The Accused 1949  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick, Sara Allgood, Ann Doran, Suzanne Dalbert, Mickey Knox, Francis Pierlot, George Spaulding, Carole Mathews, Billy Mauch, Joe Gray, Bess Flowers
Straight-laced, psychology professor Dr. Wilma Tuttle (Loretta Young) accidentally murders a student Bill Perry (Douglas Dick) when he attempts to rape her and then covers up her crime. All goes well for Tuttle–until Warren Ford (Robert Cummings) delves into the circumstantial evidence surrounding the murder and sleuths out the truth.
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Angel Face 1952 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Jim Backus, Leon Ames, Barbara O'Neil, Kenneth Tobey, Raymond Greenleaf, Griff Barnett, Robert Gist, Morgan Farley, Bess Flowers, Herbert Lytton
When a beautiful–but psychotic–rich woman, Diane (Jean Simmons), plots to kill her stepmother Catherine (Barbara O'Neil), ambulance driver Frank (Robert Mitchum) unwittingly becomes involved in the crime. Frank is hired as the family chauffeur, and Diane fixes the car so that it goes over a cliff, but the accident kills not only Catherine but Diane's father Charles (Herbert Marshall) as well. Frank and Diane are now charged with murder. In an effort to sway the jury, Diane's lawyer (Leon Ames) suggests Diane and Frank marry, they do, and are acquitted. After being freed, Frank realizes that he cannot be married to a murderess and tells Diane that he is leaving her. Not a good move because Diane now puts the car into reverse, they fall over a cliff, and hurtle to their deaths.
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Born to Be Bad 1950  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Mel Ferrer, Joan Leslie, Zachary Scott, Harold Vermilyea, Virginia Farmer, Kathleen Howard, Irving Bacon, Bess Flowers
A woman (Joan Fontaine) tricks a millionaire into marrying her and then runs off with another man.
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Change of Heart 1934 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Mischa Auer, Jane Darwell, Bess Flowers, Dick Foran, Leonid Kinskey
Following college, four graduates head for New York in search of fame and fortune.
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 The Chase 1946  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Ripley
Cast: Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Peter Lorre, Jack Holt, Don Wilson, James Westerfield, Shirley(2) O'Hara, Nina Koshetz, Alex Minotis, Yolanda Lacca, Jimmy Ames, Bess Flowers, Alex Montoya
The fortunes of Chuck (Robert Cummings), an out-of-luck veteran, change when he returns a wallet to gangster Eddie (Steve Cochran). Matters get rough when Eddie's wife (Michele Morgan) is sprung from prison. Chuck helps her escape from Eddie, and the chase is on.
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Deception 1946 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott, Benson Fong, Richard Walsh, Lois Austin, Alex Pollard, Bess Flowers, Kenneth Hunter, Russell Arms, Patricia Barry, Gino Corrado, Clifton Young
Alexander (Claude Rains) is an orchestra leader who threatens the happiness of Christine (Bette Davis) when he tells her he is going to reveal facts about their earlier love affair to her jealous husband Karel (Paul Henreid).
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Delightfully Dangerous 1945 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Arthur Treacher, Louise Beavers, Ruth Tobey, Ruth Robinson, Andre Charlot, Shirley Hunter Williams, Bess Flowers, Earle Hodgins, Morton Gould & Orchestra
A singing career on Broadway is the dream of Sherry Williams (Jane Powell) who goes to NYC to visit her sister, Jo (Constance Moore), who she believes is already a Broadway star. But, when she arrives in the city, Sherry discovers that Jo is not a Broadway star but is, instead, burlesque star "Bubbles Barton." Undaunted, Sherry makes friends with producer Arthur Hale (Ralph Bellamy) to help get Jo a Broadway role–and the fun begins.
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 Dial M for Murder 1954  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, Robin Hughes, George Alderson, George Leigh, Guy Doleman, Forbes Murray, Martin Milner, Thayer Roberts, Bess Flowers
Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants his wife Margot's (Grace Kelly) money and plots to kill her. However, she kills her assailant "Captain Lesgate" (Anthony Dawson), and Tony reworks his plan to make his wife appear guilty of cold-blooded murder. In the end, he is too clever for his own good. Originally shown in 3-D.
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 Double Indemnity 1944  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Gig Young, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, Edmund Cobb, Byron Barr, John Philliber, Clarence Muse, Bess Flowers, Sam McDaniel
Insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) is persuaded to kill his lover Phyllis' (Barbara Stanwyck) husband (Tom Powers) in order to cash in his insurance policy. The catch is that if the husband is killed by a moving vehicle, the policy will pay double. But, they have not counted on tenacious insurance investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) who is assigned to the case. Great performances by all. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards–including Best Picture, Actress (Stanwyck), and Director.
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Everybody Does It 1949 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, Millard Mitchell, Tito Vuolo, Lucile Watson, John Hoyt, Leon Belasco, George Tobias, John Goldsworthy, Robert Emmett Keane, Bess Flowers
While an aspiring young singer (Celeste Holm) plies her trade, her husband (Paul Douglas) is the one who unwittingly ends up with the musical career. Entertaining.
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A Free Soul 1931 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont, Claire Whitney, Frank Sheridan, Edward Brophy, George Irving, Roscoe Ates, Bess Flowers, James Donlan, Henry Hall, Lee Phelps
Lionel Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the boozing lawyer, Stephen Ashe, whose daughter (Norma Shearer) becomes part of a romantic triangle with gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) and her fiance, Dwight Winthrop (Leslie Howard). This film was later remade as "The Girl Who Had Everything."
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Hands Across the Table 1935 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Marie Prevost, William Demarest, Edward Gargan, Ferdinand Munier, Bess Flowers
Manicurist Regi Allen (Carole Lombard) sets out to marry a rich man. Theodore Drew III (Fred MacMurray) has similar plans to marry a wealthy woman. They meet, and each thinks the other has money. But, they fall in love and forego their original plans.
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Heartbeat 1946 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mona Maris, Henry Stephenson, Ivan Lebedeff, Bess Flowers, Torben Meyer
After escaping from a reform school, Ariette (Ginger Rogers) returns to the life of a pickpocket in Paris. Now, she plies her trade on a young diplomat (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and ends up falling in love with him.
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 Holiday 1938 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell, Ann Doran, Bess Flowers, Neil Fitzgerald, Matt McHugh, Lillian West, Hilda Plowright
Adapted from Phillip Barry's Broadway play, this is the second film rendition about the young couple, Julia (Doris Nolan) and Johnny (Cary Grant), who are mismatched in plans for the future. Johnny is being coerced into joining Julia's father's business firm. All is not lost because Julia's sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn) loves Johnny for who he really is, and everyone lives happily ever after.
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Imitation of Life 1959  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Robert Alda, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner, Dan O'Herlihy, Troy Donahue, Jack Weston, Mahalia Jackson, Bess Flowers, Joel Fluellen, Peg Shirley
This is a revised version of the earlier film, but now the story has been updated to fit the 1950s. Two single mothers Lora Meredith (Lana Turner), who is White, and Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), who is Black, move in together and raise their daughters. Lora is an aspiring actress, and Annie takes care of the household chores. But, personal problems enter their lives. Light-skinned, 18-year-old Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) passes for White and breaks her mother Annie's heart. Meanwhile, Lora's 16-year-old daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) feels neglected by her mother as Lora's time is taken up with her career, and Susie falls for photographer Steve Archer (John Gavin). But, when Annie dies, Lora and the daughters realize their mistakes and change their attitudes about life. Both Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
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 It Happened One Night 1934 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, Henry Wadsworth, Claire McDowell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hoyt, Ward Bond, Milton Kibbee, Jameson Thomas, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson, Irving Bacon, Bess Flowers
This movie took a clean sweep of the Academy Awards with Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Writer. It relates the romance of a news reporter (Clark Gable) who is out for a story about a spoiled rich girl (Claudette Colbert) who is on the run from her father and fiance. Of course, they fall in love. Clark Gable, "Remember me? I'm the fellow you slept on last night."
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 Jailhouse Rock 1957 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Hugh Sanders, Dean Jones, Jennifer Holden, Vaughn Taylor, Glenn Strange, Grandon Rhodes, Katherine Warren, Anne Neyland, Peter Adams, Bess Flowers, Francis De Sales, Percy Helton
This is Elvis Presley at his best. He plays singer Vince Everett who accidentally kills a man and ends up in prison where he finds a friend in Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy) who suggests that he perform in the prison show. He is a hit! Later, after Vince is released from jail, he meets and falls in love with a publicist, Peggy Van Alden (Judy Tyler), who happens to work for a record company. She is an important part of his recording "Jailhouse Rock" and certain stardom.
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The Lady Eve 1941 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Luis Alberni, Robert Greig, Janet Beecher, Dora Clement, Al Bridge, Eddie Hall, Bess Flowers
This not-to-be-missed comedy pits Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) and Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) as the romantic couple who meets aboard ship. Very rich Charles rejects Jean who in turn plots to get him back by posing as Lady Eve Sidwich. A fun ride.
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The Lone Wolf in Paris 1938 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leona Maricle, Olaf Hytten, Albert Dekker, Bess Flowers, Eddie Fetherston, Dick Curtis
Francis Lederer takes on the role of the jewel-thief-turned-sleuth in this second of the series, three years after the first entry. Weaker that the original, the Lone Wolf helps a Princess in retrieving the crown jewels from the dastardly Grand Duke.
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The Lost World 1960  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Irwin Allen
Cast: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas, Richard Haydn, Ray Stricklyn, Jay Novello, Ian Wolfe, Vitina Marcus, Colin(2) Campbell, Bess Flowers, Ben Wright
This second retelling of A. Conan Doyle's tale takes plenty of liberties with his story as Professor Challenger (Claude Rains) and his group seek out the prehistoric creatures he knows must exist. Director Irwin Allen went on to disaster films (such as "The Towering Inferno" and "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure").
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Lullaby of Broadway 1951 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: David Butler
Cast: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, Florence Bates, Anne Triola, Hanley Stafford, Donald Kerr, Bess Flowers
Melinda Howard (Doris Day) is a musical star in London who visits her mother, Jessica Howard (Gladys George), in the United States where she realizes that life has not been very good for Jessica lately.
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The Matchmaker 1958 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Joseph Anthony
Cast: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse, Wallace Ford, Perry Wilson, Russell Collins, Rex Evans, Gavin Gordon, Torben Meyer, Bess Flowers
This forerunner of the musical "Hello, Dolly" stars Shirley Booth as matchmaker Dolly Levi who falls in love with Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford). Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine play the young couple, Cornelius Hackl and Irene Malloy, who Dolly has matched.
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Midnight 1939 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer, Hedda Hopper, Monty Woolley, Ferdinand Munier, Elaine Barrie, Armand Kaliz, Rex O'Malley, Eugene Borden, Paul Bryar, Gino Corrado, Bess Flowers
While in Paris, American showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is hired by aristocrat Georges Flammarion (John Barrymore) to take on the job of impersonating royalty to lure playboy Jacques Picot (Francis Lederer) away from Georges' wife Helene (Mary Astor). Eve goes to Georges' chateau in Versailles as Baroness Czemy, and the game begins. Meanwhile, cab driver Tibor (Don Ameche) has fallen in love with Eve, arrives on the scene to win back Eve, and poses as her husband the Baron Czemy.
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The Mummy's Ghost 1944  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Reginald LeBorg
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames, Barton MacLane, George Zucco, Frank Reicher, Harry Shannon, Emmett Vogan, Lester Sharpe, Claire Whitney, Oscar O'Shea, Ivan Triesault, Steve Barclay, Bess Flowers
This sequel to "The Mummy's Tomb" is yet another horror story involving Kharis the Mummy (Lon Chaney) who gets help from Cult of Akran member Yousef Bey (John Carradine) in the search for his lost love, Princess Ananka (Ramsay Ames). They travel to New England and learn that Ananka's soul has been taken over by an exchange student, Amina Mansouri (also played by Ames), who is studying with Egyptologist Norman (Frank Reicher) and has a boyfriend Tommy (Robert Lowery). Kharis stalks Amina, and when he learns that Yousef Bey is in love with his princess, he kills him. Now, with his reincarnated princess in his arms, the Mummy sinks into a bog and disappears. Followed by "The Mummy's Curse."
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 My Man Godfrey 1936 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Gregory LaCava
Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Alan Mowbray, Jean Dixon, Mischa Auer, Franklin Pangborn, Selmer Jackson, Pat Flaherty, Robert Light, James Flavin, Bess Flowers, Edward Gargan
Wealthy debutante Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) wins the prize in the scavenger hunt when she returns to the party with Godfrey (William Powell) as her "forgotten man" item. That event begins a chain of events that leads to Godfrey becoming part of the Bullock household where he serves as their butler and tries to straighten out the pretentious Bullock family members. Six Academy Award nominations were received, including Best Actor (Powell), Actress (Lombard), Supporting Actor and Actress (Mischa Auer and Alice Brady), and Director.
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Pal Joey 1957 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, Bobby Sherwood, Hank Henry, Barbara Nichols, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Wilcox, Pierre Watkin, James Seay, Franklyn Farnum, Bess Flowers, Robert Reed
San Francisco nightclub entertainer Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) cannot seem to decide whether he is a good or bad guy. Romance comes into play when lecherous, wealthy widow Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth) finances Joey in his own nightclub, the Chez Joey. But, it is good-girl chorine Linda English (Kim Novak) who Joey falls in love with. When Vera offers a bribe to get Joey to marry her, will Joey go along with it, or will he choose to change his ways and find love with Linda? Songs include "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," and "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! 1958 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson, Tuesday Weld, Dwayne Hickman, Gale Gordon, Murvyn Vye, O.Z. Whitehead, Percy Helton, Tom Gilson, David Hedison, Richard Collier, Tap Canutt, Bess Flowers
Harry and Grace Bannerman (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward) react negatively to an army missile base construction near their suburban town of Putman's Landing. The townsfolk cannot deal with the annoying Captain Hoxie (Jack Carson), and Harry, who is an Air Force reservist, acts as the liaison between the town and the Army. After Grace and her group dress up as Indians for a 4th of July demonstration against the planned missile site, they learn that the site will bring employment to their town. Harry and Grace embrace, but they accidentally push a lever that launches a missile containing Captain Hoxie, and he goes up in space.
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Seven Thieves 1960 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby, Michael Dante, Berry Kroeger, Sebastian Cabot, Marcel Hillaire, John Beradino, Jean Del Val, Bess Flowers, Jonathan Kidd
A discredited professor (Edward G. Robinson) organizes a gang of thieves, plans a robbery, and then attempts it. The target is the bank vault inside a Monte Carlo casino. There is one problem: the criminals realize that there is no way to fence the loot and return it to the casino. Their take after all the work is the $3,000 they win at the gambling tables. Very good performances.
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Sinister Hands 1932 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Armand Schaefer
Cast: Jack Mulhall, Phyllis Barrington, Crauford Kent, Mischa Auer, Louis Natheaux, Lloyd Ingraham, James P. Burtis, Phillips Smalley, Gertrude Messinger, Helen Foster, Lillian West, Bess Flowers
Police Captain Herbert Devlin (Jack Mulhall) investigates a wealthy man's murder during a seance. There are plenty of attendees at the seance who had a motive in this low-budget, forgettable film.
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Stop! Look! and Laugh! 1960 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jules White
Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Paul Winchell, Joe Bolton, Edmund Cobb, Chester Conklin, Bess Flowers, Clarence Straight, Gino Corrado
Some of the Three Stooges funniest moments are interwoven with comedy acts of the 1950s in this video.
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Sudden Fear 1952 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Miller
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston, Mike Connors, Bess Flowers, Taylor Holmes, Arthur Space
A playwright, Myra Hudson (Joan Crawford), learns that her new husband (Jack Palance) is planning to kill her. She devises a unique way to beat him at his own game. Crawford and Palance were nominated for Oscars.
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 Swing Time 1936 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Pierre Watkin, Georges Metaxa, Gerald Hamer, Edgar Dearing, Ralph Byrd, Fern Emmett, Frank Mills, Landers Stevens, Bess Flowers
A gambler, John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire), arrives late and misses his wedding to Margaret (Betty Furness). Now he must prove that he is worthy of marrying her in the future. He goes to New York where he has an on-again, off-again romance with dance instructor Penelope "Penny" Carroll (Ginger Rogers). By story's end, Penny escapes her own wedding to Ricky (Georges Metaxa), and "Lucky" and Penny are reunited. Jerome Kern wrote the score, which includes "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Never Gonna Dance." The first of these won the Oscar for Best Song. One of the pair's best.
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Three for the Show 1955 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon, Myron McCormick, Paul Harvey, Willard Waterman, Hal K. Dawson, Gene Wesson, Eugene Borden, Bess Flowers, Aileen Carlyle, Rudy Lee, Henry Slate, Robert Williams
Musical comedy star Julie (Betty Grable) is married to her dancing partner Vernon (Gower Champion) when–out of the blue–her "dead" husband Marty Stewart (Jack Lemmon) returns home from World War II. Now, Julie has two husbands, begins to like the idea, and chooses to stay with both while she decides which one she is more in love with.
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 To Catch a Thief 1955 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel, Brigitte Auber, Georgette Anys, Paul Newlan, Lewis Charles, John Alderson, Jean Martinelli, Eugene Borden, Eugene Blancard, Steven Geray, Bess Flowers
Retired jewel thief John Robie (Cary Grant), now living on the French Riviera, is suspected of returning to his former profession. He sets out to prove his innocence, and, with the aid of detective H.H. Hughson (John Williams), he checks out the Riviera vacationers. Among the wealthy tourists are Jessie Stephens (Jessie Royce Landis) and her daughter Frances (Grace Kelly). John meets Frances, and Frances is attracted to him, but John has no time for romance. When Jessie's jewels are stolen, Frances steers the police in John's direction, but then the chemistry between Frances and John heats up, and love is definitely in the air. Now, Jessie is so much in love with John that she does not seem to care whether or not John is really a jewel thief.
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Trapped by Boston Blackie 1948 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Chester Morris, June Vincent, Richard Lane, Patricia Barry, Edward Norris, George E. Stone, Frank Sully, Fay Baker, William Forrest, Sarah Selby, Mary Currier, Pierre Watkin, Ben Welden, Abigail Adams, Bess Flowers
While Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone) are guarding a priceless pearl necklace that Claire Carter (Sarah Selby) plans to wear at a party she is giving, the necklace disappears. Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) investigates and finds the necklace in Blackie's pocket. Once again, Blackie and The Runt escape and set out to find the thief in order to clear their names.
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Vertigo 1958 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones, Tom Helmore, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Fred Graham, Bess Flowers, Alfred Hitchcock, June Jocelyn, John Benson, William Remick
A retired San Francisco detective "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart), who suffers from vertigo (fear of heights), is hired by shipbuilder Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) to trail his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak). During the pursuit, Scottie ends up in a mental hospital. After he is released, he continues his pursuit, which leads to the top of a bell tower. The audience is treated to a tour of San Francisco as Scottie follows Madeleine's trail and falls in love with her in the process.
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The View from Pompey's Head 1955 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Dunne
Cast: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer, Jerry Paris, Marjorie Rambeau, Bess Flowers, Ruby Goodwin, Howard Wendell, Dayton Lummis
A NYC lawyer (Richard Egan) returns to his Southern hometown on a case and renews an aquaintanence with a woman (Dana Wynter) out of his past and views the prejudices that still exist there.
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The Woman in the Window 1944 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey, Joan Bennett, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Robert Blake, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas E. Jackson, Arthur Loft, Frank Dawson, Bess Flowers, Frank McClure
When his family is out of town, the very proper Professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) meets the subject of a painting (Joan Bennett) and becomes involved in a murder. Great thriller.
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| 1. The Accused (1949)
2. Angel Face (1952)
3. Born to Be Bad (1950)
4. Change of Heart (1934)
5. The Chase (1946)
6. Deception (1946)
7. Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
8. Dial M for Murder (1954)
9. Double Indemnity (1944)
10. Everybody Does It (1949)
11. A Free Soul (1931)
12. Hands Across the Table (1935)
13. Heartbeat (1946)
14. Holiday (1938)
15. Imitation of Life (1959)
16. It Happened One Night (1934)
17. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
18. The Lady Eve (1941)
19. The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938)
20. The Lost World (1960)
21. Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
22. The Matchmaker (1958)
23. Midnight (1939)
24. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
25. My Man Godfrey (1936)
26. Pal Joey (1957)
27. Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
28. Seven Thieves (1960)
29. Sinister Hands (1932)
30. Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)
31. Sudden Fear (1952)
32. Swing Time (1936)
33. Three for the Show (1955)
34. To Catch a Thief (1955)
35. Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948)
36. Vertigo (1958)
37. The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
38. The Woman in the Window (1944)
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