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FILMS FOR SALE MARCH 2024

        16mm B /W FILMS FOR SALE:

        "JANE  EYRE"  1943.  Brilliant    best  version  of  this
        fabulous drama. There are a lot of fine actors in the cast,
        and Orson Welles is ideal for the role of Rochester. Joan
        Fontaine  is  good  too  as  (the  adult)  Jane,    and  some
        excellent casting, including Agnes Moorehead as Jane's
        mean-spirited  aunt,  the  icy  Henry  Daniell  as
        Brocklehurst,  and  11  year  old  Elizabeth  Taylor
        (uncredited) as Jane's school friend Helen. $90.00

        “RATIONING”  1944  .  MGM  teamed  Wallace  Beery
        and Marjorie Main for a nice comedy about Rationing
        during the World War II home front years. The two are
        bitter enemies since the first war when fate kept them
        apart.  But  now  they  have  a  son  and  daughter
        respectively who are taking up where the parents might
        have left off.  $40.00
        “THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER” 1940. This is a solid, if often silly, parody
        feature that spoofs the conventional melodrama played in a style that is far from subtle.
        Buster Keaton, Hugh Herbert and a host of the great old comedians.        $40.00.

        "BEAT  THE  DEVIL"      A  comedy  played  straight  of  this  groups  general  screen
        acceptance. This 1953 film had absolutely everything going for it, including Humphrey
        Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollabrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, directed by John
        Huston with a screenplay by Truman Capote. What more could you ask for?  $80.00

        “THE FOXES OF HARROW” 1947 drama, Rex Harrison, Maureen O’Hara, Richard
        Haydn.  Stars:  Rex  Harrison,  Maureen  O'Hara,  Richard  Haydn.  In  pre-Civil  War,
        Louisiana, a roguish Irish gambler (Harrison) buys his way into society, something he
        couldn’t do in his homeland because he is illegitimate. $60.00.

        "FOLLY TO BE WISE" 1952 comedy. If you like EALING COMEDIES then this is
        right up your alley. Alistair Sim is a Chaplain who walks into natural disasters of the
        'putting your foot in it' kind. Whether it be with 4 old ladies who sing horribly, a giddy
        society lady who is 'out of it', and many other assorted characters.  The backing cast of
        these eccentrics are full on.  $40.00.

        “THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM”  1944 drama, an outstanding film which accounted
        for Gregory Peck’s first Oscar nomination. Backed by  a great cast- Thomas Mitchell,
        Edmund  Gwenn,  Sir  Cedric  Hardwicke,  Vincent  Price,  Rosa  Stradner  and  Roddy
        McDowell.    $50.00.

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