King Kong (1933)
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport
Woman in the Dark (1934)
A paroled prisoner hits a man attacking a woman He runs away scared that he may have killed him he did not From a book Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett
Doctor X (1932)
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientists quest to unmask The Moon Killer
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
While hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Barts career Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star
The Vampire Bat (1933)
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible
Viva Villa! (1934)
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy
Thunderbolt (1929)
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolts girl Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution