Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning's lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane (Barrymore), the ivory trader who crippled him, a Limehouse magician named Phroso (Chaney) vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the...

West Point. The pride of America, the home of glorious tradition -- unless you're a hotshot plebe named Brice Wayne. Then it's just a backdrop to personal glory. William Haines stars as Brice and Joan Crawford plays the girl he loves in a comedy-drama about a brash young gridiron hero who puts himself above the corps, learns a bitter lesson in team spirit and charges into the Army-Navy game for a chance to redeem himself. That on-screen spark between Haines and Crawford was reflected in...

In the late 1960's the United States Military Academy at West Point faced growing problems with enrollment, as increasing discontent over the Vietnam War drove a parallel decrease in applications. With fewer of the best and brightest interested in military service, the Army risked being deprived of the talented young men that its officer corps needed. Produced in 1968, "West Point: The Army Challenge" was a recruitment film meant to correct the academy's reputation as a place where "they lock...

Singing western with Eddie Dean. "Songs are pleasant, shooting ample and riding graphic. Lazy, slow story and corny humor won't hurt much.... Story has Eddie Dean as a U. S. sheriff unmasking a gang of crooks trying to steal gold and precious jewels from a Mexican rancher somewhere north of the border. Lame story, trite dialog don't excite, but accent is rather on romance and music. Dean warbles three cowboy ballads very pleasantly in a light, appealing lyric tenor, assisted by the Sunshine...

As the Civil War spills our nation's blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him. At any cost. As chiseled and bone-lean as its star, Westbound is the sixth of seven Westerns Scott made with director Budd Boetticher, films that -- along with the James Stewart-Anthony Mann Westerns -- helped remake the genre in the 50s, substituting...

Western Courage (1927, B&W, Silent): Arthur Weston, half-owner of a cattle ranch, is in love with Mary who owns the other half, but the apple of HER eye is Stephen Stanton. Stanton asks Mary to elope with him and she's willing - unaware that he and his gang have just rustled her cattle and robbed the local bank. In a one-of-a-kind finale, Arthur and Mary take to the sky in a biplane to pursue Stanton's gang -- and Arthur descends the soaring plane's rope ladder to stop them! Starring Dick...

HEADIN' FOR TROUBLE (1931): "Cyclone" Crosby arrives at the Palace Saloon looking for work. He catches "Boss" Morgan trying to cheat elderly Tom Courtney out of his property during a crooked poker game. As a show of thanks, Tom offers Cyclone a job on his ranch. He explains that cattle rustlers have been terrorizing all the local ranchers except for Morgan. Realizing that Morgan must be their leader, Cyclone decides to stay on and bring an end to the rustlers' racket - while keeping Tom from...

I KILLED WILD BILL HICKOK (1956): The Confederate army is in desperate need of horses, and greedy Sheriff "Wild Bill" Hickok wants to be the only one to supply them. He and his men start sabotaging the other horse traders in Tri City, inadvertently putting the army at risk. Soon after a wagon train is wiped out because the Cavalry couldn't come to its rescue, veteran soldier Johnny Rebel figures out Hickok's scheme. He challenges the crooked lawman to a duel at midnight on the deserted streets...

TERROR AT BLACK FALLS (1962): In the impoverished town of Black Falls, a young Mexican boy, Manuel Avila, is about to be hung by a lynch mob for a crime he didn't commit. His father Juan and level-headed Sheriff Cal try to intervene, but in the ensuing mayhem Manuel is killed. Despite his attempt to save the boy's life, Juan holds the sheriff responsible for Manuel's death. He takes hostages at the saloon, vowing to kill someone every 10 minutes until Cal agrees to a showdown. With his...

Western Racketeers (1935): Ranchers in the San Bernardino Mountains need to drive their cattle through Alamo Pass to get them to market -- but a gang of cutthroats haunts this stretch of government-owned land, demanding one dollar per head before allowing them to proceed. Cattleman Bill Bowers is determined to end the reign of terror, but the gang shoots anyone who defies them. The air is thick as gunsmoke when Bill gathers other ranchers to make an all-out assault on the bandits and to force...

Rambling cowpoke Bob Mason returns to his hometown after a ten-year absence to find that his father has just been shot dead during a stagecoach robbery. Badly wounded while pursuing the fleeing outlaws, Bob is nursed back to health by pretty Alice Gordon. When he discovers that Alice's brother Rudd murdered his father, Bob is torn between bringing the killer to justice and losing the girl he has come to love.Bob Baker, Universal's entry in the singing cowboy sweepstakes, had not yet...

Two outlaw brothers lock horns when one gives up his criminal ways and goes to work for Western Union, laying lines in Omaha and Salt Lake City.

In the restless years following the Civil War, a tensely reunited America set its sights westward and found itself divided again. Into this new frontier rode the legendary "Judge" Roy Bean -- the man who came to be known as "The Law West of the Pecos." Directed by Oscar winner* William Wyler (Ben-Hur) from a screenplay by Jo Swerling (It's a Wonderful Life) and Niven Busch, The Westerner is a rousing saga of a man who displays unwavering courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Walter...

Western Bound (1930, B&W): After playboy Bob Lansing gets involved in a nightclub brawl, his disgusted father sends him out west, hoping that life in the wide-open spaces will make a man of him. In Montana, the exiled Bob is mistaken for a rustler preying on local ranchers including Marge Holt, who happened to be visiting friends in the East and witnessed Bob's scrap in the nightclub. She doesn't want anything to do with young Lansing, but he insists on helping her and infiltrates the gang of...

They are rugged pioneers and brave trailblazers who tame the wild west. These are the women of the great frontier -- that's right -- the women! Based on historical record, this wagon-train saga details a 2,000-mile journey from Chicago to California. The men seek gold; the women seek matrimony. Both strike pay dirt! Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train comprised of two ex-showgirls (Denise Darcel and Julie Bishop), a hearty widow (Beverly Dennis) and...

Rugged pioneers. Indian fighters. Brave trailblazers. These are the WOMEN who tamed the wild west. Based on historical record, this wagon train saga details a 2,000 mile journey from Chicago to California. Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train full of women, including two prostitutes (Denise Darcel and Julie Bishop), a hearty widow (character great Hope Emerson), and an Italian immigrant widow, with fifteen men acting as guides. When one of the men...

Average singing western, starring Eddie Dean. "For this opus Dean is cast as a representative of the U. S. marshal. He hides his identity through most of the footage but flashes the badge of office in time to win the confidence of Phyliss Planchard, who's on the verge of losing her newly-purchased ranch to the scheming Bob Duncan. Dean contribs a standard performance doling out the fisticuffs where necessary. He also warbles several tunes of which the interminable 'When Shorty Plays The...

Buchholz is released from prison six months early. Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker. Things get sticky when Buchholz discovers his boss's ill-intentions, further complicating matters is a love triangle that evolves between him, a beautiful woman, and his boss. From 35mm.

Wealthy lingerie manufacturer F. Farrington Fowler (Leon Errol) has a problem: He's run out of gas coupons due to the rationing during World War II. With the aid of his rascally butler, Pomeroy (Richard Lane), he hatches a scheme to keep his limo running while Mrs. Fowler (Lydia Bilbrook) is out of town. Since carpooling qualifies for extra coupons, the plan is to hire people to ride with Fowler into New York City while they board at his mansion. One rider is a synthetic-silk inventor (Michael...

What a Carve Up! Is a 1961 British comedy-horror film starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Shirley Eaton. The film was loosely based on the novel The Ghoul by Frank King. The relatives of Gabriel Broughton (Phillip O'Flynn) are summoned to Blackshaw Towers, an old, isolated country house in the middle of the Yorkshire moorlands to hear the reading of his will. Gabriel's nervous nephew Ernest Broughton (Kenneth Connor) brings along his flatmate Syd Butler (Sid James) for support. At the...

From Candid Cameraman Allen Funt comes a hysterical feature films that tells and shows all. Witness America's response to one of the most titillating stunts of all time in this hilarious expose of sex and society.

Two icons from the golden age of Hollywood, Oscar winners* Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, take their famous feud on-screen in Robert Aldrich's thriller. In fierce, no-holds-barred performances, Bette Davis portrays aging ex-child star Baby Jane Hudson while Joan Crawford plays Blanche, the crippled sister Jane torments psychologically. As the sisters descend into madness, the tension builds to a shocking ending in this unforgettable Academy Award -winning** classic.

Helen Hayes shines as a shrewd wife who quietly paves the way for her husband's political success in this charming adaptation of the 1908 stage play by Sir J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan), costarring Brian Aherne and Madge Evans. When John Shand (Aherne) is caught breaking into their home to make use of its library, the Wylie clan offers the impoverished student a deal: marry Maggie (Hayes), their spinster relation, and the family will pay for his schooling. Five years later, John wins a seat in...

Murderous gun-smugglers are robbing government warehouses. The only clue is a matchbook from the swanky Chateau Madrid nightclub. Suspecting club owner Douglas Worthington (Noel Madison) of being less than the high-class citizen he appears to be, the Department of Justice launches an investigation. Hot-shot agent Allen Grey (Charles Starrett) is assigned to the case and sent undercover as a prize-fighter. Allen impresses Worthington and infiltrates his criminal gang. When Grey falls for...