Possibly the most popular private eye in America, Michael Shayne starred in pulp magazines and dime store detective novels for close to half a century. On film, he was played by Lloyd Nolan in a series of seven features for 20th Century Fox, and then by Hugh Beaumont in five lower-budget movies made by PRC. After an unsuccessful pilot with Mark Stevens, Shayne finally made it to TV in an hour-long series that ran on NBC from 1960 to 1961. The Miami-based private eye was played by Richard...

Possibly the most popular private eye in America, Michael Shayne starred in pulp magazines and dime store detective novels for close to half a century. On film, he was played by Lloyd Nolan in a series of seven features for 20th Century Fox, and then by Hugh Beaumont in five lower-budget movies made by PRC. After a failed attempt with Mark Stevens, Shayne finally made it to TV in an hour-long series that ran on NBC from 1960 to 1961. The Miami-based private eye was played by Richard Denning,...

Possibly the most popular private eye in America, Michael Shayne starred in pulp magazines and dime store detective novels for close to half a century. On film, he was played by Lloyd Nolan in a series of seven features for 20th Century Fox, and then by Hugh Beaumont in five lower-budget movies made by PRC. After a failed attempt with Mark Stevens, Shayne finally made it to TV in an hour-long series that ran on NBC from 1960 to 1961. The Miami-based private eye was played by Richard Denning,...

19th century Tartar unrest throws Russia into turmoil and the Czar desperately needs to communicate with his brother. Unfortunately, his sibling (a Duke) is stuck behind enemy lines. Jurgens (the Czar's agent) is given the task of getting the message through. To shield himself from suspicion, Jurgens assumes the identity of a merchant and takes along a beautiful female companion (Page), who poses as his wife. The pair run into many dangers along the way (including a fight with a bear!) but...

Tomboy Mickey Kelly is trying to kindle a romance between her father and pretty next-door-neighbor Louise Williams, who has fled the big city with broken heart. But wealthy and influential Lydia Matthews plans to be the next Mrs. Kelly. When things don't go her way, Lydia is perfectly willing to create a scandal that will destroy Mickey's and her father's reputations forever.This delightful but rarely-seen coming-of-age story introduces pretty golden-voiced Lois Butler as Mickey in her first...

Mickey -- Digitally Remastered. This coming-of-age comedy centers on a young tomboy named Mickey (Lois Butler) as she struggles between her two passions: singing and baseball. Meanwhile, she plays matchmaker for her widowed father (Bill Goodwin) and a neighbor (Irene Hervey). Academy Award-winning actress Hattie McDaniel also appears in this tender look at fathers and daughters. Mickey was directed by Ralph Murphy and based on the novel Clementine by Peggy Goodin.

Mickey Rooney first achieved stardom in a series of films based on the Toonerville Trolley comic strip character, Mickey McGuire, that ran from 1927 to 1934. The only serious rival to Hal Roach's Our Gang series, these short comedies have rarely been seen since their initial release and are some of the best in the series.Mickey's 11: Mickey and his team have a "Sekret Praktis" to get ready for the big "Foot Bawl" game.Mickey's Touchdown: Mickey persuades College Football Hall of Famer Howard...

Mickey McGuire has outgrown Toonerville and become a huge star in Hollywood. Three pretty young actresses, former members of Mickey's gang, gather for tea and reflect on the good old days through three vintage Mickey McGuire short subjects.Seven-year-old Joe Yule had his name legally changed by the studio to Mickey McGuire, to avoid paying royalties to the creators of the famed Toonerville Folks comic strip, on which Mickey was based. From the silents into the sound era, Mickey McGuire starred...

Mickey's Movies (1928): A movie shoot in Mickey McGuire's neighborhood inspires him to make his own film. Starring Mickey Rooney; Directed by Earl T. Montgomery.Mickey's Adventures: Mickey's Ape Man (1933): A movie theater contest for "the best imitation of the Ape-Man" has Mickey McGuire training in the woods. Starring Mickey Rooney, Billy Barty, Jimmy Robinson, Kendall McComas; Directed by J.A. Duffy.Mickey's Adventures: Shamrock Alley (1933): "Big Boy" is on a mission to replace a broken...

Someone shot Angie the Ox around midnight, killing him more than somewhat dead. Word is that rival Lance McGowan is the who in the whodunit, and the gendarmes aim to find a nice chair with straps and high voltage for him. Lance needs a Midnight Alibi. Not by an inside-tip long shot would anyone think wealthy spinster Abigail Ardsley would offer it. Fast on the heels and buffed shoe leather of the adaptations of Damon Runyon's Lady for a Day and Little Miss Marker came this sharp-eared version...

Lynn Claymore (Francis X. Bushman, Jr.) has inherited a large gothic estate, surrounded by thick swampland that can only be reached by boat. Claymore arrives at the house with his assistant, Trohelius Snapp, and the executor to the estate, attorney Richard Mason. Claymore notices a strange figure crawling into a window, but Mason assures him that the property is unoccupied. As they tour the home, however, a bizarre and supernatural presence begins to haunt them. The three men are relieved when...

Turner Classic Movies and Universal Studios Home Entertainment present Midnight Lace, the story of elegant newlywed wife Kit Preston (Doris Day) who is married to British Financier Anthony Preston (Rex Harrison). This riveting film allowed Day to play against type in a Hitchcock-styled thriller with a top-notch supporting cast that includes Myrna Loy, John Gavin and Roddy McDowall. This special edition DVD features bonus content including an introduction by Robert Osborne, scene and publicity...

A phantom criminal is at work aboard the night train from New York to Montreal, leaving his victims bound, gagged and penniless. Joan Marshall is victimized but vows to see the Phantom captured and joins forces with detective Val Lennon. Lennon is stumped when the thief murders his best agent and slips through his fingers with $60,000 in cash, vanishing without a trace. Risking his life to bring the killer to justice, Lennon goes undercover. Posing as a rich traveler, he prepares for a final...

A dead body is discovered in a wax museum and two rival reporters compete to break the story in this fast-paced, tough-talking crime caper. Renowned criminal Joe Wells is shot in his hotel room and stumbles into a wax museum, where office boy Clutch (Leo Gorcey) sweeps the floor and butchers the English language ("I figured it out by the process of mental reduction"). Feisty reporter Sue Gallagher (Ann Savage) discovers Wells' body and rushes to file the scoop, but is interrupted when her...

Following yet another show-stopping performance, famed vaudevillian "Lollypop" Jones finds the dead body of a woman in his dressing room. After repeated attempts to dispose of the body -- including hiding it in a closet, and stuffing it down a laundry chute -- fail, Lollypop realizes that his unwanted guest isn't dead...she's a zombie! Onnie "Lollypop" Jones (1897-1954) was a popular African-American vaudeville singer, tap dancer, and comedian in the 1940s. In 1946, he was enlisted by...

Vice and graft are out of control when Police Chief James Sullivan cracks down on the department. Since all the cops are guilty of something, everyone is a suspect when the Chief is murdered and all internal investigation is suspended. In the aftermath, cop turns on cop as the whole force interrogates their partners to find the Chief's killer.Filmed in and around an actual police station, Midnight Phantom is a striking 1930's day-in-the-life drama of the force at work, policing the colorful,...

A slick nightclub owner (King Kong veteran Robert Armstrong) discovers the giant ape frolicking in Africa as the beloved pet of a young girl (Terry Moore). He brings both to Hollywood as a floor-show sensation, until some no-goods ply Joe with booze and the blitzed behemoth goes bonkers. Highlights such as Armstrong's henchmen trying to lasso Joe cowpoke style, Joe playing tug-of-war with musclemen and plenty of Joe-to-the-rescue action make Mighty Joe Young mighty fine entertainment.

Bob Kingman is a brilliant inventor working for cold-hearted industrialist Wilfred Drexel. However, Bob's main interest is the boss's daughter, Wynne, who spends her time speedboat racing. Bob invents a high-powered engine to help the young woman in her next competition. But a suave criminal posing as a Spanish count named Ribalto also has designs on Wynne. He sabotages Bob's engine and frames him for the theft of $100,000 from Drexel's company. With nothing left to lose, the inventor...

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title

Discovering that has been betrayed by her tycoon husband, Millie divorces him, but regrettably, must leave her daughter in the custody of the wealthy cheat. Determined to make her own way in the world, the much sought-after beauty remains cool and detached from any emotional involvement with men - until she opens her heart to a reporter. But her happiness is short-lived when she discovers that he too has been unfaithful. Years later, when an old suitor turns his attention to her stunning,...

Million Dollar Haul is the second of three films made by Poverty Row producer Bert Sternbach starring Tarzan the Police Dog. (The other two were Inside Information, 1934, and Captured in Chinatown, 1935.) For a brief period in the 1930s, Tarzan's popularity rivaled that of his chief competitor, Rin-Tin-Tin. A series of mysterious robberies have struck a Los Angeles import company. The board of directors enlists federal agent Dan Kennedy and his police dog, Tarzan, to pursue the thieves. It...

When the East Side Kids tangle with some West Side Crooks, it's a jillion dollar holler! The gang is befriended by a millionaire after saving him from a mugging, but when they realize the man's son was one of the criminals, they set out to reform him. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall star as Muggs and Glimpy, ganging up on the toughest guys in town! This really is the East Side Kids' fight of fights!

W.C. Fields plays the President of Klopstokia, a bankrupt European country that makes a bid for fame and fortune by entering its top athletes in the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Directed by Edward Cline (The Bank Dick, 1940) and co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve, 1950), this madcap, Pre-Code comedy is one of W.C. Fields's most anarchic satires and includes scene stealing performances by comic character actors Jack Oakie, Billy Gilbert, Hugh Herbert and Ben Turpin.

James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She'll churn through a Thames River PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston blue bloods. Headline New York's Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on. Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays the real-life aquatic star in a splashy...