DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery is a 1959 heist film shot in black and white. The noir film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. The film is based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis. The film was shot on location in St. Louis and some of the men and woman from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, play the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt. Main cast * Steve McQueen as George Fowler * Crahan Denton as John Egan the Boss * David Clarke as Gino, Ann's Brother * James Dukas as Willie the driver * Mollie McCarthy as George's Ex Girl * Martha Gable as Eddie's Wife * Larry Gerst as Eddie Brief Summary Steve McQueen shows himself as an ex football hero. He finds himself slowly drawn into the gangster world more and more. Finding himself in need of just $50 more, he asks his ex girl for that amount in a check, supposedly for Gino. The plan starts to unravel when she sees Gino coming out of a restaurant across the street from the bank. When questioned about it George later reveals he's involved with robbing the bank. She writes 'Warning The bank will be Robbed!' with lipstick on the window, the bank taking it as a joke. As the day of the heist grows nearer the tension within the gang heightens with no one trusting anyone. The robbers burst into George's and Gino's apartment that night and demand ...

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Manufacturer: Stephen Mitchell Series Title: A Gallery of 1935 Year Of Issue: 1935 www.creamofcards.com Includes: TM King George V and Queen Mary,The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester,Princess Margaret Rose,George II King of Hellenes,Emperor of Abyssinia - Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I,Rt Honourable Stanley Baldwin,Lord Byng,R Hon Anthony Eden,Rt Hon Sir Samuel, Hoare,Earl Jellicoe,Marquess of Linlithgow,Marquess of Reading,M. Pierre Laval,Marshal De Bono,Senator Huey Long,Jack Buchanan,Walt Disney,Harriet Haddon,Vivien Leigh,Grace Moore,Anna Neagle,Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire,Will Rogers,Harry Roy and, Princess Pearl,Marie Tempest,Shirley Temple,James Braddock,Joe Louis ( Boxer ), Benny Lynch,JE Manchester,J McGrory,Wanda Morgan,Alfred Perry,Hector Thomson,HH The Aga Khan and Bahram,F Furlong and Reynoldstown,Donald Budge,Helen Wills Moody ( Tennis, Player ), Fred Perry and Helen Vinson,Jean Batten,Sir Malcolm Campbell,J Guthrie,Mr Justice Avory,Cardinal Bourne,Commander Sir Edgar Britten,Miss EM Cain,The Dionne Quintuplets,Barbara Hutton,Lawrence of Arabia,Spada The Corsican Bandit

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in beatnik culture. The film, produced on a $50000 budget, was shot in five days, and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman's work. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a dark comic satire about a socially awkward young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous. A Bucket of Blood was the first of three collaborations between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, followed by The Little Shop of Horrors and Creature from the Haunted Sea. Corman had made no previous attempt at the genre, although past and future Corman productions in other genres incorporated comedic elements. The film works as a satire not only of Corman's own films, but also of the art world and teen films of the 1950s. The film is noted as well in many circles as an honest, undiscriminating portrayal of the many facets of Beatnik culture, including art, dance and style of living. The plot has similarities to Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). However, by setting the story in the Beat milieu of 1950s Southern California, Corman creates an entirely different mood from the earlier film. A Bucket of Blood was remade in ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three others (best picture, best director and best screenplay). It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness. Jean Simmons, who played the role of the young Estella in the film, later played Miss Havisham in a 1989 version directed by Kevin Connor. The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel which had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham -- casting that was carried over into the film - was written by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green.[1] It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist. Cast * John Mills as Pip as an adult * Jean Simmons as Estella as a girl * Valerie Hobson as Estella as an adult * Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham * Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch * Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers * Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery * Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket as an adult * Anthony Wager as Pip as a boy * John Forrest as Herbert Pocket as a boy * Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery * Ivor Barnard as Mr ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Greed (1924) is a dramatic silent film. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim and starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin, Joan Standing and Jack Curtis. The plot follows a dentist whose wife wins a lottery ticket, only to become obsessed with money. When her former lover betrays the dentist as a fraud, all of their lives are destroyed. The movie was adapted by von Stroheim (shooting screenplay) and Joseph Farnham (titles) from the 1899 novel McTeague by Frank Norris. (The onscreen writing credit for June Mathis was strictly a contractual obligation to her on the part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the parent studio), as she was not actually involved in the production.) Originally over ten hours long, Greed was ultimately edited against von Stroheim's permission to about two and a half hours, and the full-length version is a lost film. The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. The story had been filmed once before by an American film studio, William A. Brady's World Pictures, in 1916 under the title McTeague starring Broadway star Holbrook Blinn. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions. The result was ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Lady in the Death House is a 1944 American film directed by Steve Sekely. Directed by Steve Sekely Produced by Harry D. Edwards (associate producer) Jack Schwarz (producer) Written by Frederick C. Davis (story) Harry O. Hoyt (screenplay) Starring See below Music by Jan Gray Cinematography Gus Peterson Editing by Robert O. Crandall Distributed by Producers Releasing Corporation Release date(s) 15 March 1944 Running time 56 minutes Country USA Language English Cast Jean Parker as Mary Kirk Logan Lionel Atwill as Charles Finch Douglas Fowley as Dr. Dwight 'Brad' Bradford Marcia Mae Jones as Suzy Kirk Logan Robert Middlemass as State's Attorney Cy Kendall as Detective John Maxwell as Robert Snell George Irving as Gregory Forrest Taylor as Warden Sam Flint as Governor Harrison Dick Curtis as Willis Millen Jean Parker (August 11, 1915 -- November 30, 2005) was an American movie actress. Born as Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge, Montana, she appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966. She was discovered by Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, after she saw a poster featuring Parker portraying Father Time. She attended Pasadena schools and graduated from John Muir High School. Her original aspirations were in the fine arts and illustration. She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original Little Women, among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's ...

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Chapter 28. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Playlist for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: www.youtube.com Jane Eyre free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org Jane Eyre free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org Jane Eyre at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com

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Part 3. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Karen Savage. Playlist for Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery: www.youtube.com Anne of Avonlea free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org Anne of Avonlea free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org Anne of Avonlea at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com

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Book 8.Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark Nelson. Playlist for The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo - Books 1-11: www.youtube.com The Hunchback of Notre Dame free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org The Hunchback of Notre Dame free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war to date. For six months, the United States had made use of intense strategic fire-bombing of 67 Japanese cities. Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum. By executive order of President Harry S. Truman, the US dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90000--166000 people in Hiroshima and 60000--80000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima prefectural health department estimates that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a US estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15 ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Paper Bullets is a 1941 American film directed by Phil Rosen and produced by the King Brothers. The film is also known as Gang War (American reissue title) and Gangs, Inc. (American reissue title). Cast * Joan Woodbury as Rita Adams * Jack La Rue as Mickey Roman * Linda Ware as Donna Andrews * John Archer as Bob Elliott * Vince Barnett as Scribbler, a petty forger * Alan Ladd as Jimmy Kelly aka Bill Dugan * Gavin Gordon as Kurt Parrish * Phillip Trent as Harold DeWitt * William Halligan as Police Chief Flynn * George Pembroke as Clarence DeWitt * Selmer Jackson as District Attorney * Kenneth Harlan as Jim Adams * Bryant Washburn as Attorney Bruce King * Alden "Stephen" Chase as Detective Joe Kent * Robert Strange as Lou Wood * Alex Callam as Joe Fagan * Harry Depp as Johnny Mason Joan Woodbury (December 17, 1915 -- February 22, 1989) was an American actress beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the 1960s. In 1936 her career began to become more successful, with her appearing in eight films that year, of which five were uncredited. However, of the three roles that were credited, Woodbury made an impact, and caught the attention of studio's. Her mixture of Danish, British and Native American heritage gave her an exotic appearance, and allowed her to be cast in many different ethnicities, from Hispanic to French and Asian. By 1937 her career had taken off, mostly in B-movies, but also with her receiving many credited roles. In ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com 1930s films: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Hearts in Bondage is a 1936 American film directed by Lew Ayres. Cast * James Dunn as Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds * Mae Clarke as Constance Jordan * David Manners as Raymond Jordan * Charlotte Henry as Julie Buchanan * Henry B. Walthall as Captain Buchanan * Fritz Leiber as Captain John Ericsson * George Irving as Commodore Jordan * Irving Pichel as Secretary of War Sumner Gideon Welles * JM Kerrigan as Paddy Callahan * Frank McGlynn Sr. as Abraham Lincoln * Ben Alexander as Eggleston * Oscar Apfel as Captain Gilman * Clay Clement as Lieutenant Worden * Edward Gargan as 'Mac' McPherson * Russell Hicks as Senator Pillsbury * George "Gabby" Hayes as Ezra * Douglas Wood as Commodore David G. Farragut * Bodil Rosing as Mrs. Adams * Erville Alderson as Jefferson Davis * John Hyams as Bushnell * Etta McDaniel as Mammy * Warner Richmond as Bucko * Lloyd Ingraham as Timekeeper Hooper Atchley, Maurice Brierre, Sonny Bupp, Smiley Burnette, Bob Card, Allan Cavan, Lane Chandler, Marc Cramer, Earl Eby, Jack Evans, Pat Flaherty, Herman Hack, Jack Ingram, Eugene Jackson, Charles King, Ethan Laidlaw, Frankie Marvin, Robert Paige, Henry Roquemore, Clinton Rosemond, Helen Seamon, Harry Strang, Arthur Wanzer, Cecil Watson and Wally West appear uncredited. Mae Clarke (August 16, 1910 -- April 29, 1992) was an American actress. Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Her father was a theatre organist ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Drums in the Deep South is an American film directed by William Cameron Menzies. Directed by William Cameron Menzies Produced by Frank King (producer) Maurice King (producer) Written by Philip Yordan (screenplay) and Sidney Harmon (screenplay) Hollister Noble (story) Starring See below Music by Dimitri Tiomkin Cinematography Lionel Lindon Editing by Richard V. Heermance Running time 87 minutes Country United States Language English Cast James Craig as Maj. Clay Clayburn Barbara Payton as Kathy Summers Guy Madison as Maj. Will Denning Barton MacLane as Sgt. Mac McCardle Robert Osterloh as Sgt. Harper Tom Fadden as Purdy Robert Easton as Jerry Louis Jean Heydt as Col. House Craig Stevens as Col. Braxton Summers Taylor Holmes as Albert Monroe Lewis Martin as Gen. Johnston Peter Brocco as Union corporal Dan White as Corp. Jennings Unbilled players Robert Clarke: Union officer Kenne Duncan: Union Officer Roy Gordon: Lt. Col. Fitzgerald James Griffith: Union officer who reports to Maj. Denning Myron Healey: Union lieutenant Todd Karns: Union captain Norman Leavitt: Confederate soldier Frank Marlowe: Confederate soldier Tom Monroe: Confederate soldier Billy Nelson: Union sergeant Steve Pendleton: Capt. Travis Denver Pyle: Union soldier who breaks the window Mickey Simpson: Jim Burns, Confederate soldier Ray Walker: Union officer Guy Wilkerson: Confederate sentry James Craig (February 4, 1912 -- June 28, 1985) was an American actor. After ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Dave O'Brien (May 31, 1912 -- November 8, 1969) was an American film actor, director and writer. Born David Poole Fronabarger in Big Spring, Texas, O'Brien started his film career in bit parts before gradually winning larger roles, mostly in B pictures. O'Brien became familiar to movie audiences in the 1940s as the hero of the famous MGM comedy short film series Pete Smith Specialties narrated by Pete Smith. O'Brien wrote and directed many of these subjects under the name David Barclay. He also appeared in many low-budget Westerns, often billed as 'Tex' O'Brien, alluding to his home state. To modern audiences, he is most likely best to be remembered as a frantic dope addict in the low-budget exploitation film Reefer Madness (1936), yelling "Play it faster, play it faster!!" to a piano-playing girl. He appeared in Queen Of The Yukon (1940) as Bob Adams. In 1940, he appeared in The Devil Bat as part of a comedy team with Donald Kerr. They also appeared together in Son of the Navy (1940) and The Man Who Walked Alone (1945). In 1942, O'Brien starred in the movie serial Captain Midnight. One of his later roles was in the film musical version of Kiss Me, Kate (1953), a rare featured role for the actor in an 'A' list big-budget production. O'Brien married one of his co-stars of Reefer Madness, Dorothy Short, in 1936, but they divorced in 1954 after having two children. In 1955, he married Nancy O'Brien and had three more children ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners. In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America (in a tie with CBS's Ellery Queen). The program, which was broadcast once in 1941 and continuously from December 1942 through December 1946 on NBC Radio (for Woodbury Soap), and from July 1947 to April 1955 on CBS Radio (for Colgate-Palmolive), featured Carl Eastman (1941), Joseph Curtin (1942-53) and Richard Denning (1953-55) as Jerry North. Pam North was played by Peggy Conklin (1941), Alice Frost (1942-53) and Barbara Britton (1953-55). In his book, Radio Crime Fighters, Jim Cox wrote that the couple: ... who passed themselves off as a publisher and his homemaker-spouse continued to make lighthearted wisecracks as they stepped ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Angel and the Badman is a 1947 black-and-white Western film, starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey and Bruce Cabot which examines the ability of a shootist to renounce violence. This film, which was the first one Wayne produced as well as starred in, was a radical departure for this genre at the time it was released. The film was directed by Wayne's frequent screenwriter James Edward Grant. The notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' (John Wayne) horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded and the kindly family takes him in and nurses him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful but sheltered daughter, Penelope (Gail Russell). He develops an affection for the family but his troubled past follows him there, both outlaws and the law. Evans falls for Penelope and begins to assimilate her pacifist lifestyle. However, the tug of his old ways is very strong and so he vacillates back and forth. He is finally forced to examine his character after his violent actions bring harm to an innocent person. This movie is the point of departure for two other successful "fish out of water" movies, the 1985 Witness starring Harrison Ford and the 2003 The Outsider starring Tim Daly and Naomi Watts, both of which have a similar story line. Cast: John Wayne - Quirt Evans Gail Russell - Penelope Worth Harry Carey - McClintock Bruce Cabot ...

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thefilmarchive.org DVD: www.amazon.com May 1, 1963 It's a case of one man's word against another as the Clampetts are accused of reckless driving in court. Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919 -- August 23, 2001) was an American film, television, and stage actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed tart maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors, almost invariably to comic effect. Freeman's most notable early role was an uncredited part in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, as Jean Hagen's articulate diction coach Phoebe Dinsmore. In 1954, Freeman played receptionist Miss Seely for lawyer Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) in Athena. Beginning with the 1955 film Artists and Models, Freeman became a favorite foil of Jerry Lewis, playing opposite him in 11 films. These included most of Lewis's better known comedies, including The Disorderly Orderly as Nurse Higgins, The Errand Boy as the studio boss's wife, and especially The Nutty Professor as Millie Lemon. Over 30 years later, she made a small cameo appearance in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, a sequel to the remake of the Lewis film. Still other film roles included appearances in The Missouri Traveler (1958), the horror film The Fly (1958), the Western spoofs Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) and Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), and appearances in a spate of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s. Freeman played Sister Mary Stigmata (referred to as The Penguin) in ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Sex Madness (1938) is an exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, along the lines of Reefer Madness, supposedly to warn teenagers and young adults of the dangers of venereal diseases, specifically syphilis. Wild parties, lesbianism, and premarital sex are some of the forms of 'madness' portrayed. The educational aspect of the film allowed it to portray a taboo subject which was otherwise forbidden by the Production Code of 1930, and its stricter version imposed by Hollywood studios in July 1934. It has been reissued under many titles, including Human Wreckage, They Must Be Told, and Trial Marriage, since many distributors frowned upon the appearance of the word "sex" in the film's title. The title changes may have also been a way of tricking audience members into paying to see the same film more than once. Directed by Dwain Esper Produced by Dwain Esper Written by Joseph Seiden Vincent Valentini Starring Vivian McGill Rose Tapley Al Rigeli Stanley Barton Linda Lee Hill Release date(s) 1938 Running time 57 mins. Rose Tapley (June 30, 1881-February 23, 1956) was a leading lady of the stage and an early heroine of silent films. She was born in Salem, MA. She was a cousin of Captain Robert Bartlett, commander of the SS Roosevelt and the SS Karluk. All of her relatives on her father's side for generations were sailors. Her grandfather's generation included nine sailing masters or captains. Rose's mother's name was Elizabeth Stagg Riker ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Oh, Mr Porter! is a British comedy film released in 1937 starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not his most commercially successful, it is probably his best-known film to modern audiences. It is widely acclaimed as the best of Hay's work, and a classic of its time and genre. The plot of Oh, Mr Porter was loosely based on the Arnold Ridley play The Ghost Train and was later remade (with a naval setting) as Up the Creek (1958) with David Tomlinson and Peter Sellers. The title was taken from Oh! Mr Porter, a music hall song. Jimmy Perry said that the triumvirate of Captain Mainwaring, Corporal Jones and Private Pike in Dad's Army was inspired by watching Oh, Mr Porter. Cast * Will Hay as William Porter * Moore Marriott as Jeremiah Harbottle * Graham Moffatt as Albert Brown * Percy Walsh as Superintendent * Dave O'Toole as Postman * Sebastian Smith as Mr Trimbletow * Agnes Laughlan as Mrs Trimbletow * Dennis Wyndham as Grogan * Frederick Piper as Ledbetter * Frederick Lloyd as Minister * The scene in which Porter travels to Buggleskelly by bus, whilst being warned of a terrible danger by locals, parodies that of the Tod Browning film, Dracula (1931) * No actual filming was done in Northern Ireland - the railway station used in filming was the disused Cliddesden railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, which had closed to goods in 1936. Filming took place ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Jungle Book is a 1942 American color action-adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling book, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zoltán Korda based on a screenplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings. The cinematography was by Lee Garmes and W. Howard Greene and music by Miklós Rózsa. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color for the director's brother, Vincent Korda and creative partner Julia Heron. In 1943 the film's score was re-recorded with narration by Sabu Dastagir and became the first commercial recording of a US film score to be released. Cast Sabu: Mowgli Joseph Calleia: Buldeo John Qualen: The barber Frank Puglia: The pundit Rosemary DeCamp: Messua Patricia O'Rourke : Mahala Ralph Byrd: Durga John Mather: Rao Faith Brook: English girl Noble Johnson: Sikh In an Indian village, Buldeo, an elderly storyteller, is paid by a visiting British memsahib to tell a story of his youth. He speaks of the animals of the jungle, and of the ever-present threats to human life posed by the jungle itself. He then recalls his early life: As a younger man he dreams that his village could one day become an important town, and that the jungle could be conquered. However, when he is speaking about these dreams an attack by Shere Khan the tiger leads to the death of a man and the loss of his child. The child is adopted by wolves in the jungle and grows to be the wild youth Mowgli ...

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thefilmarchive.org DVD: www.amazon.com November 12, 1963 Kate is determined to get her book-loving daughter, Bobbie Jo, to go out on a date. For the first three seasons, Petticoat Junction focused mostly on broad humor and slapstick comedy. There was a lot of physical comedy and other types of wild humor that was characteristic of the series, much like its sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and its own later spinoff show Green Acres. There were many crossover appearances in season 3 alone between the casts of both shows. The Douglases (Lisa and Oliver) make frequent appearances on Petticoat Junction, and likewise Kate, Joe, Charley and Floyd, and even Betty Jo and Bobbie Jo show up on Green Acres. But as the series progressed beginning with season 4, with the addition of Mike Minor as Steve Elliot and Meredith MacRae as the third Billie Jo, the show took on an entirely different feel. Although singing had been in a small handful of the earlier episodes, most notably "The Ladybugs" and a few other episodes in which Bobbie Jo, then played by Pat Woodell, did a brief solo, musical numbers and singing became prominent from season 4 onward, and slapstick comedy took a back seat. Many numbers featured the girls singing as a trio, Billie Jo solo, Steve solo, or Steve and Betty Jo as a duet. There were sometimes as much as two or three songs per episode, and physical comedy was less emphasized. The show from this point on often switched gears going back and forth between ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film starring baseball legend Jackie Robinson as himself. The film focuses on Robinson's struggle with the abuse of racist bigots as he becomes the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Even during its release in the era of racial segregation, the film received critical praise and fared well at the box office. The film begins with Robinson as a child, being given a worn-out baseball glove by a stranger impressed by his fielding skills. As a young man, he becomes a multi-sport star at the University of California, Los Angeles, but as he nears graduation, he worries about his future. His older brother Mack was also an outstanding college athlete and graduate, but the only job he could get was that of a lowly street cleaner. When America enters World War II, Robinson is drafted, serving as an athletic director. Afterward, he plays baseball with a professional African-American team. However, the constant travel keeps him away from his college sweetheart, Rae. Then one day, Brooklyn Dodgers scout Clyde Sukeforth invites him to meet Branch Rickey, president of the Major League Baseball team. At first, Robinson considers the offer to be a practical joke, as there are no African Americans allowed in the segregated major leagues. When he is convinced that the opportunity is genuine, he and Rickey size each other up. After thinking over Rickey's warning about the ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Trapped (1949) is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Richard Fleischer, written by George Zuckerman and Earl Felton. The drama features Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, and others. Like many semi-documentaries, the film begins with a voice over footage of the treasury department, telling the story what the department does. Then it quickly begins the story once a woman tries to deposit a twenty-dollar bill at the bank that turns out to be phony. The film tells the story of the US Treasury Department who, with the aid of a counterfeiter, try to track down and stop of counterfeiting ring. The counterfeiter, Tris Stewart (Bridges) serving time in prison, is released under the agreement that he will assist in the capture of the phoney money printers. Once out of jail Stewart quickly meets up with cigarette girl Meg Dixon (Barbara Payton). Cast * Lloyd Bridges as Tris Stewart * Barbara Payton as Meg Dixon, alias Laurie Fredericks * John Hoyt as Agent John Downey, alias Johnny Hackett * James Todd as Jack Sylvester * Russ Conway as Chief Agent Gunby * Robert Karnes as Agent Fred Foreman Directed by Richard Fleischer Produced by Bryan Foy Written by Earl Felton George Zuckerman Starring Lloyd Bridges Barbara Payton Music by Sol Kaplan Cinematography Guy Roe Editing by Alfred DeGaetano Distributed by Eagle-Lion Films Release date(s) October 1, 1949 Running time 78 minutes Country United States Language English Richard ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category. The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American's perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution. The film focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, amid heavy political intervention from Moscow, with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong playing the pivotal role at the center stage. The documentary film was made for television in 1967 -- during the Cold War era. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Theodore H. White, directed by Mel Stuart, edited by William T. Cartwright and produced by David L. Wolper. Production costs were funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. White's access to important political figures of the time allowed him to create some rare footage, which included the wedding of Chang Kai-shek and the funeral of Sun Yat-sen. The film won an Emmy Award in the documentary category. As evidenced by his commentary throughout the films, White, Time magazine's China ...

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Made for Each Other is a 1939 drama film directed by John Cromwell and produced by David O. Selznick. It stars Carole Lombard and James Stewart as a couple who get married after only knowing each other very briefly. John Mason is a young, somewhat timid attorney in New York City. He has been doing his job well, and he has a chance of being made a partner in his law firm, especially if he marries Eunice, the daughter of his employer, Judge Doolittle. However, John meets Jane during a business trip, and they fall in love and marry immediately. John's mother is disappointed with his choice, and an important court trial forces him to cancel the honeymoon. He wins the case, but by that time Judge Doolittle has chosen John's kowtowing coworker as the new partner. Jane encourages John to demand a raise and a promotion, but with finances tightened by the Depression, Doolittle requires that all employees accept pay cuts. After Jane has a baby, John becomes discouraged by his unpaid bills and by tension between Jane and his mother, who lives with them in their small apartment. On New Year's Eve, 1938--39, the baby is rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. It will die within hours unless a serum is delivered by plane from Salt Lake City. Doolittle agrees to provided funding to deliver the serum, but with a storm raging, and with a wife and children to consider, the pilot refuses to fly. John pleads over the telephone, and the pilot's unmarried ...

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