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The Raven
Horror icons Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ) star in the macabre classic The Raven , inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware), a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her. The girl is frightened, however, by his advances and complains to her...
Night Key
Unrivaled horror movie legend Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein, The Mummy ) stars in the pulse-pounding crime thriller Night Key . Mild mannered David Mallory (Karloff) is an eccentric inventor who spent 20 years of his life perfecting a security system only to find himself taken advantage of once again by a former partner and his lawyer. Seeking revenge so that he can provide for his daughter (Jean Rogers), Mallory soon finds himself kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit...
Lady in a Jam
Lady in a Jam is a classic screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne as Jane, a young lady who is suspected of insanity after she squanders her entire inheritance yet refuses to accept her poor financial state. Dr. Enright (Patric Knowles) is the handsome doctor assigned to her case, unbeknownst to Jane. Posing as her chauffeur, he drives her out west to her rich grandmother, from whom Jane hopes to recoup her fortune. Refusing to give Jane a dime, instead her grandmother allows her to work the...
The Shepherd of the Hills
John Wayne stars as the young hillbilly moonshiner Matt Mathews in The Shepherd of the Hills . Burdened from boyhood by a family tragedy, his life is driven by the need to avenge his mother's abandonment by an uncaring father. The stern family matriarch Granny Becky (Marjorie Main) in the absence of both parents, has taken over the leadership duties for the extended family of moonshiners. The arrival of a stranger (Harry Carey) is cause for alarm in this small community whose main source of...
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again, leaving his calling card behind as evidence. All of his victims have been crooks who have escaped prosecution through legal loopholes and his hit list keeps growing. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church (Patric Knowles) but the crimes are baffling and involve death by strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human body. The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942) is an offbeat horror-comedy film...
Pittsburgh
Screen legends Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne and Randolph Scott star in Pittsburgh, the rags-to-riches tale of friendship, love and power. Beautiful Josie Winters (Dietrich) inspires coal-mining buddies Cash Evans (Scott) and Pittsburgh Markham (Wayne) to better their lots in life. Competing for Josie's affection, the men rapidly climb to the top of their profession. Greed and power struggles soon follow, tearing a rift between the friends that changes all of their lives forever. Featuring...
Seven Sinners
Marlene Dietrich stars opposite John Wayne as sexy saloon singer Bijou Blanche, who's as quick with a comeback as she is with a come on, in Seven Sinners. Deported from every South Sea island on which she has ever performed, Bijou winds up in Boni Komba at the Seven Sinners Cafe, convincing the manager that she will break only hearts, not bar stools. Bijou soon charms a handsome Navy officer (Wayne), who falls deeply in love with the woman his superiors refer to as a naval "destroyer". When a...
Cobra Woman
Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu star in the exotic Technicolor adventure Cobra Woman. After Ramu (Hall) discovers his fiancée Tollea (Montez) has been kidnapped by a lost tribe and taken to a Pacific isle, he and his friend Kado (Sabu) set out across the seas to find her. He soon discovers the island paradise is ruled by Tollea’s evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who commands all strangers to be killed on arrival. Not only does Naja have designs on her new prisoner Ramu, but she also desires to...
Back Street (1941)
Back Street , one of the most popular and endearing love stories of all-time, has been brought to the silver screen several times over the years. Based on the bestselling novel by Fannie Hurst ( Imitation of Life ), Back Street is a quintessential tearjerker in which a couple meets and falls in love but is unable to marry due to impossible circumstances. However, despite their situation, they carry on a lifelong illicit affair until tragedy strikes. The 1941 version of Back Street , directed by...
Dracula's Daughter / Son of Dracula Double Feature
Dracula's DaughterPicking up where Dracula left off, Dr. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Meanwhile, the beautiful and mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden) appears in London seeking the understanding Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), Von Helsing's psychiatrist. A mysterious sequence of events leads Von Helsing and Garth to set off to Transylvania after the elusive countess and to rescue Garth's beautiful fiancee (...