The Film Detective

A young drifter is suspected of murder in this stirring production from writer/director Alan Le May (best known for writing The Searchers). John Drew Barrymore stars as \"Cooncat\", a troubled young man who has to steal to survive. With no friends in West Texas, he falls in with some bad customers who involve him in some terrible crimes. The strong cast includes Chill Wills, Jack Elam, and John Archer, with cinematography by Oscar winner W. Howard Greene.

Location shooting in the Florida Everglades add to this dramatic tale of five Confederate deserters trying to get to Cuba. First, they must overcome snake bites, unfriendly Seminoles, and their own conflicts with each other. How many of the five will actually make it out alive? Lin McCarthy, Stephen Courtleigh, and Berry Kroeger star in this little known example of 1950s independent filmmaking.

The Big Lift is a true account of the Berlin Airlift, which provided food and supplies to the Western sector of Berlin during the Soviet's blockade of Berlin. Sgt. Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift) and his friend Sgt. Hank Kowalski (Paul Douglas) are among the Americans called upon to risk their lives to transport supplies to the desperate citizens. The grim war is soon left behind as budding romances emerge between two women and the soldiers. Director George Seaton filmed on location with...

A filmic record of US military operations on the Aleutian Island of Adak to take back Japanese occupied Kiska. Though uncredited, John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) directed this documentary, which also features music by four time Oscar winner Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon, The Old Man and the Sea). Director Huston, who also helped narrate the film and was actually in the Army Signal Corps at the time of filming, wanted to use this documentary to show the everyday life of American soldiers. Though...

In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen.

Celebrated western author Zane Grey wrote this story about a devil-may-care youth on an exciting trail of adventure and romance. Donald Woods plays John Abbott, a young man who falls in love with the daughter of a local rancher. The only problem is that she's already promised herself to a friend of her father's. John intends to make her change her mind, but there are some bad outlaws and hired gunmen in the way.

Vincent Price stars in this thriller about a down-trodden country estate that becomes the site of a horrific murder. Prolific writer/director Crane Wilbur (He Walked by Night, Crime Wave) helms this feature, with a cast that includes Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, and in her last film role, Darla Hood of the Our Gang comedies. But which of them is the mysterious killer known as The Bat? Youll find out soon enough. But beware -- the scream you hear may be your own!

The King of the Cowboys In A Whizz-Bang Western! John Wayne stars as an undercover man trying to catch up with some counterfeiters. Joining a traveling medicine show to find the culprits, he uncovers a history of frame-ups and double-crosses. Gino Corrado, Yakima Canutt, and Earl Hodgins also star in this wild tale from Paul Malvern Productions. This was Wayne's final Monogram Pictures/Lone Star Production Western, but he gave Hollywood's Poverty Row plenty to remember him by!

Three Musketeers of the Mesas in a rough riding romance of the roaring West! William Boyd plays the title role for the first time in this, the first of 66 Hopalong Cassidy features. In this one, Cassidy helps warring cattlemen join forces to battle a gang of rustlers. George "Gabby" Hayes and James Ellison also star, but look for Charles Middleton, best known for playing Ming The Merciless in the old Flash Gordon serials, as ranch foreman Buck Peters (a role originally offered to Boyd).

In the film that many consider the best of the series, The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a murdered man. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. But why is the murder weapon covered in the fingerprints of one of the gang? Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, and "Sunshine" Sammy Morrison star as the screen's rowdiest rascals, taking on crime and terror in the seething shadows of New York's famous landmark!

Narrated by distinguished character actor and Oscar nominee Dan O'Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe), Hunters of the Deep is a profound and beautiful documentary that tracks several oceanographers and geologists during their intrepid explorations of the deep sea. Capturing numerous varieties of fish, mammals, ocean flora and rock formations on camera for the first time, this film provides a groundbreaking glimpse into an area of the earth that is still little understood even today. A feat of ingenuity...

In 1940, on the eve of America's entry in World War II, retired Colonel Effingham (Charles Coburn) learns about a plan being hatched in his small southern town to raze an old courthouse. Using his newspaper column to rally the townspeople, he begins a campaign to save the old landmark. Joan Bennett, William Eythe, and Donald Meek also star in this film from director Irving Pichel (Martin Luther). By the end, even you will want to fight city hall!