Topper Returns
A classic comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
Dir. by Ted Mills, 2001. A worker on a distant planet answers a mysterious siren call. Shot on fantastic Super 8 black and white, and featuring a score by Jeff Kaiser. Starring Kary Cawley, Brian Singer, Paul Gersowitz, and Masako Takagi.
1941. Starring Leslie Howard. A "modern" remake of the Scarlet Pimpernel. In the days leading up to World War II, a seemingly absent-minded archeology professor, Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard), saves people from the Gestapo and takes them out of Nazi Germany.
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Joan sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
Six women from the main Allied Nations battling the German-Japanese Axis in WW2 are arrested by the Germans in Shanghai University, under the false accusation they are accomplices of the killing of a German officer in the Hospital. Two Asian women will join the group, and eventually it is revealed that there are at least three underground spies amongst the small group. Some will survive, others will die heroic deaths for their religious beliefs, nationalist ideals, or the sake of humankind.
The touching story of a naval officer who adopts a boy who is orphaned when his parents are killed. The boy is kidnapped by a gangster who believes the child is his. Angry, the officer gets the entire US Navy to help him get back his little boy!
Molly Fitzgerald (Cecilia Parker), who works for Abrams and Co. Jewelers (although the company safe reads "Adams & Co. Jewelers"), is accosted on the street by a stranger who asks her for a date, but her fiance, police officer Terry Mulvaney (Russell Hopton)chases him away. Spike (Jack Gardner), the stranger, is interested in Molly other than for her pretty face; he is a member of a gang of jewel thieves who are planning to rob Abrams (John St. Polis)and want to use her to obtain information regarding the merchant's shipments of jewels. Through another ruse, gang member Flash Ackroyd (Theodor Von Eltz)gets the information and, through careful planning, frames Terry for the robbery. One of Abrams' assistants is killed and Terry is charged with robbery and murder. Terry escapes but Molly is fired as Abrams thinks she was in on the robbery. Molly gets a job in a nightclub ran by the gangsters. The train on which Terry is escaping is wrecked and he is transported to a hospital more dead than alive.
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