Film Chest

A burlesque queen is blackmailing a newspaper publisher who sends one of his reporters to talk to her. A girl is murdered and the reporter, publisher and publisher's daughter are all suspects.

Adapted from the stage play by Ben Hecht this comedy involves a reporter who was once married to Walter (Cary Grant). She has decided the job is too stressful and to marry someone else. Walter intercedes with his particular brand of confusion and comedy.

On a visit to New York City, Willie (Fred MacMurray) falls for a pretty businesswoman (Madeleine Carroll) who is, unfortunately, more interested in running her successful Fifth Avenue shop than falling in love. But after an encounter with a fortune teller, she suddenly finds herself pursuing the man back on his home turf, in exotic Bali. Also released under the title "Honeymoon in Bali", this is a wonderful romantic comedy with a splash of great musical performances, to boot!

A playboy hosts a party at a haunted house. Five people are invited for a prize of $10,000 if they stay the night. The house is full of ghosts and murders and they are locked in.

A down and out is mistaken for the Inspector General when they believe he is traveling incognito. They worry that he might stumble onto their petty crimes and they plan to get rid of him.

Horror legend Bela Lugosi stars in one of his most lauded and expressive roles, as the unwitting homicidal killer who is being commanded by his damaged wife to commit murder, albeit while under hypnosis. When the twin brother of a man wrongly accused of one of the murders arrives in town, he begins to unravel the whole dark, twisted truth. The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

When an egotistical but dim-witted southern aristocrat (Kenny Delmar) runs into financial trouble, his wife (Una Merkel) decides to help by running for state senate. But when he threatens to mess things up, she resorts to having him kidnapped--for everyone's own good! Delmar originally created his character, Senator Claghorn, for radio program The Fred Allen Show. It also inspired the creation of Looney Tunes cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn!

The classic story of a boy who trades his cow for magic beans - but this time with Abbott and Costello.

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson stars as himself in this compelling biopic of the man who bravely challenged (and broke) the color barrier that existed in America's greatest pastime. The film starts with his college athletic career and proceeds to document his rocky and abuse-ridden tenure in the minors, his relationship with supportive Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey (Minor Watson), and his eventual big league debut, in 1947. That season he would be named Rookie of the Year and, in...

A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s when both were trying to break into films as actors.

There is rarely an argument when it comes to the question of who the greatest fighter of all time is. Here is that man's story. With Coley Wallace (a boxer himself at one time) in the role of Joe Louis, this film follows the boxer's rise from poor family background to world heavyweight champion. Over the course of 12 years, Louis successfully defended his title a record 25 times. But the movie also documents the equally-important challenges he faced outside the ring, overcoming racism to help...

This early silent classic from director G.W. Pabst (who would go on to make the acclaimed "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of A Lost Street"), follows the desperate lives of people inhabiting a single street in bleak, post-World War I Vienna. Highly-controversial and heavily-censored at the time of its release, the Austrian-made film features Asta Nielsen as a desperate woman forced into prostitution to provide for her family. Warner Krauss stars as the street's domineering butcher, while a young...