Chairpotato's "Night at the Movies" May 2010

Movies you can watch for free in full-length right now, added May 2010

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May 21
Rain (1932) drama added May 2010
    starring Joan Crawford, with Walter Huston
    story by W Somerset Maugham
Joan Crawford a fast-living woman is confronted by a determined evangelist, while they are both stranded on an island.  He converts her, but when she has finally submit to his will (which is so "righteous" it will make you sick), a certain kind of inevitable tragedy occurs.

May 19
Indestructible Man (1955) law-and-order horror added May 2010
    starring Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney double-crossed by his crooked cronies is tried and put to death by the state.  But later re-animated by a scientist and goes on a murder spree against those who he thinks wronged him.

Mr Moto's Last Warning (1939) law and order suspense added May 2010
    starring Peter Lorre with Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field, John Carradine, George Sanders, Joan Carol

Hell Ship Mutiny (1957) drama added May 2010
    starring Jon Hall (who?), co-starring John Carradine, Peter Lorre, Roberta Haynes, Mike Mazuki
Pirates have enslaved an island's population and are making the young men dive for pearls.


May 18
Quicksand (1950) drama added May 2010
    starring Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre
Mickey Rooney is an auto-mechanic who wants to take out this swell dame, but is shy twenty bucks.  So he figures he can lift it from his till and it won't go noticed before he can put it back again.  He has to do some quick thinking, so he buys an expensive watch on credit, then hocks it.  His problems go from escalation to escalation.

Secret Agent (1936) law and order added May 2010 directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    starring Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Guilgud, Robert Young
    based on a novel by W Somerset Maugham
    Secret agents during World War I, English versus German.

My Favorite Brunette (1947) comedy law and order romance added May 2010
    starring Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney
When Dorothy Lamour comes looking for a detective, Bob Hope pretends to be one, but gets caught up in an intrigue involving kidnapping, government agents, and killers.


May 17
Happy Go Lovely (1951) comedy romance added May 2010
    starring David Niven, Vera Ellen, Cesar Romero
A distraught theater producer thinks his show is financially saved when one of his chorus girls is mistakenly said to be the mistress of a well-known millionaire.

The Blob (1958), science-fiction horror added May 2010
    starring Steve McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Earl Rowe
    A meteor brings a flesh-eating jelly creature to Earth.  Remade in 1988.
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9


Special thanks to YouTube user ZeroFiftyNine for this next movie
Them! (1954), science-fiction horror added May 2010
    starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
    Giant mutant ants, dining on sugar and human flesh! 1950s style.
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (missing), Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

May 14
Special thanks to YouTube user UniversalRobot for this next movie
Forbidden Planet (1956), science-fiction added May 2010
    starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielson
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

Of Human Bondage (1934) drama romance added May 2010, produced by Pandro S Berman
    starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis
    from the novel by W Somerset Maugham
Leslie Howard is a club-footed medical student falls in love with Bette Davis who is a waitress who treats him coldly and yet may be using him.  The story follows several years of her coming into and out of his life, and him carrying a torch for her all the time.  Eventually the bond is broken in a tragic way.

The Beachcomber (1938) comedy romance added May 2010
    starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie
    based on a story by W Somerset Maugham
A repressed lady missionary and a drunkard discover a mutual interest.
    

May 10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) suspense drama added May 2010
    starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A murdered friend was a British secret agent, and so a couple's daughter is kidnapped to stop them from telling what they know.  Shunning official involvement, they decide to track the kidnappers themselves.

May 6
Pulp Fiction (1994) law and order drama added May 2010
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
    Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15
What the heck is this movie about?  You tell me.  Crooks, murder, drugs, sex and violence.

Wilde (1997) biography added May 2010
    starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones
    Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Wilkinson
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 (missing), Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12
The life of author, poet Oscar Wilde

May 4
The Quiet (2005) suspense drama added May 2010
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
Dot a deaf-mute who has lost her parents, is taken in by her godparents who have a teen-aged daughter the same age.  The mother, a neurotic pill-popper doesn't know that her husband and daughter are having an incestuous relationship.  And Dot herself, is not quite what she first appears.

Gay and Coupling real life added May 2010
    Documentary. Gay couples talk about how they grew-up, where they met, etc.
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13

May 3
Ben (1972) horror added May 2010
    starring Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Rosemary Murphy, Meredith Baxter, Kaz Garas
    and introducing Lee Harcourt Montgomery as Danny
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
After ordering his pack to kill their trainer, the leader of a group of rats, befriends a young boy.
Trivia: Meredith Baxter, who recently came out as a lesbian, is most well-known as the mother Elyse Keaton on the long-running TV-series "Family Ties" (1982-1989).