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The Admiral Was A Lady

Really enjoyable movie set just after WWII about a woman ensign (nicknamed the admiral) who falls in with a gang of lovable losers - four ex-GIs who work diligently from dusk to dawn at finding ways to avoid work.

Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie.
1950 • BW• 87 Minutes
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Africa Screams

Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals. Another hilarious comedy from the duo.

Starring: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
1949 • BW • 79 Minutes
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At War With The Army

In their first movie, Dean Martin plays a sergeant in girl trouble who tries to get Private First Class Jerry Lewis to help him out. Hijinks and hilarity aplent, including the memorable soda machine gag and other wacky situations.

Starring: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
1950 • BW • 93 minutes
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Baby Face Morgan

A bunch of bumbling gangsters reorganizes in the big city, only to be scammed by one of their own. Tricked into believing that the son of the late mob boss, “Big Mike” Morgan, is about to take control of the gang, they don’t realize that the new boss “Baby Face” Morgan is actually just a small town soda jerk. “Baby Face” thinks he is being set up in a legitimate insurance business and ends up inadvertently double-crossing the gang. By the way, he get’s the girl in the end.

Starring: Richard Cromwell, Mary Carlisle, Robert Armstrong Chick Chandler, Warren Hymer, Charles Judels, Vince Barnett.
1942 • BW • 63 Minutes
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Behave Yourself!

The only living creature that knows the location of a fortune in stolen loot is an unpredictable dog name Archie. Hapless grifter Albert Jonas loses Archie and his inside track to the cash. The dog finds a new home with Bill and Kate Denny (Farley Granger and Shelley Winters). Kate mistakes the dog for an anniversary gift from her bumbling husband, who can’t figure out why he is constantly being chased by thugs. Unaware of Archie’s priceless information, Bill must compete with his disapproving mother-in-law, relentless crooks, baffled policemen and h is new pet for a little quality time with his wife.

Starring: Shelley Winters, Farley Granger, William DeMarest, Lon Chaney, Margald Gillmore and Archie.
1952 • BW • 80 Minutes
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Blockheads - Laurel and Hardy

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan at the Soldier's Home. Thinking Stan is disabled (it's just that he's sitting on his leg), Oliver takes pity on him and takes him home for a nice home-cooked meal. But Oliver's wife has other ideas and leaves him to fend for himself. After blowing up the kitchen, Oliver is helped by his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Gilbert... until the big-game hunting Mr. Gilbert comes home unexpectedly, carrying a shotgun.

1938 • BW • 60 Min.
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Blondie

Chic Young's famous comic strip debuted on the big screen with Singleton in the title role, Lake as the bumbling Dagwood, and Simms as Baby Dumpling (son Alexander, when he grows up). The couple are about to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary when Dagwood loses his job and Blondie suspects him of infidelity.

Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms.
1938 • B&W • 70 minutes
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Blondie's Big Deal

While mixing chemicals in the kitchen, Dagwood inadvertently creates non-flammable paint, but two rival contractors steal the stuff before he can give it to his boss. Based on the comic strip by Chic Young.

Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms.
1949 • B&W • 70 minutes
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Blondie Hit's The Jackpot

When Dagwood blows a big construction deal he winds up working on the site with the hardhats. Can Blondie save the day by winning the prize in a radio quiz show? Based on the comic strip by Chic Young.

Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake.
1949 • B&W • 66 minutes
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Blondie In Society

Dagwood buys a show dog that causes havoc in the Bumstead house. Blondie enters iit in a big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display Based on the comic strip by Chic Young.

Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake.
1941 • B&W • 76 minutes
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Blondie's Secret

This 23rd entry in the "Blondie" film series stars, as ever, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead. This one begins as Dagwood prepared for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss, Mr. Radcliffe, has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. Wrong! Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so they'll have to stay in town. Frantic fun ensues.

Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake.
1948 • B&W • 68 minutes
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Bogus Bandits - Laurel and Hardy

The story takes place in the early nineteenth century. Fra Diavolo is the scourge of the countryside, not just stealing money and jewels from the rich but also making off with their wives. Stanlio and Ollio are two travellers who are robbed, and in order to survive they decide to become bandits themselves. Ollio pretends to be Fra Diavolo and they attempt a hold-up. Unfortunately, their intended victim turns out to be Fra Diavolo himself. In a rather curious sequence, Diavolo forces Stanlio to hang Ollio (which of course he bungles).

Starring: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
1933 • BW • 88 minutes
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The Bohemian Girl - Laurel and Hardy

A band of Gypsies are camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. Not knowing her true identity, Oliver, with the help of "Uncle" Stanley, raises the girl as his own. Years later, Arline, still unaware of her noble birth, is caught trespassing on the Count's grounds and is thrown into the dungeon. Meanwhile, Stanley and Oliver pass the time playing "fingers" and bumblingly ply their trade picking pockets. Finally, just when Oliver needs his help to rescue Arline, Stanley gets drunk while siphoning wine into bottles.

Starring: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
1938 • BW • 60 minutes
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Breakfast in Hollywood

Wonderful nostalgic film based on the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s featuring Tom Breneman, the radio show's host. The real star of the show, however, is the beautiful Bonita Granville who is looking for her lost love. (Bonita Granville's last film) Musical performances by Nat King Cole and his trio and Spike Jones and the City Slickers.

Starring: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke, Hedda Hopper.
1946 • BW • 88 Minutes
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. However, Hamilton's friend Edgar Bergen solves the case (with help from Charlie McCarthy).

Starring: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore.
1939 • B&W • 65 minutes
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A Chump at Oxford

Desperate for employment, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy masquerade as a maid and butler to work at the snooty Vandevere party. After they make a shambles of the evening and offend the distinguished guests, Baldy Vandevere chases the pair from his house at gunpoint.
Deciding that their lack of education lies at the root of their problems, Stan and Ollie vow to attend night school. Their opportunity at higher education arrives sooner than expected when, as a reward for capturing a bank robber, the bank president sends the pair to Oxford.

Starring: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
1940 • BW • 63 Minutes
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City Limits

A curmudgeonly railroad president takes a journey across the country and encounters a procession of odd characters along the way. It's a story of riches to rags ... and back as J. B. Matthews, president of a railroad, falls of his train and lands with a couple of noble hobos.

Starring: Frank Albertson, Frank Craven
1941 • BW • 66 Minutes (Packaging may vary)
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The Clancy Street Boys

Muggs is a boxer, managed by his pal Danny who books him into a training camp. The cocky Muggs soon alienates himself from the other boys with his brash behavior. When a kid named Willie says that he needs money for his sick mother, the soft-hearted Muggs enters a boxing tournament to try and help with the prize money. Muggs loses the match and when Willie steals from the camp safe, Muggs is blamed.

Starring: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
1943 • BW • 60 Minutes

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Colonel Effingham's Raid

On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Colonel Effingham (Charles Coburn) retires to his hometown of Fredricksville, Georgia, where his love for Ameerica leads him on a crusade to preserve the Confederate Monument Square. Mobilizine the town’s upright citizens against the corrupt local government, the Colonel leads an unforgettable assault on City Hall.

Starring Charles Coburn, Joan Bennet, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn Elizabeth Patterson, Donald Meek, Frank Craven, Thurston Hall, and Cora Witherspoon. 1945 • B&W • 72 minutes.
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Comin' Round The Mountain

After striking out in New York, backwoods musician Jed Blower (Bob “Bazooka” Burns) and his hillbilly family band return to their native Tennessee. Here they land a job at a tinker-toy radio station in a community plagued by a long-standing family feud. Also causing local headaches is a continuing political tug of war over the maintence of the city's poorhouse. Hoping to solve everyone's problems, Jed runs for mayor, using the radio station as his podium. Harold Peary makes his film debut as the Great Gildersleeve, a personality he created in a 1935 Fibber McGee & Molly radio program .

Starring: Bob Burns, Una Merkel, Jerry Colonna, Don Wilson, Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Cliff Arquette, William Demarest.
1940 • BW • 63 Minutes
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Coungratulations, It's A Boy

A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.

Starring: Bill Bixby, Diane Baker, Karen Jensen
1971 • COLOR • 73 Minutes
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Country Gentlemen

After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.

Starring: Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson
1936 • BW • 66 Minutes
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Dance With Me Henry

In their final film together, Bud and Lou star in this dramatic comedy is about an amusement park owner who adopts stray children. His conniving Uncle Bud (Abbott) gets Lou into trouble when he tries to help pay Uncle Bud’s gambling debts. Lou finds himself the prime suspect in a gangland murder.

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Gigi Perreau,
Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes
1956 • BW • 79 Minutes.
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The Daring Young Man

Jonathan Peckinpaw (Brown) thinks he is a failure. To prove otherwise he decides to serve his country. Reporters follow his every attempt to get into the army, navy, marines... but Peckinpaw is rejected by every service group Then he gets involved with Sam Long (William Wright) who has invented radio controlled bowling balls. Peckinpaw can’t bowl, of course, and that’s when the fun begins. Throw in a bunch of of Nazi spies and you’ve got the makings of a wild, funny, World War II farce.

Starring: Joe E. Brown, Marguerite Chapman, William Wright, Lloyd Bridges.
1942 • BW • 73 Minutes
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Freckles Comes Home

Freckles (Johnny Downs) comes home from college...and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane (Gale Storm), falls in love with a confidence man.

Starring: Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland Irving Bacon, Bradley Page, Marvin Stephens.
1942 • BW • 63 Minutes
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The Front Page

Hildy Johnson is a newspaper reporter, engaged to be married and headed for New York for a better paying position. The court pressroom is waiting to cover the hanging of convicted murderer, Earl Williams. When Williams escapes Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. It looks like Hildy has the scoop locked kup when he finds the confused escapee and hides in in a roll-top desk.

Starring: Adolphe Menjou
1931 • BW • 101 Minutes

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