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...

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 River Thames PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods. 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 biopic...

"The Black Hundred" is a secret society that has existed for centuries composed of the most ruthless criminals in the world. Twenty years ago, one of their number - Stanley Hargreave - escaped and went into hiding. The villains have been searching for him ever since, and their newest operative, Jim Norton, may have just found him. Hargreave is dying, and wants to leave his million dollar fortune to the daughter he gave up for adoption years ago. The deadly cabal dispatch their goons to...

The poverty-stricken Henessey family strike it rich when they find oil in the backyard of their humble home. Flush with cash, they rent a palatial mansion owned by millionaire Larry Duane. Upon seeing Molly, the Henesseys' lovely daughter, Larry decides to stay on, posing as their chauffeur. While the disguised millionaire romances Molly, a gang of grifters invade the mansion, offering friendship. Larry must prevent the crooks from taking advantage of the Henesseys without revealing his true...

Traveling incognito, respectable stockbroker Nicholas Lawrence (Gene Raymond) boards a plane to Honolulu carrying a million dollars in stolen bonds. He happens to sit opposite Cynthia Strong (Osa Massen), a beautiful stranger who has just murdered her husband. What's more, her companion, Alan Marker (Francis Lederer), is blackmailing her. Cynthia begs Nicholas to protect her from Alan's "threats" and he agrees.In Hawaii Nicholas is distracted by Cynthia's charms, giving the cunning Alan a...

This hilarious screwball comedy gave Fred MacMurray a chance to show his brilliant comedic chops as Peter, a radio personality who is told he's just inherited two million dollars by a gold-digging secretary (Eleanor Parker as Christy) who is determined to snag him for herself. Though he never quite believes she's telling the truth about his inheritance, circumstances continue to bring Peter together with Christy, infuriating both his fiancee, June (Kay Buckley), and his pal, Dr. Cook (Richard...

Jailbird Nick Burton (Lee Tracy) has a secret -- while the warden may run the prison, he runs the men. Big or small, Nick can outscheme, outtalk (and how!) and outfight 'em all. So when an unexpected bumper crop of millionaires end up in his prison purview, Nick gets to work pounding swine into silk. Nick's new subjects number five -- two fools (Raymond Walburn, Thurston Hall), two crooks (Morgan Conway, Chester Clute), and one MD (Truman Bradley). Faster-talking Nick is soon juggling multiple...

History comes alive in this vivid recreation of the amazing life of Pedro de Gante, the Franciscan missionary who Christianized the pagan Aztecs in the 16th century.In 1523, Pedro de Gante arrived via Spanish galleon in the Gulf of Mexico, the New World's first Christian missionary. The scholarly churchman used "peaceful persuasion" to introduce the natives to the teachings of Jesus Christ, and established schools, hospitals and churches that changed the lives of the Aztecs. This inspirational...

Adoringly known as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television," Milton Berle began his career at the age of six with an uncredited role in The Perils of Pauline (1914). For eight decades Berle was a staple of radio, movies and television. With an unprecedented thirty-year contract with NBC, he began work on "The Milton Berle Show" in 1948. Also known as "The Texaco Star Theater," it was one of the most popular programs in early television and ran for nearly a decade.Milton Berle with Gertrude...