Franklin College junior Martin Granville is a superb athlete and the coach wants him to quarterback the football squad. Unfortunately, the boy's father has forbidden him to play. The coach recruits beautiful co-ed Pat Meredith to persuade Martin to join the team. Pat is the girlfriend of Jack Gaines, team captain, whose family are bitter rivals of the Granvilles. When Pat starts doing "her job" and dating Martin, the two start to develop real feelings for one another, infuriating Jack. He...

Matrimony means different things to different people. For temperamental artist Geoffrey Carroll, it means he's in his element. And out of his mind. In their only screen pairing, two of film's all-time greats star in a psychological thriller rife with pelting rain and pealing bells, blackmail and murder, calculated dread and an unnerving finale. Humphrey Bogart portrays Geoffrey, who's making a habit of poisoning one wife and marrying another when the former no longer inspires his canvases....

An amnesiac must prove himself innocent of murder in this twisty noir mystery from director Anthony Mann, starring Tom "The Falcon" Conway and Ann Rutherford (Inside Job). On the corner of a fog-bound street, a disoriented man (Conway) is nearly run down when he stumbles in front of a taxi. Unable to recall his name or past, he soon discovers that a man answering his description is wanted for murder. Aided by the cab's cynical driver (Rutherford), the suspect poses as a reporter to solve the...

Twenty years ago, a little accident with a guillotine trick left magician Duke Duquesne's wife/on-stage assistant without a head and their baby daughter, Cassie, without a mother. Now, The Great Duquesne may have another trick up his sleeve. He dies, leaving Cassie a sizable inheritance if she spends seven nights in his spooky mansion. With a fearless young reporter by her side, Cassie braves terrors that could be the work of evil spirits. Or are they illusions dreamed up by Cassie's dear...

Twenty years ago, a little accident with a guillotine trick left magician Duke Duquesne's wife and on-stage assistant without a head and their baby daughter Cassie without a mother. Now The Great Duquesne may have another trick up his sleeve. He dies, leaving Cassie a sizeable inheritance if she'll spend seven nights in his spooky mansion. With a fearless young reporter at her side, Cassie braves terrors that could be the work of evil spirits. Or are they illusions dreamed up by Cassie's dear,...

It's been said that your whole life unfolds before your eyes during your last, fleeting moments of existence. Not so for convicted murderer John Allen. After he's strapped into the electric chair and the switch is thrown that sends the fatal current through his body, he -- and the movie audience -- sees the chain of events that turned Allen from amiable high-rise construction worker to brutal killer. Edward G. Robinson reteams with Mervyn LeRoy, the director of his star-making Little Caesar,...

With those gams and that voice, High "C" Susie packs 'em in at a Bowery honkytonk located several blocks and a world away from where her Beantown family thinks she's singing: the grand opera house. Then her prim and disapproving sister comes to town...and promptly falls in love with singing, dancing and a handsome young man-about-town. Kathryn Grayson and June Allyson are Two Sisters from Boston in a sprightly musical set in glamorous, gas-lit New York and featuring young Peter Lawford for a...

Director Jules Dassin (Night and the City) combines the best of film noir, crime caper and romance in this little gem starring Lucille Ball, John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan. Ace Connors (Hodiak) is a con man on the run, chased by determined cop Bob Simms (Nolan) who is trying to convince Ace to turn in the bonds he has stolen in exchange for a reduced sentence. When Simms catches up with Connors, the con man talks him into taking a train ride back east that will take them through the Southwest and...

Two tickets to Broadway will take you to TV! One of the first films centered on the new medium is also a spirited throwback to '30s musicals all about a determined young miss (in this case, Janet Leigh) with stars in her eyes and not much in her wallet who heads to New York in search of fame. Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven, Eddie Bracken and Ann Miller round out the cast of young talents hoping to make it big on the small screen. Busby Berkeley directs the splashy musical numbers; Rodgers and...

In 1952, star Kirk Douglas, director Vincente Minnelli, producer John Houseman and screenwriter Charles Schnee teamed for what many consider the greatest drama ever made about Hollywood: The Bad and the Beautiful. Ten years later, they took another powerful insider's look at the movie business, this time adapting a book by Irwin Shaw. Douglas portrays has-been screen idol Jack Andrus. Just out of a sanitarium, Jack grabs at a small role in a movie shot in Rome by a director (Edward G....

In 1952, star Kirk Douglas, director Vincente Minnelli, producer John Houseman and screenwriter Charles Schnee teamed for what many consider the greatest drama ever made about Hollywood: The Bad and the Beautiful. Ten years later, they took another powerful insider's look at the movie business, this time adapting a book by Irwin Shaw. Douglas portrays has-been screen idol Jack Andrus. Just out of a sanitarium, Jack grabs at a small role in a movie shot in Rome by a director (Edward G....

Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live and his partner Lum thinks they could make a lot of money by having Abner perform dangerous stunts.

Kittenish teens Patti (Jane Powell) and Melba (Debbie Reynolds) turn a 1900s family vacation in the Catskills into Two Weeks with Love, "a bright entertainment that may come as a surprise to those who think there is nothing new under the musical sun" (The Hollywood Reporter). Patti is fluttery over a suave older man (Ricardo Montalban) and thinks romance will bloom if her disapproving parents let her wear...a corset! With that longed-for garment, 18-year-old Patti is sure she'll look like a...

"To those women we forget too soon, who taught us the Three R's - Rapped our knuckles with a ruler - Looked behind our ears - To those second mothers, our school teachers, this picture is dedicated." Agatha Stanton is an old-fashioned schoolteacher unaffectionately nicknamed "Old Ironsides." Her style of education favors harsh discipline instead of coddling. When a new school principal starts taking the students' complaints seriously, it looks like Agatha is headed for an early retirement. At...

In Italy during WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between them and the horrors of war.

Screen goddess Sophia Loren won a justly deserved Oscar for her vivid portrayal of a war ravaged widow in Vittorio de Sica's neo-realist classic.Two Women chronicles the harrowing ordeal of the beautiful widow Cesira (Sophia Loren) and her sickly daughter Rosetta (Eleonora Brown) as they escape the daily air raids in Rome by fleeing into the countryside. The pair make their way over corpse strewn mountains and burnt out valleys only to be brutally raped by soldiers when they seek shelter in an...

Alan Ladd stars as a the son of a wealthy ship magnate who finds himself forced to sail on one of his father's brutal ships in Two Years Before the Mast. Like the rest of the world's land-dwellers, Charles Stewart (Ladd) knew nothing of a sailor's life at sea And as the son of a very rich ship owner, he never should have. Nevertheless, after being made to sail on the S.S. Pilgrim, he soon discovers the ocean of brutality that was a sailor's lot in life during the 1840's. Sickened and...

Fred Dean returns to his old family homestead after 20 years determined to find the killer of his father. He discovers that the neighboring Bar Z Ranch is beset by rustlers. The outlaw gang suddenly find themselves thwarted by a mysterious new champion - a masked man known only as the "Two Gun Troubadour." Suspecting that Fred is the phantom vigilante, they are determined to put an end to his interference.Although his movies were typically modest "B" Westerns produced by independent studios,...

This action-packed TV series stars John Bromfield as law enforcer Frank Morgan, whose Old West tactics are put to rugged use in modern day Arizona. Beginning in 1956, this tough and engrossing crime drama was filmed mostly on location in the Tucson area with first seasons episodes titled "The Man From Cochise" and "The Sheriff Of Cochise." Hoping to broaden the show's appeal, studio head Desi Arnaz, Sr. would change "The Sheriff Of Cochise" to "U.S. Marshal" in 1958 and allow Frank Morgan to...

This action-packed TV series stars John Bromfield as law enforcer Frank Morgan, whose Old West tactics are put to rugged use in modern day Arizona. Filmed mostly on location in the Tucson area, U.S. Marshal continued where Bromfield's earlier series, The Sheriff Of Cochise (1956-1958) left off. Bromfield's character was promoted from sheriff to marshal so he could work on bigger cases, in an attempt to broaden the show's appeal. Produced by Desilu, these four episodes are tough and engrossing...

Ub Iwerks (1901-1970) met Walt Disney while both men were working in the commercial art field. Deciding to get into animation, the two soon found great success with their creation Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, as well as The Alice Comedies, a series of shorts inspired by the work of Lewis Carroll. Iwerks was almost entirely responsible for the look of the early Disney cartoons. He redesigned Walt's initial sketch of Mickey Mouse into the character we know today, and provided most of the animation...

Dumb Dicks (1932): The Lafayette National Bank has just been robbed of $100,000 while Benny and Harry of the Rubin & Gribbon Private Detective Agency napped outside. Determined to right their wrong, Benny and Harry don disguises as fortune tellers to infiltrate the criminals' hideout and retrieve the loot. Starring Benny Rubin and Harry Gribbon.Girl Crazy (1929): The legendary Mack Sennett directed this farce in which randy widower Gus Salter takes his first trip to the big city and becomes an...

Easy On The Eyes (1933): A handsome pilot crash lands at a society party in order to meet a beautiful girl he's been following. Although she is engaged to a millionaire, the smitten flyboy launches a campaign to steal her away for himself. Starring Franklin Pangborn, Ed Nugent and Nora Lane. Scotch (1929): A newlywed couple retreats to a quiet apartment to celebrate their honeymoon, desiring nothing but solitude. Unknowingly, they have moved next door to a bathtub bootlegger, and soon find...

Love Your Neighbor (1930): Mrs. Brown is admitted into a leading social club whose motto is "Do A Good Deed A Day." During her acceptance speech she manages to make mortal enemies with the wife of her husband's biggest client. Starring Charlotte Greenwood, Lloyd Hamilton, Wilfred Lucas and Dot Farley. Directed by William Watson. One Yard To Go (1930): Red Gable All-American sits on the sideline during the big game because his coach thinks he's too love sick over his recent romantic break-up to...