Category: Drama

2102. ALCOA THEATRE AND TELEPHONE TIME (November 9, 1959-March 14, 1957). Two short teleplays with casts to remember! 1. ALCOA THEATRE (November 9, 1959). NBC-TV net. “The Golden Shanty,” with […]

2103. THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE (1936-USA). With FRANK COGHLAN, JR., LLOYD HUGHES, DICKIE MOORE, ANN DORAN. A young orphan drops out of school and heads toward New York City with […]

2105. HOT ROD GIRL (1956-USA). WITH LORI nelson, chuck connors, frank corshin. The heroine of this well-done melodrama of hot teens and hotter cars is pert Lisa Vernon, a drag […]

2106. TEENAGE JUNGLE (Teen Age) (1959-usa). With wheeler Oakman. Despite the fact that it is “copyright 1959 by Social Service Pictures Of Hollywood,” this astonishingly inept turkey about “juvenile gangs […]

2107. TEENAGE WOLFPACK (1957-Germany). WITH henry bookholt (Horst Buchholz), KARIN BAAL. Back in the mid-1950’s, movies featuring restless young people at odds with their elders and all authority became popular […]

2108. THE REBEL SET (1959-USA). With GREGG PALMER, KATHLEEN CROWLEY, EDWARD PLATT, JOHN LUPTON. The owner of a Beat Generation Coffee house plans a one million dollar robbery. Betrayal and […]

2123. WITHIN OUR GATES (1919-USA). WITH Evelyn Preer, Charles d. Lucas. Produced, written and directed by OSCAR MICHEAUX. The earliest surviving feature film directed by an American Negro. A landmark […]

2124. THE GANGSTER FILM BEGINS (1912-1915-USA). The first “gangster” film is generÂally considered to be “The Musketeers of Pig Alley” (see cat. #1470), but there’s at least one earlier (“The […]

2130. DO YOU WANT TO DANCE WITH ME? (Will You Dance With Me?) (1959-France) COLOR. With BRIGITTE BARDOT, HENRI VIDAL, DAWN ADDAMS. This amusing combination detective story-sex farce features the […]

2133. PARADISE ISLE (1937-USA). With Movita, Warren HILL. Colorful on-location filming in Samoa enlivens this moving romantic drama. Stunningly beautiful (and scantily clad) Movita offers a simple and persuasive performance […]