September 2004 Archives

Director: Edward A. Kull Original Release: 1938 Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 291MB Natives of a lost city deep in the jungles of Guatemala worship the Green Goddess totem. On a mission to find the Green Goddess, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan played by Bruce Bennett) goes in pursuit of Raglan to recover the totem while facing the perils of the jungle, Raglan's henchmen, and a hunting party of natives sent from the lost city to recover the Green Goddess.

Director: Irving Pichel Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 316.5MB A Zealot sees the light in the face of despair, even after a Roman soldier kills his brother. While not directly translating any specific Biblical story (after all, what Hollywood production is really true to the book it adapts from), this movie has all the conviction of later big screen Biblical adventures like The Ten Commandments, without the hugeness of the production.

Director: Willard Bowsky Producer: Max Fleischer Production Company: Fleischer Studios Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 Color WMV File Size: 412MB While this certainly isn't your English professor's Jonathan Swift, this Max Fleischer animated gem based on the Swift novel doctuments Gulliver's visit to Lilliput. We find our hero, Gulliver, attempting to prevent war between the Liiliputians and another diminutive culture.

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 214.5MB Part of the Monogram Range Buster series, Texas to Bataan finds ranch owner Conroy (played by Steve Clark) returning from Washington D.C. with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range Busters, Dusty (John King), Davy (David Sharpe) and Alibi (Max Terhune), are selected to deliver the horses. Before leaving Texas, they capture three spies trying to steal the horses and discover the ranch cook is a Japanese spy. Later in the Philippines, they catch up with Cookie in a cafe only to discover a neighboring rancher back in the States is connected to the Axis powers.

Director: D. Ross Lederman Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 398MB Classic jungle movie with Ellen and wimp-of-a-fiance hunting big game with her parents. Ben Lleu Bey, the local king, schemes to add her to his harem. Tarzan (played by Glenn Morris) wants Ellen for himself.

Director: Steve Sekely Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 363.25 San Francisco optometrist Carl Decker leads a double life as a Nazi spy. When his code book gets swiped by another spy, he goes in search of the thief with yet another agent, Marlow. When opportunity knows, Marlow blackmails a the proprietor of a boardinghouse, ultimately pinning a murder on her daughter's fiance. Marlow must cover his tracks to avoid discovery as the story unfolds.

Director: Jules White Production Company: Columbia Pictures Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 96.75MB Three Stooges short featuring Larry, Moe and Shemp as tailors heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint finance company for their business. News of a big reward for a fugitive bank robber gives them hope of a financial windfall.

Production Company: Cinema Service Corp. Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 295.5MB Anti-sex propaganda film from the early 1930s complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the casting couch also brings the risk of syphilis.

Director: William West Producer: T.R. Williams Production Company: Monogram Pictures Corporation Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 302MB Captain Hadley (played by J. Farrell MacDonald) reaches mandatory retirement age for firefighters and is retired from the force. Bored with retirement and pushed by his friend Burt's (Joel Friedkin) death while fighting a fire, Hadley becomes an vigilante arson investigator to track down a fire starter on a rampage. The closer Hadley gets to the arsonist, the more the arsonist is after Hadley.

Director: Roy William Neill Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 406.75MB Some music boxes people are willing to kill for has Sherlock Holmes on the case. Classic tale starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.

Director: Rupolph Mate Producer: Leo C. Popkin Production Company: Cardinal Pictures Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 358.5MB Film noir from 1949. A man desperately attempts to discover the identity of someone who gave him a time-released fatal dose of radium.

Director: Hugh Faulcon Producer: E.W. Hammons Production Company: Coronet Comedies Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W File Size: 126.5MB Witty dialogue delivers the comedic punch in this short film starring Edward Everett Horton (narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales). While the story is a dated and somewhat campy look at the Roaring Twenties, the setup of a young man falling for his dad's secretary works in any decade.

Director: Les Goodwins Producer: Maurice Conn Production Company: Ambassador Pictures Inc. Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 345MB A group of thieves plot to steal the "Devil Diamond" from a jeweler hired to break the diamond into smaller saleable pieces.

Director: William Marshall Producer: Fred Gebhardt Production Company: Four Crown Audio: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 449MB 1961 Sci-fi classic. Following a crash landing on an invisible planet an astronaut encounters a race of miniature people. The women of the planet take a special interest in the astronaut. Very low budget effects detract slightly from a potentially clever story, but this is without a doubt one of the pioneers of the sci-fi genre.

Director: George A. Romero Producer: Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner Sound: Mono Video: 320x240 B&W WMV File Size: 440MB Cult classic horror movie about a group of strangers trapped inside a Pennsylvania farmhouse, attempting to keep the local zombies from coming in. Often rated among the top 10 scariest movies of all time.