The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the…
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Big Jack
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
A Date with Judy
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy’s relationship with Carol’s bumbling brother, Oogie,…
The Mighty McGurk
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York’s Bowery District.
This Man’s Navy
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a…
Salute to the Marines
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a…
Jackass Mail
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
The Bugle Sounds
An old-time cavalry sergeant’s resistance to change could cost him his post.
The Bad Man
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil’s ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy…
20 Mule Team
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save…
Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Stablemates
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
The Bad Man of Brimstone
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Slave Ship
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
A Message to Garcia
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
China Seas
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only risky cargo he carries; both…
Ah, Wilderness!
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise…
Treasure Island
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain…
Tugboat Annie
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby…
Going Hollywood
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to…
Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society…
The Bowery
“In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves … but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as…
Hell Divers
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Flesh
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang,…
The Champ
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Min and Bill
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
The Big House
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Billy the Kid
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his…
Beggars of Life
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…
Old Ironsides
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution–a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”–against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional…
The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
White Tiger
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they’re forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
The Spanish Dancer
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people’s fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess….
Three Ages
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set…
Drifting
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine…
Robin Hood
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England’s peril…
My Wife’s Relations
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.