SCROOGE (1935) (BLACK & WHITE) – HD – SCR
- English (US)
Scrooge is a 1935 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage more than 2000 times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. This was the first film to be released by the Twickenham Film Distributors, Ltd., founded by Julius Hagen and Arthur Clavering. Hagen acted as producer for the new company, with Clavering handling film distribution. Scrooge is mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future appear to Scrooge, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947) – HD – SCR
- English (US)
Miracle on 34th Street (initially released as The Big Heart in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies. It stars Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn. The story takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film has become a perennial Christmas favorite. After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy’s, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he’s not mistaken.
LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) – FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES – HD – SCR
- English (US)
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête – also the UK title)[2] is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1757 story Beauty and the Beast, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published as part of a fairy tale anthology. A beautiful young woman takes her father’s place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
THE HUNTCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME – HD – SCR
- English (US)
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
CHARLIE CHAN – BLACK MAGIC (Meeting at Midnight) – HD – SCR
- English (US)
Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.
HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (BLACK AND WHITE) – HD – SCR
- English (US)
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
ABSOLUTION – HD – SCR
- English (US)
At a boarding school in England, students Benjie Stanfield and Arthur Dyson endeavor to drive their strict Roman Catholic priest Father Goddard mad with their confessed sins.
BLACK WIDOW – HD – SCR
- English (US)
An aspiring young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer only to meet an unexpected fate.
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS – HD – SCR
- English (US)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American film noir drama directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. It follows a man who is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband; both the childhood friend and her husband believe that the man knows the truth about the mysterious death of the woman’s wealthy aunt years prior. The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen (and an uncredited Robert Riskin), adapted from the short story “Love Lies Bleeding” by playwright John Patrick. A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
THE 39 STEPS – HD – SCR
- English (US)
The 39 Steps is a 1935 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. It is loosely based on the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It involves a Canadian man in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organisation of spies called “The 39 Steps” from stealing British military secrets. Mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run from Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman, Pamela, while hoping to stop the spy ring and clear his name. A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.