Classic Films in Color

THE THING 1951 in COLOR - A Classic of Science Fiction Horror. One of the first and best of Alien Invasion films. Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

TWO LOST WORLDS 1951 - Basically a loose version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" with Pirates chasing a Clipper Ship that escapes to an island of dinosaurs.

UNKNOWN WORLD 1951 in COLOR - Modernized version (for 1951) of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. Scientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.

UNKNOWN ISLAND 1948 in COLOR - Filmed in Cinecolor, a rival process to Technicolor. An adventure seeker and his fiance visit an uncharted island, only to find that it is inhabited by deadly dinosaurs and other creatures ready to attack.

ONE MILLION B.C. 1940 in COLOR - A tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.

KING KONG 1933 in COLOR - Ted Turner purchased the rights to the RKO film when he bought out the MGM library. His first effort at colorizing was with King Kong, broadcast on WTBS & the TNT Channel, thus creating a controversy.

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM 1933 - Thought to be lost for decades, a print was found in Jack Warner's estate. The story is about the disappearance of people and corpses leading a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

DOCTOR X 1932 in COLOR - A monster lurks in New York City as reporter Lee Taylor investigates the "Moon Killer" murders, in which the victims are strangled, cannibalized and surgically incised under the light of the full moon.

DRESSED TO KILL 1946 in COLOR - Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

THE PEARL OF DEATH 1944 - When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders done by a back-breaking monster known as The Creeper.

SON OF FLUBBER 1962 in COLOR - When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets into big trouble and only his students can help him.

THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR 1961 in COLOR - College professor Ned Brainard invents an anti-gravity rubber-like substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

RETURN OF THE SHAGGY DOG 1987 - NBC COLOR TV Broadcast on Magical World of Disney in two parts, on Nov 1st & 8th. Wilby Daniels is now a successful lawyer, but the enchanted Borgia ring is found, which again causes Wilby's sheepdog transformation.

THE SHAGGY DOG 1959 in COLOR - Teenager Wilby Daniels, son of a mailman who hates dogs, is periodically transformed into a shaggy Old English Sheepdog by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias.

WHITE CHRISTMAS 1954 in TECHNICOLOR - A successful song-and-dance team of WW2 veterans becomes romantically involved with a sister act, and so they team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

HOLIDAY INN 1942 in COLOR - At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

THE MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1955 in COLOR - Broadcast Dec 14, 1955, on the 20th Century Fox Hour TV program anthology series. Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy.

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1947 in COLOR - After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL 1951 in COLOR - TV Presentation with Patrick MacNee circa 1990. Alastair Sim is Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, who has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.

SCROOGE 1935 in COLOR - Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.