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When Lt. "Wild Bill" Traynor, boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been assigned to duty under his old rival, Captain Benton (Conrad Nagel). While eluding the advances of Rosita (Armida), a Latin dancer, Bill becomes involved with Benton's fiancee, Dorothy Manning (Esther Ralston), whom he quickly wins and Benton accepts the impending marriage.
When a radical Immigrant is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery, years later, his son ets out to find the truth..
Cedric Hardwicke and Freddie Bartholomew star in this adaptation of Thomas Hughes’s famous novel. Oscar nominated director Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins) gets help from a majestic musical score by threetime Oscar nominee Anthony Collins (Sunny, Irene) cinematography by Oscar nominated Nicholas Musuraca (I Remember Mama, Cat People), and costume design from Oscar winner Edward Stevenson (The Facts of Life). Need more convincing? The film’s art direction was by seven time Oscar nominee Darrell Silvera (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons). To say this film has an impressive pedigree is an understatement!
The Snows of Kilimanjaro is an American Technicolor film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film was released on August 18, 1952 and starred Gregory Peck as Harry, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green.
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
Young Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of his bratty cousin results in him getting in trouble.
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
Colleen Moore stars as Hester Prynne in this 1934 version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of sin and redemption! Bearing a child out of wedlock was punishable in 17th century Massachusetts by being forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A,' but unwed mother Hester, who was born to a noble family, is determined to rise above her situation. Hardie Albright, Alan Hale, and William Farnum also star for director Robert G. Vignola, while the recreation of old Puritan Boston was by art director Frank Dexter (Baby Face Morgan, Northwest Trail).
This is the first sound version of the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and it also is the only adaptation of the story with an invisible Marley's ghost. Seymour Hicks plays the title role in this British import about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. He wakes up on Christmas morning a changed man. A public domain classic.
Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr are the ill-fated couple in this Hollywood remake of the French classic Pepe le Moko. Boyer is Pepe, the jewel thief hiding out in Algiers' maze-like and mysterious Casbah. Pepe is a master criminal who rules his field, but when he meets the beautiful Parisian Gaby (Lamarr, in her American film Debut), he begins to question his shady existence. Directed by John Cromwell (Dead Reckoning, The Prisoner of Zenda) with dialog by noir master James M. Cain, Algiers was an influence on everything from Pepe Le Pew cartoons to the making of Casablanca.
An intrepid dog comes
to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a
gold strike.
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
A young reporter's grandfather wins a sweepstakes, but it turns out that his ticket is phony. The reporter finds out that the police are looking for the criminal ring responsible for the phony-sweepstakes racket, so he and his young brother set out to track down the gang responsible and expose them
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a retainer.
After a racially motivated gang war erupts, a pair of rookie cops infiltrate the gangs' high school to stop the senseless violence. Rita Moreno is absolutely stunning in this pre-West Side Story role. Watch for a young Dyan Cannon as Wiggles (billed Diana Cannon) in her second feature film. Based on "All God's Children," a story from the LAPD's beat magazine.
When revolutionary General takes over a small Mexican town, he falls in love with a rich man's beautiful, but explosive daughter.
Into the vast swamplands and only a few steps ahead of the bloodhounds, an escaped convict is aided by a honky-tonk dancer.
“I killed a cop…So what?” From the mind of cult filmmaker Ed Wood Jr. (Plan Nine From Outer Space) comes the tale of Paula Perkins (Jean Moorhead), the daughter of wealthy parents who leads a criminal girl gang. In no time at all they’re dressing like men and robbing gas stations. They even trash their school! W.M. Morgan took a break from editing episodes of Lassie to direct this trashy drama. Watch it and you'll be leery of any girl gangs in your own neighborhood!