A film history sensation! A chance find in the city archives brings an almost forgotten chapter of St. Pölten's film history from 1937 to the big screen. The 16mm films survived the decades in tin cans. A remarkable contemporary document that shows the production and printing of the St. Pölten newspaper as well as rare moving images of the city shortly before the upheaval of the Nazi era.
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third.
Here is a very rare short film from 1937 called Phony Boy with Cass Daly. There are 3 couples that are dancing Collegiate Shag at the beginning of the short.
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics.
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman.
