Beautiful criminology student Karin poses as a prostitute to gather information first-hand for her thesis. The pretty blonde is hired on the spot by the nefarious Madame Clavius, proprietor of Berlin's most elite brothel. Karin is deeply distressed when she meets her old friend Madeleine, and finds that her luxurious lifestyle has been financed by her years as a call-girl. What's more, Madeleine is in love and wants to quit the racket. The trouble is whenever a girl attempts to leave Madame...

Kelly, a prostitute, finds redemption in the town of Grantville, where she arrives working as a medium-time seller. There, she meets Griff, the police captain of the town, with whom she spends a romantic afternoon. But as she begins to find joy, she witnesses a shocking event that will threaten this happiness and even her mental health.

"Plain arithmetic. Money splits better two ways instead of three," smooth talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas. If he can set the men against each other -- play on their greed, their fears, their vanities -- he may be able to make his break to freedom. In the third of his five landmark Anthony Mann-directed Westerns, James Stewart stars as the relentless leader of...

Ace sleuth Nancy Drew stumbles onto the trail of a major scoop while working as a schoolgirl reporter for the local newspaper. As she investigates a poisoning death, this bright and persistent detective becomes convinced that the woman charged with the horrible crime is actually innocent. Enlisting the aid of her trusted friend Ted, they search for evidence that would reveal the true culprit and free an innocent woman.

The teen sleuth is at it again! This was Bonita Granville's second turn as Nancy, the high school reporter who was the subject of four Warner Bros films in the late 1930s. This time she's helping a young woman accused of murder. When Nancy persuades her loyal neighbor Ted to help her, it's only a matter of time before the identity of the real killer is revealed. Directed by William Clemens (the man behind the memorable Falcon series), and starring the likes of John Litel, Dickie Jones, and...

Sharp, young, independent and inquisitive, Nancy Drew is a teen reporter who endeavors to outwit the adults and clear a young woman of murder in this delightful (and surprisingly humorous) family film based on the legendary fictional sleuth. This is one of four Nancy Drew movies made by Warner Brothers in the late 1930s. Created as a female alternative to the successful male Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew's cultural impact and positive influence on young women remains highly significant even today....

Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell) is up for the leading role in a Broadway musical set in Brazil, but her seasoned stage-star mother, Frances (Ann Sothern), thinks she's got the part! A sticky situation becomes impossibly complicated after Nancy follows her mother to Rio -- where they both fall for the same man! Sidney Sheldon's witty screenplay provides a comedy of errors in which no one except Nancy's skirt-chasing grandfather (Louis Calhern) seems to know what anyone else is...

When an anti-war activist is released from jail after 17 years, he immediately visits the girl that he kidnapped as a baby and returns her to her real father, but he must face a cell mate who tries to blackmail him in the meantime.

One night of bliss... A thousand nights of hell...This picture is presented in the hopes that the public may become aware of the terrific struggle to end the curse of drug addiction!One night in an opium den sends respectable young doctor William Davis hurtling down the slippery slope to doom and self-destruction. When his drug habit renders him incapable of practicing medicine, Dr. Davis becomes a sideshow huckster shilling miracle elixirs. The income provided by snake-oil sales only fuels...

Narrated by Robert Ryan: World War I - The Complete Season 3 DVD-5 1964-1965 Narrated by Robert Ryan. This 3-disc collection includes original early 20th century material and rare archival footage illustrating a war that ended Europe's uneasy peace.

Special agent Britt Hunter discovers a sinister Soviet plot to destroy America. A Russian operative (barely disguised as a cowboy) waits in the badlands to unleash a deadly bacteria. Hunter goes undercover as a rock and roll singer to corner the enemy spy. The radioactive device, fastened around the neck of a rabbit, is the target of an international ring of counterespionage agents from every corner of the world. As the cadre take turns attacking the Soviet operative and clobbering each, the...

Avenging Angels mete out punishment to foreigners and all others who don't live up to their leaders' notions of "100 percent Americanism."The secret lodge has been formed by con men planning to get rich via initiation fees, dues and the sale of their sinister robes. Unstoppable because of the nation's mood in the depths of the Depression, the pistol-packing, lash-wielding night riders exploit religious intolerance and prejudice against aliens. With members of the hate group winning elected...

As long as young hearts endure, so will National Velvet and movies like it. in her star-making role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase. Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does. Superbly directed by Clarence Brown, this exciting winner of two Academy Awards * (one to Anne Revere for her...

Inspired by the 1938 report of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee's investigation into the repression of labor organizing, Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand's biting and beautiful Native Land (1942, though largely shot between '37 and '39) combines documentary footage with staged reenactments to depict the struggle of trade unions against corporations, their spies and contractors. Legendary singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson narrates the film through words and song, lending the work a...

With their splendid voices, matinee-idol looks, vivacity (she) and stoutheartedness (he), Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were America's Singing Sweethearts, "a true team, mixing the chemistry that permits one to accept disguised princesses, dream melodies and beautiful doom" (Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical). Naughty Marietta is their first film together, a blithe tale of a French princess who arrives incognito in colonial New Orleans and falls into the manly arms of a captain with...

Average western featuring Bob Steele as adopted Indian who tracks down his foster father's killer. Plot involves a jumping frog, a locket with a picture of his real mother who was killed by Apaches, his reunion with his real father, who recognizes locket, romance, and so on. "... two parts murder and revenge, spiced lightly with humor and stirred by the long arm of coincidence. But since the shooting, riding, fisticuffs, and jailbreaks follow through without scenic or romantic breathers, the...

Tom Kirk's parents were slaughtered in an Indian raid when he was just a child. A friendly Navajo found the boy and raised him as his son. When his adoptive father is murdered, Tom journeys to Canyon City to capture the killer. He finds his father's ring in the possession of con man and card player "Honest John" Grogan. Despite the evidence, Grogan has an airtight alibi for the time of the murder. The sheriff warns Tom against vigilantism, but "The Navajo Kid" decides to take the law into his...

"Truck" Cross (James Stewart) is a hardworking midshipman, sworn to regain his father's disgraced honor. Roger Ash (Robert Young) is a cynical, top-notch athlete hiding a heart of gold, and Richard Gates (Tom Brown) is the pampered but determined son of New York socialites. They are three very different young men who find themselves rooming together during their first year at the Naval Academy of Annapolis. Here they learn the real meaning of teamwork and competition as they lead the battle on...

Sailor beware! That sweet trick with the big eyes is looking for more than a good time. She wants a ring! As bad-boy tar Jack Kelly, silent-film leading man William Haines brings his trademark humor, charm and amazing good looks to his first Talkie and proves to be as hear-worthy as he is see-worthy. So successful was Haines's transition to sound that in 1930, one year after Navy Blues was released, he reigned as Hollywood's #1 male box-office star. This nifty little comedy-drama touting the...

This action-adventure-comedy begins innocently when a brash sailor Rusty Gibbs bets his fellow sailors that he can get a date with any woman. HIs pals make it tough by giving him one week to take "book worm" librarian Doris Kimbell to the Crow's Nest, a notorious night spot. Things turn serious as Rusty not only finds himself falling in love with Doris but that he has a rival for her affections in Julian Everett. The situation becomes deadly as Julian reveals himself to be part of a spy ring....

While out on patrol with a squadron of WWII Navy airmen, a pilot learns that he has just become a father. He can't wait to return to base so that he can see his wife and newborn child, but when he finally gets there he learns the tragic news - the mother has died due to complications from the delivery. His flying buddies are unable to console him and, in his misery, he takes his own life. Now the surviving squad members begin a new mission - keeping the baby out of the hands of officials who...

America was at war, and many a seagoing vessel got called to duty, like the rickety Merchant Marine freighter whose crew serves with distinction, destroying Nazi bombers and U-boats in a rousing adventure adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story by future Red River and Winchester '73 screenwriter Borden Chase. And what a crew! Deploying for hazardous action are gunnery commander Pat O'Brien, seaman George Murphy (a disgraced former officer in love with O'Brien's sister, Navy nurse Jane...

Naval Intelligence arrests CPO Jimmy Woodford for selling military secrets to foreign agents. Posing as Jimmy's pal, agent Steve Fletcher goes undercover to ferret out the leader of the spy ring. Assisted by Jimmy's beautiful girlfriend, Carol, he infiltrates the gang but realizes that he is falling in love with the girl. Steve gathers the evidence he needs, but suspects that Carol may also be deeply involved in the espionage. Lovely Fay Wray's comedic and acting talent shines in this Monogram...

Naval lieutenant Matthews is kidnapped by enemy spies seeking the formula for his revolutionary new military fuel. Federal agent Alan O'Conner is assigned the task of rescuing the scientist. Joining forces with beautiful reporter, Bobbie Reynolds, he follows the trail of clues to a tramp steamer leaving port with the captive scientist aboard. They manage to smuggle themselves aboard but will be hard-pressed to survive as they attempt to free the prisoner.Conrad Nagel's long film career began...