AFRICA SCREAMS  1949  Dir Charles Barton

 79 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bud Abbott ...  Buzz Johnson

 Lou Costello ...  Stanley Livington

 Clyde Beatty ...  Himself

 Frank Buck ...  Himself

 Max Baer ...  Grappler McCoy

 Buddy Baer ...  Boots Wilson

 Hillary Brooke ...  Diana Emerson

 Shemp Howard ...  Gunner

 Joe Besser ...  Harry

 Burt Wenland ...  Bobo (as Burton Wenland)

 Charles Gemora ...  The Ape (uncredited)

 Arthur Hecht ...  Elevator Starter (uncredited)

 Bill Walker ...  Interpreter (uncredited)

 Martin Wilkins ...  Cannibal chief (uncredited)     

Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke) is in the book department of Klopper's Department store looking for a copy of the book Dark Safari, written by the famed explorer Cuddleford. Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) overhears Diana saying that she will pay $2,500 for a map that is inside that book. He devises a plan to pass off his friend Stanley Livington (Lou Costello) as a great explorer who accompanied Cuddleford on the expedition described in the book. With claims that he can reproduce the map, the two men go to Diana's home that very night. They agree to accompany her on an African expedition, and when Bud overhears that Clyde Beatty has been offered $20,000 to lead the expedition, he feels that the map is worth considerably more than $2,500. They travel to Africa, along with Diana's team of explorers, including Harry (Joe Besser), 'Boots' Wilson (Buddy Baer), 'Grappler' McCoy (Max Baer) and Gunner (Shemp Howard), a nearsighted gunman. The boys learn that the true expedition is for diamonds rather than exploration, and Buzz plans to renegotiate the deal. Unfortunately Stanley cannot reproduce the map, as he has never seen it, and the two attempt to bluff their way around the jungle. Eventually the entire expeditionary team arrives at a Ubangi tribal village, where the chief offers several diamonds in exchange for Stanley, whose carcass can feed many of his people. They start to chase Stanley all over the place, while Buzz buries the diamonds before the tribespeople are finally frightened away by a large gorilla. Meanwhile, another gorilla has dug up the diamonds that Buzz has hidden.
Some time after returning to the United States, Stanley owns the department store, along with the gorilla, and Buzz works for them as the elevator operator(!).

ALEXANDER NEVSKY  1938  Dir Sergei M. Eisenstein

112 mins RUSSIA ( English Subtitles ) B/W Sound

 Nikolai Cherkasov ...  Aleksandr Nevsky (as N. Cherkasov)
 Nikolai Okhlopkov ...  Vasili Buslai (as N. Okhlopkov)
 Andrei Abrikosov ...  Gavrilo Oleksich (as A. Abrikosov)
 Dmitri Orlov ...  Ignat - the Master Armorer (as D. Orlov)
 Vasili Novikov ...  Pavsha - Governor of Pskov (as V. Novikov)
 Nikolai Arsky ...  Domash Tverdislavich - a Novgorod Boyar (as N. Arsky)
 Varvara Massalitinova ...  Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother (as V. Massalitova)
 Vera Ivashova ...  Olga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod (as V. Ivashova)
 Aleksandra Danilova ...  Vasilisa - a Maid of Pskov (as A. Danilova)
 Vladimir Yershov ...  Von Balk - Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (as V. Yershov)
 Sergei Blinnikov ...  Tverdilo - Traitorous Mayor of Pskov (as S. Blinnikov)
 Ivan Lagutin ...  Anani - a Monk (as I. Lagutin)
 Lev Fenin ...  The Archbishop (as L. Fenin)
 Naum Rogozhin ...  The Black-Hooded Monk (as N. Rogozhin)
           

It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. A Russian knyaz', or prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. This is a true story based on the actual battle at a lake near Novgorod.

ALGIERS          1938     Dir John Cromwell

95 mins USA B/W Sound

 Charles Boyer ...  Pepe le Moko
 Sigrid Gurie ...  Ines
 Hedy Lamarr ...  Gaby
 Joseph Calleia ...  Inpector Slimane
 Alan Hale ...  Grandpere
Gene Lockhart ...  Regis
 Walter Kingsford ...  Chef Inspector Louvain
 Paul Harvey ...  Comissioner Janvier
 Stanley Fields ...  Carlos
 Johnny Downs ...  Pierrot
 Charles D. Brown ...  Max
 Robert Greig ...  Giraux
 Leonid Kinskey ...  L'Arbi
 Joan Woodbury ...  Aicha
 Nina Koshetz ...  Tania (as Mme. Nina Koshetz)
           

Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French official insists that he be captured, but sly Inspector Slimane knows he need only bide his time. The suave Pepe increasingly regards his stronghold as also his prison, especially when he meets beautiful Parisian visitor Gaby, who reminds him of the boulevards to which he dare not return...and arouses the mad jealousy of Ines, his Algerian mistress.

AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY     1916       Dir  Lloyd Ingraham   

80 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Cassius Lee
 Jewel Carmen ...  Geraldine Hicks
 C.A. de Lima ...  Leander Hicks (as Charles De Lima)
 Albert Parker ...  Percy Horton
 Artie Ortego ...  Delgado (as Arthur Ortego)
             

Fairbanks plays the scion of an old, established and very wealthy Virginian family, who believes in democracy rather than plutocracy. He takes it upon himself to puncture the pretensions of a bunch of would-be snobs at a vacation resort, finding time to quell a plan to sell arms to Mexican insurgents. It goes without saying that he wins the heroine (Jewel Carmen), a would-be snob who turns out to be a "regular fellow" at heart.

AMERICANO THE         1916     Dir John Emerson

  78 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Blaze Derringer
 Alma Rubens ...  Juana de Castalar
 Spottiswoode Aitken ...  Presidente de Castalar
 Carl Stockdale ...  Salsa Espada
 Tote Du Crow ...  Alberto de Castille
 Charles Stevens ...  Colonel Gargaras
 Mildred Harris ...  Stenographer
 Lillian Langdon ...  Senora de Castille
 Thomas Jefferson  
 Tom Wilson ...  Hartod Armitage White
 Marguerite Marsh
           

Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana (Rubens). Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives. His company's local office has been ransacked, but he finds loyal caretaker Dan (Wilson) in hiding there. He is contacted by former Prime Minister Castille, now in disguise as a peddler... Valdez writes the mysterious date "23 Noviembre 1899" on scraps of paper which are then thrown from the prison window as garbage. Juana checks her father's diary. That date contains an account of a successful escape from San Mateo, using the secret tunnel! But Garcia demands that Juana marry him the next day or Valdez will die...

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN     1947     Dir James Edward Grant           

100 mins USA  B/W Sound

 John Wayne ...  Quirt Evans
 Gail Russell ...  Penelope Worth
 Harry Carey ...  Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock
 Bruce Cabot ...  Laredo Stevens
 Irene Rich ...  Mrs. Worth
 Lee Dixon ...  Randy McCall - Quirt's Partner
 Stephen Grant ...  Johnny Worth
 Tom Powers ...  Dr. Mangram
 Paul Hurst ...  Frederick Carson - Worth's Neighbor
 Olin Howland ...  Bradley - Town Telegrapher (as Olin Howlin)
 John Halloran ...  Thomas Worth
 Joan Barton ...  Lila Neal - Saloon Singer ("The Western Nightingale") in Red Rock)
 Craig Woods ...  Ward Withers
 Marshall Reed ...  Nelson - Quaker Blacksmith
           

Quirt Evens an all round bad guy is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth a quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose from his world or the world from which Penelope lives by.

APE THE          1940   Dir William Nigh

 61 mins USA B/W Sound

 Boris Karloff ...  Dr. Bernard Adrian
 Maris Wrixon ...  Miss Frances Clifford
 Gene O'Donnell ...  Danny Foster
 Dorothy Vaughan ...  Mother Clifford
 Gertrude Hoffman ...  Jane, Adrian's Housekeeper (as Gertrude W. Hoffman)
 Henry Hall ...  Sheriff Jeff Halliday
 Selmer Jackson ...  Dr. McNulty
           

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.He keeps human life in test tubes, and prowls at night in the skin of an ape!

ARCH OF TRIUMPH        1948   Dir Lewis Milestone

 114 mins USA B/W Sound

Ingrid Bergman ...  Joan Madou
Charles Boyer ...  Dr. Ravic
Charles Laughton ...  Ivon Haake
 Louis Calhern ...  'Col.' Boris Morosov
 Ruth Warrick ...  Kate Bergstroem
 Roman Bohnen ...  Dr. Veber
 J. Edward Bromberg ...  Hotel manager at the Verdun
 Ruth Nelson ...  Madame Fessier
 Stephen Bekassy ...  Alex
 Curt Bois ...  Tattooed waiter
 Art Smith ...  Inspector
 Michael Romanoff ...  Capt. Alidze
           

In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day war is declared.

ARIZONA STAGECOACH          1942   Dir S. ROY LUBY          

58 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ray Corrigan ...  Crash Corrigan (as Ray 'Crash' Corrigan)
 John 'Dusty' King ...  Dusty King
 Max Terhune ...  Alibi Terhune (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune)
 Elmer ...  Elmer, Alibi's dummy
 Nell O'Day ...  Dorrie Willard
 Charles King ...  Tim Douglas
 Riley Hill ...  Ernie Willard (as Roy Harris)
 Kermit Maynard ...  Henchman Strike Cardigan
 Carl Mathews ...  Henchman Ace
Slim Whitaker ...  Henchman Red
 Slim Harkey ...  Panhandle
 Steve Clark ...  Jake - Stage Driver-Henchman
 Frank Ellis ...  Dan - Stage Shotgun-Guard / Henchman
 Jack Ingram ...  Sheriff Denver
 Stanley Price ...  Tex Laughlin - Hold-Up Man     

In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan (Ray Corrigan), Dusty King (John King) and Alibi Terhune (Max Terhune), are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows (Forrest Taylor) and his niece Dorrie Willard (Nell O'Day). Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard (Riley Hill as Roy Harris), Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin (Stanley Price) who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas (Charles King), a supposed friend of the Willards

ASSASSIN OF YOUTH      1937     Dir Elmer Clifton     

60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Luana Walters ...  Joan Barry
 Arthur Gardner ...  Art Brighton
 Fay McKenzie ...  Linda Clayton
 Michael Owen ...  Jack Howard
 Dorothy Short ...  Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
 Dorothy Vaughan ...  Mrs. Mary Barry
 Earl Dwire ...  Henry 'Pop' Brady
 Fern Emmett ...  Henrietta Frube
 Henry Roquemore ...  Judge George Herbert
 Hudson Faucett ...  Otto (as Hudson Faussett)
 Gay Sheridan ...  Edith
 Edwin Johnson ...  Charlie
           

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers, not realizing that she is being framed by greedy relatives out to prevent her from getting an inheritance, and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends and save the clean and wholesome youth of the town from the horrors of marijuana addiction

BANK ALARM THE       1938     Dir Louis J. Gasnier

58 mins USA B/W Sound

 Conrad Nagel ...  Alan O'Connor
 Eleanor Hunt ...  Bobbie Reynolds
 Vince Barnett ...  Clarence 'Bulb' Callahan
 Wheeler Oakman ...  Joe Karlotti
 Nat Carr ...  Yoritz
 Frank Milan ...  Jerry Turner
 Marlo Dwyer ...  Kay O'Connor (as Wilma Francis)
 William L. Thorne ...  Police Inspector J. C. Macy (as William Thorn)
 Charles Delaney ...  Henchman Duke
 Phil Dunham ...  Leon Curtis, Bank Clerk (as Philip Dunham)
 Sidney D'Albrook ...  Coroner (as Syd D'Albrook)
 Pat Gleason ...  Henchman Barney
 Wilson Benge ...  Overman, Bank Bookkeeper
 Henry Roquemore ...  Nevada Sheriff
 Ed Schaefer ...  Tracy
           

An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a rash of bank robberies. What he doesn't know is that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang's ringleader .

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN            1925    Dir Sergei M. Eisenstein
             

70 mins RUSSIA B/W Silent

 Aleksandr Antonov ...  Grigory Vakulinchuk, Bolshevik Sailor
 Vladimir Barsky ...  Commander Golikov
 Grigori Aleksandrov ...  Chief Officer Giliarovsky
 Ivan Bobrov ...  Young Sailor, flogged while sleeping (as I. Bobrov)
 Mikhail Gomorov ...  Militant Sailor
 Aleksandr Levshin ...  Petty Officer
 N. Poltavseva ...  Woman With Pince-nez
 Konstantin Feldman ...  Student Agitator
 Prokopenko ...  Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
 A. Glauberman ...  Wounded Boy
 Beatrice Vitoldi ...  Woman With Baby Carriage
 Brodsky ...  Student
 Julia Eisenstein ...  Woman With Food for Sailors
 Sergei M. Eisenstein ...  Odessa Citizen
 Andrei Fajt ...  Recruit (as A. Fait)
 Korobei ...  Legless Veteran
 Marusov ...  Officer
 Protopopov ...  Old Man
 Repnikova ...  Woman on the Steps
 Vladimir Uralsky  
 Zerenin ...  Student
           

The movie revolves around an uprising on board the Battleship Potemkin (Bronenoset Potemkin) in 1905. Conditions on the ship are unbearable, which in turn incites revolutionary fervor among the sailors, most notably within the character of Vakulinchik. After the ship's doctor declares rancid meat safe to eat, the sailors buy provisions at the canteen in a show of protest. The Admiral then orders all those who ate the borsch made with the meat to step under the cannons in a show of loyalty. Those who do not are covered under a tarp and ordered shot. Vakulinchik then implores his shipmates to rise up against those who oppress them, namely the officers of the ship. All the officers are killed and the ship is liberated. During the uprising, Vakulinchik dies. His body his placed on the docks in the Odessa harbor as a symbol of the revolution. The citizens of Odessa rally around his body and join the Potemkin in their revolt. Cossaks then come, in one of the most famous scenes of the film, and slaughter the helpless citizens on the steps leading to the harbor, effectively ending the revolt in Odessa. A fleet of battleships then comes to destroy the Potemkin...

BEGGARS OF LIFE       1928   Dir William A. Wellman

110 mins USA B/W Silent

Wallace Beery ...  Oklahoma Red
Louise Brooks ...  The Girl (Nancy)
Richard Arlen ...  The Boy (Jim)  Bob Perry ...  The Arkansaw Snake (as Robert Perry)
Blue Washington ...  Black Mose (as Edgar Washington)
Roscoe Karns ...  Lame Hoppy
            After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

BEHIND GREEN LIGHTS           1946     Otto Brower       Carole Landis ...  Janet Bradley
 William Gargan ...  Lt. Sam Carson
 Richard Crane ...  Johnny Williams, Reporter
 Mary Anderson ...  Nora Bard
 John Ireland ...  Det. Engelhofer
 Charles Russell ...  Arthur Templeton
 Roy Roberts ...  Max Calvert
 Mabel Paige ...  Flossie
 Stanley Prager ...  Ruzinsky, Milkman
 Charles Tannen ...  Ames, Reporter
           

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.

BEAU BRUMMELL        1924        Dir Harry Beaumont 

104 mins USA B/W Silent

 John Barrymore ...  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel
 Mary Astor ...  Lady Margery Alvanley
 Willard Louis ...  Prince of Wales
 Carmel Myers ...  Lady Hester Stanhope
 Irene Rich ...  Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
 Alec B. Francis ...  Mortimer
 William Humphrey ...  Lord Alvanley
 Richard Tucker ...  Lord Stanhope
 George Beranger ...  Lord Byron
 Clarissa Selwynne ...  Mrs. Wertham
 John J. Richardson ...  Poodles Byng
 Claire de Lorez ...  Lady Manly
 Michael Dark ...  Lord Manly
 Templar Saxe ...  Desmond Wertham
 James A. Marcus ...  Snodgrass the Innkeeper
           

John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial splendor and quick wit, Brummel is a favorite of the Prince of Wales (Willard Louis)--and with several ladies, though his heart belongs to the beautiful, unobtainable Lady Margery Avanley (played by 17-year-old Mary Astor, who during filming was carrying on a most passionate affair with her leading man). The arrogant Brummel falls from grace after insulting the Prince and then refusing to apologize. We last see Brummel in an asylum, dressed in rags, but with still enough pride to turn away his true love rather than allow her to throw her life away on him. John Barrymore is superb throughout, especially in the poignant sequences after his descent into poverty and disgrace

BIRTH OF A NATION THE    1915    Dir D.W. GRIFFITH

185 mins USA B/W Silent

Lillian Gish ...  Elsie Stoneman        

Mae Marsh ...  Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall ...  Col. Ben Cameron 

Miriam Cooper ...  Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden ...  Lydia Brown
Ralph Lewis ...  Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann ...  Silas Lynch
Walter Long ...  Gus
 Robert Harron ...  Tod Stoneman
 Wallace Reid ...  Jeff (blacksmith)
 Joseph Henabery ...  Abraham Lincoln / 13 other bits
 Elmer Clifton ...  Phil Stoneman
 Josephine Crowell ...  Mrs. Cameron
 Spottiswoode Aitken ...  Dr. Cameron
 George Beranger ...  Wade Cameron (as J.A. Beringer)
           

Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan

BIG SHOW THE     1936     Dir Mack V. Wright

59 mins USA B/W Sound

 Gene Autry ...  Gene Autry / Tom Ford
 Smiley Burnette ...  Frog
 Kay Hughes ...  Marion Hill
 Sally Payne ...  Toodles Brown
 William Newell ...  Lee Wilson
 Max Terhune ...  Ventriloquist
 Charles Judels ...  Swartz - Studio Head
 Sons of the Pioneers ...  Musicians
 The Jones Boys ...  Singers (as Jones Boys)
 The Beverly Hillbillies ...  Musicians (as Beverly Hill Billies)
 The Light Crust Doughboys ...  Musicians (as Light Crust Dough Boys)
 Champion ...  Champion - Studio Horse
 Rex King ...  Fred Collins
 Harry Worth ...  Tony Rico
 Mary Russell ...  Mary
           

Cowboy Tom Ford (Gene Autry), star of Mammouth Film Productions, goes on vacation before Wilson (William Newell), studio publicity man, can notify him that he is to make a personal appearance at the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration in Dallas.Unable to locate Ford,the desperate Wilson substitutes Fords exact-double and stunt man,Gene Autry (Gene Autry again.) Gene goes along only to help Wilson out but wants to reveal his true identity throughout the hoax. Enroute to Dallas, Gene's car and trailer collide with the cattle truck of Marion Hill (Kay Hughes), turning losse a herd of steers she is hauling for show purposes. Gene unloads his horse Champion (Champion, or at least one of them) and rounds up the cattle. Gene, still posing as Ford and singing over the radio (although Ford is not a singer) is a sensation. Ford hears a broadcast and is peeved and threatens to sue the studio. Meanwhile, a group of blackmailers (in snappy-brim hats and double-breasted suits) demand $25,000 from the studio to keep quiet about hoax.Things work out okay after six or seven songs.FYI for those who don't seem to know; this was not filmed at the Texas State Fair. It was filmed (some of it) at the 1936 Texas Centennial site, which is now the fairgrounds for the Texas State Fair.

BLACK DRAGONS    1942    Dir William Nigh  

64 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bela Lugosi ...  Dr. Melcher / Monsieur Colomb
 Joan Barclay ...  Alice Saunders
 George Pembroke ...  Dr. William Saunders
Clayton Moore ...  FBI Agent Richard 'Dick' Martin
 Robert Frazer ...  Amos Hanlin
 Edward Peil Sr. ...  Ryder (as Edward Piel Sr.)
 Robert Fiske ...  Phillip Wallace
 Irving Mitchell ...  John Van Dyke
 Kenneth Harlan ...  FBI Chief Colton
 Max Hoffman Jr. ...  Kearney
 Frank Melton ...  FBI agent
 Joseph Eggenton ...  Stevens, the butler
I. Stanford Jolley ...  The Dragon (as Stanford Jolley)
           

Prior to the beginning of World War II, the Nazis, at the request of Japan's Black Dragon Society, sends Doctor Melcher (Bela Lugosi) to Japan to transform six Japanese into identical likenesses of six prominent Americans. The Americans are done away with and Melcher, on the orders of High Dragon Yakhamea (I. Stanford Jolley), is imprisoned so his secret will die with him. In his cell, Melcher switches places with the soon-to-be-released Colomb and, when he is freed, follows the six Japanese to America, where they have assumed the positions of the industrialists and are causing sabotage in the Monogram defense plants that didn't exist yet as the war hadn't started. One by one Melcher kills the imposters, despite the fact they are performing for-free work for his employer Adolph, and dumps their bodies on the steps of the Japanese Embassy, which still existed as the war hadn't started. FBI Chief Colton (Kenneth Harlan) and agent Dick Martin (Clayton Moore) finally piece together what the five murdered men had in common---aha, a visit to Japan---and stake out the sixth man as bait for Melcher

BLACK RAVEN THE        1943    Dir Sam Newfield      

61 mins USA B/W Sound

 George Zucco ...  Amos Bradford aka The Raven
 Wanda McKay ...  Lee Winfield
 Robert Livingston ...  Allen Bentley (as Robert Randall)
 Noel Madison ...  Mike Bardoni
 Byron Foulger ...  Horace Weatherby
 Charles Middleton ...  Sheriff (as Charlie Middleton)
 Robert Middlemass ...  Tim Winfield
 Glenn Strange ...  Andy
 I. Stanford Jolley ...  Whitey Cole
           

The Black Raven is one of a trio of PRC horror-melodramas starring George Zucco. The title refers to a remote country inn, presided over by the sinister Mr. Bradford (Zucco). During a dark and stormy night, the Black Raven becomes the gathering place for an escaped convict (I. Standford Jolley) with a personal vendetta against Bradford, a bank clerk (Byron Foulger) who has embezzled $50,000, and a couple of young elopers (Wanda McKay, Bob Randall). Before the night is over, greed and murder rear their ugly heads. Comedy relief is provided by Charles "Ming the Merciless" Middleton as a county sheriff and Glenn "Frankenstein" Strange as a lumbering lummox

BLACK PIRATE THE    1926     Dir Albert Parker          

110 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  The Black Pirate
 Billie Dove ...  Princess Isobel
 Tempe Pigott ...  Duenna
 Donald Crisp ...  MacTavish
 Sam De Grasse ...  Pirate Lieutenant
 Anders Randolf ...  Pirate Captain
 Charles Stevens ...  Powder man
 Charles Belcher ...  Chief passenger (Nobleman)

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in the capture of a ship, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a young woman on board whom he wishes to protect from the threat of rape.
A certain pirate of the Spanish Main makes a practice of blowing up with all hands the ships he has looted. By a fluke, one man and his dying father survive such a disaster. Swearing vengeance, the son joins the pirates; soon, "the black pirate" swashbuckles his way into their black hearts, capturing a merchantman singlehanded. Can he now save the life of lovely Isobel? Can he, opposed by a treacherous rival, rise to lead the pirates and thereby deliver them to justice?
 

BLAKE MURDER MYSTERY THE     1940           Dir Robert F. McGowan

70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Marcia Mae Jones ...  Mildred 'Millie' Henshaw
 Jackie Moran ...  Jimmie Atkins
 George Cleveland ...  Albert Henshaw
 Christian Rub ...  Olaf Jensen
 Henry Hall ...  Cyrus W. 'Cy' Burton
 John St. Polis ...  Simkins
 Clarence Wilson ...  Eph, Service Station Owner
 Mary Carr ...  Grandma
 Jessie Arnold ...  Mrs. Emily Henshaw
 Hooper Atchley ...  Prosecuting Attorney
 Marcelle Ray ...  Lucy Peters
 Buddy Swan ...  Junior Henshaw (as Buddy Swann)
           

Jimmie (Jackie Moran), the Brownsville Bugle's office boy, and Millie (Marcia Mae Jones), niece of editor Henshaw (George Cleveland), turn amateur detectives in order to help a friend who is accused of murder. With more zeal than direction, they pick the owner of a gas station as the killer, and when he turns out to be innocent, Henshaw fires Jimmie. The two go on searching and next suspect Lawyer Cy Burton (Henry Hall) but have no conclusive evidence and are about to give up when Millie finds a clue that leads to the hidden fortune of the murdered Mrs. Blake

BLIND HUSBANDS       1919        Dir Erich von Stroheim
             

100 mins USA B/W Silent

 Sam De Grasse ...  Dr. Armstrong
 Francelia Billington ...  Margaret Armstrong
 Erich von Stroheim ...  Lieutenant Erich von Steuben
 Gibson Gowland ...  Silent Sepp (as T.H. Gibson Gowland)
 Fay Holderness ...  The 'Vamp' Waitress
 Ruby Kendrick ...  A Village Blossom
 Valerie Germonprez ...  The Newlywed
 Jack Perrin ...  The Newlywed
 Richard Cummings ...  The Village Physician
 Louis Fitzroy ...  The Village Priest
 William De Vaull ...  Man from 'Home'
 Jack Mathis ...  Man from 'Home'
 Percy Challenger ...  Man from 'Home'
             

The story concerns an unhappy romantic triangle involving an upper class American couple, Dr. Robert Armstrong and his wife Margaret, and a Lieutenant Eric von Steuben, whom they encounter while vacationing at a resort in the Austrian Alps. The tension between the three is apparent from the beginning, as they share a carriage ride uphill to the resort. The husband is inattentive to his wife; she is frustrated; and the lieutenant, having quickly analyzed the situation (and Margaret's legs) begins a determined campaign to seduce her away from her seemingly indifferent husband.

BLOOD ON THE SUN   1945   Dir Frank Lloyd  

  96 mins USA B/W Sound

 James Cagney ...  Nick Condon
 Sylvia Sidney ...  Iris Hilliard
 Porter Hall ...  Arthur Bickett
 John Emery ...  Premier Giichi Tanaka
 Robert Armstrong ...  Col. Hideki Tojo
 Wallace Ford ...  Ollie Miller
 Rosemary DeCamp ...  Edith Miller
 John Halloran ...  Capt. Oshima
 Leonard Strong ...  Hijikata
 James Bell ...  Charley Sprague
 Marvin Miller ...  Yamada
 Rhys Williams ...  Joseph Cassell
 Frank Puglia ...  Prince Tatsugi
           

In pre-World War II Tokyo an American newspaper editor working for an English-language daily paper aimed at the American business community is given a document relating to Japan's foreign affairs which could have political ramifications if found. He meets up with Iris Hilliard, a woman who wants to secure the document even if it means dealing with the Japanese secret police and their threats. SPY

BLONDE COMET  1941  Dir William Beaudine
           

   60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Virginia Vale ...  Beverly Blake
 Robert Kent ...  Jim Flynn
 Barney Oldfield ...  Barney Oldfield
 Vince Barnett ...  Curly
 William Halligan ...  Cannonball Blake
 Joey Ray ...  Red
 Red Knight ...  Tex
 Diana Hughes ...  Jennie
           

PRC Pictures' final 1941 release was the auto-racing melodrama Blonde Comet. Virginia Vale stars as female race-car champion Betty Blake, the toast of the European racing circuit. Upon arriving in America, Betty finds she has a staunch rival in the form of devilishly handsome Jim Flynn (Robert Kent). The plot hinges on Jim's attempts to design a powerful new carburator, the efforts of the villain to scuttle this invention, and Jim and Betty's inevitable romance. Veteran racer Barney Oldfield appears as himself, delivering a appealingly amateurish performance.

BLUE LIGHT THE    1932   Dir Béla Balázs

  60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Leni Riefenstahl ...  Junta
 Mathias Wieman ...  Vigo
 Beni Führer ...  Tonio
 Max Holzboer ...  Innkeeper
 Martha Mair ...  Lucia
 Franz Maldacea ...  Guzzi
           

Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a mysterious blue light glows when the moon is full. Many young men of the village have died trying to follow her. She is driven out of town, and takes to living in the mountains. Eventually she shares the secret of the blue light with one man, and he betrays it.

BORNEO            1937   Dir Truman H. Talley
           

80 mins USA B/W Sound

Martin E. Johnson ...  Himself
 Osa Johnson ...  Herself
 Lowell Thomas ...  Serious Narrator
 Lew Lehr ...  Interrupting Narrator
           

A very good depression-era propaganda film disguised as an anthropological and natural study which lies somewhere between King Kong and a Margaret Mead journal. As Mr & Mrs. Johnson travel upland and upriver they encounter flying snakes, various simians and apes, climbing fish, tree oysters and indolent natives. A scientist with a fake German accent gives explanations. Assumed to be filmed on location, the natives converse in rehearsed, broken English and are dressed according to Christian decency. Lowell Thomas' narration is quite humorous at first until the real reason for their expedition is divulged. The film culminates in the American management of the capture of a 300lb. orang-utan (literally meaning the "wild-man of the jungle") who will live the rest of his life in "some American city zoo lazily eating bananas". 

BORROWED HERO    1942     Dir Lewis D. Collins
           

 64 mins USA B/W Sound

 Alan Baxter ...  Roger Andrews
 Florence Rice ...  Ann Thompson
 Constance Worth ...  Mona Brooks
 John Hamilton ...  William Brooks
 Mary Gordon ...  Mrs. Riley
 Marlo Dwyer ...  Carol Turner (as Wilma Francis)
 Stanley Andrews ...  Mr. Taylor, Defense Attorney
 Richard Terry ...  Dixie Nelson
 Jerry Marlowe ...  Johnny Gray
 Paul Everton ...  Trial Judge
 Guy Usher ...  District Attorney
 John Maxwell ...  City Editor
           

A young prosecutor in the District Attorney's office begins to suspect that a "civic reform" organization may actually be a front for the city's organized crime ring. His girlfriend, a reporter, knows how vicious the criminal organization is and fears that it will kill her boyfriend if he's correct about the organization being a mob front.

BROKEN BLOSSOMS    1919     Dir D.W. Griffith
           

  105 mins USA B/W Silent

 Lillian Gish ...  Lucy Burrows (as Miss Lillian Gish)
 Richard Barthelmess ...  Cheng Huan (as Mr. Richard Barthelmess)
 Donald Crisp ...  Battling Burrows
 Arthur Howard ...  Burrows' manager
 Edward Peil Sr. ...  Evil Eye (as Edward Peil)
 George Beranger ...  The Spying One
 Norman Selby ...  A prizefighter
           

Young Lucy Battling lives under her father's iron rule. Out one day, she falls in love with Cheng Huan, newly arrived in London from China. This does not please her father, who attempts to break the bond by brute force. Cheng Huan is a missionary whose goal is to bring the teachings of peace by Buddha to the civilized Anglo-Saxons. Upon landing in England, he is quickly disillusioned by the intolerance and apathy of the country. He becomes a storekeeper of a small shop. Out his window, he sees the young Lucy Burrows. She is regularly beaten by her prizefighter father, underfed and wears ragged clothes. Even in this deplorable condition, Cheng can see that she is a priceless beauty and he falls in love with her from afar. On the day that she passes out in front of his store, he takes her in and cares for her. With nothing but love in his heart, he dresses her in silks and provides food for her. Still weak, she stays in his shop that night and all that Cheng does is watch over her. The peace and happiness that he sees last only until Battling Burrows finds out that his daughter is with a foreigner.

BOOTS AND SADDLES    1937 Dir Joseph Kane         

   58 mins USA B/W Sound

 Gene Autry ...  Gene Autry
 Smiley Burnette ...  Frog
 Judith Allen ...  Bernice Allen
 Ronald Sinclair ...  Spud aka Edward, Earl of Grandby (as Ra Hould)
 Guy Usher ...  Colonel Allen
 Bill Elliott ...  Jim Neale (as Gordon Elliott)
 John Ward ...  Henry 'Windy' Wyndham
 Frankie Marvin ...  Shorty
 Chris-Pin Martin ...  Greeter at fiesta (as Chris Martin)
 Stanley Blystone ...  Sergeant
 Bud Osborne ...  Henchman Larkins
           

When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
Boots and Saddles finds Gene Autry the foreman of a ranch that is inherited by young Ronald Sinclair, the Earl of Granville. His father owned the ranch and passed away and the son comes over from the United Kingdom. A lot of British folks came over and did buy property in the American west, the most known probably is Henry Tunstall, patron of Billy the Kid and who got killed in the Lincoln County War.
Anyway the young Earl under Gene's tutelage becomes a real cowboy, but the ranch has problems until Gene comes up with an idea to break and sell horses to the cavalry. Unfortunately Gordon Elliott also has the same idea and he's pretty ruthless about getting what he wants. Yes, that's the same Gordon Elliott who later became Wild Bill Elliott, a cowboy hero of no mean proportion later on.
Judith Allen plays the colonel's daughter and some of the romantic capers that she and Autry engage in is very similar to what later went on with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Smiley Burnette is around also for laughs because he certainly doesn't help Autry too much. He has some funny moments when he almost gets enlisted in the army after trying to locate Gene on the army post

BULLDOG DRUMMOND ESCAPES    1937   Dir James P. Hogan
           

   73 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ray Milland ...  Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
 Guy Standing ...  Inspector Col. Sir Reginald Nielson (as Sir Guy Standing)
 Heather Angel ...  Phyllis Clavering
 Reginald Denny ...  Algy Longworth
 Porter Hall ...  Norman Merridew
 Fay Holden ...  Natalie Merridew Seldon
 E.E. Clive ...  'Tenny' Tennison
 Walter Kingsford ...  'Professor' Stanton
 Patrick J. Kelly ...  Stiles, the butler
 Charles McNaughton ...  Chief Constable Higgins
 Clyde Cook ...  Constable Alf
 Frank Elliott ...  Bailey
 David Clyde ...  Gower
 Doris Lloyd ...  Nurse
           

Captain High 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England. As he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He misses her, but she falls to the ground. As he tries to revive her, he hears a shout for help, then gunshots. As he goes to investigate, the woman drives away with Drummond's car. He is soon able to trace her to nearby Greystone Manor, and when he goes there to meet her, she urges him to help her get out of a desperate situation.

CALL IT MURDER         1934    Dir Chester Erskine      

70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Sidney Fox ...  Stella Weldon
 O.P. Heggie ...  Edward Weldon
 Henry Hull ...  Nolan
 Margaret Wycherly ...  Mrs. Weldon
 Lynne Overman ...  Joe Biggers (as Lynn Overman)
 Katherine Wilson ...  Ada Biggers
 Richard Whorf ...  Arthur Weldon
 Humphrey Bogart ...  Gar Boni
 Granville Bates ...  Henry McGrath
 Cora Witherspoon ...  Elizabeth McGrath
 Moffat Johnston ...  Dist. Atty. Plunkett
 Henry O'Neill ...  Ingersoll (as Henry O'Neil)
 Helen Flint ...  Ethel Saxon
             

(Universal, 1934), directed by Chester Erskine, based on a stage play, is reproduced as such in this screen adaptation reportedly filmed and produced in New York City. Headed by Sidney Fox, in one of her final screen roles and last for Universal, she plays Stella, the daughter of Edward Weldon, a jury foreman (O.P. Heggie, the actor most famous today for his role as the blind hermit in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in 1935) at a trial where a woman, Ethel Saxon (Helen Flint) is accused of murdering a man who betrayed her. Because Weldon is solely responsible for the verdict that convicts Saxon to be later executed at midnight in the electric chair, his personal life changes dramatically. Weldon is not only hounded by reporters after the trial, particularly one named Nolan (Henry Hull, the future WEREWOLF OF London in 1935) who manages to be a guest at his home on the night of Saxon's execution, but he must stand firm with his decision regardless. Stella, who had become acquainted with a man at the trial named Garboni (Humphrey Bogart), becomes interested in him, unaware that he is a gangster, but learns about him later on in the story when she notices that he carries a gun. When Garboni finds himself having to be forced to leave town, Stella wants to go away with him, but he refuses to let her do so, but agrees on meeting her one last time before he goes. On the very night of Ethel Saxon's execution, Stella and Garboni have a farewell meeting in his car. As the switch is being pulled on Saxon, a gun shoots off on Garboni. Returning home to her father with the gun in her hand, Stella admits to shooting Garboni, which puts the old man into a real predicament as to what to do. Should he stand by his own merits and have his own daughter arrested for the crime, or find a way to violate the law and shield her?

CAPTAIN KIDD   1945     Dir Rowland V. Lee

  89 mins USA B/W Sound

 Charles Laughton ...  Capt. William Kidd
 Randolph Scott ...  Adam Mercy
 Barbara Britton ...  Lady Anne Dunstan
 John Carradine ...  Orange Povey
 Gilbert Roland ...  Jose Lorenzo
 John Qualen ...  Bart Blivens
 Sheldon Leonard ...  Cyprian Boyle
 William Farnum ...  Capt. Rawson
 Henry Daniell ...  King William III
 Reginald Owen ...  Cary Shadwell
           

In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats...and Orange Povey, whom Kidd once abandoned on a reef and hoped never to see again. Of course, Kidd's intentions are treacherous. But there's more to gunner Adam Mercy than meets the eye. 

CARSON CITY KID          1940      Dir JOSEPH KANE    

  57 mins USA B/W Sound

 Roy Rogers ...  The Carson City Kid
 George 'Gabby' Hayes ...  Marshal Gabby Whitaker
 Bob Steele ...  Lee Jessup
 Noah Beery Jr. ...  Scott 'Arizona' Warren
 Pauline Moore ...  Joby Madison
 Francis McDonald ...  Laramie (as Francis Macdonald)
 Wally Wales ...  Rick Harmon (as Hal Taliaferro)
 Arthur Loft ...  Saloon drunk
 George Rosener ...  Judge Tucker
 Chester Gan ...  Wong Lee
           

Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers, and not playing "himself" but playing a character named Roy Rogers), posing as The Carson City Kid, is seeking vengeance on Morgan Reynolds, the man who killed his brother. To find Reynolds in the gold towns, he systematically stops stagecoaches and goes through the mail, hoping to find letters addressed to Reynolds and thusly learn his whereabouts. Thus "The Kid" earns the reputation of a stagecoach robber, although he never takes anything, and the reputation is enhanced by the fact that he travels with Laramie (Francis McDonald), a notorious half-breed outlaw. A posse is about to capture them and Roy rides back to get Laramie whose horse has been shot, and Laramie repays the favor by slugging Roy and escaping on his horse Trigger. The posse rides by the unseen Roy and captures Laramie and, since he is riding the "Kid's" horse, take him to jail as being the "Kid." Laramie denies this and is told he will be free when he identifies the "Kid"; othewise he will hang. Roy rides into town, having deduced that the Morgan Reynolds he is looking for operates the Yellowback Saloon under the alias of "Lee Jessup" (Bob Steele) . As part of his plan to get evidence against Jessup, who also does not know his true identity, Roy takes a job as saloon shotgun guard, and meets saloon singer Joby Madison (Pauline Moore, in one of the truly great performances found in the B-western genre) and falls in love with her. This doesn't set well with Jessup, as he has plans of his own regarding Joby. Young gold miner Scott Warren (Noah Beery, Jr.), having hit his strike and heading for home with his fortune, comes into the Yellowback, talks too much about his stake, and is soon relieved of it in a crooked poker game by Jessup and friends. Scott, realizing he had been cheated, breaks into Jessup's office and, announcing he is the Carson City Kid, holds up Jessup henchman Harmon (Hal Taliaferro) and takes his gold and some letters and papers from the safe. Captured, he is taken before Laramie, who quickly identifies him as the "Kid" although he has never seen him before, in order to win the immunity promised him. Roy, masked as the Carson City Kid and speaking Spanish as the Kid did on the stage holdups, intervenes and at gunpoint, asks Jessup to identify what Scott has stolen from him. Besides the gold, Jessup unwittingly identifies as his own the latters and documents, which establish him as Morgan Reynolds. Reynolds meets justice and Roy is exonerated. ne fine little B-western with an excellent performance by George "Gabby" Hayes (as Sheriff Gabby Whittaker), before he had the character down as a sleep-walking exercise and was still revolving, and by, as mentioned, Pauline Moore, as a no-excuses heroine for being where she was doing what she did as a saloon entertainer.

CAT AND THE CANARY THE      1927      Dir Paul Leni

  84 mins USA B/W Silent

 Laura La Plante ...  Annabelle West
 Creighton Hale ...  Paul Jones
 Forrest Stanley ...  Charles 'Charlie' Wilder
 Tully Marshall ...  Roger Crosby
 Gertrude Astor ...  Cecily Young
 Flora Finch ...  Aunt Susan Sillsby
 Arthur Edmund Carewe ...  Harry Blythe (as Arthur Edmund Carew)
 Martha Mattox ...  Mammy Pleasant
 George Siegmann ...  The guard
 Lucien Littlefield ...  Dr. Ira Lazar
           

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT      1941   Dir Jean Yarbrough
             

   60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Henry Armetta ...  Mike Ripportella
 Iris Meredith ...  Lucy Ripportella
 Robert Baldwin ...  Jim Keene, reporter
 Charles F. Miller ...  Leonard Brandon, construction company president (as Charles Miller)
 Inez Palange ...  Mary Ripportella (as Ines Palange)
 Richard Terry ...  Henderson - extortion gangster (as Dick Terry)
 Joey Ray ...  Davis, extortion gangster
 Maxine Leslie ...  Fay Kingman, blonde bait
 William Newell ...  Police Sergeant Riley
           

A construction foreman named Mike (Armetta) who inherits a whole passel of headaches when he's promoted to salesman. Among these is a gang of crooks who make their living peddling "protection" to hapless building contractors. Before Mike is able to brings the villains to heel, he himself is tossed behind bars, much to the dismay of his long-suffering spouse Mary (Inez Palange).

CACTUS KID THE         1934   Dir Harry S Webb          

   56 mins USA B/W Sound

 Jack Perrin ...  Jack Durant
 Fred Humes ...  Jimmie Kane (as Fred Hume)
 Philo McCullough ...  Duncan
 Slim Whitaker ...  Killer Plug Perkins (as Charles Whitaker)
 Joe De La Cruz ...  Cheyenne the Halfbreed (as Joe de la Cruz)
 Jayne Regan ...  Beth Kane
 Tom London ...  Sheriff
 Kit Guard ...  Smiley, the waiter
 Tina Menard ...  Rosie
 Wally Wales ...  Cowhand Andy
 Starlight the Horse ...  Starlight, Jack Durant's Horse
           

After Jack and Jimmy get paid for delivering horses, Jimmy rides off to pay the hands. Plug Perkins gets Cheyenne to kill him but Cheyenne leaves a plate from his harmonica at the scene. Jack finds the plate and catches up with Cheyenne just as Perkins is about to shoot him. After saving Cheyenne's life, he has a plan that will trick Cheyenne into a confession
Perrin and his partner get paid a big sum of money at the end of their cattle drive. Shortly thereafter, the partner is found with a knife in his back and Perrin is blamed for the murder

CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT    1935     Dir Louis King
             

 72 mins USA B/W Sound

Warner Oland ...  Charlie Chan
 Pat Paterson ...  Carol Arnold
 Thomas Beck ...  Tom Evans, Archeologist
 Rita Hayworth ...  Nayda (as Rita Cansino)
 Jameson Thomas ...  Dr. Anton Racine
 Frank Conroy ...  Professor John Thurston
 Nigel De Brulier ...  Edfu Ahmad, Servant
 Paul Porcasi ...  Inspector Fouad Soueida
 Arthur Stone ...  Dragoman
 James Eagles ...  Barry Arnold, Carol's Brother
 Frank Reicher ...  Dr. Jaipur
 George Irving ...  Professor Arnold
 Anita Brown ...  Showshoes' Friend
 John Davidson ...  Chemist Daoud Atrash
 Stepin Fetchit ...  Snowshoes
           

When Egyptologists open the undisturbed tomb of powerful High Priest Ameti in the Valley of the Kings, the first digger peering inside the burial chamber dies suddenly, and later Professor Arnold, head of the expedition, vanishes mysteriously on a trip to the Upper Nile. When pieces of the excavated treasure begin to turn up on the antiquities black market, Charlie Chan is brought in by the expedition's underwriters, the French Archeaological Society, to investigate. While examining the inventory, Chan discovers that the mummy wrappings of the ancient priest contain the murdered body of the missing archaeologist. Among the suspects are Professor Thurston, who admits to surreptitiously selling the artifacts to pay for the expeditions continued support, Dr. Racine, who believes his financial contribution to the enterprise entitles him to a share of the treasure, Tom Evans, an archaeologist fired by Arnold, Snowshoes, a servant claiming to be descended from Ameti,and Edfu Ahmed, who still believes in the ancient deities and objects to the plunder of the tomb. Another murder and other attempted murders will occur before Chan reveals the identity and motive of the real killer.

CHANDU ON THE MAGIC ISLAND     1934      Dir  Ray Taylor
           

 62 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bela Lugosi ...  Frank Chandler (Chandu) (archive footage)
 Maria Alba ...  Princess Nadji (archive footage)
 Clara Kimball Young ...  Dorothy Regent (archive footage)
 Dean Benton ...  Bob Regent (archive footage)
 Phyllis Ludwig ...  Betty Regent (archive footage)
 Murdock MacQuarrie ...  The Voice of the Ubasti (archive footage)
 Wilfred Lucas ...  Capt. Walker (archive footage)
 Josef Swickard ...  Tyba (the White Magician) (archive footage)
 Jack Clark ...  Vitras (the high priest) (archive footage)
           

On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless... 

CONGORILLA   1932   Dir Martin E. Johnson / Osa Johnson

50 mins USA B/W Sound

Martin E. Johnson  
Osa Johnson
           

Congorilla was the first all-talkie effort from famed explorer-documentarians Martin and Osa Johnson. The title is what one reviewer called a "hybridization" of the Belgian Congo and the gorillas indigenous to the region. Enduring great hardships -- all of which are dutifully recorded on-screen -- Mr. and Mrs. Johnson journey deeper and deeper into the Congolese interior, at one point coming face to face (in a manner of speaking) with a hostile pygmy tribe. There is also a perilous boat journey across a river infested with hippopotami, one of whom nearly capsizes the Johnson's vessel. That Osa and Martin Johnson never let the facts get in the way of a good story is proven in one Congorilla vignette in which a charging rhinoceros is scared away by a well-aimed shot from Mrs. Johnson's rifle. This piquant little scene was actually lifted from the Johnsons' 1928 production Simba -- except in that film, it was made to appear that the rhino was killed! 

CRIMSON ROMANCE A   1934   Dir David Howard
             

60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ben Lyon ...  Bob Wilson
 Sari Maritza ...  Alida Hoffman
 Erich von Stroheim ...  Captain Wolters
 Hardie Albright ...  Hugo
 James Bush ...  Fred von Bergen
 William Bakewell ...  Adolph
 Herman Bing ...  Himmelbaum
 Bodil Rosing ...  Mama von Bergen
 Vince Barnett ...  The Courier
 Arthur Clayton ...  Baron von Eisenlohr
 Frederick Vogeding ...  German Colonel
 Oscar Apfel ...  John Fleming
 Purnell Pratt ...  Franklyn Pierce
 Jason Robards Sr. ...  Pierre (as Jason Robards)
 Wilhelm von Brincken ...  Von Gering (as William von Brincken
           

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?

CONVICTS CODE   1939  Dir Lambert Hillyer

61 mins USA B/W Sound

 Robert Kent ...  Dave Tyler
 Anne Nagel ...  Julie Warren
 Sidney Blackmer ...  Gregory Warren
 Victor Kilian ...  Bennett
 Norman Willis ...  Russell
 Maude Eburne ...  Mrs. Magruder
 Ben Alexander ...  Jeff Palmer
 Pat Flaherty ...  Sniffy
 Carleton Young ...  Pete Jennings
 Howard C. Hickman ...  Warden (as Howard Hickman)
 Joan Barclay ...  Elaine
 Harry Strang ...  Tom Lynch
             

Robert Kent plays a star football player who is framed by gamblers on a robbery charge and sentenced to prison. Serving three years behind bars, Kent is paroled in the custody of the same gambling boss (Sidney Blackmer) who engineered the frame. Unaware that his benefactor is also the guy who sent him up, Kent falls in love with the gambler's innocent sister Anne Nagel

CYPHER BUREAU  1938  Dir Charles Lamont

68 mins USA B/W Sound

 Leon Ames ...  Maj. Philip Waring
 Charlotte Wynters ...  Helen Lane
 Joan Woodbury ...  Therese Brahm
 Don Dillaway ...  Paul Waring
 Gustav von Seyffertitz ...  Albert Grood
 Tenen Holtz ...  Simon Herrick
 Walter Bonn ...  Anton Decker
 Si Wills ...  Lt. Clarke
 George Lynn ...  Lt. Tydall (as Peter Lynn)
 Jason Robards Sr. ...  Ellsworth
 Sidney Miller ...  Jimmy
 Hooper Atchley ...  Cmdr. Nash
 Robert Frazer ...  Paul's counsel
           

This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting and decoding secret messages. The protagonist must destroy a ring of thinly disguised German spies. The film contains a lot of interesting information about how codes are deciphered and other things such as the ways that broadcast music can contain secret codes. The spies on both sides get involved in a gun battle. The good guys save the day.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC            1950     DirMichael Gordon

112 mins USA B/W Sound

 José Ferrer ...  Cyrano de Bergerac
 Mala Powers ...  Roxane
 William Prince ...  Christian de Neuvillette
 Morris Carnovsky ...  Le Bret
 Ralph Clanton ...  Antoine Comte de Guiche
 Lloyd Corrigan ...  Ragueneau
 Virginia Farmer ...  Duenna
 Edgar Barrier ...  Cardinal (Richelieu)
 Elena Verdugo ...  Orange Girl
 Albert Cavens ...  Vicomte de Valvert
 Arthur Blake ...  Montfleury
 Don Beddoe ...  The Meddler
 Percy Helton ...  Bellerose
 Virginia Christine ...  Sister Marthe
 Gil Warren ...  Doctor
           

France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results

DANGER AHEAD  1935  Dir Ralph Staub
           

60 mins USA B/W Sound

 James Newill ...  Sgt. Renfrew
 Dorothea Kent ...  Genevieve
 Guy Usher ...  Inspector, RCMP
 Maude Allen ...  Mrs. Hill
 Harry Depp ...  Jones
 John Dilson ...  Thomas Hatch
 Al Shaw ...  Yorgeson
 Dave O'Brien ...  Corporal Kelly, RCMP
 Dick Rich ...  Maxwell
 Bob Terry ...  Gimpy
 Lester Dorr ...  Lefty
 Earl Douglas ...  Henchman Eggface
 David Sharpe ...  George Hill
           

The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell (Dick Rich), containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill (Dave Sharpe) suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve (Dorothea Kent), daughter of the Mountie chief (Guy Usher), suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch (John Dilson), president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car. Diving into the nearby lake, Renfrew and Kelly discover the missing car and Hill's body, and also finds the gold shipment is a fake. When Renfrew goes to arrest Maxwell and his cronies, they all escape in an armored car. The air brakes fail and the whole gang meets the same fate as the murdered driver

DANGEROUS LADY      1941     Dir        Bernard B. Ray

60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Neil Hamilton ...  Duke Martindel
 June Storey ...  Phyllis Martindel
 Douglas Fowley ...  Police Sergeant Brent
 Evelyn Brent ...  Hester Engle
 Greta Granstedt ...  Leila Bostwick
 Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart ...  Joe Link (as Ward McTaggart)
 Jack Mulhall ...  Jones, the Store Clerk
 John Holland ...  Guy Kisling
 Emmett Vogan ...  Doctor Grayson
 Terry Walker ...  Annie
 Kenneth Harlan ...  Dunlap
 Carl Stockdale ...  Judge Harding
 John Ince ...  Police Captain Newton
 Jimmy Aubrey ...  Manager
           

Neil Hamilton and June Storey star as private detective Duke Martindel and his lawyer wife Phyllis. Putting their heads together (which they seem to enjoy doing), Duke and Phyllis try to save Hester Engel (Evelyn Brent), the "dangerous lady" of the title who has been falsely accused of murder. Police detective Brent (Douglas Fowley) would prefer that the Martindels mind their own business, but even he has to admit that they're quicker on the clue-gathering and suspect-fingering than he is.

DREAM STREET     1921    Dir D.W. Griffith
             

 89 mins USA B/W Silent

 Carol Dempster ...  Gypsy Fair
 Charles Emmett Mack ...  Billy McFadden
 Ralph Graves ...  James Spike McFadden
 Edward Peil Sr. ...  Swan Way
 Tyrone Power Sr. ...  Street Preacher (as Tyrone Power)
 Morgan Wallace ...  Masked Violinist  William J. Ferguson ...  Gypsy's Father
 George Neville ...  Tom Chudder
 Charles Slattery ...  Police Inspector
 Porter Strong ...  Samuel Jones

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girlOn a character-filled street in London's squalid Limehouse district, the love of vivacious dance hall hostess Gypsy Fair (Carol Dempster), is competed for by local bully Spike McFadden (Ralph Graves) and his sensitive composer brother Billy (Charles Emmet Mack). An evil Chinese gambling den operator (Edward Piel) also lusts after the girl, and when his attempt at seduction fails, he tries to frame her for the murder of one of his employees.

DIARY OF A LOST GIRL     1929    Dir Georg Wilhelm Pabst

110 mins Germany B/W Silent

 Louise Brooks ...  Thymiane
 André Roanne ...  Count Nicolas Osdorff
 Josef Rovenský ...  Robert Henning
 Fritz Rasp ...  Meinert
 Vera Pawlowa ...  Aunt Frieda
 Franziska Kinz ...  Meta
 Arnold Korff ...  Elder Count Osdorff
 Andrews Engelmann ...  The director of the establishment
 Valeska Gert ...  The director's wife
 Edith Meinhard ...  Erika
 Sybille Schmitz ...  Elisabeth
 Sig Arno ...  Guest (as Siegfried Arno)
 Kurt Gerron ...  Dr. Vitalis
           

Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drown. That same day, her father already has a new governess named Meta. Meinert, downstairs druggist, takes advance of her and gets Thymiane pregnant. When she refuses to marry, her baby is taken from her and she is put into a strict girls reform school. When Count Osdorff is unable to get the family to take her back, he waits for her to escape. She escapes with a friend and the friend goes with the Count while she goes to see her baby. Thymiane finds that her baby is dead, and the Count has put both girls up at a brothel. When her father dies, Thymiane marries the Count and becomes a Countess, but her past and her hatred of Meta will come back to her.

DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME    1947    Dir John Rawlins

 65 mins USA B/W Sound

 Boris Karloff ...  Gruesome
 Ralph Byrd ...  Dick Tracy
 Anne Gwynne ...  Tess Truehart
 Edward Ashley ...  Dr. Lee Thal
 June Clayworth ...  Dr. I.M. Learned (Irma), Prof. Tomic's Assistant
 Lyle Latell ...  Pat Patton, Plainclothesman
 Tony Barrett ...  'Melody' Fiske
 Skelton Knaggs ...  X-Ray
 Jim Nolan ...  Dan Sterne, Newspaper Reporter
 Joseph Crehan ...  Chief Brandon
 Milton Parsons ...  Dr. A. Tomic, State U. Physicist
           

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

D.O.A.     1950 Dir Rudolph Maté

 83 mins USA B/W Sound

 Edmond O'Brien ...  Frank Bigelow
 Pamela Britton ...  Paula Gibson
 Luther Adler ...  Majak
 Beverly Garland ...  Miss Foster (as Beverly Campbell)
 Lynn Baggett ...  Mrs. Philips
 William Ching ...  Halliday
 Henry Hart ...  Stanley Philips
 Neville Brand ...  Chester
 Laurette Luez ...  Marla Rakubian
 Jess Kirkpatrick ...  Sam
 Cay Forrester ...  Sue
 Frank Jaquet ...  Dr. Matson (as Fred Jaquet)
 Lawrence Dobkin ...  Dr. Schaefer (as Larry Dobkin)
 Frank Gerstle ...  Dr. MacDonald
 Carol Hughes ...  Kitty
           

Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a "luminous toxin" with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer

DR. JECKYLL AND MR. HYDE   1918     Dir J. Charles Haydon

 60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Sheldon Lewis ...  Doctor Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
 Alex Shannon ...  Dr. Lanyon (as Alexander Shannon)
 Dora Mills Adams ...  Mrs. Lanyon
 Gladys Field ...  Bernice Lanyon
 Harold Foshay ...  Edward Utterson (as Harold Forshay)
 Leslie Austin ...  Danvers Carew

In this third version of the classic Stevenson novel filmed in 1920, Jekyll, dreaming he develops a potion which separates the good and evil sides of his personality, decides upon awaking that the consequences of his experiments are too dangerous and abandons them

DON Q SON OF ZORRO    1925     Dir Donald Crisp

 90 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro
 Mary Astor ...  Dolores de Muro
 Jack McDonald ...  Gen. de Muro
 Donald Crisp ...  Don Sebastian
 Stella De Lanti ...  The Queen
 Warner Oland ...  The Archduke Paul
 Jean Hersholt ...  Don Fabrique Borusta
 Albert MacQuarrie ...  Col. Matsado
 Lottie Pickford ...  Lola (as Lottie Pickford Forrest)
 Charles Stevens ...  Robledo
 Tote Du Crow ...  Bernardo
 Martha Franklin ...  The Duenna
 Juliette Belanger ...  The Dancer
 Roy Coulson ...  Dancer's Admirer
 Enrique Acosta ...  Ramon
           

Don Cesar de Vega, son of Zorro, is in Spain for his education. By way of education, he duels with Don Sebastian of the Queen's Guard (soon to be his rival for the hand of lovely Dolores de Muro), makes love, and befriends the visiting Archduke of Austria. But a quarrel ending in violence gives Don Sebastian the chance to dispose of his rival...by framing him for murder! Feigning suicide, Cesar escapes. Being a chip off the old block, a whip-wielding outlaw (this being his weapon rather than the sword) sets out to clear the name of Vega...

DOOMED TO DIE     1940            Dir William Nigh

 67 mins USA B/W Sound

 Boris Karloff ...  James Lee Wong
 Marjorie Reynolds ...  Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan
 Grant Withers ...  Capt. William 'Bill' Street (Homicide Squad)
 William Stelling ...  Dick Fleming
 Catherine Craig ...  Cynthia Wentworth
 Guy Usher ...  Paul Fleming (Dick's father)
 Henry Brandon ...  Victor 'Vic' Martin (attorney)
 Melvin Lang ...  Cyrus P. Wentworth
 Wilbur Mack ...  Matthews (Wentworth's assistant)
 Kenneth Harlan ...  Ludlow (chauffeur)
 Richard Loo ...  Tong leader
           

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer Only the possibility of avoiding a Tong War, plus persuasion by reporter Bobbie Logan (Marjorie Reynolds) leads the famous detective James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) to enter the Wentworth case. A million and a half dollars in bonds was taken from one of Cyrus P. Wentworth's (Melvin Lang) ship before it was mysteriously sunk and, shortly afterward, Wentworth was found murdered. The police, led by Detective Captain Bill Street (Grant Withers), suspect Dick Fleming (William Stelling), fiancee of Wentworth's daughter Cynthia (Catherine Craig). Wong clears Dick but has difficulty in finding the trail of the mysterious killer.

DOWN TO EARTH    1917          Dir John Emerson

 60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Billy Gaynor
 Eileen Percy ...  Ethel Forsythe
 Gustav von Seyffertitz ...  Dr. Jollyem
 Charles McHugh ...  Dr. Samm
 Charles K. Gerrard ...  Charles Riddles - Ethel's Lover
 William H. Keith ...  Mr. Carter
 Ruth Allen ...  Mrs. Fuller Jermes
 Fred Goodwins ...  Jordan Jinny
 Florence Mayon ...  Mrs. Phattison Oiles
 Herbert Standing ...  Mr. S.D. Dyspeptic
 David Porter ...  Mr. Coffin
 Bull Montana ...  Wild Man
           

A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on a boat ride, then get them stranded in the wilderness, where he can show them that they can live without their pills, doctors and "cures".  Hypochondriac

DRUMS OF THE DESERT          1940       Dir George Waggner

 68 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ralph Byrd ...  Paul Dumont
 Lorna Gray ...  Helene Laroche
 George Lynn ...  Captain Jean Bridaux (as George Peter Lynn)
 Willy Castello ...  Addullah (as William Castello)
 Mantan Moreland ...  Sergeant 'Blue' Williams
 Jean Del Val ...  Colonel Fouchet (as Jean Del-Val)
 Ann Codee ...  Mme. Fouchet (as Ann Codeé)
 Boyd Irwin ...  Captain Andre
 Neyle Morrow ...  Ben Ali (as Neyle Marx)
 Alberto Morin ...  Hassan (as Albert Morin)
 Jack Chefe ...  Steward (as Jack Chefé)
 Bud Harrison ...  Bobo
           

On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont (Ralph Byrd) meets the beautiful Helene (Lorna Gray) on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helene is the fiancee of his best friend and fellow officer Raoul (Peter George Lynn.) Raoul is wounded during an Arab attack and the wedding is postponed, and Helene and Paul are thrown together and find it impossible to hide their feelings. The meet in the tent of Hassan (Alberto Morin), a fortune teller, not knowing the tent is a storage place for arms and ammunition belonging to Abdullah (William Castello), an Arab leader determined to avenge the death of his brother Ben Ali (Neyle Marx).

DUBARRY WOMAN OF PASSION   1930    Dir Sam Taylor

 90 mins USA B/W Sound

 Norma Talmadge ...  Madame Du Barry
 William Farnum ...  Louis XV
 Conrad Nagel ...  Cosse de Brissac
 Hobart Bosworth ...  Duc de Brissac
 Ullrich Haupt ...  Jean Du Barry
 Alison Skipworth ...  La Gourdan
 E. Alyn Warren ...  Denys
 Edgar Norton ...  Renal
Edwin Maxwell ...  Maupeou
 Henry Kolker ...  D'Aiguillon
           

This drama chronicles the rise of a famous Madame from casino hostess to king's mistress. Her story begins as she is being fished from a pond by her future lover. Next she is seen as a hostess in the gambling house. She then becomes the King's mistress. Meanwhile she continues to carry on with her first love. They are together until death.

DYNAMITE DAN   1924    Dir Bruce M. Mitchell

60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Kenneth MacDonald ...  Dynamite Dan McLeod
 Frank Rice ...  Boss
 Boris Karloff ...  Tony Garcia
 Eddie Harris ...  Sherlock Jones
 Diana Alden ...  Helen Havens
 Harry Woods ...  Brute Lacy
 Jack Richardson ...  Spike Moran
 Emily Gerdes ...  Toodles
 Jack Waltemeyer ...  Tim O'Rourke
 Max Asher  (as Max Ascher)
 Carrie Daumery ...  The Principal
 Mrs. Harold Lockwood ...  Teacher
 
When fast-fisted Dan McLeod decks his boss at the freight company, the shop foreman, Tony Garcia, sends all the other employees out to chase him down. While everyone's attention is diverted, Garcia robs the company safe and fingers Dan for the crime. Now a fugitive, Dan finds work as an athletic director at the boarding school where his young sweetheart, Helen, is enrolled. One afternoon, Helen is accosted by two thugs, and Dan brings his flying fists to the rescue, unwittingly knocking out boxing star "Brute" Lacy. The fallen pro's ex-manager hires Dan and promises to make him a champ, arranging a real match between newly-named "Dynamite" Dan and an angry Lacy. As Dan prepares for his bout with the "Brute", Helen fends off the sleazy advances of Tony Garcia, who she suspects of framing her beau for robbery. But even Dynamite's fists can't be in two places at once!
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EAGLE THE      1925     Dir Clarence Brown

80 mins USA B/W Silent

 Rudolph Valentino ...  Lt. Vladimir Dubrovsky, aka The Black Eagle and Marcel Le Blanc
 Vilma Bánky ...  Miss Mascha Troekouroff (as Vilma Banky)
 Louise Dresser ...  The Czarina, Catherine II
 Albert Conti ...  Captain Kuschka
 James A. Marcus ...  Kyrilla Troekouroff (as James Marcus)
 George Nichols ...  Judge
 Carrie Clark Ward ...  Aunt Aurelia
Michael Pleschkoff ...  Captain Kuschka of the Cossack Guard     

Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha Bandit

FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER    1949          Dir Ivan Barnett

  70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Gwen Watford ...  Lady Usher
 Kay Tendeter ...  Lord Roderick Usher
 Irving Steen ...  Jonathan
 Vernon Charles ...  Dr. Cordwall
 Connie Goodwin ...  Louise
 Gavin Lee ...  The Butler
 Keith Lorraine ...  George
 Lucy Pavey ...  The Hag
 Tony Powell-Bristow ...  Richard
 Robert Wolard ...  Greville
           

A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

FAREWELL TO ARMS A    1932     Dir Frank Borzage 

 78 mins USA B/W Sound

 Helen Hayes ...  Catherine Barkley
 Gary Cooper ...  Lieutenant Frederic Henry
 Adolphe Menjou ...  Major Rinaldi
 Mary Philips ...  Helen Ferguson
 Jack La Rue ...  Priest
 Blanche Friderici ...  Head Nurse
 Mary Forbes ...  Miss Van Campen
 Gilbert Emery ...  British Major
           

A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyses Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting

FAREWELL TO FAME    1942   Dir Jean Yarbrough

 61 mins USA B/W Sound

 Claudia Drake ...  Maria Brandt
 Wolfgang Zilzer ...  Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (as Paul Andor)
 Donald Woods ...  Dr. Hans Traeger, MD
 H.B. Warner ...  Colonel Eberhart Brandt
 Sigrid Gurie ...  Magda Quandt
 Ralph Morgan ...  Mr. Quandt
 Gloria Stuart ...  Bertha
 Robert Barrat ...  Wallburg the Publisher
 Beryl Wallace ...  Jenny Hartmann
 Byron Foulger ...  Krause, Brown Shirt
 Lester Dorr ...  Hanussen the Medium
 Crane Whitley ...  Hanke, Gobbels' Secretary
 Charles Halton ...  Uncle Hugo, Radio Performer
 Marin Sais ...  Frau Bendler
           

Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland and Keye Luke in the tale of a college rowing team. It seems that the new guy and hope for the team to win the state championship has been drafted. Not wanting to let the girls down the boys end up getting a guy off the street to pretend to be the great new rower at a party. Unfortunately now that "Herc" has a taste for college life he won't leave and now its up to the guys to get him through classes and to make him into a great

FAUST             1926     Dir F.W. Murnau

 125 mins USA B/W Silent

 Gösta Ekman ...  Faust
 Emil Jannings ...  Mephisto
 Camilla Horn ...  Gretchen / Marguerite
 Frida Richard ...  Gretchens Mutter / Marguerite's mother
William Dieterle ...  Valentin: Gretchens Bruder / Marguerite's brother (as Wilhelm   Dieterle)
 Yvette Guilbert ...  Marthe Schwerdtlein: Gretchens Tante / Marguerite's aunt
 Eric Barclay ...  Herzog von Parma / Duke of Parma
 Hanna Ralph ...  Herzogin von Parma / Duchess of Parma
 Werner Fuetterer ...  Erzengel / Archangel
           

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he's bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?

FEAR IN THE NIGHT      1942    Dir Maxwell Shane

 72 mins USA B/W Sound

 Paul Kelly ...  Cliff Herlihy
 DeForest Kelley ...  Vince Grayson
 Ann Doran ...  Lil Herlihy
 Kay Scott ...  Betty Winters
 Charles Victor ...  Captain Warner
 Robert Emmett Keane ...  Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd
 Jeff York ...  Deputy Torrence (as Jeff Yorke)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
 Joey Ray ...  Contractor (scenes deleted)
 Loyette Thomson ...  Waitress (scenes deleted)
           

Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story...until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?

FEDERAL FUGITIVES       1941     Dir William Beaudine

 66 mins USA B/W Sound

 Neil Hamilton ...  Captain JamesMadison - posing as Robert Edmunds
 Doris Day ...  Rita Bennett
 Victor Varconi ...  Otto Lieberman - posing as Dr. Frederic Haskell
 Charles C. Wilson ...  Bruce Lane (as Charles Wilson)
 George M. Carleton ...  Henry Gregory
 Frank Shannon ...  Colonel Hammond
 Lyle Latell ...  Chuck - Chauffer / Valet
 Betty Blythe ...  Marcia - Lane's Sister
 Gerald Oliver Smith ...  Hobbs - Lane's Butler
 Frank Moran ...  Ox - Chuck's Pal
           

Spotting a man in Washington D.C. that he thinks looks like Otto Lieberman, a fugitive that caused a plane crash that killed eight people, government-agent James Madison manages to identify him by his fingerprints on a water-glass without Lieberman's knowledge, and learns his address after having his regular cab-driver, Chuck, follow him. Lieberman is now calling himself Dr. Frederic Haskell and working with Bruce Lane on a scheme to gain control of Henry Gregory's aircraft plant. Gregory has invented a casting-process that uses plastic for some of the parts in an airplane. Gregory was not building "all-plastic" airplanes. Learning the Lieberman and Lane have met with Gregory, Madison also meets him and asks that he be introduced to them as Robert Edmunds, Gregory's partner in Los Angeles. Lane is a shady-lobbyist who employs Rita Bennett, who is not an operative for a spy ring, on a part-time basis to flatter and distract politicians and businessmen. Rita is a good girl at heart moonlighting between singing gigs. Madison has digestion problems and pops sodium-meth pills like they were candy and Lieberman, once he learns that Madison is a government agent, slips a poison one in his pill bottle that will cure his digestive-problems forever. Rita is on her way to warn him when she jaywalks across the street and gets hit by a car, and is taken to a hospital, while Madison is wandering around Baltimore, playing Russian-roulette with his pills, while looking for the German-agent and his Russian and Portugese pals

FEET FIRST     1930      Dir Clyde Bruckman

 88 mins USA B/W Sound

 Harold Lloyd ...  Harold Horne
 Barbara Kent ...  Barbara
 Robert McWade ...  John Quincy Tanner
 Lillian Leighton ...  Mrs. Tanner
 Henry Hall ...  Endicott
 Alec B. Francis ...  Mr. Carson, old-timer
 Noah Young ...  Sailor
 Arthur Housman ...  Drunken clubman
 Willie Best ...  Janitor (as Sleep 'n' Eat)
 Nick Copeland ...  Man arguing with friend
 James Finlayson ...  Painter
 Buster Phelps ...  Little boy
 Leo Willis ...  Truck driver
           

Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding

FLIRTING WITH FATE    1916    Dir Christy Cabanne

 60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Augy Holliday
 W.E. Lawrence ...  Harry, Augy's Friend
 Jewel Carmen ...  Gladys, the Girl
 Dorothy Haydel ...  Phyllis, Her Chum
 George Beranger ...  Automatic Joe
 J.P. McCarty ...  The Detective
             

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. plays a struggling artist whose heart is broken when his sweetheart Jewel Carmen is promised in marriage to someone else. The woebegone Fairbanks decides he has nothing left to live for, but he isn't up to committing suicide; thus, he hires a professional killer to do the deed. When Fairbanks inherits a million dollars, Carmen's parents suddenly decide that he's worthy of their daughter's hand. The trick now is to call off the hired assassin—who is nowhere to be found!

FLYING BLIND  1941   Dir Frank McDonald

 65 mins USA B/W Sound

 Richard Arlen ...  Jim Clark
 Jean Parker ...  Shirley Brooks
 Nils Asther ...  Eric Karolek
 Marie Wilson ...  Veronica Gimble
 Roger Pryor ...  Rocky Drake
 Eddie Quillan ...  Riley
 Dick Purcell ...  Bob Fuller
 Grady Sutton ...  Chester Gimble
 Kay Sutton ...  Miss Danila
 Charlotte Henry ...  Corenson's secretary
 Joseph Crehan ...  Nunnally
 William Hall ...  Lew West (test pilot)
 Dwight Frye ...  Leo Qualen
 James Seay ...  Dave (Las Vegas dispatcher)
           

A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire
The plot shifts into melodramatic gear when Clark is forced to deal with a gang of foreign spies, determined to steal a new transformer designed for American fighter planes. A wild and largely impossible airborne chase brings this one to a rousing conclusion.

FLYING DEUCES     1939   Dir A. Edward Sutherland

 65 mins USA B/W Sound

 Stan Laurel ...  Stan
 Oliver Hardy ...  Ollie Hardy
 Jean Parker ...  Georgette
 Reginald Gardiner ...  François
Jean Del Val ...  Sergeant
 James Finlayson ...  Jailor
 Charles Middleton ...  Commandant
 Crane Whitley ...  Corporal (as Clem Wilenchick)
           

In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker). At Stan's prodding, Ollie pops the question to Georgette, who gently refuses because there is Someone Else. Disconsolately, Ollie decides to commit suicide by jumping into the Seine, insisting that Stan join him in his plunge to oblivion. The boys are halted from this drastic action by the timely arrival of Francois (Reginald Gardiner), an officer in the French Foreign Legion. Francois convinces Stan and Ollie that they'll forget all about Ollie's lost love if they join the Legion, and within a few days our heroes are in uniform at an outpost in French Morocco, where they are promptly assigned to laundry detail. Alas, try as he might, Ollie can't forget his beloved Georgette-until Stan suggests that he pretend to forget so that they can get back in their own clothes and head home. This Ollie does, but not before accidentally setting fire to a mountain of laundry. After leaving behind a rather nasty letter of resignation for their scowling commandant (Charles Middleton), Stan and Ollie pack their bags and head for the airport-where Ollie is reunited with Georgette, who turns out to be the wife of their commanding officer Francois! Sentenced to death for desertion, the boys tunnel their way out of their jail cell and hide out in an airplane, which Stan accidentally sends into flight. After a wild and noisy ride, the plane crashes, leading to the flm's hilarious-and somehow touching—"freak" ending

FIGHTING TO LIVE        1934    Dir Edward F. Cline

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Captain the Police Dog ...  Captain
 Lady the Police Dog ...  Lady
 Marion Shilling ...  Mary Carson
 Steve Pendleton ...  John Z. Blake (as Gaylord Pendleton)
 Reb Russell ...  Reb
 Eddie Phillips ...  Joe Gilmore
 Lloyd Ingraham ...  Judge Simmons
 Henry Hall ...  Endicott
 John Ince ...  Bailiff
 Ted Stroback ...  Stearns
 Bruce Mitchell ...  Replaced by Carpenter
           

When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial. this dog melodrama featured not one but two canine "stars," — Captain and Lady. Mistreated and left to die in the desert by evil real-estate agent Joe Gilmore (Eddie Phillips), the dogs are forced to raid the local henhouses for food. Chased into the wilderness by a farmer (Bruce Mitchell), Captain later saves young lawyer John Z. Blake (Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton) from drowning in the river. Blake repays the gesture by successfully defending the dogs in a court trial

FOG ISLAND    1945     Dir Terry O. Morse      

 72 mins USA B/W Sound

George Zucco ...  Leo Grainger
 Lionel Atwill ...  Alec Ritchfield
 Jerome Cowan ...  John Kavanaugh
 Sharon Douglas ...  Gail
 Veda Ann Borg ...  Sylvia Jordan
 John Whitney ...  Jeff Kingsley
 Jacqueline deWit ...  Emiline Bronson (as Jacqueline DeWit)
 Ian Keith ...  Dr. Lake
 George Lloyd ...  Allerton the Butler
           

Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.

FOOLISH WIVES   1921   Dir Erich von Stroheim

90 mins USA B/W Silent

 Rudolph Christians ...  Andrew J. Hughes (U.S. Special-Envoy to Monaco)
 Miss DuPont ...  Helen Hughes, his wife
 Maude George ...  Her Highness Olga Petchnikoff
 Mae Busch ...  Princess Vera Petchnikoff
 Erich von Stroheim ...  Their Cousin, Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin (Capt. 3rd        Hussars  Imper. Russian Army)
 Dale Fuller ...  Maruschka, a Maid
 Al Edmundsen ...  Pavel Pavlich, a Butler
 Cesare Gravina ...  Cesare Ventucci, a Counterfeiter
 Malvina Polo ...  Marietta, his half-witted daughter (as Malvine Polo)
 C.J. Allen ...  Albert 1., Prince of Monaco
           

A Russian emigre leases a villa near Monte Carlo after WWI, and poses as a count in order to take advantage of women, with the aid of two of his mistresses pretending to be his cousins, attempts to swindle unsuspecting women and citizens in Monte Carlo. They hatch a scheme to ingratiate themselves with the American ambassador and his gullible wife. Mrs. Hughes wants some excitement, and he seduces her. While the Count relates his sob story about needing 90,000 francs to Mrs. Hughes, the maid in jealousy sets the house on fire. Both escape the flames, but the Count does not escape his just desserts.

FORLORN RIVER    1937   Dir Charles Barton

 56 mins USA B/W Sound

 Buster Crabbe ...  Nevada (as Larry Crabbe)
 June Martel ...  Ina Blaine
 Harvey Stephens ...  Les Setter
 John Patterson ...  Ben Ide
 Syd Saylor ...  'Weary' Pierce
 William Duncan ...  Blaine
 Ray Bennett ...  Henchman Bill (as Raphael Bennett)
 Ruth Warren ...  Millie the cook
 Lew Kelly ...  Sheriff Jim Henry
 Chester Conklin ...  Sheriff Alec Grundy
 Barlowe Borland ...  'Dad', the Bank Cashier
 Larry Lawrence ...  Ed
 Lee Powell ...  Henchman Duke
 Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian ...  Sam (as Oscar G. Hendrian)
           

Visiting an old friend, Nevada and sidekick Weary take jobs on a ranch rounding up horses. But the buyer turns out to be Les Setter, a man Nevada earlier caught robbing a bank. Nevada knows Setter is a fake but bides his time waiting for Setter to make his move. Setter knows this and Nevada soon finds himself in jail when Setter frames him for rustling

FRONT PAGE THE    1931         Dir Lewis Milestone

 103 mins USA B/W Sound

 Adolphe Menjou ...  Walter Burns
 Pat O'Brien ...  Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson
 Mary Brian ...  Peggy Grant
 Edward Everett Horton ...  Roy V. Bensinger
 Walter Catlett ...  Jimmy Murphy (as Walter L. Catlett)
 George E. Stone ...  Earl Williams
 Mae Clarke ...  Molly Malloy
 Slim Summerville ...  Irving Pincus
 Matt Moore ...  Ernie Kruger
 Frank McHugh ...  'Mac' McCue
 Clarence Wilson ...  Sheriff Peter B. 'Pinky' Hartman (as Clarence H. Wilson)
 Fred Howard ...  Schwartz (as Freddie Howard)
 Phil Tead ...  Wilson
 Eugene Strong ...  Endicott (as Gene Strong)
 Spencer Charters ...  Woodenshoes
           

Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. However, Walter Burns, the Post's editor, is slow to repay Hildy back, hoping that he will stay on the story. Getting a major scoop looks possible when Hildy stumbles onto the bewildered escapee and hides him in a roll-top desk in the press room. Burns shows up to help. Can they keep Williams' whereabouts secret long enough to get the scoop, especially with the Sheriff and other reporters hovering around?

FLASH GORDON - ROCKET SHIP     1939         Dir Frederick Stephani

 75 mins USA B/W Sound

 Buster Crabbe ...  Flash Gordon (archive footage)
 Jean Rogers ...  Dale Arden (archive footage)
 Charles Middleton ...  Ming the Merciless (archive footage)
 Priscilla Lawson ...  Princess Aura (archive footage)
 Frank Shannon ...  Dr. Hans Zarkov (archive footage)
 Richard Alexander ...  Prince Barin (archive footage)
 Jack 'Tiny' Lipson ...  King Vultan (archive footage)
 James Pierce ...  King Thun (archive footage)
 Theodore Lorch ...  Second High Priest (archive footage)
 Earl Askam ...  Officer Torch (archive footage)
 Richard Tucker ...  Professor Gordon (archive footage)
 George Cleveland ...  Professor Henson (archive footage)
Lynton Brent ...  Transcontinental Pilot (archive footage)
 Lane Chandler ...  Ming Guard (archive footage)
 William Desmond ...  Hawkmen Lookout Captain (archive footage)
 Al Ferguson ...  Spaceograph Technician (archive footage)
 Fred Kohler Jr. ...  Robot / Ming Soldier (archive footage)
 Charles McMurphy ...  Atom Furnace Slavedriver (archive footage)
 Bull Montana ...  Monkey Man (archive footage)
 Lon Poff ...  First High Priest (archive footage)
 Sana Rayya ...  Priestess of the Tigron (archive footage)
 Constantine Romanoff ...  Monkey Man (archive footage)
 Glenn Strange ...  Robot / Ming Soldier / Gocko (archive footage)
 Harry Wilson ...  Ugly Ming Sentry (archive footage)
             

Flash, Zarkov and Dale travel through space to the planet Mongo to prevent Ming the Merciless from destroying the Earth. Flash enlists the aid of King Tvun and his Lion Men and fights the dragon-like "Gocko." Prince Barin of the Forest People and King Vultan of the Hawk Men join Flash fighting Ming. Amazing science fiction at a time when the largest rocket was still firecracker-sized and television was a laboratory curiosity.

GENTLEMAN FROM DIXIE     1941      Dir Albert Herman

 62 mins USA B/W Sound

 Jack La Rue ...  Thad Terrill
 Marian Marsh ...  Margaret Terrill
 Clarence Muse ...  Jupe
 Mary Ruth ...  Betty Jean Terrill
 Robert Kellard ...  Lance Terrill
 John Holland ...  Brawley
 Lillian Randolph ...  Aunt Eppie
 John Elliott ...  Prosecutor
 Herbert Rawlinson ...  Prison Warden
I. Stanford Jolley ...  Kirkland
 Joe Hernandez ...  Race Announcer
 Phyllis Barry ...  Secretary
 Clarence Muse Singers ...  Singers
 Mist-a-Shot the Horse ...  Mist-a-Shot

Across the lives of three people falls the shadow of a wanderer whose secret past hand made him a marked man...a reckless devil who finds that the woman he hates rules the destiny of the child he loves!an innocent ex-con, Thad Terrill (Jack La Rue), who goes to live with his handsome brother Lance (Robert Kellard), Lance's pretty wife, Margaret (Marian Marsh) and Lance's talented young pianist daughter (from his first marriage), Betty Jean (Mary Ruth). The villain of the story winds up being a friend of the family, Brawley (John Holland), who wants to buy Betty Jean's favorite horse to race it at the tracks with. Workers on the Terrill property are Jupe (Clarence Muse), Aunt Eppie (Lillian Randolph) and a group of others (Clarence Muse Singers).

GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE      1943       Dir William Beaudine  

 65 mins USA B/W Sound

 Leo Gorcey ...  Mugs
 Huntz Hall ...  Glimpy Williams
 Bobby Jordan ...  Danny
 Bela Lugosi ...  Emil
 Ava Gardner ...  Betty Williams Gibson
 Rick Vallin ...  Jack Gibson
 Ernest Morrison ...  Scruno (as Sammy Morrison)
 William 'Billy' Benedict ...  Skinny Benny (as Billy Benedict)
 Stanley Clements ...  Stash
 Bobby Stone ...  Rocky Dave
 Minerva Urecal ...  Hilda - Emil's Housekeeper
 Wheeler Oakman ...  Tony - Emil's Henchman
 Peter Seal ...  Bruno - Emil's Chauffeur
 Frank Moran ...  Monk - Emil's Servant
 Jack Mulhall ...  Police Lieutenant Brady

Glimpy's surprisingly beautiful sister is getting married to Jack, a young engineer, and moving to a 'bargain' suburban house neither has ever seen. During the honeymoon, the East Side Kids decide to fix up the house for the newlyweds...but mistakenly pick the 'haunted' house next door, which is occupied by some mysterious live men, dodging in and out of secret panels and clearly up to no good

GHOST PATROL    1936     Dir Sam Newfield

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Tim McCoy ...  Tim Caverly
 Claudia Dell ...  Natalie Brent
 Walter Miller ...  Ted Dawson
 Wheeler Oakman ...  Kincaid
 James P. Burtis ...  Henry Brownlee (as Jimmy Burtis)
 Lloyd Ingraham ...  Prof. Jonathan Brent
 Dick Curtis ...  Henchie Charlie
           

A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted outlaw. So he assumes that identity to force Dawson to make him a partner. But just as a plane bringing Tim help is arriving, his true identity is revealed and while he is a prisoner, Dawson forces the Professor to start his machine A professor invents a radium tube that makes internal combustion engines stop running. He and his invention are captured by a gang of robbers. A federal agent is sent to rescue him

GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL           1929    Dir John W. Harkrider

 87 mins USA B/W Sound

 Millard Webb    Mary Eaton ...  Gloria Hughes
 Dan Healy ...  Danny Miller
 Kaye Renard ...  Mooney, Danny's Partner
 Edward Crandall ...  Buddy Moore
 Gloria Shea ...  Barbara, Heimer's Dept. Store Clerk (as Olive Shea)
 Sarah Edwards ...  Mrs. Hughs, Gloria's Mom
 Eddie Cantor ...  Himself (Revue Scenes)
 Helen Morgan ...  Herself
 Rudy Vallee ...  Himself (Revue Scenes)
 Noah Beery ...  Himself
 Irving Berlin ...  Himself
Billie Burke ...  Herself
 Charles B. Dillingham ...  Himself
 Texas Guinan ...  Herself
 Otto Kahn ...  Himself (Big Shot Banker)
 Ring Lardner ...  Himself
 Jimmy Walker ...  Himself
Johnny Weissmuller ...  Adonis (segment "Loveland")
 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ...  Himself
 Adolph Zukor ...  Himself
 
Gloria, Barabara and Buddy are working at the sheet music counter in a New York department store. On a trip of the whole store, Gloria, who's in love with Buddy, is spotted by vaudeville hoofer Miller, whom his partner Mooney, like her predecessors, has just left. Miller tours with Gloria and both are spotted by Ziegfeld's talent scouts, just before they were splitting up, leaving Gloria with a contract giving Miller a part of her earnings in the next few years. Gloria becomes the star of a new Ziegfeld production, but Barbara, who has been pining for buddy for quite a while, seems to have more luck with him.

GOLD RACKET THE    1938    Dir Louis J. Gasnier

 64 mins USA B/W Sound

 Conrad Nagel ...  Alan O'Connor
 Eleanor Hunt ...  Bobbie Reynolds
 Fuzzy Knight ...  Scotty Summers
 Frank Milan ...  Steve Williams
 Jack Duffy ...  Hinkle
 Albert J. Smith ...  Fraser
 Warner Richmond ...  Doc Johnson
 Charles Delaney ...  Joe
 Karl Hackett ...  Lefty
 William L. Thorne ...  McKenzie
 Edward LeSaint ...  FBI Agent Dixon
           

The third in a series of four "G-Man" films produced by George A. Hirliman's Concord Productions for Grand National release finds smugglers have found that smuggling gold from Mexico has become a lucrative racket since the United States went off of the gold standard. McKenzie (William L. Thorne) and his gang operating from the Los Morados mine are sailing high until they happen to kill two federal agents and the Department of Justice sends in ace operative Alan O'Connor (Conrad Nagel) to find the killers and break up the gold traffic. He traces specimens of the precious metal to have come from the Los Morados mine, and sets off for Mexico. There he meets aviator Steve Williams (Frank Milan), who pays his saloon bills with gold nuggets. Alan persuades the proprietor of the Tarentella Cafe to add another entertainer to his staff, and then wires Washington to send Operative No. 37, Bobbie Reynolds (Eleanor Hunt), his sweetheart. (Nice work if you can get it.) O'Connor finds a map in Steve's room showing the American headquarters of the gang to be a mine near Winston, California, and he leaves Bobbie and heads there. He is recognized and followed when he arrives. Bobbie follows him by train. O'Connor has gone to the landing field with other agents to trap the in-coming Steve with his load of Mexican gold, but members of the gang are holding Bobbie captive in an old mine shaft.

GO WEST      1925       Dir Buster Keaton        

 70 mins USA B/W Silent

 Buster Keaton ...  Friendless
 Howard Truesdale ...  Ranch owner
 Kathleen Myers ...  Ranch owner's daughter
 Ray Thompson ...  Ranch foreman
 Brown Eyes ...  The Cow 'Brown Eyes'
           

A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows

GUEST IN THE HOUSE    1944   Dir John Brahm

 120 mins USA B/W Sound

 Anne Baxter ...  Evelyn Heath
 Ralph Bellamy ...  Douglas Proctor
 Aline MacMahon ...  Aunt Martha
 Ruth Warrick ...  Ann Proctor
 Scott McKay ...  Doctor Dan Proctor
 Marie McDonald ...  Miriam
 Jerome Cowan ...  Mr. Hackett
 Margaret Hamilton ...  Hilda, the Maid
 Percy Kilbride ...  John, the Butler
 Connie Laird ...  Lee Proctor
           

A sort of psychological Gothic melodrama Hollywood discovered in the early '40s, usually films based on equally melodramatic stage plays. (Think "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" or "Uncle Harry" or "Ladies in Retirement"). But it's a very stage-bound version of a talky Broadway play and ANNE BAXTER had not yet refined her acting technique, in the role of a psychotic who enjoyed manipulating the lives of everyone around her

GULLIVERS TRAVELS    1939   Dir Dave Fleischer

 74 mins USA COLOUR Sound

 Willard Bowsky

 Jessica Dragonette ...  Princess Glory (singing voice)
 Lanny Ross ...  Prince David (singing voice)
           

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

GUNG HO         1943     Dir Ray Enright

 77 mins USA B/W Sound

 Randolph Scott ...  Colonel Thorwald
 Alan Curtis ...  John Harbison
 Noah Beery Jr. ...  Cpl. Kurt Richter
 J. Carrol Naish ...  Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos
 Sam Levene ...  Leo 'Transport' Andreof
 David Bruce ...  Larry O'Ryan
 Richard Lane ...  Captain Dunphy
 Walter Sande ...  'Gunner' McBride
 Louis Jean Heydt ...  Lieutenant Roland Browning
 Robert Mitchum ...  'Pig-Iron' Matthews
 Rod Cameron ...  Rube Tedrow
 Grace McDonald ...  Kathleen Corrigan
 Milburn Stone ...  Cmdr. Blake
 Peter Coe ...  Kozzarowski
 Harold Landon ...  Frankie Montana
           

Seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. The men selected come from different walks of life but have toughness in common. Under command of Colonel 'Thorwald', they're trained in all imaginable forms of combat. Then, after a perilous submarine journey, they face a daunting first mission: to annihilate the much larger Japanese garrison on Makin Island, in a lengthy battle sequence.

GYPSY BLOOD (CARMEN)     1918        Dir Ernst Lubitsch        

 90 mins USA B/W Silent

 Harry Liedtke ...  Don José Novarro
 Pola Negri ...  Carmen
 Leopold von Ledebur ...  Escamillo
 Paul Biensfeldt ...  Garcia
 Paul Conradi ...  Don Cairo
 Wilhelm Diegelmann ...  Gefängniswärter
 Grete Diercks ...  Dolores
 Victor Janson  
 Max Kronert ...  Remendato
 Margarete Kupfer ...  Carmens Wirtin
 Sophie Pagay ...  Don Josés Mutter
 Heinrich Peer ...  Englischer Offizier
 Magnus Stifter ...  Leutnant Esteban
           

A stirring love tale of Old Spain. Based on the original French version of Prosper Merimee's "Carmen" The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.

HAIRTRIGGER CASEY    1936    Dir Harry L fraser       

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Jack Perrin ...  Captain Jim 'Hair-Trigger' Casey
 Starlight the Horse ...  Casey's horse
 Betty Mack ...  Jane Elkins
 Ed Cassidy ...  Karney
 Fred 'Snowflake' Toones ...  Snowflake (as Snowflake)
 Wally Wales ...  Dave Casey
 Phil Dunham ...  Abner
 Robert Walker ...  Colton (Border Patrol)
 Dennis Moore ...  Lieutenant (as Denny Meadows)
 Victor Wong ...  Karney's enemy
           

Captain Frank Casey (Jack Perrin) of the U. S. Army Cavalry, known as "Hair-Trigger", a sobriquet given to him from his WWI days because of his prowess with a Colt 45 and his sudden outbursts or temper, is given a message from the Border Patrol by his orderly Snowflake (Fred Toones billed as Snowflake). It says there is trouble down on his ten-thousand acre ranch on the border. 'Pears that somebody is smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants across the border. Casey takes a ten day leave to check it out. His ranch is being run by his brother Dave (Wally Wales) and the foreman, Karney (Edward Cassidy), who was with Casey in his overseas company as a highly-trusted aide. Casey goes to dinner in Chinatown, and sees a man knock down a Chinaman and take off just ahead of a hurled hatchet. Not the last hurled hatchet in this one. Casey overtakes the fleeing man and finds out it is Karney, who gives a vague reason for being there. "Just out for a little Chop Suey, Cap. " Back at the ranch, Casey and Snowflake learn that ranch hand Slim Elkins has been killed the night before and Casey finds a clue---a silver concho.colton of the Border Patrol (Robert Walker) informs Casey that another group of Chinese is about to be smuggled over the border by a Mexican missing a concho. Cut to a Mexican releasing four Chinese from beneath a cabin, robbing them of their money, leaving them bound and gagged and preparing to take off just as he spots Casey riding up on Starlight. But Jane Elkins (Betty Mack) comes along in her sporty convertable roadster which the Mexican seizes and takes Jane along as a hostage. But Casey and Starlight take a shortcut and intercept the car, take the Mexican prisoner and he turns out to be Karney, who gets a lecture from Casey about ingratitude and treachery. Karney, not in the mood for a lecture from his commanding officer from a war that ended 18 years ago, crashes through a window and makes for a horse. Oops... look out for that hatchet! Must have been the guy he knocked down in Chinatown in reel two... the other four are still tied up. Casey has wrapped everything up in two days and decides to spend the remaining eight days of his leave with Jane Learning their is trouble on his ranch, Captain Casey receives leave to return. One of his hands has been murdered and investigating, he finds the man responsible. It turns out to be his foreman Karney who has been smuggling Chinese across the border. Karney escapes but he has made enemies among the Chinese and one of them is waiting for him

HAYFOOT         1941     Dir Fred Guiol

 50 mins USA B/W Sound

 William Tracy ...  Sergeant 'Dodo' Doubleday
 Joe Sawyer ...  Sergeant Ames
 James Gleason ...  Colonel J. A. Barkley
 Noah Beery Jr. ...  Sgt. Charlie Cobb
 Elyse Knox ...  Betty Barkley
 Douglas Fowley ...  Captain Rossmead
 Harold Goodwin ...  Lieutenant Caldwell
           

Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gunshy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb (the division's shooting champions)!

HEARTBEAT    1946  Dir Sam Wood

102 mins USA B/W Sound

Ginger Rogers ... Arlette Lafron
Jean-Pierre Aumont ... Pierre de Roche (as Jean Pierre Aumont)
Adolphe Menjou ... Ambassador
Melville Cooper ... Roland Latour
Mikhail Rasumny ... Yves Cadubert
Eduardo Ciannelli ... Baron Ferdinand Dvorak
Mona Maris ... Ambassador's Wife
Henry Stephenson ... Minister
Basil Rathbone ... Professor Aristide

A remake of the 1939 French film Battement de Couer, Heartbeat reunites star Ginger Rogers with her Kitty Foyle director Sam Wood. Ms. Rogers plays Arlette, a reform school alumnus who is recruited by Faginlike Professor Aristide, headmaster at a school for pickpockets. Before long, Arlette becomes Aristide's prize pupil, and is being groomed for bigger things. Assigned by a corrupt foreign ambassador (Adolphe Menjou) to steal a valuable watch from wealthy and handsome diplomat Pierre (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette not only bungles the job, but also falls in love with her would-be victim

HERE COMES TROUBLE   1941    Dir Fred Guiol         

 50 mins USA B/W Sound

 William Tracy ...  Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday
 Joe Sawyer ...  Officer Ames
 Emory Parnell ...  Winfield 'Windy' Blake
 Betty Compson ...  Martha Blake
 Joan Woodbury ...  Bubbles LaRue
 Paul Stanton ...  Attorney Martin Stafford
 Beverly Lloyd ...  Penny Blake (as Beverly Loyd)
 Patti Morgan ...  Miss Dexter
 Thomas E. Jackson ...  Chief McClure (as Thomas Jackson)
           

A newspaper publisher (Emory Parnell) is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen (Joan Woodbury), and he sends one of his reporters (William Tracy) to talk to her. The girl is murdered and the reporter, the publisher and the publisher's daughter (Beverly Loyd) all come under suspicion

HERE'S FLASH CASEY   1938     Dir Lynn Shores

60 mins USA B/W Sound

Eric Linden ... 'Flash' Casey
Boots Mallory ... Kay Lanning
Cully Richards ... Tom Wade
Holmes Herbert ... Major Rodney Addison
Joseph Crehan ... Blaine (City Editor) (as John Crehan)
Howard Lang ... 'Pop' Lawrence
Victor Adams ... 'King' Ricker
Harry Harvey ... Gus Payton
Suzanne Kaaren ... Mitzi LaRue
Matty Kemp ... Rodney Addison Jr.
Dorothy Vaughan ... Mrs.O'Hara (Landlady)
Maynard Holmes ... Joe (Roommate)

Flash Casey (Eric Linden), per his nickname, is an ace photojournalist-at least, he will be once he gets out of high school. After winning a prize in a photography contest, Flash vows that within two years of his graduation, he'll own his own newsphoto agency. To attain his goal, Flash goes after a big scoop, and nearly breaks his neck in the process.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY    1940          Dir Howard Hawks

 92 mins USA B/W Sound

 Cary Grant ...  Walter Burns
 Rosalind Russell ...  Hildegaard 'Hildy' Johnson
 Ralph Bellamy ...  Bruce Baldwin
 Gene Lockhart ...  Sheriff Peter B.'Pinky' Hartwell
 Porter Hall ...  Reporter Murphy
 Ernest Truex ...  Reporter Roy V. Bensinger
 Cliff Edwards ...  Reporter Endicott
 Clarence Kolb ...  Fred - the Mayor
 Roscoe Karns ...  Reporter McCue
 Frank Jenks ...  Reporter Wilson
 Regis Toomey ...  Reporter Sanders
 Abner Biberman ...  Louis 'Diamond Louie 'Palutso
 Frank Orth ...  Duffy - Copy Editor
 Helen Mack ...  Mollie Malloy
 John Qualen ...  Earl Williams
           

Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story, about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The comedy snowballs as William's friend, Molly Malloy, the crooked Mayor, and Bruce's mother all get tied up in Walter's web

HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPER    1916    Dir John Emerson        

 60 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Pete Prindle
 Clarence Handyside ...  Proteus Prindle
 Rene Boucicault ...  Pansy Prindle
 Jean Temple ...  Pearl Prindle
 Charles Butler ...  Cassius Cadwalader
 Loretta Blake ...  Christine Cadwalader
 Homer Hunt ...  Melville
 Helena Rupport ...  Olga
           

Pete becomes interested in a young woman whose own father is another rich businessman who admires Proteus Prindle and obviously thinks the son doesn't measure up to his old man. The prospective father-in-law insists that he won't allow his daughter to marry Prindle Jr. unless he demonstrates his worthiness in business. Prindle Sr. sets a goal: Pete must generate positive publicity for the company by getting his picture in the papers. So our hero launches various schemes to attract attention, and finds it surprisingly difficult: he stages a fake accident, but is ignored; he takes part in a boxing match, but it's broken up by the authorities; and finally he runs up against a gang of extortionist crooks who have been after his girlfriend's father. I don't think it's telling too much to note that Pete ultimately saves the day, gets the publicity and wins the girl—again, this is Doug Fairbanks we're talking about. How can he lose Publicity ?

HOLD THAT WOMAN    1941     Dir Sam Newfield       

 64 mins USA B/W Sound

 James Dunn ...  Jimmy Parker, a Skip-Tracer
 Frances Gifford ...  Mary Mulvaney
 George Douglas ...  Jewel Thief Steve Brady
 Rita La Roy ...  Lulu Driscoll, Brady's Girlfriend
 Martin Spellman ...  Mike Mulvaney
 Eddie Fetherston ...  Conroy
 Guy Usher ...  Police Officer John Mulvaney
 Paul Bryar ...  'Duke' Jurgens
 Edwin Max ...  Taxi', Jurgens Henchman (as Ed Miller)
 John Dilson ...  Bill Lannigan
 Dave O'Brien ...  Miles Hanover
 Anna Lisa ...  Corrine Hill, Movie Star
 William Hall ...  Jack Lawrence
 Marie Rice ...  Mrs. John Mulvaney
 Frank Meredith ...  Police Officer Mike
           

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for hi. Jimmy Parker, an agent for Skip Tracers, Ltd., who with his girl friend Mary (Dunn's real life wife Frances Gifford) find themselves embroiled in the midst of a burglary case concerning diamonds stolen from a movie star, bringing about their being arrested, shot at and chased by the thieves, yet finding opportunity to be wed and set up housekeeping, all during one frenetic day B Movie

HEARTS OF THE WORLD         1918     Dir D.W. GRIFFITH      

 80 mins USA B/W Silent

 D.W. Griffith ...  Himself (in prologue for British release)
 David Lloyd George ...  Himself - the British Prime Minister (in prologue for British  release)
 Sir Edward Grey ...  Himself - British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Addressing House of Commons (archive footage)
 René Viviani ...  Himself - the French Premier Addressing French Chamber of Deputies (archive footage)
Valerie Germonprez ...  Red Cross nurse
           

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town

I KILLED THAT MAN   1941   Dir Phil Rosen    

 71 mins USA B/W Sound

 Ricardo Cortez ...  Roger Phillips
 Joan Woodbury ...  Geri Reynolds
 Pat Gleason ...  Bates
 George Pembroke ...  Lowell King
 Iris Adrian ...  Verne Drake
 Herbert Rawlinson ...  Warden
 Ralf Harolde ...  Nick Ross
 Jack Mulhall ...  Collins
 Vince Barnett ...  Drunk
 Gavin Gordon ...  J. Reed
 John Hamilton ...  District Attorney
 Harry Holman ...  Lanning
 George P. Breakston ...  Tommy
           

A group of citizens are invited to the execution of hitman Nick Ross. Ready to die, Ross is about to reveal the name of the person who hired him when he suddenly drops dead- the victim of a poison dart! Assistant D.A. Phillips and his newspaper reporter girlfriend, Geri, try to solve the murder by process of elimination. When a blonde floozy who turns out to be Ross' moll is found dead - also from a poison dart - the case begins to have more curves than a burlesque show.

INNER SANCTUM    1948          Dir Lew Landers         

 62 mins USA B/W Sound

 Charles Russell ...  Harold Dunlap
 Mary Beth Hughes ...  Jean Maxwell
 Dale Belding ...  Mike Bennett
 Billy House ...  McFee
 Fritz Leiber ...  Doctor Valonius, the Seer
 Nana Bryant ...  Thelma Mitchell
 Lee Patrick ...  Ruth Bennett
 Roscoe Ates ...  Willy
 Eddie Parks ...  Barney
 Eve Miller ...  Marie Kembar, Dunlap's Fiancée
           

"Inner Sanctum" begins and ends on a train that pulls in one night in the little town of Clayburn. Harold Dunlap tries to get away from his overbearing and demanding fiancé Marie who sees him trying to leave her and runs out of the train and has a confrontation with him.
Pulling a nail file from her purse Marie tries to stab Harold who in turn takes it away and kills her with it. With the train about to pull out of the station Harold picks up Marie's body and dumps it on the train and with no one around thinks that he's gotten away with what he did, Harold thought wrong.
Looking to get lost Harold tries to hitch a ride out of town and lose himself in the darkness of the night. Like he thinks that his connection to the murder will get lost along with him. Fate and destiny, like a magnet, has other ideas about what's in store for Harold and pulls him back to face justice for what he did. A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town. Murder  Train  B Movie Cult Favorite Noir

IN OLD MEXICO    1945    Dir Phil Rosen         

 62 mins USA B/W Sound

 Duncan Renaldo ...  Cisco Kid
 Martin Garralaga ...  Pancho
 Gwen Kenyon ...  Ellen Roth
 Norman Willis ...  Hastings
 Lee 'Lasses' White ...  Sheriff Clem Petty (as 'Lasses' White)
 Pedro de Cordoba ...  Father Angelo
 Frank Jaquet ...  Fat Stage Passenger
 Aurora Roche ...  Dolores
 Edward Earle ...  The Printer
 Donna Dax ...  Belle
 John Laurenz ...  Henchman Al (as John Lawrence)
 Dick Gordon ...  Tom 'Doc' Wills (as Richard Gordon)
 Jim Farley ...  Hank, Telegraph Agent (as James Farley)
 Carr-Bert Dancers ...  Dancers
           

The Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Martin Garralaga) hold up a stagecoach and kidnap Ellen Roth (Gwen Kenyon). They take the girl, who is wanted on a murder charge, to the mission where Padre Angelo (Pedro de Cordoba) will look after her. She tells Cisco of a mysterious Doctor Willis(Richard Gordon) who called on an aged woman she had been nursing and gave her an overdose of sleeping pills. Convinced that Ellen is innocent, Cisco sets out to prove it. He goes to Bill Hastings (Norman Wills) where he makes a deal to turn Ellen in if Cisco gets part of the money Hastings will inherit when she is convicted. With Ellen safely in jail, Cisco and Pancho force the local newspaper to run a story saying that Doc Willis has been apprehended. Hastings makes another deal with Cisco to kill Ellen before she testifies against Doc mexico

INSPECTOR GENERAL THE    1949       Dir Henry Koster         

 101 mins USA COLOUR Sound

 Danny Kaye ...  Georgi
 Walter Slezak ...  Yakov Goury
 Barbara Bates ...  Leza                       Elsa Lanchester ...  Maria
 Gene Lockhart ...  The Mayor
 Alan Hale ...  Kovatch
 Walter Catlett ...  Col. Castine
 Rhys Williams ...  Inspector General
           

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him Kaye is a wandering shill for snake-oil when he is mis-identified as an Inspector General come to examine a little corrupt town. Zaniness ensues, focused on Kayes performing talents rather than the town's corruption 

INTERNATIONAL CRIME            1938    Dir Charles Lamont     

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Rod La Rocque ...  Lamont Cranston (The Shadow)
 Astrid Allwyn ...  Phoebe Lane
 Thomas E. Jackson ...  Commissioner Lane (as Thomas Jackson)
 Oscar O'Shea ...  Editor Heath
 Wilhelm von Brincken ...  Flotow (as William von Brincken)
 William Pawley ...  Honest John
 Walter Bonn ...  Stefan, Flotow's Driver
 Peter Potter ...  Burke (as William Moore)
 Lew Hearn ...  Moe Shrevnitz the Cabbie
Tenen Holtz ...  Starkhov
 John St. Polis ...  Roger Morton
 Lloyd Whitlock ...  Attorney
 Jack Baxley ...  Det. Matthews
 Paul Panzer ...  Morton's Butler
 Harry C. Bradley ...  Burrows (as Harry Bradley)
           

Lamont Cranston, amatuer criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas Jackson.) He complains to his managing editor, Edward Heath (Oscar O'Shea), over the problems that have developed in his department since Phoebe Lane (Astrid Allwyn) has been hired as his assistant. He is advised to forget it since she is the publisher's niece. During his broadcast about Honest John (William Pawley), a famous safe cracker who has served his time, Phoebe gives him a note that the Metropolitan Theatre is to be robbed at eight o'clock and she is so insistent that he adds it as his closing note. Off the air, he learns she got the information from a man she met in a cafe who had an honest face. Cranston goes to the theatre where Weston and his men have gathered and, of course, nothing happens but, across town, a safe is blown at the home of international banker Gerald Morton and the banker is killed.Cranston arrives there ahead of the police and discovers enough evidence to show him that it wasn't just a simple robbery with the banker accidently killed. The irate Weston has him jailed as a material witness, but Phoebe comes through with a habeas corpus in time for him to make his broadcast. Honest John crashes into the studio with a gun and demands that Cranston exonerates him over the air from the police suspicion that he committed the robbery. Weston rushes to the studio but Honest John has escaped. Cranston takes Phoebe on a tour of night clubs hoping she will spot the man who gave her the robbery message. She does and Cranston poses as a new arrival from Europe and learns that the man is Flotow (William von Brincken) and his companion is Starkov (Tennen Holtz.) They make a date for lunch the next day. While they are waiting for him to join them for lunch, Cranston breaks into Flathow's apartment where he meets Phoebe who also has had the same idea. A phone call is answered and Morton's butler (Paul Panzer) says there is a meeting at the Morton home that afternoon

INTOLERANCE    1916    Dir D.W. GRIFFITH    

 178 mins USA B/W ( Tinted )  Music Track

 Mae Marsh ...  The Dear One (Modern Story)
 Robert Harron ...  The Boy (Modern Story)
 F.A. Turner ...  The Girl's Father (Modern Story) (as Fred Turner)
 Sam De Grasse ...  Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story)
 Vera Lewis ...  Mary T. Jenkins (Modern Story)
 Mary Alden ...  Self-Styled Uplifter (Modern Story)
 Eleanor Washington ...  Self-Styled Uplifter (Modern Story)
 Pearl Elmore ...  Self-Styled Uplifter (Modern Story)
 Lucille Browne ...  Self-Styled Uplifter (Modern Story)
 Mrs. Arthur Mackley ...  Self-Styled Uplifter (Modern Story)
 Miriam Cooper ...  The Friendless One (Modern Story)
 Walter Long ...  The Musketeer of the Slums (Modern Story) / Uncredited    Babylonian Warrior (Babylonian Story)
 Tom Wilson ...  The Kindly Policeman (Modern Story)
 Ralph Lewis ...  Governor (Modern Story)
 Lloyd Ingraham ...  Judge of the Court (Modern Story)
 A.W. McClure ...  Father Fathley (Modern Story)
 John P. McCarthy ...  Prison Guard (Modern Story) (as J.P. McCarthy)
 Dore Davidson ...  Friendly Neighbor (Modern Story)
 Monte Blue ...  Strike Leader (Modern Story)
 Marguerite Marsh ...  Debutante (Modern Story)
 Tod Browning ...  A Crook (Modern Story)
 Edward Dillon ...  Another crook (Modern Story)
 Billy Quirk ...  Bartender Modern Story)
 Howard Gaye ...  Christ (Judean Story) / Cardinal Lorraine (Medieval Story)
 Lillian Langdon ...  Mary, the Mother (Judean Story)
 Olga Grey ...  Mary Magdalene (Judean Story)
 Erich von Ritzau ...  First Pharisee (Judean Story) (as Gunther von Ritzau)
 Bessie Love ...  The Bride of Cana (Judean Story)
 William H. Brown ...  Father of Bride of Cana (Judean Story) / Warden (Modern Story) (as William Brown)
 George Walsh ...  Bridegroom of Cana (Judean Story)
 W.S. Van Dyke ...  Wedding Guest (Judean Story)
 Margery Wilson ...  Brown Eyes (French Story)
 Eugene Pallette ...  Prosper Latour (French Story)
 Spottiswoode Aitken ...  Brown Eyes' Father (French Story) (as Spottiswoode Aitkin)
 Ruth Handforth ...  Brown Eyes' Mother (French Story)
 Allan Sears ...  The Mercenary (French Story) (as A.D. Sears)
 Frank Bennett ...  Charles IX, King of France (French Story)
 Maxfield Stanley ...  Duc d'Anjou (Monsieur La France) (Medieval Story)
 Josephine Crowell ...  Catherine de Medici (French Story)
 Constance Talmadge ...  Marguerite de Valois (French Story) / The Mountain Girl (Babylonian Story) (as Georgia Pearce)
 W.E. Lawrence ...  Henry of Navarre (French Story)
 Joseph Henabery ...  Admiral Coligny (French Story) / Deffendent (Babylonian Story)
 Chandler House ...  Page (French Story)
 Elmer Clifton ...  The Rhapsode (Babylonian Story)
 Alfred Paget ...  Prince Belshazzar (Babylonian Story)
 Seena Owen ...  Princess Beloved (Attarea) (Babylonian Story)
 Carl Stockdale ...  King Nabonidus (Babylonian Story)
 Tully Marshall ...  The High Priest of Bel (Babylonian Story) / Uncredited Friend of the Musketeer (Modern Story)
Lillian Gish ...  The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle / The Eternal Mother
           

Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras. In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious rivalry that leads to the city's downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the impending St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare for marriage. Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the lives of a young woman and her

IT HAPPENED OUT WEST    1937     Dir Howard Bretherton

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Paul Kelly ...  Richard P. 'Dick' Howe
 Judith Allen ...  Ann Martin
 Johnny Arthur ...  Thaddeus 'Thad' Crookshank
 LeRoy Mason ...  Bert Travis
 Reginald Sheffield ...  Middleton
 Nina Campana ...  Maria
 Russell Hicks ...  Cooley
 Ben Corbett ...  Gimpy
 Lew Kelly ...  Diner Counterman
 Henry Otho ...  Hank
 Ted Adams ...  Tex
 Steve Clemente ...  Pedro
 Archie Ricks ...  'Red'
 Frank LaRue ...  Sheriff
           

Paul Kelly is the unlikely hero of It Happened Out West. Sent to Arizona to persuade ranch owner Anne Martin to sell her property, banker Dick Howe begins to wonder if this transaction is a good idea. His doubts are fueled by the behavior of Anne's foreman Burt Travis, whose eagerness to sell the girl's ranch is downright sinister. Sure enough, Travis and Dick's boss Middleton are in cahoots to get their hands on the ranch's hidden silver deposits. Our hero foils the villains, enabling Anne to keep her land -- an excellent wedding present, as it turns out.

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INVISIBLE GHOST        1941      Dir Joseph H. Lewis   

 64 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bela Lugosi ...  Charles Kessler
 Polly Ann Young ...  Virginia Kessler
 John McGuire ...  Ralph / Paul Dickson
 Clarence Muse ...  Evans the Butler
 Terry Walker ...  Cecile Mannix
 Betty Compson ...  Mrs. Kessler
 Ernie Adams ...  Jules Mason
 George Pembroke ...  Police Lieutenant Williams
 Ottola Nesmith ...  Mrs. Mason (as Ollola Nesmith)
 Fred Kelsey ...  Detective Ryan
 Jack Mulhall ...  Detective Tim
           

Charles Kessler lives with his daughter, Virginia, and servants in his large house, but Kessler still awaits the return of his wife, who ran away with another man and disappeared following a car crash with her lover. Mrs. Kessler, unknown to her husband, is living in the gardener's tool shed, afraid to return home. She occasionally sneaks out of the shed, and spies on her husband through the window. One night Kessler sees his wife through the window and falls into a mad hypnotic state where he strangles Cecile, the new maid at the house. The crime is framed on Ralph Dickson, Virginia's fiancé and former love of Cecile. Dickson dies at the hands of the law, and his identical twin brother Paul comes to the Kessler residence, hoping to posthumously clear his brother's name. Kessler, under another trance, kills the house's gardener and nearly strangles his daughter, and it becomes obvious to the police and everyone in the house that the murders are the work of a madman, but how will Kessler be uncovered in this strange case. 

IT’S A GIFT    1934       Dir Norman Z. McLeod

 73 mins USA B/W Sound

 W.C. Fields ...  Harold Bissonette
 Kathleen Howard ...  Mrs. Amelia Bissonette
 Jean Rouverol ...  Mildred Bissonette (as Jean Rouveral in closing credits)
 Julian Madison ...  John Durston (Mildred's fiance)
 Tommy Bupp ...  Norman Bissonette (as Tom Bupp)
 Baby LeRoy ...  Baby Elwood Dunk
 Tammany Young ...  Everett Ricks, Mr. Bissonette's assistant
 Morgan Wallace ...  Fitchmueller (where are my kumquats?)
 Charles Sellon ...  Mr. Muckle (blind man)
 Josephine Whittell ...  Mrs. Dunk
 T. Roy Barnes ...  Insurance Salesman
 Diana Lewis ...  Miss Dunk
 Spencer Charters ...  Gate Guard
 Guy Usher ...  Harry Payne Bosterly
 Dell Henderson ...  Mr. Abernathy (as Del Henderson)
           

The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). To get some sleep he goes out on the porch where he is tormented by a little boy from the floor above (Baby Dunk) and an insurance salesman down below ("LaFong. Capital L, small a..."). He uses an inheritance to buy an orange ranch through the mail, then drives off with his family for California. The orange grove consists of a withered tree, the ranch house is but a shack, and the car falls to pieces. But a racetrack operator wants the land, so all ends happily.

JIGSAW           1949      Dir Fletcher Markle

 70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Franchot Tone ...  Howard Malloy
 Jean Wallace ...  Barbara Whitfield
 Marc Lawrence ...  Angelo Agostini
 Myron McCormick ...  Charles Riggs
 Winifred Lenihan ...  Mrs. Grace Hartley
 Doe Avedon ...  Caroline Riggs, Blue Angel Photographer (as Betty Harper)
 Hedley Rainnie ...  Sigmund 'Siggy' Kosterich
 Walter Vaughan ...  Dist. Atty. Frank Walker
 George Breen ...  Knuckles Mueller
 Robert Gist ...  Det. Tommy Quigley
 Hester Sondergaard ...  Mrs. Max Borg
 Luella Gear ...  Pet shop owner
 Alexander Campbell ...  Stuart Pemberton
 Robert Noe ...  Tom Waldron Jr.
 Alexander Lockwood ...  Harry Nichols
           

When the owner of a printing shop is found dead, the District Attorney assumes that it was a suicide. But the Assistant D.A., Howard Malloy, suspects that there is a connection with an extremist political group called the 'Crusaders'. When a journalist whose articles had attacked the Crusaders is also killed, Malloy is convinced. With help from the widow of a prominent judge, he conducts an investigation. As he does so, he meets a peculiar political boss and also an attractive night club singer, each of whom could become either a source of help or a source of danger.

KENNEL MURDER CASE THE    1933     Dir Michael Curtiz

 73 mins USA B/W Sound

 William Powell ...  Philo Vance
 Mary Astor ...  Hilda Lake
 Eugene Pallette ...  Detective Sgt. Heath
 Ralph Morgan ...  Raymond Wrede, Archer's secretary
 Robert McWade ...  Dist. Atty. Markham
 Robert Barrat ...  Archer Coe
 Frank Conroy ...  Brisbane Coe, Archer's brother
 Etienne Girardot ...  Dr. Doremus, coroner
 James Lee ...  Liang, Archer's cook
 Paul Cavanagh ...  Sir Thomas MacDonald (as Paul Cavanaugh)
 Arthur Hohl ...  Gamble
 Helen Vinson ...  Doris Delafield
 Jack La Rue ...  Eduardo Grassi (as Jack LaRue)
           

Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely. When the evidence points to his brother, Brisbane is found stabbed to death in the closet. Archer had a number of enemies, any one of which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one did and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

KID DYNAMITE     1943     Dir Wallace Fox
 

 66 mins USA B/W Sound

 East Side Kids 

 Leo Gorcey ...  Mugs (credits) - Muggs (in film)
 Huntz Hall ...  Glimpy McGleavey
 Bobby Jordan ...  Danny Lyons
 Gabriel Dell ...  Harry Wycoff
 Pamela Blake ...  Ivy McGinnis
 Benny Bartlett ...  Beanie Miller
 Ernest Morrison ...  Scruno Jackson (as Sunshine Sammy)
 Bobby Stone ...  Stoney Stone
 David Durand ...  Skinny Collins (as Dave Durand)
 Vince Barnett ...  Klinkhammer
 Daphne Pollard ...  Mrs. McGinnis
 Charles Judels ...  Nick - Pool Hall Owner
 Dudley Dickerson ...  Jackson
 Henry Hall ...  Louis Gendick
 Minerva Urecal ...  Judge
           

EastSide boxing champion (Leo Gorcey) has been challenged to fight the West Side champ but is kidnapped before the match. Leo's friend (Bobby Jordan) takes his place and wins the fight only to have Leo think that Bobby was responsible for his kidnapping.

KILLERS OF THE SEA     1937 Dir Raymond Friedgen
           

 50 mins USA B/W Sound

 Lowell Thomas ...  Narrator
 Wallace Caswell Jr. ...  Himself (as Captain Wallace Caswell Jr.)
 'Evolution' Henderson ...  Himself
 'Spot' Hayes  
 Hubert Dykes  
 Bruce Stillwell  
 Steve Beadon  
 Bryant Lee  
 Julius Randy
           

When human and animal predators threaten the game fish in the Gulf of Mexico, Captain Wallace Caswell Jr. is there to protect them. Captain Caswell is the Panama City, Florida Chief of Police and he has dedicated his efforts in stopping illegal fishing and harmful predators such as sharks, octopi and whales. Check out the action above and below the surface as Captain Caswell fights for the protection of the game fish and their environment.

KILLER BATS   1942    Dir Jean Yarbrough

 70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bela Lugosi ...  Dr. Paul Carruthers
 Suzanne Kaaren ...  Mary Heath
 Dave O'Brien ...  Johnny Layton (reporter)
 Guy Usher ...  Henry Morton
 Yolande Donlan ...  Maxine 'Frenchy' (maid) (as Yolande Mallott)
 Donald Kerr ...  'One-Shot' McGuire
 Edmund Mortimer ...  Martin Heath (as Edward Mortimer)
 Gene O'Donnell ...  Donald 'Don' Morton
 Alan Baldwin ...  Thomas 'Tommy' Heath
 John Ellis ...  Roy Heath
 Arthur Q. Bryan ...  Joe McGinty (editor)
 Hal Price ...  Chief Wilkins
 John Davidson ...  Prof. Percival Garland Raines
 Billy Griffith ...  Coroner (scenes deleted)
 Wally Rairden ...  Walter King (radio announcer)
           

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives

KING OF THE ZOMBIES            1941      Dir Jean Yarbrough   

 65 mins USA B/W Sound

 Dick Purcell ...  James 'Mac' McCarthy
 Joan Woodbury ...  Barbara Winslow
 Mantan Moreland ...  Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson
 Henry Victor ...  Dr. Miklos Sangre
 John Archer ...  Bill Summers
 Patricia Stacey ...  Alyce Sangre
 Guy Usher ...  Admiral Arthur Wainwright
 Marguerite Whitten ...  Samantha, the Maid
 Leigh Whipper ...  Momba, the Butler
 Madame Sul-Te-Wan ...  Tahama, the Cook and High Priestess
 James Davis ...  Lazarus, a Zombie (as Jimmy Davis)
 Laurence Criner ...  Dr. Couillie (as Lawrence Criner)
           

During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crashland on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts. Exploring, the 3 find a voodoo ritual in the cellar, where the doctor is trying to acquire war intelligence by transferring personalities into his zombies. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their creator

LADY OF THE BURLESQUE      1943     Dir William A. Wellman         

 91 mins USA B/W Sound

 Barbara Stanwyck ...  Deborah Hoople, aka Dixie Daisy
 Michael O'Shea ...  Biff Brannigan
 Iris Adrian ...  Gee Gee Graham
 Charles Dingle ...  Inspector Harrigan
 J. Edward Bromberg ...  S.B. Foss
 Frank Conroy ...  'Stacchi' Stacciaro
 Victoria Faust ...  Lolita La Verne
 Gloria Dickson ...  Dolly Baxter
 Marion Martin ...  Alice Angel
 Frank Fenton ...  Russell Rogers
 Stephanie Bachelor ...  The Princess Nirvena
 Pinky Lee ...  Mandy
 Eddie Gordon ...  Officer Pat Kelly
 Janis Carter ...  Janine
 Lou Lubin ...  Moey, the Candy Butcher
           

Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that's been turned into a burlesque theater. She's popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she'd get the top spot. Also complicating matters is the return of the Princess Nirvena, the show's former star who once had a fling with the boss. When the Princess blackmails her way into the top spot, Dixie is none too pleased. When both Lolita and the Princess are murdered, Dixie becomes a prime suspect. She then sets up a trap to nail the real killer

LAST MILE THE    1932     Dir Samuel Bischoff
             

 83 mins USA B/W Sound

 Preston Foster ...  John 'Killer' Mears, Cell 4
 Howard Phillips ...  Richard 'Dick' Walters, Cell 5
 George E. Stone ...  Joe Berg, Cell 1
 Noel Madison ...  D'Amoro, Cell 6
 Alan Roscoe ...  Kirby, Cell 7
 Paul Fix ...  Eddie Werner, Cell 8
 Al Hill ...  Fred Mayer, Cell 3
 Daniel L. Haynes ...  Sonny Jackson, Cell 2
 Frank Sheridan ...  Warden Frank Lewis
 Alec B. Francis ...  Father O'Connor
 Edward Van Sloan ...  Rabbi
 Louise Carter ...  Mrs. Walters
 Ralph Theodore ...  Pat Callahan, Principal Keeper
 Jack Kennedy ...  Mike O'Flaherty, Guard
 Albert J. Smith ...  Drake, Guard
            The story begins with Richard Walters (Howard Phillips) being condemned to death for a murder that he claims not to have committed. He is sent to death row, and not long after he gets acquainted with the other inmates, a riot breaks out, led by the brutal killer Mears. Walters gets enmeshed in violent events even as his friends on the outside are frantically trying to gather evidence of his innocence. Most of the developments lack believability, and are rather obviously forced, but the story is undeniably dramatic. Once involved, you will have to watch it to the end.

LAST LAUGH THE        1924       Dir F.W. Murnau

 73 mins USA B/W Silent

 Emil Jannings ...  Hotelportier [hotel porter]
 Maly Delschaft ...  Seine nichte [his niece]
 Max Hiller ...  Ihr bräutigam [her bridgroom]
 Emilie Kurz ...  Bridegroom's aunt
 Hans Unterkircher ...  Geschäftsführer [hotel manager]
 Olaf Storm ...  Junger gast [young guest]
 Hermann Vallentin ...  Spitzbäuchiger gast [guest with pot belly]
 Georg John ...  Nachtwächter [night watchman]
 Emmy Wyda ...  Dünne nachbarin [thin neighbor]
           

The experienced doorman at the Atlantic Hotel is quite proud of his position, his responsibilities, and his uniform. One busy, rainy night, he has to take a short rest after lugging a heavy suitcase in from the rain. Unfortunately, his manager comes by during the short time when he is not performing his duties. The next day, when the doorman arrives for work, he learns that he has been replaced as doorman, and has been re-assigned to the less strenuous but purely menial position of washroom attendant. Stunned and humiliated, the old man struggles to carry on with his life Imagery

MANDARIN MYSTERY    1936    Dir Ralph Staub

65 mins USA B/W Sound

Eddie Quillan ... Ellery Queen
Charlotte Henry ... Josephine Temple
Rita La Roy ... Martha Kirk
Wade Boteler ... Inspector Queen
Franklin Pangborn ... Mellish, the hotel manager
George Irving ... Dr. Alexander Kirk
Kay Hughes ... Irene Kirk
William Newell ... Detective Guffy
George Walcott ... Donald Trent
Edwin Stanley ... Howard Bronson
Edgar Allen ... Detective
Bert Roach
Richard Beach ... Reporter
Monte Vandergrift ... Detective
Grace Durkin ... Girl on Street Corner

A crook who steals a $50,000 stamp, which results in two murders - both committed in impenetrably locked rooms. The primary suspect is Jo Temple (Charlotte Henry), the original possessor of the stamp. Falling in love with Jo, Ellery sets about to retrieve the stolen goods and solve the murders

MATRIMANIAC The    1916    Dir Paul Powell

60 mins USA B/W Sound

Douglas Fairbanks ... Jimmie Conroy
Constance Talmadge ... Marna Lewis
Wilbur Higby ... Marna's Father
Fred Warren ... Rev. Tobias Tubbs
Clyde E. Hopkins ... G. Walter Henderson (as Clyde Hopkins)
Winifred Westover ... Maid

A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away. Now the young man, minister in tow, pursues his bride while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.

MILLIONAIRE KID         1936     Dir Bernard B. Ray     

 50 mins USA B/W Sound

 Betty Compson ...  Gloria Neville
 Bryant Washburn ...  Terry Malone
 Charles Delaney ...  Breezy Benson
 Lois Wilde ...  Kitty Malone
 Bradley Metcalfe ...  Tommy Neville
 Creighton Hale ...  Thomas Neville
 Eddie Phillips ...  Joe Toronto
 Eddie Gribbon ...  Hogan
 Al St. John ...  Matthews
 Josef Swickard ...  The Tutor
 John Elliott ...  Yellerton
 Earl Dwire ...  Black
 Ed Cassidy ...  Red
 Arthur Thalasso ...  Morley
 Roger Williams ...  City Editor
           

The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville (Bradley Metcalfe) whose wealthy parents, Thomas (Creighton Hale) and Gloria Neville (Betty Compson) are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs away from home. The private detective assigned to watch him tells Mrs. Neville he has been kidnapped. She immediately suspects her husband. Meanwhile, Tommy is selling newspapers in another city. He is attacked by a bully, and is rescued by gangster Terry Mallon (Bryant Washburn) and his daughter Kitty (Lois Wilde.) Unaware of his identity, they take him to their beach home. Reporter Breezy Benson (Charles Delaney) is sent to interview Mrs. Neville about the divorce, and is fired when she won't talk to him. He meets Kitty at the beach and is intrigued by her. He meets her father, who is curious but not suspicious as news of the alleged kidnapping has not been reported

MOTHER THE     1926    Dir Vsevolod Pudovkin          

 76 mins Russia B/W Music Track

 Vera Baranovskaya ...  Niovna-Vlasova, the Mother
 Nikolai Batalov ...  Pavel Vlasov
 Ivan Koval-Samborsky ...  The Young Strike Organizer
 Anna Zemtsova ...  The Girl Revolutionary
 Aleksandr Chistyakov ...  Vlasov
 Vsevolod Pudovkin ...  Police officer
 Aleksandr Savitsky ...  A Reactionary Clerk
 N. Vidonov ...  A Worker
           

The story is about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike The Film Version Of Gorki's Great Story Of The 1905 Revolution

MR WONG DETECTIVE    1938   Dir William Nigh

68 mins USA B/W Sound

Boris Karloff ... Mr. James Lee Wong
Grant Withers ... Captain Sam Street
Maxine Jennings ... Myra Ross, Dayton's Secretary
Evelyn Brent ... Olga Petroff / Countess Dubois / Sophie Dome
George Lloyd ... Detective Lt. Devlin
Lucien Prival ... Anton Mohl, aka Baron Von Krantz
John St. Polis ... Carl Roemer, Poison Gas Inventor
William Gould ... Theodore Meisel, Dayton's Partner
Hooper Atchley ... Christian Wilk, Dayton's Partner
John Hamilton ... Simon Dayton, President Dayton Chemical Co.
Wilbur Mack ... Russell, Dayton's Office Manager
Lee Tung Foo ... Tchin, Wong's Servant (as Lee Tong Foo)
Lynton Brent ... Detective Tommy
Grace Wood ... Mrs. Carl Roemer

Oxford-educated Oriental sleuth. Wong is visited by Simon Dayton (John Hamilton), an industrialist fearing for his life. Dayton and his partners Meisle (William Gould) and Wilk (Hooper Atchley) have been selling a poison gas invented by Roemer (John St. Polis), who, feeling cheated out of the deal, shows up in Dayton's office waving a gun. Minutes later, Dayton is found murdered by his secretary, Myra Ross (Maxine Jennings). Police Captain Sam Street (Grant Withers), Myra's boyfriend, immediately puts Roemer under arrest. Wong is not convinced of the man's guilt, especially after discovering a broken piece of glass near the body. During the ongoing investigation, the two remaining partners are also slain, but who done it? Are the killers foreign-accented Baron Anton Mohl (Lucien Prival) and his beautiful Brooklyn-born associate who calls herself Countess Dubois (Evelyn Brent)? Or did Roemer do the dirty deed? Could the dead man's nosy office manager (Wilbur Mack) have committed the crime and does Mrs. Roemer (Grace Wood) know more than she is telling? As Mr. Wong discovers, the answer is to be found in the origin and purpose of the mysterious pieces of glass found near each victim.

MR WONG IN CHINATOWN      1939     Dir William Nigh        

 70 mins USA B/W Sound

 Boris Karloff ...  Mr. James Lee Wong
 Marjorie Reynolds ...  Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan (reporter)
 Grant Withers ...  Police Capt. Bill Street
 Huntley Gordon ...  Mr. Davidson (bank president)
 George Lynn ...  Capt. Guy Jackson (Aviation Corp. president) (as Peter George Lynn)
 William Royle ...  Capt. Jaime (captain, Maid of the Orient)
 James Flavin ...  Police Sgt. Jerry
 Lotus Long ...  Princess Lin Hwa (murder victim)
 Lee Tung Foo ...  Willie (Wong's servant) (as Lee Tong Foo)
 Bessie Loo ...  Lilly May (Princess Lin Hwa's maid)
 Richard Loo ...  Tong chief
 Ernie Stanton ...  Burton (Davidson's butler)
           

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun The film begins with a Chinese princess coming to Wong's house. When his butler goes to get Wong, an unseen person kills the lady with a poisonous dart! It turns out that the princess was in America to buy planes for their war with the Japanese, though since the US was not yet at war with Japan, they were never mentioned by name. Why she was killed and unable to complete her mission

MY PAL TRIGGER        1946         Dir Frank McDonald

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Roy Rogers ...  Roy Rogers
 Trigger ...  Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies
 George 'Gabby' Hayes ...  Gabby Kendrick
 Dale Evans ...  Susan Kendrick
 Jack Holt ...  Brett Scoville
 LeRoy Mason ...  Carson
 Roy Barcroft ...  Hunter
 Sam Flint ...  Sheriff
 Kenne Duncan ...  Croupier
 Ralph Sanford ...  Auctioneer Al
 Francis McDonald ...  Storekeeper
 Harlan Briggs ...  Dr. Bentley
 William Haade ...  Davis (as Wm. Haade)
 Bob Nolan ...  Bob Nolan
 Sons of the Pioneers ...  Musicians, Ranch hands
           

The fanciful tale tells how Rogers obtained his magnificent horse Trigger and begins with horse trader Rogers as he prepares to breed his best mare with his best friend's glorious Palomino stallion. Trouble comes in the form of a villainous gambler who has similar plans for his own mare. He attempts to rustle the stud, but the attempt fails, the stallion escapes and breeds with Roger's mare. Angrily, the gambler shows up and shoots the beautiful horse, leaving Rogers to shoulder the blame. Fortunately, Roy and his impregnated mare flee. Later she gives birth to Trigger who helps Rogers get revenge after he grows up

MYSTERIOUS MR WONG         1935     Dir William Nigh         

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Bela Lugosi ...  Mr. Fu Wong, aka Lysee (as Béla Lugosi)
 Wallace Ford ...  Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
 Arline Judge ...  Peg
 E. Alyn Warren ...  Phillip Tsang (as Fred Warren)
 Lotus Long ...  Moonflower, Wong's Niece
 Robert Emmett O'Connor ...  Officer 'Mac' McGillicuddy (as Robert Emmet O'Connor)
 Edward Peil Sr. ...  Jen Wu, Wong Henchman (as Edward Peil)
 Luke Chan ...  Professor Chan Fu
 Lee Shumway ...  Editor Steve Brandon
 Etta Lee ...  Lusan, Moonflower's Attendant
 Ernest F. Young ...  Reporter Chuck Roberts
           

Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong, desperately trying to complete his collection of the twelve gold coins of Confucius, with which he will be able to acquire the power to become ruler of a large province in China The story opens promisingly with three murders by unseen assassins. Each of the victims has one of the fabled coins in his possession. It's all downhill from here. The murderers report back to their boss, Fu Wong (Lugosi, complete with drooping mustache and thick Hungarian accent). He now has 11 of the twelve coins in his possession. He sends his men out in search of the twelfth. Now how in heaven's name did these rare coins all wind up in the same city in the USA?
The murders of the Chinese are assigned to fast talking reporter Jay Barton (Wallace Ford) who with bumbling Police Officer McGillicuddy (Robert Emmett O' Connor) investigate the deaths. In between Barton manages to romance the comely young Peg (Arline Judge). A note left by one of the victims leads Barton to Wong. He seeks the aid of good Chinese philosopher Philip Tsang (E. Alyn Warren) to translate the note. The note leads to the 12th coin..

MADE FOR EACH OTHER           1938    Dir John Cromwell     

 90 mins USA B/W Sound

 Carole Lombard ...  Jane Mason    James Stewart ...  John Horace 'Johnny' Mason
 Charles Coburn ...  Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
 Lucile Watson ...  Mrs. Harriet Mason
 Eddie Quillan ...  Conway (pilot)
 Alma Kruger ...  Sister Madeline
           

Young lawyer meets and marries girl after knowing her one day. Takes bride home to meet his mother who disapproves of the marriage. Lawyer thinks everything will be fine as he moves up the ladder of the law firm. He doesn't and things get tough. A baby makes things even tougher Newlyweds, John and Jane Mason, struggle through their first year a marriage, plagued by money problems, illness and a meddlesome live-in mother-in-law. To top it all off, their baby son is dying of pneumonia, and can only be saved by a serum that must be flown from Salt Lake City to New York, when all flights have been grounded by impassable weather conditions. Through all this turmoil, their love never falters, as they were "Made for Each Other." 

MAN FROM BEYOND THE     1922    Dir Burton L. King

 65 mins USA B/W Sound

 Harry Houdini ...  Howard Hillary / The Man From Beyond
 Arthur Maude ...  Dr. Gilbert Trent
 Albert Tavernier ...  Dr. Crawford Strange
 Erwin Connelly ...  Dr. Gregory Sinclair
 Frank Montgomery ...  François Duval
 Luis Alberni ...  Captain of the Barkentine
 Yale Benner ...  Milt Norcross
 Jane Connelly ...  Felice Strange / Felice Norcross
 Nita Naldi ...  Marie Le Grande
           

A man who has been frozen in the Arctic ice for 100 years returns to civilization to find his lost love. In the bitter Arctic, two men — Dr. Gregory Sinclair and mercenary Francois Duval — are all that remain of an ill-fated scientific expedition when they discover an old ship frozen in the ice. Seeking food and shelter, on the ship they discover a man frozen in ice since 1820. Removed and warmed, the man miraculously is discovered to be alive — having been held in suspended animation throughout the intervening years. In his dim, waking thoughts he relives the last days of his life before freezing. Hopelessly in love with fellow passenger Felice Norcross, Howard Hillary braved the terrible sea storm that wrecked their ship in an attempt to save the life of her father. Now conscious, Hillary is understandably confused and lost when he is brought back to a civilization one hundred years more advanced than the one he knew. At the home of Professor Crawford Strange, Sinclair’s niece Felice is being married to Dr. Gilbert Trent. Struck by her uncanny resemblance to his love, and not fully cognisant of his current reality, Hillary appeals to Felice for some sign of recognition. Her fiancé wastes no time in having Hillary arrested and committed for insanity. A treacherous deception by Trent is uncovered and Felice calls off the wedding to search for her missing father, who has been lost for a year. When she seeks to enlist the aid of Hillary, it is discovered that he has escaped the asylum. Meanwhile, Trent is scheming to discover the truth of Hillary’s secret and recover his bride, and Hillary makes his own way back to Felice, only to be devastated by the realization that he is one hundred years too late to save his love. But a premonition of the possibility of reincarnation, and the renewal of their interrupted love, causes Hillary to to dedicate himself to Felice’s search for her father. Called to his laboratory and in the presence of the police, Felice and Sinclair, Trent accuses Hillary of the murder of Professor Strange. As his proof, Trent produces Duval, who lies about Hillary’s involvement and turns over some of Strange’s personal effects to the police. Duval eventually comes clean about the conspiracy between Trent and Marie Le Grande to frame Hillary for Strange’s murder, and Trent kidnaps Felice before Hillary and the police can apprehend him. In Trent’s home Hillary discovers the secret access to his laboratory, where the captive Professor Strange is discovered. Planning to drug Felice and force her to marry him, Trent is stopped by Hillary. Felice escapes, chased by Trent’s chauffeur, while Hillary and Trent battle each other. Chased to the banks of the Niagara River, Felice employs a canoe to escape. Followed into the river by Hillary, who forsees her peril, Felice is soon caught by the currents of the Niagara toward the great falls. Braving the rapid river, Hillary catches the canoe and brings Felice ashore before the falls can claim her life. When all is settled, Hillary examines the spiritualist theories of Arthur Conan Doyle in his pursuit of a reincarnation explanation for their unusual love.

MAN WHO WALKED ALONE THE     1942          Dir Christy Cabanne    

 60 mins USA B/W Sound

 Dave O'Brien ...  Cpl. Marion Scott
 Kay Aldridge ...  Wilhelmina Hammond
 Walter Catlett ...  Wiggins
 Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ...  Champ (as Guinn Williams)
 Isabel Randolph ...  Mrs. Hammond
 Smith Ballew ...  Alvin Bailey
 Nancy June Robinson ...  Patricia Hammond
 Ruth Lee ...  Aunt Harriett
 Chester Clute ...  Mr. Monroe
 Vivien Oakland ...  Mrs. Monroe
 Vicki Saunders ...  Camille
 Robert Hartzell ...  Joe
 Charles Williams ...  Moe
 Frank Melton ...  Glem
 Donald Kerr ...  Zilch
           

Marion Scott (Dave O'Brien), honorably discharged WW II soldier, in "civies" and carrying a suitcase containing his uniform and medals, is hitch-hiking to the small hometown of a buddy killed overseas, intending to make it his home. En-route, he encounters wealthy society girl Wilhelmina Hammond (Kay Aldridge), who is running away from her stuffed-shirt fiancee, Alvin Bailey (Smith Ballew) and has taken his car without permission. Marion and Wilhelmina are bickering over a blow-out and an empty gas tank when the local cops appear and haul them off to jail on a car-theft charge. Wilhelmina establishes her identity and is released and, intrigued by Marion whom she suspects is a deserter, arranges his release also. She takes him to the Hammond estate and tells Marion, who does not know her true identity, she is Mrs. Hammond's secretary. Wilhelmina has no keys to the home and they are arrested again when they are caught crawling into the house through a window. This time reporters and photographers discover her identity and plaster the papers with a story of an heiress running out on her rich fiancee to take up with an unknown stranger. Over the objections of the Hammond caretaker, Wiggins (Walter Catlett), she hires Marion as a chauffeur and stands her ground when her irate mother (Isabel Randolph) and angry fiancee rush home from New York with their entourage, including: Aunt Harriet (Ruth Lee), an old maid who had an unfortuance love affir during WW I; Patricia (June Robinson), "Willie's" young and mischievous sister; Camille (Vicki Saunders), the family dressmaker, and Champ (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams), Alvin's physical instructor. It becomes a battle of wills as Mrs. Hammond and Alvin are determined to break up a romance that doesn't exist, as "Willie" and Marion are constantly bickering, and Aunt Harriet who is all for the pair getting together

MARK OF ZORRO THE  1920     Dir Fred Niblo

 110 mins USA B/W Silent

 Douglas Fairbanks ...  Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
 Noah Beery ...  Sgt. Pedro Gonzales
 Charles Hill Mailes ...  Don Carlos Pulido
 Claire McDowell ...  Dona Catalina Pulido
 Marguerite De La Motte ...  Lolita Pulido
 Robert McKim ...  Capt. Juan Ramon
 George Periolat ...  Gov. Alvarado
 Walt Whitman ...  Fray Felipe
 Sidney De Gray ...  Don Alejandro (as Sydney De Gray)
 Tote Du Crow ...  Bernardo
           

In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing sword and an athletic sense of humor, scarring the faces of evildoers with his Mark. Meanwhile, beautiful Lolita is courted by villainous Captain Ramon, rich but effete Don Diego... and dashing Zorro, who is never seen at the same time as Don Diego. As Zorro continues to evade pursuit, Ramon puts the damsel in distress The story, set in the 19th century, focuses on the corruption in politics in Old California in which a mysterious masked man dressed in a dark cloak, avenges the wrongs of the community, and leaving his "Z" mark with his sword wherever he goes, even, as with the very first shot in the opening of the story, on the cheek of one of the soldiers. The question to this mystery is "who is this masked man known as Zorro?", the man who wants to right the injustices done to the common people. At the same time, there is Don Diego Vega (Douglas Fairbanks), a young man who has just returned from his education in Spain to be with his father, appearing to all as a foppish weakling whose more interested in music and poetry than fighting for the common cause. He even gives the impression that no woman would ever marry him. Even the beautiful Lolita (Marguerite De La Motte) finds Don Diego not to her liking but Zorro fascinating. But of course, as with the mild-mannered reporter of Clark Kent turning into Superman, Don Diego Vega becomes Zorro when necessary, full of confidence and quick with the sword, plus sporting his flashing smile, especially after winning his defeat

METROPOLIS   1926        Dir FRITZ LANGE     

 90 mins USA B/W Music Track

Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen
Gustav Fröhlich as Freder, Joh Fredersen's son
Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang
Fritz Rasp as the Thin Man
Theodor Loos as Josaphat
Erwin Biswanger as Worker 11811 / Georgi
Heinrich George as Grot, Foreman of the Heart Machine
Brigitte Helm as Maria/robot       

The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged. The city is run by Johann 'Joh' Fredersen (Alfred Abel).
The beautiful and evangelical figure Maria (Brigitte Helm) takes up the cause of the workers. She advises the desperate workers not to start a revolution, and instead wait for the arrival of "The Mediator", who, she says, will unite the two halves of society. The son of Fredersen, Freder (Gustav Fröhlich), becomes infatuated with Maria, and follows her down into the working underworld. In the underworld, he experiences firsthand the toiling lifestyle of the workers, and observes the casual attitude of their employers (he is disgusted after seeing an explosion at the "M-Machine", when the employers bring in new workers to keep the machine running before taking care of the men wounded or killed in the accident). Shocked at the workers' living conditions, he joins her cause.
Meanwhile his father Fredersen consults with the scientist Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), an old companion and rival. Fredersen learns that the papers found with dead workers are plans of the catacombs and witnesses a speech by Maria. He also learns that Rotwang has built a robotic gynoid. Rotwang wants to give the robot the appearance of Hel, his former lover who left him for Fredersen and died giving birth to Freder. Fredersen persuades him to give the robot Maria's appearance, as he wants to use the robot to tighten his control over the workers. Rotwang complies out of ulterior motives: he knows of Freder's and Maria's love and wants to use the robot to deprive Fredersen of his son.
The real Maria is imprisoned in Rotwang's house in Metropolis, while the robot Maria is first showcast as an exotic dancer in the upper city's Yoshiwara nightclub, fomenting discord among the rich young men of Metropolis. After descending to the worker's city, the robot Maria encourages the workers into a full-scale rebellion, and they destroy the "Heart Machine", the power station of the city. Neither Freder nor Grot, the foreman of the Heart Machine, can stop them. As the machine is destroyed, the city's reservoirs overflow, flooding the workers' underground city and seemingly drowning the children, who were left behind in the riot. In fact, Freder and Maria have saved them in a heroic rescue, without the workers' knowledge.
When the workers realize the damage they have done and that their children are lost, they attack the upper city. Under the leadership of Grot, they chase the human Maria, whom they hold responsible for their riot. As they break into the city's entertainment district, they run into the Yoshiwara crowd and capture the robot Maria, while the human Maria manages to escape. The workers burn the captured Maria at the stake; Freder, believing this to be the human Maria, despairs but then he and the workers realize that the burned Maria is in fact a robot.
Meanwhile, the human Maria is chased by Rotwang along the battlements of the city's cathedral. Freder chases after Rotwang, resulting in a climactic scene in which Joh Fredersen watches in terror as his son struggles with Rotwang on the cathedral's roof. Rotwang falls to his death, and Maria and Freder return to the street, where Freder unites Fredersen and Grot, fulfilling his role as the "Mediator".

NAVIGATOR THE          1924       Dir Donald Crisp

 63 mins USA B/W Silent

 Buster Keaton  Buster Keaton ...  Rollo Treadway
 Frederick Vroom ...  John O'Brien
 Kathryn McGuire ...  Betsy O'Brien
 Clarence Burton ...  Spy (uncredited)
 H.N. Clugston ...  Spy (uncredited)
 Donald Crisp ...  Face on picture at porthole (uncredited)
 Noble Johnson ...  Cannibal chief (uncredited)
           

Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board

NIAGARA FALLS          1941        Dir Gordon Douglas 

 50 mins USA B/W Sound

 Marjorie Woodworth ...  Margie Blake
 Tom Brown ...  Tom Wilson
 Zasu Pitts ...  Emmy Sawyer
 Slim Summerville ...  Sam Sawyer
 Chester Clute ...  Hotel Manager Potter
 Edgar Dearing ...  Motorcycle Cop
 Edward Gargan ...  Chuck
 Gladys Blake ...  Trixie
 Leon Belasco ...  Head Waiter
 Rand Brooks ...  Honeymooner
 Margaret Roach ...  Honeymooner
 Jack Rice ...  Hotel Desk Clerk