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A crime thriller based on the comic strip. Dick Tracy is up against an ex-con Cueball, who is stealing gems and murdering people.

A crime thriller based on a comic strip. Dick Tracy is up against a series of murders and all the victims have no ties to one another.

A mental hospital with a secret and a story of a murder by the patients unsettles the new nurse.

A popular small-town singer dubbed "The Bronze Venus" gets offered a shot at the big time in New York City, but it will mean leaving behind the loyal promoter who helped her make it this far. This remarkable film, one of the many so-called "race movies" made in the 1930s and '40s for the all-black theaters in existence at the time, also marks the screen debut of a 20 year-old Lena Horne, and co-stars Ralph Cooper, longtime host of "Amateur Night At The Apollo". In the film debut of Lena Horne,...

Napoleon now in exile in St. Helena is guarded by a solider.

In this debut from the East Side Kids, the gang team up with Police Detective O'Day (Leon Ames) to help get Danny's brother, "Knuckles", off a murder charge. But they'll have to catch the real killer, a gang leader called "Mileaway" because he always seems to be "a mile away" whenever a crime is committed! O'Day has his work cut out for him, keeping the kids on the right side of the law while also fending off Mileaway's hoods. Ironically, none of the actors who made up the eventual East Side...

Eugene O'Neill's controversial play about the rise and fall of Brutus Jones, an upwardly-mobile African-American whose life careens from railroad porter to convict to a corrupt island ruler in Haiti, made for an even more daring film adaptation in 1933. Actor Paul Robeson (who also played Jones on stage) delivers a career performance that features several musical numbers and climaxes with a 25-minute monologue delivered as his life unravels before him. In 1999, the film was selected for...

A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaux.

When a clergyman's daughter (Loretta Young) is swept off her feet by a debonair magician (David Niven), her life becomes a sudden whirlwind of travel, excitement and death-defying feats. But when the magic wears off, she attempts a disappearing act of her own. Nominated for an Oscar for its lively musical score, this charming romantic comedy comes with a healthy side-order of adventure. The film's climax also features some wonderful location footage shot at the 1939 World's Fair in New York!

Hamilton starred in this biography of the man who jumps over cars with a motorcycle.

A phony clairvoyant suddenly comes into possession of the power to make authentic predictions. But has he been hexed by the Evil Eye? This eerie thriller, shot in England in the early 1930s, features wonderful scenery from the era, and stars Fay Wray ("King Kong") and Claude Rains ("The Invisible Man") as a husband and wife duo who go from music-hall fakery to national celebrity overnight but with troubling consequences. Originally released in the UK as "The Clairvoyant".

Music and movie fans alike cheered this Hollywood adaptation of the real-life tale of brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and its top-drawer musical numbers. Starring as themselves (alongside many of their actual band-members), with actors filling out the remaining roles, these two icons of Big Band, Jazz and Swing recount the rise and fall of their careers, and the long-running 12-year feud that threatened to keep them from ever performing together again. That is, until the death of their music...