Captain Ben Cutlet (Will Hay) likes to spin yarns about all of his false seafaring adventures. One day his false past comes to bite him as he is bluffed into captaining the Rob Roy at sea, the Rob Roy being barely sea worthy and doomed to be wrecked by a crafty shipping agent.
Where There’s A Will - 1936
Will Hay plays a seedy and money-less Benjamin Stubbins, who accidentally falls in with a group of thieves bent on robbing a bank that resides under Benjamin’s office, and the thieves think Benjamin can help.
Boys Will Be Boys - 1935
Will Hay plays his first roll as his well known school teacher personality playing Dr. Alec Smart who works in a prison and applies to be headmaster at a public school.
The Golden Eye - 1948
When a low-profit gold mine starts suddenly making money, the owner gets suspicious and calls Charlie Chan (Ronald Winters) to investigate. Chan finds some shady business and even murder…
Shanghai Chest - 1948
Vic Armstrong arrives at his Uncle Judge Armstrong’s home just in time to answer the telephone. Unknown to him, his uncle has just been murdered and the culprit is right there in the room with him! Phyllis Powers, on the other end of the line, recognizes Vic’s voice, but just then Vic is knocked unconscious […]
Ghosts on the Loose - 1943
Glimpy’s surprisingly beautiful sister is getting married to Jack, a young engineer, and moving to a ‘bargain’ suburban house neither has ever seen. During the honeymoon, the East Side Kids decide to fix up the house for the newlyweds…but mistakenly pick the ‘haunted’ house next door, which is occupied by some mysterious live men, dodging […]
The Living Ghost - 1942
Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving him in a zombified state. Trayne and his perky assistant Billie Hilton have their work cut out for them as they must sift through a […]
Voodoo Man - 1944
Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion, attempting to revive his beautiful, but long-dead, wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion. Yet another example of the “Mad Man Controlling Others To Do His Will” genre.
The Ape Man - 1943
Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla […]