With kohl-rimmed eyes and rouged lips, flapper fatale Billie Brown demands to live life on her terms, not society's. So she brazenly vamps a handsome diplomat in hopes of furthering her fiance's career. It's a perfect plan -- until Billie loses her heart to the diplomat. In a follow-up to her trendsetting silent Our Dancing Daughters, Joan Crawford returns to the role of a reckless Jazz Age baby getting her kicks with torrid kisses and wild parties. Crawford is joined by her Daughters co-star...

Raised by their Bible-obsessed, invalid mother, seven children care for her and one another in a gloomy Victorian house. The mother dies, and the children, terrified of being separated and even more terrified of the outside world, build a graveside shrine to her in the backyard and carry on as if nothing has happened. When their long-lost father shows up, he seems to fall in with their plans. Then the children begin to realize he has a different plan altogether. Dirk Bogarde is marvelously...

'Dr. Research', Frank C. Baxter, presents this Emmy award-winning documentary from the legendary Frank Capra. Our Mr. Sun is the first in a series combining live-action and animation that became a mainstay on TV and in elementary schools during the 1950s and 60s. Capra, an avid science buff, became interested in making educational films after his career in Hollywood effectively ended. The famed director commissioned scripts from first Willy Ley (Conquest of Space) and then Aldous Huxley (Brave...

Thornton Wilder's touching story of life in a New Hampshire town stars William Holden and Martha Scott as a young couple looking to the future. Six Oscar nominations went to director Sam Wood's version of this Pulitzer Prize winning drama, including one for Best Picture, and one for Aaron Copland's original score. Also, look for two of Hollywood's great character performers, Guy Kibbee and Beulah Bondi as Mr. and Mrs. Webb, and Thomas Mitchell as good ol' Doc Gibbs!

An endearing and quietly rhapsodic slice of Americana about a single year among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes enthralled 1945 audiences and critics with its timeless joys. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma (Margaret O'Brien), the film explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk. In a change-of-pace role, Edward...

Hired to sail with the cargo ship Marigold, treacherous first mate Woolf Barstow feeds the captain a slow-acting poison as part of his scheme to sink the vessel for the insurance money. Barstow's long-time sweetheart, dancing girl Concha, becomes jealous when she realizes that Woolf lusts after the skipper's daughter. She stows away on the Marigold as it embarks on its final voyage. Two-fisted second mate Steve Trent tries to protect Mary but quickly runs afoul of the plotters and is thrown...

Working-class dreamers Jonah (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf (John Qualen) fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster (John Garfield) puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter (Ida Lupino), a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder. Garfield inhabits his role with the amiable cruelty of a top rodent in a...

Everything you want in a film noir you'll find in OUT OF THE PAST (1947). A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin, plus double-crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms and bleak souls. Mitchum solidified his tough-guy persona In this archetypal film noir directed with memorable style by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie). He plays Jeff Bailey, a...

Everything you want in a film noir you'll find in "Out of the Past." A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good. A moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin. Plus double-crosses and fall guys. Shadowy rooms and bleak souls. Mitchem solidified his tough-guy persona in this archetypal film noir directed with memorable style by Jacques Tourneur ("Cat People," "I Walked with a Zombie"). He plays Jeff Bailey, a...

When Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) gets a cry for help from his old school chum Dora (Nana Bryant), he packs the whole clan up and heads out west to help her save her ranch. Landing where the buffalo roam, Judge Hardy sets to "researches and strategizes" for a legal answer to Dora's water rights issues while Andy (Mickey Rooney) tries to pass as a Westerner with disastrous results. And to compound the complications, sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) finds herself falling for the ranch's foreman and...

Young Bob Terry has it all. As a freshman engineer with big ideas at the metalworks plant, he's caught the eye of both his no nonsense boss, John Borden, and Borden's attractive daughter, Lois. Bob's professional, financial, and personal fortunes look pretty rosy, until $5000 is stolen from one of his accounts. Armed with his self-righteous sense of law-and-order justice, Borden has no qualms in testifying against his employee, despite Bob's claims of innocence. Sentenced to fifteen years for...

In the turbulent days just prior to the Civil War, U. S. Cavalry Captain Bob Bradley and his sidekick Andy Sharpe are assigned to investigate the mysterious killing of Pony Express riders traveling the Nevada-to-California route. Working incognito, Bob and Andy uncover evidence linking the murders to the theft of valuable Spanish land grants. When kindly Don Ricardo and his daughter Lorita are menaced by the outlaws, the intrepid cavalrymen risk their own lives in what might be a futile...

Fuzzy Q. Jones has reinvented himself as a psychic, consulting a crystal ball inhabited by the spirit of "Standing Pine", an Indian mystic. Little does Fuzzy realize that the voice he hears is actually that of swindler Nord Finner, piped in via remote control radio. The crystal ball convinces Fuzzy that some worthless property is home to a gold mine. The land is owned by Finner, who offers to sell it to Fuzzy for $40,000. The old coot raises the money among his friends, but soon finds himself...

Tex Broderick is wanted for cattle rustling. The innocent cowpoke is wounded while fleeing from Sheriff Jim Porter and his blood-thirsty lynch mob. He finds shelter in the arms of Jean Bennet, a prospector's daughter living on the frontier. Jean has partnered with ne'er-do-well panhandler Cactus Barnes (Gabby Hayes) in a quest for gold. A tense love triangle forms between Tex, Jean and Sheriff Jim. When Cactus strikes gold, frontier justice clashes with the laws of society as a windfall of...

The Trail Blazers go to the aid of ranchers who are being oppressed by a town boss and his henchmen.

Outlaws debuted on NBC September 29, 1960. This unique hour-long TV Western told stories from the point of view of the outlaws themselves. The only recurring characters were lawmen Frank Caine (Barton MacLane), Will Foreman (Don Collier) and Heck Martin (Jock Gaynor). The outlaws were usually portrayed in a sympathetic light, and were played by different guest stars each week. This collection includes the debut episode, "Thirty a Month". THIRTY A MONTH: Steve Forrest plays a rancher who cracks...

'Fuzzy' Jones (Al 'Fuzzy' St. John) gains the reputation of a prophet in Showdown Flats when he is able to forecast events which later take place. 'Fuzzy's' ability to make predictions stems from a mysterious voice which offers him advice. 'Fuzzy' believes the voice is that of a dead Indian Chief. In reality, however, it is the mortal voice of Joe Dayton... a sharp operator, who with Nord Finner... and Ralph Emory... is planning to take advantage of 'Fuzzy's' gullibility to swindle the...

The deserted son of an outlaw gets on the town's bad side after killing a local banker, and years later tries to fit into society by becoming a deputy marshal.

French Foreign Legion Captain Paul Gerard (George Raft), has gained a reputation not only for his military performance but also his sexual prowess. He is assigned to lead a convoy escorting the vivacious Cara (Marie Windsor), the Emir of Bel-Rashad's daughter, back to the Arabian citadel. The two soon fall in love, a complication that irritates the already existing tensions between the repressed Arabs and the French resistance. After snipers attack the neighboring Legion garrison with...

Outpost in Morocco is a 1949 action adventure film starring George Raft and Marie Windsor. The production company got permission to actually film in Morocco using the real Foreign Legion. The production company spent nearly five months filming battle scenes and chases in Morocco, utilizing a total of 85,000 feet of film. Spahi Captain Paul Gerard (George Raft) is assigned to lead a patrol to the city of Bel-Rashad en route to a French Foreign Legion fort. Gerard is to escort the Emir's...

Folks headed from Santa Fe to St. Louis by wagon train trust the riders escorting them, tough hombres who proved their mettle by fighting off an Indian attack. Yet the riders are wolves in sheep's clothing. They're Confederate soldiers who aim to lead the wagon train and its cargo of Union gold into a Rebel ambush. The Outriders is about that journey and of one man's journey from villain to hero. Joel McCrea plays the Johnny Reb whose change of heart is inspired in part by a lovely wagon train...

Night club singer Danny O'Toole inherits a fortune, but lacks the funds to travel to Ireland to collect it. The band provides Danny with travel expenses in return for shares in his windfall. Arriving in Dublin, he finds that he must split his inheritance with another heir, feisty Irish lass Colleen Kerrigan and that there is no money involved - only a castle. Colleen has resided in the castle for years and bitterly resents the intrusion of this strange American. Flat broke, Danny turns his...

This tuneful sports comedy-drama follows a college football star who must choose between preserving his health and playing in the big game. Wealthy Carlton College alumnus Grant Haines makes a secret pact with the college president (Douglas Wood) that he will bequeath his fortune to the nearly bankrupt college, provided they beat archrival State three years in a row. Haines' young cousin Ken Thomas (William Hopper), the star quarterback, is a large reason why Carlton College is one win shy of...

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.