A mysterious young girl named Lela is found electrocuted in the abandoned Morgan mansion. At the request of Police Captain Ryan, private investigator (and suave playboy) Phil Winston takes time out from his carefree social life to help ferret out the murderer.Winston discovers that Lela had facial reconstruction so she would look identical to heiress Marie Morgan. Deducing that Marie was the intended victim, Winston gathers the Morgan family to the decrepit mansion in an attempt to trap the...
Unemployed jockey Tod Taylor gets a huge break when he is hired by Matt Riley. Within weeks Taylor is riding Riley's horses to a string of victories. Success and the limelight go right to the jockey's head. Big-time gambler Tom Drake hires a blonde sexpot to seduce Tod and introduce him to the roulette wheel. Showing off, he starts playing for stakes way over his head. With Drake holding a huge note that Tod can't possibly pay off, he delivers an ultimatum - lose the big race tomorrow or a...
Dr. Frank C. Baxter teaches us about genetics and heredity in this vintage TV documentary combining live-action and animation! The good doctor not only explains how DNA works, he also talks frankly about "the birds and the bees" -- or as much as he could on 1960s television. He even good-naturedly makes fun of his own lack of hair to illustrate the recessive baldness gene. Reflecting the nuclear paranoia of the era, there is disturbing footage of insects deformed by radiation (this segment was...
Oscar(R) winner Tommy Lee Jones (Best Supporting Actor, The Fugitive, 1993) directs and stars in this poetic and striking modern-day Western. Peter Perkins (Jones) is a veteran cowboy who embodies the values of the old west, living in a small Texas town bordering the U.S. and Mexico. He hires Melquiades Estrada as a ranch hand and quickly befriends the man. But when Estrada is gunned down under mysterious circumstances, Perkins takes justice into his own hands and kidnaps a trigger-happy...
A modern day portrayal of the three daughters of Zeus, namely; Aglaia, representing splendour; Eufrosine, representing joy and gladness, and Talia, the bearer of prosperity and flowers.
The Three Mesquiteers join the circus (Stony as the sharpshooter, Tucson as the strongman and Lullaby as the ventriloquist) to help out their friend Harris. Someone at the Big Top has been passing counterfeit money and Harris is the number one suspect. The trio find themselves in trouble with the law when they try to nab the real counterfeiters. Harris asks the Mesquiteers to be his daughter Nancy's legal guardians, but Nancy's attractive governess doesn't think three rugged bachelors can...
Gangster Dirk Barrington is responsible for the gunfire, gambling, vice and corruption in the small western town of Prospect. Ben Thornton, mayor and owner of the town bank, leads the decent citizenry in a call for shutting down Dirk's shady enterprises. Barrington retaliates by robbing the bank, hiding the loot in a nearby ghost town and starting a rumor that Thornton has stolen the townsfolk's savings. As an angry armed mob gathers around the bank, it's up to the Three Mesquiteers (Robert...
The Three Mesquiteers come to the aid of displaced flood victims lured west by notorious scam artist Phineus T. Flagg and his crooked Paradise Land Syndicate. Unable to pass up Flagg's offer to sell them 40 acre parcels of ranch land with no money down, the refugees eagerly sign deeds and head to Gunsmoke Valley, where they hope to build a new town and get a fresh start. Mesquiteers Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith and Lullaby Joslin learn of Flagg's involvement in the venture, and uncover a scheme...
The Three Mesquiteers - Tucson, Stony and Lullaby - and the Blackstone National Park Rangers are having a bit of a disagreement. The rangers refuse to allow guns on their property.The Mesquiteers are upset that mountain lions and bears are killing cattle. Young Davey maintains an animal sanctuary in his stepfather's barn, but Davey doesn't know that his stepfather and his henchmen are poaching animals and rustling cattle. The Three Mesquiteers finally corner the gang, but a ranger is shot in...
Hit the Saddle (1937; B&W): Murderous rustler Rance McGowan tries to steal a wild herd of federally protected horses. Fortunately for the townsfolk, Sheriff Miller and the Three Mesquiteers keep a watchful eye over McGowan's operations - thwarting his henchmen. Rance now comes up with a new scheme to twist the law in his favor. McGowan paints a killer stallion to impersonate the lead pinto of the wild horses and create chaos that he hopes will revoke the herd's government protection. Sheriff...
Holdup men are running wild in Mesquite County, and the authorities don't know who they are or when they'll strike next. The Cattlemen's Association is about to entrust Mesquiteers Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith, and Lullaby Joslin with a $22,000 deposit from The Red Rock Bank. Traveling alone en route to the bank, Stony is accosted by the outlaws. In a moment of inspiration, gang leader Dude Brannen notices an uncanny resemblance between himself and Brooke, and decides to take his place. Unable...
Range Defender (1937, B&W): Stony's brother George is wanted for a murder he didn't commit, and turns to the Mesquiteers for help. Crooked Sheriff Gray is orchestrating a range war, and the Mesquiteers learn that George is just a patsy in his scheme. Intent on getting his brother a fair trial, Stony decides to run for sheriff and level the playing field.Starring Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune; Directed by Mack V. Wright.Wild Horse Rodeo (1937, B&W): In need of some quick cash, Stony...
Unscrupulous Hackett secretly organizes a rash of cattle thefts so he can seize control of the Cattleman's Protective Association. His plan seems foolproof until Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith and Lullaby Joslin ride into town. They suspect that something is not quite right about the rampant rustling and vow to save the cash-strapped association. The Mesquiteers use a charity show to help raise the necessary funds and attempt to expose the real cattle thieves.The third installment in Republic's...
Angry villagers take the law into their own hands. Calling themselves "The Purple Vigilantes," they chase the bandits, thieves and killers out of town. When a few of the vigilantes turn out to be outlaws attempting to disrupt the group from the inside, the locals send for more help. To restore peace and bring justice to the area once and for all, Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith, and Lullaby Joslin (also known as The Three Mesquiteers) meet the call.
A professor is in search of a hidden treasure in the lost city of Lukachukai. When he disappears in the frontier, his daughter puts together an expedition to find him, led by Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune. While en route to the Whistling Skull, a giant rock formation in sacred Indian territory, the party becomes plagued by a mysterious killer who shrouds his murders in ancient Indian curses. Meanwhile, the professor is held prisoner in the skull and it's up to the Three...
The Three Mesquiteers (1936, B&W): Stony, Tucson, & Lullaby, lead a group of fellow World War I veterans to a new life in the wide open spaces of New Mexico. But cattle baron Brack Canfield intends to cheat the veterans out of the land promised by the U.S. Government and he's willing to use force to do it. When attempts to terrorize the homesteaders fail to drive them off, Canfield's henchman brutally execute a settler on the ranch he labored so hard to build. Outraged, The Three Mesquiteers...
Gene Kelly stars as the swashbuckling young French nobleman D'Artagnan who, possessing nothing more than his title, travels to Paris to join The Three Musketeers. D'Artagnan no sooner arrives in the capital, than he insults Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Academy Award winner Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote), the most feared of the musketeers. Challenged to a duel by each, D'Artagnan earns their respect with his courage, if not by his fighting prowess. But his courage, skill and wit are...
To the cry of "all for one and one for all" comes a version of the Dumas classic that's fun for all -- a rousing, swashbuckling adaptation that was Gene Kelly's favorite among his nonmusical movies. Kelly plays country lad D'Artagnan, who comes to Paris with heady ambition and duels his way into the ranks of King Louis XIII's musketeers. He swashes and buckles with brio, bringing to action scenes the virile athleticism that set him apart as a dancer in movie musicals. A top cast -- Vincent...
First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers quickly became a sensation all over the world. The novel tells the tale of young Gascon D'Artagnan, who travels to Paris to join the king's Musketeers. With the dawn of cinema, filmmakers immediately realized that Dumas' book would translate perfectly to the new medium, with the first film adaptation arriving in 1903. THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1921): The first big-budget adaptation of Dumas' book made in America, the 1921 version of...
One for all and all for one in this action-packed serial adaptation of Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) is a fugitive from justice, framed for a murder he did not commit. El Shaitan, the mysterious and diabolical leader of the Devil's Circle, a group who are plotting an Arab rebellion against the Foreign Legion, is to blame. It's up to Tom's sweetheart Elaine (Ruth Hall) and the trustworthy Three Musketeers, Clancy (Jack Mulhall), Renard (Raymond Hatton) and...
Two children, Samuel (an orphan) and Julia (motherless), are predestined for a life together. Recently widowed Don Mateo (Julia's father) finds himself uneasy at the thought of eventually losing his daughter and being left alone. As the beautiful love story between the two children unfolds, continuing until their maturity, an unexpected event causes Don Mateo to take drastic measures to try and destroy the feelings that Samuel and Julia have for each other. In Spanish with English subtitles.
In Pardon My Scotch, the trio is left in charge of a drug store which is illegally selling scotch whiskey. When bootleggers mistake the boys for master distillers and invite them to their hideout, comic disaster erupts as the boys pose as authentic Scotsmen. Disorder In The Court occurs when Larry, Curly, and Moe are called to be star witnesses in a murder case. When Curly hears the news that he has won a $50,000 contest, the boys go wild buying clothes, cars, and a lavish hotel suite, only to...
In the mid-1960s, the Three Stooges were enjoying a revival of popularity from regular airings of their classic shorts on television. By this time, however, Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe were getting somewhat long in the tooth, so Moe's son-in-law, cartoonist Norman Mauer, came up with the idea of an animated series based on the Stooges' exploits. The pilot episode, "That Little Old Bombmaker", was made by Jay Ward Productions (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.) When the order was received...