Groucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, "You Bet Your Life" made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto car manufacturers, the show featured two contestants working as a team to answer questions for cash prizes. Another mainstay of these question and answer segments was the paper mache duck that would descend from...

Groucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, "You Bet Your Life" made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto car manufacturers, the show featured two contestants working as a team to answer questions for cash prizes. Another mainstay of these question and answer segments was the paper mache duck that would descend from...

Joe Baldwin (Onslow Stevens) is a high-stakes gambler and a racehorse owner who's extremely superstitious -- his one weakness when it comes to gambling. But Joe has a perfect system for controlling his fortunes: He generates good luck through acts of goodwill. Convinced that philanthropy increases the number of people pulling for him, which then skews odds in his favor, Joe is the ultimate self-interested altruist. His luck heads south when a fulfilled wish for rain on the day of an...

W.C. Fields and Charlie McCarthy bring their legendary radio feud to the screen in the classic comedy You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, co-starring Edgar Bergen. The seedy owner of a flea-bitten circus, Larson E. Whipsnade (Fields) will stop at nothing to arrange a marriage between his daughter Victoria (Constance Moore) and boring millionaire Richard Bel-Goodie (James Bush). So when Victoria declares she is in love with The Great Edgar (Bergen), Whipsnade cuts the penniless ventriloquist adrift...

Humphrey Bogart plays mobster Frank Wilson, the heavy headlining this crime thriller that sprung from the pen of Sing-Sing's warden himself! Based on the play "Chalked Out" by Warden Lewis E. Lawes and Jonathan Finn, You Can't Get Away With Murder tells the grim tale of a young punk taken in by the glamorous gangster life, only to find himself sent away to the federal pen with a man's fate resting in his hands and a murderer dogging his every step. Young Johnnie Stone (original "Dead End Kid"...

From Academy Award -winning director Norman Taurong, this backstage musical follows a big producer who buys the play of a beautiful playwright to improve his romantic chances. Alice Faye and Don Ameche lead a noteworthy cast, featuring Charles Winninger and The Ritz Brothers.

After a hunting mishap lands some buckshot in his backside, millionaire playboy Tony Brown (Peter Lawford) is taken to the hospital he supports to the tune of $100,000 a year. Anxious to have their benefactor receive the best possible care, the hospital administrator assigns Dr. Jeff Chadwick (Gig Young) and nurse Katie McDermad (Jane Greer) to Tony's minor surgery, despite Katie having just finished a long shift. When the exhausted and irritable Katie insults Tony, he promptly has her fired....

Screen legend James Stewart teams up with Joan Fontaine in the romantic comedy You Gotta Stay Happy. Dee Dee Dilwood (Fontaine), a wealthy heiress, has just made the mistake of her life: marrying the wrong man. On the night of her wedding, she decides to run away and enlists the help of a failing airline entrepreneur Marvin Payne (Stewart), who reluctantly agrees to let her hide out in his room for the evening. Sparks fly between the two and things begin to get really complicated when Marvin,...

A doctor is on the run from the mob after he identifies two hoods involved in a murder.

Dick Powell stars as a hardboiled PI with a taste for kibble in the over-the-top screwball comedy You Never Can Tell. When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway (Peggy Dow) is besieged by fortune hunters when they learn she's next to inherit. After the German Shepherd is poisoned and Ellen's accused of the crime, King's spirit is granted special permission to go back to earth in human form and help clear his Ellen's name. Returning as...

Laughter comes in waves in You Said a Mouthful, a wet and wild comedy starring Joe E. Brown and Ginger Rogers. The inventor of an unsinkable swimsuit, shipping clerk Joe Holt (Brown) quits his job at the Armstrong Rubber Goods Corp. and moves to California. While on Catalina Island looking for work, Joe is mistaken by socialite Alice Brandon (Rogers) for a champion marathon swimmer, who is competing in a 21- mile race to the mainland, and Joe is shocked to discover he's expected to...

The story of a bandleader and his wife, a flapper script girl, set during the Great Depression. Marilyn Monroe appears as an extra in this jolly musical.

Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner) is a very nice young man anxious to step out into the "adult world." His plan is to move out of his parents' Long Island house into an eighth-floor Greenwich Village walkup -- and try to convince someone to share his new "liberated lifestyle" with him. You're a Big Boy Now was Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA Film School Master's thesis -- and a hilarious, high-speed debut in film comedy for the future maker of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Fresh off A Patch...

A successful stage dancer gets a screen test and his wife steps in to help with a scene and she gets the studio contract instead of him. She goes on to become a major movie star and he returns to his career as a dancer.

On vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty (Eleanor Lynn). Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) warns his son that she is too fast for him. But to Andy, that just means he should run after his golden girl a little faster! This sequel to A Family Affair, the enormously successful first Hardy family film, introduces the cast most often associated with the series (only Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Sara...

Jeff (Mantan Moreland) and Frankie (Frankie Darro) are employees at the Carlton Arms Hotel where they work overtime to avoid being caught goofing off on the job. Their carefree, shiftless days come to an abrupt end in the hotel's parking garage, when they witness the mob-style murder of penthouse tenant, professional gambler Hal Dayton. As reporters swarm the hotel, Detective Tom O'Reilly is dispatched to investigate. Baffled by the homicide, O'Reilly asks Jeff and Frankie to engage in a...

W.C. Fields plays an inventor with a taste for drink in You're Telling Me!, a rough-and-tumble Pre-Code. Having failed to sell his latest invention, Sam Bisbee (Fields) meets Marie Lescaboura (Adrienne Ames) on the train-ride back to Crystal Springs, unaware that she is a foreign princess traveling incognito. Deciding to help make her new friend a success, Marie pays a visit to Sam's hometown where she attempts to turn an uncouth eccentric into the darling of the country club set. Co-starring...

This delightful musical comedy about a Broadway dance director who finds himself drafted into the Army stars Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire and features songs by Cole Porter. The dance sequences between Astaire and Hayworth are marvelous and the score earned an Oscar nomination.

Art is an orphan in trouble with the law, who is given a second chance with the Dorays - a couple who own a pharmacy. However, when Art and his friend Nutty break into the drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's dying grandmother, the boy's motives are questioned. Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars in the film with Doris Kenyon, Ralph Bellamy and Tommy Conlon.

Publicity man Bob Preston is hell bent on making his beautiful fiancee June a star and pulls out all the stops to make it happen. June's stardom drives an inevitable wedge between the couple once June realizes Bob may be more invested in her success than in romance. June leaves Bob behind for another, wealthier man, but is forced to rethink her decision.The Wampas Baby Stars were a product of the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers and consisted of a group of young actresses...

Orphan Victoria Sax receives the shock of her life when diplomats from the Kingdom of Saxheim arrive at school and announce that the girl is a Grand Duchess, and now one of the richest heiresses in the world. She is transported to Europe where she is to marry Prince Caryl, whom she has never met. En route Victoria and Prince Caryl meet and fall in love, however, neither reveals their true identity. Believing that he is in love with a commoner, the Prince abdicates his crown, and goes off to...

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award -winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of...

A young adventurer, Bill Hickok, is the only thing standing between a band of outlaws and a shipment of gold bound for Yankee soldiers. Morrell's Raiders, veteran stage coach thieves, snatch the gold and frame Hickok for the theft. Wild Bill must pursue the Raiders to clear his name and recover the treasure. "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers, stars as Wild Bill Hickok in this action-packed Western from the golden age of Hollywood. Aided by Sally Payne as the sassy Calamity Jane, Roy sings a few...

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.