Batman and Robin 1949  N/R, 263 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane(2) Adams, Lyle Talbot, Ralph Graves, Don C. Harvey, William Fawcett, Leonard Penn, Rick Vallin, Michael Whalen, Greg McClure, House Peters Jr., John Doucette, Wally West, Frank Ellis
In this 15-episode serial, Batman and Robin (Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan) must outwit the black-hooded "Wizard" who sets out to use his stolen remote-controlled device to no good. They must also periodically rescue photographer Vicki Vale (Jane Adams) from assorted perils.
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Beginning of the End 1957  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay, Than Wyenn, Thomas Browne Henry, John Close, Don C. Harvey, Larry J. Blake, Eilene Janssen, Frank Wilcox
Grasshoppers grow to enormous size following exposure to radiation near a government research laboratory. After devouring smaller towns, they descend on Chicago where there is more to eat. Can our hero and heroine cut through the government cover-up and save humanity? Typical low-budget Bert I. Gordon fare.
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Counterfeiters 1948 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: John Sutton, Doris Merrick, Hugh Beaumont, Lon Chaney Jr., George O'Hanlon, Herbert Rawlinson, Pierre Watkin, Robert Kent, Don C. Harvey, Joi Lansing
John Sutton plays a Scotland Yard investigator who establishes himself as an undercover agent and brings an end to the illegal counterfeiting business of a gang of talented criminals.
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Gang Busters 1955  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Karn
Cast: Myron Healey, Don C. Harvey, Sam Edwards, Frank Gerstle, Frank Richards, Kate MacKenna, Rusty Wescoatt, William Justine, Allan Ray, William Fawcett, Charles Victor, Robert Carson
In this spin-off from three episodes of the TV series "Gang Busters," hardened criminal John Omar Pinson (Myron Healey), Public Enemy No. 4, escapes again and again from Oregon State Prison only to be recaptured and returned to prison.
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Mara Maru 1952 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr, Richard Webb, Nestor Paiva, Paul Picerni, Dan Seymour, Georges Renavent, Michael Ross, Don C. Harvey
Salvage divers (Errol Flynn and Raymond Burr) vie for sunken treasure off the Philippines.
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Picnic 1955 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Arthur O'Connell, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell, Betty Field, Verna Felton, Nick Adams, Reta Shaw, Raymond Bailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Phyllis Newman, Henry Pagueo, Don C. Harvey
When drifter Hal Carter (William Holden) wanders into a small Kansas town, his presence greatly affects the citizens as he falls in love with his old friend Alan Benson's (Cliff Robertson) fiancee Madge Owens (Kim Novak). Meanwhile, as he explores the town, Madge's young sister Millie (Susan Strasberg) and spinster schoolteacher Rosemary (Rosalind Russell) fall for him. Matters rise to a head at a picnic, and, after a fight with Alan, Hal hops a freight train to escape the law. But, by story's end, Madge is riding a bus in an effort to find her true love Hal. The film received Oscars for Art Direction/Set Decoration and Film Editing and was nominated for Best Picture, and Director. Arthur O'Connell received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Howard Bevans, the rejected, reliable boyfriend of Rosemary.
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Pushover 1954 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Dorothy Malone, E.G. Marshall, Alan Dexter, Phil Chambers, Don C. Harvey, Paul Richards, Ann Morriss
Lona McLane (Kim Novak) lures an honest police detective, Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray), into the underworld of crime. This was Kim Novak's breakthrough movie.
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| 1. Batman and Robin (1949)
2. Beginning of the End (1957)
3. Counterfeiters (1948)
4. Gang Busters (1955)
5. Mara Maru (1952)
6. Picnic (1955)
7. Pushover (1954)
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