2024-09-12
Broad farce about two insurance agents (Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey) who try to run a hotel, and tangle with crooks. Dorothy Lee, Hugh Herbert.
Stuart Erwin as a boy who tries to make a barrel factory successful. Helen Chandler, Toby Wing, Tully Marshall, Walter Byron. Gordon Wiles directed.
Cecil B. DeMille's enthralling potboiler about a New York socialite (Fannie Ward) who turns to a wealthy Asian (Sessue Hayakawa) to pay off a costly debt. Famous for a brutal branding scene. This silent melodrama was selected to the National Film Registry in 1993. Four decades later, Hayakawa would be nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the sadistic commandant in "The Bridge on the Rive
A Mountie (Russell Hayden) searches for a missing trapper and discovers skulduggery. Inez Cooper, Lyle Talbot, Anthony Warde, Douglas Fowley. Standard action.
Child star Jane Withers and singing cowboy Gene Autry are teamed in a yarn of romance, feuding, movie making and bank robbery out West. Marjorie Weaver. Bob: Robert Lowery. Cross: Jack Carson. Evelyn: Katharine Aldridge. Perkle: Hobart Cavanaugh. Alfred E. Green directed.
Religious Programming.
The son of a legendary sheriff (Gene Autry, in a dual role) tracks down escaped outlaws his father jailed. Matt: Alan Hale Jr. Nan: Ruth Lambert. Pete: Jock Mahoney. Big Tim: Thurston Hall. Loco John: Clem Bevans. Directed by John English.
Americana with Walter Matthau as a down-and-out horse trainer who takes charge of a quarterhorse foal. Alexis Smith, Robert Webber, Murray Hamilton. Buddy: Andrew A. Rubin. Directed by Martin Ritt. Photography by John A. Alonzo.
Debbie Reynolds stars as a guitar-slinging sister in this sentimental tunefest about a nun whose religious calling still leaves her time to pen hit records. Based on the true story of Soeur Sourire, Reynolds is Sister Ann, a kind soul whose song, "Dominique," written for a motherless boy on whom she takes pity, eventually lands her on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (the master appears as himself).
Broad farce about two insurance agents (Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey) who try to run a hotel, and tangle with crooks. Dorothy Lee, Hugh Herbert.
Tale of a sheriff helping a boyhood pal clear himself of holdup charges.
An earthy bandito and an Irish soldier of fortune with a penchant for explosives team to rob a bank in 1913 Mexico. When the hole blown in the bank wall frees dozens of political prisoners, the Irishman becomes a hero of the people.
The son of gunslinger-turned-land baron scares everyone in town with his violent behavior, but he eventually crosses the line and forces his father to make a grim decision.
Lucille Ball and William Holden in a farce about a dumb stenographer and a dishonest bookie. Janis Carter. Grant: George Cleveland. Helen: Gloria Henry. Roscoe: Will Wright. Kilcoyn: Frank McHugh. Hobart: James Gleason. Homer: Jimmy Lloyd. Winton: Stephen Dunne. Brightly played for laughs. Lloyd Bacon directed.