Pathéscope 9.5mm Sound (1956)

SEVENTY-SEVEN Drama T966I Night Alarm. (6 Reels). Featuring Bruce Cabot and Judith Allen. Hal Ashby, of the "Morning Times", likes to chase fire engines, but he dislikes his own column "The Garden Beautiful" so much that he neglects it. Caldwell, managing Editor, is about to fire Hal when Helen Smith wanders in to ask for a job. Hal induces Caldwell to give her his job and let him cover fires. The city has been subjected to a number of incendiary fires, and the "Times" is waging a relentless campaign against the city administration for failing to capture the fire-bug. Hal discovers that but for the Manufacturers' Association and Henry B. Smith, political boss of the town, many of the burned factories would have been condemned long ago; the owners thus sacrificing the lives of workers rather than install fire safety measures. Romance blooms between Hal and Helen, but Hal is unaware that Boss Smith is Helen's father. After the proposal of marriage Helen joins her father's staff at the factory where a banquet is held to celebrate the occasion. All is merry until fire breaks out at the plant, and in the panic that follows Helen becomes separated from her father and is left helpless in the blazing building. Meanwhile, Hal learns the %vhereabouts of the fire-bug and dashes madly to the factory and finds the place a seething furnace; he rushes into the blazing structure and creeps through tumbling walls and scorching flames. He locates Helen and tries to haul her over a roof, but the walls of the room cave in and they are hemmed in by flames on every side. Firemen sight the pair on the tottering roof, and succeed in stretching a ladder to them from an adjoining building. Straining every nerve, Hal just manages to carry Helen across the bridge. Next morning the "Times" has a story of Hal's heroic rescue. Smith tells Caldwell he is about to lose a good reporter, intimating that Hal is to become an important factor in his business. Caldwell objects and calls for Hal, but is told that he left a few minutes before, leaving a message to the effect that he is hurrying out to hunt "some night-blooming jasmin" a goodnatured gibe at his former column "The Garden Beautiful". T9665 Tarzan and the Green Goddess. (6 Reels). Featuring Bruce Bennett and Ula Holt. Having ingeniously wrested the "Green Goddess ", an ancient and priceless relic, from the hands of the Mayans, Major Martling and his party make their way out of the Guatemalan jungle. Raglan, a treacherous and criminal explorer, attacks the party on two occasions and in the confusion manages to steal both the goddess and the secret code. Tarzan, a member of Martling's party, picks up the trail and tracks Raglan down to his hotel in the seaport of Mantique. Tarzan climbs the balcony to the room, and discovers Raglan with two confederates studying the coveted code. Tarzan smashes his Vk^ay into the room but he is overpowered, thrown from the balcony to the ground, where he is left for dead. Major Martling and his party, hearing the scuffle, arrive too late to stop Raglan escaping, but happily discover that Tarzan is not only unhurt but that the code is safe in his keeping. A chance clue, left by Raglan leads them to his new hide-out. After many exciting adventures Major Martling and party are taken prisoners by the blood-thirsty Mayan natives, and held captive in the temple from which the idol has been stolen. The Major and his assistant, George, are condemned to torture, Tarzan is thrown into the pit of the Sacred Lion and Ula Dale into an adjoining cell. By the superhuman efforts of Tarzan they all escape and rush to Puerto Barries, where they know that Raglan has taken the goddess. After further thrilling adventures in which Raglan is killed the Major and his party eventually arrive safely in England where the "goddess"' gives up its secret.