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Man in the Attic is a 1953 mystery film. The movie is based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings, and was previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. The story takes place in London in 1888. On the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings, a man rents out an attic from an older couple in need of extra income. The man (Jack Palance), a research pathologist, begins working on his experiments in the rooms. Helen Harley,...

Scared to Death is a 1947 Gothic film starring Bela Lugosi. This is the only color film in which Bela Lugosi had a starring role, and is based on an actual 1933 murder case. The film begins with a disclosure by morgue examiners of how a beautiful woman literally died of fright and the plot reveals how she reached that fatal stage of terror. A woman is married to the son of a doctor who is the proprietor of a private sanatorium where the woman is undergoing unwilling treatment. Both son and...

The Devil Bat is a 1940 American horror film produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and stars Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher, Yolande Mallott and the comic team of Dave O'Brien and Donald Kerr as the protagonists. It was the first horror film from PRC. Heathville loved the magnificent estate of Martin Heath owned by Dr. Paul Carruthers, (Bela Lugosi), the doctor found time to conduct certain private experiments -- weird, terrifying experiments. Dr. Carruthers is offered a...

My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American hilarious comedy starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. During the Great Depression Godfrey 'Smith' Parke is living with other men down on their luck at a New York City dump when approached by spoiled socialite Cornelia Bullock, (Gail Patrick) who offers him $5 to be her 'forgotten man' for a scavenger hunt. Godfrey advances on her in anger and causes her to fall on a pile of ashes. Cornelia leaves in a huff, but her younger sister Irene, (Carole Lombard)...

Fifty million people died worldwide due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. This program examines how and why this epidemic killed so many. There were 675,000 deaths in America due to the 1918 flu, and the ancestors of people who died from the epidemic, as well as some of the oldest living survivors of the epidemic tell their heartfelt stories of how it was to live during this horrific time in American history. No one knew where the flu epidemic started or how to stop it. Funeral homes could not...

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon and Raymond Massey. During the 1792 Reign of Terror in France, vengeful French mobs are outraged when again and again French aristocrats are saved from death by the audacious 'Band of the Scarlet Pimpernel', a secret society of 20 English noblemen. Robespierre (Ernest Milton) meets with Chauvelin, (Raymond Massey), the republic's new ambassador to Britain, to discuss the problem of the Scarlet...

Sundown is a 1941 American black-and-white World War II film starring Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot and George Sanders. The film was well received by critics and earned three Academy Award nominations. An aircraft lands in Kenya where Zia (Gene Tierney) disembarks and is met by a caravan in British East Africa. Bill Crawford (Bruce Cabot) is a District Commissioner and contacts the governor of Nairobi requesting a month-long furlough to study the Senshi, a local tribe. However, the Senshi are...

The Woman in Green is a 1945 American film, the eleventh of the fourteenth Sherlock Holmes films. The film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. When several women are murdered and their forefingers severed, Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate. Widower Sir George Fenwick (Paul Cavanagh) has a romantic night at the apartment of Lydia Marlowe (Hillary Brooke), and is hypnotized into believing that he is responsible for the crimes. He is certain he is...

Carnival Story is a 1954 film starring Anne Baxter and Steve Cochran. The film was set in a circus which was filmed in Munich and Bavaria. Grayson's travelling carnival comes to Munich with acts that include high-dive artist Frank Collini (Lyle Bettger) and strongman Groppo. A local girl named Willi (Anne Baxter) picks the pocket of Joe (Steve Cochran) who works for the carnival, and she ends up being offered a job. Joe makes romantic gestures toward Willi, who tries to resist him but is...

A Star is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. North Dakota farm girl Esther Victoria Blodgett yearns to become a Hollywood actress, but her father and mother discourage such thoughts. But, Esther's grandmother gives Esther her savings to follow her dream. Esther goes to Hollywood and tries to land a job as an extra with her chances of becoming a star one in 100,000. She is told that the casting agency has stopped taking applications....

Dressed to Kill was released in 1946 and features Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The film was the last of fourteen films starring Rathbone and Bruce. A convicted thief in Dartmoor Prison (played by an uncredited Cyril Delevanti) hides the location of stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes (each of which play a different version of 'The Swagman'. The boxes are then sold to a local auction house. Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains,...

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure film based on the 1897 French Alexandrin version drama. This film stars Jose Ferrer, who received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Cyrano de Bergerac, Mala Powers plays Roxanne and William Prince portrays Christian de Neuvillette. Cyrano de Bergerac (Jose Ferrer) plays a swashbuckling swordsman and poet who believes he will never be loved because of his enormous nose. Loving the fair Roxanne (Mala Powers) from afar, Roxanne...