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Ladies in Love (1936) DVD available
Enjoyable romantic comedy-drama stars Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young and Constance Bennett
as three Budapest girls going through the trials and tribulations of love, Gaynor with
doctor Don Ameche and magician Alan Mobray, Young with a young count (Tyrone Power),
and Bennett with a wealthy miner (Paul Lukas). Excellent quality.
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Lady In the Dark (1944) DVD available
Wild Technicolor spectacle stars Ginger Rogers as a fashion magazine editor
coming apart mentally, while dealing with her boorish underling (Ray Milland),
a married man who loves her (Warner Baxter), and a movie star who wants to
marry her (Jon Hall). Also starring Barry Sullivan. Decent quality aside from
a blip at the very end.
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Las Vegas Nights (1941) DVD available
In this solo Wheeler vehicle Bert plays a member of a struggling acting
troupe who gets conned into buying a Vegas ranch. Also starring Constance
Moore. Bert actually sings "Dolores" in this film with Tommy Dorsey's
orchestra while vocalist Frank Sinatra sits it out! Lesser quality.
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The Last Flight (1931) DVD available
Fascinating early talkie similar to The Sun Also Rises stars Richard
Barthelmess as the leader of a group of disillusioned ex soldiers on the
loose in Paris post WWI. Also starring Helen Chandler, David Manners,
and Johnny Mack Brown. Excellent quality.
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The Last Outpost (1935) DVD available
Excellent WWI melodrama set in Kurdistan stars Cary Grant as a British
captain who falls in love with the wife of the man who saved his life (Claude
Rains), only to meet up with each other again on the battlefield. Also
starring Gertrude Michael. Very good quality, commercials edited out.
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The Late George Apley (1947) DVD available
Ronald Colman stars in this sophisticated comedy of manners as a haughty
Boston blueblood trying to preserve his way of life in the wake of his
children wanting to marry "beneath" them. Also starring Peggy Cummins and
Richard Haydn. Excellent quality.
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Laughter (1930) DVD available
Sophisticated early talkie stars Nancy Carroll as a bored ex chorus girl married to
a rich mogul (Frank Morgan) who gets a jolt when former flame Fredric March returns
from Europe. Also starring Glenn Anders. Quality is decent, though the sound is a
bit weak.
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Law and Order (1932) DVD available
Walter Huston stars in this classic western loosely based on the Tombstone
saga. Huston is the Earp character, Harry Carey is the Holliday character,
as they smash the "Northup" family of crooks. Andy Devine has a notable
small role. Excellent quality.
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Let's Face It (1943) DVD available
Fun wartime farce stars Bob Hope as an inept private who tries to finance
his wedding to health nut fiance Betty Hutton by romancing three not so likable
older women. This has Hope's famous parody of the cigarette scene in "Now Voyager."
Decent quality, a few lines in the picture.
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The Light That Failed (1939) DVD available
Ronald Colman stars in this Kipling classic as a blinding soldier/painter
who tries to finish his painting of trashy Ida Lupino before he loses all
of his sight. Also starring Walter Huston. Very good quality.
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The Lights of New York (1928) DVD available
The first full length talkie stars Helen Costello and Cullen Landis as a
young couple mixed up with a mob boss (Wheeler Oakman), who wants to take...
them...for...a...ride. Also starring Eugene Pallette. Very crude today
but highly important. Very good quality.
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Little Man, What Now? (1934) DVD available
Excellent drama from Frank Borzage stars Margaret Sullavan and Douglass
Montgomery as a German couple trying to make good during the Depression, but
find things hard when she becomes pregnant. Also starring Alan Hale. One of
the first looks at conditions leading to Hitler's rise to power. Quality is
watchable but not great.
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Little Old New York (1940) DVD available
Fun fictionalized biopic stars Richard Greene as steamboat inventor Robert
Fulton, who has to deal with skeptics and saboteurs en route to building
the first steamboat. Also starring Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Brenda Joyce,
Andy Devine, and Ward Bond. Excellent quality.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) DVD available
First in the series stars Warren William as Michael Lanyard, a former thief
turned adventurer. In this one he has to deal with a spy (Ralph Morgan) out
to steal aircraft plans, while trying to frame the Lone Wolf. Also starring
Ida Lupino, Virginia Weidler, and in an early bad girl role, Rita Hayworth.
Excellent quality aside from a couple of blips in the sound.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940) DVD available
Warren William is back as the Lone Wolf, this time dealing with a group of
kidnappers who also stole his rare stamp collection! Also starring Eric Blore
as Jamison, Florence Robinson, Bruce Bennett, and the always hilarious cop duo
of Thurston Hall and Fred Kelsey. Excellent quality.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940) DVD available
Typically exciting Lone Wolf entry has Lanyard (Warren William) trying to help
a socialite (Jean Muir) accused of murder and also mixed up in a missing jewelry
case. Victor Jory is good as a thief from the Wolf's past. Also starring series
regulars Eric Blore, Thurston Hall, and Fred Kelsey. Excellent quality.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940) DVD available
Michael Lanyward (Warren William) is back helping another damsel in distress
(Joan Perry) in a case involving her father's death and a missing necklace. Also
starring Eric Blore as Jamison, with Montagu Love and Alan Baxter. Typically
fun series entry. Excellent quality.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941) DVD available
Enjoyable Lone Wolf entry has Lanyard (Warren William) trying to get to the
bottom of an inventor's (Lloyd Bridges) disappearance and teaming with the man's
movie star girlfriend (June Storey) to find the culprits. Also starring Henry
Wilcoxon as a heel, with regulars Eric Blore, Thurston Hall, and Fred Kelsey.
Excellent quality.
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Love That Brute (1950) DVD available
Fun gangster comedy stars Paul Douglas as a good hearted mobster who adopts
a punk kid in order to impress an attractive nanny (Jean Peters). Also starring
Cesar Romero as a rival gangster, Joan Davis as a gangster's "widow," and Keenan
Wynn as Douglas' lackey. Excellent quality.
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) DVD available
Fast paced biopic of the famed author stars John Sheppard as Poe, fighting
rejection from his foster family, the publishing world, and his own self
destructive alcoholism. Also starring Linda Darnell, Viriginia Gilmore,
and Jane Darwell. Excellent quality.
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The Luck of the Irish (1948) DVD available
Fascinating fantasy stars Tyrone Power as a reporter who has a meeting with
a leprechaun (Cecil Kellaway) right as he is about to work for a tyrannical
mogul (Lee J. Cobb). Also starring Anne Baxter as a charming Irish lass.
Excellent quality.
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Lucy Gallant (1954) DVD available
Fun 50s drama stars Jane Wyman as a go getting businesswoman who opens a
dress shop in a booming Texas oil town, and falls in love with a rancher/
would be oil tycoon (Charlton Heston) who frowns on her running a business.
Also starring Claire Trevor, William Demarest, and Thelma Ritter. Good
quality aside from the end credits being slightly cut off.
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Lure of the Wilderness (1952) DVD available
Excellent remake of Swamp Water stars Jeffrey Hunter as a trapper who finds
fugitive Walter Brennan (reprising his role) living out in the GA swamp with
his daughter (Jean Peters), vowing to clear his name. Also starring Constance
Smith and Tom Tully. Excellent quality.
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