Saturday Matinee At The Movies!
Saturday Matinees from the 1930s thru the 1960s were aimed at kids. Each show featured cartoons, an adventure serial chapter and classic feature films, B-western, or action epics.
The 12 Saturday Matinees below are linked together by the 1940 sci-fi serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" starring Buster Crabbe. A ravaging plague has struck the Earth threatening global extinction. This alien disease is the evil spawn of Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Planet Mongo. The world's only hope now rests with Flash Gordon.
Each Matinee includes a vintage cartoon, classic feature and serial chapter. Excellent quality is supplied in Mpeg4 digital format. The Matinees should be shown in order to follow the serial, one every Saturday for 12 weeks. Audiences love the vintage variety and programming.
The titles below are the Best of the Best for both quality and Classic content. However, many more Matinee series with jpeg posters are at Cafe Roxy Matinees!
Price is $25 for each Matinee or $200 if you take all 12.
Saturday Matinee #1: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
(1945) Seven guests are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown host and are killed off one-by-one.
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Houston and Louis Hayward work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Includes 1942 color Superman cartoon "The Bulleteers" and first chapter of Flash Gordon.
Saturday Matinee #2: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
(1932) 70m. The insane hunter Zaroff stalks Fay Wray and Joel McCrea on the same jungle set used for "King Kong." Includes the 1952 Popeye color cartoon "Big Bad Sinbad,"
plus Flash Gordon #2.
Saturday Matinee #3: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
(1952) Color, 78m. Abbott and Costello spin their take on the famous tale with music and laughs galore. Includes Betty Boop in her only color cartoon "Poor Cinderella" (1934).
Saturday Matinee #4: DETOUR
(1945) The life of a pianist in a New York nightclub turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend. Tom Neal
stars with Ann Savage. Film Noir classic directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Includes bizarre 1935 color cartoon "The Sunshine Makers."
Saturday Matinee #5: THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
(1959) 75m. Eccentric millionaire Vincent Price and his wife invite 5 people to the House on Haunted Hill. If they survive the
night they will each get $10,000. Screams, skeletons and plot twists ensue! Some don't make it. Includes rare 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon "The Haunted House."
Saturday Matinee #6: MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE
(1947) Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Bob Hope tells
reporters how he got there. With Dorothy Lamour and Peter Lorre. Includes color cartoon "Humpty Dumpty" and of course Chapter #6 of "Flash Gordon."
Saturday Matinee #7: WHITE ZOMBIE
(1932) 69m. Haitian warlock Bela Lugosi, in a truly eerie role that tops even Dracula, transforms a young bride into a zombie.
Includes the 1947 color Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Pantry Panic."
Saturday Matinee #8: FLYING DEUCES
(1939) 65m. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the Foreign Legion so Ollie can forget his love life, but they meet up with Jimmy Finlayson and Charles Middleton.
Includes the Tex Avery color cartoon "Jerky Turkey" and Flash serial chapter 8.
Saturday Matinee #9: THE MAGIC SWORD
(1960) Color, 80m. Evil Basil Rathbone vs. St. George who must slay that dragon. Nice color, monsters, a quest, beautiful maiden and much
more to challenge the hero! Includes "Betty in Blunderland" cartoon and Flash Gordon episode #9.
Saturday Matinee #10: GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE
(1943) The East Side Kids (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall & pals) try to fix up a house for newlyweds including Ava Gardner, but find the place next door
is "haunted" by Bela Lugosi! Includes Casper the Friendly Ghost color cartoon "Boo Moon" and Flash chapter #10.
Saturday Matinee #11: THE KENNEL MURDER CASE
(1933) 73m. Excellent S.S. Van Dyne mystery starring William Powell as detective Philo Vance, who must solve a locked room murder.
Deftly directed at Warner Bros. by Michael Curtiz. With Mary Astor and Eugene Pallette. Includes "All Fair at the Fair" color cartoon and Flash Gordon chapter 11.
Saturday Matinee #12: ROLL ON TEXAS MOON
(1946) Roy Rogers tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and sheepherders. With Trigger, Dale Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes and
the Sons of the Pioneers. Don't miss final chapter #12 of "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe!" Plus 2 color cartoons "Pastrytown Wedding" and Mighty Mouse in "Wolf, Wolf."
