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Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.

A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.

Joe Carraclough chegou a maioridade no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial, e se tornou piloto da RAF. Laddie, o filho de Lassie, é o seu animal de estimação, que secretamente alija-se em seu avião, quando esse parte para uma missão perigosa, para bombardear o inimigo. Quando o avião é atingido, sobrevoando a Noruega, ocupada pelos nazistas, Joe e Laddie saltam de pára-quedas da aeronave em chamas. A partir daí, começam as aventuras duplas. Peter Lawford e June Lockhart (que por vários anos estrelaram Lassie na Tv) são Joe e Priscila, anteriormente interpretados por Roddy McDowall e Elizabeth Taylor. Donald Crisp e Nigel Bruce são os treinadores dos cães deste filme. Uma bela e terna história de amor, que aliada a coragem ilimitada a afeto da Collie pelo seu dono, conquistará seu coração. Roteiro impar da série.

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.

A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.

Uma secretária dedicada arrisca sua vida para tentar encontrar uma esquiva mulher que pode provar que seu chefe não assassinou sua esposa egoísta. Num casamento infeliz, Scott Henderson passa a noite com uma mulher de chapéu que ele pegou em um bar. Voltando para casa, ele encontra sua esposa estrangulada e se torna o principal suspeito do assassinato. Todo esforço para estabelecer seu álibi fracassa; estranhamente, ninguém parece se lembrar de ter visto a dama fantasma (ou seu chapéu). Na prisão, Scott perde as esperanças, mas sua fiel secretária, "Kansas", persegue obstinadamente pistas evanescentes pelas sombrias ruas noturnas. Será que ela poderá salvar Scott a tempo?

A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.

Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

O clássico de terror original que apresentou um dos mais abomináveis monstros do cinema! Lon Chaney jr. retrata Larry Talbot, que regressa ao castelo do seu pai (Claude Rains) no País de Gales e encontra uma bela mulher (Evelyn Ankers). Numa noite fatídica, Talbot acompanha-a a uma festa local onde o destino de Jenny é revelado por uma misteriosa cigana. As atmosferas de sonho e os cenários aprimorados, combinados com uma trilha sonora arrepiante tornam "O Lobisomem" numa obra-prima não só do gênero, mas também de todos os tempos!

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.

Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.

A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

Filme biográfico sobre a vida de Abraham Lincoln, um dos mais marcantes presidentes dos Estados Unidos. A narrativa mostra desde a juventude de Lincoln, quanto era um advogado, até sua eleição para a Casa Branca.

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?

Uma jovem socialite é diagnosticada com um tumor cerebral e deve decidir se vai ou não conhecer seus últimos dias com dignidade. Judith Traherne está no auge da sociedade quando o Dr. Frederick Steele diagnostica um tumor no seu cérebro. Após a cirurgia, ela se apaixona por Steele. O médico diz à secretária que o tumor vai voltar e eventualmente matá-la. Quando fica sabendo disso, Judith se torna maníaca depressiva. Seu treinador de cavalos, Michael, que a ama, diz a ela para tirar o máximo de proveito da vida possível. Ela se casa com o Dr. Steele, que pretende encontrar uma cura para sua doença. Quando ele vai para uma conferência em Nova York, Judith começa a ter falhas de visão, o que indica a que ela está morrendo.

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.

Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the Tennessee River. This proved to be a vital action for the North in its push south...

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.

Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.

A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family. Drama.

Quando um injustamente acusado prisioneiro mal sobrevive a um ataque de uma turba de linchadores e é dado como morto, ele vingativamente decide responsabilizar a multidão pelo seu assassinato. Joe Wilson e Katherine Grant estão namorando, mas ele não tem dinheiro suficiente para se casar. Então Katherine viaja pelo país para ganhar dinheiro. Mas as coisas dão desastrosamente errado para Joe quando ele para em uma pequena cidade e é confundido com um assassino procurado. Ao longo do filme, Fritz Lang nos mostra como um homem decente e civilizado pode tornar-se um homem cruel e amargo.