High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

It Happened in Hollywood

1937

English

6.3

♡ 4

20%

Harry Lachman Director

Harold Goodwin as Buck

Edward Hearn as Cop

Edgar Dearing as Joe Stevens

Lester Dorr as Reporter

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Vice Raid

1959

English

5.5

♡ 9

Edward L. Cahn Director

Nestor Paiva as Frank Burke

Arthur Tovey as Internal Affairs Hearing Attendee

Lester Dorr as Malone's Receptionist

Brad Dexter as Vince Malone

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

Topper

1937

English

7.2

♡ 17

88%

based on novel or book

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Lester Dorr as Bank Teller

Irving Bacon as Hotel Clerk

Betty Blythe as Mrs. Goodrich

Anita Garvin as Seabreeze Hotel Guest

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

The Little Giant

1933

English

7.0

♡ 9

73%

Roy Del Ruth Director

Bill Elliott as Guest at Polly's Party

Lester Dorr as Investment Clerk

Edward G. Robinson as James Francis 'Bugs' Ahearn

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940

English

6.6

♡ 2

87%

George B. Seitz Director

Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy

Addison Richards as Mr. Benedict

Lester Dorr as Photographer

Ethelreda Leopold as Sirocco Club Dining Extra

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

I Met My Love Again

1938

English

5.5

♡ 2

teacher student relationship

George Cukor Director

Tim Holt as Budge Williams

Lester Dorr as Hotel Desk Clerk

Henry Fonda as Ives Towner

Joan Bennett as Julie Weir

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936

English

7.2

♡ 3

89%

70%

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John Ford Director

Paul Stanton as Agitating Orator

Lester Dorr as George A. Atzerodt

Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth

J.M. Kerrigan as Judge Maiben

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

Go West Young Man

1936

English

6.2

♡ 2

Henry Hathaway Director

Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Kate Barnaby

Randolph Scott as Bud Norton

John Indrisano as Chauffeur

Lester Dorr as Reporter

Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.

Anchors Aweigh

1945

English

7.0

♡ 12

56%

live action and animation

George Sidney Director

Lester Dorr as Assistant Director

Dean Stockwell as Donald Martin

Ruth Lee as Kindergarten Teacher

Forbes Murray as Passerby

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

Easy Living

1937

English

7.5

♡ 8

100%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Forbes Murray as Husband

Edward Arnold as J.B. Ball

Lillian Lawrence as Magazine Office Worker

Lester Dorr as Stock Investor

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

The Wise Little Hen

1934

English

6.9

♡ 9

Wilfred Jackson Director

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck / Peter Pig

Lester Dorr as Singer

Jack Mower as Singer

Florence Gill as Wise Little Hen

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.

The Old Mill

1937

English

7.7

♡ 11

80%

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Wilfred Jackson Director

Elvia Allman as Birds / Singer

Clarence Nash as Frogs

Lester Dorr as Singer

Mildred Dixon as Singer

Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

Flying Disc Man from Mars

1950

English

5.3

♡ 4

Fred C. Brannon Director

John Daheim as Boyd, Shipping Clerk [Chs. 4-5]

Lester Dorr as Crane [Ch. 7, 11]

Carey Loftin as Truck Loader-Thug [Chs. 7-8]

Dale Van Sickel as Watchman [Ch. 1]

Mota is a Martian representative, who has come to impose interplanetary law on the Earth (which has become too dangerous); opposing his authority is Kent Fowler, who resists the alien plot, without understanding its details.

Torch Singer

1933

English

6.7

♡ 2

75%

Alexander Hall Director

Lyda Roberti as Dora Nichols

William B. Davidson as Jarrett

Lester Dorr as Man in Radio Station

Kathleen Burke as Sobbing Girl

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.

The Bowery

1933

English

6.8

♡ 3

42%

Raoul Walsh Director

Paulette Goddard as Blonde

Lester Dorr as Cynic

Irving Bacon as Hick

George Raft as Steve Brodie

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.

Special Agent

1935

English

6.4

♡ 3

33%

William Keighley Director

William B. Davidson as Charlie Young

Lester Dorr as Gas Station Attendant

Bette Davis as Julie Gardner

Thomas E. Jackson as State Police Commander's Assistant

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

Whispering Smith

1948

English

6.6

♡ 4

83%

Leslie Fenton Director

Frank Hagney as Frank - Wrecking Crew Member

Irving Bacon as Telegrapher

Frank Faylen as Whitey Du Sang

Lester Dorr as Woody, Train Brakeman

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

The Reluctant Dragon

1941

English

6.7

♡ 18

100%

live action and animation

Hamilton Luske Director

Frank Faylen as Frank - Orchestra Leader

Norman Ferguson as Norm Ferguson

Lester Dorr as Slim

Henry Hall as Studio Policeman

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 way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949

English

6.5

♡ 7

57%

51%

Action

based on novel or book

Tay Garnett Director

Rhonda Fleming as Alisande La Carteloise / Sandy Pendragon

Mary Field as Peasant Woman

William Bendix as Sir Sagramore

Lester Dorr as Townsman

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.

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It Happened in Hollywood

Vice Raid

Topper

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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

I Met My Love Again

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Go West Young Man

Anchors Aweigh

Easy Living

The Wise Little Hen

The Old Mill

Flying Disc Man from Mars

Torch Singer

The Bowery

Special Agent

Whispering Smith

The Reluctant Dragon

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court