Movies: Jack Shaindlin

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 2...

War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist colony....

An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother....

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, wa...

A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime....

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston....

A documentary about South Africa. Discusses two tribes, some of the descendants of the Indian immigrants that settled there, and the wildlife....

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news ...

Linking free enterprise with freedom and democracy, 24 Hours of Progress shows the oil industry at work and Americans using oil-based products....

Brooklyn, U.S.A. is a 1947 English language short film directed by Arthur Cohen, starring Ted de Corsia. It was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Subject, One-Reel. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive....

Gangland boss Joe Kalhari, working with Ricki Hart, operator of a swamp-side dive in the Okefenokee swamp aside the Georgia-Florida border, rules an empire of smugglers who run dope and undesirable aliens into the United States, uses seaplanes at the...

Fight of the Wild Stallions is a 1947 short documentary film produced by Thomas Mead about wild stallions in the wilds and the business of wrangling them. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel....

Comedy short about Buddy Hackett as an incompetent bowler....

A Soundie featuring Yasha Davidoff with Simeon Karavaeff, Lalla Zalipskaya, Nadia Veralle, and the Russian Balalaika Orchestra....

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers...

With the opening of its winter carnival, Ste-Agathe-des-Monts in Québec's Laurentian mountains becomes the centre for a variety of competitive winter sports. Parades and floats take over the streets of Ste-Agathe and the mayor gives the signal for th...

Narrated by Boris Karloff, this Movietone short spoofs the dangers of teenage rebellion around the world....

Cindy Walker expressing herself with TI-Yi-Yippee-Aye....

Golfer Sam Sneed shows the audience some tips and tricks in this humorous cinemascope short....