(imdb)TRIAL BY TRIGGER-1944-Warner Brothers short about crooked lumber barons but basically, it's a love triangle between lumberjack Bill Cardigan (a very young Robert Shayne), sleazy lumber baron Dan Fallon (Warner Anderson) and saloon owner Lee (Cheryl Walker). There's fights, a big train wreck and some daring dos by Bill. Also with Monte Blue, Harry Cording, Ralph Dunn and the voice of Art Baker. Directed by William McGann (SHH! THE OCTOPOUS (1937).
(imdb)DARK SHADOWS-1944-This is part of MGM's “Crime Does Not Pay” short subject series. The case history of a killer is examined. The first victim is a doctor. The police are baffled by the murder. Lt. Pat McKay (Morris Ankrum) brings in Dr. Colner (Henry O'Neill), a police psychiatrist. They suspect one of the doctor's dead patients. Unfortunately, the killer's next victim is the dead doc's nurse. Colner assembles 6 of the murdered MD's patients who fit the killer's profile (they include Arthur Space, Paul Guilloye and Dorothy Adams). They believe the killer hated his/her mother. When Colner gets a confession, the killer says “I'm a murderer!” and jumps out a window. Also with Paul Langton. Although only 21 minutes long, two directors are credited.
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(imdb)NARCOTICS: PIT OF DESPAIR-(1967)-A cobra is shown and the narrator sounds like Vic Perrin from The Outer Limits. The focus is then on a high school athlete failing in English and Math. He thinks “bennies” will help him do it all but then Pusher Pete (with an Amish beard) invites him to a swinging party. He turns Pete down but then gets bored (his parents are away so he has “no guidance"). At the party he swings and drinks. When his senses are “dulled”, floozy Helen takes him to the garage to smoke pot. Later he flunks at school. When smoking pot with Pete, he watches a pathetic guy shoot up. He shoots up anyway and becomes a heroin addict. While going cold turkey, some addicts tie him to a bed and Pete shoots him up. When Helen blabs, he's arrested and put in a government hospital. He's cleaned up but in the end he goes looking for Pete...Directed by Mel Marshall.
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