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- A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.
- A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.
- Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger, for which crime her brother, "Chick," (Edgar Edwards) has been sentenced to die in the electric chair. She finds evidence that convinces her that Milton Militis (Marc Lawrence), owner of a nightclub, is the killer. She gets a job in the club as a singer in order to gain Milton's confidence and find the proof of her brother's innocence. Milton finally figures out she is spying on him, so he and a henchman take her for a ride and, with glee, planing on killing her at the same time her brother is being executed.
- A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.
- One of the two dozen or more Canadian-produced (usually by Kenneth J. Bishop) films distributed by Columbia circa 1935-39 in order to comply with (and circumvent) the British-Quota Law that basically required a large percentage of the cast and crew of a small percentage of the total films distributed by American film companies to the UK had to be comprised of British subjects and shot on British or Dominion soil.Distributing the Bishop-Canadian made films was cheaper for Columbia than building and maintaining a studio in London.Since Charles Starrett and stunt man Ted Mapes were about the only people connected to this film that currently or in the past weren't subjects of HRM, this film more than qualified.In this one, RCMP Alan Barclay (Charles Starrett)) is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMPoliceman Gene (Henry Mollison)) when Gene's horse is found riderless or, in the words of French-born western director George Archainbaud, "empty." Gene had been sent to St.John's to investigate a series of accidents which threatened to close down the lumber mill.Undercover, Alan asks for a job at the mill and hears of an accident which has killed four men. He suspects Barstow (J.P. McGowan), the camp blacksmith, who welded the chain that broke and sent the men to their death. Alan convinces Barstow that he is a fugitive from justice, and would do anything for a job. Barstow gives Alan a Mountie's uniform and tells him he is to pose as a Mountie (good plan) sent to investigate the accident. Ordinarily, at this point, the jig would be up but Ann (Finis Barton)), who knows both Alan and Gene shows up and complications arise.
- Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog King, are on the trial of the murderer. Herbert Barlow's male secretary is the victim. Elsie Barlow, his niece, has recently arrived from England to look after the lumber yards they jointly own. There are several suspects and the killer's identity is well concealed. But Sergeant Strange narrows it down.
- Anna Plummer (Alice Moore), daughter of a Canadian farmer, secretly marries against her father's will. She and her young husband, Johnny Masters (Edgar Edwards), move to a big city, shortly before Anna gives birth to a daughter he is killed in a holdup. Anna is compelled to take her baby into the home of her domineering aunt (Ethel Reese-Burns), and in a quarrel, when Anna learns that her aunt has given her daughter away to be adopted, Anna accidentally kills the aunt. Anna goes to prison for five years for manslaughter. Later, she is aided by a rising young attorney, Larry Steele (Ralph Forbes)in her battle and quest to get her child back. A UK-quota film for Columbia.
- Another of the "run-away" productions made by Columbia in Canada in the mid-30's designed to either comply with or to circumvent the British Quota Law of the period, with Walter C. Kelly and Edith Fellows the only American citizens in the credited cast. When her parents are drowned at sea, "Princess" Judy is adopted by a soft-hearted old sea captain, Captain Zack, and brought to live on his tugboat. Hard times come to the Captain because his boat is unable to compete with the faster and more modern tugboats of the Darling Navigation Company owned by Zack's old rival and enemy, Captain Darling. More misery follows when Judy breaks a leg and Zack can't pay her hospital bill. He borrows the needed money from Darling but is forced to agree to give up both his boat and docking space if he can't meet the note. Then welfare workers come along and decide Judy isn't receiving proper treatment or schooling living aboard the tugboat and they haul her off to an orphanage. No eyebrows are raised reference the agency that allowed a 60-year-old geezer to adopt a non-related 13-year-old girl and put her on a boat with three men. The primary difference between this story and "Captain January" is Shirley Temple was many years younger than Edith Fellows, and Guy Kibbee's lighthouse didn't float.
- Jack Wycoff is a successful young author whose double is the notorious gangster Cy King. Mistakenly arrested, Wyckoff finds himself handcuffed to an attractive lady. Wycoff escapes custody and flees across the country with the law in hot pursuit, refusing to establish either his true identity or his innocence until the lady unwillingly trapped at his side agrees to marry him.
- U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
- Tenderfoot Bruce Corrigan goes to a lumber camp employment office and signs on with thirty other men to work at the Hamilton outfit, despite its reputation as a dangerous place. When they leave the office, James Lester, the supervisor of the rival camp owned by Daniel Carson, offers the men more pay to work for Carson. Only Bruce refuses and punches Lester for his underhanded maneuvering. While walking through the woods to the camp, Bruce meets and flirts with June, the daughter of McRae, who was the deceased John Hamilton's partner. Bruce then goes to the camp, where he overhears a telephone conversation between McRae and Lang, the operation's money man, during which it becomes clear that the outfit is going bankrupt. McRae hires Bruce, despite his inexperience, and introduces him to Anderson, who is the foreman. Bruce then meets some of the other men, including Englishman "Kinky" Kincaid, Bart and Red. The next day, Anderson sets Bruce to work without properly training him, and Bruce suffers some cracked ribs when he falls from a tree. When Bruce and Kinky go to the local saloon later that night, Bruce becomes suspicious when he sees Anderson talking with Lester. He is distracted, however, by the men's uproar when the bartender tells them that he cannot accept Hamilton brass in place of money anymore. The men quit, but Bruce challenges them to stick by McRae, and Kinky talks McRae into re-hiring the men Anderson had fired previously out of spite. Soon Bruce and Kinky have the men organized and working hard. Anderson orders Bart and Red, who along with him, Lester and Carson are sabotaging the the Hamilton camp to drive it out of business, to create more accidents. They arrange a costly accident, and Anderson insinuates to McRae that it was Bruce's doing. Anderson succeeds in poisoning McRae against Bruce, even though Bruce is at that moment defending McRae to a grumbling co-worker. McRae orders Bruce to leave, and after Bruce leaves, he finagles his way into Lester's confidence with a phony telegram from Carson. He orders the Carson men to cut a huge amount of Hamilton lumber far from the main camp, but his plans are halted when he learns that Lester has arranged for a fire at a Hamilton camp that afternoon. Bruce rushes to June and finds out that McRae is at the site of the fire, which has already started. Bruce then goes to the site, rescues McRae and reveals Anderson's treachery. McRae is still despondent, however, for the fire destroyed the trees he needed to fill an important order. Bruce takes the men to the Carson camp, and after a huge brawl, the men take possession of the cut lumber. The logs are floated downstream to their destination, and Bruce admits that he is Hamilton's estranged son. Later that night, Bruce also makes up with June, and the couple kiss to seal their reconciliation.
- Jerry Tracy, a noted columnist and radio broadcaster, is convinced that prominent Park Avenue psychiatrist Andrew Stoner is a blackmailer. When Jerry's friend, Al Redman, becomes the latest victim, Jerry uses his broadcast to publicly accuse the doctor of blackmail and accuse Stoner's daughter Gloria of social climbing with playboy Hadley Brown. Although Jerry is certain that the doctor is using hypnosis to extract secrets from his patients, he is unable to prove that it is Stoner who is demanding payment from Redman in order to keep silent about the money the bank cashier had stolen and then replaced in order to pay for his sick wife's surgery. Redman has been instructed to make his payments at a brownstone in Greenwich Village, but because the blackmailer wears a mask, he is unable to identify him. Jerry's accusations anger Gloria, who threatens to kill the broadcaster. That night, Jerry goes to the brownstone where he becomes the target of Mike Orrell, a hired killer. When Orrell misses, Jerry tails him to a bar and asks him if Gloria hired him, but Orrell refuses to answer. To find out more information, Jerry visits Orrell's sister Peggy, who abhors her brother's profession and has asked Stoner to cure him. While talking to Peggy, a shot rings out and nearly misses the girl. Jerry then realizes that someone is trying to frame him for Peggy's shooting, thus provoking Orrell to revenge. Jerry and Peggy convince Orrell that someone has set them up, and that night, they return to the brownstone. As Jerry descends into the cellar, he comes face to face with the masked figure, who captures both him and Orrell. Freed by Peggy, who has followed them, Orrell and Jerry shoot it out with the masked man. In the ensuing hail of gunfire, Orrell and the blackmailer perish, leaving Jerry to unmask the figure, who is none other than Hadley Brown. Jerry then makes a public apology to Dr. Stoner and his daughter.