William Beaudine (1892–1970)

Baron Frankenstein’s daughter Maria (Narda Onyx) is continuing her notorious father’s experiments and has relocated to the American West - apparently to take advantage of the plentiful electrical storms. Holed out in a renovated monastery things are going relatively well for Maria until outlaw Jesse James (John Lupton) arrives on the scene along with his partner Hank (Cal Bolder). Unfortunately for the hunky Hank he makes the perfect specimen for Maria’s dastardly experiments. The wildly implausible plot and the trashy, low budget aesthetics of this ludicrous horror / western hybrid actually turn out better than could have reasonably been expected. It is, of course, rubbish, but enjoyably so, with veteran director William Beaudine serving up a ridiculous concoction of inept direction, low grade acting and redundant effects. The brilliantly monikered Narda Onyx steals the show with her fantastic accent, managled phrasing and sly, dead-pan delivery. All this makes for plenty of ironic, unintentionally hilarious fun.… (more)

A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com… (more)

Princess Mei Ling pays a visit to the Chan residence, where upon being admitted by man-of-all-work Birmingham Brown she refuses to give her name, but hands Birmingham her ring to show to Charlie. While Chan is being summoned, a mysterious figure shoots a dart at the beautiful Princess who manages, before she dies of poison, to scrawl the name "Captain K" on a handy piece of paper. When the police arrive, Charlie has to admit that he does not know the identity of his murdered visitor, but that he means to find out. What he learns is that Mei Ling has brought with her to America the sum of one million dollars, in order to buy airplanes for the Chinese struggle for freedom. Someone has stolen the money, and someone may be trying to divert the planes into enemy hands. Can the famous detective, despite the fact that his Number Two Son has unaccountably changed his name from Jimmy to Tommy, who used to be his Number Three son, and despite the fact that Charlie, who used to be a Honolulu ... Written by Jim Knoppow… (more)