 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Sara Allgood, Peter Godfrey, William Tannen, Frederick Worlock, Frances Robinson, Billy Bevan, Denis Green, Forrester Harvey
The focus of this version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is on the psychological problems involved with Jekyll's two personalities. After the good Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) drinks his potion and the evil Mr. Hyde emerges, his violent and sexual side is drawn to floozy barmaid Ivy Peterson (Ingrid Bergman). Later, when the father (Donald Crisp) of Beatrix (Lana Turner) gives permission for Dr. Jekyll to marry her, Dr. Jekyll decides that he must tell them about his evil side of Mr. Hyde. But, his decision may be too late when he discovers that Mr. Hyde is taking over his personality.
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 Dressed to Kill 1946 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon, Frederick Worlock, Carl Harbord, Tom Dillon, Mary Gordon, Ian Wolfe, Harry Cording, Patricia Cameron, Holmes Herbert, Leyland Hodgson, Wallace Scott, Olaf Hytten
In this last Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, they track down stolen engraving plates from the Bank of England. A convicted thief has hidden the location of the stolen plates inside music boxes Innocent people buy the boxes and are then murdered. Now, Holmes tries to locate the last box to discover its hidden secrets and stop the murders.
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Hills of Home 1948  G, 97 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
aka: Master of Lassie
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breon, Alan Napier, Hughie Green, Lumsden Hare, Eileen Erskine, Frederick Worlock, David Thursby
In the Scottish mountain town of Glen Urtach, Lassie has been tending sheep but is afraid of the water. Her owner, Dr. William MacLure (Edmund Gwenn), tries to cure Lassie's phobia but fails–until William has an accident, and Lassie dives into the raging river to save him.
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How Green Was My Valley 1941  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall, John Loder, Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Morton Lowry, Arthur Shields, Ann E. Todd, Frederick Worlock, Richard Fraser
Based on Richard Llewellyn's novel, this touching story about the changing world of a Welsh coal-mining family won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1941, John Ford won an Oscar for Best Director, and Donald Crisp won for Best Supporting Actor. The film won two additional Academy Awards and was nominated for five others.
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 King Lear 1953 TV, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew McCullough
Cast: Orson Welles, Beatrice Straight, Natasha Parry, Arnold Moss, Margaret Phillips, Bramwell Fletcher, David J. Stewart, Alan Badel, Michael MacLiammoir, Frederick Worlock, Scott Forbes, Wesley Addy, Fred Sadoff, Lloyd Bochner, Chris Gampel
This is a good made-for-TV, black-and-white film of the Shakespeare tragedy. Orson Welles plays King Lear who makes the wrong decision concerning the division of his land and power among his daughters Goneril and Regan (Beatrice Straight Margaret Phillips) after he takes away his youngest daughter Cordelia's (Natasha Parry) rights to the kingdom. He bases his decision on their expression of how much each one loves him. The play's subplot about the Duke of Gloucester and his son was deleted in the interest of time.
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The Lone Wolf in London 1947  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders, Eric Blore, Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, Queenie Leonard, Alan Napier, Denis Green, Frederick Worlock, Guy Kingsford
The Lone Wolf is in London at the wrong time when valuable jewels are stolen. Scotland Yard suspects our ex-jewel thief hero, of course, and he must clear himself.
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Love from a Stranger 1947 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, John Howard, John Hodiak, Isobel Elsom, Ernest Cossart, Ann Richards, Frederick Worlock, Philip Tonge, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Billy Bevan
This remake of the 1937 Roland V. Lee film casts Sylvia Sidney in the role of the woman who suspects that her new husband (John Hodiak) plans to kill her.
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The Macomber Affair 1947  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Zoltan Korda
Cast: Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny, Carl Harbord, Earl Smith, Jean Gillie, Vernon Downing, Frederick Worlock
This film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is about Margaret (Joan Bennett) and Francis (Robert Preston) Macomber's doomed safari. Margaret and guide Wilson (Gregory Peck) begin a love affair, and Francis meets a tragic end. Very well presented.
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Man Hunt 1941 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stossel, Heather Thatcher, Frederick Worlock, Roger Imhof, Holmes Herbert, Olaf Hytten, William Haade, Kurt Kreuger, Frederick Vogeding, Lester Matthews
While in the Bavarian Alps, big-game hunter Thorndyke (Walter Pidgeon) has an opportunity to assassinate Hitler. He fails in the attempt and is captured by the Gestapo, beaten, and left for dead. With help from young Vaner (Roddy McDowell), Thorndyke stows away on a steamer where he sees a "Mr. Jones" (John Carradine) who has stolen Thornydyke's identity, including his passport. But "Mr. Jones" is only one problem he must deal with in the coming days. Remade in 1976 as "Rogue Male."
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
aka: 101 Dalmatians
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Cast: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson, Martha Wentworth, Tom Conway, Ben Wright, Lisa Davis, Cate Bauer, Frederick Worlock, Tudor Owen, Lisa Daniels, George Pelling, Thurl Ravenscroft, David Frankham, Ramsay Hill
A male Dalmation, Pongo (voice of Rod Taylor), finds a way for his master, Roger (voice of Ben Wright), to meet Anita (voice of Lisa Davis) who has a pet female Dalmatian, Perdita (voice of Cate Bauer). Roger and Anita fall in love and marry. Pongo and Perdita are now together and produce a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. The evil Cruella de Vil (voice of Betty Lou Gerson) wants to buy Dalmatian puppies to provide fur coats for profit. When Roger refuses to sell them to her, she arranges to steal them. The police cannot find the puppies, but Pongo and Perdita use a system of dog signals to locate them, and–with help from dogs, geese, horses, and cows–the puppies are rescued.
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Passport to Suez 1943 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges, Jay Novello, Gavin Muir, Frederick Worlock, Sig Arno
Private detective Lone Wolf (Warren William) visits the Suez Canal area and double-crosses Nazis who are trying to destroy the Allied shipping route.
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Pursuit to Algiers 1945 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Mystery
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan, Martin Kosleck, John Abbott, Morton Lowry, Frederick Worlock, Gerald Hamer, Rex Evans, Leslie Vincent, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Wilson Benge, Tom Dillon, Sven Hugo Borg
While sailing from London to Algiers, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) protect a prince, Far Eastern regent Nikolas (Leslie Vincent), on his trip home following his father's assassination. Nikolas is disguised as Watson's son in an effort to confuse possible assassins who are on Nikolas' trail. As luck would have it, the assassins are among the passengers, and Holmes must weed out the good passengers from the bad.
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She-Wolf of London 1946  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Curse of the Allenbys
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley, Lloyd Corrigan, Dennis Hoey, Martin Kosleck, Eily Malyon, Frederick Worlock, James Finlayson
A series of grisly murders have the authorities baffled in early-1900s London. Phyllis Allenby (June Lockhart) is convinced that she is the perpetrator, since she is an ancestor of a family that had a werewolf curse. Her fiance (Don Porter) sets out to prove her innocence.
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Strange Cargo 1940 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, Victor Varconi, Paul Fix, John Arledge, Frederick Worlock, Bernard Nedell, Betty Compson, Francis McDonald
Convicts escape from a penal colony off the coast of South America. They board a sloop commandeered by another escapee Andre Verne (Clark Gable), and his girlfriend Julie (Joan Crawford) joins the group. Another in the group is a mystic, Cambreau (Ian Hunter), and, one-by-one, the escapees come under his spell as they die. Few survive the trip, but at the end, Verne believes that Cambreau is God, and he repents. Now, Verne returns to serve out the rest of his sentence, and Julie agrees to be there for him when he is released.
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Terror by Night 1946 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Mary Forbes, Billy Bevan, Frederick Worlock, Leyland Hodgson, Harry Cording, Skelton Knaggs, Renee Godfrey, Geoffrey Steele, Janet Murdoch, Gerald Hammer, Boyd Davis
Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) and her son Roland (Geoffrey Steele) are on a train heading for Scotland, and she has hired Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to guard the "Star of Rhodesia" diamond that she is carrying with her. Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) and Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) are helping Holmes protect the diamond. Holmes switches diamonds with Margaret, but after Roland is killed, and the fake diamond is stolen, Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade set out to solve the mystery.
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The Woman in Green 1945 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell, Mary Gordon, Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Frederick Worlock, Olaf Hytten, Billy Bevan, Eve Amber, Coulter Irwin, Sally Shepherd, Colin Hunter, Leslie Denison
With severed fingers of women murder victims for clues, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate, and the trail leads to a mysterious hypnotist, Lydia (Hillary Brooke). They follow their logic and uncover blackmail and hypnosis that are part of a plot by Lydia and Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty (Henry Daniell).
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| 1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
2. Dressed to Kill (1946)
aka: Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
3. Hills of Home (1948)
aka: Master of Lassie
4. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
5. King Lear (1953)
6. The Lone Wolf in London (1947)
7. Love from a Stranger (1947)
8. The Macomber Affair (1947)
9. Man Hunt (1941)
10. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
aka: 101 Dalmatians
11. Passport to Suez (1943)
12. Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
13. She-Wolf of London (1946)
aka: The Curse of the Allenbys
14. Strange Cargo (1940)
15. Terror by Night (1946)
16. The Woman in Green (1945)
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