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ABRAHAM LINCOLN ****************
(1930, BW, 92 MIN) Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Russell Simpson, Jason Robards, Sr., directed by D. W. Griffith. Huston portrays Lincoln from his early days as a country lawyer, his courting of Mary Todd through his quest for the presidency, the civil war and the assassination. Some great war scenes.

ADMIRAL WAS A LADY, THE ****************
(1950, BW, 90 MIN) Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, directed by Albert S. Rogell. Four war veterans with a passion for avoiding work compete for the attentions of an ex-wave.

ADVENTURERS, THE ****************
(1950, BW, 82 MIN) Dennis Price, Siobhan McKenna. Four people, none of whom trusts the other, set out to discover a cash of diamonds hidden in the African jungle.

ADVENTURES OF CHICO, THE ****************
(1938, BW, 54 MIN) A Mexican boy without young neighbors to play with, befriends a diverse group of desert animals.

ADVENTURES OF GALLANT BESS ****************
(1948, COLOR, 71 MIN) Audrey Long, Fuzzy Knight, James Millican, John Harmon and Edward Gargan, directed by Lew Landers. A stunt rider must choose between his love for a young woman and life on the rodeo circuit with his trained horse.

ADVENTURES OF TARTU ****************
(1943, BW, 103 MIN) Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilla, Phyllis Morris, Martin Miller, directed by Harold S. Bucquet. Donat plays a British secret service agent who poses as a Romanian clown in order to blow up a Nazi poison gas plant.

AERIAL GUNNER ****************
(1943, BW, 79 MIN) Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Lita Ward, Jimmy Lydon, directed by William H Pine. Two Air Force fliers who are rivals for the same woman put aside their differences during a battle in the South Pacific.

AFFAIRS OF CAPPY RICKS ****************
(1937, BW, 58 MIN) Walter Brennan, Mary Brian. A crotchety old man banishes his family to a desert island for a lesson in minding one's own business.

AFRICA SCREAMS ****************
(1949, BW, 79 MIN) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Frank Buck, Clyde Beatty, directed by Charles Barton. The boys get mixed up with angry tribesmen and wild animals when diamond hunters force them to lead a safari. Real life hunters Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty are on hand to sort things out.

AGAINST THE WIND ****************
(1948, BW, 97 MIN) Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, directed by Charles Crighton. During World War II, English saboteurs parachute into German occupied France to support the resistance movement.

ALFIE DARLING ****************
(1975, COLOR, 97 MIN) Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins, directed by Ken Hughes. More adventures of Alfie as he is now a truck driver on the Continent who continues his womanizing there until he meets his match. Guess who??

ALGIERS ****************
(1938, BW, 99 MIN) Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale Sr, directed by John Cromwell. A wealthy girl falls prey to the dazzle of the Casbah and the charm of its most notorious denizen, international jewel thief Pepe le Moko. Does Boyer ever ask Lamarr to "Come weeth me to the Casbah"? AAN BOYER, LOCKHART

ALICE IN WONDERLAND ****************
(1951, COLOR, 76 MIN) Produced and directed by Lou Brunin, this film combines puppetry with live action, with Carol Marsh as Alice. It begins with a brief live action sequence, but when Alice follows that white rabbit down the hole, the magic begins. A truly imaginative rendition of the Louis Carroll classic.

AMAZING ADVENTURE ****************
(1937, BW, 60 MIN) Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorn, Henry Kendall, directed by Alfred Zeisner. A bored millionaire steps into big business without his fortune or position just to prove he can survive on his own. (AKA Romance and Riches).

AMAZING MR. X, THE ****************
(1948, BW, 78 MIN) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnel, Richard Carlson, directed by Bernard Vorhaus. A fraudulent spiritualist involves an unsuspecting widow in blackmail, and then---murder.

AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN, THE ****************
(1960, BW, 58 MIN) Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith., directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. A mad scientist uses an ex-con as a guinea pig in some invisibility experiments in order to steal radioactive material for sinister purposes.

AMELIA AND THE ANGEL ****************
BW, 27 MIN) Amelia is a little girl who has the part of an angel in her dance class recital. Her little brother destroys her wings and she frantically searches for replacements. Filmed in England.

AMERICAN EMPIRE ****************
(1942, BW, 82 MIN) Preston Foster, Richard Dix, Leo Carillo, Frances Gifford, Robert H. Barratt, Guinn Williams, Cliff Edwards, Jack LaRue, directed by William McGann. Dix and Foster are two friends who get hold of a parcel of land in Texas and, with the help of Foster's wife (Gifford) build up a thriving cattle ranch. But Foster starts getting greedy for power, a mania that nearly destroys the friendship between the two men until violence and tragedy make him realize what a fool he has been.

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN ****************
(1947, BW, 100 MIN) John Wayne, Gail Russell, Bruce Cabot, Harry Carey, Irene Rich, directed by James E. Grant. The Duke plays a notorious gunman, who after being seriously wounded, is nursed back to health by a Quaker woman. He then must choose between love and gunfighting. Ah shucks, can he really hang em up for good?

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER ****************
(1946, BW, 100 MIN) Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter, George Cleveland, directed by Archie Mayo. A murdered gangster returns to earth after making a deal with the devil.

ANGELS ONE FIVE ****************
(1952, BW, 98 MIN) Jack Hawkins, John Gregson, directed by George More O'Ferrall. A story about the RAF with no flying scenes. Everything happens in operations where one grounded pilot struggles to get back into active duty.

ANIMAL FARM ****************
(1955, COLOR, 73 MIN) Voice of all animals: Maurice Denham; Narrator: Gordon Heath, directed by John Halas. George Orwell's classic satire in a feature length animated film. A brilliant and capitavating tale that cleverly points out faults in human nature and politics. A classic.

ANIMAL KINGDOM, THE ****************
(1932, BW, 85 MIN) Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, Ann Harding, Ilka Chase, William Gargan, directed by Edward H Griffith, produced by David O. Selznick. Based on a play by Phillip Barry, this sophisticated comedy about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress was the first movie shown at New York's famous Roxy theatre.

ANNA KARENINA ****************
(1948, BW, 110 MIN) Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Sally Ann Howes, Michael Gough, directed by Julien Duvivier. Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. A Russian lady of the Imperial Court falls in love with a dashing army officer. But she already has a husband and tragedy ensues.

APACHE KID'S ESCAPE, THE ****************
(1930, BW, 47 MIN) Jack Perrin, Josephine Hill, Fred Church, Virginia Aschroft, Henry Rocquemore, Bud Osborne, directed by Robert J. Horner. An outlaw gives up his girl and masquerades as a cowboy in order to help a friend in trouble.

APACHE ROSE ****************
(1947, BW, 57 MIN) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Olin Howard, George Meeker, Minerva Urecal, LeRoy Mason, directed by William Witney. When oil is discovered on a Vegas ranch, a gambler enters the picture with designs on winning control of the wealth.

APE, THE ****************
(1949, BW, 58 MIN) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene Odonnell, directed by William Knight. A doctor is convinced he can cure his crippled daughter with a serum made from human spinal fluid which he obtains by posing as an escaped ape and killing the town folks. Patient is cured, doctor/ape is killed by the local police.

APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO ****************
BW, 55 MIN) History of the Pacific war with emphasis on General McArthur, including the surrender of the Japanese aboard the USS Missouri.

ARIZONA KID, THE ****************
(1939, BW, 57 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Sally March, directed by Joseph Kane. During the Civil War Missouri vows its loyalty to the Union, but Confederates ignore the oath and form outlaw bands of guerillas. Roy is a Union captain who must order the execution of his best friend for marauding. A complex and emotional plot line make this one of the singing cowboy's finest.

ARIZONA STAGECOACH ****************
(1942, BW, 52 MIN) Roy Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, directed by S. Roy Luby. The Rangebusters are called to break up an outlaw gang preying on a small, independent stageline.

AS YOU LIKE IT ****************
(1936, BW, 96 MIN) Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Leon Quartermaine, directed by Paul Czinner. Olivier is solid (and handsome) as Orlando in his first ever attempt at Shakespeare on film.

ASSASSIN OF YOUTH ****************
(1937, BW, 72 MIN) Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Short, Earl Dwire, Fern Emmet, directed by Elmer Clifton. Marijuana expose about some fun-loving teens who smoke one too many reefers at one too many reefer parties. An intrepid reporter poses as a soda jerk to expose their decadence. The short film within a film, "The Marijuana Menace," is a hoot.

AT WAR WITH THE ARMY ****************
(1950, BW, 92 MIN) Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, directed by Hal Walker. Sergeant Martin tries to get PFC Lewis to help him out of some girl trouble. Lewis steals the show as the bumbling private. The highlight comes when the two of them imitate Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in a hilarious parody of "Going My Way."

ATTACK IN THE PACIFIC ****************
BW, 52 MIN) The history of the naval war in the Pacific from the prewar buildup to Midway, Okinawa, and Kamikaze attacks on U.S. ships.

ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES ****************
(1959, BW, 62 MIN) Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, directed by Bernard Kowalski. Blood sucking creatures rise from the depths of the Florida everglades to feed themselves on nubile teen-agers.

ATTACK OF THE NORMANS ****************
(1964, BW, 88 MIN) Cameron Mitchell, Genevieve Grad. An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride. The peasants take arms. Italian, dubbed

ATTACK-THE BATTLE FOR NEW BRITAIN ****************
(1944, BW, 59 MIN) Army Signal Corp footage of the battle for New Britain in December 1943.

BADMAN OF DEADWOOD ****************
(1941, BW, 53 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, directed by Joseph Kane. Roy reforms his outlaw ways and gets a job as a medicine show sharpshooter. The show travels to a town where businessmen are terrorizing the people to keep their monopoly. Roy administers some strong medicine.

BARBARIAN AND THE LADY, THE ****************
(1939, BW, 75 MIN) Adrian Brunel, Harry Baur, directed by Alexis Granowski. A story about a father and son who fight on opposite sides during war between the Cossacks and the Poles. AKA "The Rebel Son".

BASHFUL BACHELOR, THE ****************
(1942, BW, 76 MIN) Zazu Pitts, Grady Sutton, Oscar O'Shea, Louise Currie, directed by Malcom St. Clair Lum and Abner of early radio fame are confirmed old bachelor store clerks who are quite content with their lot until the widow Abernathy traps Lum into a marriage proposal. Or does she?

BAT, THE ****************
(1959, 80M Mystery B/W) Vincet Price, Agnes Moorhead, Gavin Gordon. Directed by Crane Wilber. Price plays ‘The Bat’, a murderer who hunts for one million dollars in a creepy old house. Compleate with weird charactors and creaking doors. A fine cast abounds.

BATTLE FOR THE UNITED STATES, THE ****************
BW, 15 MIN) J. Edgar Hoover narrates this propaganda film of the F.B.I.'s war against spies and subversives before, during and after WWII. Uses film from the bureau's files.

BATTLE OF MIDWAY, THE ****************
(1942, COLOR, 18 MIN) Narrated by Henry Fonda, this is actual color footage of the Japanese attack on Midway Island in June of 1942. Forty years later, some of this footage was used in the theatrical movie "Midway" which featured Henry Fonda as Admiral Chester Nimitz.

BATTLES OF CHIEF PONTIAC ****************
(1952, Western 71m, B&W) Lon Chaney Jr., Lex Barker Dir: Felix E. Feist. A surprisingly accurate historical drama. The story of a white scout(Barker)attempting to broker a peace agreement between English Colonials and Chief Pontiac and his Ottawa tribe. Kroeger is loathsome as German Hesian mercenary. The "gifts" of small-pox infected blankets to the Indians is a reminder of the brutality of the times. A good cast performs well, and of course Barker, a former Tarzan, finds several chances to bare his chest!

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN ****************
(1925, BW, 75 MIN) Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gordonov, directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Eisenstein's landmark film about the Russian Revolution. Without a doubt, one of the most important films in the development of the cinema. Silent with musical sound track.

BEACHCOMBER, THE ****************
(1938, BW, 87 MIN) Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, directed by Erich Pommer. Disheveled bum, Laughton, living on an island paradise, is reformed by missionary Lanchester. The two stars (married in real life) are delightful in this film version of a Somerset Maugham story.

BEAT THE DEVIL ****************
(1954, BW, 89 MIN) Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, directed by John Huston. Huston and Truman Capote co-wrote the script for this sendoff of the many tough detective movies Bogart made. In this one, a group of swindlers are heading for Africa to pull off the big one when they are surprised by an explosion on the ship.

BECKY SHARP ****************
(1935, COLOR, 83 MIN) Miriam Hopkins, Billie Burke, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Frances Dee, Nigel Bruce, Alison Skipworth, directed by Rouben Mamoulian. A remake of Thackeray's classic, "Vanity Fair" with Hopkins in the title role as an obnoxious opportunist. This was the first Technicolor feature. AAN Hopkins.

BEDSIDE MANNER ****************
(1945, BW, 76 MIN) John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charles Ruggles, Ann Rutherford, Claudia Drake, directed by Andrew L. Stone. Ruggles plays the part of an overworked doctor who wants his reluctant niece (Hussey) to practice medicine with him. She'd rather not but gets conned into it through the manipulations of her uncle and a willing test pilot.

BEHAVE YOURSELF ****************
(1951, BW, 80 MIN) Farley Granger, Shelly Winters, William Deverest, Lon Chaney, Hans Conried, Marvin Kaplan, Sheldon Leonard, directed by George Beck. Granger and Winters star as a couple who befriend a lost dog which is owned by certain members of the mob. They return the dog but keep falling over corpses.

BELLS OF CORONADO ****************
(1949, COLOR, 67 MIN) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Grant Withers, directed by William Witney. Insurance company undercover agent, Roy, tracks down a gang of uranium thieves.

BELLS OF ROSARITA ****************
(1945, BW, 53 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans, Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Barcroft, Sunset Carson, directed by Frank McDonald. The daughter of an ex-circus man is about to be ripped off by her dead dad's former partner. Enter Roy, Gabby, and a host of other western heroes to the rescue. A classic!

BELLS OF SAN ANGELO ****************
(1947, COLOR, 75 MIN) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Andy Devine, Eddie Acuff, Sons of the Pioneers, directed by William Witney. This time its Dale Evans, playing an authoress of western novels, who outwits the bad guys. The first Rogers film with Andy Devine. Songs: "A Cowboy's Dream of Heaven" "Love the West".

BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF ****************
(1953, COLOR, 102 MIN) Robert Wagner, Gilbert Roland, Terry Moore, Richard Boone, directed by Robert D. Webb. A wild nautical adventure about the rich sponge beds off the Florida coast and the fierce and sometimes murderous competition that arises between two groups of divers who want the area for themselves. Shot on location in Tarpon Springs, Florida. AAN CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST OF W.C. FIELDS ****************
BW, 100 MIN) Five Mack Sennett shorts are presented in their complete uncut form: "The Dentist," "The Barber," "The Golf Pro," "The Pharmicist," and "A Fatal Glass of Beer."

BETTY BOOP CARTOONS, VOLUME 1 ****************
(1931-1937, BW, 90 MIN) Betty Boop was a 1920's vamp in 1930's cartoons, some of which might get PG13 ratings today. Included in this volume are: Silly Scandals, Dizzy Red Riding Hood, Boop-Oop-a-Doop, I'll be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You, Bamboo Isle, Snow White, Morning Noon and Night, Chess-nuts, Old Man of the Mountain, Bimbo's Initiation, I Heard, Betty Boop's May Party, Betty Boop's Rise to Fame.

BETTY BOOP CARTOONS, VOLUME 2 ****************
(1932-1937, BW, 84 MIN) This volume includes: Minnie and Moocher, Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee, Betty Boop's Big Boss, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Betty Boop in Mother Goose Land, There's Something About a Soldier, She Wronged Him Right, Betty in Blunderland, Betty Boop and Grampy, Not Now, Be Human, Impractical Joker.

BEYOND TOMORROW ****************
(1940, BW, 84 MIN) Richard Carlson, C. Aubrey Smith, Jean Parker, Harry Carey, Charles Winninger, Rod LaRocque, directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Three lonely bachelors invite some people for Christmas Eve dinner. They become deeply involved in a couple's life, even after the untimely demise of all three in a plane crash.

BIG CAT, THE ****************
(1949, COLOR, 77 MIN) Preston Foster, Lon McAllister, Peggy Ann Garner, directed by Phil Karson. Two feuding country families join forces when their lands and lives are threatened by a common enemy: a vicious mountain lion.

BIG LIFT, THE ****************
(1950, BW, 120 MIN) Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, O.E. Hasse, directed by George Seaton. Clift portrays an aircrewman, and Douglas an air traffic controller during the Berlin airlift. They each become involved with German women, but in a different manner and with different results. This was filmed on location in 1950 Berlin, and the utter destruction of the city is evident. Worth seeing if only for that, but nonetheless well done and thoughtful.

BIG SHOW, THE ****************
(1936, BW, 54 MIN) Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kay Hughes, Champion, directed by Mack V. Wright. Autry plays a dual role as himself and his own stuntman. When the western star skips out on an appearance and the stuntman steps in, gangsters and girlfriends are confused. Top-notch Autry fare

BIG TIMBER ****************
(1951, BW, 75 MIN) Roddy McDowall, Jeff Donnell, Lyn Thomas, Lyle Talbot, directed by Jean Yarbrough. City boy Roddy goes out west to become a lumberjack. Some of the good old boys there don't like him very much, and they like him even less when the camp's cook (Miss Donnell) seems to take a shine to him.

BIG TREES, THE ****************
(1952, COLOR, 76 MIN) Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale, Jr., directed by Felix Feist, screenplay by John Twist and James R. Webb. A classic tale of early California homesteaders and their struggle to establish the timber industry in California's redwood country.

BIG WHEEL, THE ****************
(1949, BW, 92 MIN) Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington, directed by Edward Ludwig. Rooney, a daredevil race car driver, with a none too good reputation, races at Indy and comes in third. But character is built.

BIGAMIST, THE ****************
(1953, BW, 78 MIN) Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwen, directed by Ida Lupino. O'Brien plays a traveling salesman who has a wife at each end of the state. Nice work if you can get it.

BILL AND COO ****************
(1947, COLOR, 61 MIN) Directed by Dean Riesner, produced and narrated by Ken Murray. An imaginative Academy Award winner with an all bird cast! AA MURRAY

BILLY THE KID RETURNS ****************
(1938, BW, 57 MIN) Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnett, directed by Joseph Kane. Likable singing cowboy Roy looks a lot like "the kid" and he lets the people of Lincoln County think he is, so he can restore order there. This film made a name for Rogers. Songs: "When I Camped Under the Stars," "Dixie Instrument Song," novelty numbers from drummer salesman Burnette.

BIRD OF PARADISE ****************
(1932, BW, 82 MIN) Joel McCrea, Delores Del Rio, Lon Chaney Jr., John Halliday, Skeets Gallagher, directed by King Vidor. A vintage million dollar South Seas drama, starring one of the most beautiful ladies in motion pictures, Delores Del Rio. She's the native girl who falls in love with white man Joel McCrea. The taboos of her people force the pair to flee to an island that is forbidden to the natives. But a volcano's eruption brings about a dramatic ending for the romance that was filmed mostly in Hawaii's islands. Of special interest are the native dance sequences directed by Busby Berkleley.

BIRTH OF A NATION ****************
(1915, BW, 153 MIN) Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Robert Harron, Joseph Henaberry, directed by D.W.Griffith. Griffith's epic film about the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, race relations, the struggle to rebuild the south. This film made motion picture history.

BITTER SWEET ****************
(1933, BW, 84 MIN) Anna Neagle, Ivy St. Helier, directed by Herbert Wilcox. Music by Noel Coward. Story of a young woman who marries a talented violinist but he's also an compulsive gambler. Great musical score.

BLACK ARCHER, THE ****************
(1959, BW, 72 MIN) Gerald Landry, Milly Vitale, Maurizio Arena, Nadia Gray, directed by Sergio Grieco. In medievel times the evil Spanish invade the land of the good Italians who are betrayed by an evil Duke and defended by the unknown "Black Devil", an Italian Robin Hood. After some kidnapping, torture, bodice ripping, and swordplay, justice prevails in this dubbed Italian production.

BLACK BOOK, THE ****************
(1949, BW, 89 MIN) Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Basehart, Beulah Bondi, directed by Anthony Mann. The search for a diary by both sides during the French Revolution. Lots of lying, cheating and conspiricy. Yummy costumes. Good action.

BLACK DRAGONS ****************
(1942, BW, 61 MINS) Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, Clayton Moore, directed by William Nigh. A film rife with propoganda portraying the Japanese as truly heinous. They force a doctor to operate on their eyes to make them look more American then move to the U.S. to commit their monstrous acts. This is very typical of wartime films.

BLACK LASH ****************
(1938, BW, 55 MIN) Lash Larue and Fuzzy St. John. Directed by Ron Ormond. Rodeo star Lash infiltrates a mob of stage robbers so he can catch them in the act, and WHIP them.

BLACK PIRATE, THE ****************
(1926, BW, 80 MIN) Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, Tempe Piggot, directed by Albert Parker. Fairbank's swash is in full buckle as he plays a shipwrecked mariner who joins a gang of cutthroat pirates in order to seek revenge on those who caused his father's death.

BLACK SUN ****************
(1964, COLOR, 88 MIN) Michelle Mercier, Daniel Gellin, David O'brien. A beautiful young woman goes to Africa to find her brother who ran away when he was accused of having been a Nazi collaborator.

BLACK TIDE ****************
(1958, BW, 79 MIN) John Ireland, Derek Bond, Leslie Dwyer, directed by C. Pennington Rich. When young male and female English channel swimmers meet, they agree to make their attempts together. She disappears in a thick fog, he suspects murder most foul. A tightly done British crime drama.

BLACK TIGHTS ****************
(1962, COLOR, 125 MIN) Cyd Charisse, Moira Shearer, Zizi Jeanmaire, Roland Petit, narrated by Maurice Chevalier, directed by Terence Young, and costumes by Yves St. Laurent. Four stories told in dance by the Ballet de Paris in a first rate production, if two hours or so of ballet is to your liking.

BLANCHVILLE MONSTER, THE ****************
(1962, BW, 88 MIN) Gerald Tickey, Joan Hills, directed by Alberto De Martino. In a 19th century French castle on a dark and stormy night, horrible things can happen to beautiful young women.

BLONDE SAVAGE ****************
(1947, COLOR, 62 MIN) Lief Erikson, Gale Sherwood, Veda Ann Borg, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank Jenks, Matt Willis, directed by S. K. Seeley A pilot downed in the African jungle discovers a white princess who just might be his employer's long-lost daughter.

BLOOD AND SAND ****************
(1922, BW, 80 MIN) Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, George Field, directed by Fred Niblo. One of Valentino's most famous roles was as the poor youth who aspires to be and then becomes Spain's greatest bullfighter. But fame and fortune corrupt him, assisted by a scheming and beautiful society woman. Tragedy ensues. One of the great ones. Silent.

BLOOD ON THE SUN ****************
(1945, BW, 94 MIN) James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, Robert Armstrong, directed by Frank Lloyd. Based on a true story of a document discovered in 1927 which exposes much of Japan's plan for world domination, even the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Cagney is great as a newspaper editor who comes upon the information but naturally has to deal with some pretty nasty people before he can alert the world.

BLOODLUST ****************
(1962, BW, 69 MIN) Robert Reed, Welton Greff., directed by Ralph Brooke On your typical mysterious island filled with leech-infested swamps, a demented killer seeks human victims to exploit. Before he grew up to sire the Brady Bunch, Reed had his hands full avoiding his own murder.

BLUE ANGEL, THE (ENGLISH) ****************
(1930, BW, 94 MIN) Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, directed by Josef von Sternberg. The film was actually shot twice, first in German, then in English. This version is perhaps more comprehensible and better suited for general audiences. But Marlene is still sexy.

BLUE STEEL ****************
(1934, BW, 54 MIN) John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt, Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, directed by Robert N. Bradbury. U.S. Marshall Wayne infiltrates a gang of outlaws who are threatening everybody in town to get to the gold vein underneath. Canutt plays "The Polka Dot Bandit" and performs some amazing stunts.

BLUEBEARD ****************
(1944, BW, 72 MIN) Jean Parker, John Carradine, Nils Asther, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. An artist has the unfortunate habit of painting the portrait of beautiful models and then strangling them.

BOMB FOR A DICTATOR ****************
(1962, BW, 70 MIN) Pierre Fresney, Michael Auclair. A plot to kill a South American military dictator by putting a bomb aboard a commercial airliner. Great location shots of Nice and the French Riviera. French, dubbed in English.

BOOTS AND SADDLES ****************
(1937, BW, 57 MIN) Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, directed by Joseph Kane. A young English Lord wants to sell the ranch he has inherited but Gene is determined to make him a real westerner. Songs: "Boots and Saddles," "You're the Only Rose That's Left in My Heart."

BORDERLINE ****************
(1950, BW, 90 MIN) Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, Roy Roberts, Jose Torvay, Morris Ankrum, directed by William A. Seiter. A determined policewoman goes undercover to investigate a narcotics ring operating between Mexico and Los Angeles.

BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT, THE ****************
(1942, BW, 62 MIN) Bela Lugosi, Tom Neal, John Archer, directed by Wallace Fox. Lugosi uses a mission as a front for his criminal activities. When he feels threatened by his minions he bumps them off and buries them in the basement, where they are revived by a drug-addicted doctor. Tough neighborhood!!

BOY FROM INDIANA ****************
(1950, BW, 66 MIN) Lois Butler, Billie Burke, George Cleveland, Lon McAllister, directed by John Rawlins. Texas Dandy is a racehorse whose owner pumps him full of drugs to win, then the poor animal is gored by an angry bull. Its amazing, but he still goes on to win the big race because a loving jockey believes in him.

BOYS FROM BROOKLYN, THE ****************
(1952, BW, 74 MIN) Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Muriel Landers, directed by William Beaudine. Lugosi plays (surprise) a mad scientist who needs a few "volunteers" for his experiments in human evolution.

BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS ****************
(1957, BW, 71 MIN) John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, directed by Nathan Juran. An evil brain lands in Arizona and takes over the body of scientist Agar. The plan is to gain access to atomic power and then rule the earth. The special effects are hokey but the atomic explosions are real!

BRAINIAC ****************
(1961, BW, 70 MIN) Ariadne Walter, David Silva, Abel Salazar, directed by Paul Nagle. In old Mexico, the Inquisition burns a man at the stake for heresy and the seduction of virgins. He vows to return in 300 years and do terrible things to their descendants. He does. His monster costume is said to have cost in the tens of pesos.

BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS ****************
(1953, BW, 90 MIN) Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, directed by Luigi Comencini. The police sergeant in a rural village is looking for a wife. He finds Miss Lollobrigida. How good can things get?

BREAKDOWNS OF 1936 ****************
(1936, b/w) A blooper reel from Warner Bros biggest films of that year.

BREAKING THE ICE ****************
(1938, BW, 80 MIN) Bobby Breen, Charles Ruggles, Dolores Costello, Billy Gilbert, Charlie Murray, Margaret Hamilton, directed by Edward F. Cline. A young boy escapes the domineering tobacco farmer who has taken in his widowed mother.

BROKEN BLOSSOMS ****************
(1919, BW, 105 MIN) Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess, directed by D.W. Griffith. A real three hankie Victorian melodrama, but beautifully and stylistically filmed by the great Griffith. This is a tale of life on the docks of London's Limehouse district where life is all too violent and much too cheap. Silent

BUCKSKIN LADY ****************
(1957, BW, 65 MIN) Patricia Medina, Richard Denning, Gerald Mohr, Hank Worden, directed by Carl K. Hittleman. A stage owner's daughter is a professional gambler who is sort of in love with outlaw Mohr until nice guy doctor Denning moves into town. And surprise! Denning and Mohr don't like each other. George Kennedy has a one line part as one of the boys.

BUCKSKIN FRONTIER ****************
(1943, 75 min. Western B&W) Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, LeeJ.Cobb Dir:Leslie Selander. Railroad troubleshooter Stephen Bent is assigned to supervise the building of 120 miles of track through the treacherous Santa Fe cutoff. He is opposed in this mission by a land baron who backs up his opposition with hired guns. Of course his daughter has also fallen in love with the dashing Bent.

BUFFALO STAMPEDE ****************
(1933, BW, 57 MIN) Randolph Scott, Buster Crabbe, Monte Blue, Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Barton MacLane, directed by Henry Hathaway. Buffalo hunter Beery lusts after riches from other hunter's skins, and also for his step-daughter. Randolph Scott to the rescue. An "A" western with a first rate cast. Good location shots in California's Owens valley.

BUGS BUNNY VOL 1 ****************
COLOR, 59 MIN) A Corny Concerto Porky's Bear Facts Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur Ink and the Mynah Bird Case of the Missing Hare Get Rich Quick Porky Falling Hare

BUGS BUNNY VOL 2 ****************
COLOR, 55 MIN) The Wacky Wabbit Porky's Railroad Daffy the Commando Fresh Hare Pigs in a Polka The Wabbit Who Came to Supper The Timid Toreador

BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S BRIDE ****************
(1939, BW, 56 MIN) John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny, Elizabeth Patterson, directed by James Hogan. The famous sleuth's honeymoon is interrupted in France when thieves rob a bank and Drummond must recover the stolen loot. There is an exciting chase scene over the rooftops of a French village.

BUSTER KEATON RIDES AGAIN ****************
COLOR/BW, 80 MIN) Narrated by Donald Britain. Excerpts from many of Keaton's silent films are shown in the course of this study, filmed during the production of the Canadian Railways film "The Railroader".

CALL IT MURDER ****************
(1934, BW, 73 MIN) Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, Margaret Wycherly, Lynne Overman, directed by Chester Erskine. A woman on trial for murder is found guilty and the jury forman is blamed for her conviction and her death sentence.

CAPTAIN APACHE ****************
(1971, COLOR, 94 MIN) Lee Van Cleef, Stuart Whitman, Carroll Baker, directed by Alexander Singer. Van Cleef stars as an Indian Union army officer assigned to investigate the murder of an Indian Commissioner. He discovers that a rich landowner has hatched a plan to start an Indian war. Filled with modern-day humor.

CAPTAIN KIDD ****************
(1945, BW, 88 MIN) Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Gilbert Roland, John Carradine, directed by Rowland V. Lee. Here is Laughton in one of his best known portrayals as the most infamous buccaneer who ever flew the Jolly Roger, Captain William Kidd. Laughton is a smooth, sinister villain as he stalks the high seas with as murderous a gang of cutthroats as you'll ever find, but an undercover agent of the crown is on his tail. AAN MUSIC

CAPTAIN SCARLETT ****************
(1953, COLOR, 73 MIN) Richard Green, Leonara Amar, Isobel del Puerto, directed by Thomas Carr. One bold rogue against an army of enemies, matching wits and weapons to win kingdom and love.

CAPTIVE HEART, THE ****************
(1948, BW, 96 MIN) Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempton, Basil Radford, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, directed by Basil Dearden. Set in the WWII POW camps. A Czech assumes the identity of an English officer to escape the Gestapo but winds up in the Nazi prison meant for the English.

CARNIVAL OF SOULS ****************
(1962, BW, 75 MIN) Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger, Frances Feist, Herk Harvey, directed by Herk Harvey. Three young women die when their car plunges into a river. The ghost of one emerges and becomes a church organist. Great spooky scenes of dead people dancing and other chilling moments.

CARNIVAL STORY ****************
(1954, COLOR, 94 MIN) Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, George Nader, Lyle Bettger, directed by Kurt Neumann. A circus diver leaves her really dreadful boyfriend and marries a co-worker. Jilted boyfriend kills new husband and hits on lady diver as she now has the added attraction of her late husband's money. The circus strongman soon takes care of the cad. Filmed in location in Munich.

CARSON CITY KID ****************
(1940, BW, 54 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery, Jr., Jack Ingram, Yakima Canutt, directed by Joseph Kane. Roy plays a gunslinger chasing Steele, who killed his brother. He hires himself out to Steele as a guard, eventually forces him to show his cards, and then reaps revenge. Packed with the greats of the B westerns.

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 1-8 ****************
8 hours of classic cartoons with Spanish tracks.

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 1 ****************
 (COLOR, 45 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Waikiki Wabbit," "Case of the Missing Hare," "Fresh Hare," "Wacky Wabbit," "Falling Hare," "Corny Concerto."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 2 ****************
(COLOR, 40 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Popeye For President," "Insect to Injury," "Greek Mirthology," "Gopher Spinach," "Crystal Brawl," "Bride and Gloom."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 3 ****************
(COLOR, 40 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Daffy the Commendo," "To Duck Or Not To Duck," "Yankee Doodle Daffy," "Pigs in a Polka," "A Day at the Zoo," "Hamateur Night."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 4 ****************
(COLOR, 45 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Ding Dong Daddy," "Dover Boys," "Farm Frolica," "Fifth Column Mouse," "Fox Pop," "Gold Rush Daze."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 5 ****************
(COLOR, 45 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Fin'n Catty," "Prest-O Change-O," "Rookie Revue," "Sheepish Wolf," "Sports Chumpion," "To Spring."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 6 ****************
(COLOR, 45 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Dog Gone Tired," "Jerky Turkey," "Early Worm Gets the Bird," "Jungle Jitters," "Flop Goes the Weasel," "Wabbit Who Came to Supper."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 7 ****************
(COLOR, 45 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Have You Got Any Castles," "Hollywood Steps Out," "I Wanna be a Sailor," "Inki and the Minah Bird," "A Tale of Two Kitties," "Daffy and the Dinosaur."

CARTOONS EN ESPANOL VOLUME 8 ****************
(COLOR, 63 MIN) Classic cartoons with Spanish tracks. "Electric Earthquake," "Volcano," "Underground World," "Destruction Inc.," "Caspar the Friendly Ghost," "Ancient Fistory."

CASTLE IN THE AIR ****************
(1952, BW, 90 MIN) David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Kelly, directed by Henry Cass An impoverished Scottish lord takes in guests to finance the upkeep of his estate which the socialist government is threatening to take away. He must simultaneously convince a government clerk that the place is worthless and extol its virtues to a rich American divorcee who wants to buy it and him. And Margaret Rutherford thinks he might even be the rightful king! Great stuff.

CATHERINE THE GREAT ****************
(1934, BW, 93 MIN) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, directed by Paul Czinner. Historical drama about the shy young princess who arrives in Russia to marry the Grand Duke, is poorly treated by the royal family, but eventually triumphs over them and becomes one of the greatest of the Russian tsarinas.

CHAINED FOR LIFE ****************
(1950, BW, 68 MIN) Violet and Daisy Hilton, directed by Harry L Fraser. Siamese twins star in this drama of inseperable sisters, one of whom has been charged with murder.

CHALLENGE, THE ****************
(1939, BW, 77 MIN) A Korda Film. Robert Douglas, Luis Trenker, Joan Garner, Mary Clare, directed by Milton Rossmer. This dramatization of the first successful climb of the Matterhorn is presented as a race between British and Italian teams. Great alpine photography.

CHARADE (No longer public domain. Ask about licensing.) ****************
(1963, COLOR, 114 MIN) Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Jacques Marin, directed by Stanley Donen. Hepburn returns from a trip to find her apartment stripped bare but nevertheless has a knock-out wardrobe for the rest of the film. Her husband has been murdered, the bad guys think she has a fortune he left behind, no one is who they seem to be, and what with bodies turning up in some of the most inopportune places its a good thing she has Cary Grant on her side. Or does she? An outstanding film in the Hitchcock vein. Henry Mancini wrote the theme song. AAN MUSIC

CHASE, THE ****************
(1946, BW, 83 MIN) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, directed by Arthur Ripley. Naive Cummings hires on as chauffeur to racketeer Cochran, but decides to escape with the boss' wife after discovering what's going on.

CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK ****************
(1931, BW, 77 MIN) Freedman Gosden, Charles Correll (as Amos and Andy), Sue Carol, Irene Rich, Charles Norton, Ralf Harolde, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, directed by Melville Brown. The well-meaning pair get concerned over a deed to some property, and the love affair that begins because of it.

CHEERS FOR MISS BISHOP ****************
(1941, BW, 94 MIN) Martha Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Gargan, Marsha Hunt, directed by Tay Garnett. Ella Bishop, an unusually vivid and vital woman for her period (1879-1923), finds that marriage is not for her and devotes herself to teaching English at a Midwestern University. A female Mr. Chips. AAN MUSIC

CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ ****************
(1978, COLOR, 116 MIN) Anthony Quinn, Dolores Del Rio, Katy Jurado, directed by Hall Bartlett. A moving story of a man's attempt to maintain his family when all he has to give them is faith and love. The award winning musical score was composed by Chuck Mangione.

CHILDREN OF THE WILD ****************
(1939, BW, 65 MIN) Patsy Moran. A community of animals living in peaceful harmony in the Rockies led by Fang, a gallant dog.

CHRISTMAS CARTOONS ****************
COLOR, 59 MIN) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Santa's Surprise Christmas Comes But Once A Year Hector's Hectic Life Jack Frost The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives Snow Foolin' Howdy Doody's Christmas

CIRCUS OF FEAR ****************
(1966, COLOR, 91 MIN) Christopher Lee, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski, directed by John Moxey. Murder, robbery, a jealousy lover, a masked men, blackmail, Scotland Yard: all this and a circus too?

CLOWN AND THE KIDS, THE ****************
(1968, 75 m color Family film) Emmett Kelly, Burt Stratford, Mikhail Mikhailov Dir: Mende Brown. Legendary circus clown Kelly plays the lead in this musical retelling of The Pied Piper story. Kelly is well worth watching and the camera work is superb.

CLOWNS, THE ****************
(1971, COLOR, 91 MIN) Mayo Morin, Lima Alberti, directed by Federico Fellini. A comical documentary made for Italian TV about clowns made even more enjoyable by the great talent of Fellini.

COAST OF SKELETONS ****************
(1965, COLOR, 91 MIN) Richard Todd, Dale Robertson, directed by Robert Lynn. An insurance investigator gets involved in a plot to steal diamonds off a sunken ship belonging to his employer, the ship's insurer.

COCAINE FIENDS ****************
(1937 BW 50 MINs) Dir:William A.O’Connor As Reefer Madness is to marijuana, Cocaine Fiends is to cocaine. A small town girl is lured by big city drug running gangsters that turn her in to a COCAIN FIEND. Her brother also becomes addicted to cocaine and spends all his time in a rat infested flat with his drug using girl friend. Prostitution, pregnancy, gas oven… you get the drift. Drugs, sex and swing music make this a camp classic!

COLLEGE ****************
(1927, BW, 66 MIN) Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Grant Withers, directed by James W. Home. In order to win back his girlfriend, Buster the bookworm tries to become Buster the athlete, with hilarious results.

COLLEGE VAMP ****************
(1930, BW, 21 MIN) Andy Clyde, Patsy O'leary, a Mack Sennett production, directed by Mack Sennett. A college professor finds it "convenient" to hire an actress to assist him teach his classes, much to his detriment.

COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID ****************
(1945, BW, 70 MIN) Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, Allyn Joslyn, Donald Meek, Elizabeth Patterson, directed by Irving Pichel. A charming comedy about a retired colonel, Coburn, who sees what's happening to his small town when corrupt politicians take over. He stirs the locals into action through his newspaper column with remarkable results.

COLOR CARTOONS VOL 1 ****************
COLOR, 60 MIN) Crosby, Columbo and Vallee Jasper in a Jam The Lone Star State Little Lulu The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg Yankee Doodle Donkey Casper the Friendly Ghost Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat

COLOR CARTOONS VOL 2 ****************
COLOR, 56 MIN) The Cobweb Hotel The Song of the Birds Its a Hap-Hap-Happy Day The Kids in the Shoe Somewhere in Dreamland To Spring Mary's Little Lamb

COLOR CARTOONS VOL 3 ****************
COLOR, 60 MIN) Boy Meets Dog Mutt and Jeff Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians The Talking Magpies Jerkey Turkey Doggone Tired Trolley Ahoy Toonerville Picnic

COLOR CARTOONS VOL 4 ****************
COLOR, 60 MIN) Neptune Nonsense - Felix the Cat Old Mother Hubbard Cupid Gets His Man Little Black Sambo The Headless Horseman Molly Moo Cow and the Butterflies Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Jack Frost

COLORADO ****************
(1940, BW, 56 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, directed by Joseph Kane. Good hearted Roy tracks down his brother who failed to join the Union forces during the Civil War.

CONQUEROR OF THE ORIENT ****************
(1962, COLOR, 79 MIN) Rik Battaglia, Irene Tunc, Paul Muller, directed by Taino Bochia. A beautiful princess sent as a gift to a Central Asian despot flees his glorious presence. The villain burns villages and provokes the people to rebel. They are of course led by a handsome young prince-in-exile. A spaghetti "Eastern" with lots of swordplay and heaving bosoms.

CONQUEST OF EVEREST ****************
(1953, COLOR, 80 MIN) A stunning documentary of Sir Edmund Hillary's conquest of the highest mountain on Earth. AA DOCUMENTARY

CORPSE VANISHES, THE ****************
(1942, BW, 68 MIN) Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristam Coffin, Elizabeth Russell, Vince Barnett, Joan Barclay, Angelo Rossitto, directed by Wallace Fox. Another mad scientist played by Lugosi who's 80-year old wife needs frequent injections to maintain her youth.

COUNTESS DRACULA ****************
(1972, COLOR, 94 MIN) Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Charles Farrell, Leslie Ann Down, directed by Peter Sasdy. A middle aged countess finds she can regain her youth by bathing in the blood of a newly killed virgin. Unfortunately the effect wears off in a day or so, and she gets older each time it does. And virgins are so darned hard to find.

COUNTRY GENTLEMAN ****************
(1936, BW, 53 MIN) Ole Olsen, Chick Johnson, Lila Lee, Joyce Compton, directed by Ralph Staub. Olsen and Johnson of "Hellsapoppin" fame here play a couple of city slickers who go to the country to fleece the yokels, who aren't that stupid.

COURAGEOUS DR. CHRISTIAN ****************
(1940, BW, 65 MIN) Jean Hersholt, Tom Neal, Dorothy Lovett, directed by Bernard Vorhaus. This is the second of the "Dr. Christian" series. The saintly doctor crusades for slum clearing all the while battling an epidemic and the unwanted attentions of a determined maiden lady.

COWBOY AND THE SENORITA , THE ****************
(1944, BW, 55 MIN) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, John Hubbard, Sons of the Pioneers, Fuzzy Knight, directed by Joseph Kane. Dale and Roy's first picture together. Villainous gambler Hubbard tries to weasel mining rights away from Dale, but Roy comes to the rescue. Songs: "The Cowboy and The Senorita," "Round Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," and many more. The magic begins!

COWBOY AND THE PRIZEFIGHTER, THE ****************
(1950, COLOR, 58 MIN) Jim Bannon as Red Ryder, Forrest Taylor, John Hart, Don Haggerty, directed by Lewis D. Collins. Haggerty has a vested interest in capturing the crooks in this Red Ryder series entry. He believes Hart is responsible for the murder of his father.

CREMATORS, THE ****************
(1972, 75 min. Horror, Color) Marvin Howard, Eric Allison Dir: Harry Essex. This is the incredible but well told story of an extraterrestrial sphere that rolls along beaches, "consuming" unfortunate humans by absorbing their energy. The film does wonders within its penurious $40,000 budget.

CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA ,THE ****************
(1961, BW, 75 MIN) Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, directed by Roger Corman. A group of people are aided in their escape from a revolution from their Caribbean home by an unsavory character, Carbone. He murders them for their money and reports that everyone was killed by a sea monster.

CRY FROM THE STREETS, A ****************
(1959, BW, 93 MIN) Max Bygraves, Barbara Murray, directed by Lewis Gilbert. A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC ****************
(1950, BW, 112 MIN) Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, directed by Michael Gordon. Edmond Rostund's tragic romance tells of the ugly but devoted Cyrano, master of sword and poetry, doomed to live behind a face from which a hideous nose protrudes. His love for the beautiful Roxanne prompts him to deliver his own words of admiration through the voice of his rival. A magnificent performance by Jose Ferrer, one that earned him a much deserved Oscar. AA FERRER

D.O.A. ****************
(1949, BW, 88 MIN) Edmund O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand, Henry Hart, Virginia Lee, directed by Rudolph Mate. The recipient of a dose of time-released poison sets out to locate his killer before time--and his life--run out.

DANIEL BOONE, TRAILBLAZER ****************
(1956, COLOR, 76 MIN) Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney, Faron Young, directed by Albert c. Gannaway. The famed frontiersman becomes a mediator in the conflict between Shawnee Indians and North Carolina settlers in 1775.

DAREDEVIL, THE ****************
(1971, COLOR, 81 MIN) George Montgomery, Terry Moore, Bill Kelly, Gay Perkins, directed by Robert W Stringer. After winning the Daytona 500, a race car drivers life and career take a turn for the worse.

DARK JOURNEY ****************
(1937, BW, 75 MIN) Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Conrad Veidt, Anthony Bushell, Ursla Jeans, directed by Victor Saville. A sophisticated drama of espionage and romance. Leigh plays the role of a double agent whose front is an upscale shop in Stockholm. The head of the German SS suspects her loyalties but falls in love with her. Clever plot.

DARK WATERS ****************
(1944, BW, 93 MIN) Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, directed by Andre De Toth. A young heiress from the Louisiana Bayous becomes the victim of a couple posing as her aunt and uncle.

DAYS OF JESSE JAMES, THE ****************
(1944, BW, 51 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes., directed by Joseph Kane. Roy is a cowboy who is fed up with the likes of the James gang, so he goes after them and makes the west safe again.

DEATH KISS, THE ****************
(1933, BW, 75 MIN) Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray, Vince Barnett, Edward Van Sloan, directed by Edwin L. Marin. An actor is killed while filming a movie on a back lot. The set actually is a film studio on Sunset Boulevard which folded years ago. This film was one of very few that used hand-colored sequences.

DECAMERON NIGHTS ****************
(1953, COLOR, 87 MIN) Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Louis Jordan, Binnie Barnes, directed by Hugh Fregonese. An in depth trilogy based upon the Italian classic concerning an older man's beautiful young wife who is relentlessly pursed by a tempestuous lover.

DECEMBER 7TH ****************
(1942, BW, 82 MIN) Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews. A John Ford film done shortly after Pearl Harbor day. Primarily a wartime propaganda effort which depicts "conversation" between Huston and Davenport about the risks of having such a large number of Japanese living in Hawaii. While it starts out in an evenhanded manner, it eventually preaches that there are many spies among them and they mustn't be trusted. This film may have led to the unconstitutional actions taken against American citizens of Japanese descent during WWII.

DELIGHTFULLY DANGEROUS ****************
(1945, BW, 89 MIN) Ralph Bellamy, Jane Powell, Constance Moore, Louise Beavers, directed by Arthur Lubin. Kid sister, Powell, visits New York where the family believes the older sister, Moore, is a star on Broadway. Alas, she's actually working at a burlesque house. The teenager sets out to change things by getting friendly with a big producer, Bellamy, and winds up getting the leading role in a musical.

DEMAGOGUES AND DOGOODERS ****************
(1935-1951, BW, 17 MIN) March of Time production documents the rabble-rousers of the era, including Huey Long, Father Divine etc.

DEMENTIA 13 ****************
(1963, BW, 75 MIN) William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchell, Patrick Magee, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Heart attacks, drownings, axe murders - its a wonder there's any cast left to round out this gothic horror story! The plot is a work of genius. Coppola's first mainstream filml.

DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET ****************
(1936, BW, 66 MIN) Tod Slaughter, Eve Lister, Bruce Seton, directed by George King. Based on the life of Sweeney Todd, the crazed 19th century barber who used his London establishment to rob, murder and dispose of his wealthier clients. (AKA Sweeney Todd).

DESERT SANDS ****************
(1955, COLOR, 87 MIN) Ralph Meeker, Ron Randell, Maria English. Meeker stars as the besieged commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost under attack from without and within who must use his wits and his courage to survive..

DESERT TRAIL ****************
(1935, BW, 52 MIN) John Wayne, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Edward Chandler, directed by Robert Bradbury. A rodeo rider and his buddy attempt to absolve themselves of a murder by finding the bad guys who really dun it.

DESPERATE CARGO ****************
(1941, BW, 63 MIN) Ralph Byrd, Carol Hughes, Julie Duncan, directed by William Beaudine. This fast-paced action film was directed by William "One-Shot" Beaudine (it was rumored that he never did a second take) and stars Hughes and Duncan as two chorus girls stranded in a Latin American town.

DETOUR ****************
(1945, BW, 69 MIN) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Ester Howard, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. A down-and-out Greenwich Village piano player becomes involved with a seductive mystery woman and two murders as he hitchhikes to the west coast.

DEVIL BAT, THE ****************
(1941, BW, 69 MIN) Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Yolande Mallot, Donald Kerr, directed by Jean Yarbough. Lugosi plays the role of (what else) a mad scientist with trained bats assisting him in his evil deeds.

DEVIL'S CAVALIERS, THE ****************
(1958, COLOR, 84 MIN) Gianna Maria Canale, Emma Danieli, Gabriello Mallotta, Antonio De Teffe, Andre Aureli, directed by Siro Marcellini. A cavalier returns from the wars to find that his childhood sweetheart has been betrothed to an evil Duke. Political and romantic intrigue abound. The crown of France is at stake! Italian, dubbed.

DEVIL'S PARTENER, THE ****************
(1958- 75 min. Horror, B&W) Ed Nelson, Jean Allison, Richard Crane, Edgar Buchanan Dir: Charles R. Rondeau. An old hillbilly makes a pact with the Devil and returns to the town of Furnace Flats, NM, as a much younger man. Claiming to be his own nephew, he romances pretty Nell Lucas Her fiancée is mauled by his own dog, leaving him scarred and bitter. Doc Lucas and Sheriff Fuller figure it out and well…he gets his.

DEVIL'S PARTY, THE ****************
(1938, BW, 65 MIN) Victor McLaglen, William Gargan, Beatrice Roberts, directed by Ray McCarey. Interesting melodrama about a reunion of pals from Hell's Kitchen which turns into a night of tragedy involving gangsters and murder.

DIABOLIQUE ****************
(1955, BW, 105 MIN) Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Merisse, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Christina and Nicole join forces to murder Christina's husband. But then, the body disappears. A tautly drawn suspenseful thriller full of twists and shocks, far superior to the 96 remake. French, with sub-titles

DICK TRACY ****************
(1937, 15 part serial 290 min, Action/Adventure B/W) Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Francis X. Bushman. Director: Ray Taylor & Alan James. A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick who tries to stop the villain from destroying the Bay Bridge with his stratospheric aircraft "The Wing". This super thriller is packed with car chases, aerial stunts and cliff hanging endings.

DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME ****************
(1947, BW, 65 MIN) Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff, Anne Gwynne, Lyle Latell, directed by John Rawlins. Based on the Chester Gould comic strip. A crime-busting detective sets out to capture an evil villain named Gruesome.

DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA ****************
(1947, BW, 60 MIN) Kay Christopher, Lyle Latell, Jack Lambert, Ian Keith, Bernadene Hayes, directed by John Rawlins. Chester Gould's comic-strip detective tracks The Claw, a fur thief who uses a hook to slash his enemies.

DICK TRACY, DETECTIVE ****************
(1945, BW, 61 MIN) Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, directed by William Berke. Mazurki plays the miscreant this time - Spit Face. The familiar chisele-faced detective gets him in the end when once more good triumphs over evil.

DINNER AT THE RITZ ****************
(1937, BW, 77 MIN) David Niven, Paul Lukas, Annabella, Rommey Brent, directed by Harold Schuster. A European financier has been murdered and his daughter, Annabella, seeks his killer with the help of Niven. Lush settings.

DISHONORED LADY ****************
(1947, BW, 81 MIN) Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, Paul Cavanaugh, directed by Robert Stevenson. Lamarr, at her most beautiful, leaves a high pressure job to live as an artist in Greenwich Village where she finds love with a scientist, O'Keefe. Life is wonderful until she is tried for a murder she didn't commit, her lover loses faith in her and her mental condition deteriorates to the point she refuses to defend herself.

DIVORCE OF LADY X, THE ****************
(1938, BW, 91 MIN) Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, directed by Tim Whelan. A British drawing room farce that the English do so well with mistaken identities, absurd manners and morals, and wild accusations. Oberon and Olivier meet in a hotel suite they are forced to share, she disappears, he's intrigued, and it goes from there.

DOCTOR BLOOD'S COFFIN ****************
(1961, COLOR, 92 MIN) Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, directed by Sidney J. Furie. A recently widowed nurse is more than a little surprised when her handsome new employer revives her dead husband's corpse.

DOLL FACE ****************
(1945, BW, 80 MIN) Vivian Blaine, Perry Como, Carmen Miranda, Dennis O'Keefe, directed by Lewis Seiler. This story of a stripper was based on a play written by Louise Hovick, better known as Gypsy Rose Lee. The dancer, Blaine, has ambitions to get to Broadway and has a favorable autobiography written to give her respect. She does eventually make it to the legitimate stage and we're treated to some great singing by Blaine, Como and Miranda.

DON QUIXOTE ****************
(1933, BW, 88 MIN) Feoder Chaliapin, George Robey, Oscar Asche, Sydney Fox, Rene Valliers, directed by G. W. Pabst. The great operatic basso plays the knight errant with gusto and even sings for us in this well-made early talking version of Cervantes classic tale of the mad idealist who tilts at windmills and champions the virtue of the Lady Dulcinea.

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE ****************
(1920, BW, 84 MIN) John Barrymore, Nita Naldi, Brandon Hurst, Louis Wolheim, directed by John S. Robertson. Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale of a handsome doctor who drinks a potion and is transformed into a grotesque, evil man. This was the first great American horror film. Silent.

DR. CHRISTIAN MEETS THE WOMEN ****************
(1940, BW, 68 MIN) Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Edgar Kennedy, Rod LaRocque, directed by William McGann. A conman with an unsafe diet pill comes to town. Dr. Christian exposes the fake and saves a life.

DR. KILDARE'S STRANGE CASE ****************
(1940, BW, 76 MIN) Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, directed by Harold S. Bucquet. From the Dr. Kildare series, set in Blair General Hospital, with an even dose of comedy and drama, Kildare and Gillespe dabble in brain surgery on mental patients

DR. SYN ****************
(1937, BW, 80 MIN) George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, Graham Moffatt, directed by William Neill. Arliss' final film finds the aging star cast as an English vicar who rides at night as a pirate. Wonderful atmosphere at a good pace.

DRESSED TO KILL ****************
(1946, BW, 72 MIN) Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, directed by Roy William Neill. From the famous Sherlock Holmes series. Three music boxes containing the stolen Bank of England engraving plates are desperately sought by a bevy of villains. Rathbone and Bruce are always excellent together, particularly in this, Rathbone's last appearance as the great detective.

DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH ****************
(1951, COLOR, 87 MIN) Barbara Payton, James Craig, Guy Madison, Craig Stevens, directed by William Cameron Menzies. The deep friendship of three West Point graduates is torn apart by the Civil War. They come together during Sherman's drive through Georgia when the northern officer, Madison, must blow up a mountain killing his former buddies, Stevens and Craig.

DUKE IS TOPS ****************
(1938, B&W, 72 MIN) Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, directed by William Nolte. All black musical stars Horne & Cooper as a stage team that splits when she gets her big break on Broadway. The break turns out to be a bust but Copper shows up and together they make it to the top.

DUMMY TROUBLE ****************
(1940, BW, 59 MIN) Harry Langdon, Betty Blyth, Ralph Byrd. An absent minded department store owner has a bad day when he forgets his wedding anniversary, and his wife gets the wrong idea when from a distance she observes him carrying a manikin and setting "her" up in a bedroom display. Add in a sleazy divorce lawyer and the plot thickens.

DYNAMITE ****************
(1949, BW, 67 MIN) William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane, Mary Newton, directed by William H. Pine. Crane and Gargan play two dynamite blasters who engineer a lot of explosions while competing for the affections of Wells.

DYNAMITE CHICKEN ****************
(1971, COLOR, 57 MIN) A documentary featuring a mixture of music and interviews with folks like B.B. King, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Sha Na Na, Joan Baez, Andy Warhol, Al Capp, Malcom X, Jimi Hendrix and John and Yoko.

EAGLE, THE ****************
(1925, BW, 76) Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser, directed by Clarence Brown. Valentino, a Russian Robin Hood, sets out to avenge the murder of his father. He falls in love with a winsome lass, much to the chagrin of his scorned lover, the Czarina.

EARLY GIRLIE FILMS 1 ****************
(1940S, BW, 19 MIN) A collection of short films considered very racy at the time, but mild compared with today's soap operas. Come as you are A Spicy Dessert A Bed for Sandy Lady is a Tramp Screwdriver

EARLY GIRLIE FILMS 2 ****************
(1940S, BW, 55 MINS) A collection of vintage stag films, so very naughty at the time: Jug of Tease Only a Girl Hong Konga Glamorous Stars Bedroom Battle Artist's Paradise Hold a Husband A Hunting We Go Kalanan Firedance Untitled Girl Faith's Fan Dance Girls Weekend Following have sound: Hitch Hiker Sunbather Sadie Fanny's Tan Cheeks Southern Exposure Manana Strip Sue

ECSTASY ****************
(1932, BW, 66 MIN) Hedy (Keisler) Lamarr, directed by Gustav Machaty. This movie was notorious in its day because of the sex scenes and a lovely and quite nude Lamarr. The title is taken from a scene where Hedy supposedly did for real what Meg Ryan simulated in "When Harry met Sally". In her autobiography, Hedy said that it was only her feet being tickled. You be the judge.

EDUCATIONAL SHORTS, VOLUME 1 ****************
MIKE MAKES HIS MARK(1956 28 mins) Mike is on the road to juvenile delinquency what with the leather jacket and the black chalk in his pocket. But with understanding teachers and a caring councilor he’ll lose the itch to drop-out of school and pick up the kettle drum. DATING DO'S AND DON'TS(1948 14mins) A high school educational film showing how to go about picking the right date to how to handle saying good night. Obviously some of us missed that day in school when this was shown. MAINTAINING CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE (1947 14mins) Blowing a fuse and yelling at the kids isn’t the way to run a classroom.

EL DIABLO RIDES ****************
(1939, BW, 52 MIN) Bob Steele, Claire Rochelle, Ted Adams, Robert Walker, directed by Ira Webb. It seems that the cowmen and the sheepmen disagree about who should control the range. A cowboy helps sort things out. An early appearance by later star Robert Walker.

ENTERTAINER, THE ****************
(1960, BW, 97 MIN) Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, directed by Tony Richardson. Olivier plays the role of Archie Rice, a has-been that never was, a third-rate vaudvillian who plays the music halls when they were in their decline. His character has no redeeming qualities; he's rotten to everyone - his children, his alcoholic wife, his dying father, and the parents of a beauty contestant he's dallying with. Olivier is brilliant. The shabby surroundings of the music hall, the seedy sea side resort town, the dismal house the family lives in, all work well in telling the story. AAN OLIVIER

ETERNALLY YOURS ****************
(1939, BW, 91 MIN) David Niven, Loretta Young, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke, Broderick Crawford, Zasu Pitts, directed by Tay Garnett. A magician can't make lipstick stains vanish before they break-up his marriage...but intends winning his wife back at any cost, before she carries out plans for a second husband. Zany characters, hair-raising escape acts, romantic mix-ups, and stinging dialogue delivered by a prime cast. AAN MUSIC

EVIL MIND ****************
(1934, BW, 68 MIN) Claude Rains, Fay Wray, directed by Maurice Elvey. A phoney psychic develops frightening powers to make predictions which get him into a great deal of trouble. Bizarre courtroom scenes with odd legal maneuvers being employed to set him free. AKA "The Clairvoyant"

EYE WITNESS ****************
(1950, BW, 104 MIN) Robert Montgomery, Leslie Banks, directed by Robert Montgomery. An American lawyer is called to England by a friend accused of murder. Only the testimony of a missing woman can absolve him of the crime.

EYES OF TEXAS ****************
(1948, BW, 70 MIN) Roy Rogers, Andy Devine, Lynne Roberts, directed by William Witney. Roy catches a gang that uses a pack of trained dogs as killers.

FABULOUS DORSEYS, THE ****************
(1947, BW, 88 MIN) Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Janet Blair, Ziggy Elman, Art Tatum, Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell, Charlie Barnet, directed by Alfred E. Green. Two competative brothers use music as a ticket out of the grimy life of a Pennsylvania steel town. The Dorseys' biography is highlighted by the music of their bands and the various musicians in the cast.

FANTASTIC PLANET, THE ****************
(1973, COLOR, 71 MIN) Featuring the voices of Barry Bostwick, Marvin Miller, Nora Heflin, directed by Rene Laloux. The humans, known as Oms, are pets of the 39-foot tall Draggs on the planet Yagam. Social justice wins out in a well animated film.

FAR FRONTIER, THE ****************
(1948, BW, 53 MIN) Roy Rogers, Andy Devine, Clayton Moore, directed by William Witney. Roy and Trigger break up a smuggling gang. Clayton Moore went on to become tv's Lone Ranger.

FAREWELL TO ARMS, A ****************
(1932, BW, 80 MIN) Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, directed by Frank Borzage. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. This tender love story is set in WWI Italy with Cooper serving in the ambulance corps and Hayes a volunteer nurse. Cooper gets wounded, Hayes nurses him through it, he goes back to the front, she's already pregnant with their child. AA CINEMATOGRAPHY AND SOUND. AAN BEST PICTURE

FAST AND FURIOUS ****************
(1954, BW, 72 MIN) John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, directed by Edwards Sampson. Ireland is a fugitive on the lam from a murder frameup who jockeys Malone's sports car.

FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND ****************
(1951, BW, 81 MIN) Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, directed by Vincente Minnelli. A sequel to "Father of the Bride" and one of the rare times the sequel stands up to the original. Father Spencer Tracy has finally achieved peace and quiet, having married off Elizabeth Taylor. But the madhouse resumes when a grandchild is expected and Tracy becomes a devoted grandfather, much to his own surprise.

FIESTA ****************
(1941, COLOR, 44 MIN) Ann Ayars, Jorge Negrets, Jose Arias. A fiesta is held for a girl who returns from Mexico City to her father's hacienda. Musical comedy featuring Mexican folk tunes and many Latin favorites sung in Spanish and English.

FIGHTING CARAVANS ****************
(1931, BW, 91 MIN) Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Eugene Pallette, Charles Winninger, Jane Darwell, directed by Otto Brower and David Bruton. In one of the first big budget westerns, Cooper is one of the leaders of a wagon train across Indian territory. He is duly brave fighting the natives, and shy wooing Damita.

FIGHTING LADY, THE ****************
(1945, COLOR, 61 MIN) Narrated by Robert Taylor, directed by William Wyler. This documentary follows a U.S. aircraft carrier from it's initial launch to the battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944. Many shots of carrier operations, aerial battles, and life aboard ship. Great color photography marks this as one of the best made for the homefolks during WWII. AAN DOCUMENTARY

FIGHTING WESTERNER, THE ****************
(1935, BW, 63 MIN) Randolph Scott, Anne Sheridan, Charles "Chic" Sale, directed by Charles Barton. Before she became the "oomph" girl, Anne Sheridan costarred with Scott in this "modern" western about a series of murders in a radium mine.

FIRE OVER ENGLAND ****************
(1937, BW, 89 MIN) Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey, Flora Robson, directed by William K. Howard. Olivier is a British naval officer who goes to Spain to spy on the arch enemy of Queen Elizabeth I, Philip, who has designs on England. There he discovers the invasion plans, the identies of traitors and after some harrowing escapades makes it back to England to lead the British navy in battle against the Spanish Armada. Vivien Leigh provides the romantic interest. Robson is marvellous as the queen. Olivier is marvellous in everything.

FISHERMAN'S WHARF ****************
(1939, BW, 72 MIN) Bobby Breen, Leo Carillo, directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Breen is an orphan adopted by a San Francisco fisherman, Carillo. The trouble starts when Carillo's widowed sister-in-law moves in with her bratty son.

FLAME OVER INDIA ****************
(1960, COLOR, 130 MIN) Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, directed by J. Lee Thompson. During a Moslem uprising in India, a professional soldier spirits a Hindu prince and his American governess to safety aboard a rusty old train. Loaded with action and suspense. (AKA Northwest Frontier).

FLESH AND THE SPUR ****************
(1957, BW, 77 MIN) John Agar, Touch (Michael) Conners, directed by Edward L. Cahn. Another Roger Corman flick for all his fans. The plot has young Agar on a search for the murderer of his twin brother. He teams up with Conners, only to learn he's the killer.

FLESH EATERS ****************
(1964, 92m Horror B/W) Martin Kosleck, Rita Morley, Bryon Sanders, Dir: Jack Curtis. Morley plays a alcoholic film star who with her secretary and their helicopter pilot crashes on a secluded isle, where a renegade mad Nazi scientist (is there any other kind?) is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh.

FLIGHT OF THE LOST BALLOON ****************
(1961, COLOR, 91 MIN) Marshall Thompson, Mala Powers, directed by Nathan Juran. An interesting adventure tale of travel by balloon across the more remote regions of the African continent in search of a lost explorer.

FLYING BLIND ****************
(1941, BW, 67 MIN) Richard Arlen, Marie Wilson, Jean Parker, directed by Frank McDonald. Foreign agents try to steal a vital aviation secret, but don't get away with it.

FLYING DEUCES, THE ****************
(1939, BW, 65 MIN) Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton, James Finlayson, directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Two buddies join the Foreign Legion to help one of them forget a sad love affair. The Foreign Legion is not amused, but the audience will be.

FORBIDDEN MUSIC ****************
(1936, BW, 64 MIN) Jimmy Durante, Richard Tauber, Diana Napier, directed by Walter Ford. Lighthearted operetta about a small European kingdom where the ruler has outlawed music because he feels it keeps the people from concentrating. The great tenor, Tauber, leads the citizens in a revolt to win back their music.

FOREVER AND A DAY ****************
(1943, 104 MIN, BW) Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton, Claude Raines, directed by Cedric Hardwicke. If you were English and in Hollywood in 1943, you were probably involved with this film -- a salute to England and a propagada vehicle to further the British-American alliance with cameos from the esteemed British acting colony. The story line is based around one of London's great manor houses from the Napoleonic Wars through WWII and the generations that pass through it. Superbly acted and directed.

FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER ****************
(1958, BW, 85 MIN) John Ashley, Sandra Knight, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd, Harold Lloyd Jr., directed by Richard Cunha. A mad scientist, a descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, attempts to duplicate his ancestor's experiment using the corpse of a teen-age girl.

FRECKLES COMES HOME ****************
(1943, BW, 57 MIN) Gale Storm, Johnny Downs, directed by Jean Yarbrough. Freckles comes home from college to find that his girl is in love with a gangster, and that criminals have taken over everything.

FRENCH TOUCH, THE ****************
(1954, BW, 81 MIN) Fernandel, Renee Devillers, directed by Jean Boyer. French comedy about a sheep-shearer who decides to become a hairdresser and soon finds himself the rage of Paris.

FROLICS ON ICE ****************
(1938, BW, 65 MIN) Roscoe Karns, Lynn Roberts, Edgar Kennedy. Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star only to take all of her money.

FRONT PAGE, THE ****************
(1931, BW, 100 MIN) Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, directed by Lewis Milestone. This is a classic film story of newspaper reporters and editors. The characters played by Menjou and O'Brien (in O'Brien's film debut) battle constantly while attempting to keep an escaped death row inmate as an exclusive story. The setting is Chicago in the 1930s with the mandatory crooked politicians rounding out the comical scenario. AAN BEST PICTURE, MENJOU AND MILESTONE.

FRONTIER HORIZON ****************
(1939, BW, 55 MIN) John Wayne, Phyllis Isley, Jennifer Jones, Ray Corrigan, directed by George Sherman. "The Three Mesquiteers" help a group of settlers whose land is threatened by crooked speculators.

FRONTIER PONY EXPRESS ****************
(1939, BW, 58 MIN) Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, directed by Joseph Kane. Rogers plays a pony express rider who becomes involved in a plot by a confederate spy to get California to enter the Civil War. Good thing Trigger and Roy are around to put a end his fiendish plan and woo the girl.

GABBY CARTOONS ****************
(1940, COLOR, 50 MIN) Eight cartoons featuring Gabby and a cast of characters to annoy him. Some have musical sing-along portions. King for a Day Alls Well Two for the Zoo It's a Hap Hap Happy Day The Constable Fire Cheese Gabby Goes Fishing Swing Cleaning

GANGBUSTERS ****************
(1954, BW, 75 MIN) Myron Healy, Sam Edwards, Don Harvey, Frank Gerstle, directed by Bill Daran. Like the 1930s and '40s radio series this derives from, this is a semi-documentary taken from actual case files. A career criminal leads a daring escape from the Oregon state prison. Similar in style to "Dragnet".

GANGBUSTERS (serial)
(1942, BW, 285 MIN, 13 EPISODES)
Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Robert Armstrong. Directed by Noel Smith and Ray Taylor. An unknown gang of terrorists are spreading a net of crime over the city. Detective Lt.Bill Bannister & Detective Tim Nolan find that the gang's leader is a mysterious Professor Mortis (Ralph Morgan) and the gang is made up of known criminals officially listed in the police records as dead. Now they are members of Mortis' "League of Murdered Men" after seemingly committing suicide by hanging while on death row. Cliff hangers abound as Detective  Bannister triumphs over situations that would normally be the end of mere mortals to get the bad guys

GANGS INC. ****************
(1941, BW, 69 MIN) Joan Woodbury, Jack LaRue, Alan Ladd, John Archer, directed by Phil Rosen. Woodbury is terrific as a vengeful woman forced to go to jail after taking the rap for a wealthy playboy's hit-and-run accident. Alan Ladd's first film - he plays an undercover cop.

GANGSTER STORY ****************
(1959, BW, 68 MIN) Walter Matthau, Carol Grace, Bruce McFarlan, directed by Walter Matthau. The local mob boss, McFarlan, is furious at the gall of a young upstart, Matthau, trying to elbow in on his territory. This is the only feature film Matthau directed.

GENERAL, THE ****************
(1927, BW, 74 MIN) Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Jim Farley, Joseph Keaton, directed by Buster Keaton. One of Keaton's best silent features, setting comedy against a true Civil War story of a stolen train and Union spies. Beautifully done.

GIANT GILA MONSTER , THE ****************
(1959, BW, 72 MIN) Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher, Don Sullivan, directed by Ray Kellogg. Disappearing teens and squished hot rods mark the arrival of a newcomer to a Texas town.

GIRL HUNTERS, THE ****************
(1963, BW, 97 MIN) Mickey Spillane, Hy Gardner, Lloyd Nolan, Shirley Eaton, directed by Roy Rowland. Mike Hammer is caught up in a swirling mystery of communist spies, a missing secretary, an assassinated senator and a really nasty lady.

GO FOR BROKE ****************
(1951, BW, 92 MIN) Van Johnson, Warner Anderson, Gianna Maria Canale, Lane Nakano, directed by Robert Pirosh. WWII story with a twist: Johnson is the commander of a special U.S. squad made up of American-Japanese G.I.s. The real unit, the 444th, went on to become the most highly decorated in the American army. AAN SCREENPLAY

GOD'S GUN ****************
(1980, COLOR, 96 MIN) Richard Boone, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, directed by Frank Kramer. Desperadoes and a former gun fighter fight it out after the town priest is murdered.

GOLDEN GLOVES STORY, THE ****************
(1950, BW, 76 MIN) James Dunn, Dewey Martin, Greg Sherwood, directed by Felix E. Feist. A different kind of boxing story. The focus is on two boxers, the referee and their emotions leading up to the big championship fight.

GOLDEN TWENTIES, THE ****************
(1950, BW, 66 MIN) March of Time documentary on America in the twenties. A commentary on the politics, fashions, business, sports, and entertainment of the times, including the big news stories from the WWI veterans returning home in 1919, to Wall Street's crash in 1929.

GORILLA, THE ****************
(1939, BW, 66 MIN) The Ritz Brothers, Patsy Kelly, Bela Lugosi, Anita Louise, Lionel Atwill, directed by Allan Dwan. The Ritz Brothers as a trio of inept detectives launch an awkward attempt to capture a killer who dresses as a gorilla. An escaped gorilla from the circus shows up and in a mad romp through hidden passages and trap doors, the brothers do their bumbling, hilarious stuff.

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW , THE ****************
(1966, BW, 136 MIN) Enrique Irazogui, Marghrita Caruso, directed by Pier Paolo Palolini. A reverent telling of the story of the life of Jesus taken from the New Testament as written by Matthew. Starting with the story of Mary and Joseph, it shows his meetings with the disciples, the last supper and the betrayal by Judas. Italian, with English sub-titles.

GRAND CANYON TRAIL ****************
(1948, BW, 56 MIN) Roy Rogers, Andy Devine, directed by William Witney. Roy's friend invests his money in a wildcat gold mine.

GREAT DAN PATCH, THE ****************
(1949, BW, 92 MIN) Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood, directed by Joseph M. Newman. The true story of the highest earning harness race horse in history.

GREAT FLAMARION, THE ****************
(1945, BW, 78 MIN) Dan Duryea, Mary Beth Hughes, Erich von Stroheim., directed by Anthony mann. Von Stroheim is menacing as a performer who makes his living as a vaudeville marksman who takes out has anger with women on the men they love instead of him.

GREAT GUY, THE ****************
(1936, BW, 66 MIN) James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy, Edward MacNamara, directed by John D. Blystone. Ex-prize fighter Cagney joins the Bureau of Weights and Measures and exposes corrupt officials and racketeers involved in the meat business.

GREAT MIKE WINS, THE ****************
(1944, BW, 26 MIN) Stu Erwin, Carl Switzer, Robert Henry, directed by William W. Fox. Little Jimmy Dolan owns Mike, the delivery wagon horse. Along comes a nice trainer who decides to enter Mike in the Santa Anita Handicap. Guess what? He wins!!

GREAT RUPERT, THE ****************
(1950, BW, 86 MIN) Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Quennie Smith, Chick Chandler, directed by Irving Pichel. A down and out family of acrobats discover hidden piles of money in their house. Just as Durante is about to be charged with major crime, the source, a pet squirrel, is discovered to be the Robin Hood of the animal world, stealing from a wealthy neighbor.

GREEN GLOVE, THE ****************
(1952, BW, 88 MIN) Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke, directed by Rudolph Mate. A jewel thief, who is also a German sympathizer, steals a medieval relic, The Green Glove, from a rural French church during WWII. An American paratrooper, Ford, who rescues the jewels ultimately loses them again. He returns to France after the war to find the Glove but runs into the original thief. Lots of mountain chases around Monte Carlo later, Ford recovers the Glove and returns it to the church.

GREEN PROMISE ****************
(1949, BW, 93 MIN) Natalie Wood, Walter Brennan, Marguerite Chapman, Robert Paige, directed by William D. Russell. Brennan as (what else) a crusty old codger who eschews modern farming techniques barely eking out a living for his four motherless children. When he becomes ill the oldest daughter takes over and everything greens up.

GUEST IN THE HOUSE ****************
(1944, BW, 100 MIN) Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Warrick, directed by John Braham. A suspenseful story of a manipultative woman who moves into the happy home of her fiance's family and promptly turns their lives into a nightmare.

GUILTY OF TREASON ****************
(1949, BW, 86 MIN) Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly, Bonita Granville, directed by Felix E. Feist. Hungarian Cardinal Mindeszenty is imprisoned as an enemy of the Communist state. A propoganda film typical of the 1950s but based on a real-life incident. Powerful trial scene.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS ****************
(1939, COLOR, 76 MIN) Animators Max and Dave Fleischer's adaptation of the Jonathan Swift classic about an Englishman shipwrecked on the shores of Lilliput, a land of miniature people. AAN MUSIC, SONG

GUNFIGHT AT RED SANDS ****************
(1964, COLOR, 95 MIN) Richard Harrison, G. R. Stuart, directed by Richard Blasco. An adopted Anglo son returns home following an unsuccessful revolution to find his adoptive father has been murdered and the family gold stolen. Although he is sick of war and fighting, the attitude of the sheriff forces him to defend himself and his family. Italian dubbed in English

GUNG HO! ****************
(1943, BW, 88 MIN) Robert Mitchum, Randolph Scott, Noah Beery Jr., Grace McDonald, David Bruce, Sam Levine, directed by Ray Enright. A WW II action film, marked by outrageous jingoism, designed for the homefolks as a recruiting aid, which celebrates the misfits of the "gung ho" regiment as incredibly brave heros. Based on the true story of Carlson's Raiders.

HAIRY APE, THE ****************
(1944, BW, 88 MIN) William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, directed by Alfred Santell. Hayward plays the vixen to the hilt in this well acted film version of O'Neill's famous play about a ship's stoker who falls in love with a manipulative socialite. AAN MUSIC

HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER ****************
(1943, BW, 53 MIN) Roy Rogers, Ruth Terry, Onslow Stevens, Duncan Renaldo, Sons of the Pioneers, directed by Joseph Kane. Full blown Roy Rogers musical extravaganza has Roy helping Ruth find the killer of her rancher father.

HAPPY GO LOVELY ****************
(1951, COLOR, 96 MIN) Vera Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero, Bobby Howes, Diane Hart, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. After hearing rumors that a show girl is the love interest of a millionaire, the producer of a failing show gives her the lead hoping to attract some of her boyfriend's money. A charming musical comedy.

HARASSED HERO, THE ****************
(1954, BW, 61 MIN) Guy Middleton, Elwyn Brook Jones, Joan Winnell, directed by Maurice Elvey. Comedy abounds in this British farce about a hypochondriac bachelor who uncovers a plot by a gang of counterfeiters.

HARMONY LANE ****************
(1935, BW, 76 MIN) Douglas Montgomery, William Frawley, directed by Joseph Santley. The best and most accurate story of Stephen Foster and his music, featuring his most popular songs, including "Oh Susanna," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Swanee River."

HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON ****************
(1969, 91m, horror, color) Stephen Forsyth , Laura Betti Dir: Mario Bava. This Italian horror film by cult director Bava is the bloody story of an impotent man who turns to murder to vent his frustrations. The fashion designer, frustrated with his own sexual failure, murders the new brides who have modeled his fashions. When he decides to murder his wife, she becomes the ghost who will not leave him alone.This above-average horror film is a must see for those who love the genre and admire stylish horror films.

HATTER'S CASTLE ****************
(1941, BW, 101 MIN) Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Robert Newton, directed by Lance Comfort. In Victorian England, a hat shop owner relentlessly pursues his dream of social climbing, and makes life difficult indeed for his poor wife and daughter. Good acting and production values.

HE WALKED BY NIGHT ****************
(1948, BW, 79 MIN) Richard Basehart, Jack Webb, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, directed by Alfred L. Werker. Taut, well paced drama of a brilliant sociopathic killer being hunted by the police; told in semi-documentary style (and, as film buffs know, partially directed by Anthony Mann). This is Jack Webb's first performance as a Los Angeles cop, one who looks and talks a lot like Joe Friday. Effective performances by all.

HEART BEAT ****************
(1946, BW, 96 MIN) Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Adolphe Menjou, directed by Sam Wood. Ginger Rogers enrolls in Basil Rathbone's pickpocket school in Paris and emerges the star pupil. Excellent cast in an elaborate production.

HEART OF THE GOLDEN WEST ****************
(1942, BW, 53 MIN) Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Gabby Hayes, Sons of the Pioneers, directed by Joseph Kane. The Old West gets a shot in the arm from the modern age of transportation when a trucking company and a steamboat vie for the opportunity to haul cattle. Features the tune "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny."

HEART OF THE ROCKIES ****************
(1951, BW, 54 MIN) Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, directed by William Witney. Roy is responsible for construction of a road whose progress is sabotaged.

HEARTACHES ****************
(1945, BW, 68 MIN) Sheila Ryan, Edward Norris, Chill Wills, Ken Farrell, directed by Basil Wrangell. A handsome actor who can't sing teams up with a homely singer and they combine to make one movie star. Shades of Milli-Vanilli or "Singin' in the Rain". An intrusive reporter makes it harder and harder to keep up the deception, and then--- MURDER. Nicely written with some snappy 1940s dialogue.

HELDORADO ****************
(1946, BW, 58 MIN) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes, directed by William Witney. Roy is a ranger who helps Las Vegas authorities track down racketeers.

HELL TOWN ****************
(1938, BW, 51 MIN) John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mac Brosn. The light story line, set in the days of the Wild West, has Wayne as the overseer of a cattle drive outwitting some corrupt cattle rustlers, who later try to trick him in a crooked card game. But before the final credits roll up into the sunset, Wayne and his cowhands survive a standoff against the rustlers and the Duke falls in love with the beautiful Marsha Hunt.

HELL'S HOUSE ****************
(1932, BW, 71 MIN) Pat O'Brien, Bette Davis, directed by Howard Higgin. An innocent lad gets involved with a criminal element, (O'Brien and Davis) and finds himself in a dreadful reform school. A crusading newspaper publisher uncovers the cruelly run school, O'Brien confesses to the crime and the kid goes free. This was one of O'Brien's earlier roles before he became the consumate good-guy.

HER BRIDAL NIGHT ****************
(1958, BW, 85 MIN) Brigitte Bardot, Louis Jordan, Micheline Presle, Jean Francis Cline, directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit. Brigitte is a fashion model in love with her boss, Jordan, who doesn't notice the advances she makes toward him. What's wrong with this guy?

HERCULES AGAINST THE MOON MEN ****************
(1964, COLOR, 88 MIN) Alan Steel, Jany Clair, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo. The mythological hero frees the people of Samar from control of the lunar people who have been holding them in bondage.

HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN ****************
(1963, COLOR, 94 MIN) Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, directed by Vittorio Cottamari. The evil, sadistic, but none the less beautiful Queen of Atlantis kidnaps the son of the legendary hero in order to entrap the great one.

HERCULES UNCHAINED ****************
(1960, COLOR, 101 MIN) Steve Reeves, Sylvia Koscina, Prino Carnera, Sylvia Lopez, directed by Pietro Francisci. In this first sequel, Hercules engages in a "War of the Chariots", "Combat of the Kings", and the "Contest of the Gods" all to rescue his bride-to-be.

HERE COMES TROUBLE ****************
(1948, COLOR, 52 MIN) Bill Tracy, Joe Sawyer, produced and directed by Hal Roach. The third of Roach's Laff Time series has Tracy as a cub reporter with a photographic memory. Filled with slapstick comedy.

HI DIDDLE DIDDLE ****************
(1943, BW, 72 MIN) Adolphe Menjou, Dennis O'Keefe, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Billie Burke, June Havoc, Walter Kingsford, directed by Andrew L. Stone. Young newly-weds who only want to be left alone are plagued by the bride's wacky family of con artists. Quick and amusing.

HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, THE ****************
(1959, BW, 74 MIN) Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson, directed by Robert Clarke. A doctor exposed to nuclear radiation notices that sunlight turns him into a horrible lizard creature who goes on destructive rampages.

HIGH COMMAND ****************
(1937, BW, 83 MIN) James Mason, Lionel Atwill, directed by Thorold Dickinson. The commander of a West African garrison gets caught up in blackmail and murder. Good crime melodrama.

HIGH LONESOME ****************
(1950, BW, 81 MIN) John Barrymore Jr., Lois Butler, Chill Wills, Jack Elam, directed by Alan Lemay. A mysterious young man shows up at a ranch, becomes involved in a series of murders and then disappears, only to return and solve the crimes.

HILL NUMBER ONE ****************
(1952, BW, 57 MIN) Roddy McDowell, James Dean. Ruth Hussey, Joan Leslie, Gene Lockhart, Jeanne Cagney, Lief Erickson, Regis Toomey, Michael Ansara. Somewhere in the nameless numbered hills of Korea in 1951, some G.I.s are wondering about the meaning of life and war and stuff like that. A wandering preacher is happy to explain that the most meaningful hill is Calvary, and tells the story of the death and ressurection of Jesus. James Dean appears briefly as the apostle John.

HIS DOUBLE LIFE ****************
(1933, BW, 66 MIN) Roland Young, Lillian Gish, directed by Arthur Hopkins. A light English comedy about a painter whose death is reported prematurely, his unfortunate valet buried in his place. He has the opportunity to attend his own funeral where he is ousted for his uncontrollable sobbing. He continues to paint and the new canvases throw the art world into an absolute tizzy.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY ****************
(1940, BW, 92 MIN) Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, directed by Howard Hawks. Remake of "The Front Page", this time with a woman in the role of the reporter. Grant, the glib, lunatic editor, sends Russell, his hard-as-nails ex-wife after the big story. Meanwhile Grant is going after Russell to come back to him while she is contemplating marriage to a stuffy bore, Bellamy. The rapid-fire dialogue and frantic action do a great job of depicting the atmosphere surrounding a fast-breaking news story. Most of the original story is intact, the escaped convict hides in the newsroom, his girlfriend throws herself out the window - altogether a hilarious film.

HITCH-HIKER ****************
(1953, 71m, Film Noir, b/w) Edmond O’Brian, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman. Dir: Ida Lupino. O’Brian & Lovejoy go on a fishing trip and pick up hitchhiker Talman who turns out to be a crazed killer on the lam. A grim Film Noir that is both well acted and superbly directed.

HITLER-DEAD OR ALIVE ****************
(1943, BW, 63 MIN) Ward Bond, Paul Fix, Russell Hicks, Bobby Watson, directed by Nick Grinde. Bond and two other ex-cons are hired by an eccentric Ross Perot-like millionaire to kidnap or kill Adolph Hitler. When they arrive in Germany it looks a lot like Southern California and the natives all speak English. Nevertheless they manage to be captured and taken to a prison camp called "Dachau" from which they of course escape so they can find the Fuhrer. They all deserve one another.

HOLLYWOOD OUTTAKES ****************
42 MIN) Starring Joan Crawford, Constance Bennett, Ronald Reagan, Jane Mansfield, Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Porky Pig, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, Carol Lombard, William Powell, Jean Harlow, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart. Interview of James Dean in costume for "Giant" discussing auto safety with Gig Young.

HOLLYWOOD THRILLMAKER ****************
(1953, BW, 59 MIN) James Gleason, Bill Henry, Theila Darin, Joan Holcombe, directed by Bernard B Ray. A retired stuntman takes over for a buddy who was killed trying some dangerous stuff.

HOLLYWOOD WITHOUT MAKEUP ****************
(1950, BW, 49 MIN) Compiled and narrated by Ken Murray. These are extracts of home movies taken by Murray and others of over 100 Hollywood stars being themselves.

HOLLYWOOD, MY HOME TOWN ****************
BW, 42 MIN) Ken Murray presents his collection of amateur films from the old days of Hollywood, from the twenties to the sixties, from Will Rogers to James Dean, Harriett Hilliard Nelson at 15, the opening of Grauman's Chinese Theatre; stars being themselves.

HOME IN OKLAHOMA ****************
(1946, BW, 53 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans, Sons of the Pioneers, directed by William Witney. As an editor of a small-town newspaper, Rogers is hot on the trail of some killers who have murdered a local rancher.

HOMETOWN STORY ****************
(1951, BW, 61 MIN) Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Marilyn Monroe, Jeffery Lynn, Alan Hale Jr. A defeated politician returns to his hometown feeling humiliated and exhausted. He takes over the local newspaper, and his spirits are really raised when he finds a scandal to muckrake. And how bad can life be for a guy who's secretary is Marilyn Monroe.

HOOK LINE AND SINKER ****************
(1930, BW, 62 MIN) Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Natalie Moorhead, Dorothy Lee, directed by Edward F Cline. A pretty heiress restores an old hotel. Then some crooks try to steal jewelry from the hotel safe and are thwarted by an incompetent manager.

HORROR HOTEL ****************
(1960, 76min, Horror, B/W) Christopher Lee, Dennis Lotis, Patricia Jessel Dir: John Llewellyn. Seventeenth century witch who was burned at the stake has an Inn to lure victims for sacrifices to the devil. It has the obligatory woman who fails to heed all too obvious warnings that her life is in danger and the hip, jive talk'in, beatnik era college kids are a gas. Christopher Lee does a great job in his role as usual. This is a good example of what can be achieved with a small budget and a lot of inspiration. A one of a kind horror classic.

HOUR OF DECISION ****************
(1957, BW, 70 MIN) Jeff Morrow, Hazel Court, Lionel Jeffries, directed by C. Pennington Richards. When reporter Morrow investigates the death of an unscrupulous newspaper columnist, the trail leads him to his own wife.

HOUSE OF MYSTERY ****************
(1961, BW, 58 MIN) Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley, directed by Vernon Sewell. Newlyweds move into a new home and discover it to be haunted by the ghost of a former tenant.

HOUSE OF THE ARROW ****************
(1953, BW, 72 MIN) Oskar Homalka, Yvonne Furneaux, Robert Urquha, directed by Michael Anderson. A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. WHO DUNNIT?

HOUSEMASTER ****************
(1938, BW, 95 MIN) Otto Kruger, Diana Churchill, Phillips Holmes, directed by Herbert Brenon. A good British comedy about a housemaster at a public, i.e. private, school who sides with his boys against a tyrannical headmaster.

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
(1957, BW, 75 MIN)Starring: Vincent Price, Richard Long, Elisha Cook Jr. Directed by William Castle. Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited 5 people to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party. Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earnc$10,000 each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.

HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALLAN ****************
(1970, COLOR, 74 MIN) Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith, Robert H. Harris, directed by Curtis Harrington. A young man tries to overcome his psychosomatic blindness at home but is tormented by a strange voice.

HUMAN MONSTER, THE ****************
(1939, BW, 76 MIN) Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, directed by Walter Summers. Evil doctor Lugosi kills off patients at an institute for the blind for the insurance money.

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, THE ****************
(1923, BW, 96 MIN) Lon Chaney Jr., Patsy Ruth Miller, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Norman Kerry, directed by Wallace Worsley. First film version of the Victor Hugo classic. The setting is medieval Paris where the disfigured bellringer at Notre Dame Cathedral, Chaney, falls in love with a gypsy dancer. Chaney's makeup is masterful. Silent.

HUNTER'S OF THE DEEP ****************
(1955, COLOR, 65 MIN) Narrated by Dan O'Herlihy, this is a fascinating underwater documentary showing the enormous variety of sea life near the Bahamas and off the California coast.

HURRICANE AT PILGRIM HILL ****************
(1950, BW, 51 MIN) Cecil Kelloway, Clem Bevans, Virginia Grey, David Bruce, directed by Hal Roach. Charming, irrascable Clem Bevans visits with his granddaughter and her family, solving most of the town's problems while he's there. Old premise, but well done, and Bevans steals the show.

I COVER THE WATERFRONT ****************
(1933, BW, 72 MIN) Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon, Ernest Torrence, Maurice Black, directed by James Cruze. A reporter romances the daughter of a ship captain to get the goods on her father who he suspects of smuggling Chinese immigrants. He gets the exclusive story and the girl.

IDENTITY UNKNOWN ****************
(1945, BW, 71 MIN) Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Lola Lane. Directed by Walter Colmes. A moving and unique psychological drama about a WW II vet with amnesia, who treks around the country trying to discover his identity. He meets a variety of people who share their feelings about the war.

I DREAM OF JEANNIE ****************
(1952, BW, 90 MIN) Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Lynn Bari, directed by Allan Dwan. The story of Stephen Foster, 19th century American composer.

I EAT YOUR SKIN ****************
(1964, BW, 82 MIN) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, directed by Del Tenney. A doctor on a Caribbean island creates zombies whose dietary requirements are inconsistent with public health and safety and who really are a menace to everyone.

I'M FROM ARKANSAS ****************
(1944, BW, 68 MIN) Slim Summerville, Bruce Bennett, directed by Lew Landers. Rolicking slapstick comedy about a pig giving birth to ten little piglets!

IDAHO ****************
(1943, BW, 70 MIN) Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey, directed by Joseph Kane. A judge who once was an outlaw is blackmailed but refuses to help rob a bank. Roy brings the villains to justice.

IMPACT ****************
(1949, BW, 111 MIN) Brian Donlevy, Charles Coburn, Ella Raines, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Mae Marsh, directed by Arthur Lubin. Donlevy's wife and her lover try to bump him off but the lover gets it instead while Donlevy is injured in a car crash and suffers from amnesia. While recovering he falls in love with nice lady Raines. Then Donlevy regains his memory as his wife finds him, and life really becomes complex. Many twists and turns and some real surprises in this above average drama.

IN OLD CALIENTE ****************
(1939, BW, 57 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Jack LaRue, directed by Joseph Kane. Half-breed LaRue makes trouble for Roy and his friends who are settling in California.

IN OLD CHEYENNE ****************
(1941, BW, 54 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Ben Johnson, Joan Woodbury, directed by Joseph Kane. Roy is a reporter from New York sent out west to get the real story about a range war between cattle ranchers and an outlaw gang. He soon finds out that all is not as it seems. And for a New York reporter, Roy sure can call a mean square dance.

IN OLD SANTA FE ****************
(1935, BW, 64 MIN) Gene Autry, Ken Maynard, Smiley Burnette, Gabby Hayes, directed by David Howard. When some gangsters from the city arrive, they frame dude ranch hand Maynard for murder.

INDISCREET ****************
(1931, BW, 74 MIN) Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Arthur Lake, Barbara Kent, Monroe Owsley, Maude Eburne, directed by Leo McCarey. A fashion designer falls in love with an author.

INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE ****************
(1953, BW, 66 MIN) Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, directed by Vittorio DeSica. Jones is an American housewife on vacation in Rome who has had an affair with Italian Clift. The film is all about their parting at the Rome train station, where they decide to make love one more time, are caught at it, and the complications which ensue. Rather daring for it's time. AAN COSTUMES

INNER CIRCLE , THE ****************
(1946, BW, 57 MIN) William Frawley, Warren Douglas. Adele Mara, Richard Cortez, Bob Wilke, directd by Phil Ford. Private eye hires a wise-cracking gorgeous blonde secretary who takes a call from a mystery woman asking for help in disposing of her recently dead husband's body. William Frawley (Fred Mertz of Lucy fame) plays the detective who has a hard time believing all this. Good plot with snappy dialogue.

INSPECTOR GENERAL, THE ****************
(1949, COLOR, 102 MIN) Danny Kaye, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart, Walter Slezak, directed by Henry Koster. A hilarious story based upon a tale by Pushkin about a clown who some corrupt town officials mistakenly take to be the Czar's Inspector General. Of course Danny rights a few wrongs and shows up a few fools. Whatever the continent or century, politicians will be politicians. A true Danny Kaye classic.

INTERMEZZO ****************
(1937, BW, 90 MIN) Ingrid Bergman, Gosta Ekman, Inga Tidblad, Hans Ekman, directed by Gustaf Molander. This is the Swedish film that made Bergman famous, a three hankie romantic drama about a married concert violinist who has an affair with his beautiful and talented protegee. Swedish with subtitles.

INTERRUPTED JOURNEY, THE ****************
(1949, BW, 80 MIN) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, directed by Daniel Burt. Todd is on his way home when he suddenly starts to experience for real, a horrible dream he had been having. But what is real and what is the dream?

INTOLERANCE ****************
(1916, BW, 123 MIN) Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge, Robert Haron, Mae Marsh, Bessie Love, direced by D. W. Griffith. Four interconnected stories showing how man's inhumanity to man has little changed over the ages. This was the first Hollywood extravaganza, and holds up remarkably well. Silent with music.

INVISIBLE GHOST, THE ****************
(1941, BW, 62 MIN) Bela Lugosi, Pelly Ann Young, directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Lugosi starts off as a nice gentle doctor who has recently become a widower. But when he finds his wife is really still alive, he develops an uncontrolable urge to strangle people.

ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL ****************
(1952, BW, 81 MIN) Donald Wolfit, Eileen Hurdle, Cecil Parker directed by Harold French. Uncle Willy takes a drink now and then, but mostly now. He is the family embarrassment. In order to keep him out of the way while the family is trying to marry another brother to a wealthy American, he is given a bicycle shop to run. The complications are hilarious. Only the British can make such good fun of themselves.

IT'S A JOKE SON ****************
(1947, BW, 67 MIN) Kenny Delmar, June Lockhart, Una Merkel, Kenneth Farrell, directed by Ben Stoloff. Delmar plays Senator Claghorn, a character invented as a resident of Allen's alley on the Fred Allen radio show. The Senator is apparently unaware that the civil war has been fought and lost, and the jokes are mainly on him.

IT'S LOVE AGAIN ****************
(1936, BW, 79 MIN) Robert Young, Jessie Matthews, directed by Victor Seville. Young is a journalist who makes up stories for his paper in order to compete with femme rival Matthews.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK ****************
(1952, COLOR, 81 MIN) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, directed by Jean Yarbrough. An Abbott and Costello (therefore funny) version of the fairy tale