Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

James Daly plays Michael Powers, a crusading reporter investigating the crime and corruption that arose from the ashes of World War II in this long-lost TV drama! Overseas Adventure originally aired as part of Foreign Intrigue, a four-year series that began in syndication starring Jerome Thor. After two seasons, he was replaced by Daly (the change of star also meant a change in character and locale.) Thor's episodes were later rerun as Dateline Europe, while a fourth and final season starring...

Ted Clayton is a lazy playboy who spends his days dreaming of becoming a masked hero like Zorro. Looking to make a man out of his son, his millionaire father sends Ted overseas to manage the family's real estate interests. In the small nation of Costa Blanca, he meets President Gonzales and his daughter, Rosita. Upon meeting the curvy beauty, Ted immediately becomes interested in "diplomatic relations." But their burgeoning romance is interrupted by 'El Diablo', a rebel leader who plots to...

...captures the iridescence and opulence of an inexplicably beautiful universe... -- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies. One of the first diving documentaries made in the U.S., Hunters of the Deep thrilled film festival audiences upon its release in 1954. A glimpse at the amazing world under the water that few ever get to see, it was compiled from 25,000 feet of film shot by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography over a 3-year period. Daring deep sea divers brave the depths to catalog...

HARRIS IN THE SPRING (1937): Phil Harris has a hot date with Joan Barclay, but his band is scheduled to play the same night! Harris is beloved by generations for his appearances on The Jack Benny Program (1936-1952) and as the voice of Baloo the Bear in The Jungle Book (1967). Also featuring Jack Carson. Directed by Leslie Goodwins. DUMB LUCK (1935): A housewife is kidnapped after word gets out that she won the lottery. Little do her captors realize it was only for $50! Dumb Luck is based on...

George Dolenz stars as Edmond Dantes, the hero of Alexandre Dumas' legendary adventure novel, in this rarely-seen television series. Dantes is a man falsely imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Escaping from jail, he creates the new identity of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' to track down the men who framed him. Each episode would take Dantes, along with his friends Jacopo and Rico, to a new exotic locale. The Italian-born Dolenz (1908-1963) was discovered by famed produced Howard Hughes and...

Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) had intended to become a nun, but when her father contracted tuberculosis, she got a job in the fledgling film industry. After starring in her own series of one-reel comedies, she appeared opposite Lon Chaney in The Ace of Hearts and Voices of the City (both 1921). It was in those films that she came to the attention of Cecil B. DeMille, whose cycle of films with Gloria Swanson had recently ended with The Affairs of Anatol in 1921. Joy replaced Swanson...

Valerie Lee is a feisty American reporter assigned to a story on farming conditions in Great Britain. While arranging her travel accommodations, she has an encounter with Lord Bill Wilmer, and treats him with a rudeness he is not accustomed to. Wanting to teach the headstrong girl a lesson, his Lordship poses as a lowly tiller of the soil at the rustic farmhouse in which Valerie is staying. To his shock and surprise, she falls head over heels in love with him in his slovenly disguise. Now his...

Yakima Canutt "created the profession of stuntman as it exists today," according to the Special Oscar presented to him by Charlton Heston at the Academy Awards in 1967. But before Canutt's days of stunt-doubling for top stars and second-unit directing filmdom's greatest action scenes, the rodeo world champion was a movie cowboy hero himself, as seen in these two Westerns from his silent-era prime.The Outlaw Breaker (1926, B&W, Silent): When sheepherders invade cattle territory, bloodshed...

THE ENEMY JAPAN: This Department Of The Navy production expounds upon the premise that the Japanese believe that they will emerge victorious, that they will never surrender and they must be beaten for the war to end. The vast Imperial war machine had swept victorious over enormous sections of the globe for the previous eleven years. The savage campaigns in which they conquered Manchuria, invaded China and drove the allies from the Philippines are graphically depicted. The brutal treatment and...

Kreating Karloff documents the creation of a Screen Test, as actor Conor Timmis vies to win the role of movie legend Boris Karloff in a proposed film biography of the star's life and times. Recreating scenes from two classic Karloff films, Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932), Timmis receives fine support from actress Liesl Ehardt - the actual cousin of Karloff's Mummy co-star, Zita Johann.Kreating Karloff is about re-creating Karloff characters. Conor Timmis learns exactly how Boris...

Blazing Justice (1936, B&W): Cowboy Ray Healy gets into a saloon brawl with three rustlers and overpowers two of them, earning a $5000 reward. The third rustler escapes and, continuing his life of crime, robs an elderly rancher. After the rustler switches horses with him, a lawman mistakes Healy for the thief. Ray has to do some fast talking to avoid jail time... and if he wants to consummate his relationship with the old rancher's beautiful daughter. Starring Bill Cody, Gertrude Messinger,...

MAJOR BOWES' AMATEUR PARADE (1940s): In this episode of the popular radio talent show, "Our Gang" regular Jean Darling sings, two young boys play the accordion and banjo, and impersonator Sid Raymond presents his impressions of Edward G. Robinson and W. C. Fields.BACK OF THE MIKE (1938): This remarkable short provides a compelling behind-the-scenes look at radio drama production and the creative talent that's involved.COMMAND PERFORMANCE (1942): Narrated by author and music critic Milton...