Rare Classic Movies and TV Shows
Palooka
Mayme walks out on her husband, Pete Palooka, after he wins the middleweight championship and shows his proclivity for life in the fast lane. She raises son Joe on a farm, by herself. When slippery fight manager Knobby Walsh happens to discover Joe's surprising punching power, he signs him. With current champion Al McSwatt needing an easy opponent, Walsh gets Joe the fight. Palooka steals the championship( and girlfriend Nina Madero) from McSwatt when McSwatt shows up for the fight drunk. Now it's Joe's turn to live in the fast lane, winning fights(that are set ups by Walsh) and drinking hard with vamp Nina. However, when McSwatt and his manager trick Joe into a rematch, it's time to test his real boxing talent.
Starring Stuart Erwin, Jimmy Durante
1934 • BW • 86
Minutes.
(Packaging may vary)
$8.95
People Are Funny
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again." Starring: Frances Langford, Rudy Valle , Ozzie Nelson and Art Linkletter.
1945 • BW • 90 Minutes.
$12.95
Director George Marshall crafted a delightful tribute to the days of silent movies with this Technicolor musical version of the life of Pearl White, the famous Serial Queen. Betty Hutton was Paramount’s top star when she made this highly fictionalized yarn. As Pearl White, she goes from a Manhattan sweat shop to screen fame, guided by here director (William Demarest). And, of course, she finally wins her leading man (John Lund) before the final fade-out.
Starring: Betty Hutton, John Lund,
Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen.
1947 • Color • 99
minutes
$8.95
The Plot Thickens
John Carter just had one of those days. First he had an argument with a mysterious Frenchman.
Starring: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr., Louise Latimer.
1936 • BW • 69 Minutes
$5.95
Prairie Chickens
Two drifters, Jimmy and Pidge are looking for summer jobs when their old jalopy breaks down. They run into Henry Lewis Clark III going West to take a look at his 35,000 acre ranch and a tour bus filled with beautiful girls. They hitch a ride with Clark’s chauffeur Farnsworth and arrive in town where Pidge is mistaken for Clark. Crooked ranch foreman Albertson and his henchmen have rustled 4,000 head of cattle and he talks the town civic leaders, including hotel proprietor Jefferson Gilbert into staging a three-day welcoming party for Clark to keep him away from the ranch while trucks are hauling off the cattle. The mistaken identity angle carries things for a while, and then all hands - Jimmy, Pidge, Clark, Farnsworth and the Bus girls - end up at Clark's "haunted" ranch house and are involved in a prolonged, funny, sequence where Albertson and crew are trying to scare them away.
Starring: Jimmy Rogers, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Sawyer
1943 • BW • 45 minutes
$8.95
This 1940s comedy/musical is chocked full of talent, starring the Andrews Sisters, the most popular singing trio of World War II. Featured songs include, “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” “Three Little Sisters,” “Johnny Get Your Gun,” and more. Starring: The Andrew Sisters, Harry James & his Orchestra, Donald O'Connor, Joe E. Lewis and many more.
1942 • BW • 68 Minutes
$8.95
Private Snuffy Smith
Snuffy Smith (Bud Duncan), moonshining hillbilly, grows tired of dodging revenue agents, headed by Cooper (Edgar Kennedy), and decides to take the army up on their offer of free clothes, food and $21.00 a month. Once enlisted, he finds that revenue agent Cooper is his sergeant. Don (Jimmie Dodd), a hillbilly soldier friend of Snuffy, has invented a range finder, but it is stolen by some fifth columnists and hidden in Snuffy's bag. Snuffy decides he has all the army discipline he cares for and heads back to Smokey Mountain, followed closely by the enemy agents.
Starring: Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy,
Sarah Padden, J. Farrell MacDonald.
1942
- B&W - 67 Minutes
$8.95
Rescue From Gilligan's Island
Eleven years after the SS Minnow's infamous "three hour tour," Gilligan and his fellow shipwrecked friends have found a way off the island for good! But will they make it.
Starring: Bob Denver, Alan Hale,
Jr., Jim Backus
1978 - COLOR - 95 Minutes (Packaging may
vary)
$8.95
One of Alfalfa's first post-Rascals roles. A group of local kids, who call themselves "The Reg'lar Fellers," invent a machine that they believe can run on land as well as in the water. They also find themsleves gettin mixed up with gangsters who have framed a local woman's son and have come to town to rob her. Alfalfa sings "The Last Rose of Summer."
Starring: Billy Lee, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer,
Buddy Boles Janet Dempsey, Jerry Wilson, Malcom Hutton, Sarah Padden.
1941 • BW • 60
Minutes
$14.95
Riding On Air
Two small-town newspaper reporters are both after the same thing: the real story about a mysterious device that allows planes to be flown by remote control, and and local girl.
Starring: Joe E. Brown, Guy Kibbee, Florence Rice, Vinton
Haworth, Anthony Nace.
1937 • BW • 70 Minutes
$8.95
Road To Bali
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby join Dorothy Lamour in this hilarious song filled "Road" movie. This adventure comedy, starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby is the sixth entry in their madcap Road series. Hope & Crosby play American vaudevillians, George Cochran and Harold Gridley, stranded in Australia and desperate to avoid a dual shotgun wedding. To escape, they sign on as deep-sea divers for an evil South Sea Island prince, and then the fun begins in earnest.
1952 • COLOR • 90 Minutes (Packaging may vary)
$5.95
Shut My Big Mouth - Joe E. Brown
Wellington Holmes, a timid horticulturist, heads for Big Bluff. When the stage is held up by Buckskin Bill and his men, he accidently knocks out three of them earnign himself the unwanted job of Marshal. Escaping town disguised as a woman, the stage is again held up by Buckskin and he, Elena Montoya and her father are made prisoners. He escapes and when Buckskin arrives in town he again accidently overpowers him. Having been previously masked, Buckskin now claims to be Buckskin's enemy and the townspeople believe him. They release him and offer him the reward for leading Wellington to Buckskin's hideout. So Wellington and Elena with the ranson money for her father, but no posse, head out to bring in Buckskin.
Starring: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz
Feld, Lloyd Bridges
1942 • BW • 71
Minutes
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).
Starring Harold Lloyd, Rudy Valle, Edgar Kennedy
1947 • BW • 80 Minutes
$5.95
Speak Easily
Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life. He falls for a dancer in a bad stage show, and with his new money decides to buy the show and take it to Broadway. Will the Professor prove too nice to succeed in show business? Or will he triumph over bill-collectors, critics, and sexy vamp Eleanor Espere?
Starring: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante
1932 • BW • 90 Minutes (Packaging may vary)
$5.95
Six of a Kind
George Burns and Gracie Allen team up with W. C. Fields in this hilarious road trip where everyone gets taken for a ride. Sharing a car on a drive to California with another couple, Burns and Allen deliver zany, wonderful nonsence.
Starring: George Burns, Gracie Allen, W. C. Fields,
Charles Ruggles.
1934 • BW • 63 Minutes (Packaging may vary)
$8.95
So This Is Washington - Lum & Abner
Lum and Abner to to Washington to hold council with some
politicians who've agreed to lend support to the boys new invention.
Starring: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Alan Mowbray, Mildred Coles.
1943
- B&W - 64 Minutes.
$8.95
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So's Your Aunt Emma
A meek middle-aged spinster, down-trodden by her two older sisters at home, makes a sentimental visit to the big city to see the boxer son of her long dead childhood beau. There she finds him falling victim to the fight rackets, and is herself caught in the crossfire between rival gangsters, who mistakenly believe that she is Ma Parker. Teaming up with a sports reporter juggling his work and his love life, she employs he own unique blend of naive innocence and no-nonsense realism to see that everybody gets their just deserts, herself included.
Starring Zasu
Pitts and Roger Pryor.
1942 - BW - 62 Minutes.
$8.95
This Way Please
This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The plot is set in a first-run movie theatre that offers stage presentations along with the main feature. Brad Morgan (Rogers) is the theater's master of ceremonies, while Jane Morrow (Grable) is chief usherette. She'd rather be on stage dancing with Brad, and by film's end she gets her wish -- but not before a riotous slapstick wedding sequence. Jim and Marian Jordan, radio's Fibber McGee and Molly, make their film debut, as does Jack Benny's radio foil (and real-life wife) Mary Livingstone, here appearing on-screen without her husband for the first and last time in her career. The film is stolen by Rufe Davis, the "human sound effects machine," doing a medley of his specialty.
Starring: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Betty
Grable, Ned Sparks, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Porter Hall.
1937 • BW • 75
Minutes (Packaging may vary)
$8.95
Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) Moves to Chicago to become an airpline stewardess, and after a rigorous training program, she soon learns the roped. In the course of her flights, she meets up with three men from varied backgrounds; a pilot ( Howard Keel), an advertising agent (Barry Sullivan) and a garduate student (Van Johnson), all of whom are named Mike, and all fall in love with Marcy, causing chaotic and comedic situation.
Starring: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan, Phyllis Kirk and Jeff Donnell. 1951 • BW • 90 Minutes
$8.95
The Three Husbands
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Starring: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick,
Vanessa Brown
1951 • BW • 78
Minutes
$8.95
Tillie And Gus
Hilarious comedy stars W.C. Fields and Alison Skipworth as husband-and-wife con artists Augustus and Tillie Winterbottom. When their niece's father dies, the duo arrives to visit her with hopes of inheriting a fortune. After learning that the dead man's property consists of one run-down ferry, they fix up the boat and get involved in a race against a scheming lawyer.
Starring: W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy.
1933 • BW • 58 Minutes
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The third in the Topper comedy mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. A magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloked villain who come through the walls, falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. Excellent special effects and outstanding performances by an all-star cast makes for great entertainment.
Starring: Roland Young, Joan Blondell
and Carole Landis.
1941 • BW • 88
Minutes
$8.95
The Town Went Wild
The son and daughter of two battling families fall in love and plan to marry, much to the chagrin of all of their relatives.
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew,
James Lydon, Edward Everett Horton.
1945 • BW • 73 Minutes (Packaging
may vary)
$5.95
In this western comedy, the King Soap Company is doing poorly and to receive a bank loan the banker says they must have orders. So daughter Mabel heads west as a traviling saleswoman.
Starring: Joan Davis, Andy Devine, Adele Jergens, Joe Sawyer, Dean Riesner, John L. Cason and Chief Thundercloud. 1950 • BW • 75 Minutes
$8.95
Two Knights in Brooklyn
This is New York City in 1928 and taxi-cab owners Tim McGuerin (William Bendix) and Eddie Corbett (Joe Sawyer) are making a hard living with the one tumbledown cab they have between them, and take shifts driving. They have plans to expand and already have their second cab in their garage, lacking only a motor. Tim, led into a burlesque theatre by a rich drunk, Reginald Van Nostrum (Jack Norton), who has rented the cab for the day, falls in love at first sight with dancer Sadie O'Brien (Grace Bradley), who has also caught the eye of gangster Louis Glorio (Sheldon Leonard), and he is none too thrilled with Tim's courtship.
Starring: William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Grace Bradley, Max Baer, Sheldon Leonard, Arline Judge 1949 • BW • 64 Minutes
$8.95
Two Weeks To Live
When Abner Peabody is mistakenly diagnosed as having two weeks to live, his partner, Lum Edwards is convinced that they can earn a fortune by volunteering the condemned Abner for all sorts of dangerous stunts. A worthless inheritance, the C & O Railroad, has lured them to Chicago, and the bumbling pair will do anything to raise enough money to get back to Pine Ridge and repay the money they solicited from their friends for railroad right-of-way for a new spur line.
Starring: Chester
Lauck and Norris Goff.
1943 • B &W • 74
Minutes.
$8.95
Wake Up And Live - Jack Haley and Alice Faye
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell. A fun movie with Jack Haley as a singer with mike fright. He gets a job as an usher at the radio station hoping to get over his fear. While taking some guest on tour he runs into the beautiful Alice Faye who tries to help him conquer his fear of the microphone.
Starring: Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Walter Winchell, Ben
Bernie, Patsy Kelly.
1937 • BW • 90 Minutes.
$14.95
Wake Me Up When the War is Over
Ken Berry stars as an American officer who falls our of an airplane and lands in German occupied territory. A Baroness hides him in her mansion and is quickly smitten with him. When the war ends, she keeps the truth from him for five years until he venture outside to fight the Germans, not realizing they went home long ago.
Starring: Ken Berry, Jim Backus, Eva Gabor
1969 • COLOR • 74 Minutes.
$8.95
