In Monstrosity (1963), a rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman. In The City of the Dead (1960), a young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

The star who brought frontier justice to Dodge City and San Antonio heads for the wide open spaces of Montana in this adventure saga about a bitter range war. Errol Flynn plays an Australian transplant looking to buy grazing land. But the cattle-raising locals won't sell to interlopers, especially one they consider the most contemptible excuse for a human being ever to cross the Great Plains: a sheep rancher. Flynn's San Antonio costar Alexis Smith is a flame-haired beauty with an eye for the...

Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy! Not that she plans to when she heads west to her family's Montana ranch. But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario, meets a handsome crooning cowhand named Larry, and soon the two are like doves ready to nest at the Montana ranch. Yet the honeymoon may be short when straight-arrow Larry sees Joan's exotic tango with a city slicker. Once a party girl, never a wife? Crawford...

The Tingle Club is the most notorious casino in America, where the underworld hobnobs with the rich and famous. No one is surprised when club owner Charles Brandon is shot to death. The only witness to the crime is jockey Larry Sturgis. Larry looks like the obvious perpetrator because he was drunk and publicly threatening Brandon in the hour before the shooting. Larry is railroaded for the murder, convicted more by his bad reputation than by the evidence.Given ten years hard labor, Larry toils...

Monty Banks (1897-1950) was born Mario Bianchi, in the city of Cesena in northern Italy. The short, stocky Mario came to America in 1914. After a stint as a dancer in New York, he started picking up acting jobs first with Mack Sennett, then Fatty Arbuckle. Mario usually played cads, leading Arbuckle to comment "You can't play another 'montebank' with a difficult name like Bianchi!" Thus, the nom de guerre "Monty Banks" was born. Soon, Monty was directing, producing, and starring in shorts. He...

MOON OVER MIAMI stars Betty Grable and Carole Landis as Kay and Barbara Latimer, two girls from Texas who travel to Florida searching for a rich husband. Kay pretends to be a millionairess herself, while her friends and family (including Aunt Susan, played by Charlotte Greenwood) pretend to be members of her staff. Kay meets two significant bachelors who are marriage material: Phil O'Neil (Don Ameche) and Jeffrey Bolton (Robert Cummings). But when she finds out Phil is actually broke, she...

William Kemp (James Olson) was a celebrated planetary voyager years back, the first to set foot on Mars. It's now 2021, and the celebration -- and the era of exploration -- is over. Kemp pilots a lunar-based scavenger craft, retrieving adrift satellites for scrap. But he'll find the adventure he longs for when he agrees to help a woman hunt for her missing brother at a mining camp on the moon's dark side. "The first moon Western" blazoned ads for this film rife with cowboy-genre motifs. Sci-fi...

Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan shine as newlyweds - and strangers - in the classic screwball comedy, The Moon's Our Home. An author (Fonda) and an actress (Sullavan) meet by chance and decide to marry without realizing that the other is famous. Chaos ensues after the wedding as both the bride and groom discover each other's celebrity. Featuring a great supporting cast including Charles Butterworth, Beulah Bondi and Walter Brennan, the film was made several years after Henry Fonda and...

Cult movie favorite Charles Napier (Supervixens) and 1950s hunk Richard Egan (Love Me Tender) star in this forgotten action yarn about truckers battling Nazis in Mexico. Also, look for former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston as an enigmatic character known only as "The Farmer." Liston died shortly after this film, but showed here that he had a strong presence and could have benefited from the Blaxploitation film era that was about to hit American movie screens. If you like big trucks,...

Adventure and intrigue await all ye who venture into the small and sinister village of Moonfleet on the windswept moors of Dorsetshire. Particularly as directed by master-of-menace Fritz Lang, this colorful tale of a young boy's experiences among some really bad companions enthralls in the tradition of Kidnapped and Treasure Island. Here, young John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at his ancestral estate, now owned by the dashing, and mysterious Jeremy Fox (Stewart Granger). Out of love for the...

Ground breaking German director Fritz Lang ("Metropolis," "M") directs Stewart Granger ("The Prisoner of Zenda," "Green Fire" ) in this swashbuckling adventure about an 18th century orphan who discovers that his charming guardian is the leader of a gang of buccaneers. With Oscar-winner George Sanders ("All About Eve," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Village of the Damned"), Joan Greenwood ("Kind Hearts and Coronets"), and Alan Napier ("Cat People," TV's "Batman"). Acclaimed actor/producer John...

Tonight on the program at the Hollywood Bowl: murder! A bravura production of Verdi's Il Trovatore is the setting for this con brio blend of music, mystery and murder most foul. Leo Carrillo portrays Gino D'Acosta, a brilliant tenor who has millions of die-hard fans and at least one die-now enemy. Warned of impending doom by a mystic, Gino laughs it off -- until he performs an aria, then perishes - the victim of poisoning - in front of 20,000 wildly applauding witnesses. Whodunit? An L.A. cop...

Moonlight on then Range (1937, B&W): Jeff Peters (Fred Scott) sets out to track down his twin brother "Killer" Dane (also Scott), a hate-maddened rustler and killer. The two men are dead ringers, leading to confusion for Jeff's new gal Wanda. It also leads to a perilous situation for Jeff. Dane's crimes have the locals in a lynching mood, and Jeff stands an even chance of being the one who gets hung on sight. Starring Fred Scott, Al St. John, Lois January, Dick Curtis, Frank LaRue; Directed by...

Cattle rustler Wes Anderson has just delivered the eulogy at a funeral -- his own. He was supposed to be hanged, dead and gone. But a mob put the noose around the wrong man's neck. Anderson escaped. And now he aims to settle the score with the vigilantes who arranged his necktie party. Almost a decade after their landmark Double Indemnity, Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck doubled up again for the cowboy saga The Moonlighter (seen in 3-D in some theaters). MacMurray portrays hardened outlaw...

Chuck Scott, Adam Sorg, directed by Hershell Gordon Lewis. This is a pretty amazing movie. Not much of a plot really, just lots of hootin and hollerin, feuds, stills, singing, and gory murders. The scene where Scotts wife runs off into the woods with the local pug ugly sherill is pretty hysterical. A true study in backwoods southerners and hillbillies of the 1960s. Crude and cheap, but fascinating in its own way. Color, 35mm.

The Moonstone (1934; B&W; 45 Minutes): Franklyn Blake (David Manners) returns to England from India with the famous Moonstone, a precious diamond that will be inherited by Blake's fiancee, Anne Verinder (Phyllis Barry). When he arrives at the Verinder house in the Yorkshire countryside, he finds a houseful of guests, including the notorious Carl Von Lucker (Gustav Von Seyffertitz). While Anne is sleeping someone steals the Moonstone necklace from her, and it's up to Scotland Yard's Inspector...

Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's MOONTIDE. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon awakening, Bobo is convinced that he has killed a man by his mercenary "pal" Tiny (Thomas Mitchell). Despairing at the thought of having committed murder, not to mentioned being blackmailed for the rest of...

Moonwalk One - Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, and the third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned to it just under a day later for the trip back to Earth. This unique film is an historical record of the events leading up to and including the mission. It charts the development of rocket propulsion and the Apollo program and gives...

Small-town girl Helen Hutson has slept her way into a good job and an enviable lifestyle. She is filled with shame when her childhood sweetheart Paul Cooper comes to visit her in New York City. Intent on reforming, Helen returns to the small hamlet where she was born. Her brother Bud is jailed after attacking a man who makes reference to Helen's sordid past. In order to raise the money for Bud's release, she now is forced into a relationship with a wealthy businessman - an arrangement she has...

What does a beautiful peasant woman have to do to land a prince? Consort with witches, cast a spell, roll away to sea trapped inside a barrel, confer with a flying monk and compete in a manic dishwashing contest. Sophia Loren and Omar Sharif play peasant and prince in the sumptuous fantasy More Than a Miracle. Dolores Del Rio, still breathtaking 42 years after her film debut, adds even more star power. The story begins when the prince prefers riding his stallion to choosing among the seven...

Katharine Hepburn won her first Academy Award as Best Actress* in this, just her third film performance. The great Hepburn stars as Eva Lovelace, a girl from a New England country town who has but one burning ambition: to become a successful stage actress. Arriving in New York, she manages to make friends quickly and even lands a small part in a Broadway show. Eva's big chance comes when the show's star (Mary Duncan) tries to strong-arm producer Louis Easton (Adolphe Menjou) for more money...

Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich makes her American film debut opposite Gary Cooper in Morocco. Jaded cabaret singer Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Dietrich) falls for Tom Brown (Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. After Tom overhears the wealthy man-of-the-world Monsieur La Bessier (Adolphe Enjoy) propose to Amy, he accepts a dangerous assignment, convinced that he cannot can give the beautiful chanteuse the life she wants. All proves fair in love and war, however, and Amy...

The Mortal Storm is the story of Hitler's rise to power as seen through the microcosm of one German family. What may seem small and personal is instead towering, a bold revelation of the brutality of the Nazi regime that so infuriated propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that he banned all MGM movies in Germany. In their fourth and final teaming, Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play sweethearts, evoking the tender, romantic empathy that always marked their work together. They lead a...

The Mortal Storm is the story of Hitlers rise to power as seen through the microcosm of one German family. What may seem small and personal is instead towering, a bold revelation of the brutality of the Nazi regime that so infuriated propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that he banned all M-G-M movies in Germany. In their fourth and final teaming, Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play sweethearts, evoking the tender, romantic empathy that always marked their work together. They lead a...