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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

admin2 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:10:18 +0000

After surviving a shipwreck in reefs not signalized in the maritime charts, the famous hunter Rober “Bob” Rainsford is lodged by the Russian hunter Count Zaroff in his castle in an isolated island. Bob meets Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin Trowbridge, also survivors of another wrecked vessel and hosted by Zaroff. Soon, Bob and Eve find that they are part of a hunting game plotted by the insane Zarof where they are the prey, and they have to escape and survive until the next morning to Zaroff and his hounds.

Adventure | Thriller | Horror | Mystery

Joel McCrea	…	Bob Rainsford
Fay Wray	…	Eve Trowbridge
Leslie Banks	…	Count Zaroff
Robert Armstrong	…	Martin Trowbridge
Noble Johnson	…	Ivan
Steve Clemente	…	Tartar Servant (as Steve Clemento)
Oscar ‘Dutch’ Hendrian	…	Tarter Servant (as Dutch Hendrian)
William B. Davidson	…	Captain (as William Davidson)

The Manxman (1929)

admin2 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:07:00 +0000

Poor fisherman Pete falls in love with Kate, the daughter of a landlord on Man island. Pete decides to leave on his ship to earn some money and then to marry the girl. Before leaving, Pete asks his friend Philip to take care of Kate, but the young man is in love with her too. There comes the tragic news: Pete’s ship is wrecked. Philip and Kate have to hide no more and they plan to marry; however, Pete is not dead.

Drama | Romance | Thriller

Carl Brisson	…	Pete Quilliam
Malcolm Keen	…	Philip Christian
Anny Ondra	…	Kate Cregeen
Randle Ayrton	…	Caesar Cregeen
Clare Greet	…	Mother (as Claire Greet)

The Wizard of Oz (1949 Reissue Trailers) (1939)

admin2 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:36:04 +0000

When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog Toto, to run away. A cyclone appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return, she begins to travel to the Emerald City where a great wizard lives. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help them, before the Wicked Witch of the West catches up with them.

Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Judy Garland	…	Dorothy Gale
Frank Morgan	…	Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Doorman / The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger	…	Hunk / The Scarecrow
Bert Lahr	…	Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
Jack Haley	…	Hickory / The Tin Man
Billie Burke	…	Glinda
Margaret Hamilton	…	Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West / The Wicked Witch of the East
Charley Grapewin	…	Uncle Henry
Pat Walshe	…	Nikko
Clara Blandick	…	Auntie Em
Terry	…	Toto (as Toto)
The Singer Midgets	…	The Munchkins (also as The Munchkins)

Rene Clair’s – And Then There Were None (1945)

admin2 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:07:36 +0000

On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone record, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekend is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding. One by one, the guests are killed and one of them suggests that the killer is likely among them.

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Barry Fitzgerald	…	Judge Francis J. Quinncannon
Walter Huston	…	Dr. Edward G. Armstrong
Louis Hayward	…	Philip Lombard
Roland Young	…	Detective William Henry Blore
June Duprez	…	Vera Claythorne
Mischa Auer	…	Prince Nikita ‘Nikki’ Starloff
C. Aubrey Smith	…	General Sir John Mandrake (as Sir C. Aubrey Smith)
Judith Anderson	…	Emily Brent
Richard Haydn	…	Thomas Rogers
Queenie Leonard	…	Ethel Rogers
Harry Thurston	…	Fred Narracott

Young and Innocent (The Girl Was Young) (1937)

admin2 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:06:06 +0000

Eight years after the famous movie actress, Christine Clay, thought she was rid of him, her husband shows up from nowhere. He’s furious that she left him, outraged over her “silly Reno divorce” and indignant that she is now spending her time with “boys.” That’s his view of things, but she’ll never get the chance to give her own side. The quarrel is barely over before her body washes up on the beach near her home. She didn’t drown. She was strangled with the belt of a raincoat. The person who finds her is the “boy” she’s supposedly seeing, Robert Tisdall, a young screenwriter, down on his luck. He runs to get help, and two young women see him. It looks as if he is escaping the scene of a crime. Soon, Tisdall is arrested for murder. But before the trial begins, he escapes, determined to find the real killer. Along the way he finds an unexpected ally in Erica Burgoyne, the police constable’s daughter.

Crime | Thriller

Nova Pilbeam	…	Erica Burgoyne
Derrick De Marney	…	Robert Tisdall (as Derrick de Marney)
Percy Marmont	…	Col. Burgoyne
Edward Rigby	…	Old Will
Mary Clare	…	Erica’s Aunt
John Longden	…	Det. Insp. Kent
George Curzon	…	Guy
Basil Radford	…	Erica’s Uncle
Pamela Carme	…	Christine

The 39 Steps (1935)

admin2 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:00:55 +0000

Richard Hannay is on the run from the police, who suspect him of murdering the woman found stabbed to death in his London flat. This story, including his photograph, are in many of the newspapers throughout Great Britain. In reality, the woman picked Hannay up at the Mr. Memory show at which they both attended, she telling him that there were two men there who were trying to kill her in an effort to obtain information which would breach national security. Hannay is not only on the run from police but is also trying to find out the nature of the potential national security breach in an effort to clear his name. All he knows from the dead woman is that it has something to do with a man in a small town in Scotland, another man who has part of his pinky finger missing and something called the 39 steps. As Hannay is on his journey of discovery all the while trying to elude both the police and the real murderers, he is forced out of circumstances outside of his control to take along a feisty young woman named Pamela whose continued belligerence toward him is despite her precarious situation.

Mystery | Thriller

Robert Donat	…	Richard Hannay
Madeleine Carroll	…	Pamela
Lucie Mannheim	…	Annabella aka Miss Smith
Godfrey Tearle	…	Professor Jordan
Peggy Ashcroft	…	Margaret – Crofter’s Wife
John Laurie	…	John – Crofter
Helen Haye	…	Mrs. Jordan

Telephone Operator (1938)

admin2 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:57:20 +0000

A telephone operator covering for a friend’s “fling” finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.

Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller

Judith Allen	…	Helen Molly
Grant Withers	…	Red
Warren Hymer	…	Shorty
Alice White	…	Dottie Stengal
Ronnie Cosby	…	Ted Molloy (as Ronnie Cosbey)
Pat Flaherty	…	Tom Sommers
Greta Granstedt	…	Sylvia Sommers

Submarine Alert (1943)

admin2 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:01:46 +0000

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast’s top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina’s life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.

Thriller | War

Richard Arlen	…	Lewis J. ‘Lee’ Deerhold
Wendy Barrie	…	Ann Patterson
Nils Asther	…	Dr. Arthur Huneker
Roger Pryor	…	G.B. Fleming
Abner Biberman	…	Commander Toyo
Marc Lawrence	…	Vincent Bela

The Speckled Band (1931)

admin2 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:30:44 +0000

Violet Stoner dies under mysterious circumstances in her bedroom at the gloomy mansion of her brutish stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Rylott. Because Violet had become engaged to be married, she stood to inherit a substantial annual allowance from her parents’ estate but never survived to collect it. Her last words were “The Speckled Band!” Now, her sister Helen has become engaged, and the mercenary doctor views the event as money out of his pocket as she stands to get a yearly stipend too. When he orders her to start sleeping in her sister’s bedroom, and she finds the bed bolted to the floor, she fears that a fate similar to Violet’s will befall her. She turns to the residents of 221B Baker Street for help.

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Lyn Harding	…	Dr. Grimesby Rylott
Raymond Massey	…	Sherlock Holmes
Angela Baddeley	…	Helen Stonor
Nancy Price	…	Mrs. Staunton
Athole Stewart	…	Dr. John Watson

Rich and Strange (1931)

admin2 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:07:43 +0000

Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. They receive a big inheritance by a rich relative and now they can realize all their dreams. They leave for a cruise behaving as rich people….but this is the beginning of the end. Richness makes they soon forget their love and family.

Comedy | Romance | Thriller

Henry Kendall	…	Fred Hill
Joan Barry	…	Emily Hill
Percy Marmont	…	Commander Gordon
Betty Amann	…	The Princess
Elsie Randolph	…	The Old Maid