The Curse of the Cat People 1944   N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Fantasy
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Elizabeth Russell, Eve March, Julia Dean, Erford Gage, Sir Lancelot, Charles Bates, Edmund Glover, Sarah Selby
In this sequel to "Cat People," a little girl (Ann Carter) develops her private world of make-believe when her father (Kent Smith) ignores her emotional needs, and she conjures up her father's deceased wife (Simone Simon).
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 Dumbo 1941  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Otto Englander
Cast: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Cliff Edwards, Verna Felton, Herman Bing, John McLeish, Eddie Holden, Malcolm Hutton, Sarah Selby, Margaret Wright, Chuck Stubbs, Dorothy Scott, Harold Manley, Billy Bletcher, Jim Carmichael
Dumbo is an elephant born with very large ears. Because of his physical deformity, he is teased by the other circus animals. Adversity is turned into a plus when Dumbo's mouse friend, Timothy, teaches him to use his ears to fly in this classic Disney children's animated film. The film won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score, and the song "Baby Mine" was nominated for Best Song.
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The McConnell Story 1955 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore, Frank Faylen, Robert Ellis, Willis Bouchey, Sarah Selby, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Perry Lopez
This is a fictionalized biography of Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., a jet pilot who returned from the Korean War as a hero but lost his life while performing as a test pilot.
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Moon Pilot 1962  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Director: James Neilson
Cast: Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval, Tommy Kirk, Bob Sweeney, Kent Smith, Simon Scott, Bert Remsen, Nancy Kulp, Sarah Selby, Dick Whittinghill, Bob Hastings
In this comedic science-fiction tale from Disney, astronaut Captain Richmond Talbot (Tom Tryon) volunteers to make the first trip to the moon. The mission is hush-hush, and Talbot is being carefully watched by security agents. He meets Lyrae (Dany Saval) who says she is from another planet and that she has come to provide a special coating to safeguard his rocket. When the rocket is launched, Talbot finds that Lyrae is a stowaway, and the two soar off happily on their way to the moon.
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Short Cut to Hell 1957 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: James Cagney
Cast: Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, William Bishop, Jacques Aubuchon, Yvette Vickers, Murvyn Vye, Roscoe Ates, Peter Baldwin, Milton Frome, Sarah Selby
This screen adaptation of Graham Greene's "A Gun for Sale" is about a hit man who searches for the man who hired him. This is a remake of 1942's "This Gun for Hire."
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Stopover Tokyo 1957  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard L. Breen
Cast: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott, Reiko Oyama, Larry Keating, Sarah Selby, Solly Nakamura, H. Okhawa, K.J. Seijto, Demmei Suzuki, Yuki Kaneko
Intelligence agent Mark Fannon (Robert Wagner) is assigned to protect an American ambassador (Larry Keating) in Japan. But the ambassador refuses to cooperate because he doesn't believe that his life is in danger. That makes it much easier for crazed Communist spy George Underwood (Edmond O'Brien) to plant his bomb in the embassy. Fannon works to find and neutralize the bomb. He succeeds, and all are saved. But, at the same time, his new girlfriend Tina (Joan Collins) says she cannot live in his dangerous world and walks out on him.
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Tower of London 1962  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Joan Freeman, Michael Pate, Robert Brown, Bruce Gordon, Joan Camden, Richard Hale, Sandra Knight, Sarah Selby, Charles Macaulay
The crazed King Richard III (Vincent Price) rules England by brute force as his method of retaining the throne. Weak. Though not great, the 1939 version is better.
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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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| 1. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
2. Dumbo (1941)
3. The McConnell Story (1955)
4. Moon Pilot (1962)
5. Short Cut to Hell (1957)
6. Stopover Tokyo (1957)
7. Tower of London (1962)
8. Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948)
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