Little-known gems from classic Hollywood
Everyone knows Casablanca and Bringing Up Baby, but have you ever watched some of the lesser known gems of the studio system era?
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- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMel FerrerJean-Pierre AumontAn orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.A dark story that is made sweet by Leslie Caron. Has finally been released on DVD!
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsEdward G. RobinsonHumphrey BogartAnn SothernWhen retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.A hilarious comedy about a mobster (Edward G. Robinson) who takes refuge in a monastery after his capo (Humphrey Bogart) tries to whack him.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsFrank McHughJoan BlondellGuy KibbeeA meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.Three men believe they have struck gold when they discover a man with a never-fail nose for winners at the track.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsEdward G. RobinsonJane WymanBroderick CrawfordThree ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...An ex-con pretends to go straight when he buys a luggage store, but it turns out that it's next door to a bank vault.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldFrank TashlinStarsBob HopeMarilyn MaxwellLloyd NolanA New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.A con man must pay a mobster the $10,000 he owes him before Christmas or it's the river and cement boots for him.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsDeborah KerrRobert MitchumPeter UstinovIn Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.A roving family tries to survive against the odds in the Australian Outback.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsMarion DaviesPat O'BrienDick PowellA chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love.Two men invent a fictional model. When she becomes popular they rope in a country bumpkin chambermaid to impersonate her.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsMontgomery CliftIvan JandlAline MacMahonIn post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.An American GI finds a lost little boy in post-WWII Europe. A moving story nicely acted by all and shot on location.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsRay MillandJean PetersPaul DouglasA scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.Great fantastical baseball fun with wise-cracking Paul Douglas as a bonus.