Professor Horatio Smith discreetly rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II. These victims become his students and work for his cause. Things begin to complicate when one of his students brings a mysterious girl into the group who isn’t everything she appears to be.
The Way Ahead - 1944
March, 1939. A group of civilians from all classes and creeds are called into the infantry for a special mission. At first they are miserable soldiers, hating the regimented lifestyle imposed now on them. With the help of their faithful Sergeant and Lieutenant, they become a well oiled machine and are prepared to find out about […]
Little Lord Fauntleroy - 1936
When an American boy finds out he’s the heir of a British fortune, he is sent to live with the current keeper of the trust, a cold and rather un-welcoming man.
The Limping Man - 1953
An American, Frank Pryor, comes to visit London after Word War II to look up an old sweetheart of his that lives there. While coming off the flight, a man he’s standing next is slain by a rifle in the hands of an unknown assassin with a limp. Later, while with his old lover Pauline French, […]
Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour - 1931
Ronald Adair, a successful gambling cheat and bureaucrat, is called to a meeting with The Sleeping Cardinal, a picture Professor Moriarty uses to disguise his identity. At the meeting Ronald is told he will be exposed and disgraced if he doesn’t take up with a crew of criminals doing a counterfeit money scam. Ronald is blackmailed […]
Scrooge - 1935
This is the fist movie adaptation with sound of the classic story of three ghosts visiting a crotchety and down-spirited old man on Christmas Eve. Scrooge hates Christmas. He finds the cheer deplorable and a waste of time. His nephew Fred and employee Cratchit, the only two people that could be considered Scrooge’s friends at […]
Hoosier Schoolboy - 1937
A new school teacher arrives in a small rural town in the middle of a milk crisis (ha!) that has the townsfolk on edge. Micky Rooney stars as a boy who’s father is a shell-shocked (PTSD) war veteran who has lost himself in the bottle. The townsfolk look down on Mickey Rooney and his dad, […]
Great Guy - 1936
James Cagney stars in this great movie with an utterly useless title about the department of Weights & Measures always looking out for the regular Joe Shmoes. More specifically they are after the crooked alderman Marty who is in the midst of an insidious plot to cheat consumers out of their product by shorting them […]
Penny Serenade - 1941
Julie, upset and going to leave her husband (played by Cary Grant), begins listening to some recordings that bring up the memories of meeting her husband and the life events they’ve shared together. As her memories move through their relationship and life together, she relates them to their current problems and how they’ve come about. […]
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