Screen legend Bela Lugosi gives a sinister performance as Nicholas Harmon, an opera house lothario who is obsessed with beautiful young girls. Disgusted with his stepfather's debauchery, Don Harmon renounces the family fortune and moves out. He takes a job conducting a nightclub orchestra, and falls in love with Anna, the beautiful singer who headlines the show. When Nicholas sees Anna, he is instantly smitten by her charms, and is determined to steal her away.The Midnight Girl is Bela...

Mother love, mystery and murder mingle in this dramatic tale of a notorious speakeasy hostess courageously taking the rap for a murder she didn't commit.Nita St. George can be hard as nails on the outside but she takes a strong maternal interest in Jean Austin, the beautiful girlfriend of one of her patrons. Jean, whose mother disappeared when she was a baby, finds herself mysteriously drawn to the older woman. Nita witnesses Jean leaving the scene of a fatal shooting and jumps to the wrong...

Alan Bennett, a drifter and small-time crook, stops off at a lonely railroad station and decides to rob the safe. He scuffles with the elderly stationmaster, Sam Foster, who promptly suffers a stroke that leaves him paralyzed. The pair is then discovered by Foster's granddaughter, Mary. Overcome by the girl's beauty, Alan introduces himself as a friend of her grandfather's and volunteers to take over Sam's job until he can recover. The pair live in a semblance of domestic bliss until some of...

A widow's sewing machine breaks down, and, deprived of her tailoring income, her young son takes a job on the night shift to help out. One evening, while delivering a telegram to a wealthy family, he finds himself implicated as a suspect in a jewelry robbery. Hunted by the police, the boy sets off alone to pursue the thieves and attempt to clear his name. Irish-born Creighton Hale performed on Broadway before starring in silents of the mid-to late teens and early 1920s. He's best known for his...

A young man disappears without a trace from the posh Clarendon Arms hotel and his horrified sister, Enid Van Buren (Claudia Dell) suspects that the authorities and hotel staff are conspiring to deny that the incident ever occurred. Veteran sleuth William Cornish (William Boyd) and his assistant Dr. Steven Walcott (Hooper Atchley) are brought in to investigate. Stumbling close to the the truth, Dr. Walcott is shot. Cornish cannot prevent Enid from being lured to a nearby mortuary where the dead...

It's heroic European Christians pitted against a Muslim villain and his Islamic army. Look for some well-staged action sequences, including a big siege at the end of the film. Great to see two beauties, Sylva Koscina and Gianna Maria Canale, pitted against each other as love rivals. Battaglia, of course, is in the center of all the action both kinds!

In early 20th-century New York, former heavyweight champion Roy "Slag" McGurk (Wallace Beery) considers himself the "King of the Bowery." The truth is, Slag is hired muscle for local saloonkeeper Mike Glenson (Edward Arnold) and a kept man, thanks to the generosity of local pawnshop proprietress (and sometime girlfriend) Mamie Steeple (Aline MacMahon). He can't dodge a pair of sucker punches thrown his way in the forms of his former boxing protege, now a street salvationist, Johnny Burden (a...

Ed Fury, Christina Gajoni, Mario Scaccia, Moira Orsei. Returning from war, Ursus learns his fiancee, Attea, has been taken to a mysterious island ruled by a pagan goddess. The mysterious tribe that lives there has a nasty habit of sacrificing virgins, which, of course, doesn't say much for Ursus' and Attea's sex life. Regardless, Ursus and an extremely beautiful, blind slave girl set out to find Attea and free her from her evil captors. Great color, widescreen, 16mm.

Harold Lloyd, comic genius of both the sound and silent era, plays sly, nebbishy milkman Burleigh Sullivan in Leo McCarey's whirlwind farce, The Milky Way.Hapless but cunning Burleigh accidentally knocks out the middle weight champ and trades his milk truck for sparring gloves as the press jump on the story of this unlikely prizefighter. Despite gaining a reputation so tough that many contenders are afraid to fight him, Berleigh still has time to fall in love with a good girl who is critical...

This was Harold Lloyd's most highly regarded talkie, and also one of the last films he would appear in. He plays Burleigh Sullivan, a timid milkman who finds himself in the seedy world of prizefighting. Though he thinks his success is based on his ability to duck, it's actually because his manager is bribing his opponents to fall down! Adolphe Menjou and Lionel Stander also star in this little classic (dubbed "uproariously funny" by Time magazine). It's from director Leo McCarey, a triple...

Maggie Tulliver's love for Philip Wakem can never come to fruition. The bitter feud between their fathers has tainted the next generation. Maggie's brother Tom holds the Wakems responsible for their father's death, and lives to visit revenge upon the family he hates. He forbids Maggie to see the man she loves, and the frustrated girl is forced down a twisted path, that will ultimately, lead to tragedy.George Eliot's classic novel is brought to life in this lavish 1937 British production which...

Rather than give damning testimony against his parents in their upcoming divorce case, millionaire scion Tommy Neville runs away from home and tries to survive on the street. A rival newsboy knocks Tommy unconscious and he is picked up by a fancy limousine whose occupants witnessed the attack. His rescuers are Terry Mallon, a racketeer with a heart of gold, and his daughter, Kitty. Hanging with the gangsters, the repressed rich boy has the time of his life and Terry teaches him some "mob"...

An unscrupulous publicity agent cons a pair of shady business rivals into backing a series of rigged boxing matches. The fighter at the center of this crooked racket is young Jimmy Conley, an average pugilist with a disapproving fiancee. Unaware that the bouts are fixed, Jimmy is lured by the prospect of a big payoff. He ignores the wishes of his bride-to-be, even after she warns him about the illegal scheme he's unwittingly involved in. In the last bout, Jimmy's eyes are finally opened, and...

The presence of a powerful new explosive element on the land of the Ravenhead Indians has unscrupulous oil man Zaroff salivating. Of course,before he can begin mining and selling his discovery to the militaries of the world, there's the little matter of the tribe that already has a legal right to the land. Zaroff devises a bogus haunting to scare the Ravenhead into deserting their camps, which seems to work - at least until the "supernatural" activity grabs the attention of Texas Ranger Tom...

Rich newspaper publisher Henry Kruger threatens Andy McDonald, his cross-town tabloid rival, with bodily harm after McDonald prints scandalous stories about Kruger's socialite daughter. One of McDonald's unsavory underlings, Slippery Joe Clary, has his own bone to pick with his boss. Clary shoots McDonald and stuffs the corpse in the trunk of Kruger's car, hoping to implicate him. Kruger, unaware of the dead body in the trunk, goes on a long mountain vacation with his chauffeur. A macabre...

Rival newspapermen see their feud go too far in this zany film from the Producers Releasing Company (PRC), a group known for quickie, low budget movies that entertained audiences throughout the war years. Starring J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, and Frank Jenks, this laugher from director Albert Herman (Shake Hands With Murder, Delinquent Daughters) features blackmailers, a mysterious killer, and the feistiest corpse you've ever seen!

Tyrone Power plays a high stakes game for love and money in the Technicolor adventure The Mississippi Gambler. Mark Fallon (Power), a riverboat gambler on his way to New Orleans, meets Angelique Dureau (Piper Laurie), a Southern belle who spurns his charm and advances. Using his winnings to build a casino, Fallon's card skills makes him a fortune, while his pursuit of the fiery Angelique leads to knife fights, suicides, family feuds and duels over personal honor.

Knocked unconscious in a savage desert battle, Captain St. Avit of the French Foreign Legion, is astounded when he awakens in the fabled lost city of Atlantis. Now an immense maze of tunnels and chambers hidden below the Sahara, the vast populace worships and serves their goddess, Queen Antinea. St. Avit is summoned to the Queen's chambers where he is challenged to a chess game with extremely high stakes. If he wins he is free to go, if he loses he will be put to death. Nevertheless, St. Avit...

Horror crawls from the depths of the Earth in the classic sci-fi thriller The Mole People. When three archaeologists come upon a strange albino race of beings living deep underground, the scientists are treated like gods because of their "magical cylinders of light." Worship soon turns to wrath when the scientists try to liberate the tyrannical albinos' oppressed slaves, the mutant mole people. The humans are now in a race against time to escape this strange underground world before its...

A secret society of militant coal miners battled their exploitation by the mine owners with violence and intimidation. This gripping, true story follows a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting his own conscience, while attempting to gain the trust of the tough and suspicious leader of the Mollies.

A secret society of militant coal miners battled their exploitation by the mine owners with violence and intimidation. This gripping, true story follows a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting his own conscience, while attempting to gain the trust of the tough and suspicious leader of the Mollies.

Paul Meurisse, Marcel Dallo, Barbara Steele. Barbara plays a sexy villainess in this rare, French spy/comedy thriller. From 16mm.

The sleepy town of San Angelo is in danger after a giant meteor crashes nearby in the classic sci-fi thriller The Monolith Monsters. Strange black rocks from the event litter the town and nearby geologists are unable to identify the unusual specimens. When the alien monoliths interact with water, they grow to terrifying, gargantuan dimensions and petrify anyone in their path. It is up to one of the geologists and a dedicated professor to stop their path of destruction before they plow...

Scot Webster tries to save his sister Susan from the clutches of gangster W.S. Bruhl. When Scot comes to Bruhl's rented room, one of the gangster's henchmen collapses into his hands, killed by a gunman. The murderer tosses his gun to Scot and disappears. Since all the evidence points at him, Scot is arrested, tried and sentenced to death. A mad scientist uses his brain to transplant it into a gorilla. After the operation Scot wakes up in the body of a gorilla, eager to get his revenge.