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Outpost in Morocco is a 1949 action adventure film starring George Raft and Marie Windsor. The production company got permission to actually film in Morocco using the real Foreign Legion. The production company spent nearly five months filming battle scenes and chases in Morocco, utilizing a total of 85,000 feet of film. Spahi Captain Paul Gerard (George Raft) is assigned to lead a patrol to the city of Bel-Rashad en route to a French Foreign Legion fort. Gerard is to escort the Emir's...

Three Guys Named Mike is a 1951 American romantic comedy starring Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel and Barry Sullivan. Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) from Indiana has an ambition to become an airline cabin attendant and see the world. Her first flight nearly costs Marcy her job when she inadvertently offends pilot Mike Jamison (Howard Keel) and she forgets the passengers' food. Mike intervenes for Marcy and she is given a second chance. Marcy moves to Los Angeles for her job and meets a...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American film noir drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and features Kirk Douglas in his first film debut. In 1928 in a Pennsylvania town named Iverstown a thirteen-year-old girl Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to run away from her domineering guardian aunt, Mrs. Ivers (Judith Anderson). Martha is retrieved and brought home to be scolded by her aunt as Martha proclaims her surname is not Ivers, but Smith after her father's name. Sam...

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Charles Laughton and featuring Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1819. Jamaica Inn houses a gang of cutthroats and thieves led by innkeeper Joss Merlyn (Leslie Banks). The gang is responsible for shipwrecks which cause ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast, and then kill the survivors and steal their cargo. One evening, a young Irish woman, Mary...

Pimpernel Smith is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller starring Leslie Howard. The film helped real-life Raoul Wallenberg to mount his rescue operation in Budapest which saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the last months of the Second Wold War. In the spring of 1939, eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard) takes a group of British and American students to Nazi Germany to help excavate for evidence of the Aryan origins of German...

Quicksand is a 1950 American film noir starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre and portrays a garage mechanic's descent into crime. Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is a young auto mechanic in California who borrows $20 from the cash register at his job to pay for a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney). Dan intends to pay the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled and discovers the $20 is missing. As Brady scrambles to cover...

The 39 Steps is a British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) is alarmed when he hears gunshots being fired. In the ensuing panic Hannay finds himself holding a frightened Annabella Smith (Lucie Mannheim), who talks him into taking her back to his apartment. Annabella then tells Hannay that she is a spy being chased by assassins, and that she has uncovered a plot to steal vital...

The Stars Look Down is a classic British film about injustice in a mining community in the North East of England. The film stars Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. The film is a New York Times Critics' Pick and is listed in The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 movies ever made! Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret...

The Lady Vanishes is a British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. English tourist Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) and her friends Blanche (Googie Withers) and Julie (Sally Stewart) are returning home from a trip abroad as Iris is getting married, but an avalanche has blocked the railway line. The passengers are forced to spend the night at a hotel along with another stranded passenger, Miss Froy (May Witty), a governess and...

San Demetrio London is a British World War II docudrama based on the true story of the1940 salvage of the tanker MV San Demetrio by some of her own crew, who reboarded her after she had been set on fire by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, and then abandoned during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film stars Arthur Young as Captain George Waite, Walter Fitzgerald as Chief Engineer Charles Pollard and Ralph Michael as 2nd Officer Hawkins. This movie is a reconstruction of the story of the...

A little girl suffering from a terminal illness is rushed to the hospital. She may lose her life if the correct blood donor is not found in time. Her blood type is very rare and saving her life becomes a race against time. Dr. Carter (Anthony Steel) and police inspector Lane (Jack Warner) set out to track down three potential donors. Will they be able to find them and persuade them to donate their blood to save the child's life? Three donors are located: a white boxer, a black sailor, and a...

Successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord (Laraine Day) as his secretary. Steve soon finds out that the philandering Owen has gone through a series of secretaries due to his huge, enormous ego and untoward advances. Owen is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a novel that will pay his bills, despite a lucrative advance by his publisher. Steve perseveres with the novel, based on the events of Steve's life and one that...

Nyah (Patricia Laffan) is a commander from Mars who is part of an alien team looking for Earth men to replenish the male population of her planet. Her space saucer is damaged when entering Earth's atmosphere, and she is forced to land in the remote Scottish moors. On Mars, the freedom of women led to open warfare between the sexes. The females won, but their victory lead to the sexual impotence of the planet's entire male population. So, Nyah spends her time in a Scottish bar where she makes...

Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders), stars Barbara Stanwyck (Dixie Daisy), and Michael O?Shea (Biff Brannigan). Based on the novel about a strip tease queen known as Gypsy Rose, the story revolves around the murder of two strippers in a New York burlesque club who were strangled with their own stage costumes. Dixie had developed a bitter rivalry with some of the other dancers, and when these two murders take place, the evidence points to her as the prime suspect. With the...

Mr. Dinkle and Jack (Abbott and Costello) accept a babysitting job, but soon find the child reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to them. Jack falls into a deep slumber where he is the young Jack of the fairy tale. In his dream Jack learns that the Giant (Buddy Baer) lives in a castle in the sky, and has stolen all the land's wealth. Jack must sell the last family possession, their beloved cow "Henry", to the local butcher, Mr. Dinklepuss. Along the way Jack meets The Prince (who is...

The Bat is a 1959 American mystery film starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) is a mystery writer who rents a summer home in a small town from a local bank president John Fleming (Harvey Stephens). Dr. Malcolm Wells (Vincent Price) enters an investigation into missing securities, assault, and serial murder. This classic horror film boasts an intricate, labyrinthine plot and amazing cast.

Jack the Ripper is the sensational story of the bloodiest and most terrifying killer of all time, and of the horrendous and ghastly trail of crimes he committed. A great movie for everyone to watch! it will raise the hair on the back of your neck and leave you in suspense throughout! A real all-time 'slasher' classic of a movie!

The Hitch-Hiker is a film noir inspired by the crime spree of the psychopathic murderer Billy Cook (1928-1952). The film was regarded as the first American mainstream film directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 as being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant'.

Till the Clouds Roll By is an American film which is a fictionalized biopic of composer Jerome Kern portrayed by Robert Walker. Kern was originally involved with the production, but died before it was completed. It has a large cast of well-known musical stars of the day who appear performing Kern's songs. It is also the first in a series of biopics about Broadway's composers. Some of the well-known stars which appear in the film are: Judy Garland, Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra as well as Van...

In pre-WWII England, advanced British aircraft prototypes carrying experimental and secret equipment vanish with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond or his sister Kay, a newspaper reporter, who had been working undercover in the canteen the crews frequent at the Barrett & Ward Aircraft Company. Major Hammond is convinced that the company secretary is a foreign agent. This is a vintage thriller not to be missed.

Based on Somerset Maugham's novel, this story follows the sensitive, club-footed Philip who gives up his artistic ambitions to enroll in medical school. At a local cafe, he meets the brash, manipulative, cruel and uneducated Mildred Rogers, and falls passionately in love with her. When Philip proposes, Mildred declines, and berates him for becoming romantically interested in her. This story is considered by many to be the most tragic romance story ever written!

Danny Kaye (Georgi) is an illiterate member of a wandering family led by Yakov (Walter Slezak). Georgi escapes from a travelling medicine show when he says that the elixir they're selling is a fraud. Tired and hungry, he wanders into the town of Brodny and is arrested as a vagrant and sentenced to hang the next day by the police chief (Alan Hale). This is a timeless piece featuring the great Danny Kaye!

Wounded and on the run, notorious gunman Quirt Evans (John Wayne) gallops onto a farm owned by Quaker Thomas Worth (John Halloran) and his family. When Quirt urgently insists upon sending a telegram, Thomas and his daughter Penelope (Gail Russell) drive him into town. After wiring a claim to the land recorder's office, Quirt passes out. The compassionate Worth family tend to the delirious Quirt. A classic John Wayne epic filled with romance and action! Don't miss this timeless Wayne movie!

Made for Each Other is an American romantic comedy starring Carole Lombard and James Stewart. This classic, emotive film gives up no clues to a happy ending. The New York Times said of the movie, 'thoroughly delightful'.