Waldo Branch, The Kansas City Library

Grand Hotel Featuring a wide cast of greats, including John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo. World-weary travelers, the ill, wealthy and other types are tossed together in this winner of the 1931-32 Best Pictures Academy Award. 112 minutes. B&W

Shadow of the Thin Man The fourth in the Thin Man series, William Powell stars as the famous sleuth Nick Charles, with Nora, his wife (Myrna Loy) close at hand, baby Nick, Jr. and faithful dog Asta. This time Nick finds himself in the middle of a racetrack murder investigation. Don't be fooled by his bumbling manner, he's on top of it. 1941, 97 minutes, B&W

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic pre-Code war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander. The original Universal version, this 1930 Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a powerful anti-war film. Young idealists enlist in the German Army only to be sent to the western front and all the horrors of the trench warfare of World War I. Digitally remastered by the Library of Congress. B&W…

Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense, but he could also turn out a great comedy mystery. Starring John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine in her film debut, and little Jerry Mathers. The trouble with Harry is he is dead, and while no one is especially bothered by this fact, everyone thinks they are responsible. Meanwhile, Harry keeps getting unearthed, the major characters fall in love, and the real cause of Harry's death is uncovered. If you've never laughed in a Hitchcock…

Hitchcock's masterpiece psychological thriller. Ingrid Bergman stars as a psychiatrist who falls in love with another doctor, Gregory Peck, but he's not what he seems. He's an amnesiac with a potentially deadly past. Oscar winning score and with a dream sequence created by the mind of Salvador Dali. 1945 B&W

Kirk Douglas passionately portrays the brilliant, yet tortured artist, Vincent Van Gogh, winning the Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards. Costar Anthony Quinn's portrayal of the artist Paul Gauguin won him the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. Directed by Vincent Minnelli. 1956 Color

One of Alfred Hitchcock's screwball comedies, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", stars Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery as a couple happily living in marital bliss, until after three years they discover their marriage is not legally valid. Starting over proves difficult.  (1941 B&W)

In this chilling Victorian psychological drama, Charles Boyer slowly convinces his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, that she is just imagining things. She feels herself losing her grip on sanity. Costars Joseph Cotton and introduces a young Angela Lansbury. Directed by George Cukor, this highly nominated movie will give you the creeps. (1944, B&W)

Due to an early closure due to weather conditions in February, the entire movie could not be viewed, so we are presenting again this Academy Award winner from 1932. Starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Lionel Barrymore. Weary and jaded travelers' lives intersect at Berlin's finest hotel, each with their own personal issues. B&W

Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. The story of heartless brutal corrupting power, inspired by the real Huey Long, once Governor and Senator from Louisiana. Starring Broderick Crawford. 1949 B&W

Come join us to watch the movie, Space Jam. It is rated PG and is 87 minutes long. Space Jam (1996) (PG) In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.

An all star cast sails aboard the USS Reluctant. Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon (Oscar winner), James Cagney, and William Powell. Directed by John Ford, this ship of stir crazy sailors are fighting to survive the War and every adversity thrown their way. This is a comedy, but there are moments of sadness that temper along the way. This was William Powell's last film. 1955 Color

Alfred Hitchcock directs this harrowing movie of the true story of a New York City musician who is arrested and held for crimes committed by a very similar looking man. Hitchcock takes you on a journey through the unbelievable terror and rage of suddenly losing your freedom and innocence. 1956 B&W

Come join us to watch the movie, Monsters vs. Aliens. It is rated PG and is 95 minutes long.

One of Alfred Hitchcock's great espionage films. Cary Grant stars as a Manhattan advertising executive who through no fault of his own gets mixed up in a spy (James Mason) vs counterspy (Eva Saint Marie) abduction and framed for murder. Like classic Hitchcock, you will be led through a tension mounting two hours edge of your seat film! 1959 Color

Come join us to watch the movie, Muppets From Space. It is rated G and is 88 minutes long. Muppets in Space Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family.

July is Sci-Fi film month at Waldo. "Forbidden Planet" stars, Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielson, and Anne Francis in a dark tale of a genius turned controller of his daughter and an entire planet. Nielson stars as a space commander who comes to check on their well-being. Robby the Robot and fantastical monsters ensue! Don't miss this! 1956

Out of this World Wednesday@Waldo Audience:  Kids Movie - Film Screening Summer Reading Program Youth - Family Come join us to watch the movie, Fly Me to the Moon. It is rated G and is 89 minutes long.

Starring Jeff Morrow, this classic Sci-Fi B film stays on earth in a tropical area that is terrorized by a creature who lives in a mysterious lake. 1954 Beat the heat for this great campy movie!

Audience:  Kids Movie - Film Screening Summer Reading Program Youth - Family Come join us to watch the movie, Wall-E. It is rated G and is 98 minutes long.

One last hurrah for July Sci-Fi month with the always classic "Frankenstein." Starring Boris Karloff, the 1935 B&W version "Hollywoodized" the novel, but is still great fun.

William Powell and Myrna Loy come together again in this fifth Thin Man mystery. Nick is on the wagon  and Nora is busy chasing  a presumed suspect through town. Wise cracks abound in this comedy whodunit.  1944 B&W

Number 1 on the American Film Institute 1998  list of best American films, Orson Welles' masterpiece won Best Original Screenplay in 1941.  Starring Welles as a self-made publishing tycoon whose life is a series of broken relationships and tarnished by greed and power.  Reportedly based on the life of William Randolph Hearst, it sparked a clash between him and RKO Studios. B&W

Humphrey Bogart at his hard boiled best, this classic film follows Detective Sam Spade as his tries to unravel the mystery of a great treasure and discover who killed his partner. Co-starring Mary Astor,  Peter Lorre, and Sidney Greenstreet. Nominated for three Academy Awards. 1941 B&W

Orson Welles second movie costars Joseph Cotten and Agnes Morehead. An emotional saga of the decline of a wealthy turn-of-the-century Indianapolis family.  Adapted from the Booth Tarkington novel. 1939 B&W

The sequel to "Frankenstein" reprises Bois Karloff's role and adds Elsa Lanchester as his created bride. A horror classic! 1935 B&W

The chilling story of an enchanting 8-year-old who is discovered by her mother to be calculating murderer. Adapted from the stage.  A perfect October movie! 1956 B&W

The perfect warmup for Halloween! The 1931 original film starring Bela Legosi as the vampire Count Dracula. Based on Bram Stoker's novel. B&W

The final in the Thin Man series, Nick, along with Nora, investigate murder at a jazz charity event aboard the SS Fortune . Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Ford plays an outlaw whose gang is planning to break him out of jail. The marshal offers a bounty hunter position and Heflin, a poor rancher, takes him up on it.  Now can he deliver Ford to the 3:10 train to Yuma and not be killed in the attempt. A classic western drama. 1957 B&W

Starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, the film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was winner of 4. Tennessee Williams' great Pulitzer Prize winning play was adapted to the big screen by Tennessee Williams himself. Also costarring Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. 1951 B&W Free Admission

A sophisticated supernatural comedy. Robert Montgomery stars as a working class boxer whose plane crashes leaving him at Heaven's gates. Claude Rains is the angel who tells him there has been a mistakes and his soul is return to inhabit the body of a corrupt and soon to be murdered wealthy man. This of course makes for comedic situations! Nominated for 7 Oscars, it won 2.  1941 B&W

The only film directed by Charles Laughton, is an intense,  sinister Grimm like story of a man whose nefarious motives for marrying a widow are discovered by her children. A classic good versus evil. Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and contributions from Lillian Gish and James Agee.  1955 B&W