Hi De Ho (1947)

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters..This item has files of the following types: 512Kb MPEG4, Animated GIF, Archive BitTorrent, Flash Video, HTML, MPEG4, Metadata, Ogg Video, Shockwave Flash, Thumbnail, Unknown

Just Imagine

“Just Imagine,” from 1930, used to make me drool as a kid seeing some of the fabulous stills in “Famous Monsters of Filmland.” With its futuristic setting, “Metropolis”-style special effects, rocketship and Martians, I imagined I’d be in sci-fi paradis…

Palooka (1934)

Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher. Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe’s mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him…

Paradise in Harlem

“Between swing and blues musical numbers, the story of comedian Lem Anderson, whose long-awaited chance to act dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob killing and is forced to leave town. Lem becomes a wanderer, then an alcoholic….This item has…

Radio Ranch

“Radio Ranch” is a condensation of the 12 chapter, 1935 Mascot serial, “Phantom Empire,” which features Gene Autry in his first screen role as a singing cowboy. The 70-minute feature version was released in 1940….This item has files of the following …

Swing!

Mandy Jenkins, an African American cook for a wealthy white family in Birmingham, Alabama, discovers her husband Cornell is having an affair with Eloise Jackson. When she confronts her husband and Eloise at a nightclub, a violent fight ensues….This i…