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- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Midnight Shadow 1939
In a quiet, all-black Oklahoma community live the Wilsons, whose pretty daughter Margaret is courted by awkward Buster and suave stage mentalist Prince Alihabad. On one busy night, Mr. Wilson shows his valuables to Alihabad, who plans to elope with Margaret; a mysterious man hangs around while another burglarizes the house; and someone murders Mr. Wilson! Will the killer be caught by the police, or by bumbling correspondence-school detective Junior Lingley?
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Radical, The AKA Katherine 1975
A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly but inexorably spirals into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Frantic 1958
Former commando plans the perfect murder, but is drawn into confusion and hysteria when teenagers use his gun to murder tourists. Music by Miles Davis. English subtitles. Dir. Richard Cunha.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on In The Soup 1936
To make ends meet, a lawyer and his wife pose as their own servants. Dir. Frank Strayer.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Let’s Go Collegiate 1941
Truck driver masquerades as a college athlete and wins the game; comedy with musical entries.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Dark Journey 1937
During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Monocle, The 1964
Suspenseful espionage tale about a Hong Kong secret agent who races against time in pursuit of a ruthless Asiatic group determined to destroy an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Corregidor 1943
Love triangle develops between doctors treating the wounded during the standoff between the Allies and the Japanese at Corregidor. Written by Edgar G. Ulmer. Epilogue written by poet Alfred Noyes. Dir. William Nigh.
- January 29, 2021
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- Comments Off on Gangster’s Boy 1938
Popular high-school senior is shunned by his class when they learn that his father is a retired bootlegger.