39 Steps, The (1935)

One of Hitchcock's earliest hits, The 39 Steps sees The Master unraveling the soon-to-be-typical plot of an innocent man on the run, trying to prove his innocence.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu
Production Company: Gaumont Film Company
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 85 Minutes

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Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The (1936)

Cary Grant plays Earnest Bliss a rich socialite who makes a bet with his doctor that he can make a living for one year using none of his current wealth.

Director: Alfred Zeisler
Producer: Alfred Zeisler, Robert Garrett, Otto Klement
Production Company: Garrett-Klement Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 61 Minutes

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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

Gangster Eddie Kagel (Paul Muni) is killed by a trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr's special-effects Hell, where Nick/The Devil (Claude Rains) sees that he is an-exact double for a judge who Nick doesn't approve of. Eddie is agreeable to having his soul transferred to the judge's body, as it will give him a chance to avenge himself on his killer. But every action taken by Eddie (as the judge) results in good rather than evil and, to Nick's dismay, the reputation and influence of the judge is enhanced, rather than impaired by Eddie. And Eddie also falls in love with the judge's fiance, Barbara (Anne Baxter). Even Eddie's planned revenge fails and Nick is forced to concede defeat.

Director: Archie Mayo
Production Company: Premiere Productions / United Artists
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 41 minutes

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Assignment Outer Space (1960)

In the 21st century Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station commander, who believes he is in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating.

Director: Antonio Margheriti
Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Atomic Brain, The (1964)

A rich old woman doesn't want anybody else to have her money if she should happen to die. So, she pays a scientist to develop a method of transferring her mind into a younger body. This movie is also known as Monstrosity.

Director: Joseph Mascelli
Producer: Jack Pollexfen and Dean Dillman Jr.
Audio/Visual: mono, black and white

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Baby Face Morgan (1942)

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, Doc Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living it the country with his mother. Rogers has Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency, unbeknownst to the young Edward this is just a cover for the gang's racketeering activities.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Producer: Leon Fromkess, Jack Schwarz
Production Company: Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 63 minutes

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Beat the Devil (1953)

A rogues gallery sets off to Africa to make millions in diamonds, but they never quite get there.

Director: John Huston
Producer: Jack Clayton, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre
Production Company: Santana, Romulus Films Ltd., Rizzoli-Haggiag (associate)
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes

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Behave Yourself (1951)

When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?

Director: George Beck
Producer: Norman Krasna
Starring: Farley Granger and Shelley Winters Production Company: Wald/Krasna Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 19 minutes

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Big Show, The (1936)

When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio.

Director: Mack V. Wright
Producer: Mack V. Wright
Production Company: Republic
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

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Boy! What a Girl! (1947)

Two musical producers are trying to scrape enough money together to finance their show. When one of their backers doesn't show. They convince transvestite Tim Moore to impersonate the second female backer.

Director: Arthur H. Leonard
Producer: Jack Goldberg, Arthur H. Leonard
Production Company: Herald Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 70 minutes

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Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

Director: Joseph Green
Writers: Rex Carlton, Joseph Green Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Bride for Henry (1937)

On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiance doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiance a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new husband at the first opportunity, but Henry, who has been in love with her for a long time, is determined to win his wife's hand.

Director: William Nigh
Producer: Dorothy Davenport
Production Company: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 58 minutes

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Brother From Another Planet, The (1984)

A mute alien crash lands in Harlem chased by outer-space bounty hunters in this thought-provoking low budget cult classic. Brother From Another Planet is not your typical sci-fi outing. It is a surprisingly well acted film with an engaging story that defies the tiny $400k budget. Look closely for several rising stars like David Strathairn, Fisher Stevens and the lead character Joe Morton. The story is rich and solid enough to hold up to multiple viewings which helps explain why this has become a cult classic. The story connects on many levels. Parts of it feel like a retelling of the underground railroad from the civil war era in US history while parts of it feel like a precursor to big budget movies like Men in Black from the alien's perspective.

Director: John Sayles
Producer: John Sayles
Starring: Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs, Rosanna Carter
Production Company: Anarchist's Convention Films
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Length: 109 minutes
DivX version also has commentary audio track by John Sayles.

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Calendar Girl (1948)

A songwriter and a artist share a flat in an artists-friendly establishment. One is in love with the girl next door but the other enjoys stringing her along. Someone is wealthy but he doesn't like people to know. And the girl next door has a father with a fiery temper. The songs are rather catchy and pleasant, and singers such as Kenny Baker and Janet Martin move them along. Attempts at comedy come off well as does the (slight) drama as the story unfolds. 'Calendar Girl' is a cheaply-made B picture from Poverty Row but, for all that, it isn't bad, and will keep you entertained.

Director: Allan Dwan
Producer: Allan Dwan
Production Company: Republic Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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Captain Calamity (1936)

Captain Bill Jones (George Houston) gets a Spanish doubloon from a passenger he was ferrying. Flat broke, he uses the doubloon to trick the greedy storekeeper Joblin (Harold Howard) into giving him a drink (or two) for free. Soon, the whole island is aflame with rumors of the treasure. After Joblin tries to put one over on Bill and fails, he allows Bill to get whatever he wants from his store in exchange for not getting sent to prison. After setting sail with Marge (Marion Nixon) for his lover's schooner Wildfire, he has to fight his way past Joblin.

Director: John Reinhardt
Producer: George A. Hirliman, Edward L. Alperson (executive producer )
Production Company: Grand National Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 1 hour

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Captain Kidd (1945)

The notorious pirate played by Charles Laughton tricks King William III into letting him escort treasure-laden merchant ships to India. Co-starring Randolph Scott and an especially menacing John Carradine.

Director: Rowland V. Lee
Producer: Benedict Bogeaus
Production Company: United Artists
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 81 minutes

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Carnival of Souls (1962)

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering, Mary accepts a job in a new town as a church organist, only to be dogged by a mysterious phantom figure that seems to reside in an old run-down pavilion. It is here that Mary must confront the personal demons of her spiritual insouciance.

Director: Herk Harvey
Producer: Herk Harvey
Production Company: Harcourt Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 23 minutes

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Club Paradise (1945)

The story revolves around the Paradise Club, where our heroine - a good girl with oafs for father and brother - ends up as a dancer. She is loved by a beginning bandmaster who makes good (in another club) by the end of the movie. But she loves someone else.

Director: Christy Cabanne
Producer: Joe Kaufmann
Production Company: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 1 minute

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Con la rabbia agli occhi (Death Rage) (1976)

This follows a retired hit-man Peter Marciani (Brynner), whose brother was, once upon a time, killed by the Mafia. He is lured out of retirement to hunt the man responsible for his brother's death, and travels to Italy, where he meets a goofy young wannabe named Angelo (Massimo Ranieri). Angelo shows him to his method for manipulating horse races, then takes him to a nightclub where Marciani is introduced to exotic dancer Annie (Bouchet). With his companions by his side, Marciani avoids death and struggles with his eye condition while trying to bring down the mob.

Director: Antonio Margheriti
Writers: Guy Castaldo, Don Gazzaniga
Starring: Yul Brynner, Barbara Bouchet, Martin Balsam, Massimo Ranieri
Release Date: 17 August 1977 (France)
Also known as: Anger in His Eyes (UK), Blood Reckoning (USA) (video title), Death Rage (USA), Indesiderabili, Gli (Italy) (alternative title), Shadow of the Killer (Philippines: English title)
Length: 98 Minutes

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Conquest (1937)

After a brief informal meeting two months earlier when they were impressed with each other, Countess Marie Walewska formally meets Napoleon Bonaparte at a ball in Warsaw. When Napoleon notes her husband is three times her age, and as he is taken with her charms, he unsuccessfully tries to seduce her. She ignores his frequent letters and flowers until a few grim Polish leaders led by Senator Malachowski urge her to give into his desires as a personal sacrifice in order to save Poland. She goes to him despite the humiliation of her husband, who leaves for Rome to annul their marriage. They are extremely happy for a while; Napoleon divorces childless Empress Josephine and Marie eventually becomes pregnant. She is about to tell Napoleon about her baby when he tells her he decided to marry Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. He explains it will be a political marriage to insure his future son could rule securely with Hapsburg blood in him. It will not affect their relationship, he says, but Marie Walewska leaves to have her baby alone without telling Napoleon she is expecting his child.

Director: Clarence Brown
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 47 minutes

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Day of the Wolves (1973)

A gang plans a heist to take over a small town and rob all the banks. This small budget film has a compelling plot and surprise ending.

Producer: Ferde Grofe
Starring: Richard Egan, Martha Hyer, Rick Jason, Jan Murray Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Delightfully Dangerous (1945)

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Producer: Charles R. Rogers
Production Company: Hunt Stromberg Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white Length: 92 minutes

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Doll Face (1945)

A former burlesque queen needs to acquire some culture to give herself some legitimacy.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Producer: Bryan Foy
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 20 minutes

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Double Exposure (1944)

A NY magazine editor sends a job offer to an Iowa photographer, and is surprised to find out that Pat is a Patricia instead of a Patrick. He falls for Pat. But Pat is still in love with Ben, who has followed her to NY. What follows are many cases of mistaken identity, some good jokes, and some pleasing crisp writing.

Director: William A. Berke
Producer: William H. Pine, William C. Thomas
Production Company: Pine-Thomas Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes

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Dr. Christian Meets The Women (1940)

A professor hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short time if they follow his regimen of strict diet and a particular type of diet pill. Dr. Christian tries to warn them that the man is a dangerous charlatan but, mesmerized by the prospect of almost instantaneous weight loss, the women ignore his warnings.

Director: William C. McGann
Producer: Monroe Shaff
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 5 minutes

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Earthworm Tractors (1936)

Joe E. Brown as Andrew H. Botts, wreaks havoc on a small town after conning his way into a salesman position for the Earthworm Tractor company. As a tractor salesman Brown is like Bugs Bunny trying to sell tractors to the Scrooge like Mr. Johnson, or is it Jackson? Botts becomes involved with Mabel Johnson, daughter of [Scrooge] Johnson who persuades Botts to keep trying to sell her father tractors.

Director: Raymond Enright
Producer: Samuel Bischoff, Hal B. Wallis
Production Company: First National Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 9 minutes

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Escape From Sobibor (1987)

Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Gut-wrenching and riveting through the entire length of this dramatization of how Jewish civilians and Jewish-Russian soldiers managed to escape the Sobibor death camp. This is an emotionally charged and well done movie. It is both painful to watch as a reminder of the history of the German-agenda during Hitler's reign as well as inspiring for eventual freedom achieved. Not only were Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer excellent in their roles but so was the entire cast. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience.

Producer: Jack Gold
Starring: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer
Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Eternally Yours (1939)

When a magician's act takes precedent over his marriage, his wife gives him trouble.

Director: Tay Garnett
Producer: Tay Garnett
Production Company: United Artists
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Fabulous Dorseys, The (1947)

The rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers in their musical career is documented in this musical biography. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being raised by their father who insists on them learning music to the split that saw their careers rise even further, this movie is a fun trip.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Producer: Charles R. Rogers Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 88 Minutes

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Fast And The Furious, The (1955)

A man wrongly imprisoned for murder (John Ireland) breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him.

Director: John Ireland
Producer: Roger Corman
Production Company: American Releasing Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, Black and white
Length: 73 Minutes

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Father's Little Dividend (1951)

This entertaining movie tells the tale of a grumpy, soon-to-be grandfather who does not look forward to the idea. Spencer Tracy is great in this film.

Producer: MGM, Vincent Minnelli
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Elizibeth Taylor, Billie Burke
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Fig Leaf for Eve, A (1944)

An exotic dancer is thrown in jail for lewd activity. She later discovers the raid was set up by her boss to get publicity.

Also Known as:
Desirable Lady (USA) (reissue title)
Flaming Girls (USA) (reissue title)
Hollywood Nights (USA) (reissue title)
Not Enough Clothes (USA) (reissue title)
Reckless Youth (USA) (reissue title)
Room for Love (USA) (TV title)
Strips and Blondes (USA) (reissue title)

Director: Don Brodie
Producer: J. Richard Westen
Production Company: Carry-Westen Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 8 minutes

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Fit for a King (1937)

An amusing comedy which commences with a splendid joke on the audience and then gathers pace as it moves with admirable celerity to an ingeniously staged, all-out slapstick action climax.

The screenplay provides plenty of comic opportunities for Joe E. Brown, who even gets a chance to demonstrate both his famous yell and the acrobatic skill he developed in his vaudeville tumbling act. In many scenes Brown is particularly well supported by Paul Kelly, of all people, who here displays an outstanding comic ability as a straight man I'd not even suspected. Helen Mack, as usual, makes a delightful heroine and we enjoyed John Qualen, Halliwell Hobbes and the rest of the welcome faces in the support cast.

Edward Sedgwick handles the whole affair with both acumen and pace, assisted by excellent photography and snappy film editing. Although produced independently, production values are mighty impressive with Brown cavorting to great effect with props galore amidst hordes of extras in eye-catching sets.

Director: Edward Sedgwick
Producer: David L. Loew
Production Company: David E. Loew Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 4 minutes

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Five Minutes to Live (1961)

This amazing bank heist has plenty of well known movie stars and country music greats. Johnny Cash gives a surprising performance as a guitar playing, sadistic psycho-killer. Six year old Ron Howard is absolutely adorable and practically steals the whole show.

Producer: Johnny Cash
Starring: Johnny Cash, Vic Tayback, Ron Howard, Merle Travis
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Forgotten Village (1941)

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village. The Motion Picture Division of the New York State Board of Education banned this film when it first came out.

Director: Herbert Kline
Producer: Alexander Hammid, Herbert Kline
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 5 minutes

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Girl From Calgary (1932)

A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronco rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.

Director: Phil Whitman
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Girl From Monterey (1943)

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined.

Director: Wallace Fox
Producer: Jack Schwarz
Production Company: Producers Releasing Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 57 minutes

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Girl o' My Dreams (1934)

It's surprising to find that this very pleasant entry in the college musical cycle is not better known. Not only does it feature a reasonably amusing screenplay by George Waggner which provides splendid comic opportunities for Sterling Holloway, Arthur Lake, Lon Chaney, Jr. and a host of beautiful girls, but it introduces some excellent musical numbers.

Lon Chaney Jr. plays a college athlete, just three years after his film debut. He is in top shape and he sings! Lounging on top of a piano, accompanied by the Three Lieutenants and Arthur Lake (presumably) playing the keys, he does a passable job on Thou Art My Baby. Sterling Holloway and Lake (before he became Dagwood) are funny, the girls are beautiful, what's not to like?

Director: Ray McCarey
Production Company: Monogram Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes

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Great Gabbo (1929)

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Director: James Cruze
Producer: Jonathan Cordish, James Cruze, Henry D. Meyer
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 8 minutes

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Great Train Robbery, The (1903)

This is the movie that started it all. In 1903, an employee of Thomas Edison's motion picture company produced what is likely the first movie with a story line. Named The Great Train Robbery, it told a simple story of a group of western criminals that steal money from a train and later are killed by a group of police in a gun fight. The movie was so extremely popular that it launched the motion picture industry.

Director: Edwin S. Porter
Producer: Thomas Edison
Production Company: Thomas Edison
Audio/Visual: music-track added later, black and white
Language: only music-track

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His First Flame (1927)

Fire chief Amos McCarthy (Vernon Dent), a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells (Harry Langdon) to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel (Natalie Kingston). All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles ... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.

Director: Harry Edwards
Producer: Mack Sennett
Production Company: Mack Sennett Comedies
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 46 minutes

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His Girl Friday (1940)

Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business. There is a slight audio sync problem in the first couple minutes of the film. It is present on the source medium and is very brief.

Director: Howard Hawks
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 31 minutes

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Hook Line and Sinker (1930)

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.

Director: Edward F. Cline
Producer: William LeBaron
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes

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Impact (1949)

No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving van that takes him to idyllic Larkspur, Idaho, where newspaper stories of his 'death' jog his memory. While recuperating and plotting his eventual return and revenge, Williams falls in love with Marsha, an auto mechanic. But when Williams finally gets back to San Francisco, he's tried for the lover's murder.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Writers: Jay Dratler (story), Dorothy Davenport
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Robert Warwick
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 49 minutes

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Indestructible Man (1955)

A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution.

Director: Jack Pollexfen
Writers: Vy Russell (screenplay) and Sue Dwiggins (screenplay)
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott
Production Company: C.G.K. Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 11 minutes

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Inside Information (1934)

A banker gets robbed by a scheming underworld type and his partners. Fortunately for us, Tarzan The Wonder Dog smells a crook from a mile away!

Director: Robert F. Hill
Writers: Bert Ennis (story), Betty Laidlaw (screenplay)
Production Company: Consolidated Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 48 minutes

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Inspector General, The (1949)

Georgi (Danny Kaye) an illiterate member of a gypsy medicine show, is mistaken for the feared and cruel Inspector General.

Director: Henry Koster
Production Company: Warner Brothers
Audio/Visual: sound, Technicolor

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Introduction to TBBS (1993)

Philip L. Becker, eSoft founder and creator of TBBS, along with Alan Bryant walk you through the process of installing a complete 16 line TBBS including installing 16 serial ports and modems. Topics include creating menus, creating file areas and creating user accounts. This was originally a VHS tape shipped with every new TBBS package sold after 1993.

Hosted by: Philip L. Becker, Alan Bryant

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Irish Luck (1939)

Buzzy O'Brien (Frankie Darro) is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan (Sheila Darcy) and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother (Lillian Elliott). Buzzy and his pal Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) manage to fumble their way to finding the real killer who was after the stolen bonds carried by the victim. Based on Charles Molyneaux Brown's story Death Hops the Bells.

Director: Howard Bretherton
Producer: Scott R. Dunlap
Production Company: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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It's A Joke, Son (1947)

The first Eagle-Lion film stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, his Allen's Alley resident-character heard on Fred Allen's radio program. Claghorn was a blustery, one-man-Chamber-of-Commerce for all things Southern, who had no tolerance for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line, although he made allowances for South Philly. The character inspired the creation of one of the most popular of the Warner Brothers cartoon characters, Foghorn Leghorn, who re-worked most of the originals material and style. The title of this movie is a stock line - it's a joke, son - he would feed a befuddled Fred Allen each week. In the film, Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Producer: Bryan Foy
Production Company: Eagle-Lion Films Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 3 minutes

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Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

This delightful musical rendition of the classic fairy tale is entertaining for the entire family. If you're looking for perfection, you won't find it here. But what you will find is a simple, lighthearted fairy tale classic performed true to the Abbot and Costello style that we all knew and loved.

Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writers: Pat Costello (story), Nathaniel Curtis
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 1 hour, 21 minutes

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Jungle Book (1942)

Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.

Nominated for 4 Oscars.

Director: Zoltan Korda
Producer: Alexander Korda
Production Company: United Artists
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 108 minutes

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Kid, The (1921)

The Kid was Charlie Chaplin's first full-length movie. It, more than anything else to that date, made Chaplin a living legend. It took over a year to produce, and was an incredible success for Chaplin.

Director: Charles Chaplin
Producer: Charles Chaplin
Audio/Visual: silent, black and white

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Killer Dill (1947)

The film stomps a hilarity trail formerly taken by such films as Mr. Lemon of Orange and The Whole Town's Talking. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny Dill, door-to-door salesman who transpires to be the precise doppelganger of a villainous Prohibition delinquent. When the wicked chap puts to death an opponent, unfortunate Dill is certainly in a pickle. Our male protagonist finds himself stuck between the forces of good, epitomized by lawyer Allen (Frank Albertson), and the underlings of iniquity, played by such veteran movie heavies as Mike Mazurki, Anthony Warde and Ben Welden.

Director: Lewis D. Collins
Writers: Alan Friedman (story), John O'Dea
Producer: Max M. King
Production Company: Nivel Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Lady Says No (1952)

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.

Director: Frank Ross
Writer: Robert Russell
Starring: Joan Caulfield, David Niven Length: 1 hour, 22 minutes

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Lady Vanishes, The (1938)

Travelers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Ethel Lina White (novel The Wheel Spins), Sidney Gilliat (screenplay), Frank Launder (screenplay)
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Mary Clare, Emile Boreo, Googie Withers, Sally Stewart, Philip Leaver, Selma Vaz Dias, Catherine Lacey
Audio/Visual: mono, Black and White
Length: 97 minutes

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Last Woman on Earth (1960)

A husband and wife team (Harold and Ev) with their lawyer friend, Martin, are skin-diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone on the island - maybe in the world!

Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Robert Towne
Starring: Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, Robert Towne
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 71 minutes

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Laughing At Life (1933)

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.

Director: Ford Beebe
Writers: Ford Beebe (story), Prescott Chaplin (screenplay)
Production Company: Mascot Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

After the death of Cedric ('Ceddie')'s English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, had disowned Cedric's father when he married an American. But when the Earl's remaining son dies, he accepts Cedric as Lord Fauntleroy, his heir, and the Earl sends for Cedric and his mother. Cedric uses the first of his newly found wealth to do some favors for his old friends, and then heads to England, where he must try to overcome the Earl's dislike for Cedric's mother.

Director: John Cromwell
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel), Hugh Walpole
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes

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Little Men (1940)

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Producer: C. Graham Baker
Production Company: The Play's The Thing Productions/RKO
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 23 minutes

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Little Princess, The (1939)

The story sets in the England ruled by Queen Victoria. Sara (Shirley Temple) is a little girl who doesn't have anything in the world but her father, Captain Reginald Crew (Ian Hunter). War times run, and Captain Crew's sent to fight with the British army to Africa, to fight against the boers. Sara's worried about her father and she's afraid of his security. The girl is registered in an exclusive seminary for girls, only for a period of time, until Captain Crew returns from Africa. Amanda Minchin (Mary Nash) is the strict woman that runs the seminary, but Sara makes friendship with a kind young teacher, Rose (Anita Louise) and with a horse instructor, Geoffrey (Richard Greene). So, Sara's life at Minchin Seminary is very happy, but everything there has a monetary cost, even the birthday party and the presents that Miss Minchin sets up for the girl. When Sara knows the terrible notice about Captain Crew's death, the girl feels devastated and all the privileges will end up, because there's no money to pay for that. Miss Minchin tells to Sara that she can stay, but in a dark and creepy attic and she'll have to work as a servant of all her friends. But the friendship with a nice Indian servant from the next house (Cesar Romero) and with the other servant girl, Becky at the seminary, will make much pleasant the things for Sara, who keeps the hope that her father is still alive.

Director: Walter Lang
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

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Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)

Roger Corman classic about a nerdy flower shop clerk who grows a giant, man-eating plant. Jack Nicholson makes his film debut as a dental patient who loves pain.

Producer: Roger Corman
Audio/Visual: sound, Black and White

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Made for Each Other (1939)

Jimmy Stewart plays John Horace 'Johnny' Mason, a young lawyer who marries Jane Mason (Carole Lombard) after only know her one day.

Director: John Cromwell
Producer: David O. Selznick
Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard Production Company: Selznick International Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 92 minutes

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Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1951)

A tough cop helps his lover cover up the shooting of her wealthy husband. Mainstream noir, primarily distinguished by its acting and San Francisco visuals.

Producer: Felix E. Feist
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard Audio/Visual: sound, Black and White
Length: 81 minutes

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Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)

While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can't talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made movie from 1934 and is now in the public domain. After coming to the United States, Alfred Hitchcock produced a remake of this movie in 1956 starring James (Jimmy) Stewart and Doris Day. The remake remains under copyright.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Ivor Montagu
Production Company: Gaumont British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
Audio/Visual: Black and White, mono
Cast includes: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke Smith, and George Curzon.

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Meet John Doe (1941)

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed John Doe, who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate Doe. Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up John Doe philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously ... but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.

Director: Frank Capra
Production Company: Warner Brothers
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 2 hours, 2 minutes

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Merrie Melodies: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)

This is possibly Tweety Bird's first appearance in film. In A Tale of Two Kitties, wandering felines Babbit and Catstello (spoofing Abbott and Costello) find a bird's nest. Grouchy, straight-talking Babbit sends the nervous Catstello up to get the bird, only the tiny proves to be too much.

Director: Bob (Robert) Clampett
Writer: Warren Foster Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: mono, color
Language: English

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Miracle on 34th Street, The (TV) (1955)

A condensed made for TV version of the original 1947 Oscar-winning classic movie by the same name where kindly old Mr. Kringle is put on trail for claiming to be Santa Claus. This remake has a strong cast and good direction but sometimes feels rushed. It originally ran 60 minutes including the commercials.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Writers: Valentine Davies (story), John Monks Jr. (teleplay)
Release Date: 14 December 1955 (USA)
Starring: Teresa Wright, Thomas Mitchell, Don Beddoe, Sara Berner, Whit Bissell, Macdonald Carey, Ray Collins, Hans Conried, Sandy Descher, Dick Foran, Herbert Heyes
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 45 minutes

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Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)

While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various Rube Goldberg type contraptions constructed from local materials. Meanwhile, on a nearby island, a young maiden flees her arranged wedding. She canoes to Steve's island for safety, whereupon she is dubbed Saturday. Soon they are attacked by vengeful tribesmen from the neighboring island. Will Steve and Saturday survive?

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Producer: Douglas Fairbanks
Production Company: United Artists
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

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My Dear Secretary (1949)

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disappointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.

Director: Charles Martin
Producer: Leo C. Popkin
Starring: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee Production Company: Cardinal Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?

Director: Elliott Nugent
Producer: Daniel Dare
Starring: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr.
Production Company: Hope Enterprises, Paramount Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 1 hour, 26 minutes

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My Man Godfrey (1936)

Ditzy socialite with a heart of gold, Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) finds forgotten man Godfrey Smith (William Powell) in a scavenger hunt. Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Of Human Bondage (1934)

This RKO film, directed by John Cromwell, tells the story of a club-footed, sensitive artist Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), an Englishman who has been studying painting in Paris for four years, but is advised by his art teacher that his work is mediocre and second-rate, and that he lacks promise. So he returns to London, England to take up studies to become a medical doctor, but his older age and introspection make it difficult for him to keep up in his scholastic work. In England, he becomes infatuated - and then obsessed by a blonde, lower-class, slatternly and vulgar, Cockney-accented, illiterate tearoom waitress named Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis).

This film was the first film to bring real critical success to its star Bette Davis. Her over-the-top theatrical performance was passed over for a Best Actress Oscar nomination, although she was an unofficial write-in candidate.

Director: John Cromwell
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 83 minutes

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Oliver Twist (1933)

An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Director: William J. Cowen
Producer: I.E. Chadwick
Production Company: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

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Penny Serenade (1941)

As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.

Director: George Stevens
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 119 minutes

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Phantom Planet (1961)

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Director: William Marshall
Producer: Fred Gebhardt
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 22 minutes

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Pot o' Gold (1941)

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly!

Director: George Marshall
Producer: James Roosevelt
Production Company: United Artists
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 25 minutes

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Quicksand (1950)

After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.

Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes
Production Company: Samuel H. Stiefel Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 18 minutes

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Romance on the Run (1938)

When a valuable necklace is stolen the insurance agent who mistakenly issued the policy suspects the suave and handsome man that her boss has hired to get it back and who the inept police officer (William Demarest) on the case also suspects. They follow him and his valet (Edward Brophy)as they in turn are following a nightclub singer and her boyfriend. The group finds themselves on a train and then at a shack out in the middle of nowhere with guns pointed at them by country folks who distrust city people in circus clothes.

Director: Gus Meins
Producer: Herman Schlom
Production Company: Republic Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 53 minutes

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Royal Wedding (1951)

Brother and sister dancing duo Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) travel to merry old England. There, against the backdrop of the impending wedding of royals, they go about the usual comedic pursuit of love. This film is probably most memorable for Astaire's dream sequence that has him dancing on the ceiling.

Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Arthur Freed
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 1 hour, 31 minutes

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Sappy Birthday (1935)

Comedy with Andy Clyde. This was a short subject at theaters. Andy Clyde was a favorite of movie fans in the 1920's,1930's and 1940's even before he became 'California Carlson' a comedy sidekick to Hopalong Cassidy.

Producer: Del Lord
Audio/Visual: sound, Black and White
Length: 16 minutes

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Scar, The (1948)

A harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy visuals and a very fine script that features a creative doppelganger theme.

Producer: Steve Sekely
Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 82 minutes

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Second Chorus (1941)

Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaw's outfit themselves, each trying to trump the other's plays.

Director: H. C. Potter
Producer: Boris Morros
Production Company: Astor Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Starring: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, Charles Butterworth, Burgess Meredith
Length: 1 hour, 23 minutes

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Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (1947)

This final film by silent screen star Harold Lloyd comes nine years after his previous feature. In this film, that reprises a character portrayed by Lloyd in a 1925 film, it is shown what happened to our hero, Harold Diddlebock (Lloyd), twenty years after his big triumph on the college football field. Struggling in the same job he received twenty years previous, Diddlebock is fired so he wanders the streets and eventually goes into a bar. After drinking his first drink in his life, and a specially prepared drink in his honor, Diddlebock goes on a crazy rampage through town, buying things including a new wardrobe, a horse-drawn cab with cabby and also a circus.

Director: Preston Sturges
Producer: Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges
Production Company: California Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 89 minutes

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Smallest Show on Earth, The (1957)

Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetent staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.

Director: Basil Dearden
Producer: Michael Relph
Production Company: British Lion Film Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 19 minutes

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Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

A man is waylaid by chance in old home town, meets a girl down on her luck and a turbulent couple with whom he shares a dark childhood secret. Significant noir melodrama focusing on provocative, intermingling relationships of neurotic love, guilt and fear.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Producer: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas (his first film), Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman
Audio/Visual: sound, Black and White
Length: 115 minutes

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Suddenly (1954)

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Todd Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

Director: Lewis Allen
Producer: Robert Bassler
Production Company: Libra Productions Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes

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Symphony of Living (1935)

An aging concert violinist ignored by his grown children who becomes a music teacher. His most promising student, with whom he intends to make a comeback, turns out to be his own grandson!

Director: Frank R. Strayer
Producer: Maury M. Cohen
Production Company: Invincible Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 12 minutes

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Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts.

Director: Tom Graeff
Producer: Tom Graeff
Production Company: Tom Graeff Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 25 minutes

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Thief of Baghdad (1924)

A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Baghdad's daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules.

Producer: Douglas Fairbanks
Writers: Douglas Fairbanks (story), Achmed Abdullah (screenwriter)
Audio/Visual: silent, color
Length: 2 hours, 19 minutes

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Things to Come (1936)

Things to Come opens with a near-future forecast of Christmas 1940 in the metropolis of Everytown (obviously London), a city threatened by world war. Pacifist intellectuals, such as John Cabal (Massey), try to turn the tide. But Cabal's efforts go unheeded by the self-interested classes, and war arrives with tanks and airplanes and gas bombs. Everytown is destroyed by air raids (dramatically enacted four years before the real thing).

Director: William Cameron Menzies
Producer: Alexander Korda
Production Company: London Film Production Inc
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 93 minutes

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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.

Producer: M.H. Hoffman
Director: Albert Ray
Writers: Arthur Hoerl (screenplay), Frances Hyland (screenplay), Armitage Trail (story)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst, Erville Alderson
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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This is the Army (1943)

Dancer Jerry Jones (George Murphy) is wounded in World War I and finding his showbiz options limited becomes a producer. 25 years later, he puts on an all-soldier revue jam-packed with Irving Berlin songs. Includes Kate Smith singing God Bless America and a brief appearance by boxing legend Joe Louis.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Hal Wallis
Production Company: Warner Bros
Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Till The Clouds Roll By (1946)

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous Showboat.

Director: Richard Whorf
Producer: Arthur Freed
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Starring: June Allyson, Robert Walker, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra

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Too Late for Tears (1949)

Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities; she wants to keep it no matter what the consequences.

Director: Byron Haskin Production Company: Hunt Stromberg Productions Starring: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Barry Kelley Audio/Visual: sound, black and white Length: 99 minutes

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Topper Returns (1941)

The third of Hal Roach's famed Topper trilogy series, and in my opinion the best. Roland Young and Billie Burke with Jack Benny's manservant, Eddie Rochester Anderson make many laughs. Joan Blondell plays the beautiful ghost that causes so much trouble for Topper. This is the original black and white version.

Producer: Hal Roach
Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Two Weeks to Live (1943)

Once again the fellers' from Pine Ridge mess it up! A delightful movie that is typically Lum and Abner in both comedic and satire value. The comedy of Lum and Abner is subtle, you have to listen to understand. Its not yelling, cursing and sexual innuendo...its REAL comedy. Watch this movie if your an old radio fan or Lum and Abner fan.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Producer: Jack William Votion and Ben Hersh
Production Company: Voco Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 13 minutes

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Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)

A comedy-mystery in which the 'Our Gang Kids' become involved with a murder and a haunted house.

Director: Bernard Carr
Producer: Robert F. McGowan and Hal Roach Jr.
Production Company: U.A / Hal Roach Studios Inc
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Length: 51 minutes

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Winterset (1936)

Years after the execution of his father, a young man convinced of his innocence searches for evidence to prove it.

Director: Alfred Santell
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 77 minutes

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Woman Hunter, The (1972)

Barbara Eden stars in this made-for-TV movie. She looks great, especially frolicking in a bikini and numerous other outfits. There is also some sort of plot involving an international jewel thief (Stuart Whitman) and a new husband (Robert Vaughn). This is strictly for Barbara Eden fans.

Producer: Barbara Eden
Audio/Visual: sound, color

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X Marks the Spot (1942)

A private detective about to enter the Army investigates the murder of a cop by gangsters who are in the stolen tires racket. Along the way he is helped by Helen Parrish the pretty girl who plays records by request.

Director: George Sherman
Producer: George Sherman
Production Company: Republic Pictures Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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Young and Innocent/The Girl Was Young (1937)

A man discovers a body on the beach, runs for help, but two people discover the body as the man is running away. Everyone thinks he is guilty except for the commissioners daughter. They must find a mysterious man who has an eye blinking disorder to prove his innocence.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Edward Black
Production Company: Gaumont Film Company
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white

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These files can be very large and take a long time to download even if you have a fast connection because the server load can be very high. For this reason we strongly suggest using a file download manager like the DownThemAll Firefox add-on.

The DownThemAll add-on has the ability to queue many files for transfer at a later time when bandwidth is more likely to be available and it can optionally request different parts of each file simultaneously to shorten the total transfer time.