Edward L. Cahn

Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for...

Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for...

The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police...

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie...

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie...

Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.

Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a...

A teenage couple making out in the woods accidentally runs over an alien creature with their car. The creature's hand falls off, but it comes alive,...

An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her...

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems...

Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club...

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up...

Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility,...

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

A young gangster in 1920's New York quickly rises through the ranks of the mob, then sets up his own murder-for-hire organization. When he starts...

The police use a gangster's son to get to him.

A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.

Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I...

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep...

An ex-con finds unexpected romance with the widow of his former accomplice as he tries to collect his hidden loot.

A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.

A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this...

A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

Temple Houston (Sam Houston's son) who is the DA with a sense of Justice. He is located in Fort Smith, Ark and works with Judge Parker in 1872. His...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.

A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.

In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.

Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting...

A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.

A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he...

Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.

An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.

An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.

A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting...

The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.

The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition...

Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his...

A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of convenience, and end up falling in love.

A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.

The Clown and the Kid is a 1961 film. When Moko the Clown (Don Keefer) passes away, his newly orphaned son Shawn (Michael McGreevey) takes up with...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.

Dr. Frank Harlow is in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters whom he identifies to the police. When the victim dies the...

A low-budget re-telling of the classic fairy tale.

The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the...

A young man searches for his brother's killer with the help of a gunfighter, a native woman and a traveling medicine man.

A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new...

Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have...

Billy Wade is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt, not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces...

Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from...

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.

After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.

A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that...

A reporter learns that his girlfriend's father, an old sea captain, is being paid by the mob to transport gangsters out of the country.

WWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one...

Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier...

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns...

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Young couple Joe and Mary Thompson love each other and their children despite the struggles that they have that are typical of most young couples...

An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin'...

Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States is a 1937 short directed by Edward Cahn.

The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.

After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe...

On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board,...

Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.

The gang prevails upon old-time minstrel impresario Walter Wills to help them stage a fund-raising musical show.

After Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach him once and for all not to lie. What the gang...

Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.

It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities. But after the Gang causes a...

The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage...

The romantic, dangerous and fast-paced world of professional midget auto racing provides the backdrop for this dramatic tale of a young driver who...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook...

The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is...

In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the...

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

Spanky and the Our Gang kids go to battle over pranks with a rival gang.

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends...

The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.

A young man searches for his brother's killer with the help of a gunfighter, a native woman and a traveling medicine man.

Narrator John Nesbitt laments the disappearance of the rural one-room schoolhouse in America. He reminisces about his own days as a student in such a...

A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the...

Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every four years. So, the gang decide to have a surprise...

To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine...

Rich 'Old Man' Bill Morton is a hypochondriac. After bringing new sugar pills to Bill Morton's house, his physician, Doctor Malcolm Scott suggested...

This short tells the story of Norwegian explorer and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). After a life of adventure, he was instrumental in...

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.

The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...

The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learning the identity of the leader of a gang of bullies.

While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When the gang visit him in the hospital they are...

This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an orchestra in military dress plays different...

This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an orchestra in military dress plays different...

Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War...

The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough....

The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.

Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he ends up letting the team down when his poor...

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get...

Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.

The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.

Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a...

The gang puts on a show to raise money for the Red Cross.

Froggy hatches a plan to get Mickey, Buckwheat, and himself sent home from school early so they can go fishing. When the plan backfires, the boys...

This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.

This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.

This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.