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- January 29, 2021
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After he is forced into driving a getaway car for a bank robbery, a cabby is blackmailed into posing as the murdered heir to a huge fortune, whom he looks exactly like. Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennett
- January 29, 2021
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Charlie Chan, the Oriental detective, is confronted by a killer after solving the murder of a medium.
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Deceased gangster makes a deal with the devil to return to earth as a kindly judge. Dir. Archie Mayo.
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In 1194, on his return from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is taken prisoner in Germany. Disguised as a troubadour, Robin Hood formulates a plan to rescue Richard but he is captured himself.
- January 29, 2021
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Sailor goes undercover in a captured Nazi submarine to stop the enemy, and the Nazis don’t stand a chance as Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo are satirized in this Hal Roach Streamliner.
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An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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Handsome actor can’t carry a tune, but uses a homely, hunchbacked singer to fill in for him…until the hunchback begins to wonder what it would be like to have the fame for himself. Dir. Phil Rosen.
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Impressionable Jory Walden (Robby Benson) is orphaned when his alcoholic lawyer father, Ethan (Claudio Brook), is killed in a saloon fight in Santa Rosa, Calif. Hooking up with flashy gunslinger Jocko (B.J. Thomas) and sober-minded cattleman Roy (John Marley), the troubled Jory learns his life lessons on a cattle drive to eastern New Mexico. Though Jory shows a natural ability with a pistol, Roy tries to impress upon the hot-tempered teen that real men solve problems without guns.
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- Comments Off on This Rebel Breed 1960
Damon’s in black-face as blacks take on whites who take on Hispanics in this very entertaining teenage gang war extravaganza. Teenage punks slice and dice each other, turn innocent young girls into sleazy tramps, threaten innocent citizens, get involved in interracial romance, and sell drugs to local citizens. Whew! That’s a lotta trashy behavior for one movie.