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Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young (1949), starring Terry Moore, Robert Armstrong
Mighty Joe Young (1949), starring Terry Moore, Robert Armstrong On an expedition to Africa, show business promoter Max O’Hara meets Jill Young. She has raised her pet gorilla, Joe, since she was a child. And the promoter wants to use Mighty Joe Young to promote his nightclub. What...
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Going My Way

Going My Way (1944) starring Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, directed by Leo McCarey
Going My Way (1944) starring Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, directed by Leo McCarey Going My Way was the 1944 Best picture Academy Award winner. When old fading St. Dominic’s Church gets a new young priest, things are bound to change. The air is filled with music from the...
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High Pressure [William Powell]

High Pressure starring William Powell - movie poster
High Pressure (1931) starring William Powell, Evelyn Dale, George Sidney, Frank McHugh Synopsis In High Pressure William Powell’s a likeable rogue. He plays a garrulous promoter selling investors on a scheme to make synthetic rubber – from sewage!
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Gold Diggers of 1935 [musical]

Gold Diggers of 1935, starring Dick Powell, Alice Brady, Gloria Stuart, Dorothy Dare, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh
Gold Diggers of 1935, starring Dick Powell, Alice Brady, Gloria Stuart, Dorothy Dare, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh Synopsis of Gold Diggers of 1935 A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home in this amusing musical starring Alice Brady and Adolphe Menjou.
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Elmer the Great

Elmer the Great starring Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis
Elmer the Great (1933) starring Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis Synopsis of Elmer the Great In Elmer the Great, a country bumpkin with an incredible batting average becomes an unlikely baseball star. 
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I Love You Again

I Love You Again (1940) starring William Powell , Myrna Loy , Frank McHugh
I Love You Again (1940) starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh Synopsis of I Love You Again In I Love You Again, William Powell and Myrna Loy star in this comedy about a seemingly staid married businessman whose recovery from amnesia exposes his past existence as a...
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Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh
Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh Synopsis of Bullets or Ballots A tough New York cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring in this well-done gangster movie starring Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond [Lucille Ball]

Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) starring Lucille Ball, William Holden, James Gleason
Miss Grant Takes Richmond  (1949) starring  Lucille Ball, William Holden, James Gleason Miss Grant Takes Richmond  begins at a secretarial school. The grave-looking Charles Lane is overseeing his class, including Ellen Grant, played by the lovely  Lucille Ball.   Most of the class is performing well, but not...
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