My Man Godfrey, a film by Gregory La Cava, 1936
Godfrey Smith, a “forgotten man,” is taken found by a wealthy socialite in a scavenger hunt, and adopted as the family Butler, with amusing antics to follow. (Browse our Movie Archive)
Let’s Get Tough, 1942
A film by Wallace Fox
Some patriotic, street-wise city kids get wise to a cabal of Japanese and German war-time Saboteurs. Just see how they take care of business in the old neighborhood! (Browse our Movie Archive)
Impact, a film by Arthur Lubin, 1949
A femme fatale marks a wealthy business man for death, but he gives her the slip in this film noire classic inspired by The Killers (1946.) (Browse our Movie Archive)
My Favorite Brunette, starring Bob Hope, 1947
A film by Elliott Nugent
“Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there.” – from IMBD.com (Browse our Movie Archive)
I Love Trouble, 1948
A film by S. Sylvan Simon
“A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife’s past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. The latter is killed before he can talk, but, with the help of a showgirl, the detective learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girl friend to enter college after she had stolen $40,000 from the night club where she worked. The detective eventually learns that the husband had killed his wife when he discovered her past in order to avoid a scandal, and had hired the detective to try and frame him for the killing.” (IMDB)
Jail Bait, 1954
A film by Edward D. Wood Jr.
“Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor’s plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops.” (IMDB)
Isle of the Snake People, starring Boris Karloff, 1971
A film by Juan Ibáñez (as John Ibanez), Jack Hill
“Evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD crazed zombies.” (IMDB)
A is for Atom, 1953
An animated documentary short by Carl Urbano
For its time this animation is a well-presented, short documentary about atomic science, which explains how nuclear energy is harnessed for peace-time use. Though it briefly mentions the atomic bomb, it doesn’t cover the horrors of nuclear war or the environmental down-side of nuclear power, which was just in its infancy at that time.
First Spaceship on Venus, 1960
A film by Kurt Maetzig
“When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.” (IMDB)
Chicken A La King, 1937
An animated short by Dave Fleischer
“A rooster sultan is bored by his harems. A duck strongly resembling ‘Mae West’ entices him. Her lover arrives, and they do battle; the lovers leave, and the sultan, humiliated, turns to his harem, who beat him up…” (IMDB)
