Films that should be easily accessible by anyway
These are films that are either not on video or DVD at all or are on VHS but too highly priced. You can find some of these titles at rare DVD websites or at your local library
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- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsWill RogersWilliam FarnumFrank AlbertsonA radio salesman finds himself transported back in time to King Arthur's court.Will Rogers ON VHS
- DirectorGordon DouglasFred C. NewmeyerStarsGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandPhillips HolmesRalph MorganA small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.Our Gang’s Only Feature Film
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEdgar BergenCharlie McCarthyMortimer SnerdScotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. However, Hamilton's friend Edgar Bergen solves the case (without much help from Charlie McCarthy).
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGracie AllenWarren WilliamEllen DrewThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently links Bill to the murder of a thug after finding the dead body and Bill's cigarette case at the scene of the crime. While being questioned at the club, she meets Vance who's investigating the homicide. After Gracie's bungled attempts to solve the case, Vance decides it might be easier to have her working with him. Despite Gracie's "help," the two eventually find the real killer.On Youtube.
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsOle OlsenChic JohnsonMartha RayeOlsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.On Youtube
- DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.The Disney Classic they won’t realize for fear of offending someone. You can find it on DVD (not by Disney) and on Youtube.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJack CarsonLola AlbrightJean WallaceAn ice-cream seller unwittingly gets involved with a femme-fatale, leading to murder-charges, gangsters and factory payroll robberies.My most desired film to see. Is found at plenty of rare DVD sites.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsDonald O'ConnorJimmy DurantePiper LaurieRoger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. Desperate to escape from idleness, he gets a job with his father's arch-rival, sponsored by eccentric milkman Breezy Albright, and promptly falls in love with the boss' daughter. But his career as a milkman soon degenerates into slapstick.On Youtube
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsIrene DunneDean JaggerJoan EvansWhat happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsSpike JonesSpike Jones and His City SlickersHugh O'BrianA film intended for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello that ended up starring Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Hackett. Most of the footage was given over to Spike Jones and His City Slickers, about the all hands members of a 1910 fire company about to be mechanized.Was originally an Abbott and Costello film.
- DirectorJay LewisStarsJohn MillsRichard AttenboroughAndré MorellAfter a pier side mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White (Sir Richard Attenborough) finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails, he enlists the help of his best friend Puncher Roberts (Sir John Mills) to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding, and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on-board.I found a copy online at some website.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsFess ParkerWendell CoreyJoanne DruA young white man who spent his whole life raised by Native Americans is sent to live with his birth family and must learn to fit in with people he was taught to hate.Another Disney Click. Rented it from the Library on VHS.
- DirectorIrving RapperGordon DouglasStarsCarroll BakerRoger MooreWalter SlezakDuring the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant called Teresa falls in love with handsome British captain Michael Stuart, who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, Michael asks Teresa to leave the convent and marry him. Devoted to the statue of the Virgin Mary, Teresa asks for a heavenly sign, but leaves when nothing happens. Then the statue of the Virgin descends from its pedestal and takes Teresa's place, as the young woman joins a gypsy caravan believing Michael has been killed.On VHS
- DirectorSteve PrevinStarsVincent WinterSean ScullyPeter WeckSupported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter's voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.Another Disney classic. Saw on DVD at a library I had to drive an hour to get to. Not available in regular rental outlets.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsTony RandallShirley JonesEdward AndrewsFluffy the lion is the main attraction in this comedy. He is the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter (TONY RANDALL), a scientist trying to prove that even a wild animal like a lion can be made into a pet with proper training. Wherever he goes, Potter's ponderous pet incites mayhem among the region's fearful residents. To escape his panicky neighbors, Potter and Fluffy hide out in a hotel, where, the owner's daughter (SHIRLEY JONES) falls for the unlikely duo while everyone else freezes or collapses in a panic. Our heroes find themselves on the run from the law when Fluffy is accused of eating someone. Can Potter stop the police before they shoot an innocent lion?
- DirectorAlan RafkinStarsAndy GriffithJerry Van DykeKay MedfordA homespun minister (Andy Griffith) and his family move to a small town where he tries to win the support and trust of his new congregation.Currently on Youtube
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsKatharine HepburnKevin McKenzieDennis DimsterTwo young boys and an eccentric old woman who owns a junkyard work together to build a hot-air balloon in time to launch it on the birthday of one boy's late grandfather.Was on Netflx at one point and may be at Blockbuster. It is on DVD.
- DirectorMarcello FondatoStarsTerence HillBud SpencerJohn SharpAfter a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.Not available on Netflix or Blockbuster. If you pay money it can be yours.
- DirectorEric SykesStarsEric SykesArthur LoweLionel BlairThis is a pantomime about two construction workers, who discover that a plank is missing from the floor they are just building. They discover that two children have taken the plank and use it for a seesaw. Instead of taking it back, they decide to go and buy a new one. However, this may not have been a very good idea, for all the troubles and problems they encounter, just by buying a plank, are countless.An English classic not available in the US.
- DirectorKieth MerrillStarsEdward HerrmannKathleen LloydLorenzo LamasAn unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.Disney’s first official PG movie. Not on DVD/VHS.
- DirectorRobert M. YoungStarsTom ContiFernando ReyErland JosephsonA young pope who feels he has lost touch with the people accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican and believes it is part of God's plan for him.Saw a long time ago and found a VHS copy at the library.
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNigel MartinPaul BlackwellMagda SzubanskiA scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it. A comedy in the Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton tradition.An Australian film that harkens back to the silent slapstick days. Why isn’t it available in America?
- DirectorHideki TakeuchiStarsHiroshi AbeAya UetoKazuki KitamuraLucius, a Roman architect, is transported through time to modern-day Japan, where he learns about Japanese bathhouses and uses this to his gain back home.A good looking sci-fi time travel story. Got it from the library but it was not the proper region DVD for the America’s.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsWalter ConnollyPaul LukasGertrude MichaelFather Brown is trying to stop a known theft taking 10 diamonds and showing he is wrong in the eyes of god.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsJack BennyEllen DrewEddie 'Rochester' AndersonJack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.On Youtube