Family Movie Classics (FAMMCLSD)

A sheriff (Hugh O'Brian) battles a badman (Raymond Burr) in Arizona. Good suspense. Linda: Nancy Gates. Millie: Reba Tassell. Directed by Gerd Oswald.

Frank Capra satire about a Thoreau-quoting, tuba-playing small-town poet who inherits $20 million and, disillusioned with wealth, decides to give it all away, prompting his lawyer to have him declared insane. Capra's direction won an Oscar for this Best Picture nominee, and nominations also went to titular star Gary Cooper and screenwriter Robert Riskin.

A successful businesswoman who wants to adopt an orphan can only do so if she has a husband.

Musical farce about a woman who struggles to hide her past from her new boyfriend and must try to keep her sister from marrying a scoundrel.

An unhappy wife begins flirting with the eccentric pianist she meets at her psychiatrist's office and she and her husband soon split. But could a divorce be just what they need to save their marriage?

Good guy wins a ranch, bad guy wants it.

Singing cowboy Gene Autry croons such tunes as "Eyes of Texas" and "Down in Slumberland" as he takes baddies to task in this tale of police corruption in Texas. Loyal sidekick Pat Buttram plays himself. Ann Bellamy: Virginia Huston. Colonel Bellamy: Thurston Hall. Cathy: Judy Nugent.

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Roy Rogers, Sheila Ryan, Barton MacLane, Arline Judge, Pat Brady, Bob Nolan. Fast and entertaining. Joseph Kane directed.

Frank Capra satire about a Thoreau-quoting, tuba-playing small-town poet who inherits $20 million and, disillusioned with wealth, decides to give it all away, prompting his lawyer to have him declared insane. Capra's direction won an Oscar for this Best Picture nominee, and nominations also went to titular star Gary Cooper and screenwriter Robert Riskin.

A successful businesswoman who wants to adopt an orphan can only do so if she has a husband.

A law-abiding citizen witnesses a killing and is opposed by townspeople who think the murderer is innocent.

A sheriff (Hugh O'Brian) battles a badman (Raymond Burr) in Arizona. Good suspense. Linda: Nancy Gates. Millie: Reba Tassell. Directed by Gerd Oswald.

Post-Civil War yarn about captured outlaws forced to help round up their former saddle pals. Audie Murphy, Gloria Talbott. Brady: Michael Dante. Willie: Ben Cooper. Andrews: Buster Crabbe. Danny: Ray Stricklyn. Directed by William Witney.

Randolph Scott as a vengeance-seeking cowboy. Tate: John Carroll. Lucy: Karen Steele. Ruby: Valerie French. Sam: Noah Beery. Storrow: John Archer. A minor gem, breaking many formula rules; perhaps Scott's best Western. Directed by Budd Boetticher.

An eccentric older man, who sublets half of a very small apartment in wartime Washington from a young "government girl," plays Cupid after finding out she is single and tries matching her up with a handsome Air Force sergeant by persuading him to move in, too. Charles Coburn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the matchmaker, and the film was nominated for Best Picture.

Buster Keaton as a bungler mistaken for a playboy. Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny. Bellhop: Cliff Edwards. Angelica: Dorothy Christy. Nita: Joan Peers. Edward Sedgwick directed.

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.

Gene Autry is mistaken for an outlaw. Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Earle Hodgins, Donald Kirke, Booth Howard, Clara Kimball Young, Edward Piel Sr., Frankie Marvin.

Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.

A Mountie (Russell Hayden) searches for a missing trapper and discovers skulduggery. Inez Cooper, Lyle Talbot, Anthony Warde, Douglas Fowley. Standard action.

Religious Programming.

When a simian escapes a zoo, a series of murders occur and a lawyer fears he is next, so he hires detectives to protect him.

The East Side Kids are sent to summer camp where they learn about a "monster killer". After sneaking out one night, Peewee is shot by a grave digger and the boys must take refuge in an old mansion—where they are sure the owner is the town's mysterious murderer.

A mentally upset woman (Anabel Shaw) cracks when she sees a murder by a psychiatrist (Vincent Price)---and she's next on his list. Elaine: Lynn Bari. Paul: Frank Latimore. Stevens: Michael Dunne. O'Neil: Reed Hadley. Some suspense. Alfred Werker directed.

Horror yarn with J. Carrol Naish as a doctor who experiments with transplants on a pianist (Ralph Morgan). Tala Birell. Patricia: Wanda McKay. Blake: Terry Frost. Giant: Glenn Strange. Sam Newfield directed.

John Carradine as a Parisian puppeteer who murders for love. Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stossel. Francine: Teala Loring. Babette: Sonia Sorel. Better than average. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

A rejuvenating beauty treatment made from insect enzymes has unexpected side effects for an aging and vain cosmetics executive, who demanded to be the test subject for the new product.

Yarn about a mad scientist (Bela Lugosi) who breeds giant bats to murder his employers. Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren. Maxine: Yolande Mallot. Morton: Guy Usher. Heath: Edward Mortimer. Maguire: Donald Karr. Originally "The Devil Bat.".

When corpses drained of blood appear in a village, town elders suspect a vampire is on the loose. Policeman Karl Brettschneider doubts the existence of vampires, but Dr. Otto von Niemann argues to the contrary. Fingers point at the village idiot, Herman Gleib, but after local vigilantes get him out of the picture, the killings continue. Brettschneider tries to keep a cool head as he searches for p

A loser who works for a skid row florist creates a new breed of plant that feeds on human blood. Soon the meek man is murdering to keep his creation happy.

A psychotic hunter arranges a shipwreck that will allow him to track and kill human prey.

Roger Corman directed this tale about the last three atom-bomb survivors. Antony Carbone. Evelyn: Betsy Jones-Moreland. Martin: Edward Wain. Filmed in Puerto Rico, adding flavor.

A woman finds herself caught between the living and the dead after she survives a fatal car crash, and she is repeatedly drawn to an ominous abandoned carnival on a desolate stretch of highway.

In perhaps his greatest role, Lon Chaney portrays the title character in this silent classic, a crazed, horrifically disfigured composer who takes a beautiful young singer under his wing and terrorizes an opera house in an effort to make her a star. The opera singer's unmasking of the Phantom in his subterranean lair is one of cinema's most iconic screen moments. Chaney created his own special mak

Eerie German Expressionist classic about a hypnotist, a somnambulist, and a woman.

In this campy blend of horror and Western, legendary outlaw Jesse James rides to the rescue when the granddaughter of Baron Frankenstein creates a lumbering, homicidal monster who terrorizes frontier townsfolk.

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Tex Ritter stars as a singing cowboy who joins a traveling minstrel show and catches some outlaws. Ethelind Terry, Eleanor Stewart, Syd Saylor, Snub Pollard, Ed Cassidy.

Director Lindsay Anderson dissects the tough world of a pro rugby player (Richard Harris). Well-acted. Mrs. Hammond: Rachel Roberts. Weaver: Alan Badel. Mrs. Weaver: Vanda Godsell. Johnson: William Hartnell. Len: Jack Watson. Braithwaite: Colin Blakely.

Years after a pair of young lovers are separated by circumstance, they run into each other again in the Alps. The woman has since married an older man, but the old flames cannot resist each other.

Action-packed Roy Rogers outdoor show. Jane Frazee, Stephanie Bachelor, Andy Devine, Roy Barcroft. William Witney directed.

During the Oklahoma oil boom, a rancher is killed in a fight with some oil barons, so his daughter steps in to get revenge by succeeding in his stead.

A Mexican cattleman keeps out of the Civil War by focusing on his own survival and economic standings. When a confederate colonel kidnaps the traveling cattleman, he has to find his way out of being forced to steal cattle for the hungry soldiers.