Connections: Winds of the Wastelands
Connecting a series of films through second billed performers.
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- DirectorMack V. WrightStarsJohn WaynePhyllis FraserLew KellyThe arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or Stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsClaire TrevorJane DarwellArline JudgeBlind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.Connected to "Winds of the Wasteland" by Phyllis Cerf.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsRosalind RussellJohn BolesBillie BurkeA domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.Connected to "Star for a Night" by Jane Darwell.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsJohn BolesDoris NolanWalter PidgeonIn order to avoid alimony payments and a large tax bill, a boss marries his secretary, then finds out he really is in love with her.Connected to "Craig's Wife" by John Boles.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantDoris NolanA young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.Connected to "As Good as Married" by Doris Nolan.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineVictor McLaglenIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.Connected to "Holiday" by Cary Grant.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsNelson EddyVirginia BruceVictor McLaglenWhile the railroad advances westward, agent Jim Knox chooses expedite ways to obtain the land he needs, aided by his fierce Irish lieutenant Mulligan. Everybody expects homecoming lawyer Steve Logan will stop him, but he chooses instead an alliance, to even his sweetheart's rejection. Only a good friend finds the truth and will help him act this double role to restore freedom and dignity.Connected to "Gunga Din" by Victor McLaglin.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsWalter PidgeonVirginia BruceLeo CarrilloSociety lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence.Connected to "Let Freedom Ring" by Virginia Bruce.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsLeo CarrilloTim HoltSteffi DunaLearning of a certain cantina dancer, notorious outlaw El Rayo bets he can bring her back voluntarily that night. Arriving, he learns that she loves the craps table operator Johnny Powell. When Johnny catches one of El Rayo's men with loaded dice, he must outdraw him. El Rayo gets Johnny put in jail and tells the dancer that he will have his men break him out and hang him unless she comes with him.Connected to "Society Lawyer" by Leo Carillo.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsGinger RogersWalter ConnollyVerree TeasdaleFeeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.Connected to "The Girl and the Gambler" by Tim Holt.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsWalter ConnollyOnslow StevensPaul FixDr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had brought into the world many years before. At Fillmore he is assigned to work in the jute mill after the prison doctor, Frank Norton, spurns his request to work in the hospital. "Lindy" Lindstron, MacAuley's co-worker in the mill, has a sudden heart attack and Dr. Norton declares him beyond help. MacAuley administers adrenaline and Lindstrom recovers. News of the recovery spreads and MacAuley is besieged by fellow convicts with real and imaginary ills, and Norton requests his transfer to the hospital. Lindstrom, suffering greatly, begs MacAuley to give him an overdose of sedative, and offers him $10,000 he claims to have hidden "outside." MacAuley refuses, but is so touched by Lindstrom's agony that he talks over the possibility of a mercy death with Norton. Nightingale, a prison trusty, has overheard Lindstrom's request and he promises to obtain the sedative in return for the $10,000. The next day, Lindstrom is found dead. Norton, who scoffed at MacAuley's request, believes that MacAuley gave Lindstrom the fatal dose.Connected to "5th Ave Girl" by Walter Connelly.
- DirectorDavid BurtonStarsLloyd NolanJean RogersRichard ClarkeA man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.Connected to "Those High Grey Walls" by Onslow Stevens.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsSidney TolerJean RogersLionel AtwillInspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur.Connected to "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" by Jean Rogers.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerDorothy LamourEdward ArnoldThe son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.Connected to "Charlie Chan in Panama" by Lionel Atwill.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsDorothy LamourRobert PrestonLynne OvermanHaving been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper Joe, a former bookie who has traded chasing dark horses for the pursuit of black pearls, meets Johnny Potter, a former Navy man who has lived in a drunken stupor since being kicked out of the service. The skipper tries to convince Johnny to sign on as his navigator, but Johnny refuses to return to the sea. However, after a bar room brawl with the savage Kehi, Johnny is knocked unconscious and is shanghaied by Skipper aboard his rusty old submarine. The men are chased from the harbor by Kehi, who is furious because Mekaike, one of the skipper's men, has stolen his black pearl earrings. After running out of oil because Mekaike has forgotten to refuel the tank, they reach the island inhabited by Dea, where Johnny collapses on the beach in a drunken stupor. The skipper leaves his friend on the beach, where Dea and Koko find him and take him to their tree house to recover. When the skipper returns to the beach, he thinks that Johnny has been washed out to sea. As the skipper and his men build a boat to leave the island, Dea begs Johnny to stay, but fearing that he is doomed to die an early death from alcohol, he refuses. Finding his way back to the beach, Johnny arrives just as Mekaike leads a mutiny against the skipper. After tying Johnny and the skipper to a tree, the men steal the submarine, only to drown when they dive with the hatch open. Stranded, Johnny and the skipper continue building their boat until Kehi tracks them down and sets fire to the island. As the flames consume the foliage, a typhoon roars in from the sea and floods the island, leaving a lifeboat behind in its wake. Dea, Johnny, the skipper and Koko then board the little craft and sail off to civilization.Connected to "Johnny Apollo" by Dorothy Lamour.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollPaulette GoddardIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.Connected to "Typhoon" by Robert Preston.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsMadeleine CarrollFred MacMurraySterling HaydenA New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not.Connected to "North West Mounted Police" by Madeleine Carroll.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsFred MacMurrayMadeleine CarrollPatricia MorisonA Texas pilot courts a British aristocrat in London amid bombing and in Portugal amid spies.Connected to "Virginia" by Fred MacMurray.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsMadeleine CarrollSterling HaydenFlora RobsonA girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth (Sterling Hayden), descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its two hundred and fifty native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when she's there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be either. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.Connected to "One Night in Lisbon" by Madeleine Carroll.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsAnne BaxterWilliam HoldenSonny TuftsIn the 1920s, four brothers fly for the fledgling U.S. Air Mail Service.Connected to "Bahama Passage" by Sterling Hayden.
- DirectorWilliam D. RussellStarsJoan CaulfieldWilliam HoldenMona FreemanA family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail. Then they discover Ruth's younger sister was the culprit.Connected to "Blaze of Noon" by William Holden.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsBetty GrableDan DaileyMona FreemanIn this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Iris are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.Connected to "Dear Ruth" by Mona Freeman.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJeanne CrainDan DaileyOscar Levant1920's bandleader Chuck Arnold meets hometown girl Peggy at one of the band's dances and next day weds her. Though she loves him, life on the road becomes increasingly difficult for her, but it is the 1929 Crash that makes things really tough for the both of them.Connected to "Mother Wore Tights" by Dan Dailey.
- DirectorMichael CurtizBusby BerkeleyStarsJack CarsonJanis PaigeDoris DayRomantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.Connected to "You Were Meant for Me" by Oscar Levant.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsDennis MorganJanis PaigeDon DeForeBiff Grimes has spent the last ten years regretting that he hadn't married Virginia Brush, the girl of his dreams. Virginia ran off and married his best friend - breaking his heart. Virginia's best friend, Amy, consoles Biff.Connected to "Romance on the High Seas" by Janis Paige.