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The Four Poster (1952)
$15.00Jan de Hartog’s two-person stage play The Fourposter has always seemed to attract married acting couples, a tradition established by the play’s first Broadway stars Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The film version featured Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, who (you guessed it) were man and wife at the time. The story traces the history of a marriage from the wedding night in 1890 to the death of the wife in the 1930s; all crucial scenes are acted out in the couple’s boudoir, near the fourposter bed they’d received as a wedding present. The passing years, and the triumphs and tragedies of the couple, are wittily represented by transitional animation sequences produced by the UPA cartoon studios. A musical version of The Fourposter titled I Do I Do opened on Broadway in 1966, breaking precedent by starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, who were happily married but not to each other.
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Roseanna McCoy (1949)
$15.00It’s the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
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Enchantment (1948)
$15.00Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent romance between her and Lark’s nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple don’t make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
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All My Sons (1948)
$15.00All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. He framed his business partner for this crime and engineered his own exoneration; now, his son is about to marry the partner’s daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. Joe has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, an American Dream gone nightmarishly awry; this is a story about responsibility: Joe and his generation must understand that the boys he killed–all the boys in the War–were his sons, too.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
$15.00Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. He counters Susan’s comic false sophistication by even more comic put-on teenage mannerisms, with a slapstick climax.
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Crack-Up (1946)
$15.00Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck…which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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The Big Street (1942)
$15.00Runyonesque busboy Little Pinks (Henry Fonda) hitchhikes to Florida with a gangster’s (Barton MacLane) ex-moll (Lucille Ball) in a wheelchair.
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The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
$15.00A society sleuth and a lady reporter try to track down a murderous thug’s lost girlfriend.Based on the Raymond Chandler book “Farewell, My Lovely”.
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A Date with the Falcon (1942)
$15.00In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, “Goldy” Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
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The Gay Falcon (1941)
$15.00A society grand dame who hosts charity parties in her home is mixed up in a jewel theft racket which defrauds insurance companies. When she is murdered, Gay Laurence (a.k.a. The Falcon)and assistant ‘Goldie’ Locke are on the case with help from beautiful Helen Reed, who becomes a rival to Gay’s fiancée Elinor for the sleuth’s affections.
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One Crowded Night (1940)
$25.00Essentially a low-budget version of Grand Hotel, this episodic crime drama takes place over the course of a night in a small motel. The trouble centers on a fugitive, gangsters and a sailor who illegally fled the Navy so he could attend the birth of his wife’s baby.
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New Mexico (1951)
$25.00Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt’s superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.
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