Penrod's Double Trouble
Original Theatrical Date: July 22, 1938
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The Mauch Twins return in this fast-paced adventure, the third and final film in the Penrod series, loosely based on the stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington (Alice Adams). Penrod Schofield (Billy Mauch) is missing! Convinced he...
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Original Theatrical Date: July 08, 1944
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The “Housing Shortage Comedy” might have been a short-lived sub-genre of World War II-era comedy, but it produced some gems in its short lifespan. Among them is this antic, code-provoking jewel from Monogram Pictures starring Simone Simon (Cat...
Flight Angels
Original Theatrical Date: May 17, 1940
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Cleared for takeoff: Flight Angels, an aviation programmer steeped in man-woman attitudes of its time.
The story is centered on commercial pilots eager to fly higher (during off-hours they’re designing a high-altitude plane) and up-in-the-air...
Joan of Paris
Original Theatrical Date: January 20, 1942
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Sometimes, all you have to fight with is your courage and your character. Under the brutal martial law of Nazi-occupied France, many risked their lives to help keep the world free from Nazi domination. This is the story of one such woman.
A...
Rio Rita
Original Theatrical Date: April 14, 1942
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It’s fiesta time in Vista Del Rio, and that means much musical celebration. It’s also a time of global war. In the updated plot of this exuberant World War II-era remake of the 1929 Wheeler and Woolsey romp, little Vista Del Rio is a jalapeño hotbed...
Rose Marie
Original Theatrical Date: March 03, 1954
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Musical fans, we’re calling you, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo!
Howard Keel and Ann Blyth (who would later team for Kismet) play stalwart Mountie and backwoods hellion in this grand color and CinemaScope version of the beloved operetta.
Filmed largely on...
The Little Drummer Girl
Original Theatrical Date: October 19, 1984
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Palestinian intelligence says she's loyal to their cause. Israeli counterintelligence says she's "bright, creative, underused, romantic and a liar."
Academy Award winner Diane Keaton stars as Charlie, a repertory actress and Palestinian...
Lepke
Original Theatrical Date: May 23, 1975
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Tony Curtis stars as 1930's gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that splattered the headlines of the day with blood.
From his rough-and-tumble East Side childhood and his rise in the drug trade to his 1944...
Somewhere I'll Find You
Original Theatrical Date: August 27, 1942
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"The girl is hot," the Motion Picture Herald's critic wrote about Lana Turner's performance in this film. Turner stars with Clark Gable in this wartime romantic drama.
Pearl Harbor is about to be bombed and crack reporter Jonny Davis (Gable) has...
Made in Paris
Original Theatrical Date: February 09, 1966
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Do you know what’s Made in Paris? Love affairs, and gorgeous, dreamy, sexy, slinky, chic, extravagant clothes!
Ann-Margret stars in this bon-bon of a romantic comedy as Maggie, an innocent young buyer for an American department...
Escape
Original Theatrical Date: October 30, 1940
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"This place isn’t a country. It’s a Coney Island madhouse!"
In 1936, Mark Preysing (Robert Taylor) comes to Germany in search of his mother, a famed actress who, unknown to him, lies ill in a concentration camp awaiting execution. During his...
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Original Theatrical Date: November 26, 1942
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Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers cope with love, laughter, and war-themed Nazi intrigue in this comedy/mystery directed with panache by Leo McCarey.
An American burlesque girl intent on social climbing unknowingly marries a Nazi in the guise of an...
The Honeymoon Machine
Original Theatrical Date: August 16, 1961
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Steve McQueen stars as a navy lieutenant with a foolproof scheme to get rich by winning at a Venice casino with the help of The Honeymoon Machine.
While playing poker with his pals, Lieutenant Fergie Howard (McQueen) gets the news that Operation...
Savage Messiah
Original Theatrical Date: May 31, 1972
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Director Ken Russell often explores the lives of artists and in turn finds inspiration for his own considerable cinematic creativity. Savage Messiah belongs to that Russell oeuvre and it draws from the filmmaker a work often studied in its pace yet...
The Maisie Collection: Volume 2
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The Maisie Collection, Volume 2 (1942–47) She's back! Ann Sothern's stars as the amazing Maisie Ravier, in this concluding collection of her celluloid adventures.
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942): Red Skelton costars as Maisie comes to the aid of a...
Simon
Original Theatrical Date: February 29, 1980
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Dueling Banjos. Woody Allen. The Muppet Show. Johnny Carson. Jersey Boys. If you don’t know what they have in common, it’s time you made the acquaintance of Marshall Brickman. Fresh from his successful series of screenplay collaborations with Woody...
The Last Hunt
Original Theatrical Date: April 30, 1956
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Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis) and Stewart Granger (The Prisoner of Zenda) team up in this “grim, fierce, raw-boned outdoor fare” (Variety) filmed on location in rugged Custer State Park, North Dakota.
Charlie Gilson (Taylor), a mean-spirited hunter,...
The Slams
Original Theatrical Date: September 26, 1973
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$1.5 million hidden in a secret stash. And only Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) knows where it’s at. The hitch? He’s tied up doing time in the stir, and his hidden kitty’s spot is scheduled for demolition. Looks like Curtis is going over the wall. Too bad...
The Clown
Original Theatrical Date: January 16, 1953
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Think of Red Skelton and chances are you think of Clem Kadiddlehopper, The Mean Widdle Kid or Freddie the Freeloader. These and other Skelton comedy creations have tickled the funnybones of generations of TV viewers. But in The Clown, the legendary...
Clarence, the Cross-eyed Lion
Original Theatrical Date: August 04, 1965
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The king of the jungle needs glasses!
Set at an African animal center, the all-family adventure that inspired the TV series Daktari features a valiant veterinarian (Marshall Thompson), heartless gorilla trappers, narrow escapes, lots of laughs...