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			Hellzapoppin' (1941) Director: H. C. Potter Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee, Mischa Auer, Robert Paige, Shemp Howard Description: Based on the hit Broadway play, Ole and Chic hire a producer to make a musical show at a fancy estate. What follows are non-stop zany gags and jokes. The producer falls in love with the estate�s wealthy girl but is encumbered by the girl�s fianc�. A wild, complicated love triangle ensues when a penniless Russian aristocrat mistakes Chic's sister for the wealthy girl. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 84 mins. Item #2575 On Sale! Format: also on DVD Unit

			Hers To Hold (1943) Director: Frank Ryan Cast: Deanna Durbin, Joseph Cotten, Charles Winninger. Description: This was Deanna Durbin's third take on Penny Craig, who by now has grown into a beautiful young woman featuring in the gossip columns with tit-bits about her love life. She falls in love with dashing young pilot Bill, even volunteers for work at the aircraft factory where he works, but Bill is afraid to commit to her, and when he learns that he is about to go overseas and join the armed forces, he dumps her. But Penny is nothing if not resourceful... Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 94 mins. Item #7006 Format: also on DVD Unit

			Highway Dragnet (1954) Director: Nathan Juran Cast: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes, Iris Adrian, Harry Harvey. Description: Korean War vet Richard Conte, accused of killing a woman he met in a Las Vegas bar, escapes from police custody. A roadside encounter with magazine photo-grapher Joan Bennett and assistant Wanda Hendrix offers Conte a chance to escape the title manhunt in this gripping "B"-suspenser. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 68 mins. Item #7011 Format: also on DVD Unit

			Hold 'em Jail (1932) Director: Norman Taurog Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Betty Grable, Robert Armstrong, Rosco Ates, Edgar Kennedy. Description: Unless Bidemore prison can put together a decent all-prisoner football team, its next opponent will be the reform school boys. Embarrassingly short of talent, the warden (Edgar Kennedy) contacts Bidemore's "alumni," one of them being a night club owner. When two absurd novelty salesman (Wheeler and Woolsey) show up at the club, they are framed for robbery. In prison they find time to romance the warden's pretty daughter (16-year-old Betty Grable, and she looked it), get involved in some hilarious shenanigans, and make a mockery of a climactic prison football game. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 65 mins. Item #7009 Format: also on DVD Unit

			The Holy Terror (1937) Director: James Tinling Cast: Jane Withers, Tony Martin, Leah Ray, El Brendel, Joe E. Lewis, Joan Davis. Description: Jane is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 68 mins. Item #6942 Format: also on DVD Unit

			Hoppity Goes to Town (1941) Director: Dave Fleischer. Cast: Voices of: Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce, Stan Freed. Description: The story of the inhabitants of Bugville, who try to live with the world of mankind as they deal with problems in their own world, which is located on a weed patch in New York City. Produced by Max Fleischer. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 77 mins. Item #1071 On Sale! Format: also on DVD Unit

			Huk! (1956) Director: John Barnwell Cast: George Montgomery, Mona Freeman, John Baer, James Bell, Teddy Benavides, Mario Barri, Ben Perez. Description: Philippine national and plantation owner returns to his homeland to find that the natives ("Huks") have begun an insurrection and are pillaging local plantations. He joins the Philippine Army and his childhood friend in fending off the guerrilla-like attacks of the Huks. Based on the novel by Stirling Silliphant. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 84 mins. Item #2783 Format: also on DVD Unit

			I Only Arsked (1958-British) Director: Montgomery Tully Cast: Alfie Bass, Michael Bentine, Bernard Bresslaw & Marie Devereux. Description: Cpl. Springer (Michael Medwin), Popeye Poppiewell (Bernard Bresslaw) and Excused Boots Bisley (Alfie Bass) are but three of the habitual foul-ups assigned to the command of Major Upshot Bagley (Geoffrey Sumner). On duty in the Middle East, this awkward squad is assigned to quell a revolution. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 81 mins. Item #7125 Format: also on DVD Unit

			If I Had A Million (1932) Director: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog Cast: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, Jack Oakie, Richard Bennett, Charles Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, W.C. Fields, Mary Boland, Roscoe Karns, Ernest Truex. Description: A cantankerous dying tycoon (Bennett) is so dissatisfied with his greedy family and associates that he randomly picks eight names from the telephone book to give each a million dollars to in this Depression-era movie. Featuring seven directors and an all-star cast, the film presents eight vignettes of varying length. Each tells a different story, some of heartbreak and woe, and some with a happy ending. The "Road Hog" with W.C. Fields is classic comedy. The film inspired the popular 1950s television series, The Millionaire. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 83 mins. Item #3457 On Sale! Format: also on DVD Unit

			If This Be Sin (1949-British) Director: Gregory Ratoff Cast: Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Gerard Heinz Description: Set on the Isle of Capri, this romantic drama stars Myrna Loy as a workaholic's wife whose flirtations attract an attractive younger man. Word of the relationship reaches Loy's husband and daughter, but she proves faithful by helping her husband when he falls ill. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 72 mins. Item #7033 Format: also on DVD Unit

			It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) Director: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Grant Mitchell, Alan Hale, Jr. Description: Cheerful, Capraesque comedy with an Academy Award-nominated original story of self-worth. Stars Victor Moore as a New York City hobo who makes his home in a vacant 5th Avenue mansion whose millionaire owner (Ruggles) has gone south for the winter. He takes in an ex-G.I. (DeFore) and a runaway (Storm), who turns out to be the millionaire's daughter. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 116 mins. Item #2063 On Sale! Format: also on DVD Unit

			It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975-Canadian) Director: John Trent Cast: Anthony Newley, John Candy, Isaac Hayes, Stefanie Powers, Lloyd Bochner, Yvonne De Carlo. Description: In his first film role, John Candy plays a manic policeman in this comedy about two inept detectives attempting to unravel a dubious scam by a dirt-poor artist (Newley) who loses his gold-digging wife (Powers) to a rich bore. The artist hatches a brilliant but wacky extortion scheme to get her back. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 106 mins. Item #3314 Format: also on DVD Unit

			It's In The Bag (1945) Director: Richard Wallace Cast: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore, Rudy Vallee. Description: Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning that he's inherited $12 million from his uncle, Fred also discovers that the money has been stuffed in one of thirteen chairs that he's sold at auction. The rest of the film goes off on any number of hilarious tangents, each tied-in ever so tenuously to the plot. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 87 mins. Item #4168 Format: also on DVD Unit

			It's the Old Army Game (1926) Cast: W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy, Mickey Bennett, John Merton, Jack Luden, Elise Cavanna. Description: Blundering Druggist Elmer Prettywillie (Fields) suffers a catastrophic day at his store until the scheming "president" of a real estate company makes him an offer he can't refuse. Includes a concoction of silly skits, and features a trashy picnic on an elegant estate lawn that Prettywillie thought was a public park. Louise Brooks plays a radiant drug store "counter attraction" who attracts the schemer's eye. A similar film, It's a Gift, starring W.C. Fields, was released in 1934. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 105 mins. Item #2772 On Sale! Format: also on DVD Unit

			Japanese War Bride (1952) Director: King Vidor. Cast: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Marie Windsor, Philip Ahn, George Wallace. Description: Korean War vet falls in love with and marries a Japanesse nurse and brings her home to California, where he finds that his neighbors as well as his own family still harbor racist sentiments. Produced by Joseph Bernhard. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 91 mins. Item #4044 Format: also on DVD Unit

			Joan of Ozark (1942) Director: Joseph Santley Cast: Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Jerome Cowan. Description: The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the bizarre wartime musical. During World War II, a yodeling hillbilly singer goes undercover to expose a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 80 mins. Item #4638 Format: also on DVD Unit

			Journey Together (1945-British) Director: John Boulting. Cast: Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson, Edward G. Robinson, Bessie Love, Rex Harrison, Miles Malleson. Description: A tribute to the RAF with several actual members of the Royal Air Force and The Royal Canadian Air Force playing key roles in the film. The story traces the lives of two flyboys, from their basic training to a hazardous bombing mission. Written by John Boulting. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 95 mins. Item #1976 Format: also on DVD Unit

			The Kashmiri Run (aka Tibetana) (1969-Spanish) Director: John Peyser Cast: Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastedo, Julian Mateos, Gloria Gamata, Alejandro de Enciso, Leonard Bell. Description: One step ahead of Chinese communists, a couple of friends hook up with an American adventurer who promises to lead them safely out of Tibet through the Himalayas. English dubbed. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 100 mins. Item #2412 Format: also on DVD Unit

			The Kid From Cleveland (1949) Director: Herbert Kline Cast: George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Cook. Description: The "kid" is Johnny Barrows (Russ Tamblyn), who runs away from his nasty stepfather and hits the streets of Cleveland. Seemingly destined to become a juvenile delinquent, Johnny is rescued by sportscaster Mike Jackson (George Brent). Making it his mission to put Johnny on the right path, Mike gets the youngster a job as batboy for the 1948 Cleveland Indians. Also with Johnny Barrows' "30 Godfathers" on the Cleveland team, including Lou Boudreau, Tris Speaker, Hank Greenberg, Bob Lemon, Bob Feller, Gene Bearden, Satchel Paige, Bob Lemon and Larry Doby. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 89 mins. Item #7322 Format: also on DVD Unit

			King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942-British) Director: Marcel Varnel Cast: Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall, Anne Shelton, Max Bacon, Vera Francis, Jack Train, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Brefni O'Rorke. Description: Arthur (Arthur Askey), a British soldier stationed in Africa, believes he has found King Athur�s Excalibur sword, which he also believes gives him special skill and courage. Arthur keeps the sword with him during various military skirmishes, and when considered a hero, he attributes this to the sword. But is it really King Arthur�s sword? Does it have special powers? Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 99 mins. Item #3520 Format: also on DVD Unit

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