Lord Love a Duck is a satirical comedy set in Los Angeles, following the story of a high school student named Alan Musgrave who is determined to make his dreams of success and popularity come true. With the help of a beautiful and manipulative woman named Barbara Ann Greene, Alan goes to great lengths to achieve his goals, leading to a series of outrageous and comedic events.
The Woman in Question is a crime drama mystery film released in 1950. The plot revolves around a police investigation into the murder of a woman. The story is filled with contradictory accounts, unreliable flashbacks, and multiple perspectives, keeping the viewers engaged until the end. The main characters include a police detective, a neighbor, and a fortune-teller. The investigation leads them to a fairground, where a canary becomes a crucial piece of evidence. This B-movie falls into the film-noir genre and also explores the complex relationship between sisters.
Too Late Blues follows a jazz musician in Los Angeles as he navigates the challenges of the music industry and grapples with issues of artistic integrity. The film explores themes of friendship, love, and the sacrifices one must make to pursue their passion.
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
In Shield for Murder (1954), a corrupt police detective named Barney Nolan kills a bookie and steals his money. As he tries to cover up his crime, Nolan must outsmart his fellow officers and a deaf witness.
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
Dawn is ready to finish her senior year of high school when her neglectful, party-loving mother is tragically killed, forcing Dawn to go to live with her aunt Jamie who co-pastors a church with her husband, Willem. Unfortunately, not long into her stay things go terribly wrong, and Dawn runs away. When Dawn's Aunt Jamie realizes her home was not the safe-haven she thought it was, she embarks on a courageous search for Dawn. Dawn, having no foreknowledge of the streets, is easy prey for a two-bit street hustler, falling for his well-rehearsed flattery. She is lured into a life she could never have imagined for herself. Jamie learns of her predicament and becomes more determined than ever to rescue her, despite Dawn's desire to distance herself. Anxiously Jamie befriends a street minister, and the two of them set out together to find Dawn. However, in her search for Dawn, Jamie realizes it is not only Dawn who needs rescuing.
A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
A young priest questions his faith after he falls in love with a social worker.
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.
In Sheep Shape, a sheep and a wolf find themselves in a nightclub where the sheep disguises himself as an entertainer. The wolf, dressed as a female, tries to deceive the sheep and steal from him. Chaos ensues as the characters navigate through masquerade and deception.
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in attempting a robbery; a racketeer fleecing a book publisher on a Trans-Atlantic voyage, and the tripping up of the plans of a phony land syndicate.