Movie by the Year

27/01/2025

The Honor of the Press is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Edward J. Nugent, Rita La Roy and Dorothy Gulliver. It was produced as a second feature for release by Mayfair Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Palmentola.

Corrupt Roger Bradley buys a newspaper in order to promote his own shady dealings and denigrate the work of the city's police commissioner. A cub reporter on the paper discovers that Bradley and one of the other reporters are both involved in major crime.

22/01/2025

Movies by the Year is our new Roku channel, rebranded and relaunched, formerly known as Classic Television Vault. Check us out on Roku here, https://channelstore.roku.com/details/c0123e0c8667f30a0f89ab224bf05ccb/movies-by-the-year.

We'll be featuring info on a different movie in our catalog everyday here on this page.

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10/12/2024

I just wanted to provide a quick update. This Roku channel will be ceasing operation before the end of the year. However, you'll continue to find classic movies and cartoons on our sister channel Classic Movie Vault, also found on Roku. And we'll soon be launching a new Roku channel, Southern Fried Movies and TV, which will be featuring classic movies and TV shows celebrating Southern, Western, Country and Rural life here in the USA.

10/03/2024

The Last of the Mohicans, later retitled Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, is a 1957 historical drama television series made for syndication by ITC Entertainment and Normandie Productions. It ran for one season of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes.

Loosely based on the 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, the series was released under several different names, including Hawkeye and The Last of the Mohicans.

The series was set in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1750s but was filmed in Canada. The end credits state that the series was filmed in Canada with the cooperation of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

The series had a more realistic view of America than most series of the times. The settlers were rough and dressed in old but suitable clothes for the long hard winters in the small settlements of the new frontier. The Native Americans were more realistically portrayed too, as an intelligent people with good and bad individuals among them. Fights in the film needed more than just the odd blow as the opponents hit hard at each other, and torture was used in a number of episodes. Weapons used were normally single shot rifles and tomahawks (which often ended up in someone's back). Furs were often a motive of crime as they were the currency of the northern settlements.

08/02/2024

Now on Classic Television Vault. Retro Video Vault, featuring classic educational and informational videos from the past! Check it out now on our Roku channel.