A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance.
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Sep 09A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Dick Miller. The film, produced on a $50,000 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 [...]
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A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is what Charles Dickens described as his “little Christmas Book” and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech. The first of the author’s five “Christmas books”, the story was instantly successful, selling over [...]
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Dec 09A Christmas Carol (1971) is a 25-minute animated cartoon adaptation of Charles Dickens’ venerable novella which was originally shown on ABC television in the US.
A Christmas Carol was animated and directed by Richard Williams, and starred Alastair Sim as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge (a role Sim had previously performed in the 1951 live-action film [...] -
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Aug 09A Day Called ‘X’ was a dramatized CBS documentary set in Portland, Oregon in which the entire city is evacuated in anticipation of a nuclear air raid, after Soviet bombers had been detected by radar stations to the north; it details the activation of the city’s civil defense protocols and leads up to the moment [...]
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Sep 09Set in Europe during World War I, the plot focuses on the tragic romance between Frederick Henry (Gary Cooper), an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian Army, and English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes). Major Rinaldi envies their relationship and has Catherine transferred to Milan. When Frederick is wounded in battle, he [...]
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The Fatal Glass of Beer is a short film released in 1933, starring W. C. Fields and produced by Mack Sennett. It was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures.
Written by Fields and directed by Clyde Bruckman, the film is a parody of rugged stage melodramas set in the Yukon. Fields serenades a mountie with “The Fatal [...] -
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Sep 09A Star Is Born (1937) is a romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring actress who travels to Hollywood to become a movie star. Other members of the cast [...]
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Aug 09In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy’s widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew….
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Sep 09A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film. It is loosely based on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.
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Sep 09A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 (reissued in 1951 as Salerno Beachhead), based on the novel by Harry Brown. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and starred Dana Andrews and Lloyd Bridges.
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to [...] -
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Sep 09Jimmy is a hard-working young man who lives in the tough streets of New York City with dreams of becoming a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln is his role model. Jimmy tries to keep the neighborhood waifs out of trouble as he follows his dreams and ambition. This is a fun holiday film in the style of [...]



