The Film Detective

Arthur Conan Doyle's epic tale comes to life in this classic from the silent era. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, and Wallace Beery star as explorers who learn that dinosaurs still exist in South America. Of course, the expedition can't end without them trying to bring a prehistoric creature back to London, which results in catastrophe. This was the first full-length feature film to utilize stop-motion animation. The painstaking process perfectly enables us to see the mighty prehistoric monsters...

Two Oscar nominations went to this dramatic story of a young man out to avenge his father's wrongful execution. Burgess Meredith and John Carradine star in this compelling drama from director Alfred Santell, while the cinematography was by two time Oscar nominee J. Peverell Marley (Life With Father, Suez). This feature was also nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival of 1937, nearly winning the coveted Mussolini Cup.

Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton star in this suspenseful drama from director Richard Fleischer (The Boston Strangler, Soylent Green). Bridges plays a plays a jailed counterfeiter who is released on the condition that he helps trap the people who are now 'using his plates' to print money. Cinematography by Guy Roe (The Cobra Strikes) and a musical score by Sol Kaplan (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Niagara) give this feature a touch of noir atmosphere, all overseen by Oscar nominated...

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville in this forgotten thriller, also known as Murder at the Baskervilles. Holmes' holiday is disrupted when he finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Filmed at Twickenham Studios in Twickenham England, this Holmes adventure finds the grand master of sleuthing in the world of horse racing, and was based on the Arthur Conan Doyle tale, 'Silver Blaze.' Great fun for Holmes fans!

Famed American western actor and singer Roy Rogers once again plays himself in this Jesse James tale that's a twist on the familiar formula. When he is summoned to bring Jesse to justice after the known villain is suspected of a bank robbery, Rogers soon discovers that Jesse has been framed and that the owner of the bank has robbed his own bank posing as Jesse. Fast-paced and fun, this classic Roy Rogers western directed by Joseph Kane (Dakota) features a whole host of original songs sung by...

Lillian and Dorothy Gish, William Powell, and Ronald Colman star in this romantic tale set in Renaissance Florence. Lillian Gish plays the title character, a good-hearted young woman who finds herself marrying a cruel chief magistrate (Powell). Director Henry King, a two-time Oscar nominee who would go on to direct such favorites as Love is a Many Splendored Thing and The Sun Also Rises, added to the film's realism by using Italian locations, including Rome and Florence.

Salt of the Earth centers on a long, difficult workers' strike against a mining company in New Mexico. Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) fights for equity of wages as well as health and safety issues, but at home he mistreats his wife, Esperanza. When the men are forced to end their picketing, Esperanza joins the other women who demand to play a role in the strike, against their husband's wishes. Written, directed, and produced by members of the original blacklisted "Hollywood Ten," Salt of the...

Hollywood's first Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln, stars in this surprisingly faithful adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous novel. Nearly a century after it was first released, it's still a stirring tale of the orphaned child who grows to become king of the apes! Enid Markey stars as Jane, while True Boardman and Kathleen Kirkham appear as Lord and Lady Greystoke. Director Scott Sidney, who was in charge of over 100 silent shorts and features, would team with Lincoln again in 1921 for The...

Who would ever mistake Roy Rogers for Billy the Kid? That's exactly what happens in this action packed horse opera from Republic Pictures. Rogers arrives on the scene shortly after Pat Garrett (Wade Boteler) kills the infamous Billy the Kid (also played by Rogers). Though Billy was a killer, he was on the side of the homesteaders against a coterie of big time ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown to the public, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight against the...

The search is on for a little boy lost in the jungle. But can the rescue team lure him away from the animal kingdom? That's the burning question in this adventure from director Robert Emmett Tansey, a versatile Hollywood hand known for his action-packed westerns. The film stars Don C. Harvey, Forrest Taylor, and Alyce Lewis, with a script from Frances Kavanaugh, a female pioneer in Hollywood known as \"the cowgirl of the typewriter\"!

An unfaithful wife and her lover scheme to kill her husband, but things are turned upside down when the lover is unintentionally killed instead! Then, in the best noir tradition, the husband goes into hiding and lets his wife take the rap! With a stellar cast that includes Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, and Anna Mae Wong, this little noir gem from director Arthur Lubin (The Spider Woman Strikes Back) takes us into the lives of people who are only one kiss away from murder!

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor show why they were Hollywood's premiere acting couple in this thought provoking distillation of an 18-year marriage. The script by John Hopkins (Thunderball, Murder by Decree) follows the lives of Martin and Jane Reynolds, a newly separated couple who run into each other by chance in Rome. First, we see their marriage through his eyes, then hers. Who is right? And will they rekindle the old flame? This was the last of 11 movies starring Burton and Taylor it...