Beatty is devastated when he discovers too late, that Ruth has left with her father. In the meantime, a heartbroken Beatty then tries to preoccupy himself with procuring new exciting and dangerous acts for the circus. When he learns that the schooner Ruth and her father had taken was shipwrecked on the Lost Island of Kamor, he sets off on a rescue mission to find them. Along the way, he must contend with Sharkey, a jealous rival, find and then rescue Ruth from a lion attack and then save the...

Clyde Beatty, the world's greatest animal trainer, travels the jungles of the world in search of exotic beasts and adventure. Beatty's expeditionary dirigible crashes on a remote unexplored island teeming with wild animals. He discovers that two fanatic cultists on the island have killed the skipper of their group and stolen the priceless treasure of Kamor. Ruth Henderson (Cecelia Parker) enlists Beatty to help find her scientist father who has dissapeared in the wilderness and while pursuing...

"Our creature animation in the Jurassic Park films basically descends from The Lost World of 1925. Willis O'Brien is our great pioneer, and this superb restoration inspires new awe for his imagination and craftsmanship." - Stan Winston Newly restored with 50% more footage than any version generally available for seventy years, here is the model for King Kong , Jurassic Park and Godzilla : a story of living dinosaurs from the Jurassic Age written by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur...

Young and adventurous reporter Edward Malone (Lloyd Hughes) is dispatched by his editor at the London Record Journal to cover a lecture by the boisterous Professor Challenger (Beery), who is convinced that dinosaurs are still roaming the earth. While the community thinks him a crackpot, he finds a believer in the esteemed hunter/explorer Sir John Roxton (Lewis Stone), who befriends Malone. Malone is introduced to Paula White (Bessie Love), whose father was left behind in the Amazon outback to...

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...

A crew of daring adventurers braves the pitiless white wasteland of Antarctica in a bid to be the first explorers to reach the South Pole by zeppelin. Led by intrepid Commander Donald Hall and his best friend and first mate, Lt. Tom Armstrong, the expedition's progress is broadcast to the world by radio. The anxious public is riveted by news of the initial success in reaching the Pole, then horrified by news of a freak blizzard that ices the doomed airship out of the sky. No one follows the...

On April 19, 1956, the hour-long anthology series Climax! presented "The Lou Gehrig Story", a dramatization of the life of the famed New York Yankees baseball star. The program focuses almost exclusively on the the first baseman's battle with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, now commonly called "Lou Gehrig's Disease.") In heartbreaking scenes, the debilitating illness affects Gehrig's ability to play, forcing him to retire from the game. It concludes with Lou's legendary retirement speech...

The town of Burlap, Pennsylvania is just too provincial for fast- talking Joe Miller, a self-possessed ham with big, big plans for radio stardom. His job at the railroad station pays peanuts and the girl he planned to give a tiny engagement ring to has accepted an offer from a wealthier suitor. After slipping the ring onto the finger of a pretty young woman as she sleeps in a train car bound for New York City, Joe decides to follow the girl and the ring to the Big Apple. His grand dreams of...

Babs Hardcastle, precocious heiress to a million dollar fortune, is thrown out of boarding school for playing matchmaker to the student body instead of studying. Sent to live with her Aunt Emily, she learns that the older woman is stymied in her attempts to wed handsome bachelor Jim Winthrop. According to family tradition, Jim is forbidden to marry until suitable mates are found for his two homely sisters. Realizing she can finally put her matchmaking obsession to good use, Babs starts a...

D.W. Griffith directed this dramatic tale of a man who escapes to the South Pacific with his daughter after murdering his wife's lover. The film stars Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, and George MacQuarrie, and was made at great peril: Griffith and his crew experienced a hazardous voyage from Miami to the Bahamas during the film's production, with two men going overboard and no food for three days.The Love Flowerremains one of his lesser known films, but still boasts Griffith's vaunted...

Screen legend Mary Pickford stars in this touching wartime drama. Written and directed by two time Oscar winner Francis Marion (The Champ, The Big House), this tale involves a young woman who learns that her beloved is a German spy. The film was produced by Pickford's company at the height of its fame, and also stars Evelyn Dumo, Raymond Bloomer, and Fred Thomson. It's an emotional story about a woman whose loyalties are put to the test.

Centuries ago, in ancient Egypt, an evil priest unfairly sentenced an innocent maiden to death. In the present day, the priest is reincarnated as a traveling yogi seeking to atone for the sins of his past life. After much searching, he finds the Egyptian maiden now in the body of an American girl named Sunya Ashling. Sunya is caught between joining her hard-working boyfriend at his new job in South America or marrying a millionaire so she can support her ailing father in New York. Seizing the...

A young woman is believed to be the reincarnation of an egyptian maiden driven to suicide in this drama from the silent era. Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) is Sunya, a young singing student torn between two lovers. With the aid of a mystic who helps her see into the future, she makes her decision. The great cast includes John Boles, Pauline Garon, and Ivan Lebedoff, with direction by Albert Parker (The Black Pirate, Eyes of Youth).

In Haiti, plantation owner Clelie Gordon is spurned by her white lover because of her race. Hungry for revenge, the bitter woman conducts a voodoo ritual that raises the recently dead from their graves. But much to Clelie's horror, these bloodthirsty zombies will not be satisfied with just one victim... A shocking film for the post-Hayes Code era, The Love Wanga stars the gorgeous Fredi Washington. A key figure during the Harlem Renaissance, Fredi is best known for playing the fair-skinned...

The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would-be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur (Jonathan Winters), a mom-obsessed...

A glimpse into the life of writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his unhappy childhood, the women who loved him, and his driving ambition to write.

A young Texan and an old rancher strike it rich with a gold mine.

Secretary Helen Rogers dreams of going to Hollywood to live the good life. She rejects her old beau, Jim Morgan, an aspiring writer and hotel clerk who still loves her, and allows herself to be wooed by Don, a cad in the advertising business. Unbeknownst to her, Jim meets a studio exec and gets her a screen test. But not everyone has Helen's best interests at heart. Don wants to take her away from the limelight, and will stop at nothing to sabotage her rise to fame.Marion Nixon starred as...

When Dr. Benson's experiments in suspended animation result in a man's death, he is forced to flee San Francisco with the police in hot pursuit. He boards a luxury liner to Australia but a shipwreck lands him and a handful of survivors on a remote tropical island. The island natives are NOT very welcoming until Dr. Benson demonstrates his godlike powers by reviving the comatose wife of the island chief. Now worshipped as a deity, the doctor's ego rages out of control as he begins to focus on...

John Barrymore stars as a sadistic impresario who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions in this wild and wicked pre-Code drama directed by Oscar winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, 1943). Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore) fulfills his dream of becoming a ballet dancer through Fedor Ivanoff (Donald Cook), whom he trains to become the world's greatest danseur. Jealous of his pupil's success and fearing love will thwart Fedor's career, Tsarakov has...

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

Glenn Strange (future Frankenstein's monster at Universal) stars with George Zucco and Anne Nagel in this atmospheric fog-laden Wolf Man inspired film, The Mad Monster. Zucco portrays Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, a discredited mad doctor who believes that injecting wolf blood into humans will create an invincible army of werewolves to defeat the Axis. But instead of unleashing his monster on the Nazis, he turns his creation against the scientists who had engineered his professional downfall. Despite...

Prolific B-movie master Sam Newfield (The Terror of Tiny Town, Dead Men Walk) helmed this tale of a scientist who turns his simple-minded handyman into a raving wolf creature. Why would he do such a thing? To turn the beast on his enemies, of course. Horror icons George Zucco and Glenn Strange star, along with Johnny Downs, Anne Nagel, and Mae Busch. It's yet another low budget gem from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Enjoy!

The Jazz Age has struck hard in the Herrington mansion. Three o'clock every afternoon is "starting time" when about a hundred of scion Jack's Herrington's closest friends descend upon the estate and the bootleg gin, debauchery and casual sex flow in abundance until the following morning. Jack's wastrel life is disturbed when Cathleen Gillis returns home from college and he falls hard for the beautiful working-class girl. He is faced with a impossible choice - give up booze and parties or lose...