Sterling Hayden plays a sheriff faced with continuing moral dilemmas. Should he relate a deathbed confession which falsely implicates his son in a murder? Should he carry out his threat to cold-bloodedly kill the real murderer--or bring him to legal justice?

The island of Ischia is held in the iron grip of a drug smuggling operation. The Italian government sends secret agent Mario Andreani to smoke out the organization's mysterious leader. Taking his young daughter with him, he soon befriends Don Gaetano, an elderly philanthropist who resides on the island. Little does he realize that Gaetano is secretly the leader of the drug ring. When Andreani comes close to uncovering his identity, the monstrous drug trafficker orders his hired killers to...

Peter Lane is a retired sea captain, living out his twilight years on a riverboat on the banks of the Mississippi River. During a brutal storm, a deathly ill woman and her young son, Buddy, arrive seeking refuge. When the mother dies, the boy becomes Peter's responsibility. He takes to carving animals from wood with his jackknife to amuse the child. The town sheriff, however, finds the poverty-stricken man an unfit father for the toddler. Buddy is brought to an orphanage, leaving Peter with a...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson stars as himself in this compelling biopic of the man who bravely challenged (and broke) the color barrier that existed in America's greatest pastime. The film starts with his college athletic career and proceeds to document his rocky and abuse-ridden tenure in the minors, his relationship with supportive Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey (Minor Watson), and his eventual big league debut, in 1947. That season he would be named Rookie of the Year and, in...

This triumphant biography is the story of Jackie Robinson (playing himself), the first ballplayer to break major league baseball's color-barrier in 1947. One of the greatest sports-themed movies ever made, The Jackie Robinson Story chronicles the gifted athlete's early career in the Negro Baseball League to his tense first at-bat with the farm team in Montreal and his success as the second baseman for the Dodgers. Minor Watson turns in a riveting performance as Brooklyn manager Branch Rickey,...

Baseball great Jackie Robinson steps into the lead role in this biopic from director Alfred E. Green (The Jolson Story, Copacabana). Robinson, born in Cairo, Georgia, was the first African American player allowed into major league baseball. The film, which features the cinematography of Oscar winner Ernest Laszlo (Ship of Fools, Airport), is a glimpse into the life of an iconic American sports hero, and his struggles to overcome bigotry. "Mr. Robinson," wrote The Times' Bosley Crowther, "......

When The Jazz Singer was released in theaters, the future of Hollywood changed. For the first time in a feature film, an actor spoke on-screen, stunning audiences and leaving the silent era behind. Al Jolson was the history-making actor, playing the son of a Jewish cantor who must defy his rabbi father in order to pursue his dream of being in show business.

When The Jazz Singer was released in theaters, the future of Hollywood changed. For the first time in a feature film, an actor spoke on-screen, stunning audiences and leaving the silent era behind. Al Jolson was the history-making actor, playing the son of a Jewish cantor who must defy his rabbi father in order to pursue his dream of being in show business.

The record-breaking career of Joe Louis is packed with staggering triumphs, both in and out of the ring. While squaring off against legendary fighters, the champ struggled to overcome racial prejudice in the boxing world. He made history by becoming World Heavyweight Champion and defending his title for twelve years - longer than any fighter before or since. Although his reign was troubled by bankruptcy and marital strife, through his skill and determination the "Brown Bomber" ensured himself...

There is rarely an argument when it comes to the question of who the greatest fighter of all time is. Here is that man's story. With Coley Wallace (a boxer himself at one time) in the role of Joe Louis, this film follows the boxer's rise from poor family background to world heavyweight champion. Over the course of 12 years, Louis successfully defended his title a record 25 times. But the movie also documents the equally-important challenges he faced outside the ring, overcoming racism to help...

Legendary boxing champion Joe Louis is the subject of this biopic from director Robert Gordon (It Came from Beneath the Sea, Tarzan and the Jungle Boy). Former amateur boxing star Coley Wallace stars as the champ, while the rest of the cast includes John Manley, Hilda Sims, and film noir favorite, Paul Stewart. Of interest to boxing fans, the film features actual footage of many classic Louis bouts, including his battles with Max Baer, Jimmy Braddock, and Primo Carnera!

This early silent classic from director G.W. Pabst (who would go on to make the acclaimed "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of A Lost Street"), follows the desperate lives of people inhabiting a single street in bleak, post-World War I Vienna. Highly-controversial and heavily-censored at the time of its release, the Austrian-made film features Asta Nielsen as a desperate woman forced into prostitution to provide for her family. Warner Krauss stars as the street's domineering butcher, while a young...

Martin Strang is a brilliant but amoral criminal defense lawyer who manipulates the letter of the law to routinely pervert justice, allowing his guilty clients to escape conviction for their crimes. There is nothing that Strang won't stoop to for an acquittal. Years at the bar have blinded him from knowing the realities of right from wrong. All that matters to Strang is the thrill of courtroom victory and the smug knowledge of his superiority over his peers.A sex murderer who Strang has gotten...

Though he lived in India for many years, Rudyard Kipling's stories (from 1893-4) were written in Vermont. This loose adaptation of the classic story of a boy raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle with the help of other animals is not an animation.

Millionaire Jack Warren seeks big game and adventure in the jungles of Africa, accompanied by his companion, former prizefighter Pat O'Malley. The pair discover an isolated tribe of slavers and ivory hunters ruled by Madro, a fugitive from American justice. But among the tribe's prisoners is an amnesiac young woman called Princess Lola, who can only remember that her father is ruler of a vast kingdom. The greedy and sadistic Madro, knowing there must be some truth to the girl's tales, wants to...

Wounded in a gunfight with the notorious James Gang, John Bonniwell (Richard Dix) awakens in a hospital to find that he's been elected marshal of Broken Lance, Kansas. He accepts the position, but quickly learns that the town is under the control of wealthy banker Steve Barat (Albert Dekker), whose crooked business practices are bleeding the citizens of Broken Lance dry. Unable to control the straight-shooting Bonniwell, Barat hatches a plot to discredit the defiant marshal and have him...

Richard Dix stars in this epic of the boisterous and brawling Old West! Wounded in a gun battle with the notorious James gang, John Bonniwell (Dix) wakes up in the hospital to find out he's been elected marshal! He quickly learns that this hot- headed frontier town can only be cooled off with blazing lead and dynamite! Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Victor Jory, and Robert Armstrong also star in this tale of smashing fists and crashing bullets from director George Archainbaud (The Lost Squadron).

Disillusioned, world-weary war veteran Jamie McFarland believes he has only a few months to live. He decides to leave the hospital where he is being treated for battlefield injuries and takes a joyride to Chicago. Along the way, he is sidetracked by the bucolic village of Peaceful Bay. He makes the acquaintance of a kindly old beekeeper who gradually convinces him that life is worth living. His relationship with the old man and the townsfolk deepens, leading to unexpected developments he could...

Murder or suicide? Distinguished playboy detective Philo Vance believes it was murder. Found in a locked library is the murdered body of a man hated by all. A colorful cast of characters (Mary Astor, Ralph Morgan, Jack LaRue and Paul Cavanagh) all had good reason to see this man dead. Philo Vance will take you through every step of this extremely complex crime, using wit and intelligence to keep you intrigued to the very end. The Kennel Murder Case is one of the best detective movies of the...

William Powell stars as detective Philo Vance in this suspenseful locked-room murder mystery. Along with a lot of head-scratching clues, there's plenty of fun stuff about stuffy art collectors, a beautiful debutante trapped in a house of hate, a glamorous stage star keeping a tryst with a "dead" man, a walking corpse, and a wounded dog that knows the answer to the most inexplicable mystery ever tackled by the most captivating sleuth since Sherlock Holmes! Oscar winning Director Michael Curtiz...

Donald Gordon, the lazy son of Colonel Moncrief Gordon, isn't much interested in anything other than racing his father's horse. That is, until he meets pretty stableman's daughter Alice Brown. Colonel Gordon makes a ten thousand dollar bet that his prize stallion can beat a rival's thoroughbred in the Kentucky Derby, and plans on his son riding the horse to victory. While rushing to tell him the news, the Colonel discovers that Donald has eloped with Alice. Infuriated that his only heir has...

Legendary actor Charlie Chaplin stars as The Little Tramp who stumbles upon an abandoned baby in the alley and takes him into his care, in this landmark silent film. As "the kid" (Jackie Coogan) grows older, they become partners in crime, until one day when the child falls ill and hospital workers endeavor to take the boy away. One of the most famous silent films of all time -- and the first that Chaplin wrote and directed himself -- it is also regarded as the first-ever comedy-drama.

Charlie Chaplin's first full-length directorial effort, The Kid, which he also wrote, produced and starred in, is widely regarded as one of Hollywood's great enduring masterpieces. "A comedy with a smile -- and perhaps a tear," he successfully blended humor with pathos while launching the career of Jackie Coogan as the irresistible 5 year-old. Due to its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance, The Kid was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in 2011.Early one morning,...

Yarn-spinning yokel William Quincy Malone (Dennis O'Keefe) is unique among the cowpuncher roustabouts working a ranch in Texas -- he does it with a croquet mallet and a tennis ball, with the help of a hundred-trick pony by the name of Lone Star. Unlike his fellow Texan ranch riders, Malone dreams of the East, and the greatest horse show of all: polo. When a brother-sister pair of dilettante debutantes (Anthony Allan and Florence Rice) purchase Lone Star with an eye toward the polo pitch,...