Film Chest

On Christmas Eve, two young strangers are invited to dinner and fall in love. When their benefactors die in a plane crash, they come back as ghosts to help the couple.

When a feminist author (Joan Caulfield) writes a fiery best-seller ripping into men, a debonair yet chauvinistic photographer (David Niven) arrives to do a feature on her for LIFE Magazine. But he has a hidden agenda: To prove her wrong and demonstrate that the male is still the superior sex! Sparks fly, but they eventually lead to romance in this charming, and very 1950s, comedy.

This eighth entry in the East Side Kids series finds the boys shipped off to reform school, where their leader Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) earns the nickname "Mr. Wise Guy", while Danny, Glimpy, and the rest of the gang run up against troublemakers with nicknames like "Chalky" and "Rice Pudding". But when they discover the thug responsible for landing them there in the first place is the same one who framed their friend for murder, the wily kids bust out with a plan to bring him to justice....

This delightful family favorite is the story of two struggling families who end up getting some unexpected charity from Rupert, their resident (animated) squirrel! After discovering a pile of cash in the house, the police suspect Louie (Jimmy Durante) of theft, but it turns out the friendly squirrel has been gradually shifting a stash of bills that their miserly neighbor was hiding in his wall! The stop-motion animation of Rupert was so convincing at the time that its creator was asked where...

Little guys with big guns! This now-infamous cult favorite unfolds like a typical Hollywood Western from the 1930s -- except that the cast is comprised entirely of midgets. It's good guys versus bad guys in the old west as Buck Lawson (played by Billy Curtis) fends off cattle rustlers and stagecoach robbers, and even saves a damsel in distress. But it's hard not to smile when you realize the characters are riding Shetland ponies and passing under the saloon doors without swinging them open!...

In this sequel to The Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan (Taylor) announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father to have to come to terms with the fact that he will soon be a grandfather.

Roy, Rusty, and Tommy join the border patrol. One of them gets killed and the other two cross the border hunting the killer, where they find a gold smuggling racket.

Pearl White, who works in a sweatshop, gets her chance to act which leads to the silent movies.

Romance, suspense and a confusion of identities in Paris when a woman is being chased by several men in search of a fortune they believe her husband (who is dead) had stolen. She does not know about the fortune or where it is hidden.

The Giant Sequoias of California are threatened by the financial ambitions of a timber baron, who is confronted by Quakers that are settled on his land.

By combining actual footage with film re-enactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of World War II. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.

The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analyzed.