![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Phantom Express - Emory Johnson
An engineer at the throttle of a locomotive speeding through a tunnel sees the lights of a train approaching from the other end. Although the signals say the track is clear, he still sees the train's lights. He grinds the train to a halt, derailing it. He survives, but many passengers are killed. He is fired in disgrace, but sets out to prove his innocence by finding the "phantom express." File Format is 640x480 1500mbps Window Media Video
Keywords: Majestic Pictures; B Picture
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| Redevelopment and ILWU - California Newsreel
excerpted from a one-hour documentary called "Redevelopment: A Marxist Analysis", this clip shows the frustration of the retired longshoremen in the Yerba Buena project area when ILWU president Harry Bridges failed to support their struggle against displacement.
Keywords: Redevelopment; ILWU; Harry Bridges
Downloads: 484
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| Henry Wallace Speech - William H. Pine
Vice President Henry A Wallace talks about U.S. involvement in World War II.
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| Women In the Night
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
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| Missing Corpse - Leon Fromkess
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 4,363
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| She Done Him Wrong
From 1933, this features Mae West and Cary Grant. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, awarded by the National Film Preservation Board in 1996, and one of the films given as a reason for the necessity of the National Legion of Decency. Ms. West is a singer and nightclub owner, while Cary Grant is a member of the local temperance league trying off and on to get her and others to mend their ways...
Keywords: Mae West, Cary Grant, Comedy, Best Picture
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Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Abe Lincoln of the Ninth Avenue - Scott R. Dunlap
A drama about an idealistic law student from Hell's Kitchen who unites his neighborhood pals against a gang. Originally released as "Streets of New York". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: crime; drama
Downloads: 31,656
Average rating:  (13 reviews) |
| Black Dragons
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness and Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret may die with him.
Keywords: Thriller; Sci-Fi
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| Salt Of The Earth - Independent Productions / International Union Of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Tells the tale of a real life strike by Mexican-American miners. The story is set in a remote New Mexico town where the workers live in a company town in company owned shacks without basic plumbing. Put at risk by cost cutting bosses, the miners strike for safe working conditions. As the strike progresses the issues at stake grow beyond that, driven by the workers' wives. At first the wives are patronized by the traditional patriarchical culture, however they assert themselves as equals and an i...
Keywords: labor; feminism; latino
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| Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger
German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of his best films. Scarlet Street has been claimed by film noir. This attribution is understandable. The lighting is dark, with heavy use of shadows. The characters are all shady as well...
Keywords: Film-Noir; Drama; Black Comedy; Fritz Lang
Downloads: 51,282
Average rating: (19 reviews) |
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