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• Monsieur Verdoux
  Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash.(Wikipedia) Shelf Location: I.2, Condition: moderate mold
• Joe Macbeth
  Joe MacBeth is a 1955 British–American crime drama, directed by Ken Hughes and starring Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman and Bonar Colleano. It is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in a 1930s American criminal underworld. The film's plot closely follows that of Shakespeare's original play.(Wikipedia) Shelf Location: I.2
• Merrill's Marauders
  Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the long range penetration jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign, culminating in the Siege of Myitkyina. The source is the non-fiction book The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr., a communications officer who served with Merrill's Marauders. Filmed on location in the Philippines, the economical historical epic film stars Jeff Chandler (in his final role) as Frank Merrill and several actors from the Warner Brothers Television stock company who were then the lead actors in American television shows.(Wikipedia) Shelf Location: I.2 Condition: minor mold
• The World of Our England
  TV Version Shelf Location: H.1 Condition: good condition
• The Leopard
  I.2
• Los Olvidados
  Los Olvidados (pronounced: [los olbiˈðaðos], Spanish for "The Forgotten Ones"), known in the U.S. as The Young and the Damned, is a 1950 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel. Óscar Dancigers, the producer, asked Buñuel to direct this film after the success of the 1949 film El Gran Calavera. Buñuel already had a script ready titled ¡Mi huerfanito jefe! about a boy who sells lottery tickets. However, Dancigers had in mind a more realistic and serious depiction of children in poverty in Mexico City. After conducting some research, Jesús Camacho and Buñuel came up with a script that Dancigers was pleased with. The film can be seen in the tradition of social realism, although it also contains elements of surrealism present in much of Buñuel's work. It earned the Best Director award at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. (Wikipedia) Shelf Location: G.6
• Long Voyage Home
  The Long Voyage Home is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, and Ward Bond, among others. The film was adapted by Dudley Nichols from the plays The Moon of the Caribbees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff, and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill. The original plays by Eugene O'Neill were written around the time of World War I and were among his earliest plays. Ford set the story for the motion picture, however, during the early days of World War II. While not one of Ford's best-known works, The Long Voyage Home continues to be well received. Film critics and scholars have noted Gregg Toland's distinctive cinematography, which serves as a precursor of the film noir aesthetic and would hint at his work for Orson Welles' landmark film Citizen Kane (1941). (Wikipedia) Location: G.5
• House of Bamboo
  House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color. It was directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller.[3] The film is a loose remake of The Street with No Name (1948), using the same screenwriter (Harry Kleiner) and cinematographer (Joseph MacDonald). (Wikipedia) Shelf Location: G.5, Condition: good condition
• Hell and high Water
  Shelf Location: G.5, Condition: good condition
• East Coast to Durban
  Shelf Location: I.3 Condition: minor mold
• Bucky Benny Rides Again
  Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches. (IMDB) Shelf Location:I.3
• To Kill a Child
  Shelf location: C6
• Musician to the Queen
• March of Todd-Ao
  Shelf location: C4
• Fowl Play
  Shelf location: D2.
• Burma Flag
  Shelf location: C4
• Untitled
  Shelf location: C4
• Strawberry Banke
  Portrays the evolution of an authentic waterfront neighborhood in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, known as Strawbery Banke, as it survived four centuries of social and economic change, depicting a history once common to nearly all New England coastal towns. Shelf location: C6
• Parlons Francais
• Boomerang!: trailer
• 13 Rue Madeleine
  Shelf location: D6
• The House on 92nd Street (trailer)
  "A stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One such tries to recruit college grad Bill Dietrich, who becomes a double agent for the FBI. While Bill trains in Hamburg, a street-accident victim proves to have been spying on atom-bomb secrets; conveniently, Dietrich is assigned to the New York spy ring stealing these secrets. Can he track down the mysterious "Christopher" before his ruthless associates unmask and kill him?"-IMDb Shelf location: F1.
• The Fighting Lady
  The film follows the WWII exploits of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) (unidentified in the film), in its first major operations following its commissioning in 1943. The life of the crew is documented from July 1943 to June 1944, from its passage through the Panama Canal through assaults on Marcus, Kwajalein, Truk and Tinian Islands, and culminating with the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Spectacular 16mm Kodachrome footage of combat operations and naval aviation is prominent throughout.Digital copy available through archive.org
• Walk East on Beacon!
  FBI agent James Belden (George Murphy) is tasked with finding and bringing down a communist spy ring operating in Boston. After an anonymous tip, Belden and his agents tail a man who leads them to various suspects, as they try to determine how far the espionage reaches. Meanwhile, the spies force a scientist (Finlay Currie) to divulge secret information by holding his son hostage. As the investigation continues, it seems the Russian agent Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) might be behind it all. Shelf Location: D5
• Sand Castle, The
  The adventures, both conscious and subconscious, of a boy building a sand castle and the adults who watch him (the film evolved from conversations with Carl Jung, the psychologist). A dream sequence is in three dimensional animation and in color while the rest of the movie is black and white