Manka Bros. Film Library
The World's Largest Film Library
1930 - 1939
The Brothers Kielbasa (1932) - The classic Bulgarian story of two juggling brothers who risk everything to come to America from Bulgaria to juggle in order to send money home to their starving, oppressed family. [The movie was so successful, studio head Khan Manka was able to buy a 300 room, 100,000 square foot mansion on the 'Gold Coast' of Long Island's North Shore. The film was remade in 1964, directed by then studio head Harry Manka, to lesser returns. Harry Manka actually had to sell one of his houses after that debacle.]
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Rachel, The Demon's Cousin (1932) - The World's First Animated Feature With Sound! [This fact is disputed by several different studios in several different countries.] Tells the story of milkmaid Rachel Bramowitz who has always had a horrifying secret that she has kept from her Bulgarian village - that she has a cousin who is a demon and he coming to visit over the Easter holidays!
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The Little Match Girl (1933) - Little Jimmy stars as the poor little girl from the famous fairy tale.
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The Missouri Compromise (1934) - Dramatic retelling of the controversy surrounding the admittance of Missouri as a state.
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High Horse (1936) - Singing cowboy movie starring Johnny Rider. He's the best rodeo cowboy around... he knows it, the ladies know it. [This movie also featured Keester McCoy who was hated by everyone on the set for his drunken prima dona behavior. He was 'accidentally' shot in the back during filming. He survived but no one really wanted him to.]
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The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage (1937) - Manka Bros.’ ‘The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage’ (an animated feature based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale) is released months ahead of another Brothers Grimm-based feature - Walt Disney’s ‘Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.’ While Manka’s was first (and many say better), Disney’s was slightly more successful.
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Wagner's Parrot (Khan Manka's Death) (1937) - Bird with a Svengali-like influence over famous German composer Richard Wagner. [Studio founder Khan Manka (Sr.) dies mysteriously (many say he was murdered) during a private screening of ‘Wagner’s Parrot.’ He was 55 years old.]
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The Adventures of Jackboot Jimmy And Shinny McFarland: Coeds Are Better Than One (1937) - After the untimely demise of Frank 'Keester' McCoy, Jimmy teams with former child star McFarland in this kooky campus romp, featuring the new element of Jimmy kicking McFarland in the shins whenever they're in a pinch.
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Classic Story (1938) - The classic story of a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and his search for non-fictional love.
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