Baby Face Morgan
When gang chief Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers re-organizes the mob. Learning that Morgan has a son named Edward , living in the country with his mother, Rogers has him brought to the city, and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency, which is a blind for gang's shakedown activities with local merchants. Edward thinks his father left him a legitimate business, and that he is running an actual insurance company. Rogers tells the gang members that "Baby Face" Morgan is now in charge, is a cold-blooded killer and does not even want the gang members to know him. Joe Torelli, who thinks he should be the leader of the gang, is suspicious and grows more so after the protection collection money starts to roll in, and nobody sees the money after it is turned over to Rogers, who tells them that "Baby Face" is handling the dough. Complications arise when Edward/"Baby Face" meets Virginia Clark. Mary Carlisle, Robert Armstrong and Warren Hymer star. 

1942

Baby Face Nelson
Semi-fact based gangster flick

1957

Bad Blonde
She who is not ashamed (Barbara Payton) stars in a film some call "The Flanagan Boy". Under either title she plays a scheming blonde who seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager. A real stand out in this film is Sid James.

1953

Bad Sister

1931

Bandit Ranger

 1942

Bandit Trail

 1941

Badge of Honor
Buster Crabbe stars as a society boy posing as a reporter.  This is one action packed drama where he doesn't swim!

1934

Band Waggon

1940

Bank Alarm
Conrad Nagel stars - An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a rash of bank robberies. What he doesn't know is that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang's ringleader.

1937

Back Door To Heaven
William K. Howard's potent social docu-drama staring Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin.  Ford turns to crime during the depression and the well off members of the community discover that it was their lack of concern that is responsible.

1939

Bank Holiday
A 1930's British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen Richards under the name Miss Fulham is off with friend Milly to a beauty contest. Geoffrey and nurse Catherine Lawrence have decided to spend an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel, although Catherine's mind keeps turning back to the hospital case she was working on. Arthur, May and the children are set on a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers of the "Follies" on the pier pray for rain.

1938

Barnacle Bill
Better known in the US as "All at Sea" Neat little comedy with Alec Guiness as a sea captain who does better on dry land.

1957

Basin Street Review

 1956

Bat
Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead and Gavin Gordon star. Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities, and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but he is killed before he can retrieve the money. Thus the lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities.

1959

Bat Whispers (regular release or Wide Screen)
Chester Morris stars; A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.

1930

Battle Beyond The Sun (German with subs)

 1962

Battle of Greed

 1937

Battle Shock (AKA A Woman's Devotion)

1956

Behind Stone Walls
A District Attorney’s wife and mother of another attorney, is having an affair. Scorned, she kills her lover (how rude). Her husband comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting (the dope). The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. The butler (who didn’t do it) knows the truth and blackmails woman. And well, you know how these things go…

1932

Behind The News
It's Jeff Flavin's, first day on the job as a cub reporter for the Enquirer. Boss, Archer, places Jeff with Stu Woodrow (a drunk). Stu detests cubs and treats Jeff badly. Jeff saves a drunken Stu's job by covering the convicted racketeer, Houseman's escape from prison. Lloyd Nolan and Robert Armstrong star.

1940

Bells go Down
The original Dr Who William (Billy) Hartnell stars with James Mason and Finlay Currie in a tribute to London's firemen during the war.

1943

Below the Deadline
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.

1946

Beneath Western Skies

 1944

Between Men

 1935

Beware of Ladies
Donald cook, Judith Allen, George Meeker and Dwight Frye star: Irving Pichell directs this newspaper drama

1937

Between Two Women
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband. Erich von Stroheim wrote the story, Maureen O'Sullivan and Virginia Bruce star.

1937

Beware
Ware College is a small Black college in Ware, Ohio. Once prominent, it is now low in attendance, low in enrollment and low on money. The board decides to appeal to their famous alumni for financial help thru a reunion, and invitations are sent. Louis Jordan, king of swing, alumni of Ware, and leader of the Tympani Band is sidelined with his band in Ware for repairs and learns of the college's plight.

1946

Big House USA
Howard W. Koch directs Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker and Reed Hadley

1955

Beyond the Caribbean
Professing to be a documentary this flick becomes an exploitation film of the first order.  The closing reels show hopped up natives and their voodoo ceremonies.  Here they carve each other up and finally crucify some errant blackamoor.

1936

Beyond the Time Barrier

1960

Beyond Tomorrow
Jean Parker, Richard Carlson and C. Aubrey Smith star in this fine fantasy about three elderly men who befriend two strangers on Christmas eve.  The two strangers (boy and girl) fall in love with each other, and remain friends with the three men.  Later these three are killed in a plane crash, but return as ghosts to help the young couple they brought together

1940

Big Knife

 1955

Big Timers

1945

Big Bluff, The
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Playing the part of a faithful and doting husband, he carries on a torrid affair with sexy exotic dancer Fritzi Darvel while avoiding the suspicious eyes of her jealous bongo-playing husband. When his wife's condition seems to go into remission, the impatient De Villa decides on action that will hasten her seemingly inevitable death.

1955

Big Boodle (Errol Flynn)

1957

Big Boy Rides Again
A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets out to find who did it. Albert Herman directs Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

1935

Big Fella

1937

Big Lift

1950

Bitter Springs
Minor adventure film starring one of England’s favorite cockney comics, Tommy Trinder.

1950

Big Town (After Dark)
Phillip Reed stars as A crusading newspaper reporter battling big-city gambling interests. – Hillary Brooke also stars.

1947

Black Book
AKA Reign of Terror, A powerful figure in the French revolution, is looking for his black book, a list of folks marked for the guillotine. Directed by Anthony Mann

1949

Black Raven
A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money, George Zucco stars..

1943

Black Sheep of Whitewall
Another entry into our Will Hay catelog, he'sa Professor at a correspondence school

1942

Black Sleep
How can a film that stars Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr.and John Carradine smell worse than yesterday's fish?  Watch and see.

1956

Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
(AKA La maschera del demonio)

1960

Black Tights

1960

Blackout

1954

Black Widow (feature version)

 1947

Black Zoo

1963

Blind Adventure

1933

Blind Alley
Cherter Morris and Ann Dvorak star; Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.

1939

Blockade
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.

1938

Blonde Ice

1948

Blonde Savage

1947

Blood Orange (Three Stops to Murder)

1953

Bloodbath (aka track of the vampire)

1966

Bloodlust

 1961

Bloody Brood
Your shocked eyes will see it... your stunned mind won't believe it... Never before... has vice and violence struck with such frightening force! Peter Falk's 2nd feaure film credit (if you want to call it that) in this story - Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence.

1959

Blue Angel (English or German)
Available is either language version of this classic Von Sternberg film.  One of Germany's greatest actors: Emil Jannings turns in a touching performance as a school master who falls for a night club singer (order both and we’ll include the color remake)

1930

Blue Steel

 1933

Blue Lamp
We follow the daily activities of two London bobbies, veteran George Dixon and rookie Andy Mitchell. Meanwhile, young hoods Tom and Spud plan a series of robberies with Tom's girl Diana, a discontented beauty, as inside worker.

1950

Blue Parrot
Many British crime thrillers of the 50s are set in a nightclub.The nightclub in this film is so small and uninhabited that getting a parrot cage in might be difficult.Yet again we have an "American policeman" helping Scotland Yard.Obviously the producers in this case could not afford an American actor so instead they brought in an Irishman, Dermot Walsh, who makes a woeful attempt at an American accent.Did the producers really think that this would be enough to sell this to American audiences.John Le Mesurier makes a suitably sinister club owner and Ballard Berkley (best remembered from Faulty Towers) plays a detective yet again..

1953

Bluebeard
Considering the production values; and considering the cast, which includes John Carradine, Ludwig Stossel, Jean Parker and Nils Asther; it is difficult to believe that this is a PRC production.

1944

Boarding House Blues

1948

Borrowed Hero (A)

1941

Borrowed Wives
A young man has to be married by midnight otherwise his inheritance goes to his uncle who lives in a haunted house.

1930

Borderline

1950

Bombs over London
Presented here under its original British release title of Midnight Menace this is the third (along with Non-Stop New York and Things to Come) in the trilogy of English prophetic features. Here star Charles Farrell plays a cartoonist who uncovers a Balkan minister's plot to bomb London with pilotless airplanes (just as Hitler was to do within 5 years).

1937

Bop Girl Goes Calypso

 1957

Boots and Saddles
Gene Autry stars and sings ("You're the Only Rose That's Left in My Heart") in this standard Republic B western.  Smiley Burnette and Judith Allen are also featured as Gene saves the old homestead.

1937

Beachcomber
Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester and Robert Newton star in this prototype for the African Queen

1938

Beast of Hollow Mountain

1956

Beast of Yucca Flats
Legendary wrestler Tor Johnson stars as A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast. We offer some real stinkers, but this one - wow!

1961

Beast with a Million Eyes

 1955

Beat the Devil
Classic straight faced comedy, of the first order.  Bogart, Lorre and John Huston parody the Maltese Falcon almost as well as did Satan Met A Lady, but thrown in are elements of Key Largo and Sierra Madre.

1954

Beatniks

1960

Beau Ideal

1931

Becky Sharp

1935

Beggars In Ermine
Lionel Atwill, H.B. Walthall, Betty Furness and George (Gabby) Hayes star in this fascinating little melodrama.  Atwill as the head of a steel mill is more concerned with his men than selling out to a big syndicate.  Walthall convinces one of the workers to kill Atwill, he just misses with a bucket of molten steel, burning off Atwill's legs.  Walthall takes up with Atwill's wife during his stay in the hospital and gets her to sell the mill and run off with him to England.  Atwill gives up hope and goes to a home for the disabled that he had helped to build.  There he meets a blind beggar and together they begin to roam the countryside looking for Atwill's wife and daughter.  All the while Atwill's business skill is employed to organize the beggars of the nation into a financial force.  He discovers that his wife is dead (killed by Walthall) and his daughter was put up for adoption.  This covers the first half of the film.  How Atwill deals with Walthall, his own daughter and his friends at the steel mill is worth the viewing.  One of the few really fine films from Monogram studios.

1934

Beginning of the End
Bert I Gordon and Giant Grasshoppers meet Peter Graves and Peggie Castle

1957

Beauty Parlor
Barbara Kent, Joyce Compton and John Harron star in this Chesterfied Drama.

1932

Bedside Manner

Before The Raid
Neat little 40 minute documentary from the UK

1944

Behind Green Lights
The beautiful, tragic and stupid* Carol Landis stars. The story: Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters. *I mean - what 29 year old beauty kills herself because a slob like Rex Harrison dumps her - please!

1946

Behind Locked Doors
A well-known judge has become a fugitive from the police, with a large reward on his head. A reporter believes that the judge is hiding in a private sanitarium, so she seeks out a private investigator

1948

Behind Prison Walls
Alan Baxter and Gertrude Michael star with Tully Marshall (in his last film).  Despite the title, this is actually one of the better PRC comedy outings.

1943

Behind Office Doors
The power behind the power is the theme behind the study of the executive secretary of the thirties.  Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez star in another pre-code outing.

1932

Buy Me That Town
Neat little comedy with Lloyd Nolan, Sheldon Leonard, Albert Decker and Constance Moore. Gangsters buy a New England town that’s been operating as a speed trap – they plan on expanding the town’s activities

1941

Big Show Off, The
Joe Bagley (Lionel Stander),owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott (Arthur Lake)and band vocalist June Mayfield(Dale Evans.) Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, masked wrestler known as "The Devil." Wally Porter (George Meeker),also in love with June doesn't believe the story. The real wrestler breaks a leg in a match and Sandy, in order to keep up the ruse now has to wear a cast on his leg. June attends a match and hears the real Devil announce his engagement to another girl.

1945

Big Punch

1948

Big News
Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard star in this early newspaper drama, which must have served Milestone well in 1930 when he put the Front Page on film. 

1929

Bill Cracks Down

1937

Billy the Kid Trapped (Buster Crabbe)

1942

Big Wheel
Billy Coy comes to Carrell (a real speedway in Gardena, California when the movie was made). Red, Billy's late father's mechanic, hires Billy as a mechanic. Billy soon gets a job as a driver. Will he get to race the Indianapolis, the track where his father died? Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington, Hattie McDaniels, Allen Jenkins and Richard Lane star (Oh yeah - Mickey Rooney's in this as well  sorry :-( 

1949

Bird of Paradise
Mastered from an original 16mm print, this scenic wonder from the RKO location crew is as entertaining today as it was 78 years ago. 'I don't care what you do with the script, as long as you call it Bird of Paradise and the girl jumps into the volcano'.

1932

Bittersweet
Anna Neagle stars in this first filmed version of Noel Coward's tragic operetta. Fernand Graavey is the brilliant violinist she falls in love with, but joy turns to sorrow as his compulsion for gambling is revealed. (redone in color 7 years later)

1933

Black and Tan (Duke Ellington)

 1929

Black Arrow

 1948

Black Dragons
Lugosi, a respected plastic surgeon since his days in Such Men Are Dangerous, is hired by the Japs to turn Jap spies into American looking chaps who can move freely in the U.S.  A war time espionage/horror film from Monogram.

1944

Black Glove
aka: "Face The Music" a thriller set in a London world of basement jazz clubs, recording studios and dingy flats. The basic plot concerns a  jet-lagged musician who impulsively goes to the apartment of a beautiful blues singer he's just met and hours later is accused of her murder.

1953

Black Rider

1954

Black Roses
Near the end of her life Lilian Harvey asked to see only one of her films; Black Roses.  A search of the major archives turned up nothing, and she was never again to see her favorite film.  Set in 1900's Finland, Harvey (a ballerina) must sleep with the Tsarist governor to save the life of her true love.  Dennis Hoey also stars. When we first uncovered this film in 35mm nitrate, we offered it for restoration to UCLA and the AFI.  Both turned us down.  We now offer, mastered from the only known 35mm nitrate print, Lilian Harvey in 'Black Roses' produced by UFA in 1936 Germany.

1936

Black Sabbath (US or Italy)

 1963

Butler's Dilemma
Droll comedy from the UK., Writer: Michael Barringer, Stars: Francis L. Sullivan, Judy Kelly, Hermione Gingold and Ian Fleming

1943

Burn witch Burn
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years

1962

Border Patrolman (George O'Brian)
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.

1936

Border Phantom

 1937

Borderline

 1930

Boris Karloff: The Ghoul
Karloff stars back in the date, J&J offered this title from a film print that was reconstructed from a beat up old 35mm Czech nitrate.  Until recently this was the only known print: we now offer this from a complete original UK print.

1933

Borrowed Hero

 1941

Borrowed Wives

 1930

The Boss

1955

Boy of the Streets
Monogram melodrama with Jackie Cooper and Marjorie Main.  Cooper is a tough teen out to break into corrupt city government.  The gritty side of urban life is well presented.

1937

Boy What A Girl
Another (nearly) all black musical - Two small-time (aspiring to be big-time) producers are trying to convince a Chicago businessman to finance half of their show, while the other half is to be financed by a mysterious Mme. Deborah. But when Madame Deborah is not on hand to meet the money-man from Chicago, an ex-prizefighter is dressed to pose as her. Music and dancing provided by Deek Watson and His Brown Dots, 'Big' Sid Catlett and his band, and Ann Cornell and the International Jitterbugs. Drummer Gene Krupa has a drumming cameo.

1947

Boys from the streets
Originally called “Gategutter” This film takes place on Oslo's east side (that would be Norway) sometime during the 1920's. It shows the workers' environment with elements like unemployment, strike, poverty, alcoholism, absent fathers, wise and tired mothers, the dream of a better life and the friendship between the boys from the streets.

1949

Boys in Brown
Richard Attenborough and Dirk Bogarde star in this slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals.

1949

Boys Reformatory

1939

Boys Will Be Girls
No - not a 30's look at gay life - Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members await the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.

1936

Brand of the Devil
Above average B western staring Dave (Reefer Madness) O'Brian. Jolley is the leader of the Devil's Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending not to know each other. But eventually their identities become known and they are captured by the gang.

1944

Brass Legend

1956

Brass Monkey

1948

Breakaway
Suave, if a trifle elderly, private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.  Director: Henry Cass. Stars:Tom Conway, Michael Balfour and Honor Blackman

1955

Bride for Henry
Anne Nagel stars - On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.

1937

Bride of the Monster
Bela Lugosi's last speaking role.  Also known as Bride Of The Atom.  Written, Directed and Produced by the Dewit Clinton school of attire honor student: Ed Woods Jr.

1955

Brighton Rock

1947

British Intelligence
This almost forgotten remake of Three Faces East (1930) starred Boris Karloff (in the role originated by Erich Von Stroheim) as a master German spy, posing as a butler in the British War Office.

1940

Broken Journey

 1948

Buck Rogers Planet Outlaws
Edited version of the Buster Crbbe Serial put together for TV in the early 50’s

1953

Bulldog Drummond

1929

Bulldog Drummond strikes back

1934

Bulldog Edition

1937

But Not for Me
One of half a dozen features put out by Perlsea films between 1957 and 1962. A simple story; Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Russ proceeds to turn this into a hit play starring Ellie and romance her in a May-December affair. But what a cast: Clark Gable (as 'Russ' Ward), Carroll Baker (as Ellie), Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Gomez and the amazing Ella Fitzgerald.

1959

Bronze Buckaroo

 1939

Brothers

1947

Brothers in the Saddle

 1949

Brown On Resolution

1935

Brute Force

1947

Broken Strings
Clarence Muse stars as a concert violinist who's lost the ability to play.  He hopes his son will take up where he left off. In a climactic talent show two of his son's violin strings break and he is forced to play swing.  Stymie Beard and Tommie Moore also star.

1940

Bullet Scars

1942

Burglar

1957

Bush Pilot

1947

But the Flesh Is Weak
Robert Montgomery, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith and Nils Asther star. The Clements father and son live by the generosity of rich women. Max, the son, sets his sites on Lady Joan, who is rich, but down-to-earth and charming. At her house he meets Rosine Brown, an Austrian widow involved with a rich man. Instantly infatuated with her, Max pursues Rosine until she relents and agrees to marry him. But the elder Clement loses big at gambling and Max decides he must marry Joan to prevent his father's imprisonment.

1932