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The Penalty (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Marsha Hunt

The son of a murderer is entangled in his father’s crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life. Read More »
The Biscuit Eater (1940) Stuart Heisler, Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. Read More »
Star Time (1992) Alexander Cassini, John P. Ryan, Michael St. Gerard, Maureen Teefy

A delusional misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. Read More »
Heartbreakers (1984) Bobby Roth, Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure

Blue and Eli, two friends, have problems with women. Read More »
Nightjohn (1996) Charles Burnett, Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Bill Cobbs

Sarny, a 12-year-old slave girl in the ante-bellum South, faces a relatively hopeless life. Read More »
The Bounty Killer (1965) Spencer Gordon Bennet, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton

Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Read More »
The Strange One (1957) Jack Garfein, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman

Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school’s executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Read More »
Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) Michael Curtiz

True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. Read More »
Summertime (1955) David Lean, Katharine Hepburn

The American secretary Jane Hudson travels from Ohio to Venice. Jane is a middle-age single and lonely woman that have saved money for her dream trip. Read More »