The Film Detective

Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

Along the Mexican border, Roy joins Western novelist Dale in a search for smugglers. They discover a silver mine.

Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.

The first Eagle-Lion film stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, his "Allen's Alley" resident-character heard on Fred Allen's radio program. Claghorn was a blustery, one-man-Chamber-of-Commerce for all things Southern, who had no tolerence for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line, although he made allowances for South Philly.

A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiance doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiance's brother.

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian...

SEE - weird shocking rites that precede primitive sacrifices! SEE - maidens prepared for marriage in a ritual 6000 years old! SEE - Uncensored Sights That Can Never Be Filmed Again! It's all here inKaramoja, a stunning documentary of an African expedition. Legendary entrepreneur Kroger Babb promoted this one as a "shocking" look at the "last lost tribe" of Africa, but in reality it's an interesting film made Dr. William B. Truetle, a vacationing dentist who managed to earn the confidence of...

John Huston's moving documentary about returning war veterans was suppressed by the United States government for over thirty years after it was produced. "Every man has his breaking point," says narrator Walter Huston. "These in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limits of human endurance." Filmed at two Long Island locations (Edgewood State Hospital, and Pilgrim State Hospital), this account of ex-soldiers struggling with emotional trauma is unforgettable.

The sixth film in Monogram's "Rough Rider" series once again follows Buck Roberts (Buck Jones), Tom McCoy (Tim McCall), and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) as undercover US Marshals posing as outlaws in order to confound their enemies. When Sandy is framed for murder by a gang of frontier racketeers who hope to take over a small town as their headquarters, Buck and Tom must work separately to save their buddy from a lynch mob and foil the crook's dastardly schemes.

While her husband is serving in the military during World War II, a young wife starts her own advertising business. She's a success, but a hitch develops when her husband returns and expects her to become a housewife again. Director Albert Rogell(In Old Oklahoma, Hit Parade of 1943) spins an amusing tale that was quite timely in its day, with help from a strong cast that includes Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, and Gerald Mohr, plus cinematography by Hollywood ace John Alton.