Just Added 09.16.08
The Payoff 1942 - After a city's District Attorney is murdered, an investigative reporter finds out that everything isn't as cut and dried as it appears to be.
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The 39 Steps |
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Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. He invites a mysterious woman running from foreign spies to hide in his flat. Then next morning he finds her murdered. Fearing he could be blamed for her death, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.
Affairs of Cappy RicksWalter Brennan stars as Cappy RIcks, and old seafaring man who returns home after a long sea voyage to find his daughter about to marry an idiotic whelp whose mother has taken over his home and business.
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Angel and the Bad Man |
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John Wayne plays Quirt Evans, a gunslinger with a nasty rep who is injured and nursed back to health by a Quaker family.
Angel on My Shoulder |
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The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Atom Age VampireAfter a stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment to restore her beauty by using the glands taken from murdered women.
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Behave YourselfWhen a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?
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Black DragonsA cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. Detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case and everyone's true motives are revealed.
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The Brain That Wouldn't DieA doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
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The Bronze Buckaroo |
click to watchBob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. Blake tries to find Jackson. Learning that Thorne and his gang hold him prisoner.
Boys of the City |
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Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again
Captain Scarface |
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A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.
Carnival of SoulsAfter a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
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1954 Chevy Sales MusicalWeird musical number from 1954 Chevrolet Sales Convention. I know it's not the usual fare, but it's my podcast I can do whatever I want.
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Colonel Effingham's Raid |
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The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird |
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A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator.
Cyrano DeBergerac |
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Cyrano is poet, soldier and excellent swordsmand with a very large proboscis.
Death from a distance |
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While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Detour |
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Dick Tracy: Chapters 1-15Dick Tracy versus the Spider and his mysterious crime organizaion.
Dooomed to Die |
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Dreaming Outloud |
click to watch The first film adaptation of the Lum and Abner radio program.
Duck and Cover |
click to watch1951 Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
Enter the Lone RangerPilot for the Lone Ranger TV Series. September 15th 1949.
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The First Spaceship on Venus |
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IMDB: (U.S. Version) A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
Five Minutes to Live |
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A gang of bank robbers terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers. Stars: Johnny Cash, Vic Tayback, and Ron Howard.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapters 1-12 Buster Crabbe returns as Flash Gordon in this 12 part Universal Serial.
Freedom Highway |
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A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology. Part travelogue, part Greyhound advertisement.
Fresh from Paris |
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Musical Romance starring Forrest Tucker from F-Troop.
The Future of Air War |
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An airship returns to its squadron. Unaware of the looming danger, two young men dream of their future. One of them, a talented inventor, has perfected an astonishing flying machine, which he is about to try out. Suddenly, an invincible and inaccessible army of airships attacks with bombs and homing missiles.
Ghost Patrol |
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Cowboy hero, Tim McCoy plays undercover federal agent Tim Caverly who's sent to investigate plane crashes caused by a mysterious ray gun.
Go for Broke |
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The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.
The Great Alaskan Mystery: Chapters 1-13
13 Part Universal Serial - Former marine flyer Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), sidekick Bosun (Edgar Kennedy), and the lovely Ruth Miller (Marjorie Weaver) fight to retrieve a super-weapon stolen by Nazi spies.
Half Shot at SunriseThe stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
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Harlem Rides the Range |
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Herb Jeffries stars in this 1939 western with an entirely African American cast.
Hawk of Powder RiverCowboy Eddie Dean versus The Hawk, and her outlaw gang.
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Hellfire Austin |
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Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him and he must hide both himself and the horse until race time.
HerculesSteve Reeves stars in this spaghetti production of Hercules.
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Hi De Ho |
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Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters.
His Girl Friday |
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Romantic screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation.
Home Town Story |
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Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views. Marilyn Monroe also has a small part.
Hook Line & Sinker |
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IMDB: Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
International Crime |
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Early film of Street and Smith "The Shadow", very different from the later films and serials based on the radio program.
It's a Joke Son |
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Kenny Delmar reprises his role as Senator Claghorn from Fred Allen's radio program. In this film Senator Claghorn runs for office to defeat a crooked "northern" politician.
Jack and the Beanstalk |
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Abbott and Costello's musical version of Jack and Beanstalk.
The Jack Benny Show - March 4, 1962March 4th 1962 of the Jack Benny Show, with special guests: Violinist Toni Marcus, and singer Julie London.
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Jesse James Meets FrankenStein's Daughter |
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IMDB: Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein's granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse's slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor.
Kansas City Confidential |
click to watch An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.
Kid Dynamite |
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dis picture Muggs, Danny and da rest of da Bowery Boys is back togeter. Dis time Muggs is a bigger bully den his usual self, always trin to prove he is a better man den his sisters boyfrined Danny. Dis is one grade "A" piece of cineaminatic Woild War Two histery.
Killer Dill |
click to watchDoor-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Killer Diller |
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King Solomans Mines |
click to watchClassic adventure film based on the H. Rider Haggard novel. Starring Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, Anna Lee, and John Loder.
Last of the MohicansFirst film adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel of the same name. This film also features one of Boris Karloff's earliest film appearances in a small uncredited role as a Native American.
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The Last Man on Earth |
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IMDB: Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now...or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims begin to leave their graves, part of a hellish undead army that''s thirsting for blood...his!
Let's Go Collegiate |
click to watch 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 rower.
Lost in the StratosphereTwo military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries
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The Lost World |
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The first 1925 film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Love Laughs at Andy HardyAndy returns from the military with love and marriage on his mind.
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Lying LipsA nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. Directed by Oscar Micheaux. BTW James Earl Jone's dad is in this.
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Make Mine Freedom |
click to watch This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
The Man Who Knew Too Much |
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A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Manhattan TowerA post depression love story that takes place between to people who work in the Empire State building.
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Meet John Doe |
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Stanwick plays reporter Ann Mitchell who on the verge of being fired prints a fake letter from an unemployed "John Doe," who is threatening to kill himself to protest the current state of society. The story is hit and the paper is forced to rehire Ann who convinces the editor that they need a "real" John Doe to maintain the momentum of the story. They find unemployed baseball player Joe Willoughby played by Gary Cooper to assume the role. Eventually a John Doe society forms and grows beyond the control of the newspaper men who planned to use this new movement to serve their own political gain.
The Middleton Family at the Worlds Fair |
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Produced by Westinghouse this films is a historic treasure with some of the best footage of the exhibits and architecture of the 1939 worlds fair.
Mr. Boggs Steps OutOliver Boggs is typical office worker with gift for statistics. After winning a contest he take his money and buys a barrel factory, and falls in loves.
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Mr. Wise Guy |
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The East Side Kids get sent to reform school after they are falsely accused of stealing a truck.
My Pal Trigger |
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Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville slips and reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees a chance to clear his name.
Mr. Robinson Crusoe |
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click for fullscreen While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various Rube Goldberg type contraptions constructed from local materials. Meanwhile, on a nearby island, a young maiden flees her arranged wedding. She canoes to Steve's island for safety, whereupon she is dubbed "Saturday". Soon they are attacked by vengeful tribesmen from the neighboring island. Will Steve and Saturday survive?
Nancy Drew... Reporter |
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Nevada City |
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click for fullscreenStagecoach drivers Roy and Gabby go up against the evil Black Bart who is trying to pit the stage and train lines against each other.
No, No, NanettePerky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations.
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Nosferatu |
click to watchOriginally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Munarau's chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker's Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend.
One Body Too Many |
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Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will.
Passport to Pimlico |
click to watchAfter one of the last unexploded bombs of the German blitz is accidentally detonated in the small English town of Pimlico. A cave is uncoverd filled with treasure and documents that declare the townspeople to not actually be British but citizens of Burgundy.
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IMDB:When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Phantom Planet |
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After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
Pot o' Gold |
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Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly!
Pride of the Bowery |
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click for fullscreenBowery Boy Muggs is tricked into joining a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) Camp by thinking it's a boxing training camp.
Private Buckaroo |
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Classic WWII recruitment musical. Staring Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis, Harry James, Shemp Howard, and the Andrew Sisters.
The Return of Chandu - Chapters 1-12
Bela Lugosi is "Chandu" an American raised in the east and possessed of White Magical powers. Chandu must protect an Egyptian princess from being sacrificed by the Black Magic cult of Ubasti to resurrect their long dead goddess.
Roar of the PressA newly wedded couple tries to get the scoop on fifth columnist.
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Rock Rock Rock |
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A young teenage girl desperately tries to earn enough money to buy a dress for a school rock and roll dance. Appearances by disc jockey Alan Freed, and performances by artists including Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Rough Riders' Round-up |
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Now that the Spanish-American was is over, Roy and other Rough Riders become border patrolmen. Their goal is to stop outlaws who are stealing gold from stage coaches and express offices.
Santa Conquers the Martians |
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Behold the greatest Christmas movie ever!!!, Just kidding it's truly horrible.
SabakaIn India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and, when the local Maharajah refuses to help, sets out alone to battle his enemy.
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula |
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In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (an ancestor of the great vampire-hunter himself, no less) to help them put a stop to these hideous crimes. It becomes apparent that the culprit is Count Dracula himself, disguised as a reclusive property developer, but secretly plotting to unleash a fatal virus upon the world.
Scared to Death |
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click for fullscreenA story told in flashback of the events leading up to a woman's death. Starring Bela Lugosi in his first color film.
Scarlet Street |
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When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young women, her venal fiancˇ persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.
Scrooge |
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click for fullscreenSeymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marley's Ghost and its Expressionistic cinematography. This is the uncut 78 minute version.
Sex Madness |
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click for fullscreenFrom the makers of Reefer Madness comes Sex Madness. A film demonstrating that sex can be just as detrimental as marijuana.
The Shadow StrikesFilm based on the Street and Smith Magazine publication "The Shadow"
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The Smallest Show on Earth |
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Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.
Smart Alecks |
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Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them. Complications ensue when the crook that Danny helped capture escapes from jail and comes looking for him.
So This is Washington |
click to watchAfter Abner accidentally discovers a synthetic rubber he and Lum travel to Washington with the hopes that this new discovery will help the war effort.
State Department: File 649A U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.
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The Stork Club |
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IMDB: A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.
The Stranger |
click to watchSet Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.
Steamboat Bill Jr. |
click to watch Steamboat Bill, Jr. is the story of a naive, college-educated dandy who must prove himself to his working-class father, a hot-headed riverboat captain, while courting the daughter of his father's rival, who threatens to put Steamboat Bill, Sr. and his paddle-wheeler out of business.
A Study in Scarlet |
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Members of a secret "trust" that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim's widow enlists Sherlock Holmes' help.
Submarine Alert |
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IMDB: Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
Swing High, Swing Low |
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IMDB : In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship Maggie and his career.
Teenagers from Outer Space |
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Terror By Night |
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Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer's hiding place and deduce that long-time foe Moriarty's henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran is somehow involved in the crime.
Things to Come |
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IMDB: Things to Come opens with a near-future forecast of Christmas 1940 in the metropolis of Everytown (obviously London), a city threatened by world war. Pacifist intellectuals, such as John Cabal (Massey), try to turn the tide. But Cabal's efforts go unheeded by the self-interested classes, and war arrives with tanks and aeroplanes and gas bombs. Everytown is destroyed by air raids (dramatically enacted four years before the real thing).The war continues for thirty years, its original purpose forgotten. As a result, civilization degenerates while "the Wandering Sickness" and devastation accelerate the spiral down until 1970, when the world has crumbled into a balkanized "Mad Max" Dark Ages. Everytown is ruled by a barbaric warlord, the Boss (Ralph Richardson), as the war continues on a Medieval scale.
Three Broadway GirlsA trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy.
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Two Gun Man from Harlem |
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Taken from IMDB: A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.
Under California Stars |
click to watchRancher Roy and his boys track down a gang who have stolen Trigger and are holding him for ransom.
Warning From Space |
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A friendly alien sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer to warn mankind that a meteor will collide with Earth.
White Zombie |
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A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
The Wild Women of Wongo |
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On the tropical island of Wongo, a tribe of beautiful women discover that the other side of the island is inhabited by a tribe of handsome men. They also discover a tribe of evil ape men who plan raid the women's village for mates.
Zontar the Thing from Venus |
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A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems. However, Zontar has other ideas.