Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall (Fred MacMurray) is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search for a missing fellow employee in Murder, He Says (1945). The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies who are looking for stolen loot hidden on their property. Featuring Marjorie Main (Ma and Pa Kettle) in an over-the-top performance, this fast-paced farce is in the grand tradition of such macabre favorites as The Old Dark House...

Based on the shocking, true story of a criminal gang who terrorized Brooklyn for years, and featuring a stellar performance by Peter Falk in an Oscar -nominated early role, Murder, Inc. delivers a terrifying tale of corruption in a vast criminal underworld that has overrun civil society.

They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. Sharply directed by Edward Dmytryk, Murder, My Sweet is film at its most noir, creating a moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Cast against type, Dick Powell puts sunny...

They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin-deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. Sharply directed by Edward Dymytrk, Murder, My Sweet is film at its most noir, Creating a moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Cast against type, Dick Powell puts sunny...

Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting the tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! British national treasure Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance as the famed detective in this sly, engaging mystery based on Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington. Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of...

In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.

Millionaire Eric Gorman is a zoologist/hunter who has created his own private menagerie of wild beasts from his safaris. He is also insanely jealous and uses his dangerous pets to dispose of any potential romantic rival for his wife or anyone that displeases him. Made before the Production Code was enforced, Murders in the Zoo (1933) is a grisly and perverse Pre-Code horror thriller that was quite shocking for its time. The movie is dominated by Lionel Atwill's superb performance as the...

The women of a touring symphonic orchestra are a tightly knit group, and they're not about to let the secret they hold slip through the knitting. They'll wait until fragile, pregnant bassist Barbara Ainsworth (June Allyson) has her baby before letting her know about a War Dept. telegram that says her husband is missing in action in the WWII Pacific. But Barbara begins to notice differences in the way the women are acting around her. The all-star Music for Millions is part weepie, part comedy,...

BLACK TIGHTS (1962): In 1960, French production company Talma Filmes asked renowned choreographer Roland Petit to make a motion picture that would introduce the wonder of ballet to the wider world. It would consist of four ballets choreographed by Petit, starring him and his wife/muse, Zizi Jeanmarie. Despite her appearances in Hans Christian Andersen (1952) and Anything Goes (1956), Talma Filmes did not consider Jeanmarie a household name, and decreed that two of the sequences must feature...

SUNNY (1941): Anna Neagle is Sunny O'Day, the pretty owner of a ramshackle traveling circus. During a layover in New Orleans, Sunny takes in Mardi Gras, where she meets dashing young playboy Larry Warren. The pair immediately fall in love, but are faced with incompatible backgrounds. Larry's rich parents don't want him settling down with a commoner, while Sunny's circus family fear that marriage will take her far away from them. The two worlds meet head-on when the entire circus troupe crashes...

Disgraced British captain Ben Waldridge is granted political asylum by the government of the United States in return for sailing on a dangerous mission under Captain James Marshall. Despondent over being abandoned by his beautiful paramour, Leslie, Waldridge sees the voyage as the first step in restoring his honor and regaining command of a ship. As war erupts in 1812 between the U.S. and Britain, the French seek to assist their American brothers by donating 10 million dollars in gold. Captain...

Captain James Marshall (Mark Stevens) is assigned to run the British blockade during the War of 1812 and acquire an unsanctioned loan from the French. He recruits the help of former Navy captain Ben Waldridge (Patrick Knowles), but when Waldridge's gun crew realizes there's gold on board, they start thinking about mutiny! Directed by Oscar nominee Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire), this feature also stars Angela Lansbury in a scene stealing turn as a seafaring woman with her own taste for gold...

Completely broke, in debt to the gambling bosses and threatened with violence if he doesn't settle accounts immediately, playboy Kent Brewster thinks his life couldn't possibly get any worse. His predicament forces him to join a pair of unsavory jewel thieves who are plotting to steal a diamond necklace. The ill-fated heist throws Kent into a web of intrigue involving murder, mutiny, and a sunken ship loaded with gold bullion. This rousing and riotous adventure saga stars Neil Hamilton, who,...

In every prison, a war is being waged for the souls of men. This silent battle between the rogues who want to spread their evil and the devoted men who seek to rebuild prisoners' lives explodes when a new convict arrives at the state pen. After forging a check to help his mother, Johnny Gate is sentenced to one to fourteen years. The prison chaplain, Father Joe, recognizes his good intentions and tries to steer Johnny on the right course. Unfortunately, his bunkmate Red Manson thinks Father...

HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn and into movie lore. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total.* Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring monster ruling with the law of fear. Clark Gable is first officer Fletcher Christian, whose will to obey erodes under Bligh's tyranny. And Franchot Tone plays idealistic midshipman Byam, torn by his allegiance to both. That all three portrayals are vividly...

Newspaper reporter Jack Pathurst books a passage East on the ill-fated four-masted clipper, the Elsinore. Assigned to write an account of the voyage, its not long before Pathurst falls under the intoxicating spell of Captain West's beautiful daughter, Margaret. Tensions rise as the first mate, Mr. Pike, keeps the crew of grizzled sailors and misfits in line with severe discipline. But there is a homicidal criminal element aboard that incites the men to full blown mutiny. A bloody battle for...

Julie (Joey Heatherton) is a spoiled young heiress on the California coast, so weary of her wealth she wrecks cars for fun and so bored of her fiancee's "fumbling in the dark" that she longs for freedom. Liberation comes in the form of Ben (Troy Donhaue), a sandy-haired stranger who swears that he and Julie were lovers in a former life -- their own ancestors, in fact. Surprisingly, Julie's aunt (Jeanette Nolan) confirms every one of Ben's eerie recollections. Although a caretaker turns up...

Expect things to be different at the Penrose dinner table. Ma insists everyone perform yogic deep breathing. Mr. Puddy, a boarder, has news of an edible beer bottle he's inventing. And little Lewie Penrose? He's been communicating with horses. "Butch" Jenkins, whose brief career as a child actor includes the earlier National Velvet, returns to the equine realm to play Lewie in this tale of a racetrack bettor eager to exploit the boy's gift and an older Penrose sibling (Peter Lawford) who looks...

Successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord (Laraine Day) as his secretary. Steve soon finds out that the philandering Owen has gone through a series of secretaries due to his huge, enormous ego and untoward advances. Owen is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a novel that will pay his bills, despite a lucrative advance by his publisher. Steve perseveres with the novel, based on the events of Steve's life and one that...

A secretary who is an aspiring writer is hired by a well known novelist to be his secretary. She did not realize she would be working at his apartment and have to endure all his guests and his roommate. She leaves and the only way to get her back is to change his wild ways and marry her.

Kirk Douglas plays best-selling novelist Owen Waterbury, an inveterate ladies man and diehard skirt-chaser. When gorgeous aspiring novelist Stephanie Gaylord (Laraine Day) becomes his secretary, he envisions yet another notch on his bedpost. She is not easily won over, however, and Waterbury soon finds himself in the unique position of wanting to live up to her high standards and leave his playboy days behind him. They marry, and the fun begins when his new wife discovers that his replacement...

Bestselling novelist Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord (Laraine Day) to be his secretary. She thinks this is a good deal until it becomes apparent that Waterbury is no more interested in blondes than books. Romance blooms, but not in the usual way. Written and directed by Charles Martin, the film features a stellar supporting cast that includes Keenan Wynn, Rudy Valle, and Irene Ryan. Also, look for former model and B-movie starlet Virginia Hewitt as...

Young Danny Baker is sent to live with his cruel uncle Matt Hodgkins, after a tragic auto accident claims the lives of his parents. En route to his uncle's farm he adopts Shep, an abandoned German Shepherd, and the two become fast friends. When Danny arrives, he realizes that both he and Shep are unwanted. After months of brutal treatment at the hands of his uncle, Danny and Shep run away. On the road, they befriend a homeless Spanish-American War veteran, Carter J. Latham, and the three begin...

Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star (Lee Bowman) and scrambles to discover another who will shine even brighter. He finds effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. Doris Day plays Martha. Think she has a chance? During the shooting of Day's first film (Romance on the High Seas), director Michael Curtiz was sure the sparkling newcomer had much more than a chance and set the wheels in motion for My Dream Is Yours. Curtiz...