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Young Tom Edison (1940) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft
Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. Read More »
Marie Antoinette (1938) W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. Read More »
A Question of Honor (1982) Jud Taylor, Ben Gazzara, Paul Sorvino, Robert Vaughn
Fictionalized account of the death of a New York City policeman who had been involved in a federal corruption investigation within the department Read More »
Indestructible Man (1956) Jack Pollexfen, Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr
“Butcher” Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up Read More »
Chiller (1985) Wes Craven, Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson
A man who has been dead and cryogenically preserved for ten years is miraculously revived, but with chillingly unexpected results. Read More »
Wet Gold (1984) Dick Lowry, Brooke Shields, Burgess Meredith, Thomas Byrd
Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson) Read More »
David Copperfield (1935) George Cukor, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph
When David’s father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. Read More »
Hurry Sundown (1967) Otto Preminger, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. Read More »
Judy (1970) David W. Hanson, George Meadows, Dave Haller, Sandy O’Hara, Garry Achzieger
A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Read More »