Category: Classics

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Set in early 19^th century, this classic film tells the tale of a rivalry between two Lincolnshire families when mill owner Mr. Tulliver (Sam Livesey) refuses to relinquish his water rights to Mr. Wakem (Felix Aylmer). Caught in the legal crossfire is Maggie (Geraldine Fitzgerald), Mr. Tulliver’s daughter who becomes infatuated with Mr. Wakem’s good-hearted son, Phillip (Frank Lawton) and whose good name becomes smeared by scandal.

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Starring: Geraldine Fitzgerald and James Mason

Directed By: Tim Whelan

Written By: John Drinkwater, George Eliot, Austin Melford, Garnet Weston, Tim Whelan

Genre: Drama

Run Time: 77 minutes

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In this East Side Kids entry, Bobby Jordan plays Danny Stevens, a young man who helps turn in a criminal and receives $200 as a reward. However, he conflicts with the gang when they think the money should be shared. Making matters worse, the vengeful criminal escapes from prison and comes after Danny.

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Starring: Leo Gorcey, The East Side Kids, including Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

Directed By: Wallace Fox

Written By: Harvey Gates

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Romance

Run Time: 67 minutes

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The last silent swashbuckler for Douglas Fairbanks has him playing D’Artagnan of the “Three Musketeers,” joining with his comrades to protect the young, newly crowned King Louis XIV of France from an evil plan by De Rochefort (Ullrich Haupt) to put an impostor — the King’s own twin whom Cardinal Richelieu (Nigel De Brulier) had sent away to be raised secretly — in place.

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Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Nigel de Brulier

Directed By: Allan Dwan

Written By: Jack Cunningham, Allan Dwan, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (screenplay, story & titles), Lotta Woods (scenario editor)

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Run Time: 95 minutes

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Based on a novel by Luke Short, this Western stars Burt Lancaster as Owen Daybright, the adopted son of the Strobie family. Lee Strobie, played by Robert Walker, resents the attention Daybright gets from his father. As they get older, Strobie’s resentment turns to hatred, and he plots to destroy the perfect image his family has for his adopted brother.

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Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker and Joanne Dru

Directed By: Richard Thorpe

Written By: Luke Short, Irving Ravetch

Genre: Western

Run Time: 83 minutes

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In this sequel to the 1948 film, Frontier Revenge, U.S. Marshal Lash LaRue goes undercover in pursuit of ‘Deuce’ Rago (Ray Bennett), who was recently released from prison and now serves as the head of a gang hijacking silver from nearby mines. Deuce hires Lash, who is thought to have turned outlaw, in order to find out who has being robbing from his own gang.

Starring: Lash LaRue, Al St. John and Peggy Stewart

Directed By: Ron Ormond

Written By: Kathy McKeel

Genre: Western

Alternate Title: Thundering Trail

Run Time: 54 minutes

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Chemist David Palmer (Dennis O’Keefe) returns to his hometown in Indiana to marry a socially ambitious teacher (Ruth Warrick) and meets with Ben Lathrop (John Hoyt), his father’s horse trainer. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention and as years pass, his father dies. Upon returning to Indiana, Palmer and becomes re-interested in his father’s passion for horseracing, as well as in Lathrop’s daughter, Cissy (Gail Russell).

Starring: Dennis O’Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood

Directed By: Joseph M. Newman

Written By: John Taintor Foote

Alternate Title: Ride a Reckless Mile

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance

Run Time: 94 minutes