 I Married a Witch (1942) - Gorgeous Veronica Lake is a 17th-century witch who's come back to life to plague hapless Fredric March, whose ancestors burned her at the stake and suffered a family curse as a result. She gives him a love potion to make him fall in love with her the night before he's to marry Susan Hayward (what a choice). It's all goofy fun, and has got to be more watchable than the planned remake starring Tom Cruise! Cecil Kellaway is excellent, and the music score was Oscar-nominated.
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 I Walk Alone (1948) - The very first pairing of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Lancaster has just spent 14 years in prison, taking the rap for his former best friend, played by Douglas, who has done well for himself in the meantime and doesn't plan to share with anybody. Wendell Corey and Lizbeth Scott turn in understated supporting performances (at least compared to the two leading men!).
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 I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) - Michael Landon got his start in the business playing the monster in the varsity jacket in this vintage low budget 50s cult horror film that for some reason is not available on commercial DVD!
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 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) - The heartwarming story of a minister (William Lundigan) and his wife (Susan Hayward) who take over a parish in a small Georgia town. Barbara Bates, Rory Calhoun and Alexander Knox co-star in a story adapated from the popular novel by Cora Harris.
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 If I Had a Million (1932) - This story of a dying billionaire who leaves his money to eight random strangers in the middle of the Depression rather than giving it to his scheming family features an all-star cast, including Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles, Roscoe Karns, George Raft, Jack Oakie, and May Robson. The multi-story format was unique. Directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. One of the most underrated films of the 30s, never released on DVD.
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 Illicit (1931) - Barbara Stanwyck stars in a pre-Code film about the negative impact of marriage on a relationship! Ahead of its time for the 30s, a little dated today, but still interesting for the issues it confronts.
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 Imitation General (1958) - A classic military comedy of errors starring Glenn Ford, in one of his patented deadpan performances, as a sergeant pretending to be an officer, ably supported by Red Buttons (fresh off his Oscar-winning performance in Sayonara the year before) with Dean Jones and Tige Andrews. Very funny, with lots of action to boot.
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 Inside Daisy Clover (1965) - Natalie Wood received a deserved Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled and exploited teenage star (a subject she was no doubt familiar with) who struggles to find her identity. Great supporting cast includes a young Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer, Roddy McDowall, and Ruth Gordon, who won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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 Intruder in the Dust (1949) - Based on a novel by William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust is one of the earliest movies to deal with racial prejudice in the deep South. Though largely forgotten today, it covers much of the same ground as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), but more than a dozen years earlier. Juano Hernandez is excellent as a black man unfairly accused of murder, while Claude Jarman Jr. (of The Yearling fame) is a young white boy who helps him.
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 Invitation (1952) - Dorothy McGuire plays a woman who discovers that her father paid her husband, played by Van Johnson, to marry her. One of McGuire's best performances, and Johnson is no slouch, either. Supporting actors Ruth Roman and Louis Calhern are also outstanding.
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 The Irish In Us (1935) - James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are brothers who fight over Olivia de Havilland in this routine but enjoyable WB comedy set in New York. Lots of stereotypes, including the performances by Frank McHugh as the fireman brother and Allen Jenkins as a punch-drunk boxer.
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 Island of Lost Souls (1933) - Charles Laughton is scary and Bela Lugosi is creepy in this excellent first talkie version of the H.G. Wells novel "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (there was a German silent version in 1921). Richard Arlen is the perfect "everyman" as the hero who discovers the secret of the island.
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 It All Came True (1940) - This little-known Bogart film is actually a musical - but don't worry, Bogie doesn't sing! He's a gangster hiding out at a boarding house and turning it into a nightclub. Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn and a good supporting cast (including Zasu Pitts and Felix Bressart) take care of the entertaining, while Bogart (spoiler alert) gets to "take the fall."
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 It Grows on Trees (1952) - A long out-of-print film that many people remember from their youth (though many can't come up with the title!). Irene Dunne plays a yard sale-addicted woman who stumbles upon two money trees, much to the chagrin of her befuddled husband, played by a typecast Dean Jagger. Irene Dunne's final theatrical film, and one of Richard Crenna's first. We have recently acquired an upgraded copy which includes the opening credits and offers better picture and sound quality.
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 It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) - One of the films I've been asked about most during the past decade, this thoroughly charming story of a hobo who moves into a 5th Avenue mansion during the winter season while the owners are away has achieved virtual cult status. Nominated for Best Original Story. Starring Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, and Alan Hale, Jr. Not a great copy, but the best we could find after years of searching.
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 It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Ray Milland stars as a physics professor who invents a substance that makes a baseball impossible to hit, making him an instant pitching sensation. Cute comedy with good special effects for the era, but a real hoot if you're a baseball fan. With Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Ed Begley, and Ray Collins.
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 It's a Wonderful World (1939) - Not to be confused with the similarly named It's a Wonderful Life (also starring Jimmy Stewart), this screwball comedy pairing Stewart and Claudette Colbert is a film you will either love or hate, depending upon your fondness for screwball comedies. Strong supporting performances are delivered by Guy Kibbee, Edgar Kennedy and Nat Pendleton.
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