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The Big Chance (FULL MOVIE 1933) Starring Mickey Rooney
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight in this movie starring a 13 year old Mickey Rooney
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Railroaded!
SHERLOCK HOLMES A STUDY IN SCARLET 1933 Full Movie
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy’s widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying–Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes’ uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
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Sinners in Paradise (1938) ADVENTURE
Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles and Bruce Cabot
Director: James Whale
Writers: Harold Buckley (story and screenplay)
During a violent storm, an airplane bound for China crash-lands on an uncharted South Sea island. All of the passengers, including a nurse, a fugitive criminal, a blonde strumpet, a crooked former senator, a “radical” heiress, a munitions salesmen Honeyman, survive unscathed but now must fight fortheir survival.
From the director of Frankenstein!
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Lady Gangster (1942) CRIME NOIR
Stars: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, and Jackie Gleason
Director: Robert Florey
Writers: Anthony Coldeway (screenplay), Dorothy Mackaye (play)
An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before she’s sent to prison.
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Wallaby Jim of the Islands (1937) JUNGLE ADVENTURE
Stars: George Houston, Ruth Coleman, Douglas Walton
Director: Charles Lamont
Writer: Bennett Cohen (screenplay)
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a pricelessource of pearls in the South Pacific. But when an associate puts the whole operation in jeopardy, an unscrupulous rival decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim’s claim!
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High Lonesome (1950) [Western]
A boy is found stealing food at Horse Davis’ ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse’s daughter Abby, believes the boy to also be a horse thief and possibly worse. Given the nickname Cooncat by the cook, the boy explains that he was wrongfully accused of murdering a man named Shell and has fled from the law. Shell owed him money, he says, and two strangers known as Smiling Man and Roper gave him a gun to confront Shell. He wound up unconscious and next to Shell’s bullet-riddled body.
Horse doubts the boy’s story, though youngest daughter Meagan believes it. At an engagement party for Pat and Abby, word comes that Pat’s parents have been found murdered. A livid Pat is ready to hang Cooncat for the crime. Horse talks him out of it, creating a rift between the two old friends. Smiling Man and Roper turn up in the bunkhouse. They laugh at Cooncat’s predicament and call him their lucky charm. Boatwhistle is shot by Smiling Man, and just as Horse is about to be ambushed, Cooncat calls out to warn him and is wounded. Pat rides up just in time to save Horse’s life. The two ranchers agree to take Cooncat under their wing.
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Directed by Alfonso Brescia, produced by Luigi Alessi, written by Alfonso Brescia and Aldo Crudo, starring John Drew Barrymore as Cooncat, Chill Wills as Boatwhistle, John Archer as Pat Farrell, Lois Butler as Meagan Davis, Kristine Miller as Abby Davis, Basil Ruysdael as “Horse” Davis, Jack Elam as Smiling Man, Dave Kashner as Roper, Frank Cordell as Frank, Clem Fuller as Dixie, Hugh Aiken as Art Simms, Howard Joslin as Jim Shell.
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Source: “High Lonesome (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 27 September 2013. Web. 29 December 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Lonesome_(film).
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Shed No Tears (1948) [Film Noir] [Crime] [Drama]
Edna Grover (Vincent) convinces her older husband Sam (Ford) to fake his own death so they can collect on the life insurance. He hides in another city under an assumed name while she identifies a burned body found after a hotel fire as her husband. Edna collects the money but she has been having an affair for some time and double-crosses her husband. The whole situation rouses the suspicions of the Sam’s son from a previous marriage who hires a private investigator to look into it. Unfortunately the PI is crooked and Edna pays him to stay silent. In the end, when Sam finds out about Edna’s secret lover (Roberts), he is so distraught that he commits suicide.
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Directed by Jean Yarbrough, produced by Robert Frost, written by Brown Holmes and Virginia M. Cooke, story by Don Martin, starring Wallace Ford as Sam Grover, June Vincent as Edna Grover, Mark Roberts as Ray Belden, Frank Albertson as Lt. Hutton, Richard Hogan as Tom Grover, Elena Verdugo as Marilyn, Johnstone White as Huntington Stewart.
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Source: “Shed No Tears” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 5 September 2013. Web. 20 October 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_No_Tears.
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Alaska Highway (1943) [Drama]
The film begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Alaska at the time was weakly defended. Canada had already built the northwest staging route; a series of airfields spread across northwestern Canada. The decision is made to build a highway to Alaska. The workers are divided into three starting camps, Fort Nelson BC., Skagway Alaska, and Valdez Alaska. The workers from Fort Nelson BC begin building a highway north. The workers in Skagway are transported by the White Pass and Yukon Route railway to Whitehorse. From Whitehorse they begin building a road north and south.
The workers in Valdez Alaska move to a point inland and begin building a road towards Fairbanks and Whitehorse. The movie goes on to show some amazing footage of bulldozers building the highway. The black troops arrive and all work hard building the highway. The highway is opened to traffic. The truck drivers find that the road is better to drive than expected. However, some of the highway is not correctly built and becomes impassable in rain. Flooded rivers wash away some bridges and they have to be rebuilt. Some of the highway is not properly drained and ice builds up on the road. Trucks sink into the mud and are frozen into the mud. Some grades are too steep and accidents happen. Civilian contractors are hired to improve the highway. New bridges are built and telephone lines are added to the route.
Skagway is given a new life by all the troops stationed there. The port is expanded. The White Pass and Yukon Route railway is leased by the army. Supplies flow from Skagway to Whitehorse. One train engineer is given the soldiers medal for risking his life to save his train. The decision is made to build a highway from Hanes Alaska to connect to the Alaska highway. The Indians living in remote Alaska are now connected with the rest of the world by the highways. The airports are upgraded, planes and supplies flow to Russia. The peace river bridge is dedicated. Politicians and army brass from the US and Canada make speeches.
The highway contractors finish their rebuilding of the highway. This allows supplies to flow into Alaska. The film ends with scenes of massive convoys of trucks headed north into Alaska. “Now we can press home the attack. This is the road through the brooding wilderness. This is the wedge that has pried open the last great frontier of America. The key which has unlocked the treasure chest of Alaska and the Canadian northwest.”
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Directed by Frank McDonald, produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas, written by Lewis R. Foster and Maxwell Shane , starring Richard Arlen as Woody Ormsby, Jean Parker as Ann Coswell, Ralph Sanford as Frosty Gimble, William Henry as Steve Ormsby, Joe Sawyer as Roughhouse, Eddie Quillan as Pompadour “Shorty” Jones, Jack Wegman as Sergeant Swithers, Harry Shannon as John “Pop” Ormsby, Edward Earle as Blair Caswell and Keith Richards as Hank Lincoln.
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Source: “Alaska Highway (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 1 October 2013. Web. 20 October 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway_(film).
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