

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
1946-08-23
4.8
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7.7This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
5.5Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.
7.4A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.
6.0This documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Jean Painlevé was originally presented in eight parts on French television. It was edited to remove duplicated material from its original length of 240 minutes.
A hitman is tasked to take out ex-mobsters when he suddenly hears a voice that questions his morality.
7.5Love blossoms secretly between two old women at an elderly care home while the specter of patriarchy looms large overhead.
7.0As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
7.2An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.
5.6Mr. Twitchell, a greedy old businessman, has invented Summer Wheeze: a spray that instantly removes snow and slush! Now Holly has to keep Frosty from melting, and convince everybody that snow's actually a good thing.
7.2Yong-hwa (Sang-woo), Marshall (Lee Eun-mi-I), Ddeok-bae (Do Mo-se) and Bang-wool (Park Joo-bin) steal from Chairman Kang and hide out in a pension in the country. They depend on each other and enjoy every day until Ddeok-bae accidentally loses their bag of money and Bang-wool falls ill. Chairman Kang is closing in on them and the four of them use their specific 'techniques' to start a 12 hour adult program. Will they succeed?
8.1An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip.
7.4At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
4.0The film follows the daily experiences and dreams of the residents of a specific type of seclusion of freedom in which the convicts assume the maintenance of the space, the control of their own activities and their security. With a multifaceted approach, it proposes a reflection on the creative potential of incarcerated people, the documentary genre itself and its truth.
5.0On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.
7.4Valdis Nulle is a young and ambitious captain of fishing ship 'Dzintars'. He has his views on fishing methods but the sea makes its own rules. Kolkhoz authorities are forced to include dubious characters in his crew, for example, former captain Bauze and silent alcoholic Juhans. The young captain lacks experience in working with so many fishermen on board. Unexpectedly, pretty engineer Sabīne is ordered to test a new construction fishing net on Nulle's ship and 'production conflict' between her and the captain arises...
5.2A brave Army dog returns to the U.S., where he helps his heroic handler bond with his resentful daughter on a camping trip despite danger lurking around every corner.
8.5The best films of the European Outdoor Film Tour 13/14. CASCADA (USA 2013, 6 min) Endless rain and millions of mosquitos: is the Mexican jungle the best destination for a kayaking trip? THE ROAD FROM KARAKOL (USA 2013, 30 min) An American in Kyrgyzstan: Kyle Dempster hunts down the last great unclimbed peaks and almost gets lost in the remote wilderness along the way. WIDE BOYZ (UK 2012, 20 min) Too big for your fists, too small for your ass, the brutal world of offwidth climbing: Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker take on the gnarliest offwidth cracks in America. THE BEGINNING (CH 2012, 6 min) Canyoning with the Swiss supermen. NORTH OF THE SUN (NOR 2013, 23 min) Waves and waste on the freezing Norwegian coastline: a perfect Winter for hardcore surfers Inge Wegge and Jørn Ranum. SUPERVENTION (NOR 2013, 10 min) Outstanding freeskiing and snowboarding in the most remote places of Norway.
8.0Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.
10.0Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
0.0A woman named Rara experiences a strange incident on the South coast. A murder far from humanity sets in motion a vicious chain of revenge.
Hacchi is an orphan who lives in a slum and works for a gangster. Trouble ensues when he tries to change himself for the woman he loves, while his employer's daughter also falls in love with him.
4.7A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
6.0One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
4.0Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
6.2Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
7.0A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
0.0Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
6.0Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
0.0An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
5.0The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and personal history.
5.6The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
5.2A female bail-bond broker and her partner help an accused embezzler prove his innocence. Having the body of the embezzler's late business partner pop up doesn't help matters.
5.0Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
0.0A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
4.8A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
6.0On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
4.5A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.