Direct from the basement of PBS Fort Wayne, Subterranean Cinema is your place to enjoy classic Hollywood movies. This weekly film series is hand-picked to be enjoyed by film fans of every generation. They are broadcast on:
Once they premiere on-air, these movies are also available through the PBS app on your smartphone, tablet or smart TV, at pbs.org, with the PBS Fort Wayne App and on the PBS Fort Wayne YouTube channel.
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Consider this the O.G. of movie adaptations of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Seymour Hicks plays the title role in this British import about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who, when he wakes up on Christmas morning, is a changed man.
This is the first sound version of the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and it also is the only adaptation of the story with an invisible Marley's ghost.
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Jimmy (Jimmy Stewart) goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices.
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The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's (Sterling Hayden) unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron (Frank Sinatra in a chilling role) finds the Benson home ideal to spring a deadly ambush.
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In Algiers, Algeria, notorious thief Pepe le Moko (Charles Boyer) evades police capture by hiding within the maze-like Casbah district. Pepe's renown makes him a popular target not only with policeman Javier but also sympathetic Inspector Slimane (Joseph Calleia) and jealous thief Regis. Through Slimane, Pepe meets the beautiful American Gaby (Hedy Lamarr) and becomes obsessed with her. Regis' plan to lure Pepe out into the open falls apart, until Pepe learns that he may never see Gaby again.
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After the death of her mother, young Mary (Maureen O'Hara) travels to the Cornish coast seeking her Aunt Patience (Marie Ney). Stranded on a windswept, isolated road, Mary meets Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton), who kindly escorts her to the Jamaica Inn. There, Mary meets her aunt and bullying uncle, Merlyn Joss (Leslie Banks) -- who secretly leads a band of pirates that pilfers the goods from wrecked ships. Suspicious, Mary turns to Pengallan for help, only to discover another dark secret.
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A young soldier on a weekend pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers — and a growing romance.