Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron, Henry Wadsworth, Roy Hargrave.
Description: The backstage musical, here in all it's detail both glorious and heartbreaking. An early example of the sub-genre, Applause stars Helen Morgan as the fading star of burlesque Kitty Darling. Raised in a harsh and cruel environment Kitty must survive the preasures of the business and prove the worth of her motherhood by preventing her convent educated daughter April (Joan Peers) from following in her mother's footsteps.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 80 mins.   Item #5279  $14.99
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Director: Marcel Varnel.
Cast: Arthur Askey, Jack Hylton, Richard "Stinker" Murdoch, Patricia Kirkwood, Moore Marriott, Wally Patch, Bernard Miles.
Description: This cheerfully dotty British musicomedy anticipates the madcap antics of the Crazy Gang and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Amateur comics transform a haunted mansion into a TV station, unaware that the video equipment they're using actually belongs to Nazi spies. Produced by Edward Black and Maurice Ostrer.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 85 mins.   Item #3986  $14.99
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Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell, Craig Stevens, Phyllis Coates, Bernard Gorcey.
Description: The Bowery Boys are at it again. Now that Sach has fully recovered from a successful throat operation. The Boys discover that Sachs has a wonderful singing voice. Leave to go old Slip to try and find some way for him and the rest of the gang to profit big time from Sachs new talents. Bing Crosby aint got nothing on the new and improved Sachs. The entertaining Blues Busters was shot in only six days.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 67 mins.   Item #5477  $14.99
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Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Allan Jones, Irene Hervey, Martha Raye, Joe Penner, Alan Mowbray, Charles Butterworth, Rosemary Lane.
Description: Loosely based on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. This is the story of two boys on an incredible quest to find their long lost twin siblings who coincidentally or not share their same names. Both journey boys hail from Syracuse and are from different familial backgrounds. One man from wealth and the other his servant. They'll discover they have more in common along this joyful and introspective ride.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 73 mins.   Item #5530  $14.99
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Director: Edward F. Cline.
Cast: Bobby Breen, Charles Ruggles, Dolores Costello, Irene Dare, Billy Gilbert, John King, Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch in "Wizard of Oz").
Description: Another charming Bobby Breen starrer, less extravagant than some but still well worth seeing. Young boy escapes his strict Mennonite upbringing, joining six-year-old skating prodigy Irene Dare at a big-city skating rink. Produced by Sol Lesser.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 74 mins.   Item #2376  $14.99
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Director: Bernard Vorhaus.
Cast: John Garrick, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon, Austin Trevor, Charles Carson, Harry Terry, Andreas Malandrinos.
Description: Only marginally a musical, but a grimly compelling and engrossing film nonetheless. After being accused of murdering his wife's lover, a composer of classical music languishes in prison. While plotting an escape from Devil's Island, he finds the inspiration he needs to write an opera. This unusually sober, mature picture features a standout performance by Margot Grahame as the murder victim. Produced by Julius Hagen.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 62 mins.   Item #4012  $14.99
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Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Jane Frazee, William Marhsall, James Ellison, Gail Patrick, Victor McLaglen, Franklin Pangborn.
Description: One of Republic's best period musicals, a thorough delight in every respect. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, it's about a composer who finds out that his girlfriend is working as a model for a painter. Songs include: "Have I Told You Lately?" and "A Bluebird Is Singing to Me."
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 88 mins.   Item #2399  $14.99
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Director: Wallace Fox.
Cast: Frances Langford, Edward Norris, Iris Adrian, Craig Woods, Linda Brent, Ariel Heath, Gladys Blake, Renee Helms.
Description: Kansas City gal goes to New York in search of stardom, staying at a boarding house for similar-minded girls while her boyfriend tries to talk her out of her dream. Songs include: "That's How the Rumba Began", "Some Day", and "Blue in Love Again." Produced by Jack Schwarz.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 67 mins.   Item #2965  $14.99
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Director: Roger Corman.
Cast: Susan Cabot, David J. Stewart, Iris Adrian, Brian G. Hutton, David Houston, Jonathan Haze, Bruno VeSota, Dick Miller.
Description: This small-scale Fifties musical borrows a story formula from the classic Forties musicals made by 20th Century Fox. High-stakes gambler, in love with a carny singer, wins the carnival in a poker game from the unlucky owner, who is also in love with the same girl. The ex-owner stays on as a burlesque comic in order to keep next to the woman he loves. Songs include: "Carnival Rock" by The Blockbusters, "The Creep" by The Shadows, "Remember When" by The Platters, and others by David Houston, Bob Luman and Susan Cabot.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 75 mins.   Item #2450  $14.99
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Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Tommy Trinder, Stan Holloway, Betty Warren, Jean Kent.
Description: Upstart singer George Leybourne (Tommy Trindle) lands a job in one of London’s lavish music halls. Dramatic tensions escalate when Leybourne is embroiled in a bitter revalry with fellow entertainer, The Great Vance, Played by Stanley Holloway (who provieds strong support and who played Eliza’s father in “My Fair Lady”). This film, portraying British 1860s music halls, entertains with brash, catch and bright music and documentary realism.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 105 mins.   Item #6234 
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Director: Albert S. Rogell.
Cast: John Carroll, Susan Hayward, Eve Arden, Gail Patrick, Dorothy Dandridge, Count Basie, Freddy Martin, Ray McKinley and their orchestras.
Description: Another top-drawer musical from Republic Pictures, with sprightly tunes and daffy plot complications. Carroll plays a down-on-his-luck publisher who steals a song from budding songwriter Hayward, who plots revenge. Features an early appearance of Dandridge. Produced by Albert J. Cohen.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 90 mins.   Item #1409  $14.99
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Director: Walter Forde.
Cast: George Robey, Anna May Wong, Fritz Kortner, John Garrick, Pearl Argyle, Dennis Hoey, Francis L. Sullivan.
Description: Lavish musical numbers and an international cast highlight this elaborate adaptation of the long-running British stage musical based on the tale of "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves." Penniless wood-cutter Ali Baba finds himself wealthy when he discovers the secret treasure cave of the Forty Thieves, but soon finds he must contend with Abbu Hassan, a thief posing as a Chinese mandarin in order to steal Ali Baba's riches. The exotic Wong plays the slave girl who must help Ali Baba in his adventures. Produced by Michael Balcon.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 102 mins.   Item #3412  $14.99
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Director: Carol Reed.
Cast: Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Alastair Sim, Noel Madison, Mary Clare, Basil Radford, Francis L. Sullivan, Terry-Thomas (voice only).
Description: Jessie Matthews' next-to-last starring vehicle isn't one of her best, but it still has plenty of entertainment value. After almost running over a poor model, a wealthy playboy falls in love with her, despite being engaged to a spoiled society girl. Produced by Michael Balcon.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 76 mins.   Item #3086  $14.99
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Director: George Abbott and Stanley Donen.
Cast: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, Jean Stapleton.
Description: Gwen Verdon's show-stopping dance numbers went a long way toward making this adaptation of a Broadway smash one of the best musicals of the '50s. Aging baseball fan sells his soul to the devil in exchange for becoming the world's greatest baseball player and helping his favorite team win the World Series...but the devil has his own agenda. Songs include: "You've Gotta Have Heart", "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets", "Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO", "There's Something About An Empty Chair", "Two Lost Souls" and more. Produced by George Abbott & Stanley Donen, adapted from the play by George Abbott and the novel by Douglass Wallop.
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 110 mins.   Item #1428  $14.99
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Director: Marcel Varnel.
Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, June Clyde, Fred Duprez, Magda Kun, Steven Geray.
Description: American stars Buddy Rogers and June Clyde bring Hollywood panache to this peppy British musical. Crooked business manager comes between two feuding bandleaders--who are falling in love--right before big band contest. Produced by Walter C. Mycroft.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 75 mins.   Item #2468  $14.99
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Director: Irving Pichel.
Cast: Carole Landis, Cesar Romero, William Henry, June Storey, J. Edward Bromberg.
Description: Dance hall singer must choose between three men who love her: her womanizing boss, a young composer and a rich older man. Produced by Sol M. Wurtzel. Based on the novel "Giant Swing" by W. R. Burnett.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 73 mins.   Item #1819  $14.99
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Director: John Cromwell and Edward Sutherland.
Cast: Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theodore, Oscar Levant, Al St. John, Charles D. Brown, May Boley, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher.
Description: One of the earliest "talkie" musical films, a little slow-moving by today's standards but tremendous engrossing nonetheless. Bonnie and Skid, a dancer and a vaudeville performer respectively, decide to get married to save on hotel bills while touring. Trouble's ahead however, when Bonnie falls in love with Skid, but he starts to get puffed up with fame. Produced by David O. Selznick. Based on the play "Burlesque".
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 115 mins.   Item #1833  $14.99
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Director: Lloyd Corrigan.
Cast: Steffi Duna, Frank Morgan, Charles Collins, Luis Alberni, Jack LaRue, Rita Hayworth (Cansino), Eduardo Cansino and The Royal Cansino Dancers.
Description: A historical novelty as the second motion picture shot in the then-new three-strip Technicolor process, "The Dancing Pirate" is an ebullient showcase for Steffi Duna, the tempestuous Hungarian starlet whose film career never quite took off. Mild-mannered waltz instructor is kidnapped by pirates whose ship lands at Las Palamos, where the landlubbers assume the dancer is a pirate chieftan. Produced by Merian C. Cooper and John Speaks. Music by Richard Rodgers. Visual Effects by Willis H. O'Brien.
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 83 mins.   Item #2102  $14.99
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Director: Arthur Lubin.
Cast: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Arthur Treacher, Louise Beavers.
Description: Innocent young girl visits her sister in New York, who is supposedly a Broadway star. In reality, she's a burlesque show stripper, and when her sis finds out, she tries to marry her off to a Broadway producer. Produced by Charles R. Rogers.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 92 mins.   Item #1132  $14.99
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Director: Henry W. George.
Cast: Lupino Lane, Jean Denis, Syd Crossley, Hal Gordon, Kathleen Kelly, Wallace Lupino.
Description: Early musical has silent star Lupino Lane as a poor composer who crashes a wealthy party pretending to be an aristocrat, and stumbles onto a jewel robbery. Produced by Ian Sutherland.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 71 mins.   Item #2454  $14.99
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