The Film Detective

Arthur Conan Doyle's epic tale comes to life in this classic from the silent era. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, and Wallace Beery star as explorers who learn that dinosaurs still exist in South America. Of course, the expedition can't end without them trying to bring a prehistoric creature back to London, which results in catastrophe. This was the first full-length feature film to utilize stop-motion animation. The painstaking process perfectly enables us to see the mighty prehistoric monsters...

Adolphe Menjou and Carol Landis star in this wacky comedy from director Hal Roach. It's all about a wealthy playboy (John Hubbard) who dodges an impending marriage by feigning insanity. Unfortunately for him, he ends up in an asylum! But knowing Hal Roach, a two-time Oscar winner behind many of the best films of Laurel and Hardy, this is sure to be the funniest asylum ever caught on film! Along with music by Hoagy Carmichael, this feature includes an uncredited appearance by Shemp Howard of...

Mary Astor (1941 Best Supporting actress Oscar winner for The Great Lie), stars in this dramatic tale from director Robert Florey. Based on a play co written by Oscar nominee George Abbott (All Quiet on the Western Front, The Pajama Game), this feature follows the trials of a young couple when the wife suspects the husband of having an affair. Three-time Oscar nominee and cinema pioneer Arthur Edeson (Frankenstein, Casablanca) filmed this penetrating look at how paranoia and distrust can...

The luckless king of a small European nation must endure a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to flee with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt, and a devious son who wants the throne for himself. Can the spoiled prince take advantage of the crazy situation around his beleaguered father? This comic fable from director Lowell Sherman (Night Life of the Gods, Born to Be Bad) stars Mary Astor as the princess, and Lowell Sherman himself as the troubled king!

Sherlock Holmes gets the call when several young women turn up dead in London. The only common clue is that each corpse is missing a finger. Holmes suspects a diabolical plot hatched by his arch enemy Moriarty, but the trail leads him to a society of hypnotists, and a mysterious woman. Is she a temptress of pleasure or mistress of murder? Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprise their roles as Holmes and Dr. Watson, while Henry Daniell and Hillary Brooke are on hand as Moriarty and the alluring...

Gene Autry stops singing long enough to take on some nasty land developers in this old-time western from Republic Pictures. Of course, it wouldn't be a Gene Autry movie if there weren't at least a few songs, and this one comes packed with such numbers as "I'm Beginning to Care," "Love, Burning Love," and the title song. Gene's longtime sidekick Smiley Burnette gets to sing a few, too, including "She Works Third Tub at the Laundry."

The United States Coast Guard produced this documentary in 1944 to show on-the-spot coverage of the Allied landings in Normandy that helped end the Second World War. More than 9,000 Allied soldiers lost their lives in what United States General Dwight Eisenhower called a "great crusade." Thrilling footage shot by members of the United States Coast Guard gives the viewer a first hand look at the action.

Prolific B-movie master Sam Newfield (The Terror of Tiny Town, Dead Men Walk) helmed this tale of a scientist who turns his simple-minded handyman into a raving wolf creature. Why would he do such a thing? To turn the beast on his enemies, of course. Horror icons George Zucco and Glenn Strange star, along with Johnny Downs, Anne Nagel, and Mae Busch. It's yet another low budget gem from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Enjoy!

This explosive feature from director Samuel Bischoff (the producer of such favorites as The Roaring Twenties and Macao) stars Howard Phillips in a tale of wrongly imprisoned men, prison riots, and friends sticking together to prove a man's innocence. In the tradition of classic Depression-era prison movies like The Big House, this feature will hit you like a dramatic thunderbolt!

A dangerous cougar is the central element in this tale of a young man who returns to his mother's birthplace, which happens to be a small valley in draught-wracked southern Utah. The youngster finds himself involved in a feud between two men hoping to collect the bounty on the killer cat. Lon McCallister, Preston Foster, and Forrest Tucker star in this wild mountain adventure from director Phil Karlson (Kansas City Confidential, Walking Tall).

Legendary stuntman and actor Ray "Crash" Corrigan stars in this western-mystery hybrid about an elderly man and his Chinese servant who are menaced by a ruthless killer known as "The Raven." Also starring Max Terhune, Willie Fung, and John 'Dusty' King, this old-time six-gun serenade about prairie style gangsters was directed by S. Roy Luby (The Border Phantom) and filmed at Corrigan's own ranch in Simi Valley, California!

This was Harold Lloyd's most highly regarded talkie, and also one of the last films he would appear in. He plays Burleigh Sullivan, a timid milkman who finds himself in the seedy world of prizefighting. Though he thinks his success is based on his ability to duck, it's actually because his manager is bribing his opponents to fall down! Adolphe Menjou and Lionel Stander also star in this little classic (dubbed "uproariously funny" by Time magazine). It's from director Leo McCarey, a triple...