Francis McDonald Movies

Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.

The story gets away with a bang, as the wedding of Tony the Banker is rudely interrupted by Detective Moran and the bridegroom is dragged off to the...

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...

Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is...

A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.

Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and he is looking for her. But Hoppy soon learns the girl...

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris....

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke...

Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has...

The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon....

A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.

Sailor Joe Hart, who is spending his shore leave at a gambling joint, sells his gun to young Laurie Roberts after losing terribly. After Hart again...

A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters.

A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.

Young mechanical engineer John Ashton is trying to complete the plans for a new submarine. Under pressure to meet a deadline he has been leaning on...

Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.

Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...

Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It...