Bulldog Jack 1935 72 min UNCUT British Version British musical comedy star Jack Hulbert plays an amateur sleuth who takes over for the “real” Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), who is sidelined by an injury. Hulbert’s quarry is master criminal Ralph Richardson (who himself played Drummond in a 1934 film). To expedite his scheme to rob…
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Bar 20 DVD William Boyd starring as Hopalong Cassidy
$17.99William Boyd, Andy Clyde and George Reeves return to their series roles as Hopalong Cassidy, California Carson and Lin Bradley. Also on hand for villainous purposes is Victor Jory, who’d menaced Hoppy and his pals in the previous Cassidy flick Colt Comrades, as well as Robert Mitchum. The story concerns a gang of outlaws who’ve…
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Evergreen
The Ben W. Levy play Evergreen proved to be an excellent film vehicle from British music-comedy star Jessie Matthews. Our heroine plays a popular music hall thrush of the early 1900s, whose impending marriage into nobility is destroyed by the arrival of her long-thought-dead lover. When the latter demands “hush money,” Matthews disappears from public…
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Late Extra! DVD James Mason stars in this 1935 Newspaper Drama
$17.99James Mason gets top billing in his first movie, playing an unscrupulous (shall we say, “too fervent”) newspaper reporter who is on the trail of a cop killer. Alastair Sim is fun in a minor role as a fellow reporter. There are some parts that seem quite silly by today’s standards, but the film has…
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Shadows Over Shanghai
James Dunn stars in Shadows Over Shanghai. He is hotshot newspaperman Johnny McGinty, on assignment in war-torn China. McGinty is one of several interested parties involved in a stolen Chinese amulet, which allegedly provides clues to the location of a treasure buried somewhere in America. Also searching high and low for the amulet and the…
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The Agitator 1949 feature film starring William Hartnell future Doctor Who
$17.99Future Dr. Who star William Hartnell heads the cast of the 1949 sociopolitical melodrama The Agitator. Set in a British industrial town, the film stars Hartnell as idealistic union organizer Peter Pottinger. His value as an agitator is compromised when Peter falls heir tothe very factory where he works. Now that he’s “Capital,” Peter finds…
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The Common Touch
College student Peter Henderson (Geoffrey Hibbert) turns 18 and is now old enough to take over his deceased father’s business “John Henderson & Co.”. Peter’s parents died in an accident years ago and he is now to learn his trade by working in the London office. In order to gain respect from his co-workers he…