Dissertation Movies

Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.

To prove his theory that rock and roll is on its way out, a sociologist tries to convince a "bop" singer to switch to calypso, much to the ire of her Hollywood nightclub manager.

Everything's going well at Disco Records, where singer Johnny Conroy is popular and publicity chief Marti Collins is good at her job, as well as in love with company boss Mack Adams. Everything changes after Barney Pearl shows up.

Juile, an airline hostess, has her mind made up to marry South American millionaire Rico Vargas, in spite of the efforts made by her former boyfriend, Lee Darling, a television star, to win her back. Rico's sister, Astra, makes a play for Lee, who only responds to make Julie jealous. As the plane bearing Juile and others (includng all the credited musicians and bands) is about to depart, Herb Jefferies smuggles Lee on board so he can have a chance to dissuade Julie. There are 14 musical numbers, and the film takes a few swipes at television and television commercials. Worth having just to see what upset the Legion of Decency enough for them to slap a "B" rating on it.

The semi-steamy story (more in promise than actual deliverance) is set in Nassau and finds Mike, an American charter boat captain, involved in a romance with tourist Jan but Jan's aunt, Elizabeth also has the hots for Mike and tries to break up the romance. She hides her bracelet in a straw bag belonging to Mike's mate, Eban, and then claims it was stolen. She then agrees to drop the theft charges if Mike will ditch Jan and go off with her. What's a poor guy to do? Well, mostly hang around and listen to Leslie Scott, Kay Barnes, Irene Williams and other Calypso performers sing "Cocoanut, Water, Rum and Gin", "Wanna Do Nothin' All Day" and "Island WOMEN" and watch "The Limbo" being danced.

Bud gets a set of bongo drums. He envisions himself as a musician that all the girls will love. However, his practice drives the family crazy.

James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s and sold into slavery by Andrew MacAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter Christine. Complications arise as the man thought to be a nephew of one man may not be, and the daughter of one man may be the other man's daughter.

The FBI sends agents to Jamaica to investigate arms smuggling to revolutionaries in Santo Domingo.

In Jamaica, amid murder and deceit, a schooner skipper and a land developer search for the sunken ship containing proof regarding the identity of the true heirs of a legendary Jamaican estate.

The erotic goings-on among the staff at Mr. Pawley's school in Jamaica are of great interest to young Sylvia, but her curiosity results in tragedy.

The scenes among the banana palms of the beautiful island of Jamaica are singularly picturesque. A powerful negro armed with a long knife or "machete" passes quickly through the grove lopping off the fronds with their heavy hunches of bananas. After him come a motley assembly of men and women who pick up the great bunches and bear them off. The bunches of bananas are wrapped in straw and loaded on ox teams for transportation to Port Antonio. The entire process from picking the bananas to loading them on the ships at Port Antonio is shown. The most interesting single feature of the cocoanut picking is the inhuman way in which the negro boys walk up the palms with no other aid than bare hands and feet. Arrived at the top, they use their feet in an extremely dexterous manner to detach the thickly clustered cocoanuts. The fallen nuts are robbed of their thick outer shell by the sharp machete, and the picture closes with a kindly old scallywag of a negro taking a drink of that famous beverage of the tropics, cocoanut milk.

Soldiers save shipwrecked sailors from Spaniards.

Follow Millicent Small on her triumphal return to her home in Jamaica.

The story of a café singer who buys a gambling casino, and the men who fall in love with her.

This scenic picture shows many of the most interesting places in this beautiful part of that little paradise, Bahama. It shows the people, who are decidedly black, and who live in an easy way, believing that one should never do today what can be put off until tomorrow. It shows interesting views along the rock-bound coast. The little vessels in which the natives gather sea shells and dive for sponges. It shows parts of a 20,000 acre cocoanut plantation. There are quaint pictures of natives building their huts, thatching them with palm leaves, weaving baskets, and eternally and everlastingly smoking.

Sisal fiber as a substitute for manila is a comparative recent industry, but it meant the commercial establishment of the British West Indies and is a most important industry in the Bahama group. The long, sword-like leaves of the sisal plant, a species of cactus, are cut close to the base and are fed into a machine which strips the watery pulp from the long, silky fiber. The fiber quickly dries and bleaches under the hot sun and the strands are woven into rope said to be fully as strong and lasting as the longer known manila. Most of the work is done by negro hands, for no white person could toil under the sub-tropical sun and long endure, and the young girls and comfortable appearing matrons make picturesque spots against the background of fleecy fiber. All of the interesting operations are shown, including the crude rope walk in which the strands are twisted into a stronger body. Although an industrial, a number of the scenes possessed marked scenic beauty and all of them possess the touch of oddity due to the presence of the negroes who are unlike the negro of the South and still retain almost unimpaired their quaint customs of their African ancestry.