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Fiendish, blood-thirsty Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks) hunts Man instead of animals on his secluded island. When world-renowned big game hunter Robert Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is washed ashore after a shipwreck and refuses the Count's invitation to join in the hunt, he becomes the hunted. If the Count cannot track down Rainsford between midnight and sunrise, he is free. If caught, his head ends up on the Count's wall of trophies. Fay Wray is the Count's reluctant prize maiden and becomes part of...

Handsome and popular football star Red Grange is poised to lead Clay College to a victorious season. This goes against the plans of George Elton, the leader of a gambling ring who will stop at nothing to ensure Clay's defeat. Elton frames Grange for cheating and has him expelled from school, but Red is determined to prove his innocence. As Grange gets closer to finding out who set him up, his friends are violently attacked. The football player turns vigilante hero, left with nothing but his...

Billed as "America's Foremost Romantic Actor," Otis Skinner plays Hajj, the conniving beggar-magician. To make sure he's well taken care of in his old age, the wiley trickster goads the Caliph Abdalla, wealthy ruler of Bagdad, into marrying his pretty, virginal daughter. But Mansur, the Caliph's envious chief of police, throws a spanner into the works when he involves Hajj in a conspiracy to assassinate the Caliph - and take the girl for himself.Otis Skinner (1858-1942) was one of the most...

Clyde Beatty, the world's most fearless wild animal trainer, leads safaris into Africa's darkest jungles. Traveling with his partner, Grant Cunningham, he specializes in capturing exotic species for circuses and zoos around the globe. His already dangerous job is made even more difficult when Gorman, an unscrupulous hunter, attempts to cut in on Beatty's lucrative enterprise. Whether capturing wild gorillas or journeying deep into hostile native territory, Beatty must always keep one eye over...

Aspiring opera singer Jeff Carter gets a nasty surprise upon returning to New York after years of study in Europe. His selfish wife Millie divorced him months earlier, married a wealthy older man, and put their son Danny in military school. Renting a cheap flat and assuming custody of Danny, Jeff struggles to find work as a singer but is forced to settle for a demeaning acting job on radio, playing faithful Indian companion to a pale imitation of the Lone Ranger. Things get more depressing...

Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV (1949, B&W): A fall from a horse leaves a wealthy man with a head injury and a persistent delusion that he is 11th century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV of Germany. After 20 years of enabling and reinforcing his dementia, his psychiatrist summons the man's ex-wife to participate in a costumed charade meant to provide a possible cure. But the patient harbors long-festering dark motivations of his own, and he twists the proceedings to his own vengeful ends. This...

A wealthy importer is murdered in an apparent jewel theft gone bad. Henry Courtney's bullet-riddled corpse is discovered in his office soon after his partner, Jim O'Brien, is seen leaving the premises following a heated dispute over a debt. In addition, the priceless DeNormand necklace is missing. The murder weapon is planted in Jim's luggage, and two men, Rand and Hobbs, falsely testify against him. After a speedy trial, he finds himself in a cell facing execution. Assuming that O'Brien knows...

These sensationalistic - and sometimes shockingly insensitive - vintage documentaries about native Africa are presented for historical purposes only.

Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) who's nursed him back to health after a serious accident. She owns a large piece of the swamp and has outlawed hunting on her property. His rival, Mike (Crabbe) is a trapper who harbors deep resentment for Johnny and his new wealthy friends. When he feels Johnny is responsible for the hunting ban,...

Beautiful Pat Morgan has a hot date with the town's biggest playboy - millionaire Mark Townley. She's not trying to destroy her reputation or her happy marriage to Steve Morgan - merely pretending to be single to try to snare the lucrative Smoothie Cigarette account for the Morgan Advertising Company. Pat has been managing the agency for three years while husband Steve has been away fighting in the war. Trouble ensues when Steve returns unannounced to discover his charming wife, (sans wedding...

Jewish vaudevillian Max Aaronson was so excited by the audience's reaction to him in 1903's epochal The Great Train Robbery (in which he played three roles), that he changed his name to Gilbert M. Anderson, determined to devote himself to filmmaking. He and his partner, George Kirke Spoor, founded Essanay Studios in 1907, where Anderson acted in over 300 films, often writing and directing as well. But he became Hollywood's first enormously popular cowboy star as "Broncho Billy" Anderson in 148...

Brigadier-general Patrick Marlow is dedicated to his wife Mary, but his devotion masks a possessive streak that can lead to violence. When he finds her seemingly having a secret rendezvous with newspaper publisher Gilbert Patton, he murders the man in cold blood. In an attempt to lessen the severity of the crime, Mary lies and tells the court she was Patton's mistress, hiding the truth that he was actually about to rape her. Believing his wife did indeed betray him, a devastated Marlow flees...