Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Movies about the Messiah go back to Hollywood's earliest days. Featuring elaborate staging, faithful costuming, and heartfelt performances, these films bring to life the power and passion of the Son of God.THE PILGRIMAGE PLAY: During his imprisonment, the Apostle Peter tells two poor souls the inspiring story of Jesus Christ. What they learn turns them away from the wages of sin...The Pilgrimage Play is the filmed version of a play about the life of Christ that was staged every year at the...

Peter Lane is a retired sea captain, living out his twilight years on a riverboat on the banks of the Mississippi River. During a brutal storm, a deathly ill woman and her young son, Buddy, arrive seeking refuge. When the mother dies, the boy becomes Peter's responsibility. He takes to carving animals from wood with his jackknife to amuse the child. The town sheriff, however, finds the poverty-stricken man an unfit father for the toddler. Buddy is brought to an orphanage, leaving Peter with a...

Every week, The Star and the Story presented a brand-new drama with Hollywood's biggest names in front of and behind the camera. Airing in syndication allowed for daring stories that could not be attempted on the major networks. In Australia, where homegrown television drama had yet to take off, the series aired under the name Whitehall Playhouse. SAFE JOURNEY: A reporter interviews a notorious gangster about to testify in a major underworld trial. Starring Frank Lovejoy. HER CROWNING GLORY: A...

Thomas De Quincey, the head of a large lumber company, considers his son Jack to be a good-for-nothing wastrel. To make a man out of him, he sends Jack to investigate reports of strange goings-on at his lumber camp up north. There Jack discovers that the loggers are running an elaborate bootlegging operation. Before he can report it to the police, the spring thaw causes an ice flood that engulfs the camp. Now Jack and the crooks must work side-by-side if they are to survive...Shot at a lumber...

Perennial bachelor and shady schemer Felix Miller is a wannabe millionaire. His six-year-old niece Irene is a fantastic skater. He lands her a high-paying regular job at a luxurious Florida beach hotel that sports an ice rink and then rakes in enough to keep his sister's family comfortable for a few weeks -- while siphoning off the majority of the cash for himself. Back in Brooklyn, Felix's brother-in-law Joe knows from the start that Felix is up to no good and eventually decides to show him...

Policewoman Augusta Winthrop patrols the local dance halls nightly, tossing out hooligans on their ears. Off duty, she shelters a handful of young women struggling to break free from a life of crime. Mary Sloan arrives at Augusta's door with her baby in her arms, desperate to flee her ex-boyfriend and former crime partner, the infamous "Big" Bill Lewis. Augusta agrees to help Mary, jeopardizing her own career in the process. She resolves to put an end to Lewis's villainy once and for all.Stage...

Russell Evans returns from the war and seeks out Elaine Graham, the widow of his best friend, slain in combat. He is horrified to learn that his own business partner has swindled Elaine out of the valuable timber land left to her by her late husband. A loophole in the bogus deal gives her sixty days in which to attempt to sell enough timber to pay off the debt. Borrowing $10,000 from a gangster pal, Russ raises a crew of lumberjacks. Pushing every man to the breaking point, he desperately trys...

After serving time for armed robbery, teenage wildcat Teddy is released to her parents on probation. Although she comes from a fine family, she is soon back on the streets with her friend Dora, a tough gal from the wrong side of the tracks. The young sexpots have a lucrative business luring married men into dark alleys where they blackjack them and make off with their wallets. With their ill-gotten proceeds, they purchase two hand guns. planning to take business to a whole new level. When they...

Mary Dakin, granddaughter of a mattress tycoon, wants to be loved for herself and not her millions. She heads to Chicago to reinvent herself as an "ordinary" woman and scores a job selling mattresses at a department store, where she meets fellow worker Bob Spencer. Mary is determined to keep her heiress identity hidden from Bob, even after they eventually marry. But when Bob's job is suddenly in jeopardy, Mary realizes she'll have to tell him the truth.Anne Nagel was a child actress as well as...

Boxer Jimmy Milligan, a.k.a. the Cyclone Kid, not only finds himself in the ring with his best buddy, Lefty Doyle, but delivers him a fatal blow to the chest. Devastated, Jimmy swears off fighting forever and sets out to deliver Lefty's personal things to Kitty Doyle, Lefty's sister. When Jimmy and Kitty meet, sparks fly so fast that the couple is engaged before Kitty discovers that her paramour is responsible for her brother's death! Lloyd Hughes starred in classic silents such as Tess of the...

Johnny Hardwick grew up at the racetrack and knows that his horse Honeyblossom, is unbeatable. At an after-race party, Johnny comes to the aid of a woman who is being molested by a brute and in the ensuing fight breaks a bottle over the man's head. Wanted by the law, he flees to the tiny backwater town of Madison Springs where he falls in love with pretty Margaret Warren and lands a job in her dad's grocery store. When Margaret tells Johnny that her father is about to wager his life savings on...

Orphan Victoria Sax receives the shock of her life when diplomats from the Kingdom of Saxheim arrive at school and announce that the girl is a Grand Duchess, and now one of the richest heiresses in the world. She is transported to Europe where she is to marry Prince Caryl, whom she has never met. En route Victoria and Prince Caryl meet and fall in love, however, neither reveals their true identity. Believing that he is in love with a commoner, the Prince abdicates his crown, and goes off to...