Willie Best Movies

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an...

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died...

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take...

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself...

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep...