Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell, however, there is no Mrs. Holliday: it’s the guise assumed by idealistic missionary Ruth (Durbin) to sneak a group of Chinese war orphans into the US. Read More »
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Ill Be Yours (1947) William A. Seiter, Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Louise Ginglebusher (Durbin) finds herself in New York City after leaving her small town to find work in the big smoke. Read More »
Safety Last (1923) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Comedy, Thriller
In 1922, the country boy Harold says goodbye to his mother and his girlfriend Mildred in the train station and leaves Great Bend expecting to be successful in the big city. Read More »
Teenage Cave Man (1958) Roger Corman, Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Robert Vaughn stars as a white 25-year-old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe’s campsite. Read More »
The Night Holds Terror (1955) Andrew L. Stone, Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare. Read More »
Juke Box Rhythm (1959) Arthur Dreifuss, Jo Morrow, Jack Jones, Brian Donlevy, Drama, Musical
While in New York to select her coronation wardrobe, Princess Ann is photographed dancing with Riff Manton, son of impoverished producer George Manton. Read More »
The Lone Hand (1953) George Sherman, Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Alex Nicol, Western
A farmer, Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) & his son Joshua (Jimmy Hunt) try to establish new roots on their farm near a small western town victimized by outlaws. Read More »
Toys in the Attic (1963) George Roy Hill, Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Drama
Sisters Carrie and Anna Berniers have been supporting their ne’er-do-well brother Julian through various failed businesses; now, he returns home with a sudden fortune and his young bride. Read More »
Television Spy (1939) Edward Dmytryk, William Henry, Judith Barrett, William Collier Sr., Drama, Sci-Fi
It’s 1939. The scientist Douglas Cameron invents a television device called the “Iconoscope”. With the Iconoscope television broadcasts can be send across the country. Read More »
Pursued (1947) Raoul Walsh, Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
After his family is murdered in the 1880s, orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their nearby horse ranch. Read More »
Killer Shark (1950) Budd Boetticher, Roddy McDowall, Laurette Luez, Roland Winters, Adventure
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. Read More »
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) Irvin Berwick, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Horror, Sci-Fi
The monster, which looks like a nastier version of “The Creature from the Black Lagoon,” invades a sleepy lighthouse town. Read More »
Flight to Hong Kong (1956) Joseph M. Newman, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is attracted to a pretty novelist, Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush), who returns the attention. Read More »
Why Worry? (1923) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Harold Van Pelham (Lloyd) is a hypochondriac, rich businessman who sails to the tropics for his ‘health.’ Instead of the peace and seclusion he is seeking, he finds himself in the middle of a revolution. Read More »
Dark Delusion (1947) Willis Goldbeck, Lionel Barrymore, James Craig, Lucille Bremer, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. Read More »