Dick Tracy springs to life in 15 trigger-fast episodes of the 1937 serial.
May 31, 2007
May 30, 2007
Buster Keaton - College (1927)
To reconcile with his girlfriend, a bookish college student tries to become an athlete.
Air Devils (1938)
Treacherous natives plot to take control of a lush, exotic South Pacific island. To do this, they must first wipe out the local Constabulary. The local police force is led by a cadre of ex-GIs, former American soldiers, marines and airmen, like ace pilots Horseshoe (Larry Blake) and Slats (Dick Purcell) who seem to enjoy the hulas, Hawaiian guitars and the high life of this exotic paradise. The friendly rivalry between the two aviators, their antics and their nasty tricks add genuine laughs to this 1938 tale of adventure and romance in the South Pacific.
Rolling Home (1946)
Old time rodeo performer Raymond Hatton and his grandson arrive in a small town with an injured horse.
May 28, 2007
The Red House (1947)
Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete isn't getting around on his wooden leg like he used to. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete gets quite agitated and warns him of screams in the night, of terrors associated with the red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring.
May 26, 2007
Sherlock Holmes - Terror By Night (1946)
When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner murdered, Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
Sherlock Holmes - A Study In Scarlet (1933)
Members of a secret "trust" that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim's widow enlists Sherlock Holmes' help. The atmospheric doings involve coded messages, a pretty heiress, sinister villains, and a country mansion with a secret passage. The story bears no relation to the novel of the same name.
Sherlock Holmes - The Sign Of Four (1932)
A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Sherlock Holmes - Murder At The Baskervilles (1937)
Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
May 24, 2007
Waterfront (1944)
A Nazi spy operating as an optometrist on the San Francisco waterfront discovers that his code book, which also has the names of his fellow Nazi agents and saboteurs, has been stolen. His attempts to track it down before it falls into the hands of the authorities result in a trail of murder and blackmail.
Killer Dill (1947)
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
May 22, 2007
Fritz Lang - Destiny (Der Müde Tod) (1921)
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.A beautiful expressionist film written and directed by Fritz Lang
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
Yachtsman Steve Drexel bets his friends that he can swim ashore on a remote south-seas island with nothing but a toothbrush and be 'living the life of Riley' when they return.
The Devil's Party (1938)
A group of young kids growing up in Hell's Kitchen form a lifelong bond. Because one refused to rat the others out, he goes to the reformatory. As adults they find their way to conflicting positions in society.
Death from a Distance (1935)
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.
The Day The Sky Exploded (1958)
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
May 21, 2007
Tormented (1960)
On an island community off of California, Tom Stewart is preparing to marry the woman he loves. His plans are threatened by his old girlfriend..
The Gun and the Pulpit (1974)
An on the run gunfighter, wanted for a crime he didn't commit, stumbles upon the body of a preacher who's been killed. In an attempt to hide from his pursuers, he takes on the dead preacher's identity and proceeds to make quite an impression on an entire town that is being bullied by an arrogant, controlling man and his cronies.
I'm From Arkansas (1944)
Another of Summerville's silly slapstick comedies rests upon the excitement that is generated when a pig gives birth to 10 little piglets. The town of Pitchfork, Arkansas, is never the same after hordes of money-grabbers arrive there in search of a new angle.
Two Women / La Ciociara (1960)
The Film tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war.
Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
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.
The Killer Shrews (1959)
On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorised by giant shrews in the midst of a hurricane.
May 20, 2007
The Beatniks (1960)
Eddie Crane is on his way to becoming a top recording star...if he can only break away from his lawless beatnik friends who are his only companions.
May 19, 2007
May 18, 2007
Abbott and Costello - Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Abbott and Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1953)
In the Florida Everglades, a colony of larger-than-human-size, intelligent leeches is living in an underwater cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them prisoner and slowly drain them of blood.
Virus (Fukkatsu no hi) (1980)
A plane carrying biological warfare crashes, causing a deadly virus to be released, killing off most of the world's population. A handful of surviving scientists are in a hurry to find a cure. Will they succeed?
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1962)
At a girl's school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher.
Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
The daughter of a well-off man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero.
May 17, 2007
The Fighting Lady (1944)
The film follows the WWII exploits of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) (unidentified in the film), in its first major operations following its commissioning in 1943. The life of the crew is documented from July 1943 to June 1944, from its passage through the Panama Canal through assaults on Marcus, Kwajalein, Truk and Tinian Islands, and culminating with the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
May 16, 2007
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
This was the loving...battling...lusty age of King Arthur...the Knights of the Round Table...the fabulous age of Camelot!
May 15, 2007
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.May 13, 2007
A young cowboy searches for the killer of his twin brother.Captain Scarface (1953)
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.
Pot o' Gold (1941)
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices.
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