THESE FAMILY CLASSICS ARE IN HOUSE AND AVAILABLE
( We are constantly adding to our Public Domain library on a daily basis )

'Til Clouds Roll By
A musical based on the life and times of composer Jerome Kern. Includes an all-star cast and the hit tunes of the era. Star: Judy Garland • Rating: Unrated

The Medicine Man
Jack Benny plays Dr. John Harvey, the worldly and none-too-honest title character who, while passing through a small town, falls in love with winsome Mamie Goltz (Betty Bronson), the victim of what one observer described as the most abusive father in movie history.
Star: Jack Benny • Rating: Unrated

Life with Father
In late nineteenth-century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of patent medicine selling. When it comes to light he has never been baptized and everyone starts insisting he must do so, it all starts to get a bit too much.
Star: William Powell • Rating: Unrated

The Three Stooges Festival
Compilation of classic shorts from the Three Stooges' classic TV appearances in the 1950s. The laughs come fast and furious in this rib-tickling compilation of some of comedy's best moments. Starring: The Three Stooges • Rating: Unrated

Jack and the Beanstalk
Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans. Star: Abbott & Costello • Rating: Unrated

Let's Get Tough
A rollicking film with a vaudeville turn yet, that keeps Fox on the go every minute and keeps emerging with new material all the time, featuring a haunted-house transition and a surreal conclusion at the conventicle of the secret society of saboteurs. Star: The East Side Kids • Rating: Unrated

The Last Time I Saw Paris
Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led there after it was liberated. He worked on "Stars and Stripes" when he met Marion and Helen. He would marry and be happy staying in Paris after his discharge and working for a news organization. He would try to write his great novel and that would come between Charlie, his wife and his daughter. Star: Elizabeth Taylor • Rating: Unrated

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Jane is attracted by the intelligent and energetic Sir Rochester, a man of almost twice her age. But just when Sir Rochester seems to pay attention to her, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram to stay at his house. Star: Virginia Bruce • Rating: Unrated

A Star is Born
Esther Blodgett is a naïve rural ingenue trying to break into the movies. While serving guests at a Hollywood party, she is "discovered" by alcoholic star Norman Maine who gives her a screen test, and ensnares her in the Hollywood star-making machine. She foolishly weds her idol, Norman, but his star soon fades into darkness. The film captures the ruthless cynicism of the Hollywood apparatus. Star: Janet Gaynor • Rating: Unrated

The Racketeer
Tough mobster Mahlon Keane practically runs crime in New York City. He meets broke ex-society girl Rhoda Philbrooke at a society fundraiser and helps her cheat her way to some winnings in poker. Rhoda needs the money to help nurse broken alcoholic concert violinist Tony Vaughan back to health. In between his criminal dealings, Keane takes up Rhoda's cause and helps promote Vaughan's return to public performance. Rhoda agrees to marry Keane but still harbors unrequited love for Tony Vaughan. Star: Carole Lombard • Rating: Unrated

The Jungle Book
Teenaged Mowgli, 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 treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion. Star: Sabu • Rating: Unrated

Gulliver's Travels (Animated)
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. He is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol. Star: Jessica Dragonette • Rating: Unrated

The General
Union solders have stolen The General, a Confederate train manned by Johnnie Gray, who was unable to enlist in the Confederate army because he is needed as an engineer. The Union plans to use the train to supply its soldiers in a sneak attack against the Confederates. But now it's up to Gray and his love, Annabelle Lee, to reclaim The General, re-cross enemy lines, and warn the Confederates. Star: Buster Keaton • Rating: Unrated

The Kid
Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him. Five years later Edna has become an opera star but does charity work for slum youngsters in hope of finding her boy. A doctor called by Edna discovers the note with the truth about the Kid and reports it to the authorities who come to take him away from Charlie. Star: Charlie Chaplin • Rating: Unrated

Long John Silver
After the Treasure Island adventure, Long John Silver turns up on a British Caribbean island, where he hears that rival pirate Mendoza has taken the ship carrying the governor's daughter… and his young friend Jim Hawkins. Naturally, there's more to his rescue plan than meets the eye: he hopes to get a new ship and go back for more treasure… Star: Robert Newton • Rating: Unrated

The Scarlet Letter
At the end of the 17th century, a headstrong, impoverished young society woman arrives in Boston where she weds an aging doctor. When she is swept into a tempestuous affair, the repercussions brand her as an outcast from society. Star: Colleen Moore • Rating: Unrated

The Inspector General
Danny Kaye plays the illiterate stooge of two-bit medicine-show-entrepreneur Walter Slezak. Abandoned by Slezak, the starving Kaye wanders into a corruption-ridden Russian village, which is all geared up for a visit from the Inspector General. Mistaking Kaye for that selfsame royal inspector, the townsfolk fawn on the confused Kaye, granting him his every whim and plying him with all sorts of bribes. Star: Danny Kaye • Rating: Unrated

The Paleface
Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up chasing a butterfly. Later he keeps moving the stake to which he is tied and at which he is to be burned. He becomes one of the tribe and helps them with their fight. Star: Buster Keaton • Rating: Unrated

That Gang of Mine
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees. Star: The East Side Kids • Rating: Unrated

Son of Monte Cristo
In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France. The visiting Count of Monte Cristo falls for Zona and undertakes to help her, masquerading as a foppish banker and a masked freedom fighter. The rest is rapid-fire intrigue and derring-do.
Star: Louis Hayward • Rating: Unrated

Captain Kidd
Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats… and Orange Povey, whom Kidd once abandoned on a reef and hoped never to see again. Of course, Kidd's intentions are treacherous. But there's more to gunner Adam Mercy than meets the eye. Star: Charles Laughton • Rating: Unrated

The Time of Your Life
The movie version of William Saroyan's Pulitzer prize-winning play about the various characters who populate Nick's Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, which is actually a waterfront dive. Star: James Cagney • Rating: Unrated 

A Farewell to Arms
A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. Based against the sweeping backdrop of Italy, they fall passionately in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film explores the futility of war and the chilling effect it has on the emotions of those trapped in its web. Star: Gary Cooper • Rating: Unrated

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Leslie Howard plays a dashing nobleman who saves aristocrats from death during the French Revolution by posing as a sissy. Star: Leslie Howard • Rating: Unrated

The Black Pirate
A silent swashbuckler with music track, produced & written by D. Fairbanks Sr. Fairbanks stars, as well, as the nobleman who joins a pirate gang to avenge his father's death. Outstanding action scenes mark this, one of the first features shot entirely in Technicolor. Star: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. • Rating: Unrated

Little Lord Fauntelroy
Plucky Freddie Bartholomew is just about irresistible as the Brooklyn boy who becomes an earl. Melting hearts left and right, he wins over his crusty grandfather, becomes a philanthropist in a sailor suit, and fights the local toughs to prove he is NOT a sissy! C.Aubrey Smith seemed born to play the venerable old gentleman, although he relies a bit too much on acting with his monocle. Mickey Rooney stands out as the loyal Brooklyn shoeshine boy.
Star: Mickey Rooney • Rating: Unrated

The Eagle
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha. Star: Rudolph Valentino • Rating: Unrated

The Great Dan Patch
The story of the highest-earning harness racer in history is told through the family who owned it. Set against this backdrop is a stirring love story featuring the horse's owner and the trainer's daughter. Star: Dennis O'Keefe • Rating: Unrated

My Dear Secretary
Owen Waterbury, bestselling novelist, recruits aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his latest of many secretaries. The stars in her eyes fade when she finds she is to work in his apartment, with a constant parade of eccentric visitors and slapstick provided by klutzy roommate Ronnie. Moreover, Waterbury's idea of work looks a lot like play, his interest less in books than in blondes. Star: Kirk Douglas • Rating: Unrated

Royal Wedding
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell play a brother-sister dance team in Britain during a royal wedding. Contains some of Astaire's most unusual dance routines, including one number where he dances on the walls and ceiling. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("Royal Wedding"). Star: Fred Astaire • Rating: Unrated

At War with the Army
Jerry Lewis is a hapless private and Dean Martin is the bossy First Sergeant of a slipshod platoon at a stateside training base. Jerry and Dean were friends who grew up in the same neighborhood before Uncle Sam made GIs out of them. All of the stereotypical military comedy characters are present, including the loudmouth drill instructor, the conniving supply sergeant, the doting corporal and the bumbling, hen-pecked company commander.
Star: Jerry Lewis • Rating: Unrated

Our Town
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. Star: William Holden • Rating: Unrated

The Little Princess
In Victorian England little Sara Crewe's widowed father is sent to the Boer War. When he is reported killed the evil head mistress at her boarding school turns Sara into a servant. She suffers with dignity until her shell-shocked father returns. Star: Shirley Temple • Rating: Unrated

My Favorite Brunette
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller clichés. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap? Star: Bob Hope • Rating: Unrated

The Pied Piper of Hamelin
A piper with magical abilities charms the populace of a Bavarian village in 1284, and lures the town's children to his mountain home after the townspeople fail to keep a promise. The haunting music of Edvard Grieg highlights the program. Star: Van Johnson • Rating: Unrated

The Big Trees
Tough lumbermen battle homesteaders for the control of a verdant forest valley. Spectacular scenery and fierce dramatic action typify this big screen production with staunch Kirk Douglas in the starring role. Star: Kirk Douglas • Rating: Unrated

Beyond Tomorrow
Melton, Chadwick and O'Brien, rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite two young strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. The two, James and Jean, fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors… until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots; can ghostly O'Brien help the young folks? Star: Harry Carey • Rating: Unrated

The Flying Scotsman
Ray Milland, at the beginning of his career, is the new fireman aboard the 'Flying Scotsman.' Of course he falls in love with the daughter of the Flying Scotsman's engineer, unbeknownst to any of the parties, and of course the old fireman, fired for drinking on the job, has vowed vengeance on everyone. The whole movie is photographed by Theodore Sparkuhl and features Germanic, moody, shadowy lighting that produces an air of foreboding in every scene. Star: Ray Milland • Rating: Unrated

Flying Deuces
Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride. Star: Laurel & Hardy • Rating: Unrated

The Blacksmith
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
Star: Buster Keaton • Rating: Unrated

Africa Screams
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking fellow bookseller Stanley knows a great deal about Africa they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe. After encounters with lion tamers, giant apes and a wild river, Buzz returns to America. Stanley finds diamonds and buys the store they once worked for, hiring Buzz as its elevator operator. Star: Abbott & Costello • Rating: Unrated

The Magic Sword
The evil sorcerer Lodac captures Princess Helene and whisks her off to his castle. Young George has been enamored of Helene from afar, and aided by a magic sword given to him by his sorceress stepmother he sets off with his six knights to save her. However, he must travel with Sir Franton, who also has romantic aspirations for the Princess. Together the knights must face Lodac's seven curses and liberate the Princess. Star: Basil Rathbone • Rating: Unrated

Father's Little Dividend
Stanley Banks is finally recovering from his daughter's wedding when he learns she is going to have a baby. He is strongly opposed at first, and disputes arise between maternal and paternal grandparents. Star: Spencer Tracy • Rating: Unrated

Utopia
Laurel and Hardy's last film was made in France. It's about a South Seas island they inherit, a uranium discovery, and a damsel in distress. Dubbed in English. Star: Laurel & Hardy

The Big Chance
With the help of his ever-faithful trainer, a professional boxer prepares for the biggest fight of his career. The pressure mounts as unscrupulous mobsters pressure him to throw the fight. Star: Mickey Rooney • Rating: Unrated

Kid Dynamite
EastSide boxing champion (Leo Gorcey) has been challenged to fight the West Side champ but is kidnapped before the match. Leo's friend (Bobby Jordan) takes his place and wins the fight only to have Leo think that Bobby was responsible for his kidnapping. Star: The East Side Kids • Rating: Unrated

The Iron Mask
This silent movie epic containing the original organ score was written and produced by star Douglas Fairbanks, who plays the role of D'Artagnan, the musketeer who is committed to protecting the future king of France. Academy Award Nominations: Best Interior Decoration. Star: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. • Rating: Unrated

The Lost World
Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Star: Wallace Beery • Rating: Unrated

W.C. Fields Festival
Enjoy some of the most classic moments in comedy in this hilarious compilation of W.C. Fields' short comedy features. For the ultimate in droll, sarcastic wit, no one can beat the master of the one-liner. Starring: W.C. Fields • Rating: Unrated

The Road to Hollywood
The Road to Hollywood is comprised of clips from Crosby's two-reel musical comedies made at the Mack Sennett studios between 1931 and 1932: I Surrender Dear; One More Chance; Dream House; The Billboard Girl; Blue of the Night; and Sing Bing Sing. Star: Bing Crosby • Rating: Unrated

"Four Star Playhouse" (1954-1955) - 6x30 minute episodes
"Four Star Playhouse" had four rotating actors: Dick Powell, David Niven, Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino. Originally it was to be Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea and Rosalind Russell, but that never happened. In its first year Four Star was on every other week, sharing its spot with the "Amos 'N Andy" show. Into the second season Four Star became weekly. Dick Powell played a character named Willie Dante who ran Dante's Nightclub. This character was shown in several episodes. The format of the episodes varied from comedy to drama.

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