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The Golden Age of Cinema Channel
Full Length Classic Hollywood Movies
Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino (1953) Drama B&W USA Directors:Ida Lupino A lonely man finds himself married to, and in love with, two different women. One of his wives becomes suspicious and learns his secret. Extremely well acted. On; Bigamy; Drama; Ida Lupino; Joan Fontaine; Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer (1953) Drama B&W USA/Italy Directors: Vittorio Desica Turgid story set in Rome's railway station, with Jones the adulterous wife meeting lover Clift for one last time.; Crime; Drama; Truman Capote; Vittorio De Sica; action; adult; romance; Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Ford (1952) Comedy, Family Color/ B&W USA Director: Jean Yarbrough. Movie version of the fairy tale. Begins in sepiatone, then changes to color. Costello falls asleep and dreams himself into the fairy tale world.; abbott; comedy; costello; fairy tale; family; fantasy; Sabu, Joseph Calleia (1942) Family, Adventure Color USA Director: Zoltan Korda Story of a boy who grows up with a family of wolves in an Indian forest, learning their language and habits.; Academy Award nomination; adventure; Drama; family; Oscar; Sabu; Marilyn Monroe, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale Jr., Donald Crisp, and Marjorie Reynolds (1951 ) Drama B&W USA Director: Arthur Pierson. One of the most interesting performances by Monroe; Drama; marilyn monroe; Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Mack, and Gene Lockhart (1940) Comedy, Family B&W USA Director: Howard Hawks. A reporter helps a condemned man escape.; Cary Grant; christmas; comedy; Family Drama; Howard Hawks; Rosalind Russell; Mary Carlisle, George Zucco, Nedrick Young (1943) Horror B&W USA Director: Sam Newfield. Zucco plays brothers ¿ one good and one bad ¿ in this vampire tale. ; Drma; horror; terror; vampire; Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell (1953) Drama B&W USA Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Glen or Glenda tells two stories. One is about Glen (Edward D. Wood Jr.), who secretly dresses as a woman but is afraid to tell his fiancée.; Bela Lugosi; Drama; sex change; Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Max Baer (1949) Comedy, Family B&W USA Directors:Charles Barton Abbott and Costello are hired by crooks to draw a treasure map, found in the back of a book on Africa, that they had sold in the department store.; Abbott ans Costello; Africa; comedy; fantasy; William Holden, Frank Craven, Martha Scott (1940) Drama B&W USA Director: Sam Wood. Birth, life and death in a small New Hampshire community. Based on a Thornton Wilder play. Sweet and sensitive. Buoyed by wise performances. ; Drama; William Holden; George Raft, Marie Windsor, Akim Tamiroff, and John Litel (1949) Action B&W USA Director: Robert Florey. A foreign legion desert adventure; action; adventure; Drama; Foreign Legion; romance; War; Bing Crosby,Bob Hope, Jimmy Stuart, Milton Berle, Goerge Burns, Gregory Peck, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Danny Kaye, and dozen's of others!: (1958) Holiday Special, Musical B&W USA The USO produced this special featuring comedy acts, singing, d; BING CROSBY; Bob Hope; christmas; comedy; Danny Kaye; Goerge Burns; Gregory Peck; Jimmy Stuart; Lena Horne; Louis Armstrong; Milton Berle; musical; Richard Denning and Barbara Britton (1952) Mystery, Comedy B&W USA Director: George Blair Marc Daniels. Jerry and Pamela North live in Greenwich Village in New York City. Jerry is a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good detective.; comedy; Mystery; Suspense; TV Classic; Richard Denning and Barbara Britton (1952) Mystery, Comedy B&W USA Director: George Blair Marc Daniels. Jerry and Pamela North live in Greenwich Village in New York City. Jerry is a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good detective.; comedy; Mystery; Suspense; TV Classic; Richard Denning and Barbara Britton (1952) Mystery, Comedy B&W USA Director: George Blair Marc Daniels. Jerry and Pamela North live in Greenwich Village in New York City. Jerry is a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good detective.; comedy; Mystery; Suspense; TV Classic; achary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, J. Carrol Naish, Norman Lloyd, and Bunny Sunshine (1945) B&W USA Director: Jean Renoir. A tenant farmer struggles to support his family, in spite of opposition from both man and nature.; Jean Renoir; Prize winner; great depression; Steve McQueen, David Clarke, Graham Denton, Molly McCarthy, (1960) B&W USA, Director: Charles E. Guggenheim, John Stix Based on an actual bank heist, and even using the same bank tellers, customers, and and policeman and who stopped the robber; Crime; Drama; action; steve mcqueen; Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Brenda De Banzie, Albert Finney (1960) Drama B&W UK Director: Tony Richardson. A down on his luck song and dance man tries to raise the money for a new show. Olivier is brilliant. ; Alan Bates; british; Drama; Laurence Olivier; romance; Tony Richardson; Host: John Newland (1959-1961) Occult Anthology, Mystery, Suspense B&W USA Director: John Newland Series of tales of the supernatural and occult.; Drama; Mystery; Occult; Suspense; television; Lucy Ball, Vivian Vance, Mel Torme (1966) Comedy Color USA Directors: Jack Donohue Lucy accidentaly gets drafted in to the Marines.; comedy; family; Lucy Ball; television; Lorne Greene -- Ben Cartwright, Pernell Roberts -- Adam, Dan Blocker -- Hoss, Michael Landon. (1960-1961) Western, Action Color USA Directors: Robert Altman, Lewis Allen. Second only to Gunsmoke among long-running TV westerns. ; action; adventure; television; western; Lucille Ball - Lucy Carmichael, Vivian Vance -- Vivian Bagley, Jimmy Garrett -- Jerry, Candy Moore -- Chris, Ralph Hart -- (1966) Comedy Color USA Directors: Jack Donohue. Lucille Ball returned to the air. ; comedy; family; Lucy Ball; television; Doris Day, John Raitt, Eddie Foy Jr., and Carol Haney (1957) Musical 101 M Color USA Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen Beautiful Sleeptite Pajama factory union grievance representative, whose members are fighting for a raise; Bob Fosse; comedy; Doris Day; musical; Stanley Donen; Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance (1967) Comedy Color USA Directors: Jack Donohue Lucy and Viv dress up as hippies to prowl the Sunset Strip.; comedy; family; Lucy Ball; television; Host: John Newland (1959-1961) Occult Anthology, Mystery, Suspense B&W USA Director: John Newland Series of tales of the supernatural and occult.; Drama; Mystery; Occult; Suspense; television; Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll. (1935) Adventure, Suspense, and Mystery B&W UK Director: Alfred Hitchcock . Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of a show he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents.; adventure; Alfred Hitchcock; movie; Mystery; Suspense; Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon (1965) Sci-Fi Color USA Directors:Jonathan Sebastian, (Curtis Harrington). Saga of an expedition to Venus in the year 2020 ; Drama; sci-fi; action; adventure; from 1940's to the 1960's the best movies and TV shows ever made.