Douglas Fowley

A fast Mexican-American gunman kills a few notorious gunfighters and is hired to replace Mesa's dead sheriff but a crooked saloon-keeper wants him on his payroll or out-of-the-way. Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws gunfighter Dan Ritchy and later kills two outlaws while dispatching a third. As a result, Robles is asked to assume the office of sheriff after the previous lawman quits the job. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloon owner Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life? —Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>

La protagonista femenina llega a la selva para comenzar una nueva vida con un marido al que conoce sólo por carta. El primer problema que tiene es que él no parece muy convencido de querer estar con ella en la intimidad, y es bastante hosco en su presencia. El segundo problema es que se aproxima una plaga mortal de hormigas especialmente omnívoras e hiperinteligentes.

A young woman is on Death Row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiance', a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state's executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she is strapped into the electric chair. A famous criminologist, believing her to be innocent, rushes to investigate the case and clear her before her execution date. —frankfob2@yahoo.com

A naive young doctor, in a misguided effort to impress a young woman, finds himself in over his head when a gangster client demands plastic surgery to achieve the perfect disguise. Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics. In an effort to make some quick money and marry Diana, Blake becomes a retainer for gangster Joe Grant while the upright (and uptight) Sawyer becomes a medical examiner in the district attorney's office. Grant is involved in a murder and forces Blake to remove an identifying scar, thereby proving that all gangsters should keep a doctor on retainment. But Blake has a change of heart and shows up at Grant's trial, spills the beans and Grant is convicted. Consequently, Blake loses his license, Diana and then his life, proving that the "do-tell' doctor should have heeded the film title. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

After the death of one of their fellow pilots, a squadron of Navy airmen plots to keep his newborn son away from their superiors, who have decreed that the baby should be given up for adoption. When Tex Jones, a navy pilot stationed on an aircraft carrier, learns that he is a father, he shares the news with his best pals and fellow pilots, Red Furness, Steve Bassett and Bill Lyons. Their ship reaches its home port of San Diego thirty days later, but when Tex returns home, he discovers that his wife Mary died the previous night. Tex is overwhelmed with grief, and while he looks at his son, whom he and Red call "the Admiral," Red dissuades Mary's snobbish sister, Bernice Farrington, from taking the baby away. After Bernice leaves, Tex tells Red that he does not want the Farringtons to take his son, and asks him to look after the Admiral while he sees Mary one last time. On his way to the hospital, however, the distraught Tex is run over by a car. Red, who had sneaked the baby into his bachelor quarters in order to avoid Bernice, goes to see Tex. In front of two witnesses, Tex appoints Red as his son's legal guardian, then dies. Red returns to his quarters and sadly relates the news to Steve and Bill, and tells them that his Aunt Minnie will arrive soon to take care of the Admiral. Meanwhile, Bernice, her mother and their attorney, Mr. Strickland, visit Red's commanding officer, Admiral Kingston, and persuade him to take them to Red's quarters. Kingston alerts Red that they are coming, and while Bill rushes out to find Aunt Minnie, Steve and Red try to cover up evidence of the infant's presence. Red stalls Kingston and the others as Steve hands the Admiral out the window to Aunt Minnie. Bernice concedes "round one" in the war for the child to Red, but vows to outmaneuver him somehow. Bernice then asks Red to give her flying lessons, although she already is an accomplished pilot, and one afternoon, Red knocks her out after she takes control of the plane to force him to reveal the baby's whereabouts. Later, at a dance, Bernice asks her friend, Daphne Roth, to pump the womanizing Steve for information. While Daphne is "vamping" Steve, Red sincerely apologizes to Bernice for hitting her. When Red explains to her how important it is for Tex's son to be brought up to be as a Navy man, Bernice regrets her subterfuge, but it is too late, for a drunken Steve has taken Daphne to see the Admiral. The Farringtons recover the child, and an angry Red refuses to listen to Bernice's apologies. A week later, Red is about to ship out when he decides to see the Admiral one last time. He discovers that the boy is in the hospital and rushes there. At the hospital, Red and Bernice are quarreling when they are told that the Admiral has been stolen by gangster Joe Vezie, who mistakenly believes that the child is his. Red takes off in a Navy plane to pursue Vezie as he heads toward the Canadian border, while Bernice alerts Kingston. Although he is forced to declare Red A.W.O.L., Kingston sends Commander Saunders and four other fighter pilots to aid Red and, after Red convinces Vezie that the baby is not his, the child is recovered. Everyone assembles in Kingston's office, and he agrees to not punish Red when Bernice and Red decide to marry and rear the Admiral in the Navy. —Anonymous