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Stepping On The Gas (1927, B&W, Silent): Young American inventor Johnny Mack builds the fastest, most efficient car engine ever seen. His competitors are so impressed, they steal the plans. This rare short builds to a spectacular chase sequence climax, featuring two race cars blazing through scenic California highways. Stars Kenneth MacDonald, Robert Littlefield. Directed by Harry Moody.The Girl And Her Trust (1912, B&W, Silent): This tale of a faithful telegraph girl who risks her life to...

The government's plan to establish an airfield on a remote Pacific island are thwarted by a mysterious masked saboteur, the Tiger Shark, who is developing his own plans for conquest of the world. When the Tiger Shark steals the Gyro-compass, a top secret invention, Corporal Larry Lawrence and his men are given unlimited power by the government to retrieve the device and put the Tiger Shark out of commission once and for all.The Fighting Marines is a thrill-a-minute feature version of the 1936...

Men and women face the spiritual dilemmas of modern life with the help of faith, hope, and conscience. Donald Woods hosts this uplifting anthology of religious dramas, produced in the mid-fifties by the same company that created the inspirational series "Crossroads" as well as the popular "Mr. And Mrs. North" and "Topper."Men Of Arms: A group of wounded American GIs hiding in a bombed out French farmhouse learn the true meaning of sacrifice when a German soldier gives his life to save theirs....

Boris Karloff stars in his first television series as one-eyed Scotland Yard investigator Colonel March. One of the actor's favorite roles, March is a criminologist who specializes in bizarre crimes that defy logic and reason. The series, which ran in syndication from 1956 to 1957, was inspired by mystery author John Dickson Carr's book The Department of Queer Complaints. Co-starring with Karloff are several beautiful actresses recognizable to fans of 1950s horror films, including Dana Wynter...

Following the success of the Topper movies, the well-loved characters created by Thorne Smith were brought to life on the small screen from 1953-1956. When the ghosts of George and Marion Kerby return to their home after dying in a skiing accident, they discover the house is now occupied by uptight banker Cosmo Topper and his wife. Visible only to Cosmo, the Kerbys cause unending trouble in their attempts to teach him to enjoy life. One of the show's young screenwriters, Stephen Sondheim,...

Based on the writings of James Fenimore Cooper, this exciting frontier adventure series vividly captured the daring exploits of Hawkeye, "first of the long rifles," and his faithful blood brother Chingachgook, last of the Mohicans. Set in New York's Hudson Valley of the 1750s, the series was filmed almost entirely in Canada from 1957 to 1958 utilizing authentic outdoor settings and carefully observed period detail. Athletic and handsome John Hart, famous for playing the title role in Jack...

Inspired by the dark short story "The Rival Dummy" by Ben Hecht, this uncanny 1928 drama stars Erich Von Stroheim (Hollywood's "The Man You Love To Hate") as the cruel egotistical ventriloquist, The Great Gabbo. Mary (Betty Compson), Gabbo's beautiful assistant, loves Gabbo and sees goodness within him, despite the torrent of abuse that he heaps upon her. Incapable of expressing any human warmth except through Otto, his wooden dummy, Gabbo drives Mary away. Gabbo's career surges upward...

Buster plays a stuck-up high school valedictorian who puts down athletes during his graduation speech. Revolted by his snobbery, his girlfriend Mary dumps him on the spot. To redeem himself in her eyes, he takes up athletics in college - trying out every sport possible and failing at all of them! When the school's star athlete starts cozying up to Mary, Buster realizes he'll have to shape up or lose her forever.Buster Keaton followed up his classic The General (1927) with this hilarious...

Captain Jim Knight arrives on a remote South Sea island where he finds the natives enslaved by a smuggling gang led by Malone. Islanders forced at gunpoint to mine a deep pearl bed are being systematically killed off. Knight and his crew surprise and capture the gang, but during the long voyage to a trial on the mainland, Malone and his henchmen take control of the ship. Captain Knight will have to fight to save his own life before he can attempt to bring Malone to justice.Hell Ship Mutiny...

A young and gallant Peter Graves stars in a extraterrestrial nightmare of the nuclear age. While flying over a routine atomic test in Nevada, Dr. Douglas Martin (Graves) spots a strange fireball on the ground. Suddenly, his plane loses control and crashes; the pilot is killed, but Martin survives, totally unharmed. A medical examination uncovers a mysterious scar on his chest, yet Martin has no recollection of the scar or the aftermath of the crash. His ordeal becomes even more perplexing when...

Johnny Darrel believes he accidentally killed his best friend during a shootout and swears to never use a gun again. Darrel may have to break his vow, however, when he gets mixed up in a deadly feud between Joan Williams' Sundown Construction Company and Brace Stevens' Tin Cup Ranch. Joan's company is building a dam on the land where Brace's gang drives their stolen cattle. Desperate to stop progress on the dam, Brace's partner, Menendez, takes Joan hostage. Armed with only his wits and his...

A scientist's procedure for keeping body parts functioning is turned against him when a demented assistant decapitates him and keeps his head alive in the laboratory. The scientist's brain is preserved in order to assist in a far more demonic experiment - the attachment of his hunchbacked nurse's head to the body of a voluptuous stripper. Descending into the world of The Head is a similar experience to that of a nightmare, where the landscape is composed of dead trees, dark passageways and...