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Beggars In Ermine (1934)

Unusual thriller from Monogram Studios stars Lionel Atwill as a steel mill owner crippled in an "accident" rigged by a competitor after his money and wife. Later Atwill organizes the country's beggars into a "union" while planning his revenge.

Director: Phil Rosen

Cast: Astrid Allyn, Lionel Atwill, James Bush, Betty Furness, Sam Godfrey, Sydney de Grey, Stephen Gross, Gabby Hayes, Gordon De Main, Lee Phelps, Myrtle Stedman, Jameson Thomas, Henry B. Walthall

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Behave Yourself! (1951)

Comedy-thriller stars Shelley Winters and Farley Granger as a couple on the run when the stray dog they take in turns out to be a trained "crime dog" that the bad guys want back.

Director: George Beck

Cast: Glenn Anders, Don Beddoe, Lon Chaney Jr., Hans Conried, Henry Corden, William Demarest, King Donovan, Tom Dugan, Kathleen Freeman, Margalo Gillmore, Farley Granger, Jerry Hausner, Richard Irving, Jack Jahries, Allen Jenkins, Elisha Cook Jr., Marvin Kaplan, Sheldon Leonard, Vera Marshe, Ralph Montgomery, W. J. O'Brien, Shimen Ruskin, Ralph Sanford, Harry Shannon, Francis L. Sullivan

Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 80 minutes.

Behind Green Lights (1946)

Tough crime drama that takes place during one night in a police station and focuses on a lieutenant who gets romantically involved with a woman accused of murder. The cop discovers new evidence that points to the medical examiner and his political interests.

Director: Otto Brower

Cast: Robert Adler, Mary Anderson, Charles Arnt, Don Beddoe, Larry Blake, Lane Chandler, Russ Clark, Richard Crane, Jimmy Cross, Jack Davis, William Gargan, Ralph Hodges, John Ireland, Ted Jordan, Carole Landis, Perc Launders, George McDonald, Tom Moore, Bernard Nedell, Steve Olsen, Mabel Paige, Lee Phelps, Stanley Prager, Roy Roberts, Charles Russell.

Crime, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Bells Of San Angelo (1947)

Roy Rogers plays a border patrol officer who has to round up smugglers.

Director: William Witney

Cast: Trigger , Eddie Acuff, Keefe Brasselle, Whitey Christy, Andy Devine, Dale Evans, Fred Graham, Olaf Hytten, Fritz Leiber, James Linn, John McGuire, Bob Nolan, Eddie Parker, Hank Patterson, Roy Rogers, David Sharpe, Charles Sullivan, Fred S. Toones, Ray Turner, Luana Walters

Western, Color, Runtime: 76 minutes.

Below the Deadline (1936)

Ex-cop Russell Hopton, framed for a crime he didn't commit, gets a second chance in life after enduring a train wreck. His face mashed to pulp in the disaster, Hopton undergoes plastic surgery, emerging from the gauze with a brand-new face. Heading back to New York to find out who framed him, Hopton falls in love all over again with his former girlfriend Cecilia Parker, who-like everyone else--fails to recognize him

Director: Charles Lamont

Cast: Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Theodore Von Eltz, Warner P. Richmond

Crime, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 69 minutes.

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

It's "Romeo and Juliet" among the risk-taking sponge divers of the Florida coast, with Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as the young lovers who come from rival diving families.

Director: Robert D. Webb

Cast: Jacques Aubuchon, Richard Boone, Guy Carleton, Angela Clarke, Gloria Gordon, Peter Graves, Jonathan Jackson, Harry Carey Jr., Marc Krah, Terry Moore, J. Carrol Naish, Jay Novello, Gilbert Roland, Charles Wagenheim, Robert Wagner, Rush Williams

Action, Adventure, Romance, Color, Runtime: 101 minutes.

Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Three well-to-do elderly men without families of their own invite a rodeo performer and a kindergarten teacher to a holiday dinner. The young couple fall in love, but when the trio of beneficiaries die in a plane crash, their spirits return to help the romance along in this charming fantasy.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland

Cast: William Bakewell, James Bush, Harry Carey, Richard Carlson, Nell Craig, Robert Homans, J. Anthony Hughes, Alex Melesh, Maria Ouspenskaya, Jean Parker, Rod La Rocque, C. Aubrey Smith, Helen Vinson, Charles Winninger, Hank Worden

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 84 minutes.

The Big Bluff (1955)

When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.

Director: W. Lee Wilder

Cast: John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Rosemarie Stack, Eve Miller, Max Palmer, Eddie Bee, Robert Bice

Crima, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.

The Big Show (1936)

Filmed on location at the Texas Centennial in Dallas, this unusual Gene Autry outing finds him in a dual role: an egotistical film cowboy named Tom Ford and his good-natured stunt double (named, of course, Gene Autry). The fun starts when Ford is booked to appear at the Texas fair and Autry agrees to fill in for him.

Director: Mack V. Wright

Cast: Champion , Gene Autry, Beverly Hill Billies, Light Crust Dough Boys, Jones Boys, Smiley Burnette, Grace Durkin, Oscar and Elmer, Kay Hughes, June Johnson, Charles Judels, Christine Maple, William Newell, Wedgewood Nowell, Sally Payne, Sons of the Pioneers, Mary Russell, Antrim Short, Max Terhune, Harry Worth

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

The Big Show-Off (1945)

Joe Bagley (Lionel Stander), owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott (Arthur Lake)and band vocalist June Mayfield(Dale Evans.).

Director: Howard Bretherton

Cast: Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, Lionel Stander, George Meeker, Paul Hurst, Marjorie Manners, Sammy Stein

Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.

The Big Trees (1952)

Kirk Douglas stars in this rousing adventure saga that takes place in a lumberjack community.

Director: Felix Feist

Cast: Iris Adrian, Mel Archer, John Archer, Lillian Bond, Edgar Buchanan, Sue Casey, William Challee, Ellen Corby, Harry Cording, Kirk Douglas, Alan Hale Jr., Charles Meredith, Eve Miller, Roy Roberts, Lester Sharp, Elizabeth Slifer, William Vedder, Duke Watson, Patrice Wymore

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 90 minutes.

The Bigamist (1953)

Deceit and adultery highlight this drama, directed by and featuring Ida Lupino. A married travelling salesman (Edmond O'Brien) has an affair with a diner cook (Lupino) and weds her after learning she's pregnant. Hundreds of miles away, the businessman's other spouse (Joan Fontaine) attempts to adopt a child and learns of her husband's secret life.

Director: Ida Lupino

Cast: John Brown, Jane Darwell, Ken Dibbs, Joan Fontaine, Edmund Gwenn, George Lee, Ida Lupino, Peggy Maley, John Maxwell, Edmond O'Brien, Kenneth Tobey, James Todd, Mack Williams, James Young

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 80 minutes.

Billy The Kid Trapped (1942)

In "Billy the Kid Trapped," young Mr. Bonney will be fitted for a noose unless he can convince the marshal that the crime he is being charged with was committed by someone else.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Ted Adams, Budd Buster, Buster Crabbe, Jack Ingram, Anne Jeffreys, Milton Kibbee, Walter McGrail, Eddie Phillips, Al St. John, Glenn Strange

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.

Billy The Kid Returns (1938)

An early starring role for Roy Rogers casts him as the famed frontier gunslinger, now reformed and ready to clean up lawless Lincoln County. Smiley Burnette, Lynne Roberts co-star.

Director: Joseph Kane, Joe Kane

Cast: Trigger , Roy Barcroft, Wade Boteler, The Wiere Bros., Smiley Burnette, Frederick Burton, Steve Condos, Kenne Duncan, Mary Hart, Robert Emmett Keane, Jack Kirk, Janet Martin, Chris Pin Martin, LeRoy Mason, Horace Murphy, Bob Nolan, Duncan Renaldo, Roy Rogers, Fred Kohler Sr., Edwin Stanley, Larry Steers, Onslow Stevens, Ruth Terry, Mary Treen, Morgan Wallace, Guinn Williams

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 53 minutes.

Bird Of Paradise (1932)

Lavish Hawaiian location shots and great special effects highlight this early South Seas drama, with Joel McCrea as a Western playboy who falls for native beauty Dolores Del Rio.

Director: King Vidor

Cast: Agostino Borgato, Wade Boteler, Creighton Chaney, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Arnold Gray, John Halliday, Joel McCrea, Napoleon Pukui, Dolores Del Rio, Bert Roach, Reginald Simpson

Adventure, Romance, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 81 minutes.

Black Brigade (1969)

This well done TV Movie, starring Richard Pryor, Rosie Greer, Billy Dee Williams, and Stephen Boyd, depicts racist attitudes toward black soldiers in World War Two.

Director: George McCowan

Cast: Stephen Boyd, Roosevelt Grier, Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Richard Pryor, Aaron Spelling, Paul Stewart, Glynn Turman, Billy Dee Williams

Action, War, Color, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Black Dragons (1942)

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness and Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret may die with him.

Director: William High

Cast: Joan Barclay, Robert Fiske, Robert Frazer, Bernard Gorcey, Kenneth Harlan, I. Stanford Jolley, Max Hoffman Jr., Bela Lugosi, Frank Melton, Irving Mitchell, Clayton Moore, George Pembroke, Edward Piel Sr.

Sci-Fi, Thriller, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

The Black Raven (1943)

A lonely roadside inn welcomes Death as a guest in this chilling story of maniacal murders among some stranded travellers.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Byron Foulger, I. Stanford Jolley, Noel Madison, Wanda McKay, Robert Middlemass, Charlie Middleton, Bob Randall, Glenn Strange, George Zucco

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Blake Of Scotland Yard (1937)

When a death ray is invented by a former Scotland Yard detective and his niece, a villain known as "the Scorpion" steals the device with plans on using it. But when he realizes that the device is missing a crucial piece, he tries to locate it while the lawman races to stop his nefarious plans. Ralph Byrd, Herbert Rawlinson, Joan Barclay star.

Director: Bob Hill

Cast: Jimmy Aubrey, Joan Barclay, Ralph Byrd, Dick Curtis, Sam Flint, Lloyd Hughes, Dickie Jones, Ted Lorch, Lucille Lund, Gail Newbury, George De Normand, Herbert Rawlinson, Nick Stuart, Bob Terry, Frank Wayne

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Blood On The Sun (1945)

Hard-hitting newspaperman James Cagney, stationed in 1930s Japan, finds himself caught in an espionage plot when he tries to warn American officials about the growing threat of war.

Director: Frank Lloyd

Cast: Philip Ahn, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Beaumont, James Bell, James Cagney, Rosemary DeCamp, John Emery, Wallace Ford, Gregory Gay, Porter Hall, John Halloran, Joseph Kim, Grace Lem, Arthur Loft, Marvin Miller, Frank Puglia, Sylvia Sidney, Leonard Strong, Emmett Vogan, Rhys Williams

Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War, Black & White, Runtime: 94 minutes.

Blood Thirst (1965)

Mystifying mix of fright and spy thrills from the Philippines, as a woman becomes involved with sun cultists and seeks to retain her youth through ritual killings and bizarre experiments, and a secret agent must stop her. With Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson. AKA: "Blood Seekers."

Director: Robert Hartford-Davis

Cast: Eddie Infante, Yvonne Nielson, Bruno Punzalan, Vic Silayan, Robert Winston

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 73 minutes.

Blood Tide (1981)

A primitive Greek island becomes the center of a series of bloody murders caused by a horrifying monster.

Director: Richard Jefferies

Cast: Lydia Cornell, Jose Ferrer, James Earl Jones, Lila Kedrova, Martin Kove, Deborah Shelton, Mary Louise Weller

Horror, Color, Runtime: 84 minutes.

Bloodlust (1961)

A sadistic hunter traps teenage couples on his remote jungle island, then stalks and kills them for pleasure, keeping his gruesome trophies in glass tanks.

Director: Ralph Brooke

Cast: Walter Brooke, Lilyan Chauvin, Bill Coontz, Wilton Graff, Bobby Hall, June Kenny, Joan Lora, Troy Patterson, Gene Persson, Robert Reed

Action, Adventure, Black & White, 68 minutes.

Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) 

The owner of a creepy castle is possessed by the spirit of a crimson-tighted ancestor and terrorizes a photographer and his models in the dungeon.

Directors: Max Hunter, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

Cast: Nando Angelini, Louise Barrett, Albert Gordon, Mickey Hargitay, Rita Klein, Femi Martin, Barbara Nelly, Alfred Rice, Moa Thai, John Turner, Ralph Zucker

Horror, Color, Runtime: 83 minutes.

Bloody Wednesday (1985)

A seemingly normal day in a suburban restaurant turns into a day of terror when a disturbed gunman enters and opens fire on everyone inside. When, why, and how did the killer lose his mind? Could this happen in a town near you? .

Director: Mark G Gilhuis

Cast: Teresa Mae Allen, Pamela Baker, Raymond Elmendorf, John Landtroop, Jeff O'Haco, Navarre Perry

Horror, Color, Runtime: 96 minutes.