Lakeshore Classic Movies

Abbott and Costello’s take on the famous fairy tale has a babysitter (Costello) recounting the story about a young boy (Costello?) who trades the family cow for some magic beans.

The film follows the zany antics of toyshop laborers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee (Laurel & Hardy), where nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy.

Buster Keaton returns home after years of separation from his father, a burly Mississippi riverboat captain. More by accident than intention the son helps turns things around when a wealthy competitor tries to take over the lucrative steamboat business in this comic masterpiece from the silent era.

An American WWII veteran (Van Johnson) relives his memories of the dazzle, romance, and hard times in postwar Paris. He meets a beautiful young socialite (Elizabeth Taylor) and falls in love with her in the years following the war, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, "Babylon Revisited".

Five friends from a small Ukrainian village decide to travel to Kiev but their trip is cut short when German aircraft attack and their town falls under occupation after the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Michigan City, Indiana native Anne Baxter gets top billing in this World War II film.

This biographical film stars Claudette Colbert as Agnes Newton Keith, a writer whose life is disrupted when the Japanese invade her Borneo home in the early days of World War II.

A prominent, upstanding politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal, but he is soon haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a youthful indiscretion. Paulette Goddard stars in this film based on the Oscar Wilde play.

Continuing the story after Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Long John Silver (Robert Newton) returns to the Caribbean, where he has his sights on a rival pirate that has taken a ship, the governor's daughter and his young friend, Jim Hawkins.

An admiralty officer tries to bring the infamous pirate to justice by infiltrating his crew. Robert Newton portrays the legendary captain in this 50's swashbuckler that also stars William Bendix and Linda Darnell as a kidnapped beauty that gets caught between feuding pirates.

A romantic comedy of manners finds fogbound divorce-lawyer Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier in one of his early roles) sharing his hotel suite with the beguiling Leslie (Merle Oberon), and the fall out the next day.

The comedy duo stars as two guys having trouble adjusting to Army life. Dean Martin plays a self-assured Romeo forever bursting into song, while funnyman Jerry Lewis is a hopeless screw-up unable to perform the simplest task without wreaking chaos.

Industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife tells her husband that she is not feeling well enough to travel, and asks Walter (Brian Donlevy) to give a lift to her cousin, Jim. On the highway, Jim tries to kill Walter but Walter survives and must move on with his life now that everyone thinks he’s dead.