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The Man in the Barn (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Man in the Barn
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Carey Wilson / Ernie Adams
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surrender, the barn was set afire and Booth died in the blaze. However, in 1903 a Mr. David E. George, while on his deathbed in Enid, Oklahoma, claimed to be John Wilkes Booth. This MGM An Historical Mystery series short presents evidence of the possibility that Mr. George's claim was true.
SOS Coast Guard (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
SOS Coast Guard
director: William Witney / Alan James actor: Bela Lugosi / Ralph Byrd
other title: S.O.S. Coast Guard
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
The Great Heart (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Great Heart
director: David Miller actor: Carey Wilson / Tom Neal
other title: 偉大聖心
This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope and God's comfort to the lepers confined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.