2024-09-28
Riveting silent classic about the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake for witchcraft in 15th-century France. The film is noteworthy for its innovative camera techniques, especially its use of extensive close-ups.
Edwin O'Connor's story of an aging New England political boss who seeks re-election as mayor and gets involved in underhanded transactions by both parties.
After a man is killed by a zombie, his sister runs into an isolated house, where a group of people are holed up trying to figure out their escape from the flesh eaters.
Adaptation of the Gunter Grass novel. A young boy growing up in post-World War I Germany is given a small toy drum for his third birthday. Seeing the despair of the adults around him, he vows to never grow up. As the world grows madder throughout the 1930s and '40s, he continues beating his drum, trying to keep his rhythm while growing up in a world that has lost its senses.
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off.
The story of Dr. Anton Mesmer (John Baragrey), the man who discovered hypnotism. (Repeat).
A new dog owner learns the dos and don'ts of training a pet in this humorous and informative short film. Watch as he navigates the challenges of dog training.
The team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey invade Reno as competing divorce lawyers. Long on laughs. Prudence: Dorothy Lee. Joe: Joseph Cawthorn. Aggie: Cora Witherspoon. Judge: Sam Hardy. Pansy: Zelma O'Neal. Crosby: Mitchell Harris. William A. Seiter directed.
A newspaper columnist, who makes random phone calls to readers to find out what it is they would like to do, gets in touch with some popular entertainers who gather to perform their specialties.
Tarzan (Glenn Morris) aids a safari girl (Eleanor Holm) sought by a king (C. Henry Gordon). Penny: Hedda Hopper. Roger: George Barbier. Not up to par. D. Ross Lederman directed.
After being deemed too heavy, a young Bill Cody (George Reeves) is turned down as a Pony Express rider, but when a deliveryman is gunned down, Cody takes a shot at running the route. David Bruce, Frank Wilcox. Directed by B. Reeves Eason. (Repeat).
Good songs and nice production numbers tied to a plot about a ladies' man (Phil Harris) and his escapades. Pete: Charles Ruggles. Laurie: Helen Mack. Ann: Greta Nissen. Hickey: Chick Chandler. Zoe: June Brewster. Mrs. Wells: Marjorie Gateson. Pleasant vintage entertainment. Mark Sandrich directed.
A gun-toting preacher moves to a small Southern town and tries to bring peace to the citizens there, in time making both friends and enemies through his efforts.
Allied soldiers disguised as Nazi officers infiltrate a seemingly impenetrable mountaintop castle in the Bavarian Alps to rescue a captured American general who knows the plans for D-Day.
Adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" puts hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe in the middle of a case involving blackmail and murder when he's hired by a hulking psychotic to find his missing girlfriend. Movie crooner Dick Powell is cast against type as Marlowe. The story was first filmed in 1942 (as "The Falcon Takes Over," with George Sanders), then was remade (as "Farewell,
Fellini's Oscar-winning portrait of a film director struggling with a creative crisis. After admitting he's stumped for ideas about the film he's shooting, he holes away at a spa and retreats into reveries about his childhood and personal fantasies, much to the frustration of his impatient film crew and the exasperated women in his life. (Repeat).
The film is set during the late 1930s; the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, they develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on