More than just a landmark in superhero animation, Max Fleischer’s Superman shorts were no less than the foundation for so many shows that succeeded it. Playing in theaters in 1941-42,…

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father’s last moments happy. However, the old man’s health takes a…

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner…

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member…

Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers…

Cottage to Let is a 1941 spy film starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills. Set in World War II Scotland, its plot concerns Nazi spies trying to kidnap…

The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get…

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted…

A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.

A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands…

Twinkletoes, the incompetent carrier pigeon, is charged with the task of delivering a package, little guessing that it contains a time bomb.

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie’s band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but…

Rey Scott received an Honorary Academy Award for this documentary “For his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China’s struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera…

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the…

British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German…

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just…

An unexpected windfall has unexpected consequences on a Depression era, working class girl.

Mickey’s going golfing, and Pluto is his caddy. Besides the usual caddy duties, Pluto runs to the ball and points to it. But when the ball lands in a gopher…

El accidentally hits a mannequin with his automobile; believing he’s killed a man, he and Tom set out to dispose of the body.

Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle,…

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.

An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He…

A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.

The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor’s means of taking the town over. When Roy and…

Based on Verne’s book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying…

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move…

Why did the Governor want to resign?

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley’s Department Store. There is labor…

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master…

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers.

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1941 film stars Wallace Beery as a crusty old San Pedro fisherman, Virginia Weidler as his precocious and motherless daughter, Marjorie Main as a waterfront spinster hoping…

Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn’t cut the grade with…

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love…

Mickey Mouse lies in bed like a lord, getting served breakfast by man’s (and mouse’s?) best friend Pluto as gentleman’s gentleman. Next duty is to fetch the paper, but also…

On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers…

Lazy black folks in Lazy Town (Pop. 123½) are napping and attracting flies. They are so lethargic they even fight in slow motion. Then a riverboat arrives with a red…

An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.