When a peaceful European village is suddenly plagued by a string of gruesome murders, the nocturnal attacks are pegged on a mysterious giant bat. But the real culprit is mild-mannered, respectable Paul Kristan, a kindly professor with an enigmatic ailment that transforms him nightly into a bloodthirsty vampire. Directed by horror aficionado Frank R. Strayer and produced independently of the Hollywood studio system, this film bears many of the hallmarks of a Universal prestige picture, and was...

Set in Mexico during the 19th century, a gold prospector (Jaroo) and an escaped convict (Luke) team up to go after the score of a lifetime. Along the way, they enlist the help of a group of Apache Indians. Together, they hope to storm a large, heavily guarded fortress full of gold.

Terry O'Toole comes to America from the Emerald Isle to seek his fame and fortune. He is hired by the Loteda Traction Company as a trolley conductor. While performing his appointed rounds, loyal and true Terry manages to save the life of the owner's young son, romance his beautiful daughter and rescue the company from a hostile takeover attempt.Johnny Hines starred in and wrote the screen play for Conductor 1492, which was directed by his brother, Charles. Beautifully produced by Warner...

A saloon entertainer is changed from a raucous song-and-dance girl into a refined chanteuse.

Kay Francis suffers unspeakable hardships in this "well acted and directed" (Film Daily) drama costarring Basil Rathbone and Ian Hunter. It's been 15 years since Vera Kowalska (Francis) last saw her daughter Lisa. A famed opera star, Vera was compromised by womanizing concert pianist Michael Michailow (Rathbone), her disgrace leading to divorce and her husband (Hunter) taking off with their child. Reduced to singing in cheap cabarets, Vera searches for Lisa in vain until she spots the...

Warner Bros. was always a progressive studio when it came to dealing with social issues that their competitors shied away from. With the Nazi threat building momentum in Europe, the studio courageouly defied external pressures and made the first Hollywood film to expose the issue of domestic espionage. Based on true events, Edward G. Robinson stars as a government agent who uncovers a ring of Nazi spies operating in the U.S., with a fine supporting cast including Francis Lederer, George...

In the wake of a trial that convicted four Nazi agents of spying against the U.S., Warner Bros. became the first Hollywood studio to fire a salvo at Hitler's Germany. Months before World War II erupted it released this thriller based on revelations that emerged from the trial and other real-life sources. The story is a brisk connect-the-dots tale that ties German-American Bund operatives (Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas among others) to Berlin. Chief among those connecting the...

On death row, hours before his execution for numerous crimes against humanity and society, Lucky Lombardo, "King of the Red Lights," dictates his memoirs. The remorseful kingpin seeks to warn others away from the corrupting path of easy money that put him in line for the gas chamber. Lucky relates the saga of his gangland rise to power. Entering the United States as a poor immigrant from the Balkans, he seeks the hand of a rich society matron. Unable to wed, Lucky finds employment as a...

Vincent Price faces the death of 1,000 cuts in this delirious pulp adventure directed by Touch of Evil producer Albert Zugsmith. Returning to San Francisco after a long stay in the Orient, two-fisted mercenary Gilbert De Quincey (Price) finds himself caught in the midst of a Tong war. Descending deep below the surface of Chinatown, he plays one side against the other in a daring attempt to break up a human trafficking ring, where slave girls are auctioned for opium. A surreal, rip-roaring yarn...

A crime syndicate has the entire city in its grip and the numbers racket is costing hard-working citizens a fortune. While pursuing his investigation, Treasury Agent Dave Elliot must watch helplessly as his best friend is murdered by the gangsters. Determined to bust the mob wide open, Dave goes undercover and is hired as a numbers enforcer. He gets close to discovering the identity of the mastermind behind the criminal organization, when he is recognized by a sadistic hit man, reducing his...

In pre-World War II London, Spanish agent Denard struggles to close a high-level business deal that will strike a blow against fascists in his native country. But industrialists not yet alert to the threat of fascism reject him. A teenage ally caught up in his efforts is murdered. And the mission itself seems a failure. Yet neither the story nor Denard will stop there. Charles Boyer plays Denard and Lauren Bacall is a jaded industrial heiress who assists him in this intricate spy drama. For...

"Confidential File...a factual report on America today...its people, and their lives..." One of the first 'tabloid'-style TV shows, Confidential File investigated a different hot-button issue in each episode. Paul Coates, series creator and a columnist for The Los Angeles Mirror, attacked everything from drug abuse to comic books during the series' five-year run (1953-1958). Grisly staged recreations accompany the host's monologue, followed by a segment in which Coates grills bewildered...

From best-selling humorist Max Shulman (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) comes this zany comedy starring Van Johnson, Janet Leigh and Louis Calhern, based on a story cowritten by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny). When expectant housewife Connie Bedloe (Leigh) is told to add red meat to her diet, she sadly replies that her husband, Joe Johnson, makes so little money as a college instructor that their budget will not allow it. When her estranged father-in-law...

A war correspondent in London falls in love with the woman sent to censor his stories.

Conflict is a love triangle with murder at its heart, an atmospheric film noir of rainy nights, looming shadows, fatal romance and a trench-coated killer that walks out of the mist -- all directed by Curtis Bernhardt, a filmmaker skilled in the Expressionistic style of his native Germany. The story embraces the perfect noir topic: the almost-perfect crime. Humphrey Bogart portrays Richard Mason, married to nagging Katherine (Rose Hobart) but in love with her sunny sister (Alexis Smith)....

Unable to pay her bill at a West African hotel, Maisie slips out of town by stowing away on a steamer and sailing upriver into unexpected adventure. Ann Sothern plays Maisie the second of 10 times the actress would bring the resourceful, free-spirited showgirl (a role originally intended for Jean Harlow) to movie screens. Red Dust playwright and Maisie books author Wilson Collison provides the novelistic source for this jungle tale that underscores the heroine's heart and courage as she...

Go on a journey to the heart of savage Africa, "the dark continent, which has always intrigued Man", in this long-lost exploitation documentary! In 1946, the French government, working in tandem with the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, launched the Ogowe-Congo expedition. The first ever teaming of ethnologists with a film crew, their mission was to create a lasting record of the indigenous culture of native tribes in French Equatorial Africa. After three years, the footage ended up in the hands of...

Congorilla...a land where man and beast still live as in the Garden of Eden. The first sound movie made entirely in Africa, Congorilla was released by the Fox Film Corporation in August of 1932. Subtitled "Adventures Among the Big Apes and Little People of Central Africa", it documents legendary explorers Martin and Osa Johnson's fourth tour of Africa between 1930 and 1931. There they discover the breathtaking vistas of the Belgian Congo, encountering dangerous rhinos, elephants, crocodiles,...

The tyrannical despot Dakar rules oppressively over his kingdom. Fatima, a beautiful princess, is abducted to Dakar's harem, but she manages to escape to a poor village, where a young fisherman named Nadir finds her adrift in a canoe. She and Nadir fall in love, but she is soon captured by Dakar's troops. Fueled by his love for Fatima, Nadir plans to rescue her and defeat the tyrant.Rik Battaglia's film debut was in Mario Soldati's The River Girl (1954), starring Sophia Loren. He went on to...

Take heart, Depression-era America: the nation has faced dire economic crises in years past and with pluck, honest work and persistence has pulled itself aright. The Conquerors combines its morale-boosting message with a tale of one family's lives and times, misfortunes and fortunes from 1873 to 1930. Richard Dix, star of the prior year's sprawling Cimarron, plays dual roles as smalltown banker Roger Standish and his grandson (in a filmmaking virtuosity rare for the era, the two share the...

The seventh and final collaboration between Greta Garbo and her favorite director Clarence Brown, Conquest vividly recreates one of the most celebrated romances in history: the ill-fated love affair between Polish countess Marie Walewska (Garbo) and the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer in the first of his three career Oscar -nominated* performances). Featuring lavish sets, stunning costumes and a dazzling array of historical reenactments, Conquest took five months to film...

The first successful attempt of the ascent of Everest was in 1953. The British team was lead by John Hunt but it was Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay a Sherpa from Nepal as part of that British Expedition that reached the summit.

From a space wheel 500 miles above the Earth, commander Samuel Merritt (Walter Brooke) and his men (including Eric Fleming and Benson Fong) construct a sleek robot, then receive orders providing their new craft's destination: Mars! But once the spaceship is underway, doubts surface. Merritt questions the audacity of humankind's reach for the heavens. He calls it blasphemy and threatens to destroy the mission. Five-time Oscar. winner George Pal (The War Of The Worlds) produced this adventure...

Returning to London after serving in India, Conrad finds himself lonesome and unsure of life's meaning. Nostalgic for the past, he attempts to relive his childhood with his three cousins and then visits a few old flames to revive his youthful sense of passion and purpose. But it's only after he meets a struggling actress named Rosalind that Conrad realizes what he seeks may actually be in reach.Character actor Charles Ogle is best remembered as the as the first Frankenstein monster of the...