The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman. Big-name cast compliments this epionage thriller that features Fonda as a non-American undercover agent who escapes from the Russians with vital intelligence secrets intended for U.S. intelligence chief, Ryan. Severasl inter-related episodes.

Divorce lawyer Everard Logan thinks the woman who spent the night in his hotel room is the erring wife of his new client.

If this is overcrowding, squeeze yourself in -- fast. With a clutch of pros spinning comedy gold from a topical situation -- the Washington, DC World War II housing shortage -- The Doughgirls, from Joseph Fields's Broadway hit, starts at a farcical gallop and unfurls its jokey, hokey hijinks with broad, breezy bravado. Two dimwitted newlyweds (Jack Carson and Jane Wyman) claim their very own hotel bridal suite, but it's not to be their very own for very long. In short order, the honeymoon nest...

Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries to warn the British of the impending revolt by tapping out messages on the Drum of the title.

On the night that Duke Foster wins his first heavyweight boxing title, he retires to marry his girlfriend Susan, promising her that he will never return to the ring. A few years later her father, Wall Street financier Arnold Corbin, loses $200,000 in clients' money and confides to Duke that he faces disgrace and prison. To make some fast money on Corbin's behalf, Duke offers to step out of retirement and compete in a match that's sure to be a sellout. Racketeers who want Duke to throw the...

A popular small-town singer dubbed "The Bronze Venus" gets offered a shot at the big time in New York City, but it will mean leaving behind the loyal promoter who helped her make it this far. This remarkable film, one of the many so-called "race movies" made in the 1930s and '40s for the all-black theaters in existence at the time, also marks the screen debut of a 20 year-old Lena Horne, and co-stars Ralph Cooper, longtime host of "Amateur Night At The Apollo". In the film debut of Lena Horne,...

A theatrical producer sacrifices his own career to boost the fortunes of a gifted young performer in this musical gem from 1938. Lena Horne makes her feature film debut as Ethel Andrews, the aspiring singer, and belts out such tunes as 'I Know You Remember' and 'Don't Let Our Love Song Turn Into A Blues'. Also, look for such Depression-era entertainers as Ralph Cooper and the Harlemania Orchestra, the Basin Street Boys, and "Rubberneck" Holmes!

During the 1870s, two survivors of a capsized boat make their way to a remote island, desolate save for a decaying castle belonging to a demented count and leprous wife, who is also mad. The couple are imprisoned and tortured, but all are eventually doomed by the wife's dread disease. (The American Film Institute Catalog) Taken at face value, this film may be one of the worst movies ever made. It has almost no redeeming features, in the ordinary sense. The acting, photography, music, story,...

A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter.

In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) is a powerful anti-war drama in which Cary Grant and Fredric March play rival pilots with opposing codes of honor during World War I. The story was written by John Monk Saunders (Wings, The Dawn Patrol) and features memorable supporting roles for Jackie Oakie and Carole Lombard who would become a major star the following year with the release of Twentieth Century (1934). The New York Times stated "Here is a drama...

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams was born at the turn of the century to a Texas congressman. Excelling in athletics in school, he started performing at rodeos after graduation (his father's dreams of Guinn attending West Point went unrealized.) Heading to Hollywood to find work as a stuntman, he made his film debut in Almost a Husband (1919) starring Will Rogers. It was Rogers who gave him his nickname, an apt moniker for a man who stood at 6'2" and weighed over 200 pounds. By the 1920s, Williams was...

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family--including Glimpy as his sister, "Annabelle." Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.

Glimpy's surprisingly beautiful sister is getting married to Jack, a young engineer, and moving to a 'bargain' suburban house neither has ever seen. During the honeymoon, the East Side Kids decide to fix up the house for the newlyweds...but mistakenly pick the 'haunted' house next door, which is occupied by some mysterious live men, dodging in and out of secret panels and clearly up to no good.

The gang is befriended by a millionaire whom they save from a mugging. However, they begin to suspect that the man's son was actually one of the muggers. Knowing that the boy's father is still grieving for an older son he lost during the war, and would be devastated if he learned his only remaining son was a criminal, the gang sets out to reform the boy.

David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling. A great Sexton Blake mystery!. In a lonely, dark house in Cornwall, a man is murdered in the black of the night, shortly after leaving a confession to an earlier murder on a Dictaphone. Another man is found slain on the beach below, money and jewels still in his overcoat pocket. Sexton Blake is called in. He discovers a trail of greed and espionage that leads him to a ring of conspirators led by a sinister crime boss who only speaks to his men from...

Screen legends Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray star as newlyweds whose love is put to the test on their wedding day in the classic comedy The Egg and I. Just after she has said "I do," Betty (Colbert) learns that her new husband, Bob (MacMurray), has left his white-collar job with plans to raise chickens on a rustic farm located miles away from civilization. Betty tries to make the best of her situation in their ramshackle house but never-ending repairs, a malevolent wood-burning stove,...

Maureen Brown, Gin Mart, Luciano Gasper, Anita todesco. One of the most sought after Italian horror films. A horrible fiend is on the loose under the streets of venice. He pulls beautiful girls down into murky canals that catacomb the sewer of the ancient Italian city. He kills and "stuffs" them, then adds them to his grisly collection of mock-classic human statues that adorn the walls of his underground air. Originally shown on a double bill with THE SHE BEAST. Very rare and first time on...

Eugene O'Neill's controversial play about the rise and fall of Brutus Jones, an upwardly-mobile African-American whose life careens from railroad porter to convict to a corrupt island ruler in Haiti, made for an even more daring film adaptation in 1933. Actor Paul Robeson (who also played Jones on stage) delivers a career performance that features several musical numbers and climaxes with a 25-minute monologue delivered as his life unravels before him. In 1999, the film was selected for...

The murderous Brutus Jones escapes from jail and bluffs his way to becoming the emperor of a Caribbean island. Based on Eugene O'Neill's Expressionistic play, the film stars Paul Robeson in the role he played on the Broadway stage. Brutus Jones is an unforgettable character, and The Emperor Jones is an American classic!

The Emperor Jones - Digitally Remastered. In the key role of his career, Paul Robeson repeats his powerful stage portrayal of Brutus Jones, a railroad porter who becomes the ruler of a remote Caribbean island, a story loosely patterned after the life of Haitian emperor Henri Christophe. Adapted by DuBose Heyward from a Eugene O'Neill play, Emperor Jones follows the railroad porter Brutus Jones (Robeson) who leaves his girlfriend Dolly (Ruby Elzy) in favor of Undine (Fredi Washington), but that...

A phony clairvoyant suddenly comes into possession of the power to make authentic predictions. But has he been hexed by the Evil Eye? This eerie thriller, shot in England in the early 1930s, features wonderful scenery from the era, and stars Fay Wray ("King Kong") and Claude Rains ("The Invisible Man") as a husband and wife duo who go from music-hall fakery to national celebrity overnight but with troubling consequences. Originally released in the UK as "The Clairvoyant".

Pretty Sue Graham dreams of Hollywood stardom and escape from remote River Bend and her dreaded impending marriage to druggist Aaron Applejohn. Salvation arrives before the nuptials when she wins a contest and is whisked away to Tinseltown to appear in a Hollywood movie. A string of calamitous disasters gets the poor girl fired. But when Ma and Pa's retirement money is stolen by a Hollywood shyster, never-say-die Sue determines to get back the folk's cash, and somehow, work her way back into...

Music and movie fans alike cheered this Hollywood adaptation of the real-life tale of brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and its top-drawer musical numbers. Starring as themselves (alongside many of their actual band-members), with actors filling out the remaining roles, these two icons of Big Band, Jazz and Swing recount the rise and fall of their careers, and the long-running 12-year feud that threatened to keep them from ever performing together again. That is, until the death of their music...