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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

  • The General (1926): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The General (1926)

    S2023 E126 - 1h 18m

    When his beloved train ‘The General’ is captured by Union spies, a Confederate engineer will do whatever he can to get his train back. Buster Keaton directs and stars in this silent comedy classic.

  • The Little Princess (1939): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Little Princess (1939)

    S2023 E125 - 1h 33m

    Captain Crewe enrolls his daughter, Sara (Shirley Temple), in an exclusive boarding school before serving in the Boer War. When he is reported killed, the evil headmistress turns Sara into a servant to earn her keep.

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

    S2023 E120 - 1h 31m

    Growing up in a Brooklyn tenement, a young boy discovers that he is the grandson of a wealthy Englishman. The American boy moves to the estate and must prove his worth as the rightful heir to a duke. The film stars child actors Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney.

  • Jungle Book (1942): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jungle Book (1942)

    S2023 E122 - 1h 45m

    Film adaptation of the classic Rudyard Kipling's short story centers on Mowgli, an Indian boy raised by wolves. When he finds a human village, Mowgli must use what he learned from the jungle animals to survive, while avoiding the wrath of the deadly tiger, Shere Khan.

  • The Lady Vanishes (1938): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    S2023 E115 - 1h 35m

    A young woman (Margaret Lockwood) traveling across Europe by train stumbles on a mystery when an elderly fellow traveler goes missing, in one of the best-loved of Alfred Hitchcock’s British-made thrillers.

  • Lost Horizon (1937): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Lost Horizon (1937)

    S2023 E96 - 2h 6m

    A plane crash in the Himalayas delivers a diplomat (Ronald Colman) and a group of survivors to the secluded land of Shangri-La – but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be? Directed by Frank Capra, the film costars Thomas Mitchell and Sam Jaffe.

  • Secret Agent (1936): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Secret Agent (1936)

    S2023 E114 - 1h 26m

    Set is World War I, a soldier (John Gielgud) is sent to Switzerland on a secret mission to identify and kill a German agent, in this Alfred Hitchcock film that also stars Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll.

  • The 39 Steps (1935): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The 39 Steps (1935)

    S2023 E65 - 1h 25m

    A vacationing Canadian in London (Robert Donat) stumbles upon a conspiracy that has him running from spies and murderers alongside blonde beauty Madeleine Carroll in this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

  • The Kennel Murder Case (1933): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

    S2023 E5 - 1h 13m

    William Powell stars as ace detective Philo Vance, who is put to the test when he tackles a murder in a locked room during a Long Island dog show. Michael Curtiz directs this adaptation of the S. S. Van Dine novel that also stars Mary Astor.

  • Fear in the Night (1947): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fear in the Night (1947)

    S2023 E113 - 1h 10m

    DeForest Kelley is a bank teller who has a terrible nightmare in which he kills a man in a strange room. When he wakes up with bruises and blood on his hands, he begins to wonder: was it only a dream?

  • Pitfall (1948): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Pitfall (1948)

    S2023 E111 - 1h 25m

    Dick Powell is a married insurance adjuster living in post-War Los Angeles. Stuck in a routine, he becomes involved with a woman (Lizabeth Scott) who has been lavished with gifts from an embezzling boyfriend, and becomes caught in a dangerous affair.

  • The Big Combo (1955): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Big Combo (1955)

    S2023 E110 - 1h 27m

    A police detective (Cornell Wilde) is determined to smash the mob’s racket by finding the evidence to catch a gang boss (Richard Conte) with the help of the mobster’s old flame.

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