The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
Bill Tracy is a Cattleman's Protective Association agent. Working undercover on his way to Sonora, a town dominated by rustlers, saves Betty Carter from a situation, but her rancher father, believing Blackie's suggestion that Bill is a rustler, forbids her to see him. Bill and his pal Heinie Schmaltz rescue each other from rustlers' various plots and ambushes and eventually discover that Blackie, Carter's foreman, is the leader of the rustlers.
Федерален агент минава под прикритие, за да се включи в операция за пренасяне на дрога, ръководена от мистериозния господин Х. Кой е господинът, който се крие зад тази самоличност не знае дори човекът, който му възлага мисиите. Пипалата на господин Х достигат до спешното отделение в местна болница, където пациентите намират смъртта си на операционната маса, а след това биват изнасяни в ковчези натъпкани с дрога. Никой не знае какво става с тези ковчези, след като бъдат заровени на гробището.
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Проспериращият обувен магнат Джон Рийвс /носителят на "Оскар" Джордж Арлис решава да излезе във ваканция и да остави бизнеса си в ръцете на своя племенник Бенджамин /Харди Олбрайт/. Докато си почива Джон се натъква на свои роднини, които живеят охолно благодарение на наследстовото от мъртвия им баща. Джон не им се представя и те нямат представа с кого си имат работа, като често споменават неща, които ако го познаваха, щяха да запазят в тайна. Сред останалите звезди във филма са Бет Дейвис и Тиодор Нютън, а бюджетът на лентата е 200 000 долара.
John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover.
Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they provide alibis for each other while one is out committing crimes. Hoppy gets a job in the casino to learn more but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him.
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton return to the screen as saddle pals Nevada and Sandy in Monogram's Pals of the Border. In this one, our heroes are US marshals, hot on the trail of cattle rustlers.
Алиша Хуберман, дъщеря на германски емигранти, осъдена от американските власти, има репутацията на неустоима красавица и секс играчка и американския агент Давлин се влюбва в нея. Работейки по разкриването на нацистка конспирация в Рио де Жанейро, той решава да потърси помощта на Алисия. Те влизат в контакт с нацисткия агент Александър, за когото Алисия трябва да се омъжи.