gets into another jam when he becomes the editor of the Centerville Hish School newspaper. The Fire Chief suspects him when he covers fires.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithJohn LitelHenry and Dizzy have a baby sitting service and get more than they bargain for when the mother of a 10 month old leaves town to clear her husband of a crime.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorHugh BennettStarsJimmy LydonCharles SmithMary AndersonIn order to impress Phyllis Michael, Henry Aldrich takes a sales job. Soon he is involved with vacuum cleaners, motor boats and a father-son race at a picnic in which he hires a tramp to play his father. Don't ask. He also has to pay for a motor boat which he accidentally destroyed by accident. Henry has some problems to be solved, and his friend Dizzy Stevens isn't likely to be of any help.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsOzzie NelsonHarriet NelsonDavid NelsonWhile Ozzie tries to get some publicity for an ad agency, David and Ricky get mixed up with gangsters.Based on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet series (1944-1954)
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenGeorge BarbierAlarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.Based on Burns and Allen series (1934-1950)
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJim JordanMarian JordanEdgar BergenIt's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spent their first honeymoon, they decide to go across the lake to a swanky (and expensive) lodge, where they bump into their old friends Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Gildersleeve, and Mrs. Uppington, so the party is on again. The only problem is, how will Fibber pay for all of this?Based on Fibber McGee and Molly series (1935-1959)
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsKenny BakerFrances LangfordHugh HerbertA small radio station is saved of getting bankrupt by a backer, who invests money for a TV equipment, if the owner allows, that his dancing daughter Annabelle can dance and sing on the screen, but due to her voice, her singing had to be dubbed by the owner's girl friend Pat Abbott.But problems start, when the owner starts dating Annabelle.Based on Your Hit Parade series (1935-1953)
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellRosemary LaneLola LaneRonny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.Based on Hollywood Hotel series (1934-1938)
- DirectorWilliam C. ThomasStarsPhillip ReedHillary BrookeRobert LoweryOne of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime. The police chief lends enough of a helping hand to be vindicated.Based on the Big Town series (1937-1952)
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsJim BannonNina FochGeorge MacreadyIn San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.Based on I Love a Mystery series (1939-1944, 1949-1952)
- DirectorLeslie StevensStarsIda LupinoLes CraneDavid HartmanThree insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire.Based on I Love a Mystery series (1939-1944, 1949-1952)
- DirectorWilliam DieterleGeorge CukorStarsGinger RogersJoseph CottenShirley TempleA soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.Based on a radio play
- DirectorLew LandersStarsCharles RussellMary Beth HughesBilly HouseA man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.Based on Inner Sanctum Mysteries series (1941-1952)
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsRod La RocqueAstrid AllwynThomas E. JacksonLamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas E. Jackson). He complains to his managing editor, Edward Heath (Oscar O'Shea), over the problems that have developed in his department since Phoebe Lane (Astrid Allwyn) has been hired as his assistant. He is advised to forget it since she is the publisher's niece. During his broadcast about Honest John (William Pawley), a famous safe cracker who has served his time, Phoebe gives him a note that the Metropolitan Theatre is to be robbed at eight o'clock and she is so insistent that he adds it as his closing note. Off the air, he learns she got the information from a man she met in a café who had an honest face. Cranston goes to the theatre where Weston and his men have gathered and, of course, nothing happens but, across town, a safe is blown at the home of international banker Gerald Morton (John St. Polis) and the banker is killed. Cranston arrives there ahead of the police and discovers enough evidence to show him that it wasn't just a simple robbery with the banker accidentally killed. The irate Weston has him jailed as a material witness, but Phoebe comes through with a habeas corpus in time for him to make his broadcast. Honest John crashes into the studio with a gun and demands that Cranston exonerates him over the air from the police suspicion that he committed the robbery. Weston rushes to the studio but Honest John has escaped. Cranston takes Phoebe on a tour of night clubs hoping she will spot the man who gave her the robbery message. She does and Cranston poses as a new arrival from Europe and learns that the man is Flotow (Wilhelm von Brincken) and his companion is Starkov (Tenen Holtz'). They make a date for lunch the next day. While they are waiting for him to join them for lunch, Cranston breaks into Flathow's apartment where he meets Phoebe who also has had the same idea. A phone call is answered and Morton's butler says there is a meeting at the Morton home that afternoon.Based on The Shadow series (1937-1954)
- DirectorJames Wong HoweBen ParkerJohn SledgeStarsRichard DerrMark DanielsHelen WestcottLamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.Based on The Shadow series (1937-1954)
- DirectorWallace FoxStarsJohn HartRosemary La PlancheClaire JamesJack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.Based on Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy series (1933-1950)
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckBarry SullivanRalph MeekerA family vacationing on the coast of Mexico have to cope with multiple threats to their safety.Based on the Hollywood Star Playhouse episode "A Question of Time" (September 18, 1950)
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWarner BaxterAdele RobertsMartin KosleckIn the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was.Based on the Crime Doctor series (1940-1947)
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsDon 'Red' BarryAnn SavageAdele MaraAfter a bank robbery, the loot disappears and is sought after by an insurance investigator, the police and the surviving robbers.Based on the Suspense episode "The One Way Ride to Nowhere" (January 6, 1944)
- DirectorWilliam A. FrakerStarsKlinton SpilsburyMichael HorseChristopher LloydThe sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorIrving BrecherStarsWilliam BendixRosemary DeCampJames GleasonA factory worker's family is thrown into an uproar when his teenage daughter starts to date his boss' son.Based on The Life of Riley series (1944-1951)
- DirectorTheodore ReedStarsJackie CooperLeila ErnstEddie BrackenHenry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.Based on the Aldrich Family series (1939-1953)
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsJoan HackettLaurence LuckinbillLouisa HortonA toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill.Based on Lights Out series (1934-1947)
- DirectorJohn EnglishWilliam WitneyStarsSilver ChiefChief ThundercloudLynne RobertsHeroic's of Lone Ranger & Tonto, matter!Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsLyle BettgerWealthy rancher Reese Kilgore aims to grab silver-rich Indian land by skilfully pitting Indians against settlers but the suspicious territorial governor sends The Lone Ranger to investigate.Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorJack BenderStarsChad Michael MurrayNathaniel ArcandAnita BrownThis version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old Boston law student who witnesses the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. He himself is wounded amidst the chaos, but is rescued by the Apache Tonto, and subsequently becomes smitten with Tonto's sister Alope. He then devotes his life to avenging his brother's death and fighting injustice, becoming a worldwide legend in the process.Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsJohnny DeppArmie HammerWilliam FichtnerNative American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsDouglas KennedyThree Indians are murdered. Each was wearing a medallion when he died. Together the medallions form a puzzle whose solution points to gold.Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorJohn EnglishWilliam WitneyStarsRobert LivingstonChief ThundercloudSilver ChiefHomesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.Based on The Lone Ranger series (1933-1954)
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsEdgar BergenCharlie McCarthyJim JordanFibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series.Based on Fibber McGee and Molly series (1935-1959)
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsJack BennyFred AllenMary MartinJack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara are also en route to the dock to meet Barbara's daughter Mary, returning from a personal appearance tour in South America. Josephine is her maid. Their cars get involved in an accident and, in a bumping contest, Fred reduces Jack's old Maxwell to junk, and is taken to jail. Mary loses her dress in an accident and Jack offers to get her another one, but winds up being arrested for stealing. Barbara tells Mary that Fred is a nervous wreck because of Jack's continual slander of him on Jack's radio program. Jack hires the Merry Macs away from Fred and Fred decides to go to Miami for a rest. Jack decides to open his radio program from Miami. They meet, have another brawl, and end up in jail again. The two are in a motorboat accident where both are knocked unconscious and Mary, in an effort to end the feud, tells Fred that Jack saved his life. They have dinner together at Fred's apartment and Rochester, whom Fred has hired away from Jack, appears and the feud is on again.Based on the Jack Benny Program series (1932-1955) and the Fred Allen Show (1932-1949), particularly the 1937 Benny-Allen feud.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsChester LauckNorris GoffJill AlisThe "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.Based on Lum and Abner series (1931-1954)
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsJerome CourtlandRuth WarrickRon RandellLiza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their performers. Drive-in carhops Gene Thomas ) and Josie Marlow run neck-and-neck in the contest, They are friendly rivals until college professor Leslie Todd begins courting Josie. Gene is thrown out of the contest on the grounds he tried to bribe sound engineer Jerskin Elliott into telling him the name and performer of the final, deciding mystery tune. Believing that Gene is innocent, Josie tricks a confession out of Elliott and clears Gene for the grand finale.Based on Make Believe Ballroom series (1932-2006)
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsPhil ReganLeo CarrilloAnn DvorakGangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.Based on Manhattan Merry-Go-Round series (1932-1949)