© 2003 Trocadero Film Library -selected masters- Vidmast #5542810 List of titles 1. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1930, BW, 92 MIN) Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Russell Simpson, Jason Robards, Sr., directed by D. W. Griffith. Huston portrays Lincoln from his early days as a country lawyer, his courting of Mary Todd through his quest for the presidency, the civil war and the assassination. Some great war scenes. 2. ABILENE TOWN (1946, BW, 89 MIN) Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges, directed by Edwin L. Marin. In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of the town where the homesteaders and the cattlemen have come to a very uneasy truce. The delicate peace is inadvertently shattered when a group of new homesteaders lay down their stakes on the cattlemen's side of town, upsetting the delicate balance that had existed thus far and sparking an all-out war between the farmers, who want the land tamed and property lines drawn, and the cowboys, who want the prairies to be open for their cattle to roam. 3. ADMIRAL WAS A LADY, THE (1950, BW, 90 MIN) Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, directed by Albert S. Rogell. Four war veterans with a passion for avoiding work compete for the attentions of an ex-wave. © 2003 Trocadero Film Library -selected masters- Vidmast #5542810 4. ADVENTURERS, THE (1950, BW, 82 MIN) Dennis Price, Siobhan McKenna. Four people, none of who trusts the other, set out to discover a cash of diamonds hidden in the African jungle. 5. ADVENTURES OF CHICO, THE (1938, BW, 54 MIN) A Mexican boy without young neighbors to play with, befriends a diverse group of desert animals. 6. ADVENTURES OF GALLANT BESS (1948, COLOR, 71 MIN) Audrey Long, Fuzzy Knight, James Millican, John Harmon and Edward Gargan, directed by Lew Landers. A stunt rider must choose between his love for a young woman and life on the rodeo circuit with his trained horse. 7. ADVENTURES OF TARTU (1943, BW, 103 MIN) Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilla, Phyllis Morris, Martin Miller, directed by Harold S. Bucquet. Donat plays a British secret service agent who poses as a Romanian clown in order to blow up a Nazi poison gas plant. 8. AERIAL GUNNER (1943, BW, 79 MIN) Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Lita Ward, Jimmy Lydon, directed by William H Pine. Two Air Force fliers who are rivals for the same woman put aside their differences during a battle in the South Pacific. 9. AFFAIRS OF CAPPY RICKS (1937, BW, 58 MIN) Walter Brennan, Mary Brian. A crotchety old man banishes his family to a desert island for a lesson in minding one's own business. 10. AFRICA SCREAMS (1949, BW, 79 MIN) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Frank Buck, Clyde Beatty, directed by Charles Barton. The boys get mixed up with angry tribesmen and wild animals when diamond hunters force them to lead a safari. Real life hunters Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty are on hand to sort things out. 11. AGAINST THE WIND (1948, BW, 97 MIN) Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, directed by Charles Crighton. During World War II, English saboteurs parachute into German occupied France to support the resistance movement. 12. ALFIE DARLING (1975, COLOR, 97 MIN) Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins, directed by Ken Hughes. More adventures of Alfie as he is now a truck driver on the Continent who continues his womanizing there until he meets his match. Guess who?? © 2003 Trocadero Film Library -selected masters- Vidmast #5542810 13. ALGIERS (1938, BW, 99 MIN) Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale Sr, directed by John Cromwell. A wealthy girl falls prey to the dazzle of the Casbah and the charm of its most notorious denizen, international jewel thief Pepe Ie Moko. Does Boyer ever ask Lamarr to "Come weeth me to the Casbah"? AAN BOYER, LOCKHART 14. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951, COLOR, 76 MIN) Produced and directed by Lou Brunin, this film combines puppetry with live action, with Carol Marsh as Alice. It begins with a brief live action sequence, but when Alice follows that white rabbit down the hole, the magic begins. A truly imaginative rendition of the Louis Carroll classic. 15. AMAZING ADVENTURE (1937, BW, 60 MIN) Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorn, Henry Kendall, directed by Alfred Zeisner. A bored millionaire steps into big business without his fortune or position just to prove he can survive on his own. 16. AMAZING MR. X, THE (1948, BW, 78 MIN) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnel, Richard Carlson, directed by Bernard V orhaus. A fraudulent spiritualist involves an unsuspecting widow in blackmail, and then murder. 17. AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN, THE (1960, BW, 58 MIN) Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith., directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. A mad scientist uses an ex-con as a guinea pig in some invisibility experiments in order to steal radioactive material for sinister purposes. 18. AMERICAN EMPIRE (1942, BW, 82 MIN) Preston Foster, Richard Dix, Leo Carillo, Frances Gifford, Robert H. Barratt, Guinn Williams, Cliff Edwards, Jack LaRue, directed by William McGann. Dix and Foster are two friends who get hold of a parcel of land in Texas and, with the help of Foster's wife (Gifford) build up a thriving cattle ranch. But Foster starts getting greedy for power, a mania that nearly destroys the friendship between the two men until violence and tragedy make him realize what a fool he has been. 19. ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947, BW, 100 MIN) John Wayne, Gail Russell, Bruce Cabot, Harry Carey, Irene Rich, directed by James E. Grant. The Duke plays a notorious gunman, who after being seriously wounded, is nursed back to health by a Quaker woman. He then must choose between love and gunfighting. Ah shucks, can he really hang em up for good? 20. ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER (1946, BW, 100 MIN) Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter, George Cleveland, directed by Archie Mayo. A murdered gangster returns to earth after making a deal with the devil. © 2003 Trocadero Film Library -selected masters- Vidmast #5542810 21. ANGELS ONE FIVE (1952, BW, 98 MIN) Jack Hawkins, John Gregson, directed by George More O'Ferrall. A story about the RAF with no flying scenes. Everything happens in operations where one grounded pilot struggles to get back into active duty. 22. ANIMAL FARM (1955, COLOR, 73 MIN) Voice of all animals: Maurice Denham; Narrator: Gordon Heath, directed by John Halas. George Orwell's classic satire in a feature length animated film. A brilliant and capitavating tale that cleverly points out faults in human nature and politics. A classic. 23. ANIMAL KINGDOM, THE (1932, BW, 85 MIN) Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, Ann Harding, llka Chase, William Gargan, directed by Edward H Griffith, produced by David O. Selznick. Based on a play by Phillip Barry, this sophisticated comedy about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress was the first movie shown at New York's famous Roxy theatre. 24. ANNA KARENINA (1948, BW, 110 MIN) Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Sally Ann Howes, Michael Gough, directed by Julien Duvivier. Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. A Russian lady of the Imperial Court falls in love with a dashing army officer. But she already has a husband and tragedy ensues. 25. APACHE KID'S ESCAPE, THE (1930, BW, 47 MIN) Jack Perrin, Josephine Hill, Fred Church, Virginia Aschroft, Henry Rocquemore, and Bud Osborne, directed by Robert J. Horner. An outlaw gives up his girl and masquerades as a cowboy in order to help a friend in trouble. 26. APACHE ROSE (1947, BW, 57 MIN) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Olin Howard, George Meeker, Minerva Urecal, and Leroy Mason, directed by William Witney. When oil is discovered on a Vegas ranch, a gambler enters the picture with designs on winning control of the wealth. 27. APE, THE (1949, BW, 58 MIN) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene Odonnell, directed by William Knight. A doctor is convinced he can cure his crippled daughter with a serum made from human spinal fluid which he obtains by posing as an escaped ape and killing the town folks. Patient is cured; the local police kill doctor/ape. 28. APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO BW, 55 MIN) History of the Pacific war with emphasis on General McArthur, including the surrender of the Japanese aboard the USS Missouri. © 2003 Trocadero Film Library -selected masters- Vidmast #5542810 29. ARIZONA KID, THE (1939, BW, 57 MIN) Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Sally March, directed by Joseph Kane. During the Civil War Missouri vows its loyalty to the Union, but Confederates ignore the oath and form outlaw bands of guerillas. Roy is a Union captain who must order the execution of his best friend for marauding. A complex and emotional plotline makes this one of the singing cowboy's finest. 30. ARIZONA STAGECOACH (1942, BW, 52 MIN) Roy Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune, directed by S. Roy Luby. The Rangebusters are called to break up an outlaw gang preying on a small, independent stageline. 31. AS YOU LIKE IT (1936, BW, 96 MIN) Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Leon Quartermaine, directed by Paul Czinner. Olivier is solid (and handsome) as Orlando in his first ever attempt at Shakespeare on film. 32. ASSASSIN OF YOUTH (1937, BW, 72 MIN) Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Short, Earl Dwire, Fern Emmet, directed by Elmer Clifton.