Billy, a little boy who lives next door to the Stooges, decides to play a trick on them. When Billy gets a toy TV camera as a gift from his parents, he interrupts the show the Stooges are watching and pretends to be an invading Martian. Billy tells the Stooges to deliver a truckload of candy to his house or he will destroy the earth.
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion." After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machinegun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste. Great animation!
Casper is in an African jungle. He frightens a zebra at a watering hole. Wheezy the elephant has a terrible sneezing problem; he sneezes all the feathers off a peacock and a group of monkeys out of their perches. Casper decides to help, and in the process dislodges the feather that was making the elephant sneeze. But then a fire breaks out, and the elephant is unable to sneeze on command. Casper to the rescue!
Casper emerges from a subway station, following a crowd of scared strangers. He encounters a man saying "see the wonders of the moon for ten cents," and offering a sight through a telescope. Casper scares the man away, then uses the telescope to see the moon. He then flies to the moon for a visit. Casper lands on the moon, disappointed to find no man on the moon. He lies down to nap, then tiny moon men emerge from holes. They capture Casper, like Lilliputians did to Gulliver, then place him in a cage on wheels, in which they tow him to the Ruler of the Moon, King Luna. The King addresses Casper as a monster, and treats him as an enemy. Casper playfully picks up King Luna, and the king has him placed in the royal dungeon. A dejected Casper is imprisoned. Then animated trees attack the city of the moon men. The moon men defend their fortified city with flaming missiles. The tree monsters fight back with water, then break through the town walls.
In the third cartoon, Casper the Friendly Ghost, after playing class dunce at Ghost School for being more concerned with making friends than scaring people, Casper continues his search for social acceptance and finally locates a duck, just hatched from its egg, that will accept him for who, or is that what?, he is. Casper takes the young duck under his proverbial wing and the two find happiness together although a hunter looking for a meal of duck sounds proves a most hazardous threat to Casper's newfound friend.
Depressed by the antics of the other ghosts, Casper leaves home to make friends. After unintentionally scaring several potential pals, Casper befriends two young children. They take him home, where Casper frightens their mother. Casper is again upset because he believes that he will always scare away his potential buddies. However, Casper scares away a banker who is coming to foreclose on the woman's house, and this wins her heart for Casper. Alan Shay is the voice of Casper.
In this first of three episodes, Clutch gets a mysterious telegram telling him to go to the Galapagos Islands. Next the gang is off another adventure called The Dragon Fly. One of Clutch's old friends is being tormented by a giant dragonfly, or so he thinks. In the third episode, called Dynamite Fury, the crew check out dangerous explosions around the building of a dam. Yep, its Clutch Cargo with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot. They tried to sue the makers of Jonny Quest, but it failed.
A sinister town boss called Pat Barnes has exploited almost everyone in the town. If they don't succumb to his demands they normally end up dead. Barnes is finally brought down by Shanghai Joe and a smooth-talking snake-oil salesman. Starring Klaus Kinski, Cheen Lie, and Tommy Polgár. Kung Fu comes to the West, spaghetti style! For some reason, Klaus Kinski is in a number of spaghetti westerns. Look out Jackie Chan!
A Chinese immigrant named Chin How lands in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don't take kindly to outsiders. The town folk soon realize that Chin is no ordinary drifter and he quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fighting skills. When word of Chin's skills spread to Stanley Spencer, the owner of the states largest cattle ranch, Chin lands a job working for Spencer as a fellow cowboy. Friend soon becomes foe when Chin realizes he is working for a cattle smuggler bent on brutalizing Mexican farmers and anyone else who stands in his way. Starring Chen Lee, Klaus Kinski, and Carla Romanelli. Kung Fu comes to the West, spaghetti style! For some reason, Klaus Kinski is in a number of spaghetti westerns.
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman. Starring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, and Don DeFore. Things were tough in the 40s but at least they had Betty Hutton. Lots of laughs in an age gone by.
A quartet of international crooks (Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello) are stranded in Italy whilst their steamer is being repaired. With them are an English couple, the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but all is not as it seems. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lorre, and Gina Lollobrigida. A great 50s spy spoof!
A reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf, and then gets transferred back to Washington, where he gets a job as press assistant to the President. Then bodies start turning up as the werewolf strikes. Yikes! Sounds like the way things are going these days. Starring Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Henry Ferrentino and Michael Dunn.
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford in this TV movie sequel to The Over the Hill Gang. This time the gang must face corruption in their own hometown. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law, and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way. Starring Walter Brennan, Fred Astaire, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, and Chill Wills. It’s great to see Fred Astaire and all these old coots in this comedy western.
Classic comedic western, Captain Oren Hayes of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter in a neighboring town. When he arrives, he finds his daughter Hannah's husband Jeff is running for Mayor against a corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of the honest Jeff Rose, so he has his henchmen beat them up. Hayes then calls for the help of some his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits to outsmart and defeat Lundy. Starring Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Ricky Nelson, Jack Elam, Gypsy Rose Lee, Fred Astaire, Lana Wood and Andy Devine. One of the great comedy westerns with a great cast!
In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as the family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of the idle rich, and nutty as fruitcakes. Soon, wacky Irene is in love with her ‘protégé’ ... who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past... as Godfrey is more than he seems! Starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, and Alice Brady. A great, zany, and inspiring movie of the 1930s! Look out Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in OVERBOARD!
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals. Starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. The last of the great Bob Hope-Bing Crosby comedies and the only one in color! We all want to go to the magical Hindu world of Bali, the last of the great Cham civilization!
In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday", a cocaine-shooting detective who is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Ennyday is given to injecting himself from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest, and liberally helps himself to the contents of a hatbox-sized round container of white powder labeled "COCAINE" on his desk. Fairbanks' character lampoons Sherlock Holmes (also a user of cocaine in his books) with checkered detective hat, clothes and even car, along with the aforementioned propensity for injecting cocaine whenever he feels momentarily down, then laughing with delight. A device used for observing visitors, which is referred to in the title cards as his "scientific periscope." bears a close resemblance to a modern closed-circuit television. A very strange and hip mini-movie from 1916. Fairbanks is superb as usual.
Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the innkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride. Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Jean Parker. A wild airplane comedy with Laurel and Hardy!
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears. Starring Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, and Renato Cestiè. A good comedy-spaghetti western, sort of a side-movie to the Trinity Westerns.
General Ramirez is fighting for the revolution of Mexico against European domination. He hires Hallelujah, a mysterious gunfighter, take down European emperor Maximilian by seizing a purse of jewels intended to be used for the purchase of weapons. This is no easy assignment as he must fight off bandits, secret agents, a fake sister, a so-called Russian prince and other scoundrels! Also known as Guns for Dollars. Starring George Hilton, Charles Southwood, and Agata Flori. George Hilton is a look-alike for Clint Eastwood. A great comedy-western!
