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Veteran newspaperman, Ellery Cushing, is the struggling breadwinner for a very ungrateful family. His oldest son is a lazy would-be socialist, his pretty daughter is flirting with gold-digging debauchery, and his meddlesome wife constantly nags him to "be a man" and demand a salary increase from his stingy boss. Instead of getting a raise, Ellery gets fired. His best friend on the paper, Phil, quits in a move of solidarity, and the two men secretly embark on new careers in radio, with great...

Out of the many genres in the AV Geeks Educational Film Archive, venereal disease films are one of the most popular, simply because they provide a revealing glimpse into the secret history of sex in the United States. During the first half of the twentieth century, society was conservative in regards to sexuality, but only on the surface. VD films tell quite a different story - one of a nation struggling with epidemic levels of syphilis and gonorrhea being spread by rampant premarital sex. In...

Economics Professor Reginald Jones finds himself in trouble when he refuses to give an unearned passing grade to Irene Corning, the daughter of a very wealthy university contributor. Using his "crack-pot" theories of economics as an excuse for his dismissal, the Board of Trustees and Irene's father deliver an ultimatum to Professor Jones - pass Irene, or leave the university until he "has a million dollars." Still refusing to give Irene a passing grade, Jones sets out to strike it rich.Pleased...

When the regular stage magician fails to appear for a scheduled show, Dusty Fletcher shows up in his place by materializing out of thin air in theater manager Dumdome's office. Dusty hasn't quite mastered the magic show's mysterious stage props-closets that make people vanish. When Dumdom's fiancee, Lola, and her new pearl necklace disappear, the enraged manager tells his secretary, Butterfly McQueen, to call in the police. Fortunately for Dusty, the cops are more clueless than he is, giving...

Monogram's popular Range Busters series, an obvious imitation of Republic's Three Mesquiteers, spawned 24 films between 1940 and 1943. Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Max "Alibi" Terhune were both ex-Mesquiteers. John "Dusty" King, once a big-band singer with the Ben Bernie Orchestra, rounded out the trio. Corrigan and King were replaced in other installments by different actors, while Terhune was the only member to appear in all entries.Trail of the Silver Spurs (B&W, 1941): The Range Busters are on...

Tex Ritter starred in numerous singing cowboy vehicles during his relatively brief acting career, but found his real calling as a singer and songwriter. Ritter charted a number of his recordings, notably "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" and "I'm Wastin' My Tears On You," and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1964.Riders Of The Frontier (B&W, 1939): Masquerading as infamous outlaw Ed Carter, lawman Tex Lowery infiltrates a gang of thugs who have turned Sarah Burton's ranch into their...

Becky Sharp is a devious young beauty obsessed with the trappings of high society. And there is no shortage of immoral men to shower her with the finer things in return for her favors - her best friend's brother, her best friend's husband, her employer and employer's son, to name a few. As she glides coldly from affair to affair, she leaves a wake of shattered friendships and devastated hearts. Unable to see the growing lines in her face or the deepening circles under her eyes which mirror her...

This four-episode volume of shows from the golden age of TV drama presents stories from three of the best anthology series of all time: Ronald Colman T.V. ("A String of Beads"), Four Star Playhouse ("The Bomb"), and Du Pont Theater ("Dan Marshall's Brat," "The Boy Nobody Wanted").A String of Beads: Joan Robinson (Angela Lansbury), the governess of a wealthy London family is content in her simple life until expert jeweler Count Borselli takes notice of her pearl necklace. Dan Marshall's Brat:...

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954, B&W): Locked in his mysterious laboratory for weeks on end, the reclusive Dr. Jekyll works feverishly on a secret experiment, investigating the human soul and conscience. The good doctor believes that by isolating the good and evil impulses in the brain, he may bring about the end of mankind's wicked deeds. But the desire to play God backfires when Dr. Jekyll, under the influence of a chemical potion, becomes the fiendish monster, Mr. Hyde. Ashamed, but...

Hoot Gibson was an accomplished rider and rodeo champ before he even set foot on a back lot. Starting out as a stuntman, by the twenties he was a bona fide western star for Universal. Later, Gibson appeared in countless westerns for smaller studios such as Allied, and Republic. In 1943, Hoot came back from a six year hiatus, starring in the successful Trailblazers series opposite Ken Maynard and Bob Steele. The Boiling Point (B&W, 1932): Jimmy Duncan is poised to inherit his uncle George's...

With a colorful cast of characters that includes the slippery proprietor of Air Cathay, Chopstick Joe, blonde bombshell Burma, and the beautiful arch-villainess known as the Dragon Lady, Terry and his trusted sidekick, Hotshot Charlie, fight villainy at every hair-pin turn!This exciting TV series, based on the popular terry and the pirates comic strip and radio series, aired in 1952-1953. Brainchild of artist Milton Caniff, Terry made his newspaper debut in 1934, and his war-time adventures...

Jack Hoxie was as popular as Hoot Gibson during the heyday of Universal Studios' silent westerns. Gold and Gun Law, both produced in 1932 at the dawn of the sound film era, marked the final chapters of Hoxie's screen career. Although he starred in over a hundred silent movies (mostly westerns) in the 1920s, the advent of sound was unforgiving to the very physical actor whose line-reading talent paled beside his champion horsemanship.Gun Law: Three members of an outlaw gang - The Sonora Kid,...