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Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)

Driven to the edge of insanity by the execution of his older brother, Chet (Darrell Howe) is boiling over with hatred. After turning to his friends and loved ones for help doesn't yield any results, he attacks the son of the prosecuting attorney who put his sibling behind bars. While a relentless detective shadows him, Chet's growing insanity builds to a shocking climax.

Director: Brooke L. Peters

Cast: Russ Bender, Ronnie Burns, Don Devlin, Mike Grainger, Judy Howard, Darrell Howe, Frank Kiliman, John B. Lee, Pamela Lincoln, Pat McMahon, Robert W. Stabler

Crime, Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 74 minutes.

The Angel and the Badman (1947)

John Wayne plays Quirt Evans, a gunslinger with a nasty rep who is injured and nursed back to health by a Quaker family.

Director: James Edward Grant

Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon

Western, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 100 minutes.

Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's in for All Eternity and keeps trying to "bust out," which brings him to the attention of the Head Man (Claude Rains), who calls himself Nick. Nick strikes a bargain with Muni: There's a troublesome honest judge on Earth who's been shipping too many souls to Hell; if Muni will take over the judge's body and begin performing bad deeds, Nick will set him free.

Director: Archie Mayo

Cast: Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens, George Cleveland

Comedy, Crime, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 102 minutes.

Apache Blood (1975)

Chief Yellow Shirt (Ray Danton) is hunting down white men because they broke a treaty. He and all three of his braves find a small squad of U.S. soldiers and take after them.

Director: Tom Quillen

Cast: Ray Danton, Dewitt Lee, Troy Nabors, Diane Taylor, Eva Kovacs

Western, Color, Runtime 89 minutes.

The Arizona Kid (1939)

"The Arizona Kid," leads a mission to round up a band of renegade soldiers working for the Confederacy.

Director: Joseph Kane

Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally March, Stuart Hamblen.

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

Arizona Stagecoach (1942)

In this western the three Range Busters go undercover, take on a gang of ruthless outlaws, and bring them to justice.

Director: S. Roy Luby

Cast: Nell O'Day, Kermit Maynard, Jack Ingram, Frank Ellis

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 57 minutes.

Arson, Inc. (1949)

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance

Director: William Berke

Cast: Robert Lowery, Anne Gwynne, Edward Brophy, Marcia Mae Jones, Douglas Fowley, Maude Eburne, William Forrest

Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Assassin Of Youth (1937)

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers, not realizing that she is being framed by greedy relatives out to prevent her from getting an inheritance, and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends and save the clean and wholesome youth of the town from the horrors of marijuana addiction.

Director: Elmer Clifton

Cast: Earl Dwire, Fern Emmett, Hudson Faussett, Arthur Gardner, Fay McKenzie, Michael Owen, Henry Roquemore, Gaye Sheridan, Dorothy Short, Dorothy Vaughan, Luana Walters

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 73 minutes

Assignment Outer Space (1961)

When its guidance system fails, an orbiting space center veers out of control and threatens to smash Earth.

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Cast: Alain Dijon, Franco Fantasia, Gabriella Farinon, Aldo Pini, Joe Pollini, Archie Savage, Anita Todesco, Rik Van Nutter, Rik Von Nutter

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 73 minutes.

At War with the Army (1950)

Jerry is a hapless private and Dean is the bossy First Sergeant of a slipshod platoon at a stateside training base. Jerry and Dean were friends who grew up in the same neighborhood before Uncle Sam made GIs out of them. All of the stereotypical military comedy characters are present, including the loudmouth drill instructor, the conniving supply sergeant, the doting corporal and the bumbling, hen-pecked company commander.

Director: Hal Walker

Cast: Polly Bergen, Dan Dayton, Jimmie Dundee, Douglas Evans, Tommy Farrell, Kenneth Forbes, Angela Greene, Frank Hyers, Mike Kellin, Jerry Lewis, Paul Livermore, Dean Martin, William Mendrek, Steve Roberts, Dewey Robinson, Jean Ruth, Dick Stabile

Comedy, Musical, Black & White, Runtime: 91 minutes.

Atom-Age Vampire (1960)

Italian-made shocker about a scientist who turns into a murdering beast in order to supply donors for his experiments to restore the scarred face of the woman he loves.

Director: Anton Giulio Majano

Cast: Sergio Fantoni, Rina Franchetti, Ivo Garrani, Alberto Lupo, Andrea Scotti

Horror, Black & White, Runtime:  87 minutes.

Attack From Space (1964)

Starman, the superhero from the Emerald Planet, returns to stop the Nazi-like forces of the Sapphire Galaxy from taking over the Earth in this mix of sci-fi action and martial arts.

Director: Koreyoshi Akasaka

Cast: Kan Hayashi, Junko Ikeuchi, Utako Mitsuya, Fumiko Miyata, Shoji Nakayama, Tomohiko Ohtani, Minoru Takada, Ken Utsui

Sci-Fi, Black & White, Runtime: 76 minutes.

Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959)

A dismal Southern swamp is the home for these bloodsucking behemoths who joyfully drain the poor white trash who live there. Produced by Roger Corman.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast: George Cisar, Ken Clark, Michael Emmet, Joseph Hamilton, Walter Kelley, Tyler McVey, Gene Roth, Jan Shepard, Bruno Ve Sota, Yvette Vickers, Daniel White

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Attack Of The Monsters (1969)

Two precocious young boys steal aboard a flying saucer and are taken to a planet inhabited by brain-eating gals in silvery, skintight suits.

Director: Noriaki Yuasa

Cast: Miyuki Akiyama, Eijii Funakoshi, Yuko Hamada, Nobuhiro Kashima, Christopher Murphy, Kon Omura

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 80 minutes.

Baby Face Morgan (1942)

A mobster's son is made head of a phony insurance company by a group of crooks wanting to get back into the biz. The joke is that he doesn't know it's a set-up.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss

Cast: Robert Armstrong, Vince Barnett, Sam Bernard, James Blaine, Mary Carlisle, Chick Chandler, Kenny Chryst, Richard Cromwell, Hal K. Dawson, Ralf Harolde, Warren Hymer, Charles Judels, Jack Kenny, Pierce Lyden, Emmett Lynn, Patsy Moran, Toddy Peterson, Bobby Stone

Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 60 Minutes.

Baby Love (1968)

Luci is the illegitimate teenage sex kitten who goes to live with a doctor and his family after her sleazy, promiscuous mother dies. Robert is the doctor who may very well be Luci's father. Convinced Robert contributed to her mother's demise by rejecting her years ago, Luci sets out to destroy her new family. Rated R.

Directed by: Alastair Reid

Cast: Ann Lynn, Keith Barron, Linda Hayden, Derek Lamden

Drama, Color, Runtime: 98 minutes.

Back Room Boy (1942)

Arthur Pilbeam wants to find a job away from women after being jilted by his fiancé. He finds a job at a remote lighthouse that's being used as meteorological station., but even in these isolated conditions he still can't help but run into women.

Director: Herbert Mason

Cast: Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, John Salew, Googie Withers

Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 79 minutes.

Bad Boy (1939)

Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson, a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily and takes some of the firm's money to cover his losses.

Director: Herbert Meyer

Cast: Johnny Downs, Rosalind Keith, Helen MacKellar, Spencer Williams, James Robbins, Holmes Herbert, Richard Cramer, Harry Lang, Crane Whitley

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 66 minutes.

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)

Roy and Gabby have to establish fair business practices in the town of Deadwood, currently dominated by entrepreneurs who scare off potential competitors. Songs include "Call Of The Dusty Trail," "Joe O'Brady," and "Home on the Rangeland."

Director: Joseph Kane

Cast: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Carol Adams, Henry Brandon, Herbert Rawlinson, Sally Payne, Hal Taliaferro, Jay Novello, Horace Murphy, Monte Blue, Ralf Harolde, Jack Kirk

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 53 minutes.

Bank Alarm (1937)

An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a rash of bank robberies. What he doesn't know is that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang's ringleader.

Director: Louis J. Gasnier

Cast: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Wheeler Oakman, Nat Carr, Frank Milan, Marlo Dwyer, William L. Thorne, Charles Delaney, Phil Dunham, Sidney D'Albrook, Pat Gleason, Wilson Benge, Henry Roquemore, 

Ed Schaefer

Crime, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Barefoot Boy (1938)

In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend, Pige Bennett, and punky Kenneth get involved with a "haunted" house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a "better man" out of Kenneth.

Director: Karl Brown

Cast: Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Claire Windsor, Ralph Morgan, Charles D. Brown, Helen MacKellar, Bradley Metcalfe, Frank Puglia, Matty Fain, Marilyn Knowlden, Henry Roquemore, Roger Gray, Earle Hodgins, Johnnie Morris

Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.

Beast From Haunted Cave (1959)

A gang of gold thieves think they're safe once they reached their mountain hideout, unaware that the nearby cave is inhabited by a cobweb-covered "snow beast."

Director: Monte Hellman

Cast: Linn Ahlstrand, Wally Campo, Sheila Carol, Michael Forest, Kay Jennings, Christopher Robinson, Richard Sinatra, Frank Wolff

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.

Beast Of Borneo (1934)

Crazed scientist Eugene Sigaloff is out to prove his own evolutionary theory by conducting odd experiments on apes. He and his stunning assistant manage to persuade hunter John Preston to help them trap a wild ape to complete Sigaloff's tests, but when it becomes apparent to Preston that the man is insane, a dangerous struggle for survival ensues. Mae Stuart also stars.

Director: Harry Gordon

Cast: Doris Brook, Val Duran, Borneo Joe, orangutan, John S. Peters, John Preston, Alexander Schoenberg, Eugene Sigaloff, Mae Stuart

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Beat The Devil (1953)

Offbeat is the only way to describe this John Huston/Truman Capote collaboration about a ragtag group of con men out to swindle each other while on a Mediterranean cruise.

Director: John Huston

Cast: Ivor Barnard, Humphrey Bogart, Giulio Donnini, Jennifer Jones, Bernard Lee, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, Mario Perrone, Mimmo Poli, Aldo Silvani, Marco Tulli, Edward Underdown, Saro Urzi

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 90 minutes.

Becky Sharp (1935)

Becky Sharp released in 1935 and based on the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell, which in turn is based on the William Makepeace Thackeray's novel "Vanity Fair". It tells the story of a lower-class girl who insinuates herself into an upper class family, only to see her life and the lives of those around her destroyed.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Cast: Finis Barton, May Beatty, Bunny Beatty, Nigel Bruce, Billie Burke, Charles Coleman, Frances Dee, Elspeth Dudgeon, Pauline Garon, Cedric Hardwicke, George Hassell, William Haverham, Miriam Hopkins, Olaf Hytten, G. P. Huntley Jr., Doris Lloyd, Alan Mowbray, Leonard Mudie, Ottola Nesmith, Tempe Pigott, Charles Richman, Alison Skipworth, William Stack, Colin Tapley

Drama, Color, Runtime: 167 minutes.