2024-09-17
An adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson play about a war-weary World War II vet forced into a confrontation with the nervous, sadistic mobster who is holding the occupants of a Florida hotel hostage during a hurricane. Claire Trevor won a Supporting Actress Oscar as the gangster's drunken moll.
The life and career of Humphrey Bogart. Lauren Bacall hosts. (Repeat).
A woman who thought herself a widow is blackmailed by her first husband in this Perry Mason whodunit. Look fast for Errol Flynn in his first Hollywood film.
A Broadway comedienne falls for a Boston man, whose meddling sister does not approve. Meanwhile, a British heiress and a big name producer's meager assistant being a love-hate relationship.
The Marx Brothers spoof the opera world as a penny-ante promoter promises to arrange entrance into high society for a wealthy dowager if she antes up $200,000 as a patron of the arts. Plenty of gags and music. Watch for the famed "stateroom scene," where untold amounts of people squeeze into tiny quarters on a ship.
Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) investigates a naval vessel plagued by grisly deaths. Captain: Lionel Jeffries. Craddock: Charles Tingwell. Stringer: Stringer Davis. Compton: Francis Matthews. Commander: William Mervyn. Bacon: Terence Edmond. Humbert: Derek Nimmo. George Pollack directed.
Vintage Hitchcock about an elderly English governess who disappears from a train, a fact that doesn't particularly concern other passengers except for a young lady she'd befriended and who's become convinced that somthing is amiss.
Fine version of Erich Maria Remarque's novel "Flotsam," about Europe's political refugees in the late '30s. Fredric March, Glenn Ford, Margaret Sullavan. Marie: Frances Dee. Lilo: Anna Sten. Kern: Roman Bohnen. Potzloch: Joseph Cawthorn. Ammers: Siegfried Rumann. John Cromwell directed.
Shipped off to live at her uncle's gothic Victorian estate, an orphan one day discovers a mysterious, abandoned garden and devotes herself to restoring it, which helps to change the lives of the bitter man and her sickly, neglected cousin.
A master thief being pursued by French authorities seeks sanctuary in the Casbah and falls for a beautiful Parisienne tourist in the African city.
Orson Welles directed and stars in this stylish thriller about a corrupt detective in a Mexican border town. Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Score by Henry Mancini.
Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure about a lad raised by wolves in the jungles of India, where he tries to adapt to the "civilized" world, but then stumbles upon a rare treasure that leads to further discoveries---of corruption and evil.