Rockabye

Rockabye 1932

6.20

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

1932

The Promoter

The Promoter 1932

1

Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.

1932

The Common Law

The Common Law 1931

5.50

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

1931

Suicide Fleet

Suicide Fleet 1931

4.00

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

1931

Lady with a Past

Lady with a Past 1932

5.80

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.

1932

Westward Passage

Westward Passage 1932

5.80

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

1932

Devotion

Devotion 1931

6.80

A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.

1931

The Messenger Boy

The Messenger Boy 1931

1

Benny Rubin is a Messenger Boy who gets into trouble with everyone.

1931

Easy to Get

Easy to Get 1931

1.00

In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.

1931

All for Mabel

All for Mabel 1930

1

Si Jenks and Bob Carney go to one of those colleges where there are no classes -- although there is one befuddled, elderly professor who shows up for thirty seconds -- but there is lots of dancing, ukulele-playing, upper class men tormenting freshmen, and competition over Sally Starr, who seems to be the only student less than 30 years old.

1930

Black Cats and Broomsticks

Black Cats and Broomsticks 1955

5.30

Superstitions are examined in the context of mid-20th century America. Walking under ladders, spilt salt, stepping on cracks, haunted houses, voodoo dolls, and such are used to illustrate the widespread belief in the supernatural.

1955

The Big Shot

The Big Shot 1931

1

A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.

1931

Dirt Track Racing

Dirt Track Racing 1957

6.00

This RKO Sportscope entry introduces the viewer to the sport of speedway, a type of motorcycle racing, in post-World War II Vienna.

1957

Flicker Flashbacks #2

Flicker Flashbacks #2 1943

1

A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900 Bathing Beauties fron Venice, California 2. Goodness Gracious with Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew 3. A Drunkard's Reformation Directed by D.W. Griffith

1943

Selling Shorts

Selling Shorts 1931

1

Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are in need of some moonshine....

1931

Polar Outpost

Polar Outpost 1957

1

This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of radar stations built across Alaska and the Canadian north as part of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. These are isolated outposts, many of which are only accessible by air. Buildings, roads and landing strips had to be built from scratch. There's a visit to Barrow Village, Alaska the most northern point of US territory.

1957

Rule 'Em and Weep

Rule 'Em and Weep 1932

1

King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.

1932

High Dive Kids

High Dive Kids 1956

1

In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of the Royal Academy of Physical Education in Stockholm, Sweden, supervises the children's activities.

1956