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Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.

Singer struggles to make her new nightclub succeed in a naval port after her partner leaves with the funds but not the bills.

Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up. The object of his affection is Myrtle Montrose (Isabal Jewell), a typical "Sweetheart of the Navy." Seeking to discourage Husky's plans is his pal, Pete Kelly (Wallace Ford), who uses Husky to fight his battles and do his work. Pete frames Husky and he is confined to the brig, as their ship docks in San Francisco. Pete goes ashore, courts the fickle and ever-ready Myrtle and makes her forget Husky. The latter, when he finds out, knocks Pete out cold and refuses to have anything to do with him. Pete and Husky are sent on a working party during aerial bombing practice. They board a floating target to repair it and, unknown to the others, Husky is knocked out by a loose timber. Heading back to the ship, Pete discovers that Husky is missing, jumps overboard from the launch and swims back to the target to rescue Husky.

While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar (Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka a cougar or puma, as the narrator quickly clarifies. But the makers also pointed out that Caesar "is the most intelligent dog actor since Rin-Tin-Tin" which probably lured a few Rin-Tin-Tin fans with a show-me attitude. Caesar prowls around the Northwest woods, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it--and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time--then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald) from getting eaten up by one mean mountain lion. Rin-Tin-Tin he ain't, but then who was? Commonwealth changed the title to "Call of the Wilderness" when they acquired it for 16mm rental to the school market.

A newly wealthy Mark Hadley tells his daughter to get rid of her boyfriend Kent Merrill, who he says is a "chippy chaser". Meanwhile, Mark--unbeknownst to his wife and daughter--is having a fling with a pretty young French girl. When his daughter visits her friend Lila, who was a schoolmate in Paris, she is shocked to discover her father there--the French girl he's dallying with is Lila.

Barton's mine foreman is receiving gold bullion from gangsters in the East, putting it through the mine's smelter, and then shipping it out. When Barton finds out, Murdocks men make him a prisoner. Arriving at the same time, Alamo hears the story of the Masked Phantom and then becomes that Phantom fighting Murdock and his men and attempting to find Barton.

1937. Drama. A rich playboy (Eric Linden) falls for penniless Dorothy (Cecilia Parker) but rich Pop disapproves.

Tom and Ruth are disowned by their parents after eloping. They take up jobs as tenant farmers and learn the true value of marriage, working, and living.

Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a millionaire, he returns home and robs his former employer, then returns to Veronica and begins a career of reckless spending. When he is unable to pay for a diamond necklace, Garry is threatened with arrest and is betrayed by Veronica; he is convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. To assuage the broken heart of Garry's mother, Lorna sends her letters ostensibly written by him. In prison, Garry saves the warden from an attack by one of the prisoners, but when a wholesale break is perpetrated, Garry follows the prisoners aboard a speeding locomotive and rescues the warden just as a freight train is sighted coming in the opposite direction. As a result, the grateful warden secures a pardon for Garry, who returns home to his mother and sweetheart.

John Benson is an inventor, but not a particularly successful one, and spends a lot of time drinking. His son Billy spends a lot of time defending his father, often with his fists, so he has few friends. One day, however, one of John's inventions actually works, and crooked lawyer Sidney Martin and his cohort Walter Howe think it can make money, so they plan to steal it. They frame Benson and get him thrown in jail. Billy must clear his father's name, get him out of jail, and retrieve the invention from the two crooks.

In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.

An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality (after accidentally becoming involved in a murder and a race against time to save a condemned man). The film also includes a truly hair-raising train crash.

On the beautiful island of Samarang, in the Malay Straits, the natives of a small village depend on the ocean's bounty for their livelihood.

The cameraman photographs a variety of undersea life and records a dramatic battle between an octopus and a shark. The tentacles of a jellyfish and the flower-like sea anemone move rhythmically with the motion of the water. Barnacles, sea urchins, sea cucumber, starfish are engaged in seeking food, while a hermit crab inspects and finally crawls into a new shell abode. Animated diagrams are used to indicate the development of a fish; micro-photographs show us the maturation of a fish egg and the circulation of blood in a fish embryo. A shark and octopus engage in battle, the octopus discharging an inky fluid which serves him as a sort of smoke screen. The commentary is enlightening, but the vocabulary may be too difficult for younger children. The photography is excellent.

The story is set in Southern California during the Mexican regime. Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that Mendozza, his father's secretary, has seized power. The coup arouses the anger of the revolutionary faction, which forms an alliance with Don Marcello. Mendozza is driven out and the governor is reinstated.

Alita Allen is about to be married to her fiancé, John Campbell. However, Alita's mother--who has been unhappily married for 25 years--puts her foot down and tells her husband that there's a new arrangement: she will have breakfast with him twice a week, but other than that both will have complete freedom from each other. Her daughter likes the idea and makes that a condition of her marriage, but when her husband is perfectly willing to go along with it, she begins to rethink her stance.