(1926) John Barrymore, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland.  Recognized as one of the great silent swashbucklers, Don Juan is filled with grandiose action and devil-may-care characters.  As silent films go it’s a real wow...

(1944) Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Jack LaRue, Charles Arnt. Lowery is in Central America when he gets word that he’s inherited 200K from his late grandfather.  He hops aboard a ship to head back to the states, but it turns out to be filled with danger...

(1951) Laurence Harvey, Maxwell Reed, Susan Shaw, Hermione Baddeley.  This underrated British action thriller is set in a rundown fairground.  There are lots of interesting characters on hand.  You’ve got Reed, a race car driver with a chip on his shoulder, and Harvey, an iron-jawed young boxer, both vying for the hand of a dancer played by beautiful Susan Shaw.  The film has a plethora of excitement...

(1926, 1919) Lon Chaney, Lois Moran, Owen Moore, Henry B. Walthal, directed by Tod Browning.  Not only have we crafted a great new music score for Road to Mandalay, but we’re also offering it in a newly tinted version, as well as the original B&W version.  PLUS: THE MIRACLE MAN (1919) Thomas Meighan, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson...

(1927) Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran, David Butler.   One of the truly great silent films. Farrell, as Chico, is a Paris sewer worker who falls in with Diane (Gaynor), a prostitute in reputation only, but still a target of the French police.  Chico saves her...

(1928) Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush.  This silent classic was a big, epic production in its day, with lots of great location shots in the South Seas (an Oscar for Cinematography). Blue gives a grand portrayal of a drunken doctor who has the reputation of a “white god"...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton.  Banks has a grand time as the top designer in a British shipyard.  Unfortunately, the yard has run into a slew of downturns and is in big financial trouble.  But Banks has a new ship in mind...

(1929) Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Bud Geary, Roscoe Carnes. For an early sound/silent film, this is really a pretty good movie; in fact it’s a lot of fun.  Six pals go through the Naval Academy to earn their pilot's wings. One by one, the group is whittled down to just two...

(1934) Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Hugh Wakefield. Walls is a wealthy Englishman who flies to a foreign country to recoup some stolen loot from a young troublemaker.  He lands smack dab in the middle of a revolution...

(1949) Regina Linnanheimo, William Markus, Åke Lindman, Annie Mörk, Rauha Rentola, Heikki Savolainen.  This is a terrific Finnish action-drama film about two brothers: the eldest serious and dull, the youngest wild and full of life.  Their family is ruled with an iron hand by their aging, petulant mother.  Both men fall for the same girl.  When the youngest is framed for murder...

(1928, Paramount) Erich Von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz, George Fawcett.  Von Stroheim is a financially ruined European prince whose royal family gives him the ultimatum—marry into wealth or shoot himself!  Wray is a Viennese innkeeper’s daughter who is promised in marriage to a local butcher!  By chance Erich and Fay meet during a parade, after which they fall in love—much to the chagrin of their parents...

(1929, RKO) Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer, Ed Brady, Harry Semels.  La Rocque is a greased-back-hair rogue of a pirate who has sailed his stolen yacht into a port where he encounters a pretty American singer in an oceanfront honky-tonk.  The singer is already the subject of the affections of a jealous American, who soon finds himself in La Rocque’s clutches...

(1929, MGM) Condemned! Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, Dudley Digges, William Elmer.  Colman, a suave thief, is sentenced to a stretch at Devil's Island.... Madame X.  Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Sidney Toler. A disgraced woman is forcibly parted from her young son...

(1929, MGM) Desert Nights. This was John Gilbert’s last silent picture, and it’s a good one.  He plays the somewhat roguish manager of a South African diamond company.  A couple of thieves, posing as English aristocrats kidnap him... Speedway. William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane, John Miljan.  Grand fun as Haines and Torrence vie for best driver at the Indianapolis Speedway...

(1936) Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola, Michel Simon, Jacques Coopeau, Pierre Renoir.  This is a grand film about political turmoil in 19^th century Russia.  Fresnay plays a young student preparing for a long career working in the Czarist government.  His life is thrown into turmoil though...

(1959) Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Mark Eden, Gerald Flood. This is a very grim tale about a group of British POWs, held by the communist forces in North Korea during the Korean war of the 1950s.  It deals with a small prison encampment...

Harry Millard, Judy Lewis, Mike Bradford, Nancy Berg, Ted Irwin, Richard Kuss.  Here ya go—a schlocky, American-made drive-in movie about fast cars, hot women, and rugged, grease-covered men, all set to a background of cheap rock and roll music and featuring a surprisingly good cast of complete unknowns...