Lord Jeff (1938) (MOD)

Lord Jeff (1938) (MOD)Following the huge success of Captains Courageous, Freddie Bartholomew again plays a snobby brat reformed into a sturdy young man by seamanship training and the friendship of Mickey Rooney (in the fourth of their five screen teamings). The combination works again. In the title role of Lord Jeff, Bartholomew is a defiant orphan arrested after engineering a jewel theft with bad companions (Gale Sondergaard and George Zucco). With the scenarist's nod to

Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his Best Actor Oscar-winning role of Judah Ben-Hur

In addition to each episode's main story

from his humble beginnings in A Family Affair through his girl-crazed college coming-of-age to his bittersweet return to his beloved hometown of Carvel as a grown man in this concluding volume of the complete series collection starring Mickey Rooney

Don't say we didn't warn you

doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true

Dean Jones (in his pre-The Love Bug days) and Cesar Romero star in a creepy horrorfest that offers scares

looting and burning

But evil boy genius Jack Spicer and his robot army are also on the hunt

Their antics

20 Episode Collection features more science fiction

Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City

an astronaut (Planet Zero) and more