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A fiendish, knife-wielding killer is loose on the dark, foggy streets of 1888 London. He is Jack The Ripper, a maniac whose brutal murders leave victims in such a horribly mutilated state that newspapers dare not describe the grisly details. Despite the climate of fear, financial misfortune forces Helen Harley and her husband to rent a room to a stranger named Slade. A hospital pathologist, his tall, striking good looks and mysterious, reserved demeanor make him an attractive prospect for the...

El Diablo Rides (1939, B&W): Tough-as-nails cowboy Bob Steele rides into the lawless town of Borderville searching for the man who shot and killed his father. His prime suspect is Buck Lambert, who uses the town as a base for his band of smugglers. Each person Billy meets threatens him with violence. What the cowpoke doesn't know is that Borderville is a tinderbox about to explode as the authorities and Lambert prepare for all-out war.Starring Bob Steele, Kit Guard, Ted Adam, Claire Rochelle;...

John Cateret, an Irish aristocrat, is engaged to the beautiful Moonyean Clare. But on their wedding day, a jealous former lover murders her. Devastated, the only light in John's life becomes his adorable niece, Kathleen. On the girl's 21st birthday, she announces her intentions to marry businessman Kenneth Wayne. John is shocked to discover that her suitor is the son of the man who killed Moonyean. He forbids the couple from seeing each other. Deciding that life isn't worth living without...

Obsessed with winning the sweepstakes, each member of the Foster clan squanders what little money they have on tickets. Annie, the only member of the family with a job, is also the only member of the family that doesn't appear to be consumed with trying to catch a lucky break - until she's notified that her ticket has actually won! Annie finally has a chance to lead the life she always dreamed of, until a group of con artists try to swindle the money from her.

Juke Joint (1947, B&W): Two small-time con men, Bad News Johnson and Cornbread Jones, are down to their last quarter when they breeze into town. Sweet-talking Johnson finds them a room at the home of Mama Lou Holiday by posing as a Hollywood big shot and promising to give acting lessons to Mama's beautiful daughter, Honey Dew. The fiery matriarch is determined to keep her young girl from following in the trampy footsteps of her older sister, Florida, and hopes that the acting lessons will help...

A struggling London office worker, Carol Howard, wins the French lottery and makes plans to travel the world, unaware of the horrific fate which awaits her. Dashing Gerald Lovell inquires about renting her flat and Carol finds herself drawn to him. Romance develops and the couple are wed, but Gerald begins to reveal a dark and sinister side, spending hours alone in the cellar and forbidding Carol to enter. Much to her horror, Carol uncovers evidence that her husband may be a deranged serial...

On April 19, 1956, the hour-long anthology series Climax! presented "The Lou Gehrig Story", a dramatization of the life of the famed New York Yankees baseball star. The program focuses almost exclusively on the the first baseman's battle with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, now commonly called "Lou Gehrig's Disease.") In heartbreaking scenes, the debilitating illness affects Gehrig's ability to play, forcing him to retire from the game. It concludes with Lou's legendary retirement speech...

Movie Man John K. Carpenter presents a brand-new collection of lost Keystone comedies from the vault starring this unfairly forgotten funnyman!

Real-life hunters Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty made jungle pictures that audiences flocked to by the thousands during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

SAFE AND SANE (1924): Jimmie Adams jumps at the chance to win $500 by cracking a "burglar proof safe" - despite the fact that he works for the safe company.ARE GOLFERS CUCKOO? (1926): Gene ("Fatty") Laymon and Charles Dorety take jobs as caddies but end up picking fights with the golfers on the links.DAILY DOZENS (1926): Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson run a health spa with an experimental "Youth Restorer" that works a little too well.HAIRBREADTH HARRY in DANGER AHEAD (1926): Based on C.W....

Railroad travel was at its peak in the 1940s and 50s. People were encouraged to take cross-country trips on the new diesel-powered passenger trains, while steam locomotives were still indispensable when it came to transporting goods and services vital to America's economy. The job of railroad man was a respected calling that came with its own dangers. Take a train ride back in time with these six vintage short subjects. WHISTLES IN THE NIGHT (1945): This short was made by the American...

During a rebel attack on the Gosport Navy Yard, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds defies an order to burn his ship, the Merrimac, which is then set ablaze by the retreating Federals. In an effort to save the vessel, Reynolds sinks her. The scuttled Merrimac is subsequently raised by the Southern Navy and rebuilt into a powerful armor-clad warship. Dishonorably discharged, Kenneth watches the war from the sidelines until he is reinstated to the Monitor, the Federal ironclad designed by his...