• Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

    Deep in the South American jungles, plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife Dina Van Gleder (Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. When a [...]

     
  • Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

    In this adventure, John Barrymore replaces H.B. Warner as Col. Nielsen and shadows Drummond in various guises as he tries to rescue his beloved Phyllis from arch-criminals seeking revenge against him. As usual, the story is fast-paced and full of danger.

     
  • Bulldog Drummonds Peril (1938)

    The intended wedding of Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond (John Howard) to Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) at her villa in Switzerland is stopped short (once again) when someone murders the Swiss policeman who is guarding their wedding presents. The killer makes off with their prize possession, a synthetic diamond, made by a secret process by Professor [...]

     
  • Captain Calamity (1940)

    In the South Seas, Bill Jones, captain of the schooner “Marigold”, is known as Captain Calamity as he is quick to fight or frolic. Stone broke on the island of Quica and with his ship in need or re-stocking, Bill accepts an ancient Spanish doubloon from a young Australian named Carr in exchange for taking [...]

     
  • Catherine The Great (1934)

    This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia’s 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from Germany as a young woman who is to wed Grand Duke Peter, she soon becomes caught up in the court intrigue and marries the lit-fuse duke. As the Grand Duke’s mother lays dying, she relates [...]

     
  • Catholics: A fable (1973)

    Martin Sheen plays a priest who must enforce the church doctrine that the Mass should be said in native languages. The monks of a remote monastery disagree and think that the Mass should remain prayed in Latin.

     
  • Christian the Lion (1971)

    The documentary film about Christian the Lion has had several titles applied to it.
    “The Lion At World’s End”, “The Lion Who Thought He Was People”, but most commonly it is called “Christian the Lion”.
    The story is about a group of British wildlife experts bring a London-born zoo lion to his new home in Kenya.

     
  • Cold Sweat (1970)

    Charles Bronson plays Joe Martin. Joe has a jaded past, but has settled down and become a fisherman married to Lee Remick Liv Ullman. Some of his old army buddies look him up and want him to smuggle heroin in his fishing boat. Joe isn’t too happy about this. This is a [...]

     
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

    Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) is a black-and-white feature film based on the 1897 French Alexandrine verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It uses poet Brian Hooker’s 1923 English blank verse translation as the basis for its screenplay. The film was the first motion picture version in English of Rostand’s play, though [...]

     
  • David Copperfield (1969)

    David Copperfield is a 1969 American television film based on the novel by Charles Dickens made in the UK.
    The movie starred Robin Phillips in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Micawber. Among other well-known actors and actresses featured, some in cameo parts, were Richard Attenborough, Laurence Olivier, Susan Hampshire, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Michael [...]

     
  • Detour (1945)

    A piano player, Al (Neal), sets off hitchhiking his way to California to be with his girl. Along the way, a stranger in a convertible gives him a ride. While driving, Al stops to put the top up during a rainstorm. He discovers that the owner of the car has died in his sleep. Al [...]

     
  • Devils Daughter, The (1939)

    Sylvia Walton (Ida James) of Harlem inherits a Jamaican banana plantation and returns to manage it. Since her arrival, there’s been no sign of her disinherited half-sister Isabelle (Nina Mae McKinney), who ran the plantation until their father’s death. But Sylvia, her two rival suitors, and her comic- relief servant Percy are disturbed by the [...]