Films Around the World

People are dying in the German town of Kleinschloss. They are found dead in bed and drained of blood. Burgermeister Gustave Schoen [Lionel Belmore] thinks that vampires are at large, but Detective Karl Brettschneider [Melvyn Douglas] thinks otherwise. When several people report being attacked by a giant bat, suspicion falls on Herman Gleib [Dwight Frye], the village idiot, who is known for befriending bats. When another person dies, Dr Otto von Niemann [Lionel Atwill] is called in to examine...

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.

The spectacular cast of this musical extravaganza includes Fred Astaire, Paulette Godard, Artie Shaw (and the Artie Orchestra to boot!), Charles Butterworth, and Burgess Meredith. The plot isn't much, but with that cast, it doesn't have to be: "In this 1941 Paramount film Fred Astaire has a new dancing partner in Paulette Goddard. They actually dance a number together. The ads read, "Fred's Best Yet! 'Cause He's Got Paulette!" Mostly Astaire dances solo in this story about two musicians,...

Fighters Danny Breslin and Muggs McGinnis, once boyhood chums, have drifted apart. Policeman Tom Brady - because his own former friend fell into a life of crime and got the electric chair - takes rough and tumble Muggs under his wing to turn the lad's life around, but Danny, brother of Mary Breslin (whom Tom plans to marry), is also at risk. Everyone believes studious Danny is on his way to being president someday, but while Tom's focus goes toward putting Muggs on the straight and narrow,...

Gunman in the Streets is a 1950 black-and-white film shot in film noir style. The low-budget B-movie was shot on location in Paris, France. The film was directed by Frank Tuttle, who directed the film noir classic This Gun for Hire. The film was released in France under the title Le Traque (The Hunt") and later was released in England under "Gunman in the Streets" and in Canada as "Gangster at Bay". It was also titled "Time Running Out" for the US television syndication of the film beginning...

The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so popular that they continued to make movies under various monikers, including the Little Tough Guys, the East Side Kids, and the Bowery Boys, until 1958.... In total the various teams that began life as 'The Dead End Kids' made 89 films and three...

This truly revolutionary motion picture is certainly the only film in history to star both Errol Flynn and Fidel Castro! Back in the 1950s, Errol Flynn and producer Victor Pahlen owned a movie theater in Havana. They happened to be there when Castro's revolution broke out around them, so they took to the streets with their cameras to document history as it happened, at ground zero. The result was a unique documentary of Castro's uprising, hosted by Flynn, featuring unrivaled footage of the...

One of the better East Side Kids films has Danny knocking over a racket and getting a $200 reward. The rest of the gang turn their backs on him thinking he's sold them out. Like most of the others, this film suffers from a somewhat stale story but there are plenty of laughs with the best being the one where the gang poison's one of the crooks. The last fifteen minutes turn to drama and the actors handle this very well.... Muggs' rich cowboy uncle is coming to town for the first time ever and...

In Tokeyo, Dr. Suzuki likes to conduct experiments on unsuspecting human beings. Enter Larry Standford, American newspaper reporter. Dr. Suzuki drugs Larry, injects him with his special ENZYME and POOF! A MANSTER (Half man, half monster) slowly but surely emerges. Murders ensue, of course along with a really FREAKY eye growing out of Larry's shoulder. Soon a WHOLE BEASTLIKE head with scary fangs sprouts up! The transformation sure gives a new meaning to the old romantic song, Put Your Head On...

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.

In this initial video release of the 1960 live television drama, Lee Marvin portrays Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian Marine, one of the Mt. Surabachi, Iwo Jima flag-raisers. He was one of 5 survivors from his 45-five man platoon. Postwar, the much-decorated Hayes returned to Arizona. Succumbing to alcoholism and perhaps PSD, in 1955 he was found dead near an abandoned adobe hut. The coroner ruled death by exposure and alcohol poisoning.