Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

Starring:

• Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
• Theresa Harris 
• Jack Benny 
• Ellen Drew

Storyline
Jack Benny resists the entreaties of bandleader Phil Harris to journey to Nevada, where Phil's sweetheart, Brenda Tracy, is waiting for her divorce, until Jack meets Joan Cameron, one of a trio of singing sisters. Believing that the only real men hail from the West, Joan spurns Jack's advances even though her sisters encourage the courtship. Realizing that Jack's infatuation presents the bait to lure him West, Phil tells Joan that Jack owns a ranch in Nevada, and when Fred Allen's press agent broadcasts the story, all of New York starts talking about Jack's ranch. To save face, Jack, determined to prove that he is a true son of the West, travels to Nevada. After Joan and her sisters arrive to perform at a nearby plush dude ranch, Jack poses as the owner of Andy Devine's spread. To impress Joan, Jack pays Andy's ranch hands to stage fights with him, but his plot backfires when he mistakes two real outlaws for Andy's patsies. Meanwhile, Joan overhears Rochester, Jack's butler, discussing Jack's ruse, and hires the outlaws to hold Jack up, but when she learns that Fred Allen's press agent is in town, she warns Jack. When the outlaws hold up the hotel, Jack, believing that the robbery is a fake, rushes to the rescue and, with the help of his pet bear Carmichael, captures the bandits and saves Joan.

Am I Guilty? (1940) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Ralph Cooper 
• Sybil Lewis 
• Sam McDaniel

Storyline
The story tells of a courage young Negro doctor whose high ideals lead him to attempt the establishment of a clinic in the slum district in which he was born. Dr. Dunbar falls into the hands of the Bennett gang, which is badly in need of a "mob doctor" to "fix up" wondered members. Bennett, through his lawyer, donates $8,000 to Dunbar to establish his clinic. Dunbar is eventually forced to accompany the gang on a series of breath-taking escapades, which finally end in the death of Bennett and the capture of the gang. 

**This film is considered lost until notified otherwise.**

Broken Strings (1940)

Starring:

• Clarence Muse 
• Sybil Lewis 
• William Washington
• Tommie Moore
• Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
• Pete Webster
• Edward Thompson
• Buck Woods
• Darby Jones
• Jess Lee Brooks

Storyline

The gifted hands of a world-renowned musician are crippled in a car crash. Reduced to giving lessons to children on the instrument he once mastered, violinist Arthur Williams (Clarence Muse) has become an embittered malcontent. Frustrated by the apparent lack of discipline in his students (one of them, his own son), and despairing of the decadent rise of primitive swing music, he is sorely in need of some kind of miracle-whether medical or musical.

Revered black actor Clarence Muse brings depth and gravity to this inspiring tale of the curative powers of love and music. Muse had a distinguished 50-year career in both "black" and "white" cinema, dating back to 1929, appearing in such classics as Huckleberry Finn (1931), White Zombie (1936), Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Show Boat (1936), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), Lost Weekend (1945), Porgy and Bess (1959), Car Wash (1976) and The Black Stallion (1979). Broken Strings also features an adolescent appearance by Our Gang graduate, Matthew "Stymie" Beard. Starring Clarence Muse, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Darby Jones. Directed by Bernard B. Ray.