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| A Boy, A Girl and a Dog (1946) | Jerry Hunter, Harry Davenport and Lionel Stander star in this moving drama about two children who volunteer their dog for combat duty during World War II. Will the dog aid the allies in the pacific? Will he turn tail and run? Will he return to his brave little masters? This film plays well with Danny Boy, and should be viewed as a piece of 1940's Hollywood; don't look for the slick treatment, just old time sentimentality. |
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| A Shot In The Dark 1933 | Dorothy Boyd, A. Bromley Davenport and Jack Hawkins star in this old dark house mystery. A hated old miser dies, the police believe it to be a suicide however the murderer is found out at the reading of the will. The Will, by the way, is read by the deceased. |
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| A Shot In The Dark 1935 | Charles Starrett Edward Van Sloan and Robert Warwick star in this Chesterfield murder mystery. Three murders take place in a New England College via the use of an air gun. |
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| A Star Is Born 1937 | This was the first, and best, remake of the RKO/Pathe' classic 'What Price Hollywood?'. Fredric March and Janet Gaynor star in this full Technicolor feature mastered from an original Tech print. |
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| Aerial Gunner 1943 | Chester Morris, Richard Arlen and Dick Purcell star in this great world war II action drama. |
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| Anna Karenina 1948 | The beautiful Vivien Leigh stars as the tragic Anna, with Ralph Richardson, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt and Michael Gough are also featured. This stunning film is not a simple remake of the Garbo classic, but a complete reworking from the original material. A seldom seem Korda Classic |
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| Back Door To Heaven 1939 | William K. Howard's potent social docu-drama staring Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin. Ford turns to crime during the depression and the well off members of the community discover that it was their lack of concern that is responsible. |
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| Badge of Honor 1934 | Buster Crabbe stars as a society boy posing as a reporter. This is one action packed drama where he doesn't swim! |
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| Beat the Devil 1954 | Classic straight faced comedy, of the first order. Bogart, Lorre and John Huston parody the Maltese Falcon almost as well as did Satan Met A Lady, but thrown in are elements of Key Largo and Sierra Madre. |
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| Beggars In Ermine 1934 | Lionel Atwill, H.B. Walthall, Betty Furness and George (Gabby) Hayes star in this fascinating little melodrama. Atwill as the head of a steel mill is more concerned with his men than selling out to a big syndicate. Walthall convinces one of the workers to kill Atwill, he just misses with a bucket of molten steel, burning off Atwill's legs. Walthall takes up with Atwill's wife during his stay in the hospital and gets her to sell the mill and run off with him to England. Atwill gives up hope and goes to a home for the disabled that he had helped to build. There he meets a blind beggar and together they begin to roam the countryside looking for Atwill's wife and daughter. All the while Atwill's business skill is employed to organize the beggars of the nation into a financial force. He discovers that his wife is dead (killed by Walthall) and his daughter was put up for adoption. This covers the first half of the film. How Atwill deals with Walthall, his own daughter and his friends at the steel mill is worth the viewing. One of the few really fine films from Monogram studios. |
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| Behind Office Doors 1932 | The power behind the power is the theme behind the study of the executive secretary of the thirties. Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez star in another pre-code outing. |
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| Behind Prison Walls 1943 | Alan Baxter and Gertrude Michael star with Tully Marshall (in his last film). Despite the title, this is actually one of the better PRC comedy outings. |
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| Beware of Ladies 1937 | Donald cook, Judith Allen, George Meeker and Dwight Frye star: Irving Pichell directs this newspaper drama |
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| Big News 1929 | Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard star in this early newspaper drama, which must have served Milestone well in 1930 when he put the Front Page on film. |
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| Bird of Paradise 1932 | Mastered from a mint original 16mm print, this scenic wonder from the RKO location crew is as entertaining today as it was 55 years ago. 'I don't care what you do with the script, as long as you call it Bird of Paradise and the girl jumps into the volcano'. |
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| Black Dragons 1944 | Lugosi, a respected plastic surgeon since his days in Such Men Are Dangerous, is hired by the Japs to turn Jap spies into American looking chaps who can move freely in the U.S. A war time espionage/horror film from Monogram. |
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| Black Roses 1936 | Near the end of her life Lilian Harvey asked to see only one of her films; Black Roses. A search of the major archives turned up nothing, and she was never again to see her favorite film. Set in 1900's Russia, Harvey (a ballerina) must sleep with the Tsarist governor to save the life of her true love. Dennis Hoey also stars. When we first uncovered this film in 35mm nitrate, we offered it for restoration to UCLA and the AFI. Both turned us down. We now offer, mastered from the only known 35mm nitrate print, Lilian Harvey in 'Black Roses' produced by UFA in 1936 Germany. |
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| Blue Angel 1930 | This is the original German (with subtitles) version of this classic Von Sternberg film. One of Germany's greatest actors: Emil Jannings turns in a touching performance as a school master who falls for a night club singer. |
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| Bluebeard 1944 | Considering the production values; and considering the cast, which includes John Carradine, Ludwig Stossel, Jean Parker and Nils Asther; it is difficult to believe that this is a PRC production. |
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| Bombs over London 1937 | Presented here under its original British release title of Midnight Menace this is the third (along with Non-Stop New York and Things to Come) in the trilogy of English prophetic features. Here star Charles Farrell plays a cartoonist who uncovers a Balkan minister's plot to bomb London with pilotless airplanes (just as Hitler was to do within 5 years). |
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| Boy of the Streets 1937 | Monogram melodrama with Jackie Cooper and Marjorie Main. Cooper is a tough teen out to break into corrupt city government. The gritty side of urban life is well presented. |
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| British Intelligence 1940 | This almost forgotten remake of Three Faces East (1930) starred Boris Karloff (in the role originated by Erich Von Stroheim) as a master German spy, posing as a butler in the British War Office. |
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| C Man 1949 | Dean Jagger stars as an undercover customs agent in this gritty semi-documentary filmed on the streets of New York. John Carradine and Harry Landers also star. |
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| Call It Murder Bogart | Based on the novel "Midnight", a young Humphrey Bogart shows the early sparks that were to make him a screen immortal. |
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| Captain Calamity 1936 | Originally filmed in 'Magnacolor'. this monochrome print is all that seems to remain of this high class Grand National adventure film. George Houston, Marion Nixon and Movita star. |
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| Captain Kidd 1945 | Rowland Lee directs a top flight cast that includes Randolph Scott, Charles Laughton, Barbara Britton, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland, William Farnum and Sheldon Leonard. |
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| Case of the Frightened Lady 1939 | A classic of literature comes to home video: Edgar Wallace's "Case of the Frightened Lady" with Marius Goring and Helen Haye. There are mysterious goings on at the old mansion including murder, and a deep family secret. Mastered from a 35mm nitrate print. |
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| City without Men (1943) | A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates, and who needs men when you had Linda Darnell, Glenda Farrell, Sara Allgood and Rosemary DeCamp? Well, maybe Margaret Hamilton did - but se had Edgar Buchanan & Sheldon Leonard! |
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| Close Up 1948 | Alan Baxter plays a newsreel camera man who captures Richard Kollmar on film. Kollmar is an Ex-Nazi hiding in New York and would like it to stay that way, he fears Baxter's film will make this difficult and takes extreme measures to retrieve it (Nazis were just not very pleasant). Filmed on location in New York City, before it was fashionable to do so. |
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| Common Law Paul Stein 1931 | Pre-code all the way, with Constance Bennett, living with Lew Cody, then modeling nude for Joel McCrea (and she really does), then moving in with him, then back to Cody and finally off to Tarrytown to marry McCrea. This is from a soft, original, TV print. |
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| Constant Woman 1933 | Victor Schertzinger directs Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams and Stanley Fields in this fine melodrama concerning a traveling group of actors. In the late 1930's it was re-titled 'Hell in a Circus' because of its thrilling circus disaster finale. |
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| Convention Girl 1935 | The beautiful Rose Hobart stars as the owner of an Atlantic City convention spot with much of the film shot on location. Shemp Howard appears in a straight role as a small time hustler. |
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| Convoy 1940 | Clive Brook, Stewart Granger and Charles Farrell star in this first British film of World War two to deal with the war and its battles as the central theme. Tight direction, good solid acting and a strong plot make this a film worth seeing. |
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| Counterblast 1948 | A twisted plot about a Nazi spy who kills a British doctor, assumes his identity and carries on his work on bacteriological experiments. |
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| Crimes At The Dark House 1940 | Best of the Todd Slaughter films; this was the first, and most enjoyable, film version of The Woman In White. |
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| D.O.A. 1949 | Edmund O'Brien stars as a Notary Public who is suspected of knowing too much, so he his given a slow acting poison. He discovers that he has less then two days to live, and spends them trying to find his murderer. Told in flashback to the police, at the end of the film he is marked Dead On Arrival. The film's been colorized and remade twice (Color Me Dead and 1988's DOA), but this version never looses its punch. |
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| Danger on the Air 1938 | Lee J. Cobb, Donald Woods, William Lundigan, Edward Van Sloan, Skeets Gallagher and George Meeker star in this great entry into the Crime Club series. |
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| Daniel Boone (1936) | The great John Carradine plays Simon Girty to George O'Brien's Daniel Boone. This chapter of Boone's life concerns the famed tracker's leading settlers from North Carolina to Kentucky. Carradine organizes five Indian tribes to attack the encampment. |
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| Danny Boy 1946 | Robert "Buzz" Henry stars in this sentimental story about a Marine mascot's (Danny the Dog) return home after WWII. A bit dated, even a bit corny; but there won't be a dry eye in the house. A classy PRC production. |
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| Dark Journey 1937 | A four star World War I espionage drama with Vivien Leigh (two years before Scarlet) as the owner of a dress shop in Stockholm, who is actually a double agent. Conrad Veidt is the head of the German secret service who falls in love with her, not knowing that her true loyalties lie with the Allies. Tight direction (Victor Saville) and outstanding production values (Alexander Korda) make this a top notch thriller |
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| Death is Called Engelchen 1963 | A classic from the makers of The Shop on Main Street. A young fighter is shot in the spine on the last day of WWII, while lingering near death he recalls his experiences during the war, and believes that the German General Engelchen is after him. |
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| Deputy Drummer 1935 | Obscure British musical dealing with an impoverished composer who poses as an aristocrat in order to crash a swanky party. This film features two of Ida Lupino's less then well remembered relations: Lupino Lane and Wallace Lupino. |
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| Detour | Noir on a shoe string from Edgar G Ulmer. In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he's riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man's identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts' every move plunges him deeper into trouble. |
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| Dick Barton Strikes Back 1949 | Best of the Hammer Dick Barton films. Barton, England's comic strip detective hero, must stop Sebastian Cabot and James Raglan from exploding an atomic bomb in England. Non stop action and an exciting plot make this a stand out of the genre' |
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| Dressed to Kill 1946 | This was to be the last time Rathbone was to portray Holmes on film, he never fully abandoned the character however, releasing several dramatic readings of the original stories. Dressed to Kill has the secret to the stolen bank of England Plates held in three musical boxes. |
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| Drums Of Jeopardy 1931 | Take the man who starred as Dr. Fu Manchu, put him in a plot that concerns his avenging his daughter's death, and you have Mark of Terror (AKA Drums Of Jeopardy). The great Warner Oland plays (are you ready) Dr. Boris Karloff. |
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| East Of Borneo 1931 | Rose Hobart, the same year she was to make Jekyll and Hyde, starred with Charles Bickford in this action packed jungle adventure directed by George Melford for Universal |
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| Feel My Pulse 1928 | Gregory La Cava, most remembered for My Man Godfrey, directs William Powell, Bebe Daniels in this fine silent classic. |
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| Fire Over England 1937 | William K. Howard's direction shines with the help of an all star cast that includes Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Leslie Banks, Raymond Massey, James Mason, Robert Newton and Evelyn Ankers. While regarded as one of the finest historical dramas ever produced in England, there is enough adventure and action to rank this high on anyone's list of great swashbucklers. Robson so impressed the film community as Queen Elizabeth that she was signed to repeat the role in The Sea Hawk (1940). J & J was extremely lucky to obtain a fine original print for this release. Our print, in fact, was the source for many of the dupes that exist on this title. |
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| Frankie and Johnny 1934-36 | Completed in 1934 this was to be the first major Republic production. Running about 100 min; starring Helen Morgan, Chester Morris, and Lilyan Tashman; music written and directed by Victor Young; and a story by Jack Kirkland with screenplay by Moss Hart. One problem: the Hayes office. After two years, with 34 min cut and its third billed star dead, Frankie and Johnny was released. Here we present the 1936 release. |
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| Girls In Chains 1943 | Not an exploitation film as the title might suggest, but a neat little murder mystery. This is one of the first films to show the killer at the beginning of the story. |
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| God's Little Acre 1949 | Robert Ryan is convinced there is buried treasure on his farm. No stone is left un-turned, except on an acre of land with a cross on it. That acre keeps moving as the treasure hunt continues. A superior book adaptation |
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| Golden Glove Story 1950 | James Dunn stars while Dewey Martin and Devin O'Morrison fight for the championship, and the hand of his daughter: Kay Westfall. Arch Ward (founder of the Golden Gloves) and boxers Johnny Behr, Tony Zale and Issy Kline have cameo's. |
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| Goodbye Love 1935 | Charlie Ruggles, Varree Teasdale and Sidney Blackmer star in this bright romantic comedy about alimony. Blackmer goes to jail rather than pay up, his valet, Ruggles joins him, because he can't pay up. Blackmer: "What do you think of alimony?", Ruggles: "Its like paying for a dead horse!" |
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| Guilty Of Treason 1950 | One of the best iron curtain films made during the cold war. Charles Bickford is outstanding as Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary in this true story of the communist take over and its mistreatment of any "enemies of the state". |
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| Gulliver's Travels (1939) | Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol. |
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| Hard Guy 1941 | PRC crime drama with Mary Healy and Kane Richmond. Jack LaRue plays a suave, yet licentious owner of a night club. There he specializes in using his chorus girls in black mail schemes. When he kill an uncooperative wench, the girl's sister plays detective. Offered under the title Adventure In Hearts. |
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| He Walked By Night 1948 | Richard Basehart stars in this story of a petty crook who becomes a burglar, then a cop shooter and finally the subject of an intense manhunt: Told in documentary style. |
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| Hellgate 1952 | Variation on the Prisoner of Shark Island, this time its Sterling Hayden as the innocent doctor, imprisoned for helping the wrong man back to health. |
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| Hell's House 1932 | Pat O'Brien is the smooth talking bootlegger and a very young and very blonde Bette Davis is the love interest in this early crime drama. |
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| High Voltage 1929 | Dreadful melodrama from Pathe' Studios. This was one of three films made by Carole Lombard for this outfit, and it is by far the weakest. William Boyd (Hoppy) is on hand, as are Billy Bevan and Owen Moore. Mastered from a rare original 16mm print and is the finest quality we've seen (also at the full original release time of 64 min.) Following is an uncommon feature from the 40's called "Brooklyn Orchid". This 46min comedy stars William Bendix. |
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| Hitler Dead or Alive 1942 | Available at last is this nifty little war time drama. A wealthy American doctor's brother is killed by the Nazis and he holds Hitler personally responsible. He offers $1,000,000 for Hitler; dead or alive. The first to take him up on his offer are three American gangsters just out of the 'slammer': Ward Bond, Paul Fix and Warren Hymer. The film swings between high drama, action and comedy and never disappoints. The ending is particularly chilling with a great monologue by Ward Bond. |
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| Hollywood Stadium Mystery 1938 | Neil Hamilton (a star from his What Price Hollywood days, to his stint on Batman) is cast opposite Evelyn Venable in this fine Republic murder mystery. A fighter is killed in the ring and Hamilton is on the case, out to prove that the police are smarter then Venable thinks they are. |
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| Hoppity Goes to Town (December 9, 1941) | Talk about bad timing. This opened 2 days after Pearl Harbor - and did not exactly wow them at the box office. In a vacant corner lot off Broadway (by about a yard) is a place called the Lowlands by the tiny community that lives there. Bugs and insects are neighbors and hang out at the Honey Shop of old Mr. Bumble the bee and his daughter Honey. Hoppity the grasshopper arrives to be with Honey, his sweetie. This bugs the crooked C. Bagley Beetle, so do his bunglers Smack the Mosquito and Swat the Fly. The Beetle wants Honey and the Lowlands for himself. But the Human Ones, with their littering and carelessness, pose a threat of destruction to every Lowland home of bug and beetle alike. Despite the doom-saying of Mr. Creeper, the snail, Hoppity finds hope of a new home behind the house of two Human Ones: Mary, who cares for a beautiful garden; and Dick, a struggling songwriter who puts his own hope on a Broadway hit to save his home |
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| House By The River 1950 | Released by Republic, this suspenseful film stars Louis Hayward as a deranged writer and was directed by the great Fritz Lang. Hayward murders his maid when she resists his advances. He then draws his brother into hiding the body and eventually watches as his brother is charged with the crime. This was classic Lang material; Lang himself was accused of the murder of his first wife and this coloured many of his films (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Fury and so on). |
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| I Cover The Waterfront 1933 | Ben Lyon and Claudette Colbert star in this drama about smugglers of human (Chinese) cargo. This idea was reused in Shadows of the Orient, and served as a powerful opening statement for Dick Powell's: To The Ends Of The Earth. |
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| I'll Get You 1952 | Hard hitting George Raft spy drama, has our hero hot on the trail of the abductors of a British Atomic Scientist. |
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| Impact 1949 | Leo Popkin (D.O.A.) produced and Arthur Lubin directed this complicated and fascinating crime drama with Brian Donlevy as the target of a murder plot. The wrong man is killed but everyone believes it to be Donlevy; who is now in hiding. The supporting cast includes Mae Marsh, Charles Coburn, Ella Raines, Anna May Wong, Erskine Sanford, Jason Robards and Helen Walker. |
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| Iron Duke 1935 | George Arlis as Duke Wellington. This film concerns itself with the year in Wellington's life following his Victory at Waterloo. |
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| It's A Wonderful Life 1946 | Both Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart's favorite film. This is one of the few movies that can not be tired of, it's a perfect film. Hal Roach colorized it in 1986, an it stands as the best argument against that technology.. |
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| Jackie Robinson Story 1950 | The first great black baseball player in the major's. Mr. Robinson plays himself with help from Ruby Dee, Minor Watson and Bill Spaulding. Alfred Green directs. |
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| Jail Bait 1954 | Lyle Talbot (first screen Lex Luthor) stars in this first effort of Ed Wood. While many film makers improve during the course of thier careers. Wood got worse (but wore very tasteful gowns). |
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| Jane Eyre 1934 | An odd entry in the book of Forgotten Horrors, there partly because of the mystery, but more for the appearence of Colin Clive. Clive stars with Virgina Bruce and Beryl Mercer under the direction of Christy Cabane in this quite rare; first filmed version of the literary classic $19.95 post paid. |
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| Kansas City Confidential 1952 | Preston Foster, John Payne, Coleen Grey, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Dona Drake and Jack Elam are featured in this exciting crime drama. Payne is accused of a crime he didn't commit and goes to excessive measures to prove it. |
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| Killer Bait 1949 | The sultry Lizabeth Scott stars in this action packed mystery. Rarely seen today, Scott appears near the close of her heyday in Hollywood, and is still dynamite |
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| Lady Says No |
Directed by: Frank Ross A woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature story on her. Complications ensue. Runtime: 80 min |
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| Last Mile 1932 | Based on the Auburn and Dannemora prison riots of 1929, this story way first presented as a stage play with Spencer Tracy then later; Clark Gable. This outstanding film stars Preston Foster, George E. Stone, Paul Fix and Edward Van Sloan. This was to be the only directorial credit for Sam Bischoff. |
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| Late Extra 1935 | James Mason's first movie. Alastair Sim, Micheal Wilding (Liz Taylor's 2nd) and Clifford McLaglen also star. |
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| Life With Father 1947 | Turn of the century New York settings and the great William Powell make this screen adaptation of one of the longest running Broadway plays; a winner |
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| Little Orphan Annie (1932) |
Slow-burn king; Edgar Kennedy turns is a short, but really memorable
performance as Daddy Warbucks. Warbucks has to go on a long trip,
leaving Annie alone. While wandering the street, Sandy leads Annie
to discover Mickey, who is crying. Mickey's grandmother recently
died, and he is about to be taken away by Mrs. Berger to the
orphanage. He chooses to go with Annie to the shack where she and
Daddy Warbucks live. She feeds him leftover pig's feet, cream puff
and assorted food, but by the next morning he has a stomach ache.
Annie takes him to an orphanage where he will be taken care of, but
is herself is taken into custody. While in the orphanage, Annie
takes care of Mickey. One day, Mrs. Stewart (a rich dowager)
appears, wanting to adopt. The children a paraded before her.
Hearing of her contrary nature, Annie makes sure that Mickey catches
her attention by saying bad things about him, and by the end of the
interview, Mrs. Stewart adopts him. Director: John S. Robertson Writers: Harold Gray (comic strip) and Tom McNamara Stars:Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps and May Robson |
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| Lost Zeppelin 1930 | Ricardo Cortez stars in this adventure tale of explorers in the Antarctic. Fine acting and (for 1930) great special effects highlight this, which may be the best film to escape from Tiffany. |
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| Love From A Stranger 1937 | Basil Rathbone, in what might well be his finest performance, stars in this Agatha Christie story of a young working girl (Ann Harding) who wins the lottery and decides to tour Paris. While attempting to rent her flat in London she meets Rathbone who turns up on her cross channel ship. Romance and marriage develop, as well as a fascinating a mystery. A rare classic |
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| M 1930 | Peter Lorre in his first film is unforgettable as the despised child murderer who is finally hunted down and put on trail by the underworld. A classic Fritz Lang Film transferred from original material with new subtitles. |
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| Marie Galante 1934 | One of the greatest actors Hollywood ever produced was Spencer Tracy. His years at Fox were marked with such classics as Power and the Glory and Dante's Inferno. In "Marie Galante" Tracy is caught up in a web of international intrigue with a plot to destroy the Panama Canal (just as the American Fleet passes through). Ned Sparks is the seedy cafe' owner; the provocative Helen Morgan his main attraction. What secrets did she pass to the Japanese shop owner? This 1934 Fox film is a don't miss classic. |
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| Meet John Doe 1941 | Classic Capra; Barbara Stanwyck is a newspaper reporter who invents Joe Doe the soul of America. She and editor James Gleason hire Gary Cooper to act the part. Walter Brennan is Cooper's friend who doesn't like the 'goings on'; Edward Arnold is the man pulling the strings for his own gain, and the supporting cast includes Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Regis Toomey, Warren Hymer, J. Farrell MacDonald, Billy Curtis, Harry Davenport, and Sterling Holloway. |
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| Meet The Boy Friend 1937 | Robert Paige, Warren Hymer, Pert Kelton and Smiley Burnette star in this Republic outing. Paige is the country's #1 Radio Crooner who's studio has a $300,000 anti-marriage insurance policy on him. |
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| Millie 1931 | Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Joan Blondell and Robert Ames star in this rare RKO feature. John Haliday is featured as a man after Twelvetrees' affection, when he is rejected his interest turns toward her 16 year old daughter. |
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| Million Dollar Mystery 1927 | Just about the time this old dark house mystery was released, its stars Lila Lee and James Kirkwood (parents of A Chorus Line author; James Kirkwood Jr.) were giving character testimony at the celebrated Paul Kelly murder trail. |
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| Miracle Man | Sound remake of lost Lon Chaney classic |
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| Most Dangerous Game 1932 | Transferred from an original print, this fine adventure film was made on the jungle sets of King Kong with Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. |
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| Mother And Son 1931 | Mastered from a very rare original Monogram 16mm print, this was silent star Clara Kimball Young's second sound film. She plays the owner of a gambling house, who must keep this a secret from her son. A Melodrama of the first order. |
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| Mr. Wong, Detective 1938 | Karloff in his first outing as the oriental detective; Monogram's answer to Charlie Chan. |
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| Murder on the High Seas 1932 | This is really the 1949 re-release title for Love Bound, Robert F. Hill was the director with the stars Natalie Moorehead, Alice Day, Jack Mulhall, Montagu Love and Clara Kimball Young. A lurid tale of extortion and murder. |
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| Mysterious Mr. Wong 1935 | Bela Lugosi & Wallace Ford In New York's Chinatown, a Mandarin (Lugosi) will stop at nothing to obtain the 12 coins of Confucius. This was mastered from an rare original 16mm print, with all original Monogram opening and closings (64min). |
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| Non Stop New York 1937 | Anna Lee and John Loder star in this complex and fascinating mystery which uses a trans-Atlantic air plane ride in the climactic escape from England (three years before such flights existed). |
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| Of Human Bondage 1934 | Leslie Howard and Bette Davis were to make three films together at Warners, but this RKO outing is almost completely overlooked, despite the fact that it is by far the best film version of Maugham's classic tragedy. Only one original print of this film is known to exist (in the collection of Bette Davis), our 16mm is a reduction from that print. |
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| Peck's Bad Boy 1934 | Released by Fox, this was the first talking version of the old theatrical war horse. 12 year old Jackie Cooper discovers that he's adopted when Dorothy Peterson and Jackie Searl (who play's the original obnoxious son) move in with Cooper and his dad. Peterson trys to cause a split between the two, so that her own son can take Cooper's place. A great family film. |
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| Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938) |
At 16, Jackie Cooper was no longer wanted for the part of Bill Peck,
but the did manage to pack in a few well knowns; Tommy Kelly, Ann
Gillis, Edgar Kennedy, Billy Gilbert, Grant Mitchell, Louise
Beavers, William Demarest, Harry Stubbs and George 'Spanky'
McFarland. Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems. |
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| Port of Seven Seas |
Director: James Whale Writers: Marcel Pagnol (books), Preston Sturges Stars:Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan and John Beal. Based on Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny and served as the source for Joshua Logan's 1961 movie Fanny. Of course in this film the Hays office couldn't allow a character with the name Fanny, so she became Madelon. Old uncle Carl bought the rights from Pagnol while still head of Universal - but never got around to making it there. |
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| Reckless Moment 1949 | After discovering the dead body of Bea Harper's lover, Bea's mother Lucia hides the body under the assumption that it was her daughter who killed the man. Martin Donnelly comes to blackmail Lucia on behalf of his partner Nagel and falls in love with Lucia instead. Nagel wants the money and Donnelly kills Nagel to protect Lucia, and then kills himself to end the impossible relationship with the married Lucia |
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| Red Nightmare/ It Happened Here 1966 | First we present that cold war classic, narrated by Jack Webb, about what would happen if an American woke up one day and found that his country was taken over by Communists. Then, from an original 16mm print: the 1966 film, ten years in the making; It Happened Here. This film deals with England, after the Nazi occupation of the 1940's. Finally we offer a full theatrical trailer to RED DAWN. |
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| Rehearsal For a Crime 1962 | Written and directed by Luis Bunuel, and presented here under its original title of "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz" in Spanish with English subtitles. This is a complex and surreal image of a man's passions for sex and murder. |
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| Ringside 1949 | Don Barry and Lyle Talbot star in this tightly paced answer to City For Conquest. Here Barry is a concert pianist who turns to boxing in order to avenge his brother. |
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| Road to Happiness 1942 | The BIG Monogram release of 1942 stars John Boles in one of his many come backs, as a man trying to make a home for himself and his son, despite seemingly insurmountable odds. |
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| Rogue's Tavern 1936 | Wallace Ford and Clara Kimball Young are among the stars in this old dark house type mystery from the forgotten horror club. |
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| Royal Bed 1931 | Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Robert Warwick and J. Carrol Naish appear in this film, which Sherman himself directs. A King of a small island must call all the shots for the first time, as his over bearing wife is away on holiday. This is one of those few comedies that has not become hopelessly dated. |
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| Rules of the Game 1939 | Jean Renoir's masterpiece, made two years after his Grand Illusion, has been on just about every top ten list of films. This film is in French with subtitles. |
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| San Francisco Story 1952 | Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer, Onslow Stevens and the mighty Tor Johnson star in this political drama set on the Barbary coast of 1856. |
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| Santa Fe Trail 1940 | An underrated Warner Brothers all star film that traces the events leading to the outbreak of the civil war. Raymond Massey, often associated with his portrayal of Lincoln, here plays John Brown; Errol Flynn later to play Custer, here is seen as Jeb Stuart opposite Ronald Reagan's Custer. Michael Curtiz's direction, Max Steiner's music and the production values brought by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner make this a near masterpiece. The film also starred Olivia de Havilland with a supporting cast that included Alan Hale, Van Heflin, Henry O'Neill, Bill Lundigan, John Litel, Gene Reynolds, Alan Baxter, Ward Bond, Charles Middleton, William Hopper and Creighton Hale. |
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| Scarlet Street 1945 | Fritz Lang directs this follow up to the Woman in the Window with the same leads. Edward G. Robinson, Dan Duryea and Joan Bennett star with Margaret Lindsday in this remake of Renoir's La Chienne. |
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| Shadow Strikes 1937 | Low budget detective story filmed quickly to cash in on the radio show: |
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| Shock 1946 | Vincent Price, Reed Hadley and Lynn Bari star in this psychological murder mystery. Price kills his wife so as to continue his affair with Bari. The only witness is being treated by Price for a mental disorder. |
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| Shriek in the Night 1933 | A fine little murder mystery from poverty row. The central character is played by a very young Ginger Rodgers. |
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| Sin Takes A Holiday 1930 | Constance Bennett, Basil Rathbone and ZaSu Pitts star in this RKO/Pathe' drama. Bennet enters a marriage of convenience with her boss, on a trip to Paris she meets Rathbone who shows her the ropes and asks her to get a divorce. She returns to her husband (Kenneth MacKenna) and they find that they were intended for each other after all. |
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| Sinners in Paradise 1938 | James Whale directs Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Milburn Stone and Gene Lockhart in this air plane disaster/survival film. The cast must survive on a deserted south seas island while facing up to their past lives |
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| Southerner 1945 | Jean Renoir's brilliant portrayal of one man's struggle to start a farm in the south. Renoir co-wrote this with an uncredited William Faulkner. Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride and J. Carrol Naish star. |
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| Sphinx 1933 | Lionel Atwill, George (Gabby) Hayes and Paul Fix star in this outstanding Monogram outing. Atwill is a deaf-mute accused of murder by an immigrant janitor. The problem is that the janitor testifies Atwill asked him the time of day. A medical examination proves Atwill can not speak or hear. Remade by the same studio as The Phantom Killer in 1943. Mastered from 35mm nitrate. |
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| Star Reporter 1939 | Unbelievable Monogram newspaper drama has Warren Hull inheriting a newspaper after the "mob" kills his father. He diverts all efforts of the paper to bring the murderers to justice. Turns out that the head of the mob is Hull's real father who writes a confession that frees Marsha Hunt. He then shoots Paul Fix and is killed by the coppers. Is that Clear? |
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| Stars Look Down 1939 | Carrol Reed's beautiful film concerning the plight of the British mining community. Not as well remembered as How Green Was My Valley which was released at about the same time, but a more realistic study of the same subject. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Cecil Parker and Emlyn Williams star. |
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| Strange Illusion 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer's best moment, better even than Bluebeard. Warren William and Regis Toomey star in this metaphysical tale of suspicion and murder. |
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| Strange Love Of Martha Ivers 1946 | An outstanding and complex mystery featuring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas and Lizabeth Scott. Stanwyck, Heflin and Douglas grow up together, Heflin leaves town and the other two marry. A match made in heaven as both are criminally insane. When Heflin returns and meets Scott, Douglas doesn't make it very pleasant for either of them. |
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| Stranger 1946 | Orson Welles' intense study of a Nazi war criminal who's assumed a new identity in New England. Loretta Young, Richard Long and Edward G. Robinson (as the Nazi hunter) also star. Welles' flair for the dramatic was never better than during the incredible finale in the clock tower. |
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| Strangers Of The Evening 1932 | A fine murder mystery from Tiffany studios based on "The Illustrious Corpse". Zazu Pitts, Eugene Pallette, Tully Marshall, Lucien Littlefield and Theodore Von Eltz star. |
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| Submarine Alert 1943 | War time spy drama with Richard Arlen, Wendie Barrie and Nils Asther. Arlen is under cover for the FBI trying to stop enemies of freedom from jamming radio waves. |
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| Svengali 1955 | Hildegarde Neff, Donald Wolfit and Micheal Craig star in this British remake of the Warner's 1931 classic. Based on the du Maurier novel "Trilby", this film boasts outstanding sets (fashioned from the illustrations in the original book), but still falls short of the Barrymore version. |
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| Svengali Archie Mayo 1931 | J & J has located a mint original 16mm print of the classic. No tape of this film now available can boast the picture and sound quality of ours. This is the classic story "Trilby" with the great John Barrymore as Svengali, the mysterious music teacher with hypnotic powers, Marian Marsh also stars. |
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| Swamp Fire 1946 | Diirected by William H. Pine, here is Johnny Weissmuller in a non-Tarzan performance for the very first time on screen. Weissmuller finally got his chance breaking away from the jungle into something completely different, a he-man adventure. He does get to do Tarzan-like duties such as diving into the river and wrestling an alligator in order to rescue a lady in distress, along with battling with a villain, played by another former Olympic champ, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, who, also played the ape man in TARZAN THE FEARLESS (1933). |
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| Swing High Swing Low 1937 | A remake itself of Dance of Life, the negative to this film was destroyed when it was remade as When My Baby Smiles At Me. All three films were adaptations of the stage play Burlesque. Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray star with a supporting cast that includes Dorothy Lamour, Franklin Pangborn, Anthony Quinn, Lee Bowman, and Bud Flanagan (later Dennis O'Keefe). No original prints of this film are available, our tape was mastered from a reduction reversal, a bit contrasty and grainy, but a film well worth seeing. |
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| Swiss Family Robinson 1940 | Thomas Mitchell stars in this great family entertainer, mastered from a splicey 16mm print (an original theatrical trailer replaces the opening titles). Mitchell and his family are ship wrecked and find refuge on a deserted island. Here they first simply survive, then learn to love the beauty of nature. |
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| Sword Of Venus 1953 | Robert C. Clarke and Dan O'Herlihy star in this remake of the Son of Monte Cristo with Clarke assuming the role originated by Louis Hayward. |
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| The Case Of the Lucky Legs 1935 | This above average entry to Warner Brothers' Perry Mason series is taken from an original 16mm print. Here a young girl is suspect when a contest promoter is murdered. Perry Mason is played by Warren William who is outstanding. During his years in Hollywood William also appeared as the Lone Wolf, Philo Vance and a Sam Spade type in Satan Met A Lady. |
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| The Epic That Never Was 1965 | Here is the legendary BBC special of the 60's. Dirk Borgart hosts a reconstruction of Von Sternberg's "I Claudius" the film he never completed! Flora Robeson, Merle Oberon, Von Sternberg, Emlyn Williams and others are interviewed. This is the complete 74min British release, not the 52 min. American version. |
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| The Hitchhiker 1952 | Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien and William Talman star in a classic film noir directed by Ida Lupino. Talman is an ex-convict who hitches rides then robs and kills the driver. A fascinating physiological study, long unseen. |
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| The Judge 1949 | Milburn (Doc) Stone stars as a great criminal lawyer who discovers his wife (Katherine de Mille) is having an affair with Stanley Waxman. Stone plots their murder with the aid of a criminal (Paul Guilfoyle) he defended. Jonathan Hale is the Judge and narrator, John Hamilton plays a police Lieutenant. |
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| The Kennel Murder Case 1933 | Once again we have been able to locate a mint original print of a classic. Here is the best of the Philo Vance mysteries (with William Powell), presented with unmatched picture and sound quality. Included is a classic Paramount short with W.C.Fields. |
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| The Killing Game 1968 | Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger and Michel Duchaussoy star in this Alain Jessua film. Cassel and Auger are cartoonists. They meet a wealthy playboy who lives out the fantasies in their cartoons. He hires them to develop an new comic strip and as they do, he begins to live it out; unfortunately this one deals with murder. This uncommon foreign cult classic is offered |
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| The Last Laugh 1924 | The great Emil Jannings plays a proud Berlin doorman who is demoted to men's room attendant, then is left a fortune by a wealthy American. A stunning film told with visions and music, but without a single dialog card. From the director of Sunrise and Nosferatu |
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| The Racketeer 1929 | Armstrong and Lombard team up again for Pathe' in this hard hitting crime drama from the talkies earliest days. This film helped set the pace for all the gangster films to come. |
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| The Woman Between 1931 | Lily Damita and Anita Louise star in this romantic melodrama about a newly married French woman who finds herself more attracted to her step son, then her husband. An other pre-code epic from Radio Pictures. |
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| Thirteenth Guest 1932 | 13 years before the movie opens, there was a dinner party, at which the 13th guest failed to show up. The master of the manner has died, and left the bulk of his estate to this 13th guest, but nobody knows who that is. Now someone is murdering the remaining guests, and placing their dead bodies at the table, in the same seat they had occupied 13 years before. |
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| Three Cases Of Murder 1950 | This must have been the fore runner of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, more so than Flesh and Fantasy. Three separate tales (the first one "In The Picture" was re-done as a Night Gallery episode) are told: all feature Alan Badel in one role or another, the last has the powerful Orson Welles as a member of Parliament with an obsession. |
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| Toni Jean Renoir 1935 | First of the neorealist films, the story line is taken from a news event of the day. Renoir turns in a classic of crime and romance |
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| Tudor Rose 1936 | AKA Nine Days A Queen, AKA Lady Jane Grey. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills and Nova Pilbeam (then unknown members of the London West End Theatre Company) star in this detailed and historically correct account of the days following the death of Henry VIII. Watch this one after the Private Life of Henry VIII or Man for All Seasons |
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| Under the Roofs Of Paris 1930 | A simple story of a love triangle, was to become France's first all talking - all singing film. In so doing, Clair was to create one of the most beautiful films of the early sound era. This compares well with Sunrise (1927 Murnau) and is nearly as charming today, 80 years later. |
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| Winslow Boy 1950 | Robert Donat stars as the lawyer who sacrifices nearly everything in defence of a young man dismissed from military school on charges of theft, Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays the boy's father. Brilliant acting and fine court room drama. Mastered from an original 16mm print. |
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| Winterset 1936 | this four star drama from RKO stars Burgess Meredith, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine, Paul Fix, Myron McCormick, Mischa Auer, and Lucille Ball. Fictionalized here is the tail of Sacco and Vanzetti in an adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson play. |
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| Wives Under Suspicion 1938 | James Whale's remake of his own Kiss Before The Mirror, based on the novel Suspicion by Ladislaus Fodor. A fine cast highlights this film: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan, Bill Lundigan, Connie Moore, Samuel S. Hinds, Milburn Stone and Jonathan Hale. |
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| Young Daniel Boone |
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The Joys of Christmas
| The Joys of Christmas |
Volume 1 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are the
1955 NBC Christmas eve special "An evening with Charles Laughton" -
for a full hour Mr Laughton reads from the works of James Thurber,
the Book of Daniel, the gospel according to Luke and Charles
Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers". Taken from an original NBC
Kinescope. Also on this volume is the 1954 Christmas episode of Waterfront; "Christmas in San Pedro" with Preston Foster, Willie Best and Arthur Shields. There are several Christmas short subjects including 1957's Howdy Doody's Christmas |
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| The Joys of Christmas | Volume 2 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are over 90 minutes of Christmas shorts including "No Room at the Inn", "Christmas Lace", "The Brightest Night" and more. The collection ends with The Patti Page show. This is the Christmas episode (Patti sings 4 or 5 songs) - but it should be noted, this was her 15 minute syndicated show, not the one sponsored by Oldsmobile! | |
| The Joys of Christmas | Volume 3 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are 4 half hour specials including one from 1950 called "The Guiding Star", The moving "No Escape from Christmas", The animated "The City that Forgot About Christmas" and Jim Backus telling the story behind the most famous Christmas letter of all "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". |
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| The Joys of Christmas | Volume 4 of "The Joys of Christmas" featured are Two versions of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" - the first is narrated by Fredric March and stars Basil Rathbone as Scrooge - the second Stars March as Scrooge, with Rathbone as Jacob Marley. This one is a musical with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann. It was originally shown on Christmas Eve, 1954 as part of the CBS/Desilu "Shower of stars". Rounding out the two hours on this volume are 4 shorts including a a Christmas letter from the front (1914), The Snowy Day, Moss Hart's Christmas memories, and Teddy Roosevelt's early (age 11) thoughts on Christmas. |
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