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- January 29, 2021
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Fast paced comedy concerning a honeymooning couple who only have one night together before he’s shipped off to the army. They are constantly harassed by a dead body which keeps disappearing, gangsters looking for stolen loot, a bumbling house detective, and the police. Dir. Dave Fleischer.
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Adapted from Shakespeare’s play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine
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A paid police informer absconds to Miami with $7,500 in misguided attempt to retire. Dan Frazer, Anne Marie and Marcia Jean Kurtz also star.
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Secretary is fooled into killing a woman, and her private eye boss is determined to keep her out of jail. Written and Produced by Carl K. Hittleman. Dir. Lambert Hillyer
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Definitely a classic! Topper helps the ghost of a pretty girl find her murderer in a spooky mansion.
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Blind PI is hired by a friend whose stepdaughter is involved with an older actor, who has a curious past. From the novel “Odor of Violets” by Baynard Kendrick. Produced by Jack Chertok. Dir. Fred Zinnemann
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- Comments Off on All American Co-Ed 1941
All-girl school insults a macho frat, who gets even by making one of their own put on a dress and go undercover to a beauty contest at the girls’ school.
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Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).
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- Comments Off on Pot O’ Gold 1941
Comedy in which a young man convinces his rich uncle to give a struggling band a shot on his radio show.