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Writers: Sherman L. Lowe, Crane Wilbur (story)
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Tired of his sheltered existence and hungry for excitement, a rich teen (David Sharpe) meets a gal (Gertrude Messinger) and offers to drive her brother’s car in an upcoming race.

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A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murder.

A detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring.

In the tradition of such big-budget “docudramas” as House on 92nd Street and Call Northside 777, the modestly budgeted C-Man adopts a quasi-documentary approach to its subject matter. The “C” stands for Customs, and indeed the leading character, Cliff Holden (Dean Jagger), is a detective for the U.S. Customs Department. Against a backdrop of genuine New York locations (with a few rather obvious back-projected shots thrown in), Holden puts the heat on a homicidal jewelry smuggler. John Carradine steals the show as an alcoholic doctor, reduced to fronting for the smugglers. The rest of the cast is populated with such Broadway regulars as Edith Atwater and Walter Brooke. Though it obviously cost next to nothing to produce, C-Man is far more atmospheric and suspenseful than many a major-studio effort.

A would-be playwright and a young woman escaping from a job at a gas station meet cute and fall in love.

Its title notwithstanding, the PRC western Range Beyond the Blue was lensed in glorious black-and-white. Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when they thwart a stagecoach holdup. Our heroes take it upon themselves to champion the cause of stage-line owner Margie Rodgers (Helen Mowery), who’s being victimized by an unknown villain. Dean suspects that there’s more to the case than mere robbery, and he’s right: someone wants to gain control of Margie’s business, and that someone is?.. Well, that should be obvious the moment the “mystery” villain saunters into view. Range Beyond the Blue was the next-to-last entry in PRC’s Eddie Dean series.

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