Movies

<p>Good news: Switchboard operator Ruth Raymond (Mary Carlisle) is the long-lost daughter of a railroad tycoon. Bad news: The cross-country train trip she takes to claim her birthright is going to be a veritable slay ride. A crazy-quilt concoction stitched together with laughs and...

<p>Heave-to for homicide. While in port, the USS Carolina is chosen for an urgent test of a new electronic firing system due to its shipshape efficiency record. That reputation will be stained -- in blood -- by a saboteur out to scuttle the trial,...

<p>A Navajo raised by whites, Slim Girl (Lupe Velez) returns to the reservation to attend its annual dance, where she meets Laughing Boy (Ramon Novarro), an expert silversmith who's new to the community. Seducing and marrying the youth, Slim Girl convinces him that she...

<p>Silent screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) sounds off in his all-talking debut, a romantic musical adventure directed by Sidney Franklin. When Napoleon is exiled to Elba, loyal officer Armand de Treville (Novarro) manages to elude the firing squad only...

<p>Together, they've saved the world countless times from unimaginable dangers. But the price has been high. Their ranks have diminished after fighting off an alien invasion and with new dangers arising at an ever-increasing pace, the remaining crime fighters realize that protecting the entire...

<p>And it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game -- forever. The St. Louis Cardinals may be a hard-luck club rallying toward the pennant, but with a killer afoot, they're on a losing streak -- of lives! A brisk, well-played...

<p>Ramon Novarro makes his final appearance as an M-G-M leading man in this sumptuous musical comedy costarring British stage legend Evelyn Laye and featuring the songs of Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II, including the hits "The Night Is Young" and "When I Grow...

<p>Ramon Novarro's word is his bond in Son of India, a lavish Pre-Code romance costarring Madge Evans and Conrad Nagel. When Karim (Novarro) is falsely accused of stealing a priceless diamond left to him by his father, the young man is exonerated by William...

<p>Ramon Novarro sings and charms his way into women's hearts in this Pre-Code musical romance costarring Dorothy Jordan and Lottice Howell. A dashing young playboy who spends more time studying Madrid's lovely ladies than books, Ricardo (Novarro) is sent by his father to rural...

<p>The second season of Team Quest's Nineties incarnation sees them spending less time with the sinister cyber environs of Questworld and jumping headlong back to their Sixties Spy-Fi action-adventure roots. This fresh take also carried with it a new voice cast (including genre favorites...

<p>In the sixth and final season of George Lopez, George (George Lopez) sees his daughter off to college, only to discover that his family may have a new member on the way. While Angie (Constance Marie) investigates her condition, George's job is in jeopardy,...

<p>Helen Hayes and Ramon Novarro star in The Son-Daughter, a powerful tale of love and intrigue set in San Francisco during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. As a major uprising occurs in their homeland, Chinese immigrants prepare to smuggle arms into China, a shipment...

<p>That Kelly lad sure can dance. Fred Kelly. In his only credited film role, he and legendary brother Gene happily hoof an "l Love to Go Swimmin' with Wimmen" specialty romp in this colorful musical biopic about Sigmund Romberg, the ex-piano man who went...

<p>In the not-too-distant future, America has been ravaged by a deadly epidemic. To contain it, the government quarantines the victims and leaves them to die. But now a band of rebels have taken to the streets to save the lives of those in need....

<p>Tim Holt and Bonita Granville expose the Nazi corruption of German youth in this wartime shocker, based on Gregor Ziemer's best-selling book and directed by Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet). During the Memorial Day celebrations at the American Colony School run by Professor Nichols...

<p>Jane Powell stars as a working girl with too many engagements in this breezy musical comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen. A bank clerk who won't say no, Dodie (Powell) has three fiances and can't decide which one to marry. First there's Pete (Cliff Robertson),...

<p>The Merry Widow with no singing? A silent version of an operetta may seem an unlikely venture, but this vivacious hit proved that the right ingredients make for an irresistible romantic souffle. Those ingredients include Erich von Stroheim's stylish direction (in his first film...

<p>Lana Turner is swept off her feet to a Latin beat in this frothy musical comedy costarring Ricardo Montalban and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Blonde, beautiful and fabulously rich, American heiress Nora Taylor (Turner) can't make up her mind if men love her for...

<p>In the second season, the survivors of the Ark discover the world of the secretive race that controls the Mount Weather facility, while continuing to battle the Grounders who live and hunt in the wilds, ninety-seven years after Earth was decimated by nuclear war.</p>

<p>Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows) makes his American directorial debut in this powerful wartime thriller starring John Carradine, Alan Curtis and Patricia Morison. Parachuting near the occupied village of Lidice, Czech soldier Karel Vavra (Curtis) recruits saboteurs in the fight against the Nazis....

<p>On a distant planet, ruled by force of sword and power of sorcery, the warrior Galtar rides on a quest for vengeance against Tormack, the vile despot that killed his parents. Galtar teams with Princess Goleeta, heir to the Sacred Shield, who was orphaned...

<p>Marge and Gower Champion dance up a storm in their first starring roles in this dazzling marital musical comedy costarring Dennis O'Keefe. On the eve of their smash Broadway debut, hoofers Pamela and Chuck Hubbard (Marge and Gower Champion) find out they're expecting a...

<p>It's Secret Squirrel! This truly super spy is ready to tackle the top secret miscreants of the world, regardless of locale. Thanks to his dazzling array of high-tech devices and his invaluable underground assistant, the fez-wearing Morocco Mole (voice of Paul Frees), Secret (Mel...

<p>Since it first appeared in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's enchanting story The Wind in the Willows has been a childhood classic. Now, in this splendidly designed musical adaptation, characters beloved for generations spring to life again, this time with six delightful songs and the voices...

<p>John Barrymore stars as a sadistic impresario who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions in this wild and wicked pre-Code drama directed by Oscar winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, 1943). Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore) fulfills his dream...

<p>Smack dab in the middle of the great Sixties Sitcom Golden Age, Warner Bros. Television surprised audiences with a most unusual series -- Hank! Hank starred Dick Kallman as Hank Dearborn, full-time university gopher and food-truck operator, part-time college drop-in. Orphaned at 15, Hank...

<p>John Barrymore delivers the vote and a terrific performance in this whimsical gem, directed by Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother). A widower with two small children (Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler), former scholar Gregory Vance (Barrymore) has given up his books for booze. Fired from...

<p>Myrna Loy is merely the bridesmaid while Rosalind Russell assumes the bridal honors to partner with Myrna's former flame Walter Pidgeon on this occasion. But perennial screen wife Myrna is not one to take also-ran status without many a brittle barb -- or a...

<p>An island paradise becomes a scarred paradise lost in the spectacular South Seas adventure Rapa Nui, co-produced by Kevin Costner. Jason Scott Lee (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) and Esai Morales (La Bamba) play boyhood friends turned fierce rivals in this tumultuous tale of...

<p>A movie matchup for the ages starts here. This first of five teamings of velvet-voiced Irene Dunne and composer Jerome Kern is a lushly tuneful Gay Nineties musical about the trials of Adeline Schmidt (Dunne), a singer who could rise from headlining at her...

<p>Living with Lincoln chronicles how five generations of one American family have shared the "glorious burden" of collecting, preserving and documenting a treasure trove of photographs, rare books and artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. In the years following the Civil War, Peter Kunhardt's ancestors...

<p>Moving out does not necessarily mean moving on, as Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) discover when Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Carol (Tracey Gold) move to the Big Apple together -- to be roommates! As that arrangement goes about as swimmingly as the...

<p>Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida lead an international cast in this sparkling Gallic comedy, originally written by French dramatist Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. The lavish setting is the gilded fin de siecle era known as La Belle Epoque. Guinness plays Benedict Boniface, a...

<p>World-weary police Lt. Tunner (Barry Sullivan) and the fugitive Creole convict named Jory (Vittorio Gassman), whom he hotly pursues to his Southern hometown, are on opposite sides of the law. But strangely, they're also kindred souls, both extremely devoted to their wives, yet worn...

<p>It's every family's nightmare. Young Bobby Ware and Mickey Goodwin are two happy-golucky pals who trudge up an unstable mountain and suddenly get unlucky -- sliding down a reverse slope onto a ledge from which it's too steep to climb out. An unpretentious, tightly...

<p>Western great "Wild Bill" Elliott sauntered into the Fifties at the top of his Cowboy game and soon signed up at a new studio --Monogram Pictures (soon to become Allied Artists). Along with his two-fists, six guns and ramrod righteousness, Wild Bill brought something...

<p>George Lucas executive produces the animated delight Twice Upon a Time from directors John Korty and Charles Swenson. In its once-upon-a-time world, our heroes are Ralph, the all-purpose animal, and his constant companion, Mumford, who only talks in sound effects. Their mission is nothing...

<p>Colley Dawson (Ray Milland) leads a daring double life. On weekdays, he's an expert -- and entirely law-abiding -- locksmith with unequaled skills at designing impregnable safes and lives in a drab London flat with his mother. Come the weekends, collaborating with a shady...

<p>When club owner Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett) blithely declares, "Gambling is my profession," it's an understatement. Because the beautiful, tough-talking society dame he's talking to is the riskiest wager he's made yet. Virginia Mayo plays tart tomato Linda Vickers, who, suspicious that Fain used...

<p>Susan Starrling (Gigi Perreau) sees something no child should ever see: her stepmother's murder. Traumatized and withdrawn, she cannot help her imprisoned father (Zachary Scott), who's been wrongly convicted of the crime and faces execution, and she retains only the troubling image of the...

<p>"She's a great kid. You can always trust her to double-cross you." Flaxy Martin is one of the most fatal of femme fatales ever to sear the screen -- and provides a white-hot showcase role for the undersung Virginia Mayo, ounce for ounce matching...

<p>The saucer eyes, dithering voice and jittery mannerisms are unmistakable -- and grew on audiences over a beloved 63-year showbiz career. Only the great Ed Wynn could bumble his way into becoming the hero of the Bowery with nimbly nitwitted, sunnily slapstick style as...

<p>Two-time Oscar winner* Helen Hayes gives a powerhouse performance in this acclaimed Pre-Code adaptation of Rose Franken's hit play, costarring Robert Montgomery and Louise Closser Hale. After eloping with her new husband, Victor (Montgomery), free-spirited artist Stella Hallam (Hayes) finds the honeymoon's over when...

<p>Meet Hilary Knight in this up-close-and-personal portrait of the illustrator and artist whose whimsical life is rivaled only by Eloise the iconic book character he brought to life. Executive produced by Girls creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, this documentary short finds Knight looking...

<p>Mary Ann Taylor of Mercury, New Mexico, is a small-town photographer with bigcity dreams. She's drawn to Jack Parker, a car-racing enthusiast who's seen the world and knows it can get cold out there; he craves the hometown comforts Mary Ann is striving to...

<p>Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery suffer a star-crossed love in this Victorian-era romantic drama based on the novel by Hugh Walpole. On the eve of their wedding, Vanessa Paris (Hayes) wrongfully blames Benjie Herries (Montgomery) for her father's death and banishes him forever. Discovering...

<p>Con men Calvin Churchill (Jack Benny) and Clip McGurk (Ted Healy) know how to fix a horserace or boxing match but can they get themselves out of their current fix? Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife (Una Merkel) but...

<p>Return with us now to those naughty days of yesteryear in this ninth volume of Forbidden Hollywood, containing a quartet of pre-Code wonders plus a special post-Code bonus film! Joan Blondell stars as a free-wheeling chorus girl who hooks up with the ultimate hick...

<p>Helen Hayes shines as a shrewd wife who quietly paves the way for her husband's political success in this charming adaptation of the 1908 stage play by Sir J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan), costarring Brian Aherne and Madge Evans. When John Shand (Aherne) is caught...

<p>Early 1930s tabloids screamed out the nefarious activities of the Purple Gang, the Detroit mob that viciously controlled regional bootlegging and vice rackets. By 1935, when the Purple leadership had finally come to justice, Hollywood's gritty, hard-hitting answer to true events came in this...