Film Chest

In a series of episodic vignettes, pioneer director D.W. Griffith (Birth of a Nation) explores the life and turbulent times of the 16th President of the United States. Historically accurate and to the point, the film explores the birth, loves and tragic presidency of Abe Lincoln. Credited with the skillful use of a moving camera, it was also Griffith's first non-silent film.

A catholic priest and students at a boys boarding school - a true story that is a gripping mystery.

Post-World War II, four ex-servicemen are doing everything they can to avoid work in this zany, fun-filled comedy. That is, until they're called upon to keep an eye on a pretty, young ex-WAVE officer who they nickname "The Admiral"-- and with whom they all fall in love! Edmund O'Brien and Wanda Hendrix are adorable, while Johnny Sands and Steve Brodie provide endless comic relief in this unlikely gem!

Ideally set in Monte Carlo, a compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself. The story has a narrator.

The laughs are wild when Abbott and Costello go on safari! Bud and Lou are a pair of mild-mannered bookworms who pose as big game hunters and travel deep into the African jungle in search of a rare gorilla. But what's really at stake is a secret diamond mine. Along the way they'll tangle with lions, cannibals, criminals, and, of course, wild apes! Their accomplices include the lovely Hillary Brooke (who later appeared on their TV series) and Three Stooges co-horts Shemp Howard and Joe Besser....

By combining actual footage with film re-enactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of World War II. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.

Cary Grant stars as a wealthy-yet-unfulfilled millionaire who attempts to spend a year among the working classes instead of relying on his family fortune in this British comedy-romance. But his loyalties are challenged when he falls in love with a woman from the impoverished side of town. Co-starring Mary Brian, the film is based on best-selling novel "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss", which is also the title used for its original UK release.

Quite possibly the most unique and "high-brow" Western that John Wayne ever starred in, this was also the first one he made in the role of producer, after the studio set him up with his own production company. When Wayne's character, Quirt Evans, is wounded outside the home of a Quaker family, he is taken in and nursed back to health, with particular attention paid to him by their sheltered yet attractive daughter. Evans is enticed by the family's pacifist ways, but his outlaw past soon...

On the death of a gangster he goes to "hell" where he enters into an arrangement for his return to earth as a respected Judge. His motives of revenge fade away.

In this original, and still the best, film version of William Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy, Sir Laurence Olivier stars as Orlando while Elisabeth Bergner is Rosalind, his secret admirer who disguises herself as a boy in order to stay near to him. Nearly all of the actors involved had performed the work on stage previously, adding to the stellar overall performance. A particular highlight is Olivier's magnificent delivery of the famous "All the world's a stage " monologue.

Earth is threatened by an asteroid and flying saucers.

Criminals flee into the wilderness after a heist. They are chased by a monster spider, which is released in the explosion.