"Africa...land of savagery and dangerous adventure...where nature is without mercy...and deadly beasts of the jungle are supreme!"Billed as "The Strangest Adventure Ever Filmed", Africa Speaks chronicles the (mostly) real-life exploits of Colorado explorer Paul F. Hoefler. Filmed over a 15-month period, Hoefler traveled nearly 14,000 miles across Central Africa on foot with a safari of 200 natives. Some of the incredible sights captured by his camera crew include man-eating lions, wild...

See the real Africa - HEAR the real Africa! Experience the lives - the loves - the vengeance and triumphs of the people of the mysterious Congo. This thrilling documentary finds filmmaker Walter Futter following an expedition into darkest Africa, encountering such delights as a ravenous locust swarm that devours everything in sight, and a duck-billed pygmy tribe. The new art of the sound camera makes the dark continent give up its most amazing and closely-guarded secrets - Lions Roar! Zebras...

Osa Johnson, "The First Lady of Exploration", stars in this rare documentary -- lost for over 50 years!!After the success of her 1940 book, I Married Adventure, Osa Johnson was contracted to write three follow-up novels. The first of these, Four Years in Paradise, documented her and her husband Martin's exploits in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, an area they dubbed "Lake Paradise", their own personal Garden of Eden. To promote the book, Osa embarked on an international speaking tour....

By combining actual footage with film re-enactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of World War II. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.

AFTER THE DANCE features George Murphy (Battleground, For Me and My Gal) as Jerry Davis, a man who was convicted of a crime he didn't commit. After he escapes jail and is taken in by hoofer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll, Broken Lullaby), the pair decide to combine their talents on the road to becoming famed dancers.

It's New Year's Eve, Nick and Nora Charles have returned to the West Coast, and the philandering hubby of Nora's cousin has gone missing. Round up the unusual suspects. The stars (including the four-footed one!), writers and director of The Thin Man reuni

Fairview, a self proclaimed "friendly town" is a typical, growing American community. Across the tracks the poor dwell in despicable conditions in a ghetto known as "Patch Town." The good citizens of Fairview fear the poor, linking them to the imagined threats of crime, disease and even Communism! Prominent lawyer Ken Keeler is assigned to study the conflict between economic classes. His son befriends a boy from the slums creating tension in his own household. Keeler comes to see that the...

Hollywood legends Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara team for a swashbuckling adventure in Against All Flags. Onboard a 1700s merchant ship, determined British naval officer Lieutenant Brian Hawke (Flynn) bravely endures twenty lashes with the intent of using the wounds to help him go undercover on the pirate island of Libertania. Once there, however, Hawke is brought before the colony's head pirates, the Captains of the Coast, and forced to prove himself in a fight to the death. As he endures the...

When director Gregory LaCava (My Man Godfrey) was casting The Age of Consent, he found his lovely leading lady just a steno pad away. He chose RKO secretary (and soon-to-be WAMPAS Baby Star) Dorothy Wilson to headline this sensitive pre-Code tale of love and lust. The film follows college student Michael Harvey (Richard Cromwell) and his sweetheart (Wilson). They plan to marry in two years, after Michael graduates. But two years is a long time for an ardent young man, and he succumbs to the...

A beautiful divorcee. An ardent young man. And a love thwarted by a rigid social code. Irene Dunne and John Boles, the stars of Back Street, share another illicit romance in this film version of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winner, a provocative novel that asserts women have a right to the same freedoms men take for granted. Set in 1870s Manhattan, The Age of Innocence follows a conventionally bred attorney who, although engaged, falls in love with a woman who shocks the upper crust by...

Young Richard Miller feels the constraints of his turn-of-the-century New England hometown and close-knit family. Out there -- why, out there is a world of advanced ideas like Socialism, advanced men like Oscar Wilde and advanced women who will actually kiss a fellow! So Richard tries to practice a little out there right where he is with warm, wonderfully funny results. A sterling cast highlighted by Best Actor Oscar winners* Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore plus an up-and-comer named Mickey...

Treacherous natives plot to take control of a lush, exotic South Pacific island. To do this, they must first wipe out the local Constabulary. The local police force is led by a cadre of ex-GIs, former American soldiers, marines and airmen, like ace pilots Horseshoe (Larry Blake) and Slats (Dick Purcell) who seem to enjoy the hulas, Hawaiian guitars and the high life of this exotic paradise. The friendly rivalry between the two aviators, their antics and their nasty tricks add genuine laughs to...

World War I flying aces Bill Ramsey and Otto Schuman recreate the aerial duels of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron in their daredevil carnival act. Bill is smitten with beautiful circus star Eve, but she is in love with the former German pilot, Otto. Eve and Otto get engaged, but he becomes impatient to earn big money, and turns to crime. Eve is shocked when she uncovers Otto's secret plan to shoot down the mining company's payroll plane, piloted by Bill's kid brother, Eddie. Loading the...

The Flying Fortress Mary-Ann and its crew leave San Francisco for Honolulu on the day before Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor...and fly right into World War II. Howard Hawks guides one of Hollywood's greatest battle epics, a flag-waving, Oscar-winning film of courage, camaraderie and combat as the Mary-Ann hopscotches from Hawaii to Wake Island to the Philippines to the Coral Sea to Australia. A gifted ensemble cast - including John Garfield and Harry Carey - plays ordinary Americans...

In the early days of flight, theater audiences thrilled to the spectacle of aerial stunt flyers filmed by equally daring cameramen. Barrel rolls, tail spins and crash landings highlight these three rare, classic short films from the era when the exploits of barnstorming pilots were the talk of the town.Air Maniacs (1933): This piece of slapstick loosely follows the reckless adventures of a hungover pilot who resents being roused from his nap by the nagging narrator, venting his anger in the...

After the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter, its owner agrees to pay a ransom. Los Angeles Detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate. Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix, John Holland, and Russ Bender star in Air Patrol.

Fresh off the farm, young Eddie Slocum enlists in the famed 82nd Airborne Division, to follow in the footsteps of his uncle. Training for the parachute corps is grueling, but not as bad as the harsh treatment the naive country boy receives from his own squadron. Private "Rocky" Laymon is a huge brute of a man, who bullies Eddie incessantly, taking every opportunity to make the boy's life miserable. But when a training exercise turns deadly, Eddie and Rocky will be forced to work together or...

During the era of Prohibition, gangsters gained enormous power by controlling the illicit drink. The most infamous was a thug from Brooklyn who murdered his way to the top and was, for a time, one of the most powerful men in the United States. In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone (Rod Steiger) comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and...

Major John Ormsby, head of the Ormsby Road Building Company, accepts the most important and dangerous job of his life - a contract to build a road connecting the United States to Alaska, a military necessity after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Compelled by patriotic duty, the men of the company join the U.S. Engineer Corps and begin their 1600 mile journey north, cutting and blasting eight miles a day through dense trees and rock, knowing that if the Japanese invaded, the road would have to be...

Alex (Donald Sutherland) is the hottest commodity in Hollywood, a first-time director who's completed an unreleased but buzzed-about movie. Opportunity doesn't knock, it hammers. Alex and his wife (Ellen Burstyn) can buy a big home (which one?). He can lunch with a big producer (the producer pitches him). He can dream big (and in outlandish reveries, he does). The only thing Alex can't do is decide what he'll film next. After Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice put them on everyone's Rolodex, the...

More than a decade after wowing audiences on the Great White Way with his portrayal of the nation's original Treasury secretary in the eponymous play he coauthored with Mary Hamlin, Mr. George Arliss reprised the role for his home studio, Warner Bros. Much like its much-lauded latter-day stage sensation, Hamlin and Arliss' Hamilton does not skimp on sophistication. Adding spark and spice to the proceedings is a generous dollop of seduction and scandal as Hamilton's fierce desire to place the...

The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.

Meet Alfie. He's the ultimate Ladykiller wonderfully successful with wome, yet rarely emotionally attached. All of that changes when he has a series of reversals that turn his life upside down. A classic film made even more famous by its title song, "Alfie," written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung by Cher over the film's closing credits in the US release.