The Film Detective

When Sam Masterson (Van Heflin) returns to the neighborhood of his youth, he finds that his old friend Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) has married local District Attorney Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas, making his screen debut). All seems fine on the surface, but Walter, Martha, and Sam share a horrible secret. Soon Sam finds himself drawn into Martha's web of fear and suspicion, and the results are classic film noir! Directed by Lewis Milestone ("All Quiet on the Western Front") the film also features...

The great John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Magnificent Seven) directed this tale of a badly injured fugitive telling his life story to a priest. Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, and Victor Jory star in this Republic feature from author Niven Busch, who had provided thrills with Duel in the Sun. With The Capture, we learn that killing a man is one thing, but loving his wife is quite another. Both are DYNAMITE!

Mary Pickford gives another of her unforgettable performances as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith, a feisty mining camp girl who fall in love with a school teacher. When he's wrongly implicated in a murder, the two join together to prove his innocence. With a cast that includes Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, and Monte Blue, this dramatic feature from noted MGM director Marshall Neilan (The Lemon Drop Kid, Sweethearts on Parade) brings us back to the greatness of the silent era!

The East Side Kids find themselves in another jam when Muggs (Leo Gorcey) takes up boxing. The rest of the gang aren't pleased with his unsportsmanlike behavior, but when he takes the rap for a theft he didn't commit, the old street camaraderie kicks into action. Directed by B movie master Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy), this rowdy feature from Monogram Pictures also stars Bobby Jordan, Donald Haines, and Sunshine Sammy Morrison, plus Leo Gorey's younger brother David as "Peewee!"

A big time cast, including Randolph Scott, Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, and Harry Carey, star in this feature about stampedes, Indian attacks, and plundering thieves! Directed by the esteemed Henry Hathaway (True Grit, Niagara).

Screen legend Mary Pickford stars as Amy Burke, a spoiled young rich girl who finds herself fighting for survival in the slums of New York. Oscar nominee Sidney Franklin (The Good Earth, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) directs a stellar cast of silent screen favorites, including Ralph Lewis (Birth of a Nation), Kenneth Harlan (San Francisco), and Aggie Herring (Oliver Twist). Pickford had started her own film company by this time; The Hoodlum was the second feature with Pickford as her own...

Jose Ferrer won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the large-nosed swordsman with a poet's soul. He'd played the role many times on Broadway, but his performance was captured for the ages in Stanley Kramer's 1950 production. The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote that Ferrer spoke Edmund Rostand's poetic dialog "with richness and clarity such as only a few other actors have managed on the screen." The story of Cyrano and his beloved Roxanne has been told many times with various actors,...

Lionel Atwill plays a duel role in this intriguing mystery from Monogram Pictures. Murder, double crosses, wisecracking reporters, and a dramatic trial all add up to create a thrilling entertainment. Director Phil Rosen was truly a veteran of the movie business, having started out in 1912 as a cinematographer for Thomas Edison!

Two brothers, including one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by beautiful woman who possess a cache of valuable pearls. What the brothers don't know is that the island women worship a shark god, and are known to make human sacrifices! With a cast that includes the smoldering Lisa Montell, this intense adventure was directed by drive-in movie king Roger Corman. For movie buffs: Corman made the most of location shooting, filming Shark Reef in the same Hawaiian setting as...

Government agent Gordon (Hal Taliaferro) goes undercover to investigate an ongoing war between cattlemen and sheepmen. But he soon finds himself framed for murder! This low budget western from the short-lived Empire Pictures is from the golden era of shoot 'em ups, when audiences knew who the bad guys were, and couldn't wait for the good guys to serve up some just punishment!

Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette are back, and this time they're dealing with some very modern thinking rustlers. These new criminals have taken up the latest technologies to outsmart the authorities, including shortwave radios and airplanes! Can Gene and Smiley get 'em? You bet! Songs include 'The West Aint What It Used To Be', 'I Got the Heebie Jeebie Blues', and 'The Defective Detective from Brooklyn'. Gene also gets romantic when he sings, 'I Picked up the Trail when I Found You'.

Carnival of Souls is the story of a young woman who goes along for the ride when two hot-rodders hold a drag race and are forced off a bridge, plunging into the flooded river below. The sole survivor of the accident, Mary, accepts a job in a new town as a church organist where she is repeatedly troubled by visions of a nearby abandoned carnival and a smiling white-faced man with dark rimmed eyes. One of the most atmospherically eerie works of American horror cinema, the film garnered a...