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The Edinburgh Festival provides a colorful background for this lively musical comedy. When penniless dancer Janet Jones (Vera-Ellen) emerges from a limousine at the festival, she's mistaken for the girlfriend of the car's millionaire owner - when in fact, she'd only hitched a ride with the driver. Suddenly Broadway director John Frost (Cesar Romero) wants her in his next musical in order to get financing from this "millionaire boyfriend." Soon Janet is romanced by B.G. Bruno (David Niven), the...

Thousands of monstrous bats fill the night sky of a terrified village, while residents are murdered in their beds, drained of all their blood. As the killings increase, rumors of a vampire in their midst send the townspeople into a frenzy of panic, as even the most respected scientist of the community seems convinced by the evidence. Only one investigator refuses to believe the superstitious tales and argues that a maniac must be at the root of the killings. A mob gathers to hunt down the...

Small town girl Rita Wilson moved to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actress, but ended up taking orders at a carhop dressed in short shorts and a tight blouse. To make matters worse, her ailing mother is constantly in need of financial support to pay for her medical care. With this in mind, Rita doesn't exactly object when wealthy Jack Thorndyke asks her for a date. She tells him her tale of woe, and Jack suggests Rita pose for famed artist Stuart Bannerman, who needs a model for his...

The name Hal Roach is synonymous with screen comedy. The esteemed producer/director remains one of the true pioneers of cinema, having made some of the most popular shorts and features of all time during the 1920s and '30s.Fresh Paint (1920): Snub Pollard decides to try his hand at painting -- with catastrophic results.Try, Try again (1922): Jimmy Parrott and "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison bring the house down -- literally -- when they try to save a suburban home from repossession.Harvest Hands...

Phones ring without being answered, cigarettes smolder in ashtrays and rays of light clandestinely spill out from underneath locked doors in Open Secret, an excellent independently-produced film noir social issue melodrama from the late 1940s.Paul and Nancy Lester (John Ireland and Jane Randolph) are newlyweds back in the old neighborhood to visit a good friend who has disappeared. Investigation leads them to the enter of a violent hate cult willing to murder any Jewish "outsiders" unfortunate...

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig hangs up his bat and glove, puts on a ten gallon Stetson and heads out west for his sister's ranch - and a whole lot of trouble. An insidious gang of outlaws has taken over the Rancher's Protective Association and they are making life miserable for the local cattlemen, extorting money, restricting trade and paying off a corrupt sheriff to do their bidding. The outlaws are also plotting to murder a kindly and respected town elder, the man who founded and ran the once...

Comic book publisher and well-known curmudgeon R.P. Moody hasn't laughed in 20 years. His worried daughter is convinced that laughter is the last hope for her ailing father. Betty prescribes a dose of good old slapstick for the old grouch, sneaking a parade of vaudevillians into her father's home. She hopes to make the old man guffaw one more time, but is having no luck. With a little bit of sleuthing, Betty manages to locate her estranged mother and finally uncover the secret behind her...

Gun Grit (1936, B&W): Mobsters from the East are feeling the heat from Federal agents, so they take their protection racket out West. When they start killing cattle and demanding payments, the ranchers send for help. Special Agent Bob Blake goes undercover to break up the gangsters' operation before they bleed the cattlemen dry.Starring Jack Perrin, Ethel Beck, David Sharpe; Directed by William Berke.Hair-Trigger Casey (1936, B&W): Cavalry Captain Casey thinks he's left the war behind him, but...

This action-adventure-comedy begins innocently when a brash sailor Rusty Gibbs bets his fellow sailors that he can get a date with any woman. HIs pals make it tough by giving him one week to take "book worm" librarian Doris Kimbell to the Crow's Nest, a notorious night spot. Things turn serious as Rusty not only finds himself falling in love with Doris but that he has a rival for her affections in Julian Everett. The situation becomes deadly as Julian reveals himself to be part of a spy ring....

Silas Hamm's circus is one of the biggest attractions in Canada, even though it's no secret that he treats his troupe of performers and show animals badly. Despite this, his stepdaughter, Ruth, has forged a special bond with Oscar, the circus elephant. After the show's fur-clad "wild girl" quits, Ruth is forced to wear the costume and thrown in a cage. She is able to escape with the aid of Oscar when a sudden storm hits. Coming upon a logging town in the Canadian woods, Ruth meets two men as...

In 30 A.D., Judean zealots take up the sword against the Romans, whose tyrannic rule brings taxation, persecution and crucifixion. In one village, two brothers who lead the local rebellion have conflicting strategies. Joel, the eldest, dreams of uniting the king-less land of Israel into a grand army of resistance to Rome. His hot-headed younger brother, Jemuel, wants to lead an immediate small-scale assault against the few soldiers stationed in their village. A traveling merchant brings news...

The legend of Robin Hood is given a grand retelling in this popular and long running series made for television (1955-58). Filmed in Great Britain with the handsome and dashing British actor Richard Greene as Robin, the "outlaws" of Sherwood Forest watch over the people of England and protect them from the cruelty and greed of the ruling aristocrats.A Year And A Day: Surgeon Calend, beloved healer of the poor and needy, reveals to Robin that he is actually a runaway serf - and wanted by the...