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Classics
The following
titles are $10.00 each, including shipping in the US. Please add 75 cents per
title for Canadian orders. All titles are considered to be in the PUBLIC
DOMAIN, and are sold as a collector’s item. Please see the Home page for
shipping and payment information. Only titles with “Available on DVD” after the
listing are available on DVD.
Raymond Massey brings Abraham Lincoln to life in this 1940 film. Except for some minor historical inaccuracies (A Civil War song used a year before the war, for one) this is a very well crafted movie. Granted, it does take some poetic license towards Lincoln’s life. However, it does it in a loving way that is easily over looked. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Robert Sherwood. Also released as Spirit of the People, but does not have any footage added or removed. Black and White. Available on VCD.
D.W. Griffith’s first talking picture tells the tale of Abraham Lincoln as he raises in the political arena from a failed Illinois politician to President of the U.S. Of course, some facts are off a bit, but that’s to be expected in Hollywood. 1930. Black & white. Available on VCD.
Angel On My Shoulder
When a mobster is sent to Hell, ol’ Nick himself sends him back to earth in the body of a recently deceased judge. Black and white. 1946. Available on VCD.
The Bank Dick
W.C. Fields not only starred in this 1940 comedy, but also wrote it under the pen name Mahatma Kane Jeeves. Black and white. Available on VCD.
Be Big
Laurel and Hardy star in this hard-to-find short. Ollie decides that it is more important to go to a lodge party then keep his promise to go away for the weekend with his wife. Naturally, Stan has to go to the party with him (ever wonder about those two?), so Ollie tells their wives that he’s too sick to go, and that Stan has to take care of him. This may be where the sit-com writers got the idea. Black and white, 1930's (?). Available on VCD.
Beat The Devil
Humphrey Bogart stars in this 1954 Truman Capote comedy. It was originally made as a satire for The Maltese Falcon, but its style has since taken on a life of its own. Black and White. Available on VCD.
Actually, this is only the story of how he started to play, developed swing music, and got engaged. It doesn't say anything else about his life. Despite some of the sets being badly re-used (the roof top set in Chicago is identical to the one in New York City, and the speak easy in Chicago looks identical to every small club in the country), it really does have a nice period look to it. The film is only slightly romanticized, which makes it seem even more believable. Color. 1955. Available on VCD.
Daniel
Boone
The 1936 classic featuring George O’Brien as Daniel Boone, leading a group of settlers from North Carolina to Kentucky. Black and White. Available on VCD & DVD.
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Farewell To Arms
Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes star in this 1932 film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel. This is not just another World War One story. Black and White. Available on VCD.
The Hairy Ape
William Bendix and Susan Hayward star in this 1944 screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s play. An extremely hairy coal stoker on a cruise ship falls in love with a spoiled, rich debutante. Bendix is so hairy, that in one scene, it looks like he parted his back. Black and White. Available on VCD.
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in this romantic comedy about two divorced newspaper employees at war with each other. 1940. Black and White. Available on VCD.
Hometown
Story
When a politician (Jeffery Lynn) is voted out of office, he takes over a small town newspaper. He then decides to focus on scandalous stories in order to rebuild his political image. The film also features Marilyn Monroe as his secretary. 1951. Black and white. Available on VCD.
This is the 1942 live action interpretation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel. Think of it as a pre-teen, India version of Tarzan. Yes, that’s an over simplification. Color. Available on VCD.
King Solomon’s Mines
This is the original 1937 Robert Stevenson movie. Black & White. Available on VCD.
Bob Hope stars as a con artist that has to raise $10,000 by Christmas to pay off a mobster. Features the song Silver Bells. The movie also stars Tor Johnson, William Frawley, Marilyn Maxwell and Jane Darwell. Black and white. 1951. Available on VCD.
Life With Father
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor and Jimmy (Henry Aldrich) Lydon star in this 1947 adaptation of Clarence Day’s autographic play. The play itself is the longest running NON-musical play in Broadway history. Color. Available on VCD.
A young Brooklyn boy must move to England when his uncle calls for him to claim his birthright. Look for Micky Rooney in an early role as the shoeshine boy. 1936. Black and white. Available on VCD.
Shirley Temple sings and dances while trapped in an orphanage. Was her father really sent to war, and was he really the man that she thinks he is? The other girls in the orphanage definitely don’t think so. Color. 1939. Available on VCD.
Made For Each Other
A romantic comedy starring James Stewart and Carole Lombard. 1939. Black and White. Available on VCD.
Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck star in this 1941 film about the American Spirit and the problems associated with greedy aristocrats. Black and White. Available on VCD.
My Man Godfrey
A charming story of a spoiled rich girl
that hires a homeless man as her family’s butler. This is the original, 1936
version, starring William Powell and
Carole Lombard. Jane Wyman is seen in the party scene as an extra. Available
on VCD.
In a sense, this is a French version of Zorro. However, Zorro was more of a Robin Hood figure, trying to protect the poor and innocent. The Scarlet Pimpernel preferred to help the French aristocrats avoid villagers during the French Revolution. Black and white. 1934. Available on VCD.
Edward G. Robinson portrays a recently retired man that turns to painting. After his shrew of a wife belittles his talent, he seeks the comfort of a young woman. After she uses him, he turns to murder. Directed by Fritz Lang. Black and white. 1945. Available on VCD.
Scrooge --
AKA --A Christmas Carole
This is considered to be one of
the best adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carole. It has also
been said that this is one of England’s finest classic movies. Stars Alister
Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison,Patrick Macnee. Although the movie was
released in America as A Christmas Carole, it is the same film, without any
footage added or deleted. 1951. Black and White. Available on VCD.
This is the 1946 movie that many credit as saving Orson Welles’
career. This is the suspenseful tale of a War rimes tribunal member that has
tracked a Nazi around the world to suburban Connecticut. Starring Orson Welles,
Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Richard Long. Black
& white. Available on VCD & DVD.
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