Delightful adaptation of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" features Miriam Hopkins as the self-centered and manipulative anti-heroine Sharp. Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke and Nigel Bruce also star in this, the first full-Technicolor film.
Dec 28, 2008
Becky Sharp (1935)
Delightful adaptation of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" features Miriam Hopkins as the self-centered and manipulative anti-heroine Sharp. Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke and Nigel Bruce also star in this, the first full-Technicolor film.
Dec 27, 2008
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
Dec 26, 2008
The Phantom Planet (1961)
Classic sci-fi from 1961. After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
The Three Stooges - Malice in the Palace (1949)
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel.
The Three Stooges - Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947)
The stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to their problems.
The Three Stooges - Brideless Groom (1947)
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal.
The Three Stooges - Disorder in the Court (1936)
The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder.
Dec 22, 2008
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
To prove his theories on the relationship between Man and Ape, the mad Dr Mirakle takes to abducting young women and injecting them with ape blood. But his experiments invariably end with the deaths of his subjects. When he abducts Camille, Mirakle comes to the attention of medical student Pierre Dupin who joins forces with the police to try to find her before it's too late.
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Dec 21, 2008
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
Detective James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Moon".
Dec 17, 2008
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers a international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim's company.
Dec 16, 2008
The Dark Hour (1936)
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
Dec 14, 2008
Dead End Kids - Little Tough Guy (1938)
After his father is unjustly executed, Jimmy Boylan teams up with the Dead End Kids. He and the gang soon find themselves up against the manipulative D.A.'s son who is determined to transform them from a gang of territorial newsboys into hardened criminals.
Dec 10, 2008
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.
Dec 9, 2008
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
Dec 6, 2008
The Southerner (1945)
Jean Renoir's classic tale of a cotton picker who moves his wife and children to a run down farm in hopes that they can grow their own cotton and make for a better future.
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Richard Diamond Private Detective - s01e07 - The Big Score (1957)
Diamond poses as a rich Canadian and infiltrates a gambling racket in order to learn the truth about a businessman's claims that he witnessed a murder.
Dec 5, 2008
The Magic Sword (1962)
The evil sorcerer Lodac captures Princess Helene and whisks her off to his castle. Young George has been enamored of Helene from afar, and aided by a magic sword given to him by his sorceress stepmother he sets off with his six knights to save her. However, he must travel with Sir Branton, who also has romantic aspirations for the Princess. Together the knights must face Lodac's seven curses and liberate the Princess.
Dec 4, 2008
Life with Father (1947)
In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of patent medicine selling. When it comes to light he has never been baptized and everyone starts insisting he must do so, it all starts to get a bit too much.
Staring: William Powell, Irene Dunne and Elizabeth Taylor
Tex Ritter - Hittin' the Trail (1937)
Tex Ritter gets arrested for murder and horse rustling but it's all a case of mistaken identity. The town's big-shot gets him off the hook and offers a horse-trading deal to Tex with the intention of double crossing him just like he did the Tombstone Kid.... the guy Tex was mistaken for.
Dec 2, 2008
The House of Rothschild (1934)
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the predjudices against the family.
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