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Tonight we kick off spooky month with Schlocktober and our first movie is Roger Corman's The Terror from 1963.

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Tonight we celebrate the 100th birthday of independent filmmaker Bert I. Gordon with his 1960 horror film Tormented.

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Tonight's film is Reefer Madness

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Tonight's film is Teenagers From Outer Space.

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Tonight's film is The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

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Tonight's film is Road to Bali.

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Tonight's film is Dressed to Kill.

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Tonight's film is One-Eyed Jacks.

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Tonight's film is The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

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Tonight's film is a classic, The Last Man on Earth.

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Tonight's film is a classic of the drive-in, The Screaming Skull.

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This week's film is A Farewell To Arms. Adapted from the semi-autobiographical novel by Earnest Hemingway, the film originally had a runtime of 89 minutes. When it was re-released in 1938, 9 minutes were cut from the original and was thought to have been lost. That was until a print of the original was discovered in personal collection of David O. Selznick.

Directed by Frank Borzage
Produced by Edward A. Blatt & Benjamin Glazer
Screenplay by Benjamin Glazer & Oliver H.P. Garrett
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway

Cast:
Helen Hayes as Catherine Barkley
Gary Cooper as Lieutenant Frederic Henry
Adolphe Menjou as Major Rinaldi
Mary Philips as Helen Ferguson
Jack La Rue as Priest
Blanche Friderici as Head Nurse
Mary Forbes as Miss Van Campen
Gilbert Emery as British Major

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This week's film is The Wasp Woman. The film was initially released as a double feature with "Beast From Haunted Cave" and was remade in 1995 by Jim Wynorski.

Directed by Roger Corman & Jack Hill
Produced by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Leo Gordon

Cast:
Susan Cabot as Janice Starlin
Fred Eisley as Bill Lane
Barboura Morris as Mary Dennison
William Roerick as Arthur Cooper
Michael Mark as Dr. Eric Zinthrop
Frank Gerstle as Les Hellman
Bruno VeSota as Night Watchman
Roy Gordon as Paul Thompson
Carolyn Hughes as Jean Carson
Lynn Cartwright as Maureen Reardon
Frank Wolff as Delivery Man
Lani Mars as Secretary
Philip Barry as Delivery Man

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To celebrate Independence Day, today's film is America. Almost a decade after his controversial film about the Civil War, Birth Of A Nation, D. W. Griffith turned his attention to the American Revolutionary War. This was supposed to be his comeback film, but it turned out to be a box office bomb. Even though his career continued, his films became less and less popular.

Directed by D. W. Griffith
Produced by D. W. Griffith
Screenplay by Robert W. Chambers

Cast:
Neil Hamilton as Nathan Holden
Erville Alderson as Justice Montague
Carol Dempster as Miss Nancy Montague
Charles Emmett Mack as Justice Charles Montague
Lionel Barrymore as Capt. Walter Butler
Lee Beggs as Samuel Adams
John Dunton as John Hancock
Arthur Donaldson as King George III
Charles Bennett as William Pitt
Downing Clarke as Lord Chamberlain
Frank Walsh as Thomas Jefferson
Frank McGlynn Sr. as Patrick Henry
Arthur Dewey as George Washington
P. R. Scammon as Richard Henry Lee
Sydney Deane as Sir Ashley Montague
Harry O'Neill as Paul Revere
Louis Wolheim as Capt. Peter Hare
Riley Hatch as Joseph Brant
Paul Doucet as Marquis de Lafayette
Emil Hoch as Lord North

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To celebrate Valentine's Day, today's film is Girl Shy. This was Harold Lloyd's sixth feature film and the first one he independently produced after he split with his long-time producer Hal Roach.

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Today's film is Detour. Based on Martin M. Goldsmith's 1939 novel, the film was released by the Producers Releasing Corporation which was one of the smaller studios known as Poverty Row and was shot in just 14 days on a budget of $100,000. While it did well on release, the film has since been praised as one of the finest in film noir.

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Produced by Leon Fromkess
Screenplay by Martin Goldsmith
Based on Detour by Martin Goldsmith

Cast:
Tom Neal as Al Roberts
Ann Savage as Vera
Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey
Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr.
Tim Ryan as the Nevada Diner Proprietor
Esther Howard as Holly
Don Brodie as the Used Car Salesman
Pat Gleason as Joe

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Today's film is Terror by Night. This was the 13th film to star Basil Rathbone as the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes. He would do one more film until before ending the film series. Though he wasn't entirely done with the character as he reprised the role several times on TV.

Directed and Produced by Roy William Neill
Written by Frank Gruber
Based on Characters and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Cast:
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
Alan Mowbray as Major Duncan-Bleek/Sebastian Moran
Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade
Renee Godfrey as Vivian Vedder
Frederick Worlock as Professor Kilbane
Mary Forbes as Lady Margaret Carstairs
Skelton Knaggs as Sands
Billy Bevan as Ticket Collector
Geoffrey Steele as The Honourable Roland Carstairs
Harry Cording as Mock the coffin maker

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This week we end off our month-long celebration of the Public Domain Class of 2020 with today's film, Peter Pan. This was actually the first adaptation of the classic story by J.M. Barrie. It was considered lost for many years until a print was discovered in the 1950s.

Directed by Herbert Brenon
Produced by Famous Players-Lasky
Screenplay by Willis Goldbeck
Based on the play by J. M. Barrie

Cast:
Betty Bronson as Peter Pan
Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook
Mary Brian as Wendy Darling
Jack Murphy as John Darling
Philippe De Lacy as Michael Darling
Virginia Brown Faire as Tinker Bell
George Ali as Nana the dog and Crocodile
Esther Ralston as Mrs. Darling
Cyril Chadwick as Mr. Darling
Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily
Maurice Murphy as Tootles
Mickey McBan as Slightly
George Crane Jr. as Curly
Winston Doty as 1st Twin
Weston Doty as 2nd Twin
Terence McMillan as Nibs
Louis Morrison as Gentleman Starkey
Edward Kipling as Smee
Robert Milasch as Kelt

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This month we continue welcoming the Public Domain Class of 2020 with today's film, The Thief of Bagdad

Directed by Raoul Walsh
Produced by Douglas Fairbanks
Screenplay by Achmed Abdullah, Lotta Woods

Cast:
Douglas Fairbanks as Ahmed, the Thief of Bagdad
Snitz Edwards as His Evil Associate
Charles Belcher as The Holy Man (Imam) / Narrator
Julanne Johnston as The Princess.
Sojin Kamiyama as Cham Shang, Prince of the Mongols
Anna May Wong as The Mongol Slave
Brandon Hurst as The Caliph
Tote Du Crow as The Soothsayer
Noble Johnson as The Prince of the Indies

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This month we continue welcoming the Public Domain Class of 2020 with today's film, Sherlock Jr.

Directed by Buster Keaton
Produced by Joseph M. Schenck & Buster Keaton
Written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell

Cast:
Buster Keaton as Projectionist / Sherlock Jr.
Kathryn McGuire as The Girl
Joe Keaton as The Girl's Father
Erwin Connelly as The Hired Man / The Butler
Ward Crane as The Local Sheik / The Villain
Ford West as Theatre Manager / Gillette, Sherlock's assistant

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This month we're welcoming the Public Domain Class of 2020, classic films that entered the public domain in the US on January 1st 2020. This week is the classic western The Iron Horse which was the directorial debut of John Ford.

Produced and Directed by John Ford
Written by Charles Kenyon, John Russell, Charles Darnton

Cast:
George O'Brien as Davy Brandon
Madge Bellamy as Miriam Marsh
Charles Edward Bull as Abraham Lincoln
Cyril Chadwick as Peter Jesson
Will Walling as Thomas Marsh
Francis Powers as Sergeant Slattery
J. Farrell MacDonald as Corporal Casey
Jim Welch as Private Schultz/Mackay
George Waggner as Col. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Fred Kohler as Deroux/Bauman
James A. Marcus as Judge Haller
Gladys Hulette as Ruby
Chief John Big Tree as Cheyenne Chief

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Hello and welcome to the Public Domain Theater. Today's movie is Three Ages.

Directed by Buster Keaton
Produced by Joseph M. Schenck & Buster Keaton
Written by Buster Keaton

Cast:
Margaret Leahy as the Girl
Wallace Beery as the Villain
Buster Keaton as the Boy
Lillian Lawrence as the Girl's Mother
Joe Roberts as the Girl's Father
Kewpie Morgan as the Emperor / Cave Man / Roman Thug (as Horace Morgan)

Be sure to check out our other movies. This week we finish Superman Month.

Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Story by Bill Turner & Carl Meyer
Based on Characters Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

Bud Collyer as Superman/Clark Kent
Joan Alexander as Lois Lane
Jackson Beck as the Narrator/Perry White

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Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Story by Seymour Kneitel & Isidore Sparber
Based on Characters Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

Bud Collyer as Superman/Clark Kent
Joan Alexander as Lois Lane
Julian Noa as Perry White
Jackson Beck as the Narrator

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Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Story by Dan Gordon & Carl Meyer

Bud Collyer as Superman/Clark Kent
Joan Alexander as Lois Lane
Julian Noa as Perry White
Jackson Beck as the Narrator