A charming drifter who leaves Australia and goes to South Africa in the 1880's along with his wife in hopes of finding wealth, but never doing so. His wife finally realizes that he cannot be changed and that she is happy with her shiftless, good-hearted husband. Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, and Brian Donlevy star in We're Going to be Rich.

Dan Linton and Spike Connover are two bootleggers on the run from New York's top mob boss. With every thug in the city looking to kill them, the petty crooks decide to get away from it all by joining the French Foreign Legion. But what they thought would be a "rest cure" turns out to be hard work, and Dan and Spike decide to relax by wining and dining their commanding officers' wives. When their recreational activities are discovered, the pair is sentenced to a hard labor camp in the desert....

Screen legends Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard join George Burns and Gracie Allen in the musical comedy We're Not Dressing. When the yacht of the rich and beautiful Doris Worthington (Lombard) is shipwrecked, the survivors find themselves stranded on a deserted tropical island. The tides soon turn as it becomes evident that the lowly deckhand Stephen Jones (Crosby) is the only one with any natural survival skills. As the romantic tension between Stephen and Doris grows, the passengers are faced...

This vintage informational film provides a tour of the U.S. Army's Cold War-era artillery arsenal. From small, mobile field howitzers to massive self-propelled guns to nuclear-capable tactical rockets, this 1966 production provides a comprehensive overview of the specs, ammunition types and operating procedures for the many "Weapons of the Field Artillery".

Welcome to the Big House, Jerry Larrabee. A stoolie sang, setting the gangster up and landing him in hard time with little hope for redemption. But Larrabee's about to do some singing of his own. His musical talent surfaces in prison and he becomes a national sensation. Will that be enough to keep him from returning to a life of crime when he gets out? As crooning con Larrabee, Richard Barthelmess moved into Talkies with this hybrid film that includes title cards plus music, sound effects and...

On the great Western Pacific Railroad, Helen, the spunky daughter of a supervisor, begins a romance with John, an engineer with a troubled past. After a jealous rival accuses John of criminal negligence, Helen's father forbids her to see him. The lovers elope, but a shocking revelation threatens to tear them apart.Helen Holmes rose to stardom playing independent and adventurous heroines. Director McGowan and Holmes fell in love while working on the serial, The Hazards of Helen, and were...

Cary Grant and Joan Bennett star in the fast-paced screwball comedy Wedding Present. Chicago newspaper reporters Charlie Mason (Grant) and Rusty Fleming (Bennett) never let a good story get in the way of a prank. Things change, however, when their editor (George Bancroft) quits and Charlie takes over his place. Returning from a month's vacation, Rusty discovers fun-loving Charlie has become an unbearable tyrant. Disgusted by his behavior, Rusty leaves for New York where her hasty engagement to...

Welcome to New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Your suite is waiting -- and so are romance, glamour, comedy and drama played with great flair by an all-star cast. A remake of Grand Hotel updated to the waning days of World War II, Week-end at the Waldorf follows the fortunes of a lonely movie star (Ginger Rogers), an on-the-make stenographer (Lana Turner), a wounded flyer (Van Johnson), a war correspondent (Walter Pidgeon), a wheeler-dealer (Edward Arnold) and a gossip columnist (Robert...

A middle-aged husband believes he has finally found his true love after spending time with his children's teenaged babysitter.

Anglo/Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis rose to fame with the 1934 release of Wild Cargo, a documentary about big game hunter Frank Buck. In 1935, he set off for Africa with his wife, Leila Roosevelt (niece of Teddy) in a caravan of specially equipped Dodge trucks designed to carry tons of camera equipment, as well as provisions for the eighteen month journey. Their purpose was to film and record the exotic, the unusual and the amazing which could then be used as stock footage in Hollywood...

SECOND PARADISE (1932): An installment of RKO's Vagabond Adventure Series about the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka.) "Perhaps someday, among these dark-skinned natives, there will be born another Cleopatra who will rule the world!" speculates narrator Gayne Whitman. CITIES OF NORTH AFRICA: TUNIS, ALGIERS, RABAT (1936): "The Screen Traveler" introduces us to the Muslim peoples of Tunis and Algiers, and then takes a tour of the crowded marketplaces in Morocco's capital city, Rabat. INDIA...

CAMERA THRILLS IN WILDEST AFRICA (1938): The husband-and-wife team of Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt traveled to the Belgian Congo, "the very heart of Africa's jungles", to make this short for Castle Films' The Sport Parade series. Gene Castle believed the word "thrills" was a lucky charm, and made sure it was in the title of many of the company's forthcoming releases (i.e., Fishing Thrills, Arctic Thrills, Sea-Going Thrills, etc.) OLD SPAIN (1942): A picturesque portrait of the parts of...

Academy Award winners Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald re-team in Welcome Stranger - their follow-up film to Best Picture winner Going My Way. Dr. McRory (Fitzgerald) is a crotchety old physician who decides to take his first vacation in years. He requests a substitute doctor and gets Jim Pearson (Crosby), a brash young man who immediately rubs him the wrong way. So Dr. McRory decides to forget the vacation and stay home to protect his practice. This puts the two men at each other's throats -...

Academy Award winners Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald re-team in Welcome Stranger - their follow-up film to Best Picture winner Going My Way. Dr. McRory (Fitzgerald) is a crotchety old physician who decides to take his first vacation in years. He requests a substitute doctor and gets Jim Pearson (Crosby), a brash young man who immediately rubs him the wrong way. So Dr. McRory decides to forget the vacation and stay home to protect his practice. This puts the two men at each other's throats --...

E.L. Doctorow's nontraditional Western comes to life in this 1967 adaptation from director Burt Kennedy and Henry Fonda. Fonda stars as aging sheriff Will Blue who finds his resolve faltering in the face of unrepentant evil. A nameless drifter (Aldo Ray as the 'Man from Bodie') terrorizes the aptly named town of Hard Times, freely killing, and raping. Finally, he decides to burn the town down as a parting gift and a reminder of their sheriff's inability to protect it. Vowing to rebuild the...

At a girl's school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher who has been missing at night.

A walk through the woods turns into a night of terror when Mary is grabbed by a pair of powerful hairy claws. A monstrous man-beast tears at her throat in a bloodbath of screaming terror! The discovery of her mutilated body sends shock waves through the nearby girl's reformatory. Recently joining the staff of the school is Julian Olcott, a professor with a medical background and a questionable past. There are many other suspicious characters to be found, including Mr. Swift, who runs the...

Hard-drinking New York socialite Jerry Seevers returns from WWI combat and finds that his fiancee now loves someone else. Drunkenly, Jerry retaliates by marrying party girl Dot. But the next morning he wants out of his vows and flees west to his Arizona ranch -- only to find that Dot has arrived there before him. Can her love win out over his weakness for booze? John Gilbert, whose silent-screen prominence and subsequent career crash after the advent of sound is one of Hollywood's most...

Lafe Langdon, an elderly rancher, is found standing over the dead body of a rival with whom he was involved in a dispute. Accused of murder, he writes to his son, Tom, from prison, asking for help in clearing in his name. Tom learns that the real culprit is an outlaw known only as "The Laramie Kid", who is holed up in Ghost City, a refuge for crooks on the lam. Tom disguises himself as an outlaw to gain entrance into this criminals' den in a desperate attempt to catch the man who framed his...

Posing as tax officials, ruthless government men extort money from poor ranchers until the Three Mesquiteers come to their rescue. From a newly-remastered film print.

Roy Rogers is Dr. Stephen Kellogg, who is fleeing from the law back East for a crime he did not commit. Assuming the name "Steve Kell," he partners up with fellow fugitive and gambler "Honest John" Whittaker (Gabby Hayes).The fast friends seek refuge at the Idaho Palace Hotel & Bar, which is ruled with an iron fist by "Hurricane Hattie" McGuire (brilliant character actress Maude Eburne). An old maid who soberly oversees her smoky saloon, Hurricane Hattie is long on virtue and quick on the...

In West of the Divide Wayne gains the confidence of the villain Gentry (Lloyd Whitlock) by assuming the identity of a wanted outlaw and joining his gang. After saving an elderly ranch owner (Lafe McKee) from the attentions of the badmen, he is able to confront Gentry as the murderer of his father. Repeating his grim memories of that childhood incident, he concludes ominously, '...but I lived, lived to even up the score!' And he does just that in an elaborate indoor fight, himself visibly...

Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father. He saves Virginia Winters' dad's ranch from Gentry and also rescues his long-lost brother Spud.

John Wayne stars as Ted Hayden, a tough hombre who goes undercover to join a gang led by a heartless fiend known only as "Mr. Gentry" (Lloyd Whitlock). Gentry is out to take over a ranch belonging to one of Hayden's friends, but as Hayden finds out, Gentry has a lot more than that up his sleeve. You'll have to watch this two-fisted Western to find out the rest!