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- DirectorAlan JamesRay TaylorStarsJackie CooperVondell DarrEdwin StanleyFilmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial (made in that short two-year span of time when they chose to be identified as The New Universal) is Universal's 40th sound-era serial, made and released between "Red Barry" and "Buck Rogers", and has Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack setting off in search of lost treasure, using a map provided by Tenderfoot scout Skeets Scanlon Scoutmaster Hale leaves the expedition to rush home to an ailing wife, but Bruce and the scouts push on and the map leads them to "Ghost Town", where the treasure turns out to be a large cache of counterfeit $20 bills and the plates used to print them. The troop also discover a lost branch of Inca Indians living in the mountains and still undetected in 1939. The tribe gives ferocious efforts to keep the scouts from discovering their Temple cave because it contains a huge radium deposit known to them only for its ability to heal wounds. Joined by G-Man Hal Marvin, on the trail of the counterfeiting ring led by Pug O'Toole and Doc, the scouts face many battles and opposition from both the gangsters and the tribe.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsFrankie DarroGeorge P. BreakstonJimmy ButlerFrail Nemecsek, a lonely boy craving belonging, idolizes charismatic Boka, leader of a gang, in an evocative depiction of youth's pain and war's senselessness.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJoan DavisCharles FarrellShirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsJane WithersO.P. HeggieJackie SearlGinger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsPeggy Ann GarnerStephen DunneAllyn JoslynA New York teenager gets involved in everyone's lives by playing cupid. She turns the household upside down and gets her father fired by fixing up her uncle with the boss's daughter.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyFreddie BartholomewLionel BarrymoreA spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsFreddie BartholomewMickey RooneyCharles CoburnA spoiled orphan, raised by a couple of con artists, gets sent to a mercantile marine vocational school for orphaned boys, where he learns about friendship and ethics, and uncovers a new future.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeRowland BrownStarsFreddie BartholomewJackie CooperMickey RooneyA well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsSpencer TracyMickey RooneyBobs WatsonMickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. Larry Nunn and Dwayne Hickman join in this time around as Flanagan discovers a reform school that has neither reforming nor schooling. It's up to Flanagan, Whitey, and the rest of the school to teach them there's no such thing as a bad boy.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsSpencer TracyMickey RooneyHenry HullWhen a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperLionel BarrymoreYoung Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperIrene RichAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJackie CooperThomas MeighanJackie SearlYoung boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJackie CooperRobert CooganJackie SearlSkippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs $30 dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
- DirectorRalph MurphyTed TetzlaffStarsJackie CooperSusanna FosterWalter AbelMarathon Pictures is stuck with Billy Doran, Whiz Quiz radio show star but a flop in Hollywood. Ex-child star Tiny Barlow suggests that the studio remake "Skippy", the film that made him famous, with himself as coach for little Billy. A. J. Colder, Marathon's Mighty Mogul, agrees. Joan Winslow, a contract player who has never had a part, is picked to replace balky Brenda Lee in Marathon's monster musical of the year. Tiny poses as a big shot and takes credit for getting Joan the role. They are soon seen everywhere together as Tiny is taking advantage of her publicity build-up for his own gain, until he suddenly finds out he is in love with her and confesses his duplicity. This occurs when Colder has forbid Joan to see Tiny anymore, directing her to only be seen with important people who can help her career, and Tiny thinks it is because she has dumped him. He enters into a conspiracy with Brenda's agent, Mickey Fadden, to make Brenda give up her strike and accept the role Colder gave Joan. She does and Tiny is given the role of her leading man. But he is unhappy about what he has done in costing Joan her big chance, plus his old friend, Georgie Clemons who used to play the mean kid in Tiny's films is also replaced. Faced with the taunts of the production crew because of what he helped engineer and broken hearted about Joan, Tiny walks out on the picture, climbs into his automobile and heads for parts unknown. Little Billy, who adores him, stows away in the luggage compartment. Billy, the high IQ kid, has devised a scheme to set everything right.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerWhile Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsMickey RooneyWalter ConnollyWilliam FrawleyTo avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMickey RooneyFay BainterGeorge BancroftInventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up with disastrous results. As a consequence, the townsfolk all think Tom is crazy, and creates a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerJudge Hardy and family travel to Detroit to claim an inheritance where they experience life as millionaires and learn the cost of riding high.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMickey RooneyJudy GarlandLewis StoneAndy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneCecilia ParkerMickey RooneyOn vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty. Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMickey RooneyLewis StoneFay HoldenJudge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerCollege-bound Andy blurts marriage proposals to his sweetheart Polly and her pert swimmer friend Sheila.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerJudge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. However, he finds the high-society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyFay HoldenAndy starts freshman life at Wainwright College and gets caught up with helping blonde twin sisters.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsJackie CooperMaureen O'ConnorKathleen BurkeCocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsJackie CooperMartin SpellmanMarjorie ReynoldsJimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsJackie CooperRobert WarwickLucy GilmanA popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsMickey RooneyAnne NagelFrank Shields Sr.A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJed ProutyShirley DeaneSpring ByingtonThe Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJune LangThomas BeckJed ProutyFirst of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJed ProutyShirley DeaneSpring ByingtonThe Jones family is into politics with father running for mayor. His son prints a newspaper which causes controversy by quoting his dad regarding his crooked opponent.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJed ProutyShirley DeaneSpring ByingtonThe Jones family's daughter and her husband try to live on a tight budget while Uncle Charlie plans to increase their income.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserJudy ClarkA rich man's son is running for student body president in the local high school, and the boy's father tells the school principal that if his son wins the election, he'll make a sizable donation to the school that will pay for the football team's much-needed uniforms.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserWarren MillsA high school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing. Complications ensue.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserFrankie DarroMiss Hinklefink (Belle Mitchell) inherits a western ranch and, in order to spend the summer with Professor Owen Townley (Milton Kibbee), she invites students Freddie Trimball (Freddie Stewart), Dodie Rogers (June Preisser, Betty Rogers (Noel Neill), Lee Watson (Warren Mills) and Roy Donne (Frankie Darro( to spend their vacation on the ranch if Townley will help chaperon the kids. Real estate agent Tom Sneed (Hugh Prosser') tries to persuade her to send the kids home when desperadoes rob the bank. In the saloon, Sneed's henchman Charlie (Terry Frost) mistakes Freddie for a baby-faced killer, who was blamed for a murder actually committed by Sneed, and ranch foreman Big Jim (John Hart), also working for Sneed, tries to kill Freddie.
- DirectorWill JasonStarsFreddie StewartJune PreisserFrankie DarroA Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service, requires an operation, and Navy psychiatrist Captain R. S. Handler, recommends to Marine Captain Russ Morgan and Colonel Winters that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through Dean McKinley of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. The teenagers are rehearsing a school show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Freddie, Dodie Rogers and Betty Rogers find Sarge asleep in the park, and the girls put him up at their house when they learn he can't find a room. Betty has a row with boyfriend Roy , and in order to make him jealous gets Freddie to invite her to the school dance after telling Freddie that his girlfriend Dodie is going with Sarge. Many misunderstandings follow but all is well when Sarge gets his marine captain to bring his band over to the school for the school's BIG SHOW.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsJune CarlsonFifi D'OrsayTeala LoringA town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsBobby BreenCharles RugglesDolores CostelloTommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene and performs lively tunes to make a living.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJane WithersJane DarwellRalph MorganA girl gets into trouble at her orphanage and is sent away to reform school. She escapes en route but is found and brought to trial. Her father is the prosecutor.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsFrances FarmerLester MatthewsPorter HallA story of the boys who are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart (George Ernest) writes himself letters his father, Mark Stewart (Lester Matthews), should be writing. When his hoax is discovered Philip attempts suicide.