Hollywood's Gold Era

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ANGEL AND THE BADMAN
This was John Wayne's first independently-produced film made in 1946 after the War. Perhaps reflecting the nation's fatigue at fighting and killing, this film takes a pacifist tone as gun-slinger Wayne is nursed back to health following a gun-fight by a Quaker girl and her family who try and show him that violence is not the only way of life. An excellent action filled story with greater character development than most standard westerns of the time. Also in the cast is Gail Russell, Harry Carey Sr., Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich and Lee Dixon.
(A-147) B & W ..........approximately 100 minutes..................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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BACHELOR APARTMENT
starring Irene Dunne, Lowell Sherman and Mae Murray in an R.K.O. film from 1931. Singles learn about life and love in this pre-code film.
(A-824-V) B & W ....................60 minutes...................$16.95

THE BIG TREES 1952
Feature with Kirk Douglas & Edgar Buchanan. Story of lumbermen vs. homesteaders.
(A-00-MC222)....Color ......89 minutes........................$19.95

BLOOD OF JESUS (1941)
Written,Directed and starring Spencer Williams, Jr. The setting is the negro community in the big city with a religious story of the power of faith.
(A-39) B & W ...............approximately 60 minutes......$9.98 plus shipping and handling

BLOOD ON THE SUN
starring James Cagney
In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two of his best friends are horribly murdered, Condon suspects that the "peaceful" Japanese military government is up to no good. He dedicates himself to getting his hands on the "Tanka Plan," a Japanese blueprint for conquering the world, and bringing this document to the attention of the Free World. As a result, he is targeted for persecution by the corrupt Tokyo police and betrayed by a traitorous fellow journalist. On a pleasanter note, Condon makes the acquaintance of half-Chinese Iris Hilliard, played by Sylvia Sidney, who agrees to help him foil the Japanese High Command. As was customary in wartime films, virtually all the Japanese characters in "Blood on the Sun" are played by Chinese, Korean, and Caucasian actors; for example, Robert Armstrong is cast as Colonel Tojo, while Premiere Tenaka is enacted by John Emery. Plot description courtesy of Hal Erickson and all movie.com
(A-00) B & W ...............approximately 90 minutes......$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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Chloe, Love is Calling (1929)
This early talkie is a terrific Southern melodrama with Olive Borden caught between two men. Also featuring Reed Howes. Directed by Marshall Neilan for Sun Haven Studios.
(A-831-V) ...................70 minutes..............................$16.95 plus S & H

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DANGER LIGHTS 1930 RKO
Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert. Beautifully filmed in several states, this feature film time capsule shows many aspects of the Milwaukee Road during this time. Maintenance, astounding steam footage, and a railroad race across the Midwest at 100 miles per hour to save a dying railroad man. Robert Armstrong (from King Kong) is the man at the throttle who ends up with the girl, Jean Arthur.
(A-00-MC109) ....................73 minutes....................$19.95 plus S & H

DANGER! WOMEN AT WORK (1943)
Patsy Kelly, Mary Brian, Isabel Jewell, Wanda McKay, Betty Compson, Cobina Wright Sr.. Entertaining PRC studio fun-fest! Three ladies inherit a ten-ton truck and decide to go into business. They take a load of gambling equipment to Las Vegas. On the way they pick up a runaway heiress and other assorted passengers. This cross-country truck ride will give you a clue where they got some ideas for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
(A-00-252MC).....................60 minutes ....................$19.95 plus S & H

DANIEL BOONE (1936 version)
The famous pioneer hero who opened Kentucky and created a gateway to the West is portrayed in this large scale historical feature. George O'Brien stars along with Heather Angel and John Carridine.
(A-131) B & W ..........approximately 77 minutes...........................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

DEATH KISS (Tiffany, 1933)
starring Bela Lugosi
Murder strikes at a movie studio. Great behind-the-scenes footage of the movie studios of that era with hand colored portions in this edition from 35mm nitrate.
(A-819) ........................................73 minutes..............................$9.98 plus S & H

DECAMERON NIGHTS
A beautiful Technicolor version of three of Boccaccio's tales of marriage and infidelity in medieval Europe. This film marked the first appearance of Joan Collins who was in her teens when she made this film. The film stars Joan Fontane and Louis Jordan in the romantic trilogy adapted from the ancient dinner stories. Blended with good humor and sensuality, this first rate cast produces a thoroughly delightful movie.
Director Hugo Fregonese and writer George Oppenheimer do the unthinkable: they manage to transform Giovanni Boccaccio's bawdy -- and downright raunchy -- medieval tales of martial discontent and infidelity into harmless white-bread treacle. Louis Jourdan plays Boccaccio in a framing story set in a villa in the Florentine hills. With a widowed woman and her sex-starved female wards hungrily hunched over listening to his every word, Boccaccio spins three tales of illicit romance involving a trio of medieval husbands and wives. All three tales feature Jourdan as the romantic male lead and Joan Fontane- spruced up in a collection of bright costumes -- as the misunderstood and mistreated women of the tales. The first story concerns the bored housewife, of a middle-aged husband, who willingly jumps into the arms of a roustabout. The second tale tells the story of a husband who is highly suspicious of his wife's fidelity and the wife's circumspect way of proving her virtue to her husband. The third story is an ineffectual lark about a wife who fools her indifferent husband into demonstrating his proper marital role. Boccaccio had to wait for Pier Pasolini in order to get the spirit of his Decameron right. Part of this synopsis by Paul Brenner courtesy of All Movie.com
(A-52 ) COLOR ................approximately 85 minutes........................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

DIVORCE OF LADY X
This is a comic tale of marital infidelity back in the 1930's when the topic was less common than today. Merle Oberon is the girl smitten with a famed divorce attorney, played by Lawrence Olivier. The two are forced by circumstances to share a hotel room during a London fog alert (?). She only identifies herself to him as "Lady X". He believes her to be married to one of his clients and is concerned about the potential fall-out!
(A-139) Color ..........approximately 93 minutes............................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

Farewll To Arms
This is the first talking version of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel about love and death in World War 1. An American ambulance driver in Italy meets an English Red Cross nurse while he recovers from wounds suffered during a battle. Their fragile love remains strong amid the horrors of war as fate takes it's hand. Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes star.
(A-312) B & W ................approximately 76 minutes...$9.98 plus shipping and handling

FUGITIVE ROAD
Eric von Stroheim stars in this 1934 production for Invincible Pictures. Stroheim gives a brilliant performance as a World War 1 Austrian officer that spans a range from harshness to sensitivity. From lecherousness to romantic. From wicked cutting humor to imperiousness. Although uncredited, there are obvious touches of his style as a writer and director in this small studio production.
(A-132) B & W.................approximately 65 minutes...$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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GO DOWN DEATH (1942)
Written, Directed and Starring Spencer Williams, Jr.
Based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson, this story takes place in the negro community of a large city and is a story of the battle between good and evil.
(A-38) B & W ..............approximately 55 minutes..............$9.98 plus shipping and handling

GUNG HO ! (1943)
Released at the height of World War 2, this Walter Wanger production came at a critical point in the U.S. war effort. It stars Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, J. Carrol Naish and Noah Beery, Jr. This is the story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders. An elite corps of specially trained Marines, these Raiders were successfully deposited far behind Jap lines to knock out a critical radio transmitter and pave the way to Tokyo. Check the EARLY AMERICANA page for some great WW2 newsreels & documentaries!
(A-204) B & W ....................approximately 90 minutes..............$9.98 plus shipping and handling

Her Private Affair
starring Ann Harding
In her second film, Broadway actress Ann Harding plays the vacationing wife of a judge who finds herself blackmailed by a notorious gigolo. Leaving her husband after a quarrel, Vera Kessler (Harding) dallies rather innocently with Arnold Hartman. Hartman, however, engages in a bit of blackmail and when Vera confronts him, a scuffle breaks out. In the heat of the moment, Vera picks up a gun and the gigolo ends up dead. The butler is arrested for the crime, and although the poor man is acquitted in court, Vera's guilt drives her to leave her husband. But the good judge overhears his wife confessing the truth to the rather confused factotum and forgives her. Plot description by Hans Wollstein.
(A-820) B & W ..............................................$16.95 plus S & H

HOLLYWOOD BLOOPER REEL
From the 1930's and 40's comes this selection of studio out-takes and blow-ups as some of Hollywood's biggest stars show their human side when they blow a line or forget their cues. Such well known greats as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Boris Karloff, Pat O'Brien, Abbott & Costello, Lupe Velez, Red Skelton, Ronald Regan, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson and many more are seen and (unfortunately, heard!). Warning; strong language and occasional off-color material is used by some unlikely sources!
(A-189) B & W ..........approximately 70 minutes...................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

HOLLYWOOD OFF-SCREEN
This collection of old newsreel clips and home movies spans the 1920's through the 1960's. More than 150 stars, directors and celebrities are seen at premiers, location filming, vacationing, at charity events, etc. Celebrities featured in order of appearence include; Cary Grant, Ken Murray, Fred MacMurray, Debbie Reynolds, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Norman Shearer, Clark Gable, Herbert Marshall, Laurel & Hardy, Helen Twelvetrees, Jackie Cooper, Marx Brothers, Carole Lombard, Nick Lucas, Charles Laughton, Joe. E. Brown, Cecil B. DeMille, Claudette Colbert, Johnny Weissmuller, Stuart Erwin, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Mae West, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Pickford, Ruth Etting, Walter Huston, Jack Dempsey, Max Baer, Russ Columbo, Sally Blaine, Lupe Velez, George Raft, Dick Powell, Arthur Lake, Joel McCrea, Buddy Rogers, John Boles, Buster Collier, Robert Woolsey, Gertrude Lawrence, Gregory Ratoff, Clair Windsor, Irene Dunne, George Stevens, Victor MacGlaglen, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lew Ayers, Clara Bow, Rex Bell, Greta Garbo, W. R. Hearst, Marion Davies, Marie Dressler, Charles Chaplin, Mayor Jimmy Walker, Adolph Menjou, George K. Arthur, Hedda Hopper, John Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, Dolores Del Rio, Charles Lindberg, Kirk Douglas, George Jessell, Tom Mix, Johnny Mac Brown, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, William Boyd, Erroll Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia DeHavilland, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Wayne Morris, Mayo Methot, Jane Wyman, Mary Astor, Hobart Bosworth, Leo Carrillo, June Allyson, Martha O’Driscoll, Reginald Gardner, Rory Calhoun, Lucille Ball, George Marshall, Bob Hope, Robert Taylor, Charles Farrell, Spenser Tracy, Bob Cummings, Fannie Brice, Margaret Sullivan, Joan Davis, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Frank Morgan, Edgar Bergan, Dr. Albert Schweizer, Eddie Albert, Jean Crain, Pat Boone, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, William Holden, George Seaton, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Marilyn Monroe, The 3 Stooges, Lady Ashley, Constance Bennett, Paulette Goddard, Ronald Coleman, Carole Landis, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, director David Butler, Alan Joslyn, El Brendel, golfer Jimmy Thompson, Viola Dana, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Will Rogers, Leslie Howard, Russ Columbo, James Gleason, Dick Powell, Betty Grable, Sonny Tufts, Charlie Ruggles, Van Heflin, Ward Bond, Boris Karloff, Susan Hayward, Jon Hall, Lou Costello, Robert Stack, Bette Davis, Eddie Cantor, Frank Sinatra, Andy Russell, Jane Russell, Burt Lancaster, Mickey Rooney, Jack Carson, Thomas Miitchell, Jayne Mansfield, Jack Lemon, director Frank Capra and probably a few more!
(A-004) B & W ...........................90 minutes..............................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS 1946-1953
An outstanding collection of Hollywood newsreels and short films. ERSKINE JOHNSON'S HOLLYWOOD REEL Visits with Charles Coburn, Randy Brooks & Ina Ray Hutton, and Kenneth Toby. See the RKO lot, Prop man's movie magic & special effects, and Beverly Hills jewelry fashions for Hollywood beauties. RIVIERA DREAM As Alex d' Arcy travels the Riveria in his 1950's Studebaker convertible, he meets Charles Boyer, Sonja Henie, Maurice Chevalier, George Raft, Elsa Maxwell, Bob Stack, Buddy Rogers, Steve Reeves, and MORE. ERSKINE JOHNSON IN HOLLYWOOD Visit sights of Hollywood, "where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle." See Dina Shore & George Montgomery on their ranch with their new daughter. See the Max Factor Wig Factory and Henry Morgan in a new movie release. GOIN' HOLLYWOOD Speaking of Animals presents the pets of popular personalities. Included are child star Mary Jane Saunders, Sonny Tubbs and prize chicken, Mona Freeman and monkey, Ishkabibble and Shakespeare the dog, Xavier Cugat and his miniature dog, and more. HOLLYWOOD NEWSREEL Lots of stars at a charity dinner dance includes Joan Crawford, Charles Morrison, Williard Parker, Virginia Field, Ann Sheridan, Gertrude Neilsen, Ethyl Barrymore, Ann Miller, Conrad Hilton, Piper Laurie, Nancy Sinatra, Martin & Lewis, and more. A beauty contest judges by Ken Murray and Jack Bailey, Roy Rogers receives his 10 millionth fan letter, Louis Hayward is given an "invisible" haircut, Hollywood knit fashions for the stars, and Preston Foster.
(A-00-MC244) ..........................................65 minutes ...................$19.95 plus shipping & handling

HOPALONG CASSIDY ENTERS and BAR 20
William Boyd made his debut as Hoppy, with Gabby Hayes in "HOPALONG CASSIDY ENTERS", the first of 66 adventure films in the Hopalong Cassidy series.The black-clad gentleman cowboy and his Bar 20 Ranch hands were introduced in a series of twenty-six painstakingly researched novels by Clarence E. Mulford published between 1912 and the autor's death in 1956. In this story, they try to prevent a range war with a neighboring rancher, Jim Meeker (played by Robert Warwick), whose daughter Mary (Paula Stone) falls for the Bar 20's hot-headed young Johnny Nelson (Jimmy Ellison). Directed by Howard Bretherton and written by Doris Schroder,this film launched the successful series. In the secod feature, "BAR 20", Boyd once again plays Hopalong Cassidy and costars George Reeves, Robert Mitchum, Andy Clyde,Victor Jory and Dustine Farnume (daughter of cowboy legend Dustin Farnum).
(A-684 ) B & W ....................1 hour 53 minutes total...............$14.98 plus shipping & handling

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IMMORTAL BATTALION
This Hollywood import from Great Britain was directed by Carol Reed and stars David Niven, Stanley Holloway and Peter Ustinov. This film follows the metamorphosis of a cross-section group of British citizens from a bunch of squabbling individuals into a top fighting group of citizen soldiers. Under the command of David Niven, they make their contribution in the final phase of the African campaign against Rommel. For some great newsreels & documentaries, see the Early Americana section of this web site for a great variety.
"The Immortal Battalion" has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film,"The New LOT", which ran 44 minutes. When Winston Churchill approached David Niven about creating a film that would do for the British Army what "In Which We Serve" had done for the Royal Navy, he contacted Carol Reed and suggested expanding "The New Lot". The result, written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, was the acclaimed "The Way Ahead". For its U.S. release, "Way Ahead" was edited to a shorter length and retitled "The Immortal Battalion".
In either of its feature length forms, the film is concerned with the training of a bunch of raw recruits into a capable and efficient fighting regiment. Niven stars as Jim Perry, a lieutenant and former ordinary guy who finds that he must learn to take a tough line in order to make his wildly diverse crew come together and understand the importance both of the war and of their place in it. Although it takes time and constant effort on the part of Perry and his sergeant, the eight men eventually overcome their different backgrounds and feelings, and transform themselves into a unit which performs its tasks with admirable skill and dexterity, preparing them for their battle against the Desert Fox in Africa. Told in a semi-documentary style, Battalion also features the screen debut of Trevor Howard. Part of this synopsis provided by Craig Butler courtesy of All Movie.com.
(A-205) B & W ....................approximately 90 minutes...............$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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JUNGLE BOOK (1942 version)
This Alexander Korda screen version of the Rudyard Kipling tale stars Sabu as a young innocent reared by the beasts of the jungle. This adventure is filled with beautiful nature, exciting photography of the wild and action.
(A-143) Color ..........approximately 107 minutes......................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

KING OF THE FOREST RANGERS (complete serial)
From the golden age of movie serials comes this complete action serial. Steve King stars as a forest ranger who must prevent a mad scientist from discovering a buried treasure.
(A-714) B & W .................................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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Movies About Movies Vol. 1
Here's a fun collection of short subjects and excerpts dealing with movie-going, movie-making and movie awards. In "Calling All Girls" we get a tour of a movie studio with the various departments and scenes from some classic musicals including "Don't Say Goodnight" from "Wonder Bar", "Lullabye of Broadway" and "Shadow Waltz" from "Gold Diggers", "By A Waterfall" and "Shanghai Lil" from "Footlight Parade" with James Cagney and Ruby Keeler. Next on the bill is "So You Want To Be In Pictures?" starring George O'Hanlan as Joe McDoaks trying to break into pictures with guest cameos by Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris, Martha Vickers, Janice Page, Robert Hutton and Alexis Smith. Dave O'Brien stars in Pete Smith's classic "Movie Pests" which takes a humorous look at inconsiderate people who cause trouble in movie theaters. "The MacAdemy Awards" is a fun poke at the Oscars with host Dennis James presenting awards to fictitious actors culled from silent era movies. Finally, radio great Fred Allen is featured in "Immediate Seating". This humorous excerpt pokes fun at crowded movie palaces!
(A-707 ) B & W ....................approximately 60 minutes.....$9.98 plus shipping and handling

Movies About Movies Vol. 2
This collection of films is from the silent era. In "CRAZY TO ACT", Oliver Hardy plays a rich movie producer who finances an old fashioned mellodrama for his girl friend Mildred June. An incompetent film director and crew cause him to lose both the film and the girl. Mack Sennett's back-lot and cyclorama are very much a part of the action and atmsophere of the old silent era studios. In "A GIRL'S FOLLY", starring Robert Warwick, June Elvidge, Doris Kenyon and Johnny Hines we get a look at another silent movie studio with the back-lot, cameras, film editors, projection rooms and the extras in their varied costumes. This film was directed by Maurice Tourner. Back again at the Sennett Studios, we get a classic look at movie-going at the old time Nickelodeans and celebrity-worship in "A MOVIE STAR". This is a tour-de-force for veteran comic Mack Swain who plays a bloated cowboy star who shows up at a local theater to admire his own acting and take in all the attention of the ladies.
(A-680) B&W with some color tints.........approximately 80 minutes....$9.98 plus shipping & handling

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OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1934 version)
Bette Davis and Leslie Howard star in this drama set at the turn of the century. The story tells the tragic passion of a crippled young doctor (Leslie Howard) for a lowbrow, self-centered cockney waitress. Rejecting him, she finds she has a hold on him and uses it to her advantage when she desires. Directed by John Cromwell the film also features Alan Hale and Francis Dee.
(A-130) B & W .................approximately 83 minutes...$9.98 plus shipping and handling

ON YOUR GUARD
starring Richard Talmadge as an ex-con who tries for a new life but can't keep out of the way of trouble. Some great trademark stunt work!
(A-809) B & W ................approximately 60 minutes........$16.98 plus shipping & handling

The Oscar Show; 27th Academy Awards (1955)
The complete telecast hosted by Bob Hope. Bing is onscreen for five and a half minutes, joking with Bob and handing out music awards. Rosemary Clooney sings "The Man Who Got Away" and Dean Martin sings "Three Coins in a Fountain." This is the year Bing did NOT win an Oscar for "Country Girl" but Grace Kelly did. Among those stars seen are Marlon Brando (who wins best actor), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Eva Marie Saint, and many more.
(A-879) B & W .......................approx 75 minutes.....................$19.98 + S&H

THE OUTLAW
The western movie occasionally made a jump into main stream adult entertainment instead of the kiddie matinee status it usually occupied. From "The Covered Wagon" to "Stagecoach" there was a lull until Howard Hughes produced "THE OUTLAW" starring Jane Russell. The legend of Billy The Kid has been told countless times over the years. This version is slated more towards older viewers rather than the children's matinee.
(A-188) B & W ...........approximately 90 minutes..................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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PANCHO VILLA
starring Telly Savalas,
also starring Clint Walker, Anne Francis and Chuck Connors
Savalis plays the revolutionary bandit in this action adventure with an exciting train crash at the climax.
(A-669) Color ....................approximately 92 minutes...............$9.98 plus shipping & handling

PARADISE EXPRESS
Here's a railroad action melodrama from 1937 directed by Joe Kane and starring Grant Withers and Dorothy Appleby. A short line railroad struggles against a crooked trucking outfit for survival.
(A-142-E) B & W ....................approximately 58 minutes...............$20.00 plus shipping and handling

PARTY GIRL
starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. made his talkie debut in the low-budget but imaginative "exploitationer" called "PARTY GIRL". Doug Jr. plays carefree young bachelor Jay Roundtree, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Though Jay is in love with his dad's secretary, his class consciousness compels him to keep his distance from her. One night, he joins his fraternity pals for a wild penthouse bash, where a group of "party girls" (a 1930 code word for prostitutes) encourage the guests (mostly "dirty old men" in tuxedoes) to wash their inhibitions away with bootleg liquor. Imagine Jay's surprise when, in the course of the evening, he discovers that his office sweetheart was once a party girl herself -- though that's nothing compared to what he discovers about his own father! Though economically produced, "PARTY GIRL" contains some astounding visual effects, including a hydraulic "car lift" which transports the revelers to their secret rendezvous and a remarkably convincing suicidal plunge from a skyscraper. Plot synopsis courtesy of Hal Erickson and all movie.com.
(A-198) ....................approximately 67 minutes...............$9.98 plus shipping & handling

PERILS OF PAULINE
This is not the silent serial listed elsewhere but a 1940's bio-pic starring Betty Hutton as Pearl White. Loosely based on the actress, this light adventure musical captures the early days of movie-making with an affectionate feel for the pioneering days of films. John Lund and a host of silent era greats join in on the fun when entertainment was simpler and more basic. Pearl White's character is introduced as a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike, played by John Lund. Fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, Pearl takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac, pplayed by William Demerest, top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials. At the height of her fame, she arranges for her theatrical mentor Mike to get a job as her leading man, forcing him to swallow his pride and admit that he's been in love with her from the moment he met her. A series of clich�d complications contrive to separate Pearl and Mike, but he returns to her arms when she's seriously injured during a Parisian stage performance. A few fairly credible recreations of silent moviemaking techniques are staged. As a musical comedy, however, the film passes muster, especially during the performance of such Frank Loesser tunes as "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" and "The Sewing Machine." As a bonus, the film rounds up several silent-movie veterans in cameo roles, including William Farnum, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Finlayson, Creighton Hale, Hank Mann and Paul Panzer, who played the sneering villain in the original 1914 "Perils of Pauline". Portions of this description courtesy of Hal Erickson and all movie.com.
(A-145) Color ..........approximately 100 minutes........................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

PIRATES OF CAPRI (CAPTAIN SIROCCO) 1949
Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Alan Curtis. Sirocco is a dashing pirate who is actually working with the French resistance. Action is non-stop. Hayward shows his sword fighting prowess and acrobatics as he fights the unscrupulous rulers who will stop at nothing to find his identify. The torture chambers in the dungeons loosen the tongues of those who may know his whereabouts. Elaborate costuming, swashbuckling action.
(A-00-MC246) .......................87 minutes.................. $19.95 shipping & handling

PLEASURE
This rare pre-code feature stars Carmel Myers who, as an artist’s wife, learns her husband is having an affair. The decadent lifestyle of the upper class is explored in this British drama. Look for Lena Basquette, DeMille’s Godless Girl, and a walk on part by Florence Lawrence! DIRECTED BY: OTTO BROWER
Studio: SUPREME FEATURES Year: 1931
(A-819-V) .................................53 Minutes..................$9..98 plus S & H

PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN
starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Producer and director Alexander Korda followed up "Private Life of Henry the Eighth"(one of the first internationally successful British films) with this historical comedy. After years in exile, the great lover Don Juan returns to Seville, the city of his salad days. However, Don Juan is now married and middle-aged, and his days as a spoiler of women seem to be behind him. When he learns that a young man in town, played by Barry McKay, has been posing as him and making time with the local ladies, Don decides to prove who the great lover truly is and attempts the seduction of Antonia, played by Merle Oberson, a beautiful dancer. However, Don's doctor informs him that girl-hunting will tax his fragile health, and his wife Dolores will no longer turn a blind eye to his infidelity. When the impostor is killed by a jealous husband, Don is relieved, as his "death" allows him to retire from his career as a rake with his reputation intact. But when the old itch returns, Don makes the sad discovery that if he can't convince women he's Don Juan, they simply aren't interested in him. "Private Life of Don Juan" provided one of the few talking era roles for silent screen swashbuckler, and proved to be his last picture. He retired and passed away in 1939.
(A-00) ..............................................$9.98 plus S & H

QUARTER CENTURY OF ENTERTAINMENT
This collection of news reels concentrates primarily on Hollywood movie stars, premieres and radio and TV celebrities. Starting in 1942 with The Hollywood Victory Caravan with many stars selling war bonds. James Stewert enlists as does Joe Louis, Tyrone Power, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Clark Gable. Hollywood stars win awards including Gary Cooper, James Cagney, Joan Fontane and Greer Garson. Don Wilson hosts Mail Call as stars entertain soldiers. Dorothy Lamour sings "I'm in the Mood For Love" and Abbott & Costello do "Who's On First?". Spike Jones performs "Cocktails For Two". Other stars include Dick Powell, Dale Evans, Yvonne DeCarlo and Danny Kaye who does his "Melody in 4-F". More awards as Margaret O'Brien, Myrna Loy, Ann Blythe, Ray Milland and Ingrid Bergman are on hand for ceremonies. A news story on circus knife throwing act follows. More award ceremonies with such stars as Loretta Young, Ronald Coleman and Olivia DeHavilland. Rita Hayworth marries Aly Khan in 1949. The 1950's bring about the Atomic age with cold war topics and cold war atom-age monsters! Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner appear at a premiere of "Meet Danny Wilson". Also on hand are Milton Berle, Robert Preston and Dagmar. The National Conference of Christians and Jews meet with entertainment people helping out. Oscars are back again with Shelly Winters, Donald O' Conner , Charles Couburn, Greer Garson and Humphrey Bogart. Marylin Monroe and Joe DiMaggio make headlines! Elvis in the Army! Jack Benny, The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges appear in commercials and promos. The quiz show scandal breaks! Elvis is mustered out of the service. Alfred Hitchcock creates a sensation with "Psycho"! Louis Armstrong swings in the Congo! The advent of Tel-star is marked by J.F.K. Marilyn Monroe dead! Grace Kelly marries Royalty. The Beatles and Twiggy hit the scene! Bob Hope entertains the soldiers in Viet Nam and Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California.
(A-090) B & W ..........approximately 60 minutes.........$14.98 plus shipping and handling

Repeat Performance
starring Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Richard Basehart, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Natalie Schafer, Benay Venuta, Ilka Gruning and John Ireland as narrator.Produced by Brian Foy and Aubrey Schenck. Screenplay by by Walter Bullock from the novel by William O'Farrell. Directed by Alfred Werker.
This is one of those fantasy stories about living part of your life over again. Sheila Page, a Broadway star, shoots her murderous husband, Barney on New Year's Eve. She runs from her apartment and seeks refuge and advice from her producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it's New Year's Day, a year earlier! She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the pathway to that ending will be different.
(A-655) .................................91 Minutes..................$9.98 plus S & H

ROGUE OF THE RIO GRANDE
starring Myrna Loy
This somewhat obscure early musical western produced by George W. Weeks for poverty row's Sono Art-World Wide has gone down in film history as Myrna Loy's talkie debut. Myrna and Carmelita Geraghty played South-of-the-Border Belles dallying with notorious bandit El Malo who, of course, is actually a sagebrush Robin Hood. In between stealing from the producers and giving to the non-producers, El Malo unmasks the nasty sheriff of Sierra Blanco as a real crook who keeps the loot for himself.
(A-00-V) ......................................................................$9.98 plus S & H

The Road To Bali
starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
(A-693) ............................approx 90 minutes..............$9.98

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SANTA FE TRAIL
Errol Flynn and Ronald Regan star in this classic rough and tumble adventure set in the volatile days just prior to the Civil War. The legendary John Brown, played by Raymond Massey, is captured by Jeb Stuart at Harper's Ferry in a spectacular battle. Directed with flair by the great Michael Curtiz, this adventure has all the colorful of a big studio production of this era.
(A-156) B & W ..........approximately 110 minutes.....................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

SENSATIONS   1945
Eleanor Parker stars in this all-star musical featuring W. C. Fields, Sophie Tucker, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, Woody Herman and his Orchestra, C. Aubrey Smith and many more.
(A-688) B & W ...................approximately 80 minutes $9.95 + S&H

SHAMUS 1950
An Irish feature starring D. Chesney and G.B.Datch beautifully filmed in the countryside of Ireland. An Orphan boy steals a Leprechaun's pot of gold. The Leprechaun, in retaliation, puts a donkey's tail on the boy. Shamus treks to Belfast, to rid himself of the tail, and to see what to do with the gold! For the Irish in all of us.
(A-00-MC216) ...............60 minutes..................................... $19.95 plus S&H

SHE GOES TO WAR   1929
Eleanor Boardman, Alma Rubens, Al �Fuzzy� St. John. Director Henry King�s first sound film. A chilling anti-war effort, starting with a written appeal to the audience..   A rich girl working in a canteen dresses as a man sees the horrors of the front line during WW1. Trench warfare, death, men driven to insanity and childlike behavior, tanks inching through fields of fire as the occupants get baked inside, and ultimate murder to survive confront our heroine. Part synchronous sound, part music, a rare early sound effort. Our film pre-print has some wear, but this is the best you�ll find of this rare war film.
(A-00-MC292)...................approximately 50 minutes $19.95 + S&H

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT (BATTLING HOOFER) 1936
James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart. Cagney shows his dancing and singing talents in this film nominated for best musical score in the 1937 Academy Awards. A New York bandleader becomes so popular his agent sets him up for a Hollywood career. The studio has more than they can handle when they try to pull some "fast ones" on the beginning actor. Great Hollywood fun, cute story, nice songs, pretty girls, and Cagney. What else do you need?
(A-00-253MC) .....................84 minutes ....................$19.95 plus S & H

S.O.S. Coastguard 1937 complete serial
starring Ralph ("Dick Tracy") Byrd and Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi
In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain hard to come by ingredients and the villain is thwarted at every step by US coastguard agent Terry Kent played by Ralph Byrd and crusading newspaper woman Jean Norman played by Maxine Doyle. In the serial's 12th and final chapter, "The Deadly Circle," Boroff is finally destroyed by his own invention, civilization thus saved for Democracy. Down on his luck by 1937, Lugosi could only watch as Republic Pictures' screenwriters wickedly named his character "Boroff," an obvious reference to Lugosi-rival Boris Karloff. "S.O.S. Coastguard" nevertheless emerged as one of the Hungarian star's better vehicles, in no small measure due to its vigorous hero, Ralph Byrd, a handsome actor perhaps better remembered from Republic's Dick Tracy serials. Plot synopsis courtsey of Hans J. Wollstein and all movie .com.
(A-715) ....................................................................$9.95 plus S & H

SVENGALI
John Barrymore was at his peak of greatness in this tour de force performance played with both humor and tragedy as the love-struck hypnotic maestro. Marion Marsh co-stars as Trilby.
(A-55 ) B & W ..........approximately 82 minutes........$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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TARZAN THE FEARLESS (1933 version)
This was the second talking film of the long running Tarzan series produced by various studios over the decades. This 1933 version stars Olympic champion Buster Crabbe who later would go on to fame as "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers".
(A-128) B & W ....................approximately 73 minutes.........................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING
Ernst Lubitsch, the director of classical screwball comedies is at it again with this bedroom farce sex comedy. Merle Oberon is married to a wealthy, workaholic businessman played by Melvin Douglas. Merle becomes a nervous wreck developing insomnia and hiccups! Things get complicated when a wacky concert pianist, played by Burgess Meredith, moves into her home. Along for the fun are Alan Mobray , Sig Rumann and Eve Arden.
(A-155) B & W ..........................approximately 84 minutes.....................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

TWO GUN MaN FROM HARLEM
starring Herb Jeffries, Spencer Williams, Jr., Stymie Beard and Mantan Moreland in an all-black western.
The first of three all-black music Westerns released by Sack Amusement Enterprises, Two Gun Man from Harlem was filmed at N.B. Murray's dude ranch near Victorville, California, and starred popular black entertainer Herb Jeffries who had also been a popular vocalist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Jeffries played Bob Blake, a ranch foreman falsely accused of killing his boss, John Steele after spurning the man's flirtatious wife, Ruth (played by Mae Turner). Returning from a stay in New York's Harlem, Bob returns West in the guise of the Deacon, a former preacher turned killer and Bob's look-alike ("I preach the gospel, brother -- gun gospel!"). He arrives just in time to rescue Ruth, the only witness to her husband's killing and thus the sole person who can clear him, from suffering the same fate as her late spouse. Jeffries sang his own I'm a Happy Cowboy accompanied by "The Cats and the Fiddle" a negro-hillbilly musical group!
(A-30) B & W .............................approximately 65 minues..................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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VENGEANCE VALLEY
Burt Lancaster stars as the adopted older brother of Robert Walker. A rivalry begins between the two brothers when a girl bearing a child out of wedlock arrives in town. She is dedicated to killing the father of her child. The story builds to a climax during the annual cattle drive.
The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's "Vengeance Valley". Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright, who has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble, played by Ray Collins of Mercury Theater and Perry Mason fame. Stroble's natural son Lee played by Robert Walker, has always been envious of Owen, who in turn has spent most of his life pulling Lee out of trouble and keeping the boy's misdeeds a secret from the elder Stroble. When Lee fathers an illegitimate child, he tries to shift the responsibility on Owen, leading to a life-threatening confrontation with the vengeance-seeking brothers of the baby's mother. There's plenty more plot twists before virtue finally triumphs. Joanne Dru co-stars as Lee's long-suffering wife Jen, who harbors a secret yen for Owen. Part of this description by Hal Erickson courtesy of All movie.com.
(A-144) Color ..........approximately 82 minutes........................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

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WHO KILLED DOC ROBBIN
A mysterious explosion at Doc Robbin's lab suggests murder most foul and all evidence points to Dan (played by Whitford Kane). The gang however led by Curly (Larry Olson) suspect otherwise and set out to prove Dan's innocence. To find the truth, Curly and friends must snoop around Doc Robbin's spooky old house filled with secret passage ways, dangerous traps and many other surprises. It's a fun adventure for all ages that will leave kids sitting on the edge of their seats!
(A-589) Color ..........approximately 82 minutes........................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

WIVES UNDER SUSPICION (1937) directed by James Whale
Warren William stars in this story about a district attorney who is menaced by the brother of a recently executed prisoner while becoming convinced that his wife is having an affair. This is a remake of Whale's own 1933 production "A Kiss Before the Mirror" with a few noticeable concessions for the more stringent censors of 1938. District attorney Jim Stowell (Warren William) is convinced that every murder should be sentenced to the electric chair, regardless of motive or circumstances. He remains steadfast in this belief as he prosecutes an elderly professor (Ralph Morgan) for murdering his wife in a fit of jealous rage. But while relaxing at home one evening in the company of his lovely but somewhat neglected young wife Lucy (Gail Patrick), Stowell's own jealousy is aroused by Lucy's response to the innocent attentions of young family friend Phil (William Lundigan). As the days pass, Stowell cannot suppress his own urge to kill his wife and her supposed lover. An eleventh-hour plot twist prevents him from making the same mistake as the old professor-and also gives him a new perspective on the quality of mercy. Information provided by Hal Erickson.
(A-845-V) B & W ....................running time 70 minutes...............$16.95 plus S & H