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Lakeshore Classic Movies

Lakeshore Classic Movies bring you a variety of classic films from the golden age of Hollywood.

The Time of Your Life

1h 40m

based on William Saroyan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, unfolds in a San Francisco waterfront bar where a group of colorful patrons reveals their stories, dreams, and struggles. James Cagney stars as Joe, a laid-back philosopher encouraging others to live fully. This heartwarming and witty drama celebrates the beauty of human connections amidst life’s complexities.

Episodes

  • Topper Returns (1941): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Topper Returns (1941)

    S2023 E121 - 1h 28m

    Stuffy banker turned ghost whisperer Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is tormented by another mischievous spirit. This time it's a beautiful girl, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, the intended victim. With Topper's help, the pretty ghost sets out to find her killer with hilarious results.

  • My Favorite Brunette (1947): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    My Favorite Brunette (1947)

    S2023 E129 - 1h 27m

    Bob Hope is a baby photographer who is mistaken for a detective by a beautiful baroness (Dorothy Lamour). The fake gumshoe is soon in all kinds of trouble in this comedic film noir parody that co-stars Alan Ladd, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr.

  • Road to Bali (1952): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Road to Bali (1952)

    S2023 E64 - 1h 30m

    Bob Hope and Bing Crosby star as two song-and-dance men that escape marriage by signing on as deep-sea divers headed to the island of Bali, where they attract the attention of Princess Lala.

  • Never Wave at a WAC (1952): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Never Wave at a WAC (1952)

    S2023 E86 - 1h 26m

    Rosalind Russell is a divorced socialite and politician’s daughter who joins the Women’s Army Corps to be closer to her boyfriend, a colonel. Expecting to be made an officer because of her father’s standing, she learns that she has to tough it out as an ordinary private.

  • The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    S2023 E145 - 1h 33m

    Acclaimed actor Charles Laughton won his only Best Acting Oscar for his performance as the English king who was married six times without producing the male heir he desired most.

  • Jamaica Inn (1939): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jamaica Inn (1939)

    S2023 E28 - 1h 29m

    Orphan Mary (Maureen O'Hara, in her first lead role) moves in with her aunt and uncle who run the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall. Mary soon discovers a secret band of smugglers, but can she trust the town’s mysterious magistrate (Charles Laughton) to help her escape?

  • Cyrano De Bergerac (1950): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)

    S2023 E42 - 1h 52m

    Cyrano (Jose Ferrer in an Oscar-winning performance) is admired by his men for his courage, swordsmanship and mighty wit but he is hopelessly lost in love and unable to profess his feelings to the beautiful Roxane out of fear he will be rejected because of his appearance.

  • Abilene Town (1946): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Abilene Town (1946)

    S2023 E143 - 1h 29m

    A fearless lawman (Randolph Scott) stands between unruly cattlemen and a group of determined homesteaders as the two factions vie for control of the government land bordering the town.

  • Rage at Dawn (1955): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Rage at Dawn (1955)

    S2023 E35 - 1h 25m

    Based on true events, special agent from Chicago (Randolph Scott) is sent to infiltrate the notorious Reno Brothers gang as they terrorize Indiana in 1866. Complications develop in the form of conflicted feelings that the agent has with the Reno sister.

  • The Outlaw (1943): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Outlaw (1943)

    S2023 E105 - 1h 55m

    Jane Russell stirs up trouble as the center of attention of Sheriff Pat Garrett, his gunslinger friend Doc Holliday and outlaw Billy the Kid in this Western directed by Howard Hughes.

  • Kansas Pacific (1953): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Kansas Pacific (1953)

    S2023 E142 - 1h 12m

    In the days before the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends an engineer (Sterling Hayden) to finish the railroad before the fighting starts. Confederate sympathizers, led by William Quantrill, try to stop the railway from being completed.

  • The Big Trees (1952): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Big Trees (1952)

    S2023 E124 - 1h 29m

    Businessman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. A nearby Quaker colony is very protective of the giant sequoias, and the greedy timber man soon realizes that this won’t be an easy task.

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