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Join us the last Saturday of every month at 9pm on PATV Channel 18 for Trivia and a Movie! You will see the best and the best of the worst in public domain movies. Througout the movie you will be asked a total of five questions. Write down your answers and email them to smartestiowan@gmail.com. If you answer at least four questions correctly, you win a PATV prize! Thanks for watching PATV Channel 18!

February 25: Vengeance Valley (1951)
In this western starring Burt Lancaster, a cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father’s empire all to himself.

Past episodes:

January 28: Two Weeks to Live (1943)
When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.

December 31: Scrooge (1935)
Scrooge is a British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost.

October 29: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.

September 24: Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
A science-fiction film about an extraterrestrial space ship landing on Earth to use it as a farm for its food supply.

August 27: The Golem (1920)
In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery, brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

July 30: Fear in the Night (1947)
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.

June 25: Royal Wedding (1951)
This Hollywood musical comedy film is known for Fred Astaire’s dance performance on a ceiling and with a coat rack.

May 28: Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
In this sequel to Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

May 21: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
A deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star.

May 14: A Star is Born (1937)
Janet Gaynor stars as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who helps launch her career.

May 7: Gulliver’s Travels (1939)
The story is based upon the Lilliputian adventures of Gulliver depicted in Jonathan Swift’s 18th century novel Gulliver’s Travels.

April 30: His Girl Friday (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.