Willie Best Movies

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

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

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

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...

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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...

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...