Oliver Twist
Lean adapts Dickens’s orphan saga; Alec Guinness’s Fagin lurks in soot-stained London.
The story of an orphan boy who, due to the cruelty of others, is drawn into a life of sin on the streets prior to the redemption of a caring foster family.
War-orphan’s emerald locks provoke town intolerance in anti-bigotry fable.
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
An architect (Johnny Downs) turns racketeer, led by a crooked colleague (James Robbins) into gambling and nightclubs.
A group of tough but loyal neighborhood boys helps uncover the truth behind a murder and a criminal scheme. Facing dangerous criminals and false accusations, the East Side Kids rely on their street sm…
After being in the wrong place at the wrong time, an innocent young man becomes the fall guy in the murder of a notorious mobster.
A prospector whose gold was stolen by an outlaw teams up with a kid whose parents were murdered and sister kidnapped by the same outlaw.
Little Men (1940), based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel, follows Jo March and her husband as they nurture and guide the boys at Plumfield School. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, it’s a heartwarming tale o…
A small town is rocked by a series of vicious strangling murders targeting teenage girls, and a high school student must prove his innocence when the police begin to suspect him of the crimes.
Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher his only clue, an unusual set of tire tracks.
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancÈe captive.
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Three teachers on their way to a baseball game break down at a junkyard, only to be taken hostage by a sadistic killer and his girlfriend.
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
When his young son is shot, John Wellington kills the culprit and flees. But his son Johnny recovers and is raised by Sir George. Some twenty years later Johnny sets out to find Sir George's missing g…
An orphan girl, believing herself cursed with the hoodoo until she gets married, is adopted by a childless couple after the orphanage burns down. Boy-next-door meets girl-next-door, and all looks grea…
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in th…
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
A crotchety, old ex-attorney solves the violent theft of a priceless diamond from his nephew.
After John Mason’s father is killed in a robbery, he seeks revenge. Wounded in pursuit, he’s cared for by a lovely young woman, unaware that her brother is one of the killers and plans to silence him …
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
Two brothers separated when young meet as adults, one good and one bad.