Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1939  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
aka: Huckleberry Finn
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Lynne Carver, Jo Ann Sayers, Minor Watson, Elisabeth Risdon, Victor Kilian, Clara Blandick, Wade Boteler, Irving Bacon, Frank Darien, Roger Imhof, E. Alyn Warren
This is a very good remake of the Mark Twain classic as the innocent boy, Huck (Mickey Rooney), and runaway slave Jim (Rex Ingram) meet adventures and become friends as they raft down the Mississippi River. During their trip, Huck and Jim run into con-men "the King" (Walter Connolly) and "the Duke" (William Frawley) who impersonate royalty as part of their swindling schemes. True to Twain's story.
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 The Light of the Western Stars 1940  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum, Noah Beery Jr., J. Farrell MacDonald, Ruth Rogers, Tom Tyler, Rad Robinson, Alan Ladd, Eddie Dean, Esther Estrella
Madeline (Jo Ann Sayers) leaves her eastern life and buys a ranch in the West. But, trouble starts right away as she is confronted with smuggling and other illegal acts in this Zane Grey story.
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The Man with Nine Lives 1940  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Behind the Door
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Boris Karloff, Byron Foulger, Roger Pryor, Stanley Brown, Charles Trowbridge, Jo Ann Sayers, Hal Taliaferro, Ivan Miller, Bruce Bennett, Ernie Adams
A doctor (Boris Karloff), frozen for many years, is thawed out and then accused of unethically freezing a very wealthy patient to use as a guinea pig in his experiment.
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Young Dr. Kildare 1938  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Walter Kingsford, Monty Woolley, Pierre Watkin, Truman Bradley, Nella Walker
This is the first in a series of nine Dr. Kildare movies. All films star Lew Ayres as the title character and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. The setting is Blair General Hospital. In this episode, Dr. Kildare, upon graduation, decides not to join his father's practice in a small town; rather, he chooses a large hospital in NYC. He gets in trouble right away when he is blamed for the death of an important politician. The wheel-chair-bound Dr. Gillespie helps prove Kildare's innocence and, by story's end, becomes his mentor.
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| 1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
aka: Huckleberry Finn
2. The Light of the Western Stars (1940)
3. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
aka: Behind the Door
4. Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
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