Drama

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

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September 20, 2024September 8, 2024

James Whale’s exciting adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) centers on twin heirs to France’s throne who are separated at birth. The first-born Louis, is raised as a prince, but Phillippe is brought up ignorant of his true identity. When Phillippe is arrested with his companions, D’Artagnan and the three Musketeers, he meets his brother, now the king, face-to-face. The tryrannical Louis decides Phillippe could be useful to him as a look-a like, but complications arise when Phillippe meets the king’s beautiful Fiancé. Whale’s film is a swashbuckling adventure tale, full of palace intrigues and thrilling sword fights.

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August 9, 2024August 3, 2024

Big Town aka. Guilty Assignment (1947) starring Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke – based on the radio series of the same name, news exposing …

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July 5, 2024July 5, 2024

Midnight Manhunt – a dead gangster, worth $5,000 dead or alive, is ffound dead in a wax museum. And it’s a case of who’s got the body! The murderer? The reporter? Her reporter boyfriend? The office boy?

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June 21, 2024June 24, 2024

Executive Suite (1954) starring William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon

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Executive Suite – the president of Tredway Corp. has unexpectedly died. Long live the new president. But who will the exec be? There’s no official line of succession, and so insider back-stabbing begins.

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June 21, 2024May 12, 2024

Little Women is a “coming of age” drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

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May 17, 2024April 4, 2024

John Huston’s Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances among them.

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May 3, 2024May 3, 2024

A film version of the popular radio serial, Chandu, The Magician is a fun, entertaining drama with some of the best special effects of its time. Our hero Frank Chandler (Chandu) tries to keep his supernatural powers a secret from his dear sister Dorothy and her family. But Dorothy’shusband have been kidnapped by the villainous Roxor who wants to force him, to reveal the secret of his death ray. Chandu’s magical feats keeps him one step ahead of Roxor. But he falls prey to Roxor when the villain snatches Chandu’s sweetheart, Princess Nadji.

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April 26, 2024March 19, 2024

Britannic is a highly fictionalized telling of the story of the sinking of the Britannic, sister ship of the Titanic.

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April 12, 2024April 12, 2024

Brian’s Song is a truly great film about an unlikely friendship between two football players. How they’re thrown together, and become both friends and competitors at the same time. And when one suffers an injury that could end his career, the other helps him rehabilitate – to beat him fair and square. And then, the other friend faces cancer …