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One of the most popular and versatile actresses of all time, Claudette Colbert dazzles audiences in the pre-code classic Torch Singer. When Sally Trent (Colbert) can no longer support her illegitimate child, she puts her daughter up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Under the name Mimi Benton, she soon climbs to fame as a sexy nightclub singer and attempts to find her daughter through a children's radio show. Featuring rare performances of her singing, this emotionally...

Boris Karloff captivates the screen in the gripping tale of betrayal and revenge, The Black Castle. A forbidding castle in the Black Forest holds dangers for Sir Ronald Burton (Richard Greene) when he is invited there for a hunt by the cruel Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally). Burton, searching for evidence that the count murdered his friends, becomes ensnared in a cat-and-mouse game that turns deadly when he falls in love with the count's wife, Elga (Paula Corday). Lovely Elga is being held...

Screen legend Claudette Colbert shines in the hilarious screwball-comedy Three-Cornered Moon. After losing their fortune in an unexpected stock market crash, the eccentric Rimplegar family must quickly learn to change their extravagant lifestyles. To make matters worse, the grown children must now get jobs for the first time in their lives! Featuring a great ensemble cast including Mary Boland and Richard Arlen, this unforgettable classic proves that laughter really is the best medicine in...

Blending music, murder and Gothic madness, The Climax marks Boris Karloff's long-awaited return to horror films. Dr. Hohner (Karloff), the house physician at Vienna's Royal Theatre, secretly murders his opera star mistress. When new soprano Angela (Susanna Foster) arrives, her identical voice impels Hohner to hypnotize her, making her incapable of singing. The love of a composer (Turhan Bey) rids Angela of the doctor's evil influence, but Hohner - driven to insanity - now plots to silence the...

Visionary scientist Janos Rukh convinces a group of scientists and supporters to mount an expedition to the African continent to locate and study an ancient meteorite of great significance. He exposes himself to the highly toxic radiation of the meteorite, and while an antidote devised by Dr. Benet saves him from death by radiation poisoning, his naked touch causes instant death to others. Back in London, the benefits of the meteorite's controlled radiation offer Dr. Benet an opportunity to...

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

Film noir favorite The Blue Dahlia stars Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake displaying sizzling screen chemistry in their final movie together. A WWII veteran (Ladd) is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger (Lake). Adapted for the screen by acclaimed detective writer Raymond Chandler, the stylized film features moody black and white cinematography and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original...

Starring Doris Day, The Ballad of Josie is a rousing western-comedy about a feisty widow who is determined to make a better life for herself and her young son. Independent and unwilling to fall into another submissive relationship, Josie decides to raise sheep, despite that her little town of Arapaho is in the middle of cattle country. Defying tradition, she purchases herds of sheep, renovates a dilapidated ranch on her property, dons a pair of pants, and challenges the resistance of enraged...

Penny (Deanna Durbin) has a knack for matchmaking and realizes that her own two sisters Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Helen Parrish) could use her help since one of them is in love with the other's boyfriend. In attempting to manipulate the situation so that both sisters end up with the ideal fiance, Penny only creates further problems until her father is forced to intervene on her behalf. Often noted as Deanna Durbin's first young adult role, this breezy, lighthearted entry is directed by Henry...

Newspaper publisher Bill Fullerton (John Halliday) offers his guest house to visiting reporter Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas) who is under a tight deadline to finish an important article and needs a quiet place to write. His arrival creates resentment from Fullerton's daughter Alice (Deanna Durbin) and her boyfriend Ken (Jackie Cooper) since they were using the guest house as a rehearsal space for a show and fund raiser for the Boy Scouts. At first Alice tries to drive Vincent away through...

In The Last Outpost (1935), Cary Grant plays Michael Andrews, a British prisoner of war is who rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson (Claude Rains). As the two men make their way to safety across treacherous mountain terrain, Andrews suspects Stevenson of being an enemy spy and is wounded during a confrontation with him. As he recuperates in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, Andrews falls in love with nurse Rosemary Haydon (Gertrude Michael), not realizing she is the...

In The Perfect Furlough, the fun begins when the Army's top brass meet to discuss the morale problems occurring at an outpost in the remote Arctic. It seems that the 104 bachelors stationed there for the past seven months are going utterly stir crazy. Military psychologist Lieutenant Lauren (Janet Leigh) proposes a solution: one lucky guy will receive a "perfect" furlough, complete with exotic destinations and a beautiful movie star. Much to the psychologist's chagrin, a scheming corporal...