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Rebecca

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April 12, 2022March 2, 2024

Rebecca (1940), starring Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis of Rebecca

Rebecca – A British gentleman’s innocent bride grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.

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January 22, 2022December 17, 2021

The Ape (1940) starring Boris Karloff

The Ape is an unusual horror film. It has a kindly doctor (Boris Karloff), who’s working on a cure for polio. So, that’s good, although his cure requires human spinal fluid. He has a strong affection for Frances Clifford, suffering from polio. The audience never finds out why, but that’s okay. Then, a circus gorilla escapes. A rather vicious gorilla, that’s terrorizes the townspeople. And it breaks into the doctor’s home!

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January 5, 2022November 27, 2021

Song lyrics to You’ve Got Me This Way, music by Jimmy McHugh, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer 1940

Song lyrics to You’ve Got Me This Way (1940). Played by the Kay Kyser Band and sung by Harry Babbitt. in You’ll Find Out

You got me this way, say,
What are you gonna do about it?
What are you gonna do about it?
You got me this way, crazy for you!

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November 5, 2021January 9, 2024

In Blondie on a Budget, Dagwood wants to join a trout club, but there’s no money in the budget. Blondie wants a new fur coat, but they can’t afford that either. Then Dagwood’s beautiful former girlfriend shows up …

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October 31, 2021December 27, 2023

You’ll Find Out (1940), starring Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre

Synopsis of You’ll Find Out

In You’ll Find Out, famous band leader Kay Kyser and his group go to a scary old mansion where they encounter a ghostly seance, a murder plot, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre! It’s spooky fun for all in this ultra rare classic from 1940!

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October 27, 2021October 25, 2021

Song lyrics to I’ve Got a One Track Mind (1940) Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

I’ve Got a One Track Mind was played by the Kay Kyser Band and sung by Ginny Simms and Harry Babbitt in You’ll Find Out. It earned an Oscar nomination.

I’ve got a one track mind …

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June 27, 2020August 2, 2021

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Elisha Cook Jr.

In The Stranger on the Third Floor, an aspiring journalist testifies that he saw a young man at the scene of a brutal killing. The man is sentenced to death. The journalist worries that he’s responsible for the death of an innocent man. He begins his own investigation with his girlfriend. But they soon find themselves threatened by a mysterious stranger …

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March 18, 2020June 3, 2023

The Devil Bat (1940), starring Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien Synopsis of The Devil Bat In The Devil Bat, a deranged scientist (Bela Lugosi) develops… Read More »The Devil Bat [Bela Lugosi]

The Ghost Breakers

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February 3, 2020July 29, 2023

The Ghost Breakers (1940), starring Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Willie Best

The Ghost Breakers is a very funny comedy with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard, The Great Dictator) inherits her family’s ancestral home, located on a small island off Cuba. And, despite warnings and death threats, decides to take possession of the ‘haunted’ castle. Radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope) joins her. He’s fleeing New York with his butler, Alex (Willie Best). Once on the island the threesome enter the eerie castle …