Three young black boys -- Zebedee, Zion, and Zachariah -- flee the South after their parents are killed in a flash flood. Hopping a train, Zachariah is separated from his brothers, seemingly dying in a fall. Arriving in the big city, the two boys put themselves through school by hard work and determination. Zion becomes a lawyer, while Zebedee joins the police force. Soon they are working together to smash the bootlegging racket that holds the city in a death grip. But the man behind the...

A devious and hideous criminal mastermind, "The Frog", steals a newly-discovered radioactive element. With this deadly substance at his disposal, the insane genius can now destroy the world! Called in to stop the madman is "Officer 444", a mystery man culled from the ranks of the New York Police Department. Trained to the peak of human perfection, 444 is the only one with the skills to track down the Frog. But with the clock of doom ticking, he must act fast...This stunt-packed silent serial...

Grotesque criminal mastermind "The Frog" has stolen an explosive element powerful enough to destroy the world. Called in to stop him is "Officer 444", a mystery man culled from the ranks of the New York Police Department. 444 may have been trained to the peak of perfection, but he finds he's all too human when he's seduced by the Frog's sultry female accomplice, the Vulture. But the femme fatale's affection is all just a distraction while her master plants bombs in the tunnels of New York. Now...

Police motorcycle patrolman Tom Malone dies after he is deliberately run off the road by a wealthy playboy on a high-speed joyride. Officer Malone's best pal and fellow policeman, Tom Burke (Monte Blue), looks for justice to avenge his fallen comrade's murder but is stymied by a corrupt court system, a town populated by crooked politicos and smart money "sophisticates" who are running an illegal gambling operation.This charming story of friendship, devotion to duty and a search for the truth...

William Boyd -- in the days before he donned the cowboy hat of Hopalong Cassidy -- stars in this pre-Code crime classic! Bill O'Brien, Chicago's top cop, has finally got the goods on gangster Mike Patello. Johnny Dale, the brother of O'Brien's fiancee, Ruth, saw the racketeer commit cold-blooded murder. But the young man is killed by Patello's men before he can take the witness stand. Ruth blames O'Brien for her brother's death, breaking off their engagement. Tossing aside his badge, a...

This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue. A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He briefly and somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until they realize the crazy mistake they have made. The scenes between the Dragon and the beautiful young nightclub dancer who has fallen for him (partly because of his bogus...

A psychoanalyst becomes so involved with his patients that he can not cope with his emotional problems. Soon he discovers it's his pretty fiancee who has unstrung his latest patient.

Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh. Sailor. Behave! is a movie musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie,...

A fugitive assumes the identity of Gene Autry and he kills a man. Autry is jailed and breaks out with the help of his friends. They are determined to clear his name.

Dusty Reilly and Dude Cowan enjoy carefree lives riding the rails, with nothing to tie them down other than their friendship. Arriving in a small town, the two are lovestruck by a pair of gorgeous waitresses. Suddenly their hobo lifestyle no longer seems so appealing, and formerly minor details like money and personal hygiene become important. A high-stakes craps game against a gang of thugs offers Dusty and Dude the chance to marry their sweethearts. But whichever way the dice roll, it's not...

Hester Adams weds Stephen Chase, but she'll soon discover he already has a wife. He's married to his job with Atlantis Oil, acting as the company's roving man in China as it taps into a burgeoning market. Based on a bestseller and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Oil for the Lamps of China follows Chase (Pat O'Brien) as he obeys the dictates of the corporate hierarchy. He'll betray a friend. Abandon his wife in childbirth to attend to a business emergency. Sacrifice one life and risk his own to...

Cowboy star Bob Steele makes his movie singing debut in The Oklahoma Cyclone, the second of his eight westerns made for release by Tiffany. The quiet border town of Santa Maria has been overrun by a gang of bandits who terrorize the peaceful - and in the case of Carmelita (Rita Ray), beautiful - inhabitants. Steele, the Oklahoma Cyclone of the title, disguises himself as a bandit in order to infiltrate the gang who has abducted his father, the sheriff. The Oklahoma Cyclone shoots straight and...

James Cagney swaps his fedora for a ten-gallon hat in this rip-roaring Western adventure costarring Humphrey Bogart and Rosemary Lane. The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid (Cagney) is the territory's most hunted outlaw, wanted dead or alive. So when the Kid's black-clad enemy Whip McCord (Bogart) turns Tulsa into a den of corruption, leading citizen John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern) announces plans to clean up the town. Framing the old man for murder, McCord has him...

A district attorney prosecutes an Indian chief on a murder charge, gets a conviction and then arranges his escape when it's discovered that the Indian chief is innocent.

After his wife dies in childbirth en route to California in 1870, Joel McCrea ("Sullivan's Travels," "Buffalo Bill") settles down in Oklahoma. He quickly finds trouble when he tries to protect an Indian woman caring for his baby from the two villains who are attempting to cheat her father out of his oil-rich land. With Emmy-winner Barbara Hale ("Perry Mason") and Brad Dexter ("The Magnificent Seven").

Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins star as two jealous lady novelists who interfere in each other's love lives.

Mills (young Bill) enlists in the British Army to help his country against the Nazi threat. Not to be undone by his offspring, Graham (Old Bill) decides to do his part and sign up, too. There's a bit of trouble getting the upper echelons of the military to accept such an old recruit (who already served in WWI), but he's soon serving alongside his son in the war effort. No classic, but it's one of those "feel good" kind of movies that were so popular during WWII.

Buildings shake and crumble. Rubble rains down, burying hapless victims. Flames rage throughout what was once the Paris of the Pacific. This stirring recreation of the earthquake of 1906 is the finale to Old San Francisco, but plenty happens before the famed sequence. Warner Oland (later one of the screen's most memorable Charlie Chans) plays a cruel city boss, a Chinese disguised as an Occidental, who lusts after a gently bred daughter of the Spanish aristocracy (Dolores Costello). Set to a...

Is there any Yuletide tale more beloved than Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol? The story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who changes his ways after being visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve, has been popular with audiences young and old since its first publication in December 1843. So it should come as no surprise that, as the 20th century dawned, the character of Scrooge would be brought to life through the flickering new medium of film. Short adaptations of A Christmas Carol were produced in...

Charles Ray stars in this artistic silent portrayal of a day in the life of a simple schoolboy in a rustic town. A glimpse into an almost-forgotten past that few now can remember.

The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.

Fireball Fun-For-All (1953, B&W): For nearly 40 years, the vaudeville team of Olsen and Johnson were the top zanies in the world of comedy. They found their greatest success on Broadway in the 1938 screwball revue, Hellzapoppin', which was translated by Universal into a hit motion picture in 1941. Throughout the 1940s other Broadway revues followed, all variations of Hellzappoppin', as is this rare TV show. In 1949, the team transitioned to TV with Fireball Fun-For-All. Throughout the 1950s...

Ole Olsen (1892-1963) and Chic Johnson (1891-1962) were, along with the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello and The Three Stooges, among the most popular comedy teams in vaudeville. Their free-wheeling, improvisational play Hellzapoppin, which was touted as "never the same show twice," became an immediate sensation when it opened on Broadway in 1938 and ran for over 1400 performances. The film version followed in 1941, after which the duo made a few more movies (including Crazy House and Ghost...

London in the 1830s - a dark, cruel city marked by the stark disparity between the wealth of the upper classes and the bleak wretchedness of life on the streets. When an anonymous woman dies in childbirth, the mid-wife pockets the dead mother's wedding ring. She passes the ring and the baby to harsh constable Bumble, who christens the orphan with the unlikely name of Oliver Twist. When Oliver is nine, he is sent to an orphanage, where life is even grimmer than the one the boy has known. After...