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Tear Gas Squad (1940) Terry O. Morse, Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson

Druggist Joe McCabe foils a robbery, and his brother Tommy decides to join the state police in order to impress Joe Read More »
My Dream Is Yours (1949) Michael Curtiz, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. Read More »
Its a Great Feeling (1949) David Butler, Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

A waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. Read More »
Chelsea Girls (1966) Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin, Randy Borscheidt, Christian Päffgen

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City Read More »
The Second Woman (1950) James V. Kern

In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Read More »
The Big Night (1951) Joseph Losey, John Drew Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring

George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. Read More »
The Disorderly Orderly (1964) Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Susan Oliver

When he flunks out of med school, Jerome Littlefield goes to work as an orderly in a private rest home where he wreaks havoc for everyone concerned. Read More »
Ruthless (1948) Edgar G. Ulmer, Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn

Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. Read More »
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) Gordon Douglas, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready

When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. Read More »