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A Bride For Henry (1937)
Zesty comic romp about a flirtatious young woman who gets hers when her fiance leaves her at the altar. On the rebound, she weds an attorney as "a social gesture" to save face, but the new husband is determined to make the marriage work, even when the old beau resurfaces.
Director: William Nigh
Cast: Betty Ross Clark, Claudia Dell, Harrison Greene, Harry Harvey, Warren Hull, Sam Koki, Cyril McCormic, Henry Mollison, Lyle Moraine, Anne Nagel
Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 59 minutes.
A Bucket Of Blood (1959)
Director Roger Corman's outrageous horror spoof starring Dick Miller as a coffeehouse busboy who accidentally kills a cat, covers it in plaster, and puts it on display. Hailed as a "new talent," Miller soon moves on to human subjects.
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Judy Bamber, John Brinkley, Jhean Burton, Julian Burton, Antony Carbone, Burt Convy, Myrtle Damerel, Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Ed Nelson, John Shaner, Bruno Ve Sota
Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 66 minutes.
A Farewell To Arms (1932)
Stationed in Italy during World War I, American ambulance driver Gary Cooper falls in love with British nurse Helen Hayes, in this first screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's timeless wartime romance.
Category: Drama Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Henry Armetta, Bob Cautiero, Gary Cooper, Gilbert Emery, Mary Forbes, Blanche Friderici, Helen Hayes, George Humbert, Fred Malatesta, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Tom Ricketts, Jack La Rue
Drama, Romance, War, Black & White, Runtime: 79 minutes.
A Man Betrayed (1937)
Eddie Nugent is framed for a crime, but complications ensue when a group of hoodlums attempts to prove his innocence. A young minister also gets in the middle of the proceedings in this suspenser. With Kay Hughes, John Wray
Mystery Director: John H. Auer
Cast: Sam Ash, Mary Bovard, John Boyd, Smiley Burnette, Grace Durkin, Theodore Von Eltz, Pat Gleason, John Hamilton, Ralf Harolde, Kay Hughes, Lloyd Hughes, Thomas E. Jackson, Christine Maple, Edwin Maxwell, William Newell, Eddie Nugent, John Wray, Carleton Young
Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.
A Shot In The Dark (1935)
What sort of fatal shooting leaves no bullet hole or gunpowder mark, and makes no blasting sound? That's the question faced by a college football hero in this tale of murder and conspiracy set on a New England campus. As a group of people gathered in a mansion on the school's grounds start getting murdered by a hooded killer, the gridiron giant tries to find and stop the madman. Charles Starrett, Marion Shilling, Robert Warwick star.
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Ralph Brooks, Herbert Bunston, James Bush, John Davidson, Helen Jerome Eddy, Jane Keckley, Doris Lloyd, Julian Madison, Robert McKenzie, George Morrell, Broderick O'Farrell, Marion Shilling, Edward Van Sloan, Charles Starrett, Eddie Tamblyn, Robert Warwick
Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.
Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot repeat their roles from "The Thirteenth Guest" in this mystery comedy of reporters on the trail of a murderer.
Director: Albert Ray
Cast: Louise Beaver, Maurice Black, Harvey Clark, Lillian Harmer, Arthur Hoyt, Purnell Pratt, Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Clarence Wilson
Comedy, Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 69 minutes.
A Star Is Born (1937)
William Wellman's classic about the early days of the Hollywood star system. Fredric March stars as a down-and-out actor who marries movie hopeful Janet Gaynor, then makes her into Tinseltown's biggest star. One of the first films in Technicolor.
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Eric Alden, Irving Bacon, Vince Barnett, Clara Blandick, Harry C. Bradley, George Chandler, Virginia Dabney, Andy Devine, Rex Evans, Herbert Evans, Pat Flaherty, Bud Flanagan, Francis Ford, Trixie Friganza, Janet Gaynor, Joe Gray, Harrison Greene, Jonathan Hale, Sherry Hall, Lillian Harmer, Grace Hayle, Leon Holmes, Robert Homans, Kenneth Howell, Olin Howland
Drama, Color, Runtime: 111 minutes.
A Study In Scarlet (1933)
Although not based on the Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name, this early British thriller is a stylish tale of mystery as Sherlock Holmes, is called upon to solve a murder on board a train.
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Leila Bennett, Billy Bevan, June Clyde, Alan Dinehart, Warburton Gamble, Halliwell Hobbes, J. M. Kerrigan, Tetsu Komai, Doris Lloyd, Alan Mowbray, Reginald Owen, Tempe Pigott, Cecil Reynolds, Wyndham Standing, John Warburton, Anna May Wong
Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.
A Yank In Libya (1942)
An American journalist exposes Nazi gunrunners trying to start an Arab revolt.
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Parkyarkarkus , Howard Banks, Walter Woolf King, George J. Lewis, Amarilla Morris, Duncan Renaldo, William Vaughn, H. B. Warner, Joan Woodbury
Action, Adventure, War, Black & White, Runtime: 66 minutes.
The Abe Lincoln Of Ninth Avenue (1939)
A drama about an idealistic law student from Hell's Kitchen who unites his neighborhood pals against a gang. Originally released as "Streets of New York".
Directors: Jack Mintz, William Nigh
Cast: George Cleveland, Jackie Cooper, David Durand, William Gould, George Irving, Robert Emmett Keane, Sidney Miller, Robert E. O'Connor, Buddy Pepper, Dick Purcell, Marjorie Reynolds, Kent Rogers, Martin Spellman, Bobby Stone, Robert Tucker, William Tucker
Crime, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 65 minutes.
Abilene Town (1946)
Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of the big cattle drives out of Texas. The town is growing faster than a lot of citizens are prepared to deal with it, especially as homesteaders start moving in, fighting for space with the cattlemen. Dan has kept the peace, such as it is, by keeping the saloons, gambling, and guns on one side of Main Street and the shop-owners, farmers, women, and children on the other.
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Randolph Scott, Edgar Buchanan, Dick Curtis, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges
Western, Black & White, Runtime: 90 minutes.
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
First, pioneering director D.W. Griffith's first talkie is a moving, down-to-earth look at the life of America's 16th president, "Abraham Lincoln," from Lincoln's boyhood and his days as an Illinois lawyer to Washington and the turmoil of the Civil War.
Director: D. W. Griffith
Cast: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Kay Hammond.
Biography, Drama, History, Black & White, Runtime: 85 minutes.
Aces And Eights (1936)
A crooked cardsharp ambles into town, intent on taking the townspeople for all they've got. You can lay even money, though, that Tim McCoy will empty his sleeves of sneaky tricks real fast!
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Jimmy Aubrey, Joseph Girard, Frank Glendon, Earl Hodgins, Rex Lease, Tim McCoy, John Merton, Wheeler Oakman, Charles Stevens, Luana Walters
Western, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.
Adventures of Don Quixote (1933)
Great basso Feodor Chaliapin plays the lead role of Cervantes' would-be knight errant and sings four songs composed by Jacques Ibert.
Director G.W. Pabst
Cast: Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy, Sidney Fox, Miles Mander, Wally Patch
Foreign, Drama, Musical, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.
Adventures Of Gallant Bess (1948)
A rodeo cowboy captures a wild mare and trains it for show, but his dreams of stardom cause trouble between him and his girl in this Western drama.
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gallant Bess, Harry V. Cheshire, Cliff Clark, Eevlynn Eaton, Ed Gargan, John Harmon, Fuzzy Knight, Audrey Long, James Millican, Cameron Mitchell
Western, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.
Aerial Gunner (1943)
While recuperating in an Army hospital, pilot Richard Arlen recounts his aerial training and wartime experiences: the rigorous flight instruction, a rivalry with his sergeant for the hand of a girl, and a fight against the Japanese on a South Pacific island.
Director: William H. Pine
Cast: Richard Arlen, William Benedict, Olive Blakeney, Edward Earle, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Mitchum, Chester Morris, Dick Purcell, Keith Richards, Ralph Sanford, Lita Ward
Action, Adventure, War, Black & White, Runtime: 79 minutes.
The Affairs Of Cappy Ricks (1937)
Walter Brennan stars as a salty sea dog who returns from an extended trip away to find his professional and personal affairs in disarray. In an attempt to make things right, he takes his daughters and business associates on a cruise and deliberately shipwrecks them on a deserted island. Seemingly stuck in the middle of nowhere, Brennan sets out to teach his loved ones about life, romance and proper decision-making.
Director: Ralph Staub
Cast: Walter Brennan, Mary Brian, Lyle Talbot, Frank Melton
Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 56 minutes.
Africa Screams (1949)
Mistaken for great hunters and shanghaied to Africa, Abbott and Costello lead crooks on a silly safari for hidden diamonds.
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Max Baer, Buddy Baer, Clyde Beatty, Joe Besser, Hillary Brooke, Frank Buck, Lou Costello, Shemp Howard, Burton Wenland
Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 79 minutes.
Air Devils (1938)
Former Marine flyers Larry Blake and Dick Purcell have relocated to a South Seas island where they serve as policemen. Both are attracted to Beryl Wallace, but she doesn't seem interested in either. Meanwhile, a native uprising threatens everyone.
Director: John Rawlins
Cast: Larry Blake, Charles Brokaw, Mamo Clark, Al Kikume, Roy Mason, Forbes Murray, Dick Purcell, Paul Sutton, Minerva Urecal, Michael Visaroff, Beryl Wallace, Billy Wayne
Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.
Airborne (1962)
A country boy trains to be a paratrooper at Fort Bragg.
Directed by: James Landis
Cast: Bobby Diamond, Carolyn Byrd, Robert Christian, Mike Angel
Action, Black & White, Runtime: 83 minutes.
Alias John Law (1935)
After a feud between a group of black hats and a marshal, Bob Steele is deputized. But soon the head of the gang is impersonating him, trying to snag some much-desired land that really belongs to Steele.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: Steve Clark, Buck Connors, Jack Cowell, Earl Dwire, Roberta Gale, Bob McKenzie, Jack Rockwell, Bob Steele, Roger Williams
Western, Black & White, Runtime: 50 minutes.
All the Kind Strangers (1974)
Seven orphaned children living in a remote swamp decide to obtain "new" parents by abducting two strangers and holding them against their wills. Unsettling drama about a very different "family" stars Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, Robby Benson, and John Savage. AKA: "Evil in the Swamp."
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: Robby Benson, Brent Campbell, John Connell, Samantha Eggar, Arlene Sue Farber, Stacy Keach, Tim Parkison, Patti Parkison, John Savage
Thriller, Color, Runtime: 73 minutes.
The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
Suspenseful melodrama about a man who fakes his own death and teams up with a phony spiritualist in order to bilk his rich "widow."
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Lynn Bari, Turhan Bey, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis, Virginia Gregg, Harry Mendoza, Cathy O'Donnell, Norma Varden
Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 78 minutes.
Ambush Valley (1936)
There's lots of action in this rousing saddle saga starring Bob Custer as the hero who woos a Western gal and topples the bad guys in his inimitable style.
Director: Franklin Shamray
Cast: Jack Anderson, Vane Calvert, Ed Cassidy, Bob Custer, Denver Dixon, John Elliott, O. Gahan, Jack Gilman, Eddie Phillips, Victoria Vinton, Wally Wales, Wally West, Roger Williams
Western, Black & White, Runtime: 48 minutes.
American Empire (1942)
Deception, intrigue and violence combine in this fast-paced melodrama about the rise of a cattle empire in post-Civil War Texas. Travelling to the Lone Star State with hopes of making a fortune as ranchers, two lifelong friends find their relationship threatened when their American dream comes true.
Director: William McGann
Cast: Robert H. Barrat, Leo Carrillo, Richard Dix, Cliff Edwards, William Farnum, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Chris Pin Martin, Etta McDaniel, Merrill Guy Rodin, Jack La Rue, Earl Spainard, Hal Taliaferro, Jack Trent, Richard Webb, Guinn Williams
Western, Black & White, Runtime: 81 minutes.
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