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The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)

2013-05-23T07:08:00.002-07:00

A 1936 drama film directed by Charles Lamont, starring Frank Coghlan Jr., Lloyd Hughes, Dickie Moore and Ann Doran.
Do You Remember "School Days"? Youngsters, good and bad...students, bullies, teacher's pets, flirts, and rowdies. Do you remember them in your own school days?
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Hearts of Humanity (1932)

2013-05-22T01:35:00.003-07:00

A drama film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Jean Hersholt.
An amazing peek at the melting pot of New York City as immigrants from around the globe struggle to create a new life in America.
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The Nickel-Hopper (1926)

2013-05-21T07:02:00.001-07:00

A 1926 short silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand and featuring Oliver Hardy (Jazz band drummer) and Boris Karloff (Dance Hall Masher) in minor uncredited roles.
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Dangerous Passage (1944)

2013-05-21T02:11:00.000-07:00

A 1944 film directed by William Berke, starring Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks and Jack La Rue.
Intrigue and danger meet Joe Beck wanting to return to Texas to claim his inheritance.
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Sitting on the Moon (1936)

2013-05-20T08:40:00.000-07:00

A 1936 musical film directed by Ralph Staub, starring Roger Pryor and Grace Bradle.
Hoping to jump-start Polly's (Grace Bradley) career, Danny (Roger Pryor) breaks up his partnership with lyricist Mike (William Newell), who finds some comfort in the arms of Polly's wisecracking pal Mattie (Pert Kelton).
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Federal Fugitives (1941)

2013-05-19T05:51:00.001-07:00

GIRL...A SPY...AND A FEARLESS F. B. I. AGENT in a bombshell of ACTION...INTRIGUE...ROMANCE!
Starring Neil Hamilton and Dorid Day (not the famous one).
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The Crusader (1932)

2013-05-18T05:14:00.004-07:00

Aka Should a Woman Tell? A Pre-Code mystery film directed by Frank R. Strayer, starring Evelyn Brent and H. B. Warner .
A pushy newspaper reporter Eddie Crane (Ned Sparks) schemes to get rid of crusading District Attorney Phillip Brandon (H. B. Warner). Complicating matters is the sordid past of Brandon's wife Tess (Evelyn Brent) as well as his sister Marcia's affair with a gangster.
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Party Girl (1930)

2013-05-17T01:19:00.000-07:00

The Shocking Story of Love for Sale!
A 1930 Pre-Code film, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff and Marie Prevost, directed by Victor Halperin.
A wealthy young man finds himself caught up in the "escort girl" racket, and becomes the target of a cute young floozie and her conniving mother.
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Ticket to Paradise (1936

2013-05-16T03:18:00.003-07:00

A romantic comedy directed by Aubrey Scotto, with Roger Pryor, Wendy Barrie and Claude Gillingwater A man with amnesia - mistaken for a criminal - runs off with a young woman and attempts to learn his real identity.
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Parole, Inc. (1948)

2013-05-15T04:45:00.002-07:00

The True Story of the Nation's Parole Peddling Syndicate! A 1948 film-noir / crime film directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Michael O'Shea.
When several notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on parole, the Federal Government sends ace agent Richard Hendricks to investigate.
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Grief Street (1931)

2013-05-14T01:17:00.002-07:00

A 1931 mystery film directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Barbara Kent, John Holland and Dorothy Christy.
A woman-chasing Broadway star is found strangled in his dressing room, with all the doors and windows locked from the inside. Whodunit?
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The Miracle Kid (1941)

2013-05-13T02:47:00.001-07:00

A 1941 film directed by William Beaudine, starring Tom Neal, Carol Hughes, Betty Blythe and Ben Taggart.
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
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The Avenging Hand (1937)

2013-05-12T02:57:00.005-07:00

A 1937 British crime film directed by Victor Hanbury and Frank Richardson, with Noah Beery, Louis Borel and Kathleen Kelly.
A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.
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A Man Betrayed (1936)

2013-05-11T03:50:00.001-07:00

Fearless! Stalking his prey in a stronghold of corruption...Daring death for the woman he loves!
A 1936 film directed by John H. Auer, starring Edward J. Nugent, Kay Hughes and Lloyd Hughes.
A man begins to suspect that the oil company for which he works is swindling its investors. Then he is framed for murder.
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Her Secret (1933)

2013-05-10T02:51:00.003-07:00

A comic-drama of love and redemption directed by Warren Millais. With Sari Maritza, William Collier Jr. and Alan Mowbray.
A girl from Georgia, takes a good-for-nothing son of a rich man in hand and employs her own methods of reformation with astonishing and fruitful results.
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The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

2013-05-09T12:08:00.002-07:00

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman.
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A Stranger in Town (1943)

2013-05-08T02:10:00.001-07:00

A 1943 comedy-drama political film directed by Roy Rowland, starring Frank Morgan and Richard Carlson. Visiting a small town in order to hunt ducks, Supreme Court judge Frank Morgan (the Wizard of Oz) discovers abuse of power by public servants.
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Zis Boom Bah (1941)

2013-05-07T01:50:00.002-07:00

Aka College Sweethearts. A 1941 misical comedy film directed by William Nigh.
A rich former vaudeville mother tries to turn her rich carefree son into a responsible adult.
Grace Hayes, as herself essentially, Grace Hayes, has been content to play the vaudeville circuit, and support her son, and the wealthy family who shunned her. Tired of the road, she goes to visit her son, played by her real-life son Peter Lind Hayes, as Peter Kendricks, with her personal assistant, played by her real-life daughter-in-law, Mary Healy, as Mary Healy, in cognito....
(Grace Hayes was famous as a performer, and for the "movie stars' hang-out" Grace Hayes Lodge and the chic Las Vegas nightclub, The Red Rooster.
Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy were married from 1940 to Hayes' death in 1998, and regularly worked together). Watch Movie

Miss V from Moscow (1942)

2013-05-07T01:50:00.000-07:00

American Ace Meets Russian Spy!
A 1942 film directed by Albert Herman, starring Lola Lane and Noel Madison. This film is a curiosity, it. was singled out by B-film historian Don Miller as "one of the worst movies ever made by any standards, certainly the worst movie of its year." and as with other, better-known American films produced in the midst of World War II, the film has a pronounced pro-Soviet tone.
The Miss V of the title is Vera Marova, a Soviet spy sent to Paris to impersonate her lookalike, a German spy recently liquidated by the French Resistance.
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City Limits (1934)

2013-05-05T03:02:00.001-07:00

A 1934 comedy film directed by William Nigh and starring Frank Craven, Sally Blane, Ray Walker and Claude Gillingwater. It was remade in 1941 as Father Steps Out.
J.B. Matthews (Frank Craven) president of a railroad, is getting sick of doctors, when he falls off his train, and meets up with a pair of hoboes, who show him how to enjoy life, and real cooking. it’s up to intrepid reporter Jimmy Dugan (Ray Walker) and Helen (Sally Blane) to find him, and bring him in; before a rival ruins him. But, time is running out.
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The Lost Moment (1947)

2013-05-04T05:36:00.003-07:00

A 1947 drama film directed by Martin Gabel, based on the novel The Aspern Papers by Henry James. The film stars Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward with Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli and Minerva Urecal.
A publisher, Lewis Venable, travels from New York to Venice, seeking to buy the 19th Century love letters of the late poet Jeffrey Ashton to a woman named Juliana Bordereau. He learns from a living poet, Charles Russell, that, amazingly, Juliana is still alive at 105.
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The World Accuses (1934)

2013-05-03T01:36:00.001-07:00

Lola, a spunky Broadway actress has a wealthy but spineless socialite (Paul Fix). Unfortunately for Lola, her husband is under the complete domination of his wealthy and narcissistic mother (Sarah Edwards). The couple has a child, but then tragedy intervenes in the person of a psychopathic book-maker (Harold Huber) and a not-so-kindly judge (Lloyd Ingraham).
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Swing! (1938)

2013-05-02T04:45:00.004-07:00

A 1938 race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux, starring Cora Green,Hazel Diaz and Dorothy Van Engle. (Elvera Sanchez Davis, the mother of entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., had a small role in Swing! as a tap dancer).
Mandy Jenkins, an African American cook for a wealthy white family in Birmingham, Alabama, discovers her husband Cornell is having an affair with Eloise Jackson. When she confronts her husband and Eloise at a nightclub, a violent fight ensues. Eloise leaves Birmingham and relocates to Harlem, getting a job as a cabaret vocalist under the stage name Cora Smith. She is followed to Harlem by her husband, Lem, who gets mixed up in the local crime scene. Mandy also arrives in New York, having left Cornell. She gets a job as the wardrobe mistress at the cabaret where Eloise is performing. When Eloise breaks her leg during a drunken fall, Mandy is recruited as a last-minute substitute.
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Dynamite (1949

2013-05-02T01:41:00.002-07:00

A HIGH-EXPLOSIVE THRILLER OF MEN WHO COUNT THEIR LIVES IN MINUTES!
A film directed by William H. Pine, starring William Gargan, Virginia Welles and Richard Crane. Gunner Peterson handles dynamite with ease, but getting the boss' daughter might be much more difficult.
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Isle of Missing Men (1942)

2013-05-01T04:03:00.003-07:00

ADVENTURE... in a dangerous world of men!
A 1942 film directed by Richard Oswald (Oswald was an exiled Austrian director who had fled Germany when the Nazis came to power going to France, Britain and finally to Hollywood where he made a handful of films) and starring John Howard, Helen Gilbert and Gilbert Roland.
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
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