Pugnacious Min (Marie Dressler) has three passions in life: running her seedy harbor hotel, raising a girl abandoned from infancy and bickering with good-natured wharf rat Bill (Wallace Beery). Then the girl's happiness is threatened by her drunken mother's reappearance and Min's world is turned upside down. Min and Bill earned Dressler a 1930-31 Best Actress Academy Award and launched her reign as filmdom's #1 box-office draw until her death four years later.

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Richard Houston, a fugitive deserter, penniless and adrift, decides to take a chance and re-enlist. To avoid being identified and prosecuted, Houston gives the recruiter an alias - Jim Smith. Assigned to duty on a minesweeper tasked with keeping the harbors clear for essential war-time naval traffic, Houston/Smith does his best to keep a low profile. His risky job gets much more dangerous when the enemy scatters a deadly new type of...

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reprise their legendary roles as Mr. and Mrs. Miniver in this lovingly crafted sequel to their Academy Award -winning hit Mrs. Miniver. World War II has finally ended and England slowly limps back to normal as men come home from the front and families start to reconstruct their lives. But normalcy is not easily achieved. Mrs. Miniver must say goodbye to an American captain she befriended during the darkest hours of England's battle. Her husband has visions of a...

King Minos sacrifices the 'required' number of virgins to the monstrous Minotaur. But as his wife is dying, she confesses that their daughter has a twin whom she has hidden away to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos then goes all out to land her unknown twin into the clutches of the Minotaur. Theseus, the mighty Greek hero, steps in to save the lost twin. In English (a few spots are in Italian with additional English subtitles). Great color, Widescreen,...

A young woman is tricked out of her candy store by a crooked real estate tycoon; when he's found dead, she's the prime suspect. This is the one and only picture directed by Jack Kemp, but he gets the best from a fine cast, including Hilda Offley (Keep Punching, Sepia Cinderella) Sheila Guyse (Harlem Follies of 1949) and Kenneth Freeman (The Notorious Elinor Lee). Songs include 'Chocolate Candy Blues' sung by Juanita Hall, and 'Patience and Fortitude', sung by Norma Shepherd.

Ruth is a mousy secretary in 1942 New York, caring for her invalid mother when not at her workaday job. Arthur is an affable but lonely PFC from Tennessee, on leave while waiting to be sent into battle overseas. They meet in a rainstorm. It could just as well be raining daisies. Get out your handkerchiefs for Miracle in the Rain, starring Jane Wyman and Van Johnson as strangers who meet, fall in love and make plans never to part when he returns from the front. Like The Clock of 11 years...

Tom Neal (Detour) stars in this Poverty Row sports comedy about a chump of a boxer who doesn't realize his manager is fixing all of his bouts. The story goes down a lot of crazy paths, with a subplot about the physical culture racket of the 1940s. Noted B-movie director William Beaudine (The Ape Man, Ghosts on the Loose), is in charge of an excellent cast, including Carol Hughes (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) and Vickie Lester (The Mad Miss Manton, This Marriage Business).

It is the darkest days of World War II. Bombs are falling on Monte Cassino, the hilltop abbey founded centuries ago by Saint Benedict of Nursia. Despite its status as a sacred site, Allied forces have become convinced that the Italian monastery is being used by the Nazis as an observation post. As death rains down from above, the head friar reminds his fellows how their founder, Saint Benedict, faced wars, ruin, and untold misery in his time. In 500 AD, Benedict, then a Roman nobleman, grew...

Airplane crash survivors scratch out a perilous existence In the trackless swamps of Darkest Africa -- and proceed to show the wild animals just how nasty the human race can be.In the skies over Africa, a passenger plane is hijacked by a gangster, but runs out of fuel and crashes in unexplored territory. Burke, the pilot, becomes the leader of the now-marooned group, which includes the gangster, a ruthless financier, a spoiled heiress who is willing to commit murder to get what she wants, and...

Store owner Henry Butler (Harry Langdon) finds himself in a compromising position when he sneaks home late one night carrying the high-heeled shoe of a tall, gorgeous blonde. Mortified, wife Effie (Betty Blythe) is convinced that her husband has strayed and promptly files for divorce. As part of the proceedings, her sleazy lawyer, Gilbert Wayne, insists that two witnesses, Bob Grant (Ralph Byrd) and Jane Forbes (Luana Walters), move in with the Butlers to prove they're estranged.Bob and Jane...

Romance in the town of Midville is under the iron hand of the Civic League, whose moral purity campaign is so effective, there hasn't been a marriage in over two years. Spinster Miss Pandora Polly is fed up, and decides to give the young people some much needed help. Hidden deep in her basement, she uncovers a secret family love potion. Unleashing the powerful formula on the unsuspecting populace, the repressed town of Midville is turned upside down by a torrent of unbridled passion.Zasu...

A small-town matchmaker takes on the local snobs in this zany farce from Hal Roach Studios. Two great comic performers, ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville, headline this forgotten laugher about a town where there hasn't been a marriage in two years. Director Fred Guiol cut his teeth on Laurel and Hardy comedies, so you know this one will bring you a smile!

Soviet secret agent Vera "Miss V" Marova (Lola Lane) uses her uncanny resemblance to a Nazi spy to infiltrate the Gestapo in Paris. The Nazis are warned the notorious Miss V might be in their midst, but her "calling card" - a cigarette case from Hitler himself - convinces Captain Anton Kleis (Noel Madison) that she is, in fact, Germany's famous spy.Over dinner with the beautiful imposter, Anton leaks a top secret plan to blow up an American fleet headed for Moscow. Passing the vital...

Michael Rennie, Christopher Lee, Patricia Medina, David Knight. This forgotten war adventure centers around the secret Nazi missile installation of the V1 Rocket. Rennie is a guerilla fighter who leads a group of Polish fighters on a mission to destroy the base and cripple the German war effort. Lee is terrific as a cruel Nazi commander. 16mm.

Gangsters shoot down Senator Benson in cold blood as his horrified daughter Dorothy and her friend, Ann, watch. Fleeing the crime scene, the hoodlums are forced to take the two girls hostage, as they make their way to boss Ben Davis' hideout. Reporter Jimmy Dugan has underworld contacts who reveal Davis' involvement and possible whereabouts. Sent undercover by the FBI, Jimmy enters the criminal's lair disguised as a hobo in a desperate attempt to save the girl's lives!Roger Pryor heads a cast...

A secret, criminal mastermind organizes the rackets into one overwhelming mob and sets an entire city under siege. As gangs run riot, law enforcement fights a losing battle, and the citizenry has been scared into silence. Desperate, the governor commissions a special antigang strike force under the by-the-book direction of intrepid Inspector Robert L. Lane (John Litel). When fist-flying flatfoot Bull Regan (Dick Purcell) disrupts an operation, Inspector Lane recruits him into the secret...

In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Academy Award winner* Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop, Litvinov, Molotov and more. For its sometimes-sympathetic...

Sean Flynn, Madeleine Robinson. Errol's son, Sean plays a sleuth attempting to find a missing husband. He stumbles upon a ring of spies in the process. From 16mm.

Two of the most popular entertainers of all time, Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields, pair up for the musical comedy Mississippi. Set in the Old South, a gentleman (Crosby) loses his honor and the respect of his fiance after he refuses to engage in a duel. After taking a singing job on a riverboat, he must learn to regain his confidence with the help of a quirky captain (Fields). Also starring Joan Bennett, this classic favorite features unforgettable songs by Bing Crosby including "Soon", "Down by...

Based on a Secret Service file, MISTER 880 tells the tale of a sweet old counterfeiter who stymies the U.S. Secret Service for over a decade by passing counterfeit single dollar bills with "Washington" misspelled.

Italian immigrant Mister Antonio closes his Manhattan flower shop and heads to the country for summer vacation. When he encounters pretty young June Ramsey, who is homeless, he feeds the girl and offers her shelter. June reveals that for the crime of listening to music at a roadhouse, she has been thrown out of her home by her Uncle Milton. Running for re-election as mayor of Avalonia on the "Purity Party" ticket, her uncle has been advised that June's "indiscretion" will sink his campaign....

A man awakes on a Central Park bench, not knowing his name or how he got there. Adrift in the city, he sees a beer truck pass by. Then an airplane flies overhead. Piecing the two events together, the man chooses Buddwing as his name and continues his desperate sidewalk quest to discover his true identity. James Garner portrays lost, disoriented Buddwing in this compelling mystery drama directed by Delbert Mann (Marty) and featuring a cast that includes Angela Lansbury, Suzanne Pleshette,...

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer. The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios and starring a...

The USS Reluctant carries cargo along World War II's forgotten Pacific seaways. Beyond the horizon, the real war passes its stir-crazy crew by. Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, is the classic story of men fighting to survive -- not war's dangers, but its indignities. Henry Fonda's reprise of his Tony -winning Broadway role returned him to movies after seven years away. Jack Lemmon won his first Academy Award * as hapless, lecherous Ensign Pulver. James Cagney's petty,...