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Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)

An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead...but local sleuth Charlie Chan is not so sure, and flies to San Francisco to investigate further. Somehow, the missing Colby is there ahead of him...but is knifed in the back before seeing anyone. Further events revolve around spiritualist Mrs. Lowell, her family of suspicious characters, and the spooky, untenanted Colby mansion, where the body turns up during a seance!

Director: Gordon Wiles

Cast: Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley, Henrietta Crosman

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.

Chasing Trouble (1940)

A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.

Director: Howard Bretherton

Cast: Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds, Mantan Moreland, Milburn Stone, Cheryl Walker, George Cleveland, Alex Callam, Tristram Coffin, I. Stanford Jolley

Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.

Check and Double Check (1930)

Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.

Director: Melville Brown

Cast: Rosco Ates, Sue Carol, Charles J. Correll, Duke Ellington, Freeman F. Gosden, Ralf Harold, Robert Homans, Edward Martindel, Charles S. Morton, Russ Powell, Irene Rich, Rita La Roy

Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 77 minutes.

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

In the tradition of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," comes this moving drama that tracks the 50-plus-year career of English teacher Martha Scott. On the eve of her retirement, she reflects upon the years packed with the triumphs and heartbreaks she experienced while trying her best to shape young minds.

Cast: Mary Anderson, John Arledge, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Bowman, Rand Brooks, Rosemary De Camp, Donald Douglas, William Farnum, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, John Hamilton, Clarence Hennecke, Howard Hickman, Sterling Holloway, Marsha Hunt, Charles Judels, Helen MacKellar, Knox Manning, Sue Moore, Jack Mulhall, Dorothy Peterson, Lois Ranson, Martha Scott, Charles Smith, Pierre Watkin

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 83 minutes.

Child Bride (1941)

A roadshow exploitation classic set in hillbilly territory about a schoolteacher who wants to change the region's custom of having adults marry young gals. Shirley Mills plays the nubile girl whom an ornery moonshiner wants to take down the aisle.

Director: Harry Revier

Cast: Frank Baxter, Shirley Mills, Warner Richmond, Angelo Rossitto

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Children Of The Night (1985)

This intense drama tells the dramatic true story of student Lois Lee, whose research into the homeless children and young prostitutes of Hollywood leads her to open a halfway house and into a confrontation with a ruthless pimp. Kathleen Quinlan and Mario Van Peebles star.

Director: Robert Markowitz

Cast: Monica Calhoun, Nicholas Campbell, David Crowley, Laura Esterman, Donald Hotton, Vincent J. Isaac, Marta Kober, Wallace Langham, Lar Park-Lincoln, Mario Van Peebles, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael A. Shaner, Zoe Trilling, Eddie Velez

Drama, Color, Runtime: 93 minutes.

Chinatown After Dark (1931)

Riveting suspenser follows a pair of ruthless Chinese gangsters as they kidnap a beautiful girl and raise her to be the spitting image of the legendary Dragon Lady. Once the young woman grows to maturity, she becomes an unstoppable hellion as she attempts to track down a valuable jeweled dagger.

Director: Stuart Paton

Cast: Edmund Breese, Billy Gilbert, Barbara Kent, Rex Lease, Frank Mayo, Carmel Myers, Michael Visaroff, Lloyd Whitlock, Laska Winter

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 56 minutes.

City of Missing Girls (1941)

A string of murders of young women last seen at a shady art school soon has a female reporter at odds with the law as she searches for the killer. But will she write about the criminal...or become his or her latest victim?

Director: Elmer Clifton

Cast: Astrid Allwyn, John Archer, Katherine Crawford, Boyd Irwin, Patricia Knox, Walter Long, Sarah Padden, George Rosener, Gale Storm, H. B. Warner, Danny Webb, Philip Van Zandt

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.

The City of the Dead/Horror Hotel (1960)

A curious co-ed in pursuit of her history studies visits a ramshackle Massachusetts town that had been the site of witch burnings...and lands in the clutches of a coven that has risen from the ashes!

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast: William Abney, George Baxt, Ann Beach, Valentine Dyall, James Dyrenforth, Nickolas Grace, Maxine Holden, Patricia Jessel, Fred Johnson, Christopher Lee, Dennis Lotis, Norman Macowan, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John, Venetia Stevenson

Horror, Color, Runtime: 76 minutes.

Clancy Street Boys (1943)

East Side Kids comedy has the gang pretending to be Leo Gorcey's siblings in order to impress a rich uncle from Texas.

Director: William Beaudine

Cast: Benny Bartlett, Noah Beery Sr., Billy Benedict, George DeNormand, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, J. Farrell McDonald, Eddie Mills, Sammy Morrison, Jan Rubini, Rick Vallin, Lita Ward, Martha Wentworth

Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 66 minutes.

Club Paradise (1945)

Also known as "Sensation Hunters". A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.

Director: Christy Cabanne

Cast: Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Constance Worth, Isabel Jewell, Wanda McKay, Nestor Paiva, Vince Barnett, Minerva Urecal, Janet Shaw, The Rubenettes

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Code of the Cactus (1939)

Lightning Bill Carson tries to stop cattle rustlers by posing as a Mexican.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Dorothy Short, Fred Adams, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, Dave O'Brien, Forrest Taylor, Bob Terry, Slim Whitaker, Frank Wayne

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.

Cold Sweat  (1970)

Charles Bronson, Liv Ullman, James Mason, and Jill Ireland star in this action packed movie about a ruthless drug runner who holds a man's family hostage.

Director: Terence Young

Cast: Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Michel Constantin, Luigi Pistilli, Yannick Delulle, Paul Bonifas, Sabine Sun, Roger Mailles, Nathalie Varallo, Remo Mosconi

Action, Color, Runtime: 94 minutes.

Colonel Effingham's Raid (1945)

Delightful comedy of an old Southern colonel (Charles Coburn) who mounts one last battle to save his town's lone historical landmark.

Director: Irving Pichel

Cast: James Adamson, Ed Allen, Carol Andrews, Henry Armetta, Walter Baldwin, Guy Beach, Joan Bennett, Paul Burns, George Chandler, Ken Christy, Charles Coburn, Frank Craven, Boyd Davis, Abe Dinovitch, Robert Dudley, Ralph Dunn, Michael Dunne, William Eythe, Edward Fielding, Clyde Fillmore, Gus Glassmire, Thurston Hall, Harry Hayden, Herbert Heywood, Hallene Hill.

Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Colorado Sundown (1952)

Rex Allen and his miracle horse Koko foil a murder and land fraud caper masterminded by a crooked brother and sister, yet the cowboy still has time to sing "Pine Valley Stage" and "Down by the Riverside." With Slim Pickens, Mary Ellen Kay, Louise Beavers.

Director: William Witney

Cast: Koko , Rex Allen, Louise Beavers, Stan Blystone, Edward Cassidy, Chester Clute, Russ Conway, John Daheim, Fred Graham, Harry Harvey, Stan Jones, Mary Ellen Kay, Rex Lease, Slim Pickens, Hal Price, The Republic Rhythm Riders, Clarence Straight, Tex Terry, June Vincent, Joe Yrigoyen

Western, Black & White, Runtime: 67 minutes.

Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

When strongman Glauco is tricked into going on a sea voyage by his friend Pirro, both of them find themselves on the island of the Amazons during a feud over the succession of the throne. They'll need all their wits to get out alive.

Director: Vittorio Sala

Cast: Rod Taylor, Ed Fury, Dorian Gray, Gianna Maria Canale, Alberto Farnese, Ignazio Leone, Adriana Facchetti, Alfredo Varelli, Gino Buzzanca, Marco Tulli, Renato Tagliani, Daniela Rocca

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 84 minutes.

Condemned To Live (1935)

Ralph Morgan stars as a kindly village doctor who fears he may be the vampire killer who's been stalking the town.

Director: Frank R. Strayer

Cast: Mischa Auer, Lucy Beaumont, Barbara Bedford, Edward Cecil, Pedro De Cordoba, Maxine Doyle, Robert Frazer, Russell Gleason, Marilyn Knowlden, Ralph Morgan, Ferdinand Schuman-Heink, Hedi Shope, Carl Stockdale, Paul Weigel

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 68 minutes.

Conquest (1937)

A polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.

Director: Clarence Brown

Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Leif Erickson, Dame May Whitty, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Henry Gordon, Claude Gillingwater, Vladimir Sokoloff

Drama, History, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 108 minutes.

The Contender  (1944)

Widower Gary Farrell can't afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey, to a high-priced military school and decides to enter heavyweight-boxing tournament in an effort to win the $500 prize money. He wins and turns to boxing as a career and, in a short while, and under the guidance of "Pop" Turner, becomes a Contender for the Heavyweight title.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Donald Mayo, Glenn Strange, Milton Kibbee, Roland Drew, Sam Flint, George Turner, Duke York, Jimmy Aubrey

Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Convict's Code (1939)

A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.

Director: Lambert Hillyer

Cast: Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Kilian, Norman Willis, Maude Eburne, Ben Alexander, Pat Flaherty, Carleton Young, Howard C. Hickman, Joan Barclay, Harry Strang

Crime, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Corregidor (1943)

Moving drama that focuses upon a hopeless love triangle between a trio of army surgeons during the blazing height of combat in the Philippines of World War II.

Director: William Nigh

Cast: Ruby Dandridge, John Grant, Frank Hagney, Eddie Hall, Ted Hecht, Frank Jacquet, Frank Jenks, I. Stanford Jolley, Charles Jordan, Ian Keith, Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Wanda McKay, Jack Rutherford, Forrest Taylor, Rick Vallin, Donald Woods

Drama, War, Black & White, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Corruption (1933)

A city is thrown into chaos as a mayor is framed for the killings of several political leaders after exposing several corrupt officials. As he tries to prove his innocence (and win the girl along the way), he finds himself encountering incredible obstacles during his quest for justice.

Director: C. Edward Roberts

Cast: Mischa Auer, Sidney Bracy, Lane Chandler, Charles Delaney, Preston Foster, Huntley Gordon, Kit Guard, Fred Kohler Jr., Evalyn Knapp, Gwen Lee, Tully Marshall, Natalie Moorhead, Warner Richmond, Nick Thompson

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

Corsair (1931)

Chester Morris stars in this tale of rum-runners and modern piracy as a former football star who impresses a swindler's daughter by proving that he is a bigger crook than her old man. After getting fired by the gal's unscrupulous pop for disagreeing with his shady business tactics, Morris sets out to become a contemporary Blackbeard.

Director: Roland West

Cast: William Austin, Emmett Corrigan, Sidney D'Albrook, Al Hill, Fred Kohler, Alison Loyd, Frank McHugh, Addie McPhail, Mayo Methot, Chester Morris, Frank Rice, Gay Seabrook, Ned Sparks

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

Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)

A spaceship intercepts a mysterious message and then crashes on the planet the message is being sent from. There they uncover a force that threatens to take over the Earth.

Director: Alfonso Brescia

Cast: John Richardson, Yanti Somer, West Buchanan, Katia Christine, Vassili Karis, Eleonora King, Percy Hogan, Giuseppe Fortis, Daniele Dublino, Romeo Costantini, Charles Borromel, Massimo Bonetti, Malisa Longo, Aldo Canti

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 89 minutes.

The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940)

Thrilling second installment in the "Dr. Christian" film series has the healer frantically working to fight a strain of spinal meningitis that threatens the residents of a poor community he has been trying to improve conditions in.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus

Cast: Sylvia Andrew, Robert Baldwin, Reginald Barlow, Bobette Bentley, Al Bridge, Budd Buster, Mary Davenport, Maude Eburne, Edmund Glover, Jean Hersholt, Bobby Larson, Frank LaRue, Vera Lewis, Dorothy Lovett, George Meader, James C. Morton, Tom Neal, Broderick O'Farrell, Jacqueline de River, Earl Ross

Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 67 minutes.