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Spring Parade (1940) (DVD) Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson. Description: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer (Bob Cummings) who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. | |
Notorious Landlady, The (1962) (DVD) Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood. Description: An American diplomat (Lemmon) in London inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft after he takes up his new position and becomes involved with his gorgeous landlady (Novak) whose husband is missing. The screenplay, written by Blake Edwards, was based on The Notorious Tenant, a novel by Margery Sharp. | |
It's the Old Army Game (1926) (DVD) W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy, Mickey Bennett, John Merton, Jack Luden, Elise Cavanna. Description: Blundering Druggist Elmer Prettywillie (Fields) suffers a catastrophic day at his store until the scheming "president" of a real estate company makes him an offer he can't refuse. Includes a concoction of silly skits, and features a trashy picnic on an elegant estate lawn that Prettywillie thought was a public park. Louise Brooks plays a radiant drug store "counter attraction" who attracts the schemer's eye. A similar film, It's a Gift, starring W.C. Fields, was released in 1934. | |
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) (DVD) Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Grant Mitchell, Alan Hale, Jr. Description: Cheerful, Capraesque comedy with an Academy Award-nominated original story of self-worth. Stars Victor Moore as a New York City hobo who makes his home in a vacant 5th Avenue mansion whose millionaire owner (Ruggles) has gone south for the winter. He takes in an ex-G.I. (DeFore) and a runaway (Storm), who turns out to be the millionaire's daughter. | |
Having Wonderful Time (1938) (DVD) Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball, Lee Bowman, Eve Arden, Red Skelton. Description: A delightful romantic comedy about a gorgeous but edgy New York office girl, Teddy (Ginger Rogers), who decides to vacation at what resembles a Boy Scout camp for adults. There she meets Chick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), camp waiter, and they immediately dislike each other. After trading a few insults, the ice eventually melts and Chick even gets to the point where Teddy expects a proposal. But Chick makes a fatal error: the proposal sounds like a proposition. Teddy goes postal and Chick has to start all over again. This film is entertaining and well acted, and it’s fun to see so many old talents. | |
Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) (DVD) J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco. Description: A young man visits his fiancée in a remote French villa where her scientist father (George Zucco) resides. There he meets Noel (J. Carrol Naish), Dr. Renault's mysterious assistant, who has a strange attraction to Renault's daughter. Soon he learns Noel's true identity: he is an ape that was turned into a man by Renault's bizarre experiments! | |
Dead of Night (1945-British) (DVD) Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Naunton Wayne, Rowland Culver, Googie Withers. Description: This film features five stories of supernatural terror from four directors. A group of strangers are inexplicably gathered in an isolated country estate. Dreams and nightmares dominate the conversation, and each guest shares a frightening event from his or her past. Two of the stories stand out: a mirror with a horrifying story that shows you a different room when you look into it and a ventriloquist who goes mad when his dummy appears to come to life. In 1946 this artistic film was awared "Most Interesting Screenplay" by the Locarno International Film Festival. | |
Cuban Rebel Girls (1959) (DVD) Beverly Aadland, Jackie Jackler, Marie Edmund, Errol Flynn. Description: Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Batista. The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista. | |
Christmas Eve (1947) (DVD) George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field, Ann Harding, Reginald Denny, Douglass Dumbrille. Description: Eccentric Matilda Reid (Ann Harding) wrestles with a greedy nephew who seeks court action to have her declared incompetent so he can "administer" her wealth. But a caring judge will intervene if Matilda can rally together her three adopted sons on Christmas Eve to help her keep the estate. Unfortunately the sons have gone in wildly different directions: one is a bankrupt playboy, the second is a hard drinking cowboy intent on a flirtatious social worker, and the third is tangled up with a Nazi war criminal. Is there any hope for Matilda? | |
Chimes at Midnight (1965-French) (DVD) Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud. Description: The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the young Henry V, steps up from supporting character in several plays to the central focus of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, considered by many critics the best of the director's acclaimed Shakespeare films. | |
Hold 'em Jail (1932) (DVD) Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Betty Grable, Robert Armstrong, Rosco Ates, Edgar Kennedy. Description: Unless Bidemore prison can put together a decent all-prisoner football team, its next opponent will be the reform school boys. Embarrassingly short of talent, the warden (Edgar Kennedy) contacts Bidemore's "alumni," one of them being a night club owner. When two absurd novelty salesman (Wheeler and Woolsey) show up at the club, they are framed for robbery. In prison they find time to romance the warden's pretty daughter (16-year-old Betty Grable, and she looked it), get involved in some hilarious shenanigans, and make a mockery of a climactic prison football game. | |
Mad Martindales, The (1942) Jane Withers, Marjorie Weaver, Alan Mowbray, Jimmy Lydon, Gig Young, George Reeves, Charles Lane. Withers is cast as Kathy Martindale, the youngest member of a wacky turn-of-the-century San Francisco household. A dedicated suffragette, Kathy occasionally takes time out to rescue her improvident father (Alan Mowbray) from his various get-rich-quick business schemes. | |
Crack-Up (1936) Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan. Colonel Gimpy heads a spy organization trying to get the plans for a new airplane. Test pilot Ace Martin agrees to help. | |
Trade Winds (1938) Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern, Sidney Blackmer. Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance. Will Sam be able to bring Kay back to the States and likely imprisonment? | |
Night Editor (1946) William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Coulter Irwin. Inspired by the radio program of the same name, Night Editor features Charles D. Brown as the editor of the New York Star. In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant William Gargan, who forsakes his happy home life for the love of no-good society dame Janis Carter. | |
Beautiful But Broke (1944) Joan Davis, Jane Frazee, Judy Clark, John Hubbard. Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic musical comedy. Sally and Sue's violinist pal Dottie Duncan (Joan Davis) is equally broke, though not quite as beautiful. The three girls try pass themselves off as an all-girl orchestra, with the help of fast-buck theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge). | |
Mounted Stranger, The (1930) Hoot Gibson, Buddy Hunter, Milton Brown, Fred Burns. A young Pete Ainslee sees Gary kill his father. Years later Pete shoots Gary but Gary recovers and he and his gang trail Pete to Spider's border saloon. They capture him but he escapes the saloon and escapes again when being chased bringing about a showdown between Gary and his antagonistic henchman White-Eye. | |
Hills of Kentucky (1927) Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Dorothy Dwan. Hills of Kentucky is regarded as the best of the Rin-Tin-Tin vehicles. When famine hits the Kentucky hinterlands, Rinty is set free by his masters, who can't afford to feed him. Though he goes through a period of feeling rejected, the doggy star remains loyal to the Human Race. | |
White Oak (1921) William S. Hart, Vola Vale, Alexander Gaden. Gambler Oak Miller seeks revenge on the man who misused his sister Rose, who is ill and under the care of the woman Oak loves, Barbara. The man Oak seeks, Granger, is planning to rob a wagon train with the collusion of the Indians under Chief Long Knife. When Barbara is suspected of killing her lascivious stepfather, Oak takes the blame and is arrested just before he is needed to save the threatened wagon train. | |
Squaw Man, The (1914) Dustin Farnum, Raymond Hatton. This melodrama was the first feature western to be shot entirely in Hollywood. The result is a Victorian romance about a English peer (Dustin Farnum) falsely accused of a crime actually committed by his brother. Director and producer Cecil B. DeMille. |
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