Laci's Great Escape

Buck Privates

January 1941 •English

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

One Night in the Tropics

November 1940 •English

Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.

Carefree

September 1938 •English

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.

Ball of Fire

December 1941 •English

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Grandpa's Girl

June 1924 •English

A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that, grandpa disinherits Jean and starts looking for a grandson to replace her. Jean dresses as a boy, Oswald. Grandpa then tries to marry Oswald and test his new grandson’s strength.

Presos del silencio

October 2004 •Spanish

Pruning the Movies

January 1915 •English

Colonel Bunk, after seeing his first movie, appoints himself “supreme censor of the movies” and he and his Board of Censors set to the task of “pruning” a movie (in more ways than one).

Mr. Fatima

November 1920 •English

A 1920 Eddie Barry comedy. Eddie and Earle get a job at a seaside carnival tent and fool some people by dressing as Fatima the belly dancer.

The Pride of Pikeville

June 1927 •English

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

The Tomboy

January 1959 •Greek

Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings of first love start to take over. Will she renounce her former self for love's sake?

Vampire Zombies...from Space!

October 2024 •English

From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet; turning the residents of the small town of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies! A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective, a rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman band together to save the world from — (see title).

The Incredible Bread Machine Film

December 1975 •English

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

A Night in Casablanca

May 1946 •English

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Everybody's Doing It

January 1938 •English

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

Hair High

April 2004 •English

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.

Courtship of Miles Sandwich

June 1923 •English

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

Soft Pedal

January 1926 •English

An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.

The Flirts

April 1919 •English

Two guys flirt with women at a hotel.

Rolling Stone

January 1919 •English

A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

October 1974 •English

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.