05 Jul

Daughter of the Tong (1939) LADY CRIME BOSS

 

Stars: Evelyn Brent, Grant Withers, Dorothy Short, Dave O’Brien
Director: Raymond K. Johnson

A tough G-man matches wits with a sultry Dragon Lady who poses as a geisha girl by the day and a crime boss by night.

 

 

03 Jul

The Adventures of Dante (TV-1952) DICK POWELL

 

Starring: Dick Powell, Regis Toomey, Herb Vigran
Co-stars: Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Jack Benny, Tristram Coffin, Frances Bergen
Directors: Robert Aldrich, Roy Kellino, William A. Seiter, Robert Florey

DICK POWELL stars as Willie Dante, a former card shark turned nightclub operator with a not-so-secret casino tucked in a back room. The character was created by none other than BLAKE EDWARDS for FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE, the anthology TV series from Four Star Productions. Here 5 episodes are compiled to create this PizzaFLIX exclusive Movie Class edition.

 

Thank you PizzaFLIX for all your hard work.

 

02 Jul

That Uncertain Feeling (1941) MELVYN DOUGLAS ♥ MERLE OBERON

 

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas
Co-Starring: Burgess Meredith, Eve Arden, Alan Mowbray

In this romantic comedy by the sophisticated and elegant Ernst Lubitsch, a pair of New York City socialites’ marriage hits the rocks after a visit to a psychoanalyst. Produced in between the director’s finest “The Shop Around the Corner” and “Heaven Can Wait. Prepare to be entertained.

 

 

01 Jul

The Deadly Companions (1961) SAM PECKINPAH

 

Director: Sam Peckinpah, in his feature film debut
Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran

It’s an unholy alliance when a former Union Army sergeant and a pair of trigger-happy outlaws escort
a dancehall hostess through dangerous Apache territory.

 

 

29 Jun

The Bashful Bachelor (1942) LUM & ABNER

 

Stars: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Zasu Pitts
Director: Malcolm St. Clair

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a “rescue” effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder’s long-gone and hiding husband.

 

 

28 Jun

Big News (1929) CAROLE LOMBARD

 

Stars: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louis Payne
Director: Gregory La Cava

Steve Banks is a hard-drinking newspaper reporter. His wife Margaret, a reporter for a rival paper, threatens to divorce him if he doesn’t quit his drinking. Steve pursues a story about drug dealers even when his editor fires him. When the editor is murdered, Steve is accused of the killing!