Classic Hollywood
25 Episodes
They don’t make ’em like they used to! Enjoy these classics from the golden age of Hollywood and beyond.
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1:54:24Episode 1
Suddenly, Last Summer
Episode 1
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery CliftGay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...
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1:47:59Episode 2
On the Waterfront
Episode 2
Directed by Elia Kazan • 1954 • United States
Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. CobbMarlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and soc...
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2:02:02Episode 3
A Place in the Sun
Episode 3
Directed by George Stevens • 1951 • United States
Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley WintersMontgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor make for one of the most swoon-inducing screen couples of the 1950s in this deluxe, multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICA...
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10:47Episode 4
By the Sad Sea Waves
Episode 4
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Bebe DanielsIt’s trouble on the water when a man tries to woo his sweetheart by pretending to be a lifeguard.
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25:31Episode 5
Haunted Spooks
Episode 5
Directed by Hal Roach and Alfred J. Goulding • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace HoweA hapless young man is roped into an arranged marriage to help a girl claim her inheritance: a haunted house!
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47:01Episode 6
A Sailor-Made Man
Episode 6
Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah YoungThough originally intended as a two-reel short, A SAILOR-MADE MAN wound up becoming Harold Lloyd’s first feature—simply because there were too many good gags to cut! Here, our bespectacled hero play...
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10:19Episode 7
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Episode 7
Directed by Hal Roach • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, ‘Snub’ PollardA bicycle messenger wreaks havoc in a girls’ seminary.
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29:51Episode 8
Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life
Episode 8
Directed by Harry Kerwin • 1963 • United States
Starring Harold LloydIn 1966, Harold Lloyd created a theatrical program entitled HAROLD LLOYD’S FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. The program presented THE FRESHMAN together with a brief on-camera introduction by Lloyd and a clip reel from his body of work, bot...
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09:42Episode 9
The Big Idea
Episode 9
Directed by Gilbert Pratt and Hal Mohr • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsAn employee at a struggling antiques store gets creative in order to save the business.
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10:53Episode 10
A Sammy in Siberia
Episode 10
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub PollardA bumbling American soldier saves a Russian girl from a band of drunken Bolsheviks.
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09:57Episode 11
A Gasoline Wedding
Episode 11
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ’Snub’ Pollard, Bebe DanielsMarital mayhem ensues when a poor boy attempts to woo the daughter of a wealthy man.
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05:08Episode 12
Over the Fence
Episode 12
Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and Harold Lloyd • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub PollardHarold Lloyd’s “Glasses Character” makes his debut in a tale of baseball hijinks.
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10:35Episode 13
Look Pleasant, Please
Episode 13
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA flirty photographer incurs the wrath of a jealous husband—and tries to pass the blame to an unsuspecting stooge.
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25:39Episode 14
Get Out and Get Under
Episode 14
Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Fred McPhersonA new automobile owner’s car troubles may doom his chance at romance.
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56:37Episode 15
Grandma’s Boy
Episode 15
Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1922 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna TownsendThis early feature-length silent comedy pushed the form forward by balancing slapstick hilarity with more serious character development. Using the extended running time to further develop his pop...
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11:08Episode 16
That’s Him
Episode 16
Directed by Gilbert Pratt • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA newlywed husband, en route to his honeymoon, scrambles to find the train tickets he lost.
Please be advised: this film contains scenes involving blackface.
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10:41Episode 18
Next Aisle Over
Episode 18
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA salesman makes trouble at his sweetheart’s department store—but winds up an unexpected hero.
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10:33Episode 19
Spring Fever
Episode 19
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA beautiful spring day tempts a bookkeeper to play hooky from the office.
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1:11:26Episode 20
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Episode 20
Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuireSTEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...
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1:34:16Episode 21
Thieves’ Highway
Episode 21
Directed by Jules Dassin • 1949 • United States
Starring Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. CobbTHIEVES’ HIGHWAY vividly depicts the perilous world of “long-haul boys,” who drive by night to bring their goods to the markets of America’s cities. Richard Conte stars as ex-GI Nick Garcos, a ...
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1:37:39Episode 22
The Breaking Point
Episode 22
Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1950 • United States
Starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis ThaxterMichael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood’s second crack at Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not.” John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an hone...
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Detour
Episode 23
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer • 1945 • United States
Starring Tom Neal, Ann SavageFrom Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist ...
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1:37:43Episode 24
History Is Made at Night
Episode 24
Directed by Frank Borzage • 1937 • United States
Jean Arthur plays a married woman who falls in love with a French headwaiter, much to the chagrin of her possessive and jealous husband.