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Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.
A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as: "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated--a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat ... continua

Le scoperte scientifiche più straordinarie sono spesso il frutto di una curiosità giocosa e iconoclasta. Questo è certamente il caso della scoperta del grafene, un materiale rivoluzionario che è valso al suo scopritore – lo scienziato Andre Geim – il premio Nobel per la fisica. Sottile, leggero, flessibile e trasparente, ma anche forte, resistente, impermeabile e dotato di un’elevata conducibilità, il gra- fene è stato isolato da Geim e dai suoi collaboratori durante uno dei loro celebri “esperimenti del venerdì notte”, dedicati a progetti curiosi, ... continua

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1957 - Adventure / Sci-Fi
Four adventurers descend to the depths of the ocean when the cable on their underwater diving bell snaps. The rest of their expedition, believing them to be lost, abandons hope of finding them. Exiting the diving bell, the party finds themselves in a network of underwater caverns. They encounter a shipwreck survivor. He tells them he has been there for 14 years and that there is no way out. The two men in the exploring party believe him only after a hike to a volcanic vent that supplies the caverns with oxygen. On the surface, Prof. ... continua

1956 - Crime / Sci-Fi / Horror A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution. Directed by:Jack Pollexfen Writing credits: Vy Russell, Sue Bradford Complete credited cast: Lon Chaney Jr.Max ShowalterMarian CarrRoss ElliottStuart RandallKen TerrellMarjorie StappRobert ShaynePeggy MaleyRobert FoulkRita GreenRoy EngelMadge Cleveland Visit the site: www.publicdomaintorrents.com

John Kennedy in Berlin

1949 - Comedy / Musical
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Directed by:Henry Koster
Writing credits:Nikolai Gogol, Harry Kurnitz
Complete Credited cast:
Danny Kaye Walter SlezakBarbara BatesElsa LanchesterGene LockhartAlan HaleWalter CatlettRhys Williams ... continua

(1929)
A swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas adventure featuring Douglas FairbanksKing Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the ... continua

The Jackie Robinson story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green (who had directed The Jolson Story, "one of the biggest hits of the 40s") and starring Jackie Robinson as himself. The film focuses on Robinson's struggle with the abuse of racist bigots as he becomes the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era. The film is among the list of films in the public domain in the United States. However a new copyrighted "restored and in color" version was released in conjunction with the Jackie Robinson Foundation in 2008

1943 - Western
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 soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Directed by:George Archainbaud
Writing credits:Frank Gruber, Harold Shumate
Complete Credited cast:
Richard DixJane WyattAlbert DekkerEugene PalletteVictor JoryRobert ArmstrongBeryl WallaceClem BevansHobart CavanaughFrancis ... continua

1933 - MysteryArcher Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely. When the evidence points to his brother, Brisbane is found stabbed to death in the closet. Archer had a number of enemies, any one of which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one did and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective ... continua