The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Oct 19, 2002Sportsman Hunts Human Game
The first and best version of the oft-told story in which shipwreck survivors are forced to survive with their bare hands while being hunted by a mad Russian aristocrat
Irving Pichel
She (1935)
Oct 29, 2000Lost City/Immortal Queen
The first sound version of H. Rider Haggard's lost city adventure about explorers finding an immortal queen (Helen Gahagan). From the producers of the original King Kong
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Jan 1, 2010Catholicism and Miracles
A ghastly sanctimonious Catholic miracle film from the 1940s about the elevation of a Hollywood starlet to sainthood simply because she was glamorous
Mr Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
May 5, 2003Mermaid Comedy
A Hollywood copy of the British mermaid film Miranda in which dull middle-aged William Powell fishes up capricious mermaid Ann Blyth. This has an amiable charm
Destination Moon (1950)
Apr 1, 2003Expedition to the Moon
The film that started the great 1950s age of science fiction. A bold exciting work from George Pal and Robert Heinlein that says the Moon is our to conquer and lays out a credible road map about how to do so