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A quartet of international crooks — Peterson, O’Hara, Ross and Ravello — is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Early adaptation of the novel by Victor Hugo starring Lon Chaney. In fifteenth century Paris, Jehan, the evil brother of the archdeacon, plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt, which eventually leads to the peasants storming the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Meanwhile, Jehan’s slave, a freakish hunchback named Quasimodo, falls in love [...]
Adventures of Don Quixote (1933)
In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes [...]
His Royal Highness (1932)
Australia’s first musical comedy featuring vaudevillian comic George Wallace the most popular Australian comedian or the era.
Musical | Comedy
Niemandsland — Hell on Earth (1931)
No Mans Land
The film takes place in a WWI trench, where five diverse individuals have been unwillingly thrust together.
Despising one another at first, the five protagonists come to realize that they must learn to get along if they hope to survive. The pacifistic sentiments (not to mention the ethnic mix) of Niemansland would be verboten [...]
Jungle Book (1942)
Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas.
Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against ‘beasts’ including Mowgli; not so Buldeo’s pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a [...]
Little Princess, The (1939)
When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as [...]
Zorro’s Fighting Legion: Chapter 1 – Golden God (1939)
It’a 1824 and Don Del Oro, a man completely hidden in a suit of armor, plans to become emperor of Mexico. Don Diego arrives and as the masked Zorro takes up the fight. He organizes the Legionnaires to fight Del Oro’s henchmen and the Yaqui Indians. CHAP. 1, GOLDEN GOD: An explosion sends a landslide [...]
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write a waltz for her. Schani writes and plays it, but he is always loyal to [...]
Zorro’s Black Whip: Chapter 1 – The Masked Avenger (1944)
Hammond, owner of the town’s stagecoach line and a leading citizen, is opposed to Idaho becoming a state, and kills Randolph Meredith, owner of the town’s newspaper, for endorsing it. Meredith’s sister Barbara, expert with a bullwhip and pistol, dons a black costume and mask and becomes “The Black Whip”, dealing a blow to Hammond [...]
Trouble in Texas (1937)
It was re-issued by ScreenCraft Pictures with Rita Hayworth’s name above the title. An inside joke has Yakima Canutt playing a henchman named “Squint Palmer”, a name often used by player Tex “Squint” Palmer, who plays Henchman Duke in this film, is billed 5th in the cast and has exactly no lines. The film cast [...]
Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called “The Black Ace.”
Mystery
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