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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN
KIDD |
Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables
at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to
Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to
Skull Island to find said treasure. |
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE
INVISIBLE MAN |
Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing
his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an
invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the
police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight
champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help. |
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS |
Covers the period from Lincoln's early
years as a Kentucky woodsman until his election to the Presidency in 1860.
Included are his first love, his marriage, the Illinois law practice and his
debates with Stephen Douglas. |
ACROSS THE BRIDGE |
Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a
German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word
that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has
committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient
time to take an inconspicuous train to Mexico where he can escape
extradition. He miscalculates, and his crime has become headline news before
he can cross the border. He drugs and switches identities with fellow train
passenger Paul Scarff, who looks like him and has a Mexican passport. He
throws him off the train but later discovers that Scarff is wanted in Mexico
as a political assassin. Schaffner must double back and track down Scarff to
get his original passport back. He allows himself to be taken to Mexico as
Scarff, where he declares his true identity to local police because as
Schaffner he is not wanted there. The local police... |
ACT ONE |
Moss Hart's best-selling autobiography
provided the basis for this colorful backstage story. The film depicts Hart
as a struggling young playwright in 1929, searching for a sympathetic
impresario. Although his manuscript is rejected by a Broadway tycoon, a less
prominent manager finally agrees to produce it - on the condition that Hart
will get George S. Kaufman, a leading comedy writer, to collaborate on the
final script. Hart sets out to convince Kaufman of his play's value, and so
begins one of the most famous partnerships in the American theatre. |
ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES'
SMARTER BROTHER |
Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is
annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When
Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly
tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational
tricks. |
ADVENTURES OF MARTIN EDEN |
Author writes about his experiences
sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published. |
AFRICAN QUEEN |
September 1914, news reaches the colony
German Eastern Africa that its motherland is at war, so Reverend Samuel Sayer
became a hostile foreigner; German imperial troops burn down his mission,
driving him mad- shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose Sayer
buries him and leaves by the only available transport, the crummy river
steamboat 'African Queen' of grumpy boorish compatriot Charlie Allnut. As if
a long difficult journey without any comfort weren't bad enough for such odd
companions, she is determined to find a way to do their bit for the British
war effort (and revenge her brother) and aims high as God is obviously on
their side: construct their own equipment, a torpedo and the converted
steamboat, to take out a huge German warship, the Louisa, which is hard to
find on the giant lake and first of all to reach, in fact as daunting an
expedition as nobody attempted since the late adventurous explorer John
Speakes... |
AFTER THE FOX |
Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the
Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise.
After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again
with his friends, and plans to retrieve the "gold of Cairo" a large
shipment of gold, that waits to be unloaded somewhere in Italy. Aldo devices
the perfect plan. Posing as a famous director, he finds the ideal coastal
village to unload the shipment, and persuades the entire population that he
has chosen their village as the set for his new movie. Everybody, including
the idiot chief of the local police is so excited, that they can't even
imagine that in fact they are helping the Fox to get the "gold of
Cairo"... |
AIRPLANE |
Still craving for the love of his life,
Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member
of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the
crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted. |
AIRPORT '77 |
A luxury 747 carrying valuable art work is
hijacked and lands in the ocean, submerged in shallow water. Will the crew
and passengers make it off before the plane floods with water? |
ALL ABOUT EVE |
Aspiring actress Eve Harrington maneuvers
her way into the lives of Broadway star Margo Channing, playwright Lloyd
Richards and director Bill Sampson. This classic story of ambition and
betrayal has become part of American folklore. Bette Davis claims to have
based her character on the persona of film actress Talullah Bankhead. Davis'
line "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" is
legendary, but, in fact, all of the film's dialog sparkles with equal
brilliance. |
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT |
This is an English language film (made in
America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film
follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning
of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely
through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the
tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and
mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about "the enemy"
and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them
angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally
wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life
while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism
but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and
the actuality. |
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES |
Sensitive study of a headstrong high
school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western
Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious
coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the
player's dreams. |
ANATOMY OF A MURDER |
Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a
lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney
Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his
wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the
police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is
defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer.
During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently
possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving
her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to
make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than
Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion
pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak,
sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion. |
ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER |
Gangster Eddie Kagel is killed by a
trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr's special-effects
Hell, where Nick/The Devil sees that he is an-exact double for a judge who
Nick doesn't approve of. Eddie is agreeable to having his soul transferred to
the judge's body, as it will give him a chance to avenge himself on his
killer. But every action taken by Eddie (as the judge) results in good rather
than evil and, to Nick's dismay, the reputation and influence of the judge is
enhanced, rather than impaired by Eddie. And Eddie also falls in love with
the judge's fiancée, Barbara. Even Eddie's planned revenge fails and Nick is
forced to concede defeat. He returns to Hell, taking Eddie with him, after
Eddie has extracted his promise that Nick will not molest the judge or
Barbara in the future. |
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES |
Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were
tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's
Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to
be a first class criminal. Jerry, who had escaped from the law, goes straight
and becomes a priest. As adults, they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry
works with the kids who, like he and Rocky, could end up on either side of
the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get
back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner
isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks, roughhousing and
gunfire ensues. |
ANIMAL CRACKERS |
Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer,
returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A
painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it.
Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for--this is the Marx
Brothers, after all... |
ANNIE HALL |
Romantic adventures of neurotic New York
comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film
traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves
as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s. |
ARIZONA |
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering
pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for
California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey
and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and
Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She
has not seen the last of Peter, however. |
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE |
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and
author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married
at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip
home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he
finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the
cellar. It gets worse. |
AT THE CIRCUS |
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus,
owes his partner Carter $10000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his
accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli
and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find
the thief and get the money back. |
ATTIC |
Woman librarian devotes life to caring for
wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She
fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. Monkey
disappears and a shocking past is revealed. |
AUTHOR! AUTHOR! |
Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb
from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want
rewrites. His tramp wife is leaving him, leaving him as well with four
children from her previous marriages plus his own son. And his lead actress
wants to move in with him but isn't used to kids. |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE
PITTMAN |
In February, 1962, as the civil rights
movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to
interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story
dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended, a long walk toward
freedom, marriage to Joe Pittman, her adopted son Ned's work as an educator,
helping to raise Jimmy, who returns as a civil rights worker, and her own
decision to become involved in contemporary issues. In between the chapters
of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by
Jimmy, are dramatized. |
BABES IN TOYLAND |
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow
money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother
Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil
Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum
instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their
caverns to destroy Toyland. |
BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL |
Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small
Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band. He is being
pressured by his foster mother to give up his singing and go back to school.
His wife, Georgette, and young daughter unexpectedly come to town to live
with him. However Henry's hot temper leads him into knife fights, and
jeopardizes his parole. |
BACK STREET |
A woman's love for and devotion to a
married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of
his life. |
BAD COMPANY |
A group of naive boys find that life as
desperadoes in the west is more serious that they understood when they embark
on abortive careers in bushwhacking. Violence, betrayal, sombre colours and a
Beckettsian whimsy mark this ironic western. |
BALCONY |
Shelley Winters is the madame of a house
where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution
which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police
(Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure
the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers
to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the
revolution. |
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER |
During World War II, 19 year old soldier
Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of
this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the
roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura who is on her way
to her aunt. In those few days traveling together they fall in love. |
BAND OF ANGELS |
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War,
Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy
plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he
dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that
her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually
a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off
her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amantha is also to be sold
as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and
over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She
tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies
elsewhere. |
BANK DICK |
Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the
e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken
film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as
guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is
teller. Souse persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank
examiner shows up. Can Souse keep him occupied for four days? The climax is
an extended chase sequence. |
BATTLE OF CASINO-Docu |
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BATTLE OF THE BULGE-D |
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BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN |
Based on the historical events the movie
tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a
protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a
riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in
their home port Odessa. |
BEACHCOMBER |
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of
the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but
the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing"
brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable
Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays
him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera
threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread. |
BEAT THE DEVIL |
A quartet of international crooks --
Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their
steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed
for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land
supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have
similar designs. |
BEAU HUNKS |
Jilted by his girlfriend,
"Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget,
bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and
under the harsh discipline of the Commandant. On a long march to reinforce
remote Fort Arid, the boys get lost in the sands, finally reaching the Fort
only to find it besieged by the fearsome Riffs. |
BED SITTING ROOM |
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England,
where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the
ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick,
muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing
"God Save Mrs. Etheyl Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Etheyl Shroake", they
wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the
police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into
a parrot, cupboard, or even, yes, a bed sitting room with "No Wogs"
scrawled in the grime on it's windows. In particular, this story revolves
around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in
one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next
compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search
of a nurse for the heavily pregnant girl. |
BEDTIME STORY |
Benson, is a Casanova who despises women
and invents all sorts of tricks to bed them and leave them. His favorite one
is going through Germany posing as an American GI of Teunonic extraction.
Whenever he spots a girl he likes, he takes a Polarod picture of her house,
knocks on the door waving the photo and pretending to be on a pilgrimage to
this very cottage his grandmother so vividly described. It is an infallible
system for a hit-and-run seduction. Benson seems content with his game until
he meets Jamison, a real operator who has learned to combine sex with money.
Jamison poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed
but also to bestow their jewels on him for the sake of the counterrevolution.
Benson decides to corner Jamison's market on sex plus finance. A contest
develops, and whoever wins will dominate a small Riviera resort as "King
of the Mountain," the film's original title. Remade in 1988 as
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." |
BEFORE WINTER COMES |
Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied
Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates
between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry
with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of assigning the
displaced persons into either the American or Russian zones. |
BEND OF THE RIVER |
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn
McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from
Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of
Portland and as winter nears, it is necessary for McLyntock and Cole to
rescue and deliver food and supplies being held in Portland by corrupt
officials. On the trip back to the settlement, up river and over a mountain,
Cole engineers a mutiny to divert the supplies to a gold mining camp for a
handsome profit. |
BENNY GOODMAN STORY |
Bio of swing band leader 'Benny Goodman'
from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Not
exactly historically accurate, but great music. Also, guest appearances by
many great musicians of the time. |
BEST MAN |
The other party is in disarray. Five men
vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the
first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want
the job. |
BEST OF ENEMIES |
Meet the craziest pair of soldiers ever to
play at war! - they're both prisoners - but who captured whom? |
BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES |
The story concentrates on the social
re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station
of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but
finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial
realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to
hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands
burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings
are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a
crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of
many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came
marching home. |
BEWARE |
Ware College is a small Black college in
Ware, Ohio. Once prominent, it is now low in attendance, low in enrollment
and low on money; and at a meeting with instructors Drury and Annabelle
Brown, Dean Hargreaves reveals that CEO Benjamin Ware III, grandson of the
college's founder, claims the estate of his late grandfather is now also
destitute, which they believe is untrue and a result of Annabelle's having
spurned his affections. They decide to appeal to their famous alumni for
financial help thru a reunion, and invitations are sent. Many could help; but
surely not Lucius Jordan, a timid lad who loved Annabelle too but dropped out
under pressure from Ware. What they don't know is, he's now Louis Jordan,
king of swing and leader of the Tympani Band. By accident, Jordan and his
band's train is sidelined in Ware for repairs and when he learns of the
college's plight. |
BICYCLE THIEF |
A man and his son search for a stolen
bicycle vital for his job. |
BIG BROADCAST OF 1938 |
New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to
race its rival, the Colossal. Gigantic owner T.F. Bellows sends his brother
S.B. on the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble; delayed by a golf game,
S.B. lands on Gigantic instead, and so does his unlucky daughter Martha.
Meanwhile, radio emcee Buzz Fielding announces a series of musical acts and
tries to juggle fiancée Dorothy and three ex-wives who've come for the ride.
Can the Gigantic win against all handicaps? Will true love triumph? |
BIG BUS |
The ultimate disaster film parody. A
nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued
by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the
Oil lobby. When the driver is injured a washed up, down on his luck, but used
to be great type, who as it happens, used to be engaged to the inventor's
daughter is brought in to drive the giant bus which includes a one lane
swimming pool and a one lane bowling alley. |
BIG CLOCK |
When powerful publishing tycoon Earl
Janouth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins
to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man, whose identity he doesn't
know, but who just happen to have contact with the murder victim. That man is
a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this
"killer" George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to
"help" Janouth, to elude the police and to find proof of his
innocence and Janouth's guilt. |
BIG DEAL ON MADONNA ST |
Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the
break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a
receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other
members of the gang. Though they are advised by Dante, a retired burglar, the
task is not so easy... |
BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY |
A naive couple and a child arrive to the
town on the way to San Antonio, Texas to buy a farm there. There is a poker
game between the richest men in the region. The man cannot resist it and
though he is a very bad poker player, enters the game betting all the money
of his family. In the climax of the game he suffers a heart-attack. His wife
then takes his place in the table. That's the only way of recovering their
savings. But there is a little problem. Can anybody explain her how to play
poker? |
BIG JAKE |
The McCandles ranch is run over by a gang
of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain. They kidnap little Jacob McCandles
and hold him for a million dollar ransom. There is only one man who is brave
enough and smart enough to bring him back and that man is Big Jake. |
BIG SLEEP |
Summoned by the dying General Sternwood,
Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his
family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of
Sternwood's favoured employee who has left with a mobster's wife. Each of the
problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes. |
BIG SLEEP |
Set in England, rather than California,
the story follows Raymond Chandler's book fairly closely otherwise. Philip
Marlowe is asked by the elderly (and near death) General Sternwood to
investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters. He soon finds
that the attempt is half hearted at best and seems to be more connected with
the disappearance of the other daughter's husband, Rusty Regan. Rusty's wife,
seems unconcerned with his disappearance, further complicating the mystery.
Only General Sternwood seems concerned as mobsters and hired killers continue
to appear in the path of the investigation. |
BIG STORE |
A detective is hired to protect the life
of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's
crooked manager. The Phelps Department Store is about to be sold by its new
part owner, Tommy Rogers with the permission of Martha Phelps, the dowager
co-owner. The current manager doesn't want this as the irregularities in the
books will show up. When an attempt is made on Tommy's life, Martha enlists
the worst private eye in the world to protect him, Wolf J. Flywheel. |
BILL OF DIVORCEMENT |
After spending fifteen years in an asylum,
Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He
finds that things at home are different than when he left them. His wife has
divorced him and is already planning her next marriage, and his daughter has
grown up throughout the years and is planning to marry as well. |
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MOTORCYCLE KINGS |
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his
team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the
road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in
the 1930's. |
BIRCH INTERVAL |
Thought-provoking community and family
studies film. Among the issues addressed are forcing a local Amish population
to send their children to public school. |
BLACKMAIL |
Alice White is the daughter of a
shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard
detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Frank takes
Alice out one night, but she has secretly arranged to meet another man. Later
that night Alice agrees to go back to his flat to see his studio. The man has
other ideas and as he tries to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him
with a bread knife. When the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the
case, he quickly determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else
and blackmail is threatened. |
BLOCKHEADS |
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war
is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a
French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to
visit Stan at the Soldier's Home. Thinking Stan is disabled (it's just that
he's sitting on his leg), Oliver takes pity on him and takes him home for a
nice home-cooked meal. But Oliver's wife has other ideas and leaves him to
fend for himself. After blowing up the kitchen, Oliver is helped by his
next-door neighbor, Mrs. Gilbert... until the big-game hunting Mr. Gilbert
comes home unexpectedly, carrying a shotgun. |
BLUE ANGEL |
Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a
professor at the town's university. When he discovers that some of his pupils
often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he
comes there to confront them. But he is attracted to Lola. The next night he
comes again--and does not sleep at home. This causes trouble at work and his
life takes a downward spiral. |
BLUE LAGOON |
Two children are shipwrecked on a
desert-island and fall in love while growing up together. |
BLUES FOR LOVERS |
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BOOMERANG |
This dramatization of a factual incident
opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while
waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from
the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous
out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime,
no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the
case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's
innocence. |
BORN FREE |
Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game
warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity,
Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the
lioness can return to a free life. |
BORN YESTERDAY |
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry
Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two,
bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. Brock hires
newspaperman Paul Verrall to see if he can soften her rough edges and make
her more presentable in capital society. But Harry gets more than he
bargained for as Billie absorbs Verall's lessons in U.S. history and not only
comes to the realization that Harry is nothing but a two-bit, corrupt crook,
but in the process also falls in love with her handsome tutor. |
BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE |
Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as
P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of
Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van
Johnson)hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the
penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It
was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was
convicted. Donald has escaped and wants his brother to help him across the
Santa Cruz River into the Mexico-side Nogales, where his wife (Shirley
Patterson as Shawn Smith)and children (Kim Charney and Sandy Deschler) are in
dire straits. The straits get even dier when P.M. tells him the river is
flooded and it will be days before anyone can cross. And P.M. is all
a'twitter because his wife Nora (Ruth Roman), whom he married after Donald
had gone to prison, doesn't know about his jail-bird brother. |
BOY TEN FEET TALL |
A young boy living in Port Said, Egypt,
narrowly escapes a bomb blast that destroys the apartment block where he
lives. After discovering that both his parents were killed in the explosion,
he decides to travel (on foot) to Durban, South Africa, to be with his only
living relative, an aunt. During his 4500 mile journey across africa he has
many adventures including a first hand experience with the slave trade and
living for a time with a band of poachers and criminals. After several months
of travel he finally arrives at his destination. |
BOYS OF PAUL STREET |
An extraordinary war film. |
BRAINSTORM |
A young scientist saves an attractive
married woman from a suicide attempt, becomes romantically involved with her,
plots to kill her husband, and then fakes insanity to escape the murder
charge. |
BRAVE BULLS |
Matador suddenly feels a fear that
previously he had not felt in the invincibility that comes with
healthy-macho-youth. |
BREAKER MORANT |
During the Boer War, three Australian
lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under
orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to
distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does
not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence
puts up a strong fight in the courtroom. |
BREAKING AWAY |
Best friends Dave, Mike, Cyril and Moocher
have just graduated from high school. Living in the college town of
Bloomington, Indiana, they are considered "cutters": the working
class of the town so named since most of the middle aged generation, such as
their parents, worked at the local limestone quarry, which is now a swimming
hole. There is great animosity between the cutters and the generally wealthy
Indiana University students, each group who have their own turf in town. The
dichotomy is that the limestone was used to build the university, which is
now seen as being too good for the locals who built it. Although each of the
four is a totally different personality from the other three, they also have
in common the fact of being unfocused and unmotivated in life. The one slight
exception is Dave. Although he has no job and doesn't know what to do with
his life, he is a champion bicycle racer... |
BRIAN'S SONG |
Gale Sayers joins the Chicago Bears and is
befriended by Brian Piccolo, an over-achieving running back. Although they
compete for the same spot on the team, and despite the fact that Sayers is
black and Piccolo white, they become roommates on the road and very close
friends, especially when Sayers is injured and Piccolo helps his recovery.
Later, they and their wives must both deal with the harsh reality of
Piccolo's cancer. |
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI |
The film deals with the situation of
British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a
bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage
the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson, they are persuaded
that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit
and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire
Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his
principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito. He is an
honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive.
He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but
actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction
becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the
Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden and an American,
Shears, to blow up the bridge. |
BRIGHTY OF GRAND CANYON |
The adventures and misadventures of a
shaggy little burro and a boy. |
BROADWAY |
George Raft, playing himself, recalls his
days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also
one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most
notorious gangsters. |
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE |
Danny Rose is a manager of artists, and
although he's not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to
help his acts. So when Lou Canova, a singer who has a chance of making a
come-back, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. This
problem is Lou's mistress Tina. Lou wants Tina to be at his concerts,
otherwise he can't perform, but he's married, so Danny has to take her along
as if she was his girlfriend. Danny however gets more than he has bargained
for when two mobsters come looking for the guy who has hurt their brother by
stealing the heart of Tina, the girl he loves. |
BUDDENBROOKS |
The sweeping tale of the rise and fall of
a wealthy German merchant family. |
BUDDY SYSTEM |
A quiet school truant officer, Joe,
uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and
subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant
officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again
girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he
chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother.
Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and
attempts to get it back. |
BULLITT |
High profile San Francisco Police
Lieutenant Frank Bullitt is asked personally by ambitious Walter Chalmers,
who is in town to hold a US Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime,
to guard Johnny Ross, a Chicago based mobster who is about to turn evidence
against the organization at the hearing. Chalmers wants Ross' safety at all
cost, or else Bullitt will pay the consequences. Bullitt and his team of
Sergeant Delgetti and Detective Carl Stanton have Ross in protective custody
for 48 hours over the weekend until Ross provides his testimony that upcoming
Monday. Bullitt's immediate superior, Captain Bennet, gives Bullitt full
authority to lead the case, no questions asked for any move Bullitt makes.
When an incident occurs early during their watch, Bullitt is certain that
Ross and/or Chalmers are not telling them the full story to protect Ross
properly. Without telling Bennet or an incensed Chalmers... |
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE
KID- |
Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of
the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and
skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train
once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they
run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind
them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea,
"Let's go to Bolivia". Based on the exploits of the historical
characters. |
BYE BYE BRAYERMAN |
Friends gather for the funeral of a
friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the
funeral of their friend, Braverman. |
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI |
Francis, a young man, recalls in his
memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went
through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan
visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor
shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his
death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that
he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis
suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr.
Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but
softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another
murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens because of the noise, and he
and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his
pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground... |
CACTUS FLOWER |
Toni Simmons believes that the only reason
her married lover won't leave his wife is because of the children. In truth,
her lover, dentist Julian Winston, doesn't have any children. In fact, Julian
doesn't even have a wife - he just tells women he does to avoid getting
involved. When Julian does decide to take the plunge with Toni she insists on
meeting the first wife and Julian enlists the aid of his long-time
nurse/receptionist Stephanie Dickinson to play the part. |
CAINE MUTINY |
During the Second World War, onboard a
small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike
any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A Ship's Captain is
removed from his command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act
of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it is then learned that the
Captain of the ship was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must
then decide: was the Caine Mutiny a criminal act? Or an act of courage to
save a ship from destruction at the hands of her Captain. |
CAMILLE |
Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She
falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's
father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying
Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and
terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost
his love for her. |
CANDIDATE |
Californian lawyer Bill McKay fights for
the little man. His charisma and integrity get him noticed by the Democratic
Party machine and he is persuaded to run for the Senate against an apparently
unassailable incumbent. It's agreed he can handle it his own way, on his own
terms. But once he's in the race and his prospects begin to improve, the deal
starts to change. |
CANDLESHOE |
Small time crook Harry Bundage discovers
that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans
and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure.
Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey
Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost
granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure.
Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and
Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride.
Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler,
gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time! |
CANNONBALL RUN |
A wild, illegal, and popular cross-country
car race is organized, and the eccentric entrants will do anything to win,
including low-down, dirty tricks. |
CAPE FEAR |
Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life
becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8
years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady
has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family, particularly
targeting Bowden's daughter, Nancy. Initially, Cady uses his newfound
knowledge of the law (learned in prison) to annoy the Bowdens, then poisons
the family dog... Who's next ? |
CAPRICORN ONE |
Charles Brubaker is the astronaut leading
NASA's first manned mission to Mars. Seconds before the launch, the entire
team is pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned much to
Brubaker's anger. The head of the programme explains that the life support
system was faulty and that NASA can't afford the publicity of a scratched
mission. The plan is to fake the Mars landing and keep the astronauts at a
remote base until the mission is over, but then investigative journalist
Robert Caulfield starts to suspect something. |
CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS |
Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in
Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money,
but he marries the girl-friend of one of them. After listening to Churchill's
famous "Blood, Sweat and tears" radio address he and some other
pilots decide to join the RCAF - and his superior is always the pilot who's
girlfriend he has married. Due to this and the fact, that McLean doesn't like
to obey he gets troubles. |
CARBINE WILLIAMS |
This is the story of David Marshall
'Marsh' Williams, the real life inventor of the world famous M-1 Carbine
automatic riffle used in WWII. It all started when Marsh, who was one to do
things his way, was caught distilling moonshine, and was accused and convicted
of shooting a federal officer in the process. This at first placed him in the
chain gang which labeled him as a hard case. Later, to make room for those
more deserving, he was moved to a prison farm, where he came under the
direction of Captain H.T. Peoples. The Captain was a mild mannered warden,
who did not shy from discipline when necessary, but also believed that given
the opportunity, most men will respond to good. Believing that Marsh was just
such a person, the Captain gave him every opportunity to reform, so much so,
that he eventually allowed Marsh to work in the tool shop on his spare time
to develop and build by hand, a working riffle, inside the prison farm
itself. |
CARETAKERS |
This movie chronicles the trials of the
mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr.
MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to start an
out-patient program for the women in the ward. His method of treating
mentally ill patients without violence or punishment is met with resistance
by the head nurse, Lucretia Terry (Joan Crawford). During Dr. MacLeod's
treatment, the phobias and illnesses of the various women in the test group
are explored. |
CAREY TREATMENT |
Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a
Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an
illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao
is accused of performing the abortion. Carey doesn't buy it, and so he digs
deeper, angering the girl's father in the process. Questions abound: Who
performed the abortion? Was the girl really pregnant? And what does it have
to do with stolen morphine, blackmail attempts, and a mysterious and
dangerous masseur? |
CASABLANCA |
In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine,
exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot
in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two
valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca,
the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him,
including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's
surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter
towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good
reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit.
Well, that was their original plan.... |
CASSANDRA CROSSING |
"Outbreak" meets "The
Runaway Train" as a motley group of passengers are quarantined on a
train destined to prevent the spread of the disease at the cost of their
lives. Government intrigue, international smuggling, and the legend of the
Cassandra Crossing add to the suspense. |
CAT BALLOU |
Cat(herine) Balou's family farm is being
threatened by the Rail Road. She sends for Kid Shelleen, finding him to be
the drunkest gunfighter in the west. When her father is killed by the rail
road magnate's gunman, she vowes to fight on. Shelleen manages to ride
sideways in several scenes, while minstrels sing the ballad of Cat Ballou in
between scenes. |
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF |
The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach
the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware
that he's dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless
marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose
wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little
"no-neck monsters," celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his
family. Brick's wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully
to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and
taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt
about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of
Big Daddy's health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their
differences. |
CATCH 22 |
A bombardier in World War II tries
desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is
the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a
"military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general. |
CHAMPION |
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame
brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's
severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in
California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge
gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage
later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing.
Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes
more and more of a hero in public...and a heel in private. |
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA |
Regarded by many as the best of the
Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent
escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow performers (his
wife and her lover). Included in the movie is the opera "Carnival",
composed for the picture by Oscar Levant. |
CHASE |
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff
Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that
local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned
because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. It seems many others in
town feel they may have reasons to fear Reeves. Calder's aim is to bring
Reeves in alive, unharmed. Calder will have to oppose the powerful Rogers on
one hand and mob violence on the other, in his quest for justice. |
CHATO'S LAND |
After Pardon Chato, a mestizo, killed a US
marshal in self-defense, a posse pursues him, but as the white volunteers
advance deep in Indian territory they become more hunted then prey, leading
to internal strife. They rape Chato's woman, and are hunted down to the last
man by the unrelenting warrior. |
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN |
"Cheaper By the Dozen", based on
the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence,
Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes
found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the field of
motion study, and often used his family as guinea pigs (with amusing and
sometimes embarrassing results). He resisted popular culture,railing against
his daughters' desires for bobbed hair and comsmetics. |
CHECK and DOUBLE CHECK |
Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the
boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while
they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a
fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including
the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's
long-running characters. |
CHEYENNE AUTUMN |
When the government agency fails to
deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne tribe in
their barren desert reserve, the starving Indians have taken more abuse than
it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles journey back to
their ancestral hunting grounds. US Cavalry Capt. Thomas Archer is charged
with their retrieval, but during the hunt grows to respect their noble
courage, and decides to help them. |
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (FALSTAFF) |
Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this
compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays, made
into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's drinking
companion. The massive knight roisters with and without the prince,
philosophizes comically, goes to war (in his own fashion), and meets his
final disappointment, set in a real-looking late-medieval England. |
CHRISTMAS CAROL |
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob
Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as
Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences
in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three
ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those
events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The
second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently
celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will
be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their
visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways. |
CHUMPS AT OXFORD |
With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a
butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in
disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a
bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper
education. There they become victims of student pranks, getting lost in the
Maze and taking over the Dean's quarters as their own. But then a knock on
the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and
athlete extraordinaire. Suddenly erudite and supercilious, he retains Oliver
as his valet, "Fatty." |
CITIZEN KANE |
A group of reporters who are trying to
decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire
newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel
detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown
flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the
viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he
eventually fell off the "top of the world." |
CITY LIGHTS |
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful
blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off
friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and
suitor. |
CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS |
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied
with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper
girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night,
Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel
has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position
to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress… |
CLASH BY NIGHT |
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a
cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker
Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy
but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl. |
CLOAK AND DAGGER |
11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead
and whose father doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses
himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend, a super-resourceful
secret agent. When he accidentally comes into possession of a spy group's
secret plans, and winds up on the run from them, he must learn to rely on
himself and his imaginary pal to save his skin. But, in the end, Dad proves
to be his real hero. |
COCKLESHEEL HEROES |
A British Army Reserve Major must work
with a veteran Captain and a group of incorrigible recruits to attempt what
is generally regarded as a suicide mission: the covert destruction of an
entire German shipyard in occupied France. |
COCOANUTS |
Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel.
He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his
main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico
and Harpo, who also reduce the schemes of a pair of jewel thieves to chaos. A
subplot involves the star-crossed love of Polly Potter and architect Bob
Adams. |
COLLEGE |
Ronald's high school valedictory address
praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude.
He fears losing her to rival Jeff, decides to go to college and pay more
attention to sports. |
COLOR PURPLE |
This film follows the life of Celie, a
young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie,
she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30
years of her tough life... |
COME BACK AFRICA |
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of
Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid
government in 1959. |
COME BLOW YOUR HORN |
Story of a young man's decision to leave
the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a
swinging '60s lifestyle |
COMEDIANS |
Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc"
Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and
his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism.
Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged"
hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the
manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer. |
COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN |
Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies,
witches and love potions. |
CONRACK |
White Pat Conroy was born and raised in
Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District,
he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island,
an island in a South Carolina river delta, the island accessible only by
boat. The island is inhabited exclusively by blacks. He quickly learns that
his students, who have never left the island, lack not only a basic
understanding of academic items such as the alphabet and simple arithmetic,
but also of other basic necessities of life such as personal hygiene. They
can't even pronounce his name, they who call him Conrack. The teachers before
him, including the school principal Mrs. Scott, have always treated the
students as being slow and basically unteachable of academics. Conrack, a
free thinking man, decides to expose his students not only to the academic
subjects, but also to the gamut of life skills from brushing one's teeth to
human anatomy... |
COOGAN'S BLUFF |
Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New
York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from
Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't
ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process the prisoner
escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty handed,
Coogan sets out into the big city to recapture his prisoner. |
COOL HAND LUKE |
Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in
a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority,
keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as
Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!"
Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally
breaks. |
COUNTER-ATTACK |
Two Russians trapped in a collapsed
building with seven enemy German soldiers during World War II. |
COURT MARTIAL OF BILLIE MITCHELL |
The true story of General Billy Mitchell,
a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an
impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of
America's armed forces still think of the airplane as little more then a
carnival attraction. Even after sinking an "unsinkable" captured
German battleship from the air, Mitchell sees funds dry up and friends die
due to poor equipment. He is court-martialed after questioning the loyalty of
his superiors for allowing the air corp to deteriorate. |
COVER GIRL |
Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at
Danny McGuire's Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway
star. She enters a contest to be a 'Cover Girl' as a stepping-stone in her
career. She reminds the publisher, John Coudair, of his lost love, showgirl
Maribelle Hicks. He was engaged to Maribelle, although his wealthy society
mother made fun of her. Maribelle left John at the altar when she saw the
piano at her wedding. It reminded her of the piano-player she truly loved.
Rusty is Maribelle's granddaughter and there are musical sequences with
Maribelle dancing to songs from the beginning of the 20th century. Rusty
lands on the cover of her grandmother's former fiancé's magazine (as a
bride). She is pursued by Coudair's pal, the wealthy theatrical producer,
Noel Wheaton. He produces a lavish musical to star Rusty, surrounded by real
cover girls of the mid 1940's… |
CRY OF THE CITY |
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in
bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help
slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police
Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he
walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella
will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How
many others will he drag down to disaster with him? |
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY |
In the back country of South Africa, black
minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his
missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a
criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African
clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and
sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg. |
CYRANNO deBERGERAC |
France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic
swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane;
she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied
Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent
deception, with tragic results. Much cut from the play, but dialogue not
rewritten. |
D.O.A. |
Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes
to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula.
After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover;
doctors tell him he's been given a "luminous toxin" with no
antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why,
Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer. |
DALLAS |
After Confederate officer Blayde
Hollister's home and family are destroyed by the Marlowe brothers during the
Civil War, he swears revenge, refusing to surrender and becoming a wanted
man. In order to pursue the three brothers into Texas, Hollister fakes his
own death in a staged gunfight with his friend Wild Bill Hickock. He then
befriends Martin Weatherby, the newly appointed U.S. Marshal to Dallas, an
affable, but not very experienced lawman, who agrees to let Hollister assume
his identity. The eldest of the Marlow brothers, Will, masquerades as a
law-abiding real estate dealer while feigning righteous indignation over the
brutal acts of lawlessness and violence visited on the honest citizens of
Dallas by his sociopathic brothers, Cullen and Bryant. (Their parents were
evidently fond of the renowned poet William Cullen Bryant). When Hollister
becomes a rival for the affections of Weatherby's aristocratic fiancee Tonia
Robles... |
DAMN THE DEFIANT (aka H.M.S.
Defiant) |
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide
movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must
be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this
difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence
increases. |
DANTE'S INFERNO |
A movie about jealousy, and the complex
and painful relationship between Rossetti and his sickly wife, Elizabeth.
They are members of the upper-crust layer of society, bourgeois painters,
poets and philosophers. Rossetti struggles with his own emotions for his
wife, as she refuses his sexual advances before they marry, and, once they do
marry, she is unable to bear him any children. She believes he has
impregnated another woman (a model), commits suicide, and, as he chooses to
bury his best poems with her coffin, he is driven insane when confronted with
the idea of exhuming her coffin and retrieving the book to sell to his fans. |
DARK CITY |
Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut
down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker
from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually
Winant loses $5000 that isn't his...then hangs himself. But it seems Winant
had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And
each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in.
Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience. |
DARK COMMAND |
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives
in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary
McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's
just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the
Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the
opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the
respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems
however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is
dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and
his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a
group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize
settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms,
it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and
his raiders in one final clash. |
DARK PAST |
When a detective scoffs at his suggestion
that an 18 year-old criminal be referred for psychiatric examination Dr.
Andrew Collins, the police psychiatrist, tells him the story of his encounter
with Al Walker. Walker had a history of violence and killed the prison warden
during an escape. He and his gang took the Collins family and their friends
hostage but when Dr. Collins learns that Walker has a violent recurring
dream, he offers to help him decipher the dream and determine exactly what
has driven him to a life of crime and violence. |
DAVID AND LISA |
The emotional story of a young man in a
mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the
environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy
with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia. |
DAVID COPPERFIELD |
When David's father dies, his mother
remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to
raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to
London to work for a living. When David escapes to his aunt Betsey his life
starts to get better. |
DAY AND THE HOUR |
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in
a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village
where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with
food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans
want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to
drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese
discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with
the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house
there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the
Metro station trying to figure out the map? |
DAY AT THE RACES |
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy
try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a
few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't
know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine. |
DAY OF THE DOLPHIN |
Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a
pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his
dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited
vocabulary. When the dolphins are stolen, he discovers they're to be used in
an assassination attempt. Now he is in a race to discover who is the target,
and where the dolphins are, before the attempt is carried out. |
DAYS OF THRILLS and LAUGHTER |
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent
film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It
starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with
Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks, and into the 1920s with Max Roach, Snub
Pollard, Harry Langdon, Al St. John, Charlie Chase, and the teaming of Laurel
and Hardy. Thrillers feature Houdini and serials, with special attention to
Pearl White, Ruth Roland, and Monty Banks. The film often lets the silent
pictures speak for themselves, running entire one-reelers or significant
chunks of an old movie. |
DEAD RECKONING |
Rip Murdock and Johnny Darke are en route
to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that
Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out what he can. He
falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed. |
DEADLINE U.S.A. |
Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York
'Day', finds that the late owner's heirs are selling the crusading paper to a
strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an
opportunity to win back his estranged wife Nora. But when a reporter,
pursuing a lead on racketeer Rienzi, is badly beaten, Hutcheson is stung into
a full fledged crusade against the gangster, hoping Rienzi can be tied to a
woman's murder...in the 3 issues before the end of 'The Day.' |
DEADLY AFFAIR |
After Charles Dobbs, a security officer,
has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man
commits suicide. An anonymous typed letter had been received accusing Fennan
of being a Communist during his days at Oxford and their chat while walking
in the park was quite amiable. Senior officials want the whole thing swept
under the rug and are pleased to leave it as a suicide. Dobbs isn't at all
sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away.
Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much
loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend,
Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a
colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is
the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan. |
DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY |
Death decides to take a holiday from his
usual business to see what it is like to be a mortal. Posing as Prince Sirki,
he spends 3 days with Duke Lambert and his guests at his dukal estate.
Several of the women are attracted to the mysterious prince, but shy away
from him when they sense his true nature. But Grazia, the beautiful young
woman whom the Duke thought was to marry his son, loves him even when she
knows who he is. |
DEEP SIX |
The conflict between duty and conscience
is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery
officer Alec Austin... |
DELICATE BALANCE |
In Connecticut, Agnes and Tobias are an
upper-class married couple whose relationship has been uneasy for many years,
since at least the time their son died; but they've managed to find a certain
comfortable pattern of uneasiness. Agnes's sister, Claire, lives with them
and insists that her perpetual drinking is not alcoholism but willfulness.
Their daughter, Julia, poised to have her fourth divorce, has come back home.
Unexpectedly, her room has been taken over by Harry and Edna, best friends of
Tobias and Agnes. Seized by a nameless terror that propelled them out of
their own house, Harry and Edna have decided to stay. |
DESERT LEGION |
Paul Lartal leads a troop of legionnaires
into ambush at the hands of Omar Ben Calif. Returning later at the request of
Princess Morjana he is led to the hidden city of Madara, currently harrassed
by the evil Crito. Lartal must do in the bad guys (which includes
participating in a bare chested spear-throwing contest), save the city and
comfort the Princess. |
DESK SET |
The mysterious man hanging about at the
research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner,
who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office.
Department head Bunny Watson, who knows everything, needs no computer to
unmask Richard. The resulting battle of wits and witty dialogue pits Bunny's
fear of losing her job against her dawning attraction to Richard. |
DESPERATE HOURS |
After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin,
his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a
well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to
the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie who live there with their 19-year old
daughter Cindy and their young son Ralph. They plan on staying only until
midnight as Griffin is awaiting his girlfriend who will meet them with some
money he had stashed away. When she doesn't arrive, their stay stretches out
to several days. Dan Hilliard plays their game knowing that if he makes any
attempt to contact the police, his family could be caught in the crossfire. |
DESTRUCTORS |
When a US intelligence agent (Anthony
Quinn) is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron (James Mason) to justice, he
resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with
(Michael Caine) turns out to be an old friend. |
DEVIL AND MISS JONES |
Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds
that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better
working conditions. In order to find out who the organizers are, he gets a
job at the store as a shoe salesman. Not realizing his true identity, he's
befriended by Mary Jones and Joe O'Brien, the two ringleaders, and Elizabeth
Ellis, a charming older woman with whom he develops a romance. |
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK |
Based on Anne Frank's diary, and the stage
play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland, Otto Frank and his
family have decided to go into hiding, because of the increasing persecutions
against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding
place in the rooms above their place of business, and arrange for the Franks
and another family, the Van Daans, to stay there. Later on, they are joined
by the dentist Dussel. Together, they try to avoid detection while hoping for
Holland to be liberated by the Allies, but even meeting basic needs can
become a challenge, and even minor incidents could present a grave risk. |
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK |
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and
her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II. |
DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE |
Captain Burt Brickford is a deserter from
the U.S. Navy. Perez, a drug dealer, calls on him to captain the yacht Henry,
which features a group of so-called treasure hunters. |
DOCTOR STRANGELOVE |
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
of Burpelson Air Force Base, he believing that fluoridation of the American
water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy
through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without
the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper
knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication
in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's
executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from
Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the
recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at
the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear
scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr... |
DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK |
Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York
hotel where girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his
and they get chummy. When the girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters Nell
goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long
lost fiance. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little whacko. |
DOORWAY TO HELL |
Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to
organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate
each other. WIth the success of his leadership, Louie prospers, marries Doris
and retires to Florida to write his autobiography and play golf. In his
absence the gang warfare flares, but he does not return as he wants to give a
respectable image of life to his wife, younger brother and his Florida
neighbors. While letters and telegrams from Mileaway will not influence his
decision, events will. |
DOUBLE DYNAMITE |
Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to
marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating
and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious
shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile, get him out
of trouble...or in so deep he'll never get out? |
DR. ERLICH'S MAGIC BULLET |
Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician
who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The
film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the
then-new synthetic dyes and had an intuition that they could be useful in the
diagnosis of bacterial diseases. After this work met with success, Ehrlich
proposed that synthetic compounds could be made to selectively target and
destroy disease causing microorganisms. He called such a drug a "magic
bullet". The film describes how in 1908, after 606 attempts, he
succeeded. |
DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDE |
Based on the story by Robert Louis
Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men
- a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can
become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish
this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he
discontinues use of the drug it is already too late... |
DREAM OF KINGS |
A high-spirited Greek-American man in
Chicago's Greek community connives ways to find money in order to fly his
terminally-ill young son to Greece and Mt. Olympus in the hope that it will
cure him. |
DRUMS ALONG THE MORAWK |
In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes
his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote
and a distance from the fort but they are happy living in their one room
cabin. With the declaration independence, the settlers soon find themselves
at war with the British and their Indian allies. Their farm is burned out and
the Martins take work with Sarah McKlennar. The war continues however as the
Martins try to make a new life. |
DUCK SOUP |
The small state of Freedonia is in a
financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs.
Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy Rufus T.
Firefly and mayhem erupts. To make matters worse, the neighboring state sends
inept spies Chicolini and Pinky to obtain top secret information, creating
even more chaos! |
DUEL IN THE SUN |
Beautiful half-breed Pearl
Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself
torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. |
EARTH |
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily
opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. |
EAST OF EDEN |
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World
War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his
brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every
turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in
life, to how to relate to estranged mother. |
EIGHT IRON MEN |
Stanley Kramer's WW-II character study has
Lee Marvin as the Sergeant of a small squad laid over during fighting in
Italy. During the otherwise boring time between battles, tensions arise as
they are ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for
fear of risking more lives. Based on the stage play "A Sound of
Hunting", by Harry Brown. |
ELENI |
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets
posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to
know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel
plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to
survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's
investigations bring him closer to the answers. |
EMMIGRANTS: THE NEW LAND |
In the middle of the 19th century,
Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern
Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land.
However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad
harvests makes it tough. One of their children even starve to death. Thus,
they decide to emigrate to the U.S. They meet a group of farmers with their
families planing the emigration under the leadership of a banned priest. They
sell everything and embark for the U.S. The journey on the sailing ship is
long and tedious. Some of the emigrants will never reach the New World. |
END OF THE GAME |
While investigating a high-profile murder
case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad
conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and
interference from political interests. This is an existential whodunit, but a
good one, and like any good whodunit, ends with a very surprising conclusion,
which will be spoiled for you if you read much of anything at all about the
movie. |
ENTER LAUGHING |
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living
with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop.
His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really
wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend
Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it,
despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True,
it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a
washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his
actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." To play his part, David
must come up with his own costume - a tuxedo - and pay the house five dollars
a week, ostensibly for tuition. But it is David's first acting job, one which
calls for him to "enter laughing." And if it doesn't work out -
well, there's always pharmacy school. |
EYE OF THE CAT |
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the
mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps
dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats. |
EYEWITNESS |
Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated
on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily
to watch after work. When a wealthy Vietnamese man, with many shady
connections, is murdered in the office building where Daryll works, Tony
shows up to cover the story and Daryll introduce himself. She thinks he may
know something, so she pursues him; he pretends he might to keep her
interested. This romantic cat and mouse game goes on under the watchful eyes
of the killers, who think that Daryll and Tony do know something. The killers
start their own game of cat and mouse. |
F.B.I. STORY |
The story of the FBI unfolds through the
eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters,
swindlers, the klu klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies. |
FAIL SAFE |
A series of human and computer errors
sends a squadron of American 'Vindicator' bombers to nuke Moscow. The
President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders
the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them. |
FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN |
The true story of Christopher Boyce, a
young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters
his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes
chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy,
Daulton; it can't last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce
and his family. |
FALLEN IDOL |
Philippe, a diplomat's son and good friend
of Baines the butler, is confused by the complexities and evasions of adult
life. He tries to keep secrets but ends up telling them. He lies to protect
his friends, even though he knows he should tell the truth. He resolves not
to listen to adults' stories any more when Baines is suspected of murdering
his wife and no-one will listen to Philippe's vital information. |
FAME |
At the New York City High School for the
Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to
success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the
time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are
the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery
MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia. |
FAR COUNTRY |
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of
the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in
beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd
from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by
larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and
his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women
fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning
his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home. |
FAREWELL MY LOVELY |
This, the second adaptation of Raymond
Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original -
Murder, My Sweet, which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the
plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate
Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose
Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has
taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is
forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he
is able to locate Velma. |
FAREWELL TO ARMS |
A tale of the love between ambulance
driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action
takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at
nothing to be together. The film also analyses Lt. Henry's feelings on war
and the purpose of fighting. |
FARREBIQUE OU LES QUATRE SAISONS |
Farrebique is a barely fictionalized
account of the life of French peasants before major changes came to rural
areas. The grandparents speak in Occitan, and the younger generations in
French. The Sequel to this film BIQUEFARRE was filmed 38 years later in 1983! |
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH |
Follows a group of high school students
growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures
chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a
love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett
and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff
Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr.
Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. |
FAT CITY |
The film tells the story of two boxers and
their problems. One of them is on the decline of his career while the other
one just begins his ascent in this sport. |
FATHER CHRISTOPHER'S PRAYER (aka
The Spirit and the Flesh) |
Lumbardy, Italy, seventeenth century.
Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked
nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has
her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as
he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before
being reunited and being able to marry. |
FATSO |
Dominick has always been a big kid who
loved eating. It was his favourite thing. Then his cousin dies from health
complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. Antoinette,
Dominick's sister, makes him promise to see a diet doctor and lose some
weight. This is very hard for Dominick, but he tries. He also finds
motivation when he meets Lydia, and he discovers a love that is more intense
than his love of food. He spends so much time kissing and walking around with
Lydia that he no longer eats as many unhealthy things, and he loses weight
without even trying. |
FIFTY-FIVE DAYS AT PEKING |
Diplomats, soldiers and other
representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International
Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests
unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed
relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her
generals. |
FIRE OVER ENGLAND |
Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The
men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the
Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much
influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their
father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth
thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about
one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival
when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain. |
FIVE EASY PIECES |
Robert Dupea has given up his promising
career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives
together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from
his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him,
taking Rayette with him. There he gets confronted with his rich, cultured
family that he had left behind. |
FLAMINGO KID |
Jeffrey Willis has just finished high
school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to
go to college but he is starting to find his close-knit family stifling. He
gets a summer job at the Flamingo club where he meets Phil Brody, a
successful car dealer who fills Jeffrey's head with ideas about how to make
his fortune. Phil is everything Jeffrey would like to be - popular, rich and
the best gin rummy player the club has ever seen. Jeffrey's coming of age
includes a romance with the very pretty Carla Samson, but the shine on Phil
Brody's philosophy of life wears off when he uncovers a significant flaw in
his character. |
FLAP |
A hard-drinking, reckless-living Indian
named Flapping Eagle decides that his people have been pushed around by the
white man long enough. Mounting his horse H-Bomb, Flap proceeds to hijack a
railroad, lasso a helicopter, and begin the Last Great Indian Uprising. His
assaults on the Establishment provide an earnest indictment of Indian neglect
by the U.S. government. |
FLASH GORDEN CONQUERS THE
UNIVERSE Buster Crabbe Feat.version of serial |
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death,
ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship
from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the
Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and
Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and
Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is
found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to
keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest... |
FLIM FLAM MAN |
Mordrcai Jones (George C. Scott) is a
rural con artist (a 'flim flam man') who takes on a young army deserter
Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protégé and teaches him the tricks of the
trade. Sheriff Slade (Harry Morgan) is in hot pursuit of the pair and rich
girl Bonnie Lee Packard (Sue Lyon) becomes romantically involved with Curley
and helps the fleeing duo stay one step ahead of the sheriff. The film
features a great automobile chase scene for those who appreciate this kind of
cinema hijinks. Screenplay by William Rose ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World"). |
FLYING DEUCES |
Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that
Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already
married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins
the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them
charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape
in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride. |
FOOLS |
An aging actor finds himself falling for
the beautiful, and much younger, wife of an attorney. |
FOOTLIGHT PARADE |
Chester Kent produces Musical Comedies on
the stage. With the beginning of the talkies aera he changes to producing
short musical proluges for movies. But this is stressing him, because he
always needs new units and his rival is always stealing his ideas. So he can
get an contract with a producer, if he is able to stage in three days three
new proluges. In spite of great problems he does it. |
FOOTLIGHT VARIETIES |
A compilation of scenes and acts from
various comedy and musical shorts over the years. |
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT |
Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a
New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he
is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is
to get the inside story on a secret treaty agreed between two European
countries by the famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to
plan and Jones enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group
of spies. |
FORMULA |
A detective uncovers a formula that was
devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products,
thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil
company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who
knows about it. |
FORTY CARATS |
A forty year old woman who was vacationing
in Greece meets a twenty-two year old, who was also on vacation. They spend
the night together and she leaves him while he was sleeping. She then returns
to New York and she is stunned to learn that her daughter's boyfriend is him.
He then pursues her, and she is uncertain of what to do. |
FORTY-SECOND STREET |
Julian Marsh, an sucessful Broadway
director, produces a new show, inspite of his poor health. The money comes
from a rich old man, who is in love with the star of the show, Dorothy Brock.
But she doesn't reply his love, because she is still in love with her old
partner. At the night before the prmiere, Dorothy Brock breaks her ankle, and
one of the chorus girls, Peggey Sawyer tries to take over her part. |
FOUL PLAY |
When, unbeknownst to Gloria, a microfilm
cassette is left with her by a dying agent, she becomes entangled in a
complicated series of events. She's pursued by a dwarf and an albino, and
becomes convinced that they are out to kill her. Finally, with the help of
San Francisco detective Tony Carlson, she begins to turn the tables on her
pursuers. It becomes clear that the nerfarious crew after her are plotting a
dastardly deed indeed - to assassinate the Pope as he visits the city to see
_The Mikado_. Gloria and Tony must race against time to prevent this terrible
crime. |
FOUR POSTER |
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway
play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple
enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after
she has died from cancer. It is a "love" that endured wars, an
"other" woman, and the death of their favorite son. The episodes
are bridged and linked by cartoon sequences done by UPA (United Productions
of America.) |
FRANCES |
The true story of Frances Farmer's
meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she
was blacklisted. |
FRANKLIN DELANO
ROOSEVELT-Documentary. I.The New Deal, II TheWar Years |
|
FRENCH THEY ARE A FUNNY RACE |
A retired English officer living in Paris
combats his beautiful, frivilous wife over the best way to raise their child. |
FREUD |
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5
years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939).
At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients,
because they believe they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud
learns to use hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main
patient is a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued by always
the same nightmare. |
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY |
It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has
requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new
captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him
to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box
anymore, so Captain Holmes gets his subordinates to make his life a living
hell. Meanwhile Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, who has a
history of seeking external relief from a troubled marriage. Prew's friend
Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso'
Judson, and Prew begins falling in love with social club employee Lorene.
Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the
distance. |
FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF BASIL
FRANKENWEILER |
Precocious Claudia and her brother run
away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. |
FULL OF LIFE |
Writer Nick and his wife Emily are
expecting their first child. When a necessary home repair proves too costly
to afford, Nick must swallow his pride and visit his father, a proud
immigrant stonemason with whom he has a difficult relationship, and ask him
to do the work. Confronting the issues of religious and family tradition
which have separated father and son causes Nick and Emily to reevaluate their
lives and the things they value most. |
FUNNY GIRL |
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from
her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of
her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual
divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. |
FUNNY LADY |
1930s in New York. The famous singer Fanny
Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression
she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer
who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub. |
GAILY GAILY |
To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a
callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket
promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil
takes him under her wing, gives him a room in her high-class bordello, and
gets him a job at a newspaper. He's so sweet and dumb, he thinks Lil's is a
boarding house. He's soon caught up in an electoral struggle between a
secretly corrupt reformer and an openly corrupt councilman. Can Ben expose
corruption or will he be caught up in allure of power? An alcoholic
investigative reporter and the bordello's ingénue try to help him grow up. |
GALLANT HOURS |
A semi-documentary dramatization of five
weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr.,
from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific
to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal. |
GALLIPOLI |
The story of a group of young Australian
men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs
in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of
the Turkish army. |
GAMBIT |
Cockney cat burglar Harry Dean needs Hong
Kong dancer Nicole Chang's help to pull off the perfect heist. With a simple
makeover and a new wardrobe; Nicole's resemblance to wealthy recluse Mr.
Shahbandar's late wife is uncanny. While Shahbandar is distracted by the
mesmerizing Nicole, Harry takes steps to swipe a priceless artifact from
under the tycoon's nose. But even the most foolproof schemes have a way of
backfiring... |
GATE OF HELL (Jigokumon) |
In 1159, during an attempted coup, one of
the court's ladies in waiting disguises herself as the lord's wife, and a
loyal samurai conveys her from the city. This diversion allows the royal
family to escape. After the coup fails, the samurai asks his lord to let him
marry the woman as his reward. The lord grants the request and then discovers
she is already married to one of the ruling family's lieges. The samurai
clings to his desire, importuning her to leave her husband, then challenging
the husband to release her. Although the husband stays calm and she stays
faithful, the samurai remains intemperate and stubborn, with tragic
consequences. |
GENERAL |
Johnnie loves his train ("The
General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down
for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's
because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on
board. Johnny must rescue both his loves. |
GENTLEMAN JIM |
Because boxing is a considered an illegal
and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential
members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a
"gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank
clerk named Jim Corbett, who quickly becomes an accomplished fighter under
the new Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Despite his success, the young
Irish-American's social pretensions and boastful manner soon estrange him
from his benefactors, who plot to give their conceited former protege a
well-deserved comeuppance. Despite this, his dazzlingly innovative footwork
helps him to beat a succession of bigger and stronger men, and he finally
finds himself fighting for the world's championship against his childhood
idol, John L. Sullivan. |
GEORGY GIRL |
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges
the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to
capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate. |
GETAWAY |
Doc McCoy has been granted parole. The
catch is that Sheriff Beynon expects a small favor from McCoy for his
generosity: robbing another bank! Beynon does not really intend to let McCoy
walk away after the heist and neither does co-robber Rudy Butler, but
stopping Doc proves a trifle difficult. |
GIDEON OF SCOTLAND YARD |
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon
starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket
from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in
learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts
an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of a
payroll robbery and, then, helps break up a bank robbery. His long day ends
when he arrives at home and finds that his daughter has a date with the
policeman who gave him a ticket that morning. |
GIGI |
Weary of the conventions of Parisian
society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic
friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gaston, the scion of a
wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle
of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle
and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that
Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated
Gigi to be a wealthy man's mistress, urge the pair to act out their roles but
love adds a surprise twist to this delightful turn-of-the 20th century
Cinderella story. |
GILDERSLEEVE ON BROADWAY |
A drug supply company plans to go out of
business, which could force Peavey the druggist to close up shop.
Throckmorton Gildersleeve heads to New York City to help, and gets a warm
reception from the company's president, a lonely widow. Based on "The
Great Gildersleeve" radio series. |
GILDERSLEEVE'S BAD DAY |
Assorted citizens of Summerfield,
including Gildersleeve of radio fame, sit on a jury in the trial of bank
robber Louie Barton. Through coincidence, Gildersleeve is wrongly suspected
of bribe-taking. His efforts to get out of trouble only get him deeper into
slapstick... |
GIRL SHY |
Harold Meadows (Lloyd) is a shy,
stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guide book for
other bashful young men, "The Secret of Making Love," chapters from
which are portrayed as fantasy sequences. Fate has him meet rich girl, Mary
(Ralston), and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married
man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the
wedding. |
GIVE 'EM HELL, HARRY |
One man show about the presidency of Harry
S Truman. |
GLENN MILLER STORY |
The biography of the Bandleader Glenn
Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December
1944, with a lot of his arangements, partly in an authentic cast. |
GO TELL THE SPARTANS |
A unit of American military advisors in
Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their
helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French
unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings
of the Vietnam war. |
GO WEST |
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence
man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty
but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they
steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can
just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner
named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him
their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he
gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his
longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has
contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making
the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter,
owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as
well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day. |
GO-BETWEEN |
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the
summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a
grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's
twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and
good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest-green suit, takes him on walks, and
asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbor, Ted Burgess, a bit of
a rake. Leo is soon dissembling, realizes he's betraying Hugh, but continues
as the go-between nonetheless, asking adults naive questions about the
attractions of men and women. Can an affair between neighbors stay secret for
long? And how does innocence end? |
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 |
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff
stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is
backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. Mosely
Thorpe, but Ann falls in love with Dick Curtis, while Dick's girl friend
marries Ann's brother Humbolt. But the hotel secretary Betty knows a way to
avoid dificulties with old Mrs. Prentiss. |
GOLD RUSH |
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska
looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in
love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular
charm. |
GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY |
A compilation of scenes featuring some of
the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films. |
GOLDEN BLADE |
Harum (Rock Hudson) is a fearless man of
the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets
Krairuzan (Piper Laurie), a princess disguised as a commoner, working against
a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the
Caliph. She gives Harum a golden sword which, in his hands, makes him
invincible. Harum uses the sword in the name of justice and is doing quite
well until a duplicate sword is placed in his scabbard during one of his
off-guard moments, and he winds up in chains. |
GORKY PARK |
An investigator on the Moscow police force
relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in
Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime
because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest
levels of the Moscow city government. |
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW |
Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus
begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern,
brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says. He's
in a hurry, moving from place to place near the Sea of Galilee, sometimes
attracting a multitude, sometimes being driven away. His parables often take
on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the
Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested,
beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers. After
he dies, he appears to his disciples and gives them final instructions. |
GRADUATE |
Ben has recently graduated college, with
his parents now expecting great things from him. At his
"Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's
business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between
the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he
finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. |
GRAND ILLUSION |
During 1st WW, two French officers are
captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was
a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various
backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated
from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again
in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu
strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to
escape... |
GRAPES OF WRATH |
Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and
dispossessed farmers migrate westward to California. After terrible trials en
route they become little more than slave labor. Among the throng are the
Joads who refuse to knuckle under. |
GRASS IS GREENER |
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck
to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle.
But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to
more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good
old fashioned love triangle. |
GREAT DICTATOR |
Twenty years after the end of WWI in which
the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to
power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan
state, and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple
Jewish-Tomainian barber who has since been hospitalized the result of a WWI
battle. Upon his release, the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss
about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in
the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah, with whom he begins
a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander
Schultz, who he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia
are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so
for ulterior motives. But those motives include a want for world domination,
starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich... |
GREAT EXPECTATIONS |
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young
orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife
'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys
under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the
criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just
when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes
for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped
galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame
for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle,
the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham
at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart;
being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even
after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a
rich allowance... |
GREAT EXPECTATIONS |
Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a
poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company
of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella.
Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of
these events. |
GREAT GUY |
It's the New York Department of Weights
and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less
product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty
Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in the hospital. The new
man, pugnacious Johnny Cave, steps on the toes of influential merchants and
gets increasing pressure, both political and strong-arm, to desist. Will the
luck (if not the pluck) of the Irish pull him through? |
GREAT MAN |
On the death of popular national radio
commentator Herb Fuller, underling Joe Harris undertakes to prepare an hour
long, eulogistic program featuring interviews with Fuller's friends. But,
though Fuller was beloved by 150 million of what all the pros term the
"great unwashed," all Harris can find is victims, cynical users,
and outright enemies of Fuller. Is this where the magic of editing comes in? |
GREAT MAN VOTES |
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two
children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works,
slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is
and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is
the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both
parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this
situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make
up the story. |
GREAT McGINTY |
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan
McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud.
His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss,"
who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform"
mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to
honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan... |
GREAT SANTINI |
In 1962, the Marine Corps family, the
Meechums - parents Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum and
Lillian Meechum, and their four children Ben Meechum, Mary Anne Meechum,
Karen Meechum and Matthew Meechum - are moving like they do most years, this
time to Beaufort, South Carolina. Bull - nicknamed "the Great
Santini" - is known as a great pilot, but has gotten into much trouble
in the past for his sophomoric behavior. He runs his family much as a
military commander, where they are all to obey his orders without question.
Everything he does within the family context he reasons is to build
character, but in reality everything ends up being about him. The oldest Ben,
approaching manhood, is the one of his offspring who has the greatest issue
with his father. Ben wants his respect, but isn't sure if he really loves
him. As Ben goes through his senior year in high school... |
GREAT WALDO PEPPER |
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in
WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory
he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film
depicting the dogfights in the Great War. |
GREAT WHITE HOPE |
Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) as a
boxer, dealing with the racism and hatred of early-20th century white
America. He is not only the first black heavyweight contender; he is also in
love with a white woman. Jefferson must not only deal with the hatred of
whites, he must also deal with the ostracism of some members of the black
community who feel he has sold out. |
GREEN GROW THE RUSHES |
A group of enterprising smugglers make use
of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England.
When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the Customs
Officers try and find out where the brandy went. |
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER |
Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John
Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their
liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an
ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field,
and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable
California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the
Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of
cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and
finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is
extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the
evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the
family. Thus, the title of the film . . . |
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS |
Part live-action and part-animated version
of Gulliver's travels, especially his meeting with the tiny Lilliputians. |
GUNFIGHT |
In Bajo Rio, they pay to see a man kill a
bull. Today, they'll pay to see a man kill another man. |
GUNGA DIN |
Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard
Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three
fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married
and leave the service. The other two trick him into a final mission where
they end up confronting the entire cult by themselves as the British Army is
entering a trap. This is of the "War is fun" school of movie
making. It has the flavour of watching Notre Dame play an inferior high
school team. |
GUNS OF DARKNESS |
Businessman (Niven) and his wife (Caron)
are caught in the turmoil of a South American revolution, find themselves
helping the overthrown president escape to the border. |
GUNS OF NAVARONE |
Two powerful German guns control the seas
past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British
troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of
six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try
and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the
Germans on the island getting further help too?. |
HALLELUJAH |
In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls
for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged
craps game. He loses $100, the money he got for the sale of his family's
entire cotton crop. His brother Spunk is mortally wounded in the shoot-out
which follows. Zeke goes away but returns as Brother Zekiel the preacher. His
forceful preaching draws the faithful in large numbers. Even Chick wants to
be saved. Zekiel has asked the pretty Missy Rose to marry him, but Chick can
still cast a spell over the preacher... |
HAMLET |
William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of
murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother
to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the
throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the
murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is
confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his
murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with
the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil
Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and
disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed
spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills
the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on
the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of
Polonius, sends the prince to England. |
HAMLET |
The Hamlet of our time, for our time. |
HAPPINESS C.O.D. |
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his
mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he
can--honestly or otherwise. |
HAPPY THIEVES |
Rita and Rex Steal The Picture! |
HARD DAY'S NIGHT |
The Beatles--the world's most famous rock
and roll band--travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform
in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul's
unconventional grandfather from various misadventures and drummer Ringo goes
missing just before the crucial concert. |
HARD DRIVER (aka LAST AMERICAN
HERO) |
Junior Jackson grew up in North Carolina
where he used his driving skills to outrun the law while helping his father
in the moonshine business. But when his father is jailed for selling the
illegal whiskey, Junior decides to use his talent to become a pro. |
HARDER THEY FALL |
After 17 years as a recognized and
respected sports journalist in New York City, Eddie Willis finds himself out
of a job when his newspaper folds. He's approached by a major fight promoter,
Nick Benko, to act as a public relations man for his new heavyweight fighter
Toro Moreno. Eddie knows the how the fight game works and after watching Toro
in the ring, realizes Toro is nothing but a stiff who has no hope of
succeeding. Benko offers him a sizable salary and an unlimited expense
account and given his financial situation, he agrees. Benko's strategy to
make money is one that has been used time again. Starting in California and
moving east, they arrange a series of fights for Toro with stiffs and
has-beens. All of the fights are rigged to build up his record and get him a
fight with the heavyweight champion, Buddy Brannen, where they will make a
sizable profit at the gate. Along the way... |
HARLOWE |
In this story, Harlow starts in the movies
as set dressing, the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots. Refusing
to descend to the casting couch for work, she finds that she is soon
blacklisted from the industry. But an agent named Arthur sees something in
Jean and begins representing her. For a long time, the jobs are scarce and
consist mostly of receiving the pie in the face in low budget comedies. But
Arthur's belief in Jean never wavers and when she finally graduates to
featured roles, the critics say that she cannot act, but she is
unforgettable. Polishing the image as the girl next door, but with some fire,
she begins her climb to the top and becomes the girl every woman wants to
look like and every man wants to have. But her own life is a disaster -
unlike her screen life. |
HARRY AND SON |
Only a hard-nose writes off his kid-- Only
a hero has the courage to change. |
HARRY AND TONTO |
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s
living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he
raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he
lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved
cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children,
seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new
friends, and saying goodbye to old friends. |
HARVEY |
The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood
treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit
taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a
few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him
to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become
the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in
unexpected places. |
HATFUL OF RAIN |
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction
wreaks havoc upon his family. |
HEART LIKE A WHEEL |
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a
top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite
the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family
life, she perseveres in her dream. |
HEAYEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON |
In 1944, in South Pacific, the castaway
Marine Corporal Allison drifts in a raft to the Tuasiva Island, where he
meets Sister Angela. She tells him that she is the only person in the island
and was left behind by the runaway boat to Fiji Island while seeking the
local priest. Stranded in the island, but with water, fish and fruits, their
paradisiacal life ends when the Japanese arrive to build a base, forcing
Allison and the nun to hide in a cave. The crude marine provides the
necessary supply for their survival and falls in love for the nun. |
HELEN MORGAN STORY |
The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen
Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival,
through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in
Ziegfeld's "Show Boat". Her involvement with Larry Maddux, a
gin-runner and con-man, and Russell Wade, a prominent, married New York
lawyer, and her decline thanks to these failed romances and alcohol are
punctuated by performances of many of the songs she made famous. |
HELL IN THE PACIFIC |
During World War II, a shot-down American
pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the
same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each
time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its
use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins
it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither
pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end
up joining forces to build and man a raft... |
HELL ON FRISCO BAY |
When ex-cop Steve Rollins is released from
San Quentin after five years, his only thoughts are of revenge on the men who
framed him for manslaughter. Back in San Francisco, his quest for the truth
brings him up against ruthless waterfront gang boss Victor Amato. |
HELLO, DOLLY |
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip
to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried
half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces
him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman Vandergelder
had been courting, and her shop assistant (Dolly has designs of her own on
Mr. Vandergelder, you see). |
HELL'S HALF ACRE |
A woman who believes her missing husband
is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually
is him. However, he escapes before she sees him, when he hears that his
current girlfriend has been murdered. The wife searches the slum area of
Honolulu known as Hell's Half Acre for him, he searches for his girlfriend's
killer, and his gangland associates are looking for the two of them. |
HELLZAPOPPIN' |
Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the
director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines
them an absurd story. They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting up a
musical revue in their garden and want to bring it up on Broadway. If Jeff is
successful he can marry Kitty. But there is his rich friend Woody, who also
loves Kitty, Chick's sister Betty, who's in love with a false Russian count,
and detective Quimby. They all make the thing very complicated for Ole and
Chick. After some mistakes they think that Kitty isn't the right girl for
Jeff and they start sabotaging the show, but the Broadway producer is
impressed and signs the contract. That's the story the writer tells them. For
this he's sued by the director. |
HENRY V |
In the inspired Olivier concept,
Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in
broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from
a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier
and skillful leader, he unites the dissident factions in the English army and
goes on to crush the French, against enormous odds, at Agincourt. Arranging a
treaty with the French court, he woos Princess Katharine to whom he is
formally betrothed as part of the peace agreement. |
HER PRIMITIVE MAN |
A woman sets out to prove that a writer's
ideas about "savages" are wrong. She goes to the jungle and finds a
"primitive" man to bring back, unaware that it is actually the
writer himself disguised as a "savage." |
HERE COMES MR. JORDAN |
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next
fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's
spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's
body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body
of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries
to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then
falls in love; and what about that murderous wife? |
HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT |
This was based on a true story. About a
man (Caan) who discovers that his ex-wife has disappeared along with their
children. It seems that her new boyfriend works for some criminals. After
being arrested, the government offers to let him enter, the newly developed
Witness Protection Program in exchange for testifying against his employers.
His bosses instructs him to marry his girlfriend so that she can't testify
against him, they promise that they will take care of her. When he learns
that they have done nothing, he accepts the governments offer. So, he and his
wife and her children enter the program. Now her ex-husband goes to a lawyer
cause he wants to sue the government for keeping him away from his children. |
HIGH ANXIETY |
Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new
administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to
discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr.
Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety,"
in order to clear his name. An homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock;
contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and
VERTIGO. |
HILLS HAVE EYES |
A family going to California accidentally
goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. They crash and are
stranded in a desert. They are being stalked by a group of people, which have
not emerged into modern times. |
HIRELING |
The story of a chauffeur who falls in love
with an aristocratic woman. |
HIS DOUBLE LIFE |
Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a
social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to
the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the
identity of his former servant, but finds himself faced with constant
dilemmas as a result. |
HIS GIRL FRIDAY |
Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns
and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that
they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns can't let that
happen and frames the other man, Bruce Baldwin, for a lot of stuff getting
him into trouble all the time, while he tries to steer Hildy back into her
old job as his employee (editor of his newspaper). |
HISTORY OF THE WORLD-PART I |
From the dawn of man to the distant
future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced. Often ridiculous but
never serious, we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor, we learn what
REALLY happened at the Last Supper, the circumstances that surrounded the
French Revolution, how to test eunuchs, and what kind of shoes the Spanish
Inquisitor wore. |
HOBBIT |
Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding
his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one
night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it,
Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by an
evil dragon named Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the
dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't.... |
HOME AT SEVEN (aka Murder on
Monday) |
David Preston, a bank official goes
missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns
that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has
been found murdered. Preston finds he has no alibi, and the police want him
to account for the lost hours. |
HONEY POT |
Inspired by a performance of his favorite
play, "Volpone," 20th-century millionaire Cecil Fox devises an
intricate plan to trick three of his former mistresses into believing he is
dying. Although the women are wealthy in their own right, all have good
reason to covet his fortune. To assist him in his scheme, Fox hires William
McFly, a gigolo and sometime actor, to act as his secretary/servant. Fox is
soon visited at his "deathbed" by the three former mistresses:
Merle McGill, a fading Hollywood sex symbol; Princess Dominique, who once
took a cruise on Fox's yacht; and Lone Star Crockett, a Texas hypochondriac
who travels with an enigmatic nurse/companion. As Fox and McFly act out the
charade, things take an unexpected turn from comical farce to full-blown
murder mystery. |
HONEYMOON MACHINE |
The crew aboard the USS Elmira are working
on a project, code named Operation Honeymoon. At the operation's core is the
testing of the Magnetic Analyzer Computing Synchrotron, or MACS for short,
which is a smart computer designed to do among other things determine where
missiles are going to land. Civilian Jason Eldridge is the scientific
mastermind aboard in charge of MACS' operation. His friend aboard, Lieutenant
Ferguson Howard, sees other possible uses for MACS. He wants to know if MACS,
if given the proper data, can accurately predict games of chance, such as
those found in casinos. After discussing the situation, Fergie and Jason
decide the game which MACS can predict the most accurately is roulette. They
decide to test MACS' abilities, and possibly get rich, at their next port of
call where there is a casino, namely Venice. They plan on using a system of
Morse Code light signals from the ship to shore to transmit the
information... |
HOPSCOTCH |
CIA agent Miles Kendig decides to get out
of 'the game' and to ensure he's left alone he threatens to send his memoirs
to the world's intelligence agencies. When the CIA doesn't believe him, he
calls their bluff and starts writing and sending out chapters one by one.
Realizing that their operations would be compromised, the CIA (led by Myerson
and Cutter) set out to put an end to Kendig's plan by whatever means
necessary. The heart of the movie follows a game of cat and mouse between a
fumbling CIA and an artful Kendig. |
HORSE FEATHERS |
Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just
been installed as the new president of Huxley College. His cavalier attitude
toward education is not reserved for his son Frank, who is seeing the college
widow, Connie Bailey. Frank influences Wagstaff to recruit two football
players who hang out in a speakeasy, in order to beat rival school Darwin.
Unfortunately, Wagstaff mistakenly hires the misfits Baravelli and Pinky.
Finding out that Darwin has beaten him to the "real" players,
Wagstaff enlists Baravelli and Pinky to kidnap them, which leads to an
anarchic football finale. |
HORSE'S MOUTH |
Gulley Jimson is broke, difficult,
conniving, uncouth, and a welcher - but an artist. The visions in his head
may not really satisfy him when realized, but the quest continues, for the
perfect wall. The Beeders leave for six weeks of vacation and return to find
a 7000 pound committment and the wall of their living room a national
treasure, even though living with a wall mural of feet is not their cup of
tea. Then - in a bombed out church scheduled for demolition - THE wall that
can become his vision. |
HOSPITAL |
Herbert Bock is chief of medicine in a
major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his
children have both disowned him. He is toying with the idea of suicide when
patients begin dying, not from complications, but from the erroneous
treatments the Hospital is giving them. People in the wrong beds are given
wrong medicines, sent to operating theaters for incorrect surgery, and found
in waiting rooms dead of natural causes. Barbara Drummond has come to take
her comatose father back to the Sioux reservation where he operates a clinic
and they each reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy
figure stalks the patients and staff of the hospital. |
HOT MILLIONS |
A Cockney con-artist just out of prison
replaces an insurance company's computer programmer and sends claim checks to
himself in various guises at addresses all over Europe. Meanwhile, he falls
in love with inept secretary and frustrated flutist, Maggie Smith. |
HOTEL |
This is the story of the clock-like
movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal
manager, wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen
sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased
though the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for
control and the thrilling crash of an elevator add to the excitement. |
HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY |
An aircraft designer falls for the wife of
an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of
prison... |
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY |
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no
less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's
youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family
patriarch Gwyllim and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy
as it is. Gwyllim has greater hopes for younger son how to honor his hard
working parents. Huw who has his own ideas on how to honor his father.
Daughter Angharad is the most beautiful girl in the valley and is very much
in love with Mr. Gruffydd who isn't sure he can provide her the life she
deserves. Times are hard and good men find themselves out of work and
exploited by unseen mine owners. |
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE |
Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and
Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a
lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three
millionaires. The trouble is that's it's not so easy to tell the rich men
from the huxters and even when they can, is the money really worth it? |
HUCKLEBERRY FINN |
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy
adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world
and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi
River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold.
Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through
harrowing events and thrilling adventures. |
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME |
Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies
when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is
spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. When
he sets Quasimodo out to kidnap Esmeralda, Phoebus, Captain of the Guards,
rescues her and captures Quasimodo. The courts sentence Quasimodo to be
flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the
square is Esmeralda. After Clopin forces Esmeralda to leave Phoebus at the
ball, she sends a note to Phoebus to meet her at Notre-Dame. In the garden,
Phoebus is stabbed in the back by Jehan. Esmeralda is accused of stabbing
Phoebus, convicted by the courts and sentenced to hang. When Esmeralda again
rejects Jehan, he tells her that Phoebus is dead, even though it is not true.
Clopin, Phoebus and Quasimodo all try different ways to save Esmeralda. |
HUNTER |
In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph
'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches.
Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to
extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And
then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It's
all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life. |
HUSTLER |
"Fast" Eddie Felson is a
small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude.
His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats"
to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. Now broke
and without his long-time manager, Felson faces an uphill battle to regain
his confidence and his game. It isn't until he hits rock bottom that he
agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager Bert Gordon. Gordon
agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes
that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his
girlfriend. Will he decide that this is too steep a price to pay in time to
save himself? |
I AM THE LAW |
Law professor John Lindsay volunteers to
clean up the corruption and graft in his town when the authorities seem
unable to do so. When the gangsters infiltrate his staff, he recruits his law
students to form an army of law enforcers. |
I CONFESS |
Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as
caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a
house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the
owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael
Logan is working late. Otto confesses his crime, but when the police begin to
suspect Father Logan he cannot reveal what he has been told in the
confession. |
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS |
A true story based on the early life of
actress, professor and author Maya Angelou. The story traces her life from
when she and her brother move in with her mother to the trauma of being raped
as a little girl by one of her mother's boyfriends and the several years of
silence that came after the attack. |
I MET MY LOVE AGAIN |
College sweethearts Julie and Ives have
planned to marry as soon as school is over. Their plans go amiss when Julie
meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies, she's
left in Paris, penniless and with a daughter to support. She decides to
return to her home town with the intent to renew her romance with Ives. His
family and a scheming co-ed vow to avert a reunion of the two... |
I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER |
Hackman plays a New York professor who
wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and
move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns
him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the
wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their
father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not
let himself be controlled by their father. |
I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES |
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby
tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter.
Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been
out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday
and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair,
stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs
to tell her story face-to-face. |
I'LL BE SEEING YOU |
Ginger Rogers is a convict released from
state penitentiary for a Christmas leave. On the train, she meets Sergeant
Joseph Cotton who has been released from a mental hospital and she invites
him home for dinner. |
ILLUSTRATED MAN |
A man, whose body is almost completely
covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate
designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience
when you stare at it. |
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT |
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the
racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a
prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the
station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when
local police chief Gillespie learns that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's
number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The
murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new
factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at
Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to
lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in
danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive
environment until the killer is found. |
INCIDENT |
Stark melodrama about two thrill seeking
tough guys who terrorize late-night passengers on a New York City train. The
random victims are more concerned with their own problems than helping each
other and pray that they won't be next. But it's going to take a lot more
than prayer to end this nightmare of fear and violence. Film debut of both
Martin Sheen and Tony Musante as the hoodlums. |
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN |
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture
of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists,
makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the
attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil
group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can
eventually shrink everyone. |
INNOCENT YEARS |
|
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE |
Professor Wong has invented a television
machine and invites everyone to see it at China's International House Hotel.
Every time Tommy Nash attempts to wed his fiancée Carol Fortescue he comes
down with an illness, and when he breaks out in a rash the hotel is
quarantined. Into this hotel flies Professor Quail in his auto-gyro. |
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS |
Dr Miles Bennell returns his small town
practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that
their friends or relatives are impostors. He is initially skeptical,
especially when the alleged dopplegängers are able to answer detailed
questions about their victim's lives, but he is eventually persuaded that
something odd has happened and determines to find out what is causing this
phenomenon. This film can be seen as a paranoid 1950s warning against those
Damn Commies or, conversely, as a metaphor for the tyranny of McCarthyism (or
the totalitarian system of Your Choice) and has a pro- and epilogue that was
forced upon Siegel by the studio to lighten the tone. |
INVITATION TO HAPPINESS |
Trainer Pop Hardy thinks his heavyweight
boxer 'King' Cole could be champ...some day; he wants to sell a half interest
in Cole to his rich friend Wayne. Wayne's daughter Eleanor is disdainful, but
brash Cole manages to get under her skin. Can a society dame and a mug find
happiness together? And can she wait for his slow rise to fame? |
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT |
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with
society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht
and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus
headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of-
work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice:
either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll
blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he
thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story. |
IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU |
Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling
job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central
Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other
things -- like making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she
winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city. Suddenly
all of New York is clamoring for Gladys Glover without knowing why and
playboy Evan Adams III is making a play for Gladys that even Pete knows will
be hard to beat. |
ITS A GIFT |
The owner of a general store (Harold
Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's
'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). To get some
sleep he goes out on the porch where he is tormented by a little boy from the
floor above (Baby Dunk) and an insurance salesman down below ("LaFong.
Capital L, small a..."). He uses an inheritance to buy an orange ranch
through the mail, then drives off with his family for California. The orange
grove consists of a withered tree, the ranch house is but a shack, and the
car falls to pieces. But a racetrack operator wants the land, so all ends
happily. |
ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE |
George Bailey has spent his entire life
giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to
travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr.
Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so
is George's modest building and loan company, which was founded by his
generous father. But on Christmas Eve, George's Uncle Billy loses the
business's $8,000 while intending to deposit it in the bank. Potter finds the
misplaced money and hides it from Billy. When the bank examiner discovers the
shortage later that night, George realizes that he will be held responsible
and sent to jail and the company will collapse, finally allowing Potter to
take over the town. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he
loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the
prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to
earth to help George... |
JACKIE ROBINSON STORY |
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first
black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in
the negro leagues and the major leagues. |
JANE EYRE |
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood
school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named
Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and
Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love.
Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret
comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding
to triumph. |
JANE EYRE |
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JAZZ BOAT |
British musical comedy |
JEANNE EAGLES |
A poor but beautiful girl named Jeanne
takes part in a beauty contest but fails to be crowned its queen.
Nevertheless both her determination and her shapely figure impress Sal
Satori, the organizer, so much that he gives her a job as a carnival dancer.
He becomes her friend and, before long, her great love. However, being a
hootchie-kootchie dancer is not Jeanne's dream: she wants to be an actress.
That is why Jeanne takes advantage of the Satori company being in New York to
consult a renowned drama teacher, Mrs. Neilson. The latter thinks she CAN act
and she is proved right since the audience of the first play Jeanne is in
responds favorably. But Jeanne will only feel wholly satisfied when she
acquires star status. She soon obtains the part which will lead her to
stardom by stealing it from Elsie Desmond, an aging actress who planned a
comeback through it. In desperation, Elsie commits suicide... |
JERK |
Navin is an idiot. He grew up in
Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he
feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis.
There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a
fortune. |
JIVIN' IN BEBOP |
Diz and his men enthusiastically attack
bop classics such as Salt Peanuts, Shaw 'Nuff or Things To Come. |
JOHN OF THE FAIR |
|
JUAREZ |
The newly named emperor Maximilian and his
wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito
Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham
Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw support for
Maximilian. Carlotta goes to France to plead with Napoleon, to no avail. |
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS |
Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the
ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their
beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits a
psychic seer who tells her she must follow the sex trade in order to be
happy. Not long after she meets her eccentric and sexy neighbour, Suzy, who,
by all counts appears to be a high class prostitute and encourages Juilet
into sexual acts which make her guilty and nervous. A rare night when her
husband is at home she wakes up to catch him talking to another woman on the
phone. He calls out the name "Gabriella" while sleeping, but when
she questions him he lies his way out of it. She finds out who Gabriella is
and fears her husband will leave her. Juliet begins having visions who accuse
and terrorize her. The pinnacle of the visions comes at the end where it is
implied she realizes she would be better off without her husband and is
ultimately emotionally emancipated. |
JUNIOR BONNER |
A week with Junior Bonner, a rodeo pro on
the wrong side of 40, broke, bruised, and headed into Prescott, his home
town, for the annual 4th of July Frontier Days. His dad, Ace, is a dissolute
dreamer fixed on finding gold in Australia; his mom is resigned to Ace's
roving; his brother Curly is tearing up the countryside to make a million in
real estate. Junior just wants to stay on a bucking Brahma for eight seconds,
hang out with Ace, find a way to spend time with a beautiful woman whose eyes
catch his, and earn enough to get to next week's rodeo. As the old West and
its code give way to progress, Junior is lonesome, laconic, and on the road -
just where he wants to be. |
JUSTINE |
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young
British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British
consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic
banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that
she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish
underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and
Darley decides to return to England. |
KANSAN |
Wounded while stopping the James gang from
robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's
been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker,
who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every
penny he can get out of them. |
KEEP 'EM FLYING |
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to
join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since
the two are Abbott and Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for. |
KEY LARGO |
Frank McCloud travels to a run-down hotel
on Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died bravely in his unit
during WW II. His friend's widow, Nora Temple, and wheelchair bound father,
James Temple manage the hotel and receive him warmly, but the three of them
soon find themselves virtual prisoners when the hotel is taken over by a mob
of gangsters led by Johnny Rocco who hole up there to await the passing of a
hurricane. Mr. Temple strongly reviles Rocco but due to his infirmities can
only confront him verbally. Having become disillusioned by the violence of
war, Frank is reluctant to act, but Rocco's demeaning treatment of his
alcoholic moll, Gaye Dawn, and his complicity in the deaths of some innocent
Seminole Indians and a deputy sheriff start to motivate McCloud to overcome
his Hamlet-like inaction. |
KIDNAPPED |
When young David Balfour arrives at his
uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance his relative first
tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the
colonies. Fortunately for the lad he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck
escaping from Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culludon. When the ship's
captain tries to kill Breck for his money the two manage to get to land and
set out for Edinburgh dodging the ruthless Redcoats. |
KILLER IN THE FAMILY |
A father serving time for murder convinces
his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates
and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in
the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two
time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's
murderous crime spree. |
KING AND COUNTRY |
During World War I, an army private is
accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his
court-martial finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye. |
KING OF GAMBLERS |
A fast moving and low budget crime drama
seasoned with mystery and comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's
resident crime lord... |
KISS ME GOODBYE |
Not until three years after the death of
her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded
by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when
not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't
approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the
wedding. |
KISS OF DEATH |
Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught
in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney
D'Angelo, refuses to rat on his partners and goes to jail, assured that his
wife and children will be taken care of. Learning that his depressed wife has
killed herself, Nick informs on his ex-pals and is paroled. Nick remarries,
gets a job and begins leading a happy life when he learns one of the men he
informed on, psychopathic killer Tommy Udo, has been released from custody
and is out for revenge against Nick and his family. |
KLUTE |
John Klute's friend has totally
disappeared. The only clue a connection with a call girl, Bree Daniels. Klute
taps her phone in order to gain evidence against her to blackmail her into
helping him find his friend. While Klute searches, someone is stalking Bree. |
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR |
Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it
out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string
of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his
wife some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead
from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick
pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court
emphasizes the evils of the slums. |
KNUTE ROCKNE, AMERICAN |
Lars Rockne and his family, including his
four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native
Norway. By his his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre
Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry. He and a teammate
develop the forward pass as an offensive weapon while working as life guards
on summer break and use it to upset heavily favored Army in a historic game.
After graduation Rockne becomes a teacher while coaching part time but
ultimately abandons academics to devote all his energies to football. During
his tenure as head coach at the school, he develops such outstanding players
as George Gipp, who dies prematurely from a strep infection, and the Four
Horseman while introducing many innovative tactics including the backfield
shift. Rockne, known for his staccato motivational speeches, devotes his life
to maintaining the integrity... |
KOTCH |
Joseph Kotcher, a retired traveling
salesman, lives with his son Gerald and daughter-in-law Wilma in Los Angeles.
He dotes upon his young grandson Duncan irritating high-strung Wilma to the
point that she hires Erica, a high school student, as a regular babysitter to
replace his efforts. However, Grandpa Kotcher still gets on her nerves, and
she convinces Gerald to move him out. To humor his son he agrees to take an
apartment at a retirement facility, but after being subjected to some
psychological tests he opts instead to take an extended vacation, traveling
up the coast by bus. Erica leaves town at the same time, for upon discovering
she is pregnant, Wilma fires her and she is sent away to work in San
Bernadino by her uptight older brother Peter, who is also her guardian.
Grandpa Kotcher returns weeks later to find a Halloween party underway and
his room full of Wilma's sewing stuff... |
LA STRADA |
Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother
to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road ("la
strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampanò ill-treats her. She
meets "The Fool", a funambulist. She feels like going with him, but
he puts confusion in her mind by pointing out that perhaps Zampanò is in fact
in love with her ... |
LADIES WHO DO |
The "Ladies Who Do" are office
cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune.
They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the
wicked developer. |
LADY ICE |
An insurance investigator romances a
wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen
jewels. |
LADY IN ERMINE |
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LADY L |
Today Lady Louise Lendale is 80 years old
and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy, all about her
eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in
"Le Mouton Bleu", a renowned Paris whorehouse. There, she met
Armand, both a charming man and a bomb-throwing anarchist, and it wasn't long
before she became his mistress. One day while Armand was away in Switzeland,
working for a revolutionary movement aiming to murder a Russian prince,
Louise met the second man in her life,, a British Lord she soon called Dicky.
The latter offered to marry her. In exchange, he would save Armand from the
police's grip. She accepted on the condition she could still see Armand... |
LADY VANISHES |
Travellers on a trans-European train are
delayed for a night due to bad weather in a small fictional country called
Mandrika. The passengers cram into the small village hotel where socialite
Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss Froy. Shortly after the
journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears. |
LAFAYETTE |
At 13 years old, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch
Yves Gilbert Motier inherited from his parents a long name, a fortune bigger
then that, and the title of Marquis de La Fayette. Barely past majority, he
was a brilliant lieutenant and a King Musketeer, and married Adrienne, second
daughter of the Duke of Ayen. Educated in the new ideas about religion,
science, and humankind, supported by his lovely wife but against his
conservative family, he became involved in politics, favouring the faction of
Queen Marie Antoinette against that of the King Louis XVI. Therefore, in
1776, he was ready to offer much needed help when Silas Dean, a secret agent
from the thirteen Rebel states, contacted him in Paris. In 1784, after years
of political and logistical preparation, La Fayette freighted a ship to
America, with a handful of men and much needed weapons and money. He became
Washington's best friend, taught some military discipline and tactics to the
voluntary Rebels... |
LASSITER |
Lassiter is a handsome jewel thief
operating in London in the late 1930s. One day he is arrested and told that
if he wishes to avoid prison, he must break into the heavily guarded German
Embassy in London and steal millions in Gems. |
LAST ANGRY MAN |
As the fiercely dedicated general
practitioner who tries to help the sick, the poor and the unfortunate in his
decrepit neighborhood, Paul Muni is the testy old man who faces life without
compromise and David Wayne is the troubled television executive fighting to
preserve his career. |
LAST HURRAH |
An aging politician tries to get
re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started
to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term
Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil
inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's
uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that
preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money. |
LAST OF THE MOHICANS |
In the year 1756, Fort William Henry on
Lake George is under siege by the French and Hurons under General Montcalm.
Alice and Cora Munro, young daughters of the British Commander, Colonel Muro,
set out from Albany to join their father at the fort. They are accompanied by
Major Duncan Heyward, who has loved Alice for a long time, and by a renegade
Huron named Magua. He leads them astray with the view of betraying them into
the hands of a wandering party of Hurons, but his plans are foiled by
Hawkeye, a Colonial scout, when he and his comrades, Chingachgook and his son
Uncas, rescue the party and conduct them safely to the fort. Shortly after
wards, Munro surrenders on honorable terms to Montcalm and is permitted to
march out of the fort under arms and colors. He is then mortally wounded by
Magua during a massacre by the Indians as the fort is being evacuated. Cora
and Alice are carried off by Magua and Heyward, aided by Hawkeye,
Chingachgook and Uncas, sets out in search of them. |
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS |
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel
the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's
apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at
seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than
he could have imagined. |
LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE |
The priceless Blue Water sapphire is
coveted by the heirs of Sir Hector Geste - his new wife, Flavia; his
daughter, Isabel; and his adopted twin sons, heroic Beau and pathetic Digby.
When Sir Hector takes to his deathbed (where he remains for the duration of
the film), Beau absconds with the stone, to keep it from his stepmother.
Flavia pursues him to North Africa, dispensing sexual favors to promote her
schemes. |
LAST SUNSET |
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican
home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard
getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman
Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his
jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they
near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court
Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy. |
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD |
In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a
stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems
she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at
Marienbad. |
LAUREL and HARDY'S LAUGHIN
TWENTIES |
A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy
shorts---From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The
Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others---plus Max
Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley
Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden
Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills
and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television
showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their
appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo),
Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie
Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders
Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott
and "Spec" O'Donnell. |
LE JOUR SE LEVE (DAYBREAK) |
Francois, a sympathetic factory worker,
kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts
remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young
fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin,
a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy... |
LE PLAISIR |
Three stories about the pleasure. The
first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls
and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme
Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's
communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love
with his model - pleasure and death. |
LEFT HAND OF GOD |
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the
long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission
in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly
duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as
around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a
secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow)
seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone... |
LIAR'S MOON |
In East Texas, the summer after high
school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker
(Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's
headed for Vassar. Over her father's strenuous objections, she spends time
with Jack. At summer's end, Jack and Ginny elope to Louisiana (where
17-year-olds can marry without their parents' permission), and he gets a job
in the oil fields. Her dad hires a menacing private eye to find them, Ginny's
pregnant, her town doctor gives her horrible news, and Jack's mom has her own
agenda. It seems that Jack and Ginny have grown up under a liar's moon. What
will these sweethearts do? |
LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN |
A no account outlaw establishes his own
particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of
civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and
unpredictable notions Roy Bean distinguishes between lawbreakers and lawgivers
by way of his pistols. |
LIFE AT THE TOP |
Joe Lampton thought he had really made it
by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is
being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his
father-in-law. Even so, he ignores an offer of a job in London and keeps away
from attractive TV presenter Norah. When he finds his wife is having an
affair, he reconsiders on both counts. But can he make it on his own ability
down south? |
LIFE IN THE THIRTIES |
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LIFE WITH FATHER |
In late nineteenth century New York a Wall
Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself
constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His
children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money
out of patent medicine selling. When it comes to light he has never been
baptized and everyone starts insisting he must do so, it all starts to get a
bit too much. |
LIFEBOAT |
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a
German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from
the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds:
an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse,
a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts
when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat. |
LION IN WINTER |
Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving
King Henry II plans a reunion where he hopes to name his successor. He
summons the following people for the holiday: his scheming but imprisoned
wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his mistress, Princess Alais, whom he
wishes to marry; his three sons (Richard, Geoffrey, and John), all of whom
desire the throne; and the young but crafty King Philip of France (who is
also Alais' brother). With the fate of Henry's empire at stake, everybody
engages in their own brand of deception and treachery to stake their claim. |
LIQUIDATORS |
Colonel Mostyn is the chief of a section
of the British Security Services when they are embarrassed by the number of
spies and defections. The Chief tells him to do something about it so he
hires Boys Oaks as Agent L - The Liquidator, to assassinate people about to
cause trouble. Although Boys likes the cars and the girls that his new
position attracts he's not any good at it. He's also got a phobia about
flying that makes jetting off to exotic places a bit of an embarrassment. |
LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER |
Messenger asks a friend to check into a
list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the
sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list,
each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the
list, the deaths become more recent and a race to find the remaining
survivors and what put each of them on this list ensues. |
LITTLE FOXES |
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives
in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th
century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs.
Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and
suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate
her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that
she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a
flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have
to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or
her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both? |
LIVE A LITTLE -STEAL A LOT (aka
Murph the Surf) |
The True Story of Two Miami Playboys Who
Liked the Girls and the Good Life Enough to Turn Con Men and Pull Off the
Biggest Job in History! And the Cops Knew It, But Couldn't Do a Thing About
It! |
LIVING FREE |
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin
wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move
them hundreds of miles to a game preserve. |
LOLLY MADONNA WAR (aka
Lolly-Madonna XXX) |
Two rustic families, headed by patriarchs
Laban Feather and Pap Gutshall, are feuding. At first, it is comical, with
just the sons of the two families playing tricks on each other. But soon the
Feather boys decide to kidnap a girl. She turns out to be innocent bystander
Roonie Gill, not the made-up girlfriend "Lolly Madonna." As events
escalate, Zack Feather and Roonie fall in love and try to bring the others to
their senses. Will Roonie discover Zack's dark secret, the reason for the
painful feud between the two families which once were close friends? |
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE |
In order to free his best friend Bondi,
Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not
want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being
chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps. |
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT |
Author Eugene O'Neill gives an
autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted
mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a
famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and a misfit.
The family is reflected by the youngest son, who is a sensitive and aspiring
writer. |
LONG GOODBYE |
Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye
Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home
to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his
friend's wife. After Marlowe's release, following the reported suicide in
Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and
mercurial husband. Then, a hoodlum and his muscle visit to tell Marlowe that
he owes $350,000, mob money the dead friend took to Mexico. Marlowe tails the
hood, who goes to the house of the woman with the temperamental husband. As
Marlowe pulls these threads together, his values emerge from beneath the
cavalier wisecracking. |
LONG JOHN SILVER |
After the Treasure Island adventure, Long
John Silver turns up on a British Caribbean island, where he hears that rival
pirate Mendoza has taken the ship carrying the governor's daughter...and his
young friend Jim Hawkins. Naturally, there's more to his rescue plan than
meets the eye; he hopes to get a new ship and go back for more treasure... |
LONG VOYAGE HOME |
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives
of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The
men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other,
comfort each other as death approaches, and rescue each other from danger. |
LOOKING GLASS WAR |
At the height of the Cold War, British
Intellegence discovers evidence that suggests Soviet missiles are being
positioned close to the German border. With no active agents available to
investigate, Fred Leiser must be called back to the colors and sent East.
Once behind the Iron Curtain, Leiser meets a sympathetic German girl who
tries to help him to evade the East German secret police and to complete his
assignment. |
LOST IN AMERICA |
David and Linda Howard are successful
yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda
that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the
movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around
America...in a Winnebago! (This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home
which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of
Easy Rider.) His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly
wrong. |
LOVE AT FIRST BITE |
This vampire spoof has Count Dracula
moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his
Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles
through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim.
But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence
of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of
what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula. |
LOVE IS A BALL |
Etienne makes a good living out of
marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies.
Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the
bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead,
and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine? |
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR |
Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve
radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his
girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara
are also en route to the dock to meet Barbara's daughter Mary, returning from
a personal appearance tour in South America. Josephine is her maid. Their
cars get involved in an accident and, in a bumping contest, Fred reduces
Jack's old Maxwell to junk, and is taken to jail. Mary loses her dress in an
accident and Jack offers to get her another one, but winds up being arrested
for stealing. Barbara tells Mary that Fred is a nervous wreck because of
Jack's continual slander of him on Jack's radio program. Jack hires the Merry
Macs away from Fred and Fred decides to go to Miami for a rest. Jack decides
to open his radio program from Miami. They meet, have another brawl, and end
up in jail again... |
LOVESICK |
A psychiatrist who falls in love with a
patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on
how to handle it. |
M |
Someone is murdering children in a German
city. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal'
criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as
possible. |
MACBETH |
In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes
macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil
prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes
him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship...
Restructured, but all the dialogue is Shakespeare's. |
MacINTOSH MAN |
Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a
robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a
convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he
is kept isolated. He overpowers his guard and flies, but nothing is quite
what it seems in this drama of intrigue as Rearden pursues his quarry from
Ireland to Malta. |
MADAME SIN |
Bette Davis is Madame Sin, a
sinister-looking, totally evil, half-Chinese woman who indulges in endless
machinations. Ensocnced in a Scottish castle that is packed with an array of
spy gadgetry, she runs afoul with counter spy, American CIA agent Anthony
Lawrence (Robert Wagner), who is out to counter her plots for control of a
Polaris submarine. |
MADAME ZENOBIA |
Beautiful, but sad and dejected young
widow Marcia is unable to find sexual gratification with her fiancé Eric
because of her continuous love affair with her deceased husband John. Eric
insists that Marcia stop with this peculiar spectral fling or else it will
destroy their relationship. Marcia's wacky swinger friends take her to see
powerful spiritual medium Madame Zenobia in order to rectify this problem. |
MADE FOR EACH OTHER |
Young lawyer meets and marries girl after
knowing her one day. Takes bride home to meet his mother who disapproves of
the marriage. Lawyer thinks everything will be fine as he moves up the ladder
of the law firm. He doesn't and things get tough. A baby makes things even
tougher. |
MADE FOR EACH OTHER |
The pair who created "Lovers and
Other Strangers" take on marriage and other impossibilities. |
MADIGAN |
Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their
guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are
given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow
up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties,
including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and
counseling the spouses of fallen officers. |
MAGIC TOWN |
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a
failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is
statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there
to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let
the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary
Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement
with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes... |
MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS |
The young, handsome, but somewhat wild
Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class
family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only
child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a
mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene
again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the
attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to
sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George,
and he gets his come-uppance in the end. |
MAKE MINE MINK |
Zany collection of misfits led by aging
military man (Terry-Thomas) go on a spree of robbing mink coats. An unlikely
trio of women (Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, and Elspeth Duxbury) find new
reasons to live ... until their housekeeper (Billie Whitelaw), an ex-con is
suspected of the robberies. |
MAKING LOVE |
A successful young L.A. doctor and his
equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after
life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction
for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love
for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office
and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him. In a move which leaves him wracked
with guilt, Zach cancels dinner with his wife in order to go out with Bart.
He is inexplicably drawn to this man who seems intent on keeping him at arms
distance. Why can't Bart allow their relationship to grow? he wonders.
Exasperated, he asks Bart, "Do you snore? Does anybody ever get a chance
to find out?" As Zach's absences become more and more frequent, Claire's
concern manifests itself in the suspicion that he is having an affair with
another woman... |
MAKING OF ROOTS
Feature-length production doc. |
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MALE ANIMAL |
The trustees of Midwestern University have
forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy
Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class.
Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage.
Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to
visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the
football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe. |
MALTA STORY |
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island
of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis
also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments
and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off
the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's
romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements. |
MALTESE FALCON |
Spade and Archer is the name of a San
Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two
men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by
the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night
everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It
seems Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who
uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous
girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who
is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet
to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust
for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon. |
MAN ABOUT TOWN |
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an
American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him
seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose
financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house,
Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous;
this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands. |
MAN BETWEEN |
A British woman on a visit to post-war
Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of
the Eastern Bloc. |
MAN CALLED ADAM |
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself
unable to cope with the problems of everyday life. |
MAN FROM LARAMIE |
Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies
to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache
country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of
autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around
town, his presence a catalyst for changes in people's lives, searching for
someone he doesn't know...who's been selling rifles to the Apaches. |
MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT |
Tom Rath lives in Connecticut and commutes
to work every day in Manhattan. He's happily married and has a loving wife
and three children. Money is a bit tight and when the opportunity arises, he
applies for a public relations job with a major television network. During
his long commute to work everyday, Tom reminisces about the war. Although 10
years have gone by, he is still haunted by the violence and the men he
killed. He also thinks of Maria, an Italian girl with whom he had an affair
while stationed in Rome. At his new job, the head of the network Ralph
Hopkins takes an immediate liking to him. Tom soon realizes that he will have
to choose between becoming a wholly dedicated company man or maintaining a
healthy work-life balance. When he learns that Maria gave birth to his son
after he left Italy, he decides to let his wife know and ensure that the boy
is cared for. |
MAN IN THE MIDDLE (aka The
Winston Affair) |
Set in 1944 India, Mitchum plays a
lieutenant colonel assigned to defend American soldier Keenan Wynn after he
murders a British civilian. |
MAN IN THE SHADOW |
In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run
by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of
Virgil's henchmen go a little too far and beat a "bracero" ranch
hand to death. Faced with an obvious cover-up and opposition on every hand,
sheriff Ben Sadler is goaded into investigating. His unlikely ally:
Renchler's lovely, self-willed and overprotected daughter. Will Ben survive
Renchler's wrath? |
MAN IS NOT A BIRD |
A love romance between older, respectable
engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young
hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that
relationship, especially after young driver gets involved. |
MAN ON A STRING |
a Russian-born movie producer (inspired by
composer Boris Morros) whose background makes him an ideal counterspy for the
"CBI." He agrees to the deception, and, aided by agent Avery
(Kerwin Mathews), he pretends to defect. |
MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE |
Ambrose Wolfinger wants the afternoon off
(his first in twenty-five years) to go to a wrestling match. He tells his
boss that he must attend his mother-in-law's funeral. The afternoon is no
joy. He tries to please a policeman, assist a chauffeur, chase a tire, and
ends up getting hit by the body of a wrestler thrown from the ring. A series
of mishaps leads his boss to send floral tributes to the house and notify the
papers of the death (due to poisoned liquor). His shrewish wife, judgmental
mother-in-law, and good-for-nothing brother-in-law add to his burdens. In the
end he enjoys their fawning loyalty, a raise in pay, and his first vacation. |
MAN ON THE RUN |
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in
Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted
for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he
looks for the real criminals. |
MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH |
While holidaying in Switzerland, Lawrence
and his wife Jill are asked by a dying friend, Louis Bernard, to get
information hidden in his room to the British Consulate. They get the
information, but when they deny having it, their daughter Betty is kidnapped.
It turns out that Louis was a Foreign Office spy and the information has to
do with the assassination of a foreign dignitary. Having managed to trace his
daughter's kidnappers back to London, Lawrence learns that the assassination
will take place during a concert at the Albert Hall. It is left to Jill,
however, to stop the assassination. |
MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING |
The story of Jay, a man of the West, and
his offbeat relationship with Catherine, a woman from the East who is fleeing
an unhappy marriage. Jay kidnaps Catherine on his way to rob a train and
together they travel through the Wyoming Territory. |
MAN WHO NEVER WAS |
British Intelligence during World War II
is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy
prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of a plan for England to invade
Greece a dead body is to be procured, allowed to be found with secret papers
on him by Spanish authorities who will send the papers on to the Germans, or
that's the plan. First they have to find a body that will look drowned, and
create an identity for him that will pass the examination of the German agent
who is sure to check him out. Based on a true story. |
MAN WITH A CLOAK |
In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline
Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance.
Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims
of his grandson. She finds the old man in very bad spirits, living in a large
house with a housekeeper and a butler who are just waiting for him to die
(and perhaps helping him along a bit) so they can inherit his fortune. They
see Madeline as a threat to their plans. She is aided in her dealings with
these strange people by a mysterious man in a cloak. |
MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE (aka Sam
Marlow, Private Eye) |
A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart
gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes
his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of Bogart's
most famous characters), hires a ditzy blonde secretary, and opens up a
detective agency. His first case is one that would do Bogie proud... |
MARATHON MAN |
In New York City, the brother of an
infamous Nazi war criminal is killed in a head on collision car accident.
Shortly thereafter, members of a covert US government group called "The
Division" begin to be murdered one by one. When the brother to one
Division member sees his brother knifed to death, it is revealed that former
SS dentist Szell, "the White Angel" of Auschwitz, is wrapping up
loose ends to smuggle priceless diamonds from the United States. |
MARK OF ZORRO |
In old Spanish California, the oppressive
colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who
appears out of nowhere with flashing sword and an athletic sense of humor,
scarring the faces of evildoers with his Mark. Meanwhile, beautiful Lolita is
courted by villainous Captain Ramon, rich but effete Don Diego... and dashing
Zorro, who is never seen at the same time as Don Diego. As Zorro continues to
evade pursuit, Ramon puts the damsel in distress... |
MARLOWE |
Quiet young Orfamay Quest from Kansas has
hired private detective Philip Marlowe to find her brother. After two leads
turn up with ice picks stuck in them, he discovers blackmail photos
concerning TV star Mavis Wald. She rejects Marlowe's help, and this is
forcibly underlined by her gangster boyfriend. So, wonders Marlowe, is there
a link between Orfamay and Mavis? |
MARRlAGE ITALIAN STYLE |
Domenico, a successfull businessman, with
an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years
old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He
eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various
businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannys.
Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee. Filumena tricks him into
marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage. Filumena
then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children
belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. You start to believe
that all of the children could be his, and Domenico then marries Filumena
again, this time willingly. |
MARRYING KIND |
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a
troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge
encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the
marriage can be saved. |
MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD Buster
Crabbe Feature from first Flash Gorden cereal |
As a deadly ray from space hits the Earth,
Flash Gordon travels to its source, the planet Mars, only to find his old
enemy emperor Ming of Mongo. With the help of the clay people and other
fantastic creatures, he fights for the freedom of two planets. |
MARTIN LUTHER |
The time frame of the film is 1505-1530:
Luther's entrance into the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt to the
presentation of the Augsburg Confession. It recounts Martin Luther's struggle
to find God's mercy: his discovery of the gospel in Romans 1:17. |
MASK OF FU MANCHU |
Englishmen race to find the tomb of
Ghengis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. Fu Manchu
is also searching, and if he gets the mysteriously powerful relics, he and
his diabolical daughter will enslave the world! |
MATTER OF TIME |
Based loosely on the real life exploits of
the infamous Italian eccentric, the Marchesa Casati, whom Druon knew during
her declining years in London while he was stationed there during World War
II. |
McHALE'S NAVY JOINS THE AIR FORCE |
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again
when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air
Force. |
MEDAL FOR BENNY |
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MEET JOHN DOE |
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann
Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who
threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire
Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her
bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up
"John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last
everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton
has a secret plan. |
MELODY |
Two youngsters declare to their parents
that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as
possible. The story is told from the children's point of view. |
MICROMANCY |
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MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT |
Betty Preisser (Kim Novak), an attractive
24 year old divorcee, works as a secretary in the hard-boiled atmosphere of
Manhattan's garment district... |
MIDNIGHT LACE |
Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real
honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get
out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is
frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. Next the
telephone calls start. Then there is a new man on the block, the architect of
a building going up next to the Prestons' vintage apartment. That vintage
building has the kind of curving stairwell and cage-type elevator that
Hitchcock and other suspense masters have loved. Could Kit merely have an
overactive imagination? |
MILLION DOLLAR LEGS |
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy
is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising
money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on
your mood, but it's quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, and becomes
even funnier with subsequent viewings. |
MILLIONAlRENESS |
London-based Millionairess Epifania
(Sophia Loren) is attracted to Dr. Kabir (MD from Delhi and PhD from
Calcutta), who is more intent on treating patients. When she persists, he
confides in her that he had made a commitment to his late widowed seamstress
mother that he will wed any woman who will manage to survive on just
Rs.500/-, for 90 days. She finds out that this sum is equivalent to just 35
shillings but readily accepts this challenge. She also informs him that her
late father had also imposed a condition that she must wed a male who will
turn £500 into £15000 within the same period. Epifania then finds employment
with an Italian firm, ends up re-organizing, and turning up the firm's
profits. At the end of 90 days, she goes to meet Kabir and discovers that he
has not only given all the money away but also has no interest whatsoever in
marrying her. |
MIND OF MR. SOAMES |
Since his birth, 30 years ago, John Soames
is in a coma. Now he's operated and brought to life in a neurologic clinic. A
tense plan shall make him develop from a 30 years old baby to a man, but
there's no time for the love and care a normal baby would receive. He manages
to flee... |
MINISTRY OF FEAR |
Stephen Neale is released into WWII
England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside
either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across
a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to. |
MIRACLE OF THE BELLS |
Granting her final request, a Hollywood
press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her
first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. To arouse public
interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks
all the local churches to ring their bells for three days. |
MIRAGE |
An accountant's memory suddenly becomes
mixed up starting from the moment the building he is in has a power blackout.
He is bewildered that he can't recall even simple particulars of his job and
places he does remember don't exist. Believing he has some type of amnesia,
he tries to backtrack what happened before the blackout. Aided by a rookie
detective and confused by an old girl friend, he tries to make sense of
inconsistent facts while people around him are being murdered. |
MISFITS |
Roslyn divorces Ray in Reno and then meets
widower Guido. He likes her but introduces her to cowboy Gay, and those two
fall in love. When she learns that Gay, Guido and Perce are going to turn
wild horses ("misfits") into dog food, she protests. |
MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND |
A bookie uses a phony real estate business
as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires
dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any
criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose
their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost
housing development. |
MISS POLLY |
Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass heads up the town's
Purity League and is so good at imposing restrictions of keeping the girls
and boys apart that there hasn't been a marriage in the town in over two
years. Her next-door neighbor, Miss Panadora Polly, aptly named based on what
she lets out of the box later in the film, is doing her best to promote the
romance between town-nerd Eddie and Minerva's daughter Barbara. Miss Polly
also does a lot of reflecting on what-might-have been regarding her own life
reference romance, or the lack thereof. She and her handyman Slim Wilkins and
(described in the dialogue) "housekeeper and companion" Patsy try
sampling some of the spirits in the cellar, as Miss Polly is looking for the
one that makes one nervy and romantic, that she is sure is there according to
family legend. She finds it and it works as advertised and even better, and
it is no pretty sight when the horny Zasu Pitts puts a hit on grocery-boy
Mickey Daniels... |
MISSILES OF OCTOBER |
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book,
"Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's
actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
MISSISSIPPI |
A young pacifist after refusing on
principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace,
joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot
after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills
himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and
finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him. |
MISTER RICCO |
A San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is
hired to defend a black militant accused of murder. |
MISTER WALKIE TALKIE |
Korean War Comedy |
MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER |
Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat
cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and
can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man
and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course things go wrong... |
MODERN TIMES |
Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with
sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns
against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and
progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production
line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic
feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone
mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is
mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a
jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more
escapades before the film is out. |
MOLLY McGUIRES |
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876
Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly
Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and
murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to infiltrate the group
and report on its members. But on which side do his sympathies lie? |
MONKEY BUSINESS |
While stowing away on a ship to America,
the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of
feuding gangsters while trying desparately to evade the ship's crew. After
arriving stateside, one of the gangsters kidnaps the other's daughter - and
it's up to our unlikely heroes to save the day. |
MONKEY BUSINESS |
Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist
working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a
sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the
water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture
temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting
his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even
further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he
believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance
for him. |
MOUNTAIN FAMILY ROBINSON |
A family goes "back to nature"
by homesteading in the Colorado Rockies. |
MOUSE ON THE MOON |
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny
Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the
money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid
from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show
that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke
is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket.
The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them
to the moon. |
MOUSE THAT ROARED |
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that
the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the
United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force to
New York (armed with longbows) which arrives during a nuclear drill that has
cleared the streets. Wandering about to find someone to surrender to, they
discover a scientist with a special ultimate weapon that can destroy the
Earth. When they capture him and his bomb they are faced with a new
possibility: What do you do when you win a war? |
MOVIE CRAZY |
Harold Hall, an accident prone young man
with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in pictures. After
a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a
screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. At the studio, he does everything
wrong and causes all sorts of trouble. But he catches the fancy of a
beautiful actress, and eventually the studio owner recognizes him as a comic
genius. |
MOVIE MOVIE |
Three movie genres of the 1930s are
satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature. In "Dynamite
Hands" a delivery boy turns prizefighter in order to raise enough money
for his kid sister's eye operation. Later, however, he turns his back on his
father-figure manager and librarian girlfriend when he is distracted by a
flashy gangster and sexy night club diva. Intermission has a
coming-attractions trailer for "Zero Hour," a World War I aviation
drama. In the second feature, "Baxter's Beauties of 1933" a
Broadway impresario hears he has only a month to live and is determined to
mount one more hit on the boards. When his drunken diva of a star cannot go
on opening night, he finds that the ingénue he chooses to replace her is his
long-estranged daughter, whom he has not seen since she was a girl. All three
stories feature the same cast. |
MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION |
Roger Hobbs is a harried city dweller who
longs to take his family to the seashore for a vacation. He and his wife
Peggy do get the family to the sand, but new problems develop there, and the
vacation turns out to be a mixed blessing. |
MR.SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON |
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith,
leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor
of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential
hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however,
Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his
earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state
political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then
later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. |
MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH |
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate
Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who
wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy
brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy
to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes
the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to
see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who
insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins
who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the
amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure.
Miss Lucy and Bob get married. |
MURDER AT THE V ANETIES |
Shortly before the curtain goes up the
first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is
attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading
man Eric Lander. Stage manager in charge Jack Ellery calls in his friend,
policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack if offering
to let him see the show from an unusual view point, after he forgot to get
him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered
women. Bill suspects Eric of the crime, especially, after the second female
lead Rita Ross told him she saw the women leaving from Eric's room. Then Rita
is shot onstage with Eric's gun. Jack and Bill decide not to stop the show,
but Bill preparing to arrest Eric. Is he on the right track ? |
MURDER MY SWEET |
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler
novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent
filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous)
has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out
of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend,
Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than
Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web
of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation
is obvious, least of all Marlowe's. |
MURDER, INC |
Based on the true-life book of lawman
Burton Turkus, this movie chronicles the rise and fall of the organized crime
syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated. Focusing on powerful boss Lepke and
violent hitman Reles. |
MY BODYGUARD |
Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake
View High School. Faced with all the stress that role entails he makes his
situation worse by insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who
extort lunch money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the
kids to protect them from Linderman who, it is rumored, killed his brother in
cold blood. Clifford befriends the sullen Linderman and hires him as his
bodyguard. When Moody ups the ante, Linderman must decide whether fighting
for what he believes in, with his haunted past and image, is justified. |
MY BOY |
Jackie Blair's father was killed in
France. His mother died traveling in steerage. This leaves little Jackie
Blair alone when he appears at Ellis Island, and the immigration officials
want to send him right back. Captain Bill appears on the scene asking for a
job - but he's too old and no one wants him. He sees lonely little Jackie,
pities him and asks the eight Pinkosuwitz children to include him in their
games. Thus, the Captain unwittingly engineers Jackie's escape. The orphan is
mixed in with the Pinkosuwitzes when they leave the immigration building.
When they find they've gained a ninth child, they send him on his way. This
leaves Jackie to follow Captain Bill back to his very modest home - for which
the old salt is unable to pay the rent. Jackie tries to make himself useful.
He even sings and dances with an organ grinder to make money for the
Captain's medicine... |
MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE |
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death
row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his
private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness
Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings
in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody
of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a
framed murder rap? |
MY FAVORITE YEAR |
Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the
top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Its a new
medium and the rules were not fully established. Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn
type actor with a drinking problem is to be that weeks guest star. When King
Kaiser, the headliner wants to throw Swann off the show, Benjy makes a pitch
to save his childhood hero, and is made Swann's babysitter. On top of this, a
union boss doesn't care for Kaiser's parody of him and has plans to stop the
show. |
MY LIFE TO LIVE |
This film explores a Parisian woman's
descent into prostitution. The movie is comprised of a series of 12
"tableaux"-- scenes which are basically unconnected episodes, each
presented with a worded introduction. |
MY LITTLE CHICKADEE |
Rightly suspected of illicit relations
with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the
train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for
"respectability." Arrived in Greasewood City with his unkissed
bride, Twillie is named sheriff by town boss Jeff Badger...with an ulterior
motive. Meanwhile, both stars inimitably display their specialties, as
Twillie tends bar and plays cards, and Flower Belle tames the town's rowdy
schoolboys... |
MY MAN GODFREY |
In the depths of the Depression, a party
game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets
Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the
Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial
fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege'...who
feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place,
regardless of that servant's mysterious past... |
MY SISTER EILEEN |
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from
Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a
job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up
living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of
odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up
with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both
with their career plans. |
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND |
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape
in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by
giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the
dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea' . |
NAKED RUNNER |
Sam Laker is an American industrialist,
working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for
industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade
show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a
holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in
the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his
lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an
assassination. |
NANOOK OF THE NORTH |
Documents one year in the life of Nanook,
an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and
migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the
North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological
documentary in cinematographic history. |
NAVIGATOR |
Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart
Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but
boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father.
Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies
capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two
socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board. |
NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK |
Fields wants to sell a film story to
Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for
ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. He becomes his niece's guardian
when her mother is killed in a trapeze fall during the making of a circus
movie. He and his niece, who he finds at a shooting gallery, fly to Mexico to
sell wooden nutmegs in a Russian colony. Trying to catch his bottle as it
falls from the plane, he lands on a mountain peak where lives the man- eating
Mrs. Hemogloben. When he gets to the Russian colony he finds Leon Errol
(father of the insulting boys and owner of the shooting gallery) already
selling wooden nutmegs. He decides to woo the wealthy Mrs. Hemogloben but
when he gets there Errol has preceded him. The Mexican adventure is the story
that Esoteric Studios would not buy. |
NEW LAND (EMMIGRANTS II) |
This film continues from where Utvandrarna
(1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is
not easy. The winters and summers are more extreme than in the Old World. But
the immigrants are rewarded for their hard work. They now live a better life
than they did in Sweden. Bad times also come, however. The civil war starts
and the Sioux Indians make a bloody uprising against the white settlers.
Karl-Oskar's family survives all these. His brother, Robert, decides to seek
his fortune in the gold fields of California. He never reaches California but
acquires some fortune from his boss who dies of yellow fever on the way to
the gold fields. An immigrant Swede dupes him of this fortune. Robert returns
to his brother where he dies from a disease contracted on the trip. Kristina,
whose thoughts never leave Sweden, has several more births and gets pregnant
again against the advice of her doctor... |
NEW ORLEANS |
Musical drama featuring Billie Holiday as
a singing maid and Louis Armstrong as a bandleader; supporting players
Holiday and Armstrong perform together and portray a couple becoming
romantically involved. |
NIAGARA FALLS |
Margie Blake, who wants to get married
young and have two dozen kids, has a flat tire and traveling salesman Tom
Wilson, who believes in "loving 'em and leaving 'em" stops to help.
They soon discover they are polar opposites and dislike each other very much.
Oklahoma oilman Sam Sawyer and his new bride Emmy, on their way to honeymoon
in Niagara Falls, come along and offer help and Sam gets the idea that Margie
and Tom are married and having a lover's spat. Later when all are checking
into the hotel, the befuddled manager, thanks to Sam who is still trying to
get them to kiss and make up, gives them a room together which Marge and Tom
don't realize, since Sam has given up his and Emmy's Honeymoon Suite in order
to get them over their spat. Sam takes over and locks them in the suite
together for the night and stands guard outside the room until they solve
their marital problems... |
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA |
The tragic story of Nicholas II, the last
Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an
inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their
daughters, and the painful secret which bound the Imperial Couple to the
mystical Rasputin, and the eventual execution of the entire family. |
NICHOLAS NICKELBY |
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas
Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy
moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive
school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the
persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to
protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his
sister Kate, and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, whose father is in
debtors prison. |
NICKELODEON |
This homage to the childhood days of the
motion pictures starts in 1910, when the young attorney Leo Harrigan by
chance meets a motion picture producer. Immediately he's invited to become a
writer for him - the start of a sensational career. Soon he's promoted to a
director and shoots one silent movie after the other in the tiny desert
village Cacamonga with a small crew of actors. But the competition is hard:
the patent agency sends out Buck Greenway to sabotage them. When they visit
L.A., his crew is surprised by a new species: fans! |
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA |
When American minister Reverend T.
Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico
in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus
load of spinsters and a teenage nymphet named Charlotte Goodall, who is being
chaperoned by the group's leader, the inflexible Judith Fellowes. Miss
Fellowes, who is quite jealous of Charlotte's attentions to Shannon,
discovers the young woman in his room and vows to have him fired. To thwart
her plot, Shannon takes control of the bus from Hank, the bus driver, and
speeds the tour group on a wild ride through the Mexican jungle to the
crumbling, secluded hotel of an old friend, the recently widowed Maxine Falk.
Eventually Shannon becomes enamored with another guest at the hotel, the
rather genteel Hanna Jelkes, an itinerant quick sketch artist and her poet
grandfather Nonno. As the wise Hanna partially restores Shannon's fractured
world... |
NIGHT PASSAGE |
The workers on the railroad haven't been
paid in months --- that's because Whitey and his gang, including
fast-shooting, dangerous, but likeable Utica Kid, keep holding up the train
for its payroll. Grant McLaine, a former railroad employee who was fired in
disgrace, is recruited to take the payroll through under cover. A young boy
and a shoebox figure into the plot when Whitey's gang tries to hold up the
train and Grant and the Kid meet again to settle an old score. |
NIGHTCOMERS |
Prequel to the Henry James classic
"Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of
Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in
their care. |
NINE TO FIVE |
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in
the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants
manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and
productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up? |
NO DOWN PAYMENT |
The marital difficulties of four couples
living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among
the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife
Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working
Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and
David Martin. |
NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY |
Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer
being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger
plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible
to metal fatigue after a specific amount of time in the air. The absent
minded Honey boards the Reindeer class plane and only realizes that this
plane is due to fail in the next few hours after the plane is airborne. He
decides to warn the crew and creates an incident regardless of whether he is
right or wrong. |
NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE |
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't
that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to
Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder.
He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of
French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls
for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's
brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble
during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty
is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can
manage it.) |
NORWOOD |
Norwood Pratt (Campbell) has just finished
his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and is on his way home from
Vietnam. A musician, his one great ambition is to appear on the radio program
Louisiana Hayride. |
NOTHING SACRED |
Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives
the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident
was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. She is happy not to be
dying, but she, who has never traveled the world, was going to use the money
paid to her by her factory to go to New York in style. She believes her
dreams can still be realized when Wally Cook arrives in town. He is a New
York reporter with the Morning Star newspaper. He believes that Hazel's
valiant struggle concerning her impending death is just the type of story he
needs to resurrect his name within reporting circles after a recent story he
wrote led to scandal and a major demotion at the newspaper. He proposes to
take Hazel to New York both to report on her story but also to provide her
with a grand farewell to life. She accepts. Wally's story results in Hazel
becoming the toast of New York... |
NOTORIOUS |
Following the conviction of her German
father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men.
She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on
a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A
romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too
involved in her work. |
OCEANS 11 |
Eleven friends who know each other from
World War II service plan to rob five of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas in
one night. They develop a master plan but after the whole thing is over,
something goes wrong... |
ODE TO BILLY JOE |
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely
Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual.
One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with
the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed
man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually
confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because
she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot
accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he
throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge. |
OF MICE AND MEN |
George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant
workers in the 1930s Depression. Lennie is mentally retarded and George looks
after him. While working as hands on a Western ranch, they dream of owning
their own ranch and the opportunity may be available. Their current ranch is
owned by a sadistic man who has a flirtatious wife. |
OH HEAVENLY DOG |
Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's
sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client.He stumbles across the body
of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven,
they tell him he's "marginal material," and they can only decide on
his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his
own murder. As a dog. A cute fluffy little dog (Benji). Undaunted, Browning
begins to investigate the case as best he can around his canine disabilities
(dialing the phone presents a special challenge) to solve the murders, save
the girl, and see justice done. |
O'HENRY'S FULL HOUSE |
Five O' Henry stories, each separate. The
primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem".
Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can
spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman;
she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion
Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief",
and "The Gift of the Magi". |
OKLAHOMA CRUDE |
It's oil boom time in Oklahoma and Lena
Doyle, a hard-bitten, cyncial feminist has a fight on her hands: the big oil
companies don't like the fact that she's working a potentially profitable
wildcat rig. Reluctantly, Lena must accept the aid of her estranged father
Cleon, and Mason, the man he hires to help. The three form an unlikely team:
Lena hates men, Mason is out for himself, and Lena's father is trying to make
up for a lifetime of neglecting his daughter. But together they take on the
big guys and put up a terrific fight. |
OLD FASHIONED WAY (GREAT
McGONNIGAL) |
The Great McGonigle's traveling theatrical
troupe are staying at a boarding house. They are preparing to put on a
production of "The Drunkard" (and do so during this movie).
Cleopatra Pepperday puts up money for the show provided she can have a part
("Here comes the prince!"). Little Albert Wendelschaffer torments
McGonigle all through lunch ("How can you hurt a watch by dipping it in
molasses?"). In spite of being pursued by several sheriffs, McGonigle is
able to keep going and see his daughter Betty happily married. |
OLIVER TWIST |
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy
who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of
thieves and pickpockets. |
OLIVER! |
Musical adaptation of 'Charles Dickens' 's
classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with
a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. |
ON OUR MERRY WAY |
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from
his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet
notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests,
"Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers
from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a
sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child"
is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby"
turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a
spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat
doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him? |
ON THE WATERFRONT |
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize
fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for
Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a
murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and
feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who
tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the
dock racketeers. |
ONCE MORE MY DARLING |
Movie star Collier Laing is recalled to
active duty with the Army Criminal Investigation Division. His mission: to
sweep debutante Marita Connell off her feet and flush out her former
boyfriend, who's sent her jewels stolen in occupied Germany. Soon it's a
question of who's sweeping whom; Miss Connell's nickname is
"Killer." But when she wants to elope, Laing begins to have qualms. |
ONE ON ONE |
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his
small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on
a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport.
Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is
overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect
of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things
look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned
as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums
just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's
scholarship. |
ONE TRICK PONY |
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star
trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label
and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his
failing marriage. |
ONION FIELD |
Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who
recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in
crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a pair
of cops for broken brake-lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith,
as always, reluctantly goes along with Powell's crazy scheme. The group
drives out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, California and one
officer is shot while the other escapes. The remainder of the film explores
the nature of the American justice system, as well as the devastating
psychological effects of this event and the trial on the surviving officer. |
ONL Y GAME IN TOWN |
While waiting in vain for her married
lover to get a divorce, Fran Walker, a lonely chorus girl approaching middle
age, falls for Joe Grady, a frustrated musician and compulsive gambler who
dreams of escaping Las Vegas for fame and fortune in New York City. |
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS |
While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee
stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over
a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter, the lead flyer,
seems distant and cold as Bonnie tries to get closer to him. Things heat up
as Judy MacPherson, Geoff's old flame, shows up with her husband who is an
infamous pilot. |
OPEN CITY (aka. ROMA-CITTA
APERTA) |
Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the
leaders of the Resistance, is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his
friend Francesco's, and asks Pina, Francesco's fiancée, for help. Pina must
warn a priest, Don Pietro Pellegrini, that Giorgio needs to leave the town as
soon as possible ... |
OPERATION CROSSBOW |
This is the story of the methods used to
defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons"
towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in
retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film
includes references to Hannah Reich, who in real life was a test pilot and
really did fly some of the first 'flying bombs'. |
ORPHEUS |
Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with
Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed
by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld.
Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphee
back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice. |
OTLEY |
Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage
rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds
that he is wanted by the police for murder. And that is only the beginning.
While being pursued for a crime he did not commit, he is kidnapped by a group
of criminals who suspect him of being involved with double agents. Otley
manages to escape, but cannot avoid getting into one near-fatal crisis after
another, as police and foreign agents chase after him. It is a wild week of
misadventures which Otley will never forget! |
OUR RELATIONS |
Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their
long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave
carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's captain. All
four get involved in multiple cases of mistaken identity as a gang of
hoodlums try to steal the ring Stanley and Oliver wind up with their feet in
cement, about to be dumped into the harbor. |
OUR TOWN |
Change comes slowly to a small New
Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live,
and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks
their front doors. |
OVERLANDERS |
It's the start of WWII in Northern
Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning
everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their
cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the
continent. |
OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT |
Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan
become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished writer who
vents his frustration by reporting to the super that the woman in a
neighboring flat takes the occasional payment for sex. She's Doris, more wildcat
than pussycat, and when Felix's peeping-tom-tattle-tale routine gets her
bounced from her apartment, she knocks at his door at 3 AM, aggressive and
ticked off. They yell, lose another apartment, and pick up where they left
off in a friend's flat and beyond. Dancing by the light of the moon seems
unlikely for this owl and pussycat. |
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES |
The boys' Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is
killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Back home
after Armistice, they try to find Eddie's father and turn the child over to
him. Unfortunately, they keep coming up with the wrong Smiths, and in the
process disrupt a wedding by proclaiming the baby to be the groom's child. To
evade the Welfare Association, they try to skip town, raising money for their
escape by hocking their lunch wagon. But they accidentally knock the bank
president unconscious and wind up being hunted down for bank robbery. |
PANIC |
A young Swiss woman becomes mixed up with
a gang planning a diamond heist. |
PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK |
This movie is a stark portrayal of life
among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in "Needle Park" in
New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between
Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who
finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves. She becomes
addicted too, and life goes downhill for them both as their addiction
deepens, eventually leading to a series of betrayals. But, in spite of it
all, the relationship between Bobby and Helen endures. |
PANIC IN THE STREETS |
One night in the New Orleans slums,
vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too
much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health
Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic
epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates,
with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official
skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor
turn detective? He has 48 hours to try... |
PANIQUE aka PANIC |
In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has
just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr
Hire. The same evening, Alice, just getting out of jail, arrives and meets up
with her lover Alfred again. They act as they do not know each other, for
Alice went to jail to spare Alfred. But Mr Hire falls in love with Alice, and
he knows Alfred is the murderer... |
PAPER CHASE |
Hart is a confused first year law student
at Harvard. He is trying to survive the year under his strictest professer,
the legendary Kingsfield. With the help of some of his classmates in his
study group, Hart becomes one of the smartest students in his class. His
reputation with Kingsfield is diminished, however, when he finds out the girl
he has been seeing is Kingfields daughter. Will Hart perform to the best of
his ability with Kingsfield watching his every move? |
PAPER MOON |
Adapted from the novel, "Addie
Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray
and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of
Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of the
United States. As the movie opens, we see a small group of mourners clustered
at a graveside. Among the mourners is Addie, the dead woman's small daughter.
Moses Pray -- ostensibly of the "Kansas Bible Company" --
approaches the group, as the service concludes, and two of the elderly women
remark that the child bears some resemblance to him and asks if he might be
related. "If ever a child needed kin, it's now," one lady says.
With no knowledge of who her father is, Addie's only haven is her Aunt's home
in St. Joseph, Missouri. Having identified himself as a "traveling man
spreading the Lord's... |
PAPER TIGER |
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is
hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes
when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes. |
PARADISE IN HARLEM |
Between swing and blues musical numbers,
the story of comedian Lem Anderson, whose long-awaited chance to act
dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob killing and is forced to leave
town. Lem becomes a wanderer, then an alcoholic. Finally a chance to play
Othello draws him back to Harlem. Is it too late for Ned? Or too soon to suit
Rough Jackson's mobsters? Melodramatic events lead to an unusual conclusion. |
PARDON US |
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up
behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman. In
prison, Stan's loose tooth keeps getting him in trouble, because it sounds
like he's giving everybody a rasp- berry. But it earns him the respect of The
Tiger, a rough prisoner, and the boys manage to slip away during The Tiger's
escape attempt. They disguise themselves in blackface and hide on a cotton
plantation, but are recaptured when the warden happens by. Back in the big
house, they find themselves in a hail of bullets, caught between the state
militia and gun-toting prisoners, when The Tiger tries another escape. |
PARIS BLUES |
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two
expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time,
Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and
fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, who are
vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move
back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them.
Ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds Paris more exciting than
America and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and Eddie
wants to stay for the city's more tolerant racial atmosphere. |
PASSPORT TO HEAVEN (aka I Was a
Criminal) |
Based on an incident that happened in the
Second German Reich of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1906. Bassermann plays Wilhelm
Voight, a small time ex-con, who wants to return to his old home (in his
German state). |
PAT AND MIKE |
Pat's a brilliant athlete, except when her
domineering fiance is around. The lady's golf championship is in her reach
until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to
get married and forget the whole thing, but she can't give up on herself that
easily. She enlists the help of Mike, a slightly shady sports promoter.
Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual
attraction. |
PEDESTRIAN (aka Fußgänger) |
The trial of an elderly war criminal. |
PERFECT COUPLE |
An older man (Dooley), tries romancing a
younger woman (Heflin). She is part of a travelling band of bohemian
musicians who perform gigs in outdoor arenas around the country. |
PERFECT FURLOUGH |
To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers
building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests
choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the
men: three weeks in Paris with their favorite pin-up queen, Sandra Roca.
Since "winner" Paul Hodges is a tireless Don Juan, and this is a
fifties comedy, Vicki is ordered to keep Paul and Sandra out of bed. But who
will guard the guardian? |
PERSONA |
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of
Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but
will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth
constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets
to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is
being submerged into Elisabeth's persona. |
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA |
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious
phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give
up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets
this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. What's his goal
? What's his secret ? |
PHFFFT! |
After eight years of marriage, Robert and
Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while
she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Both start dating other
people, but although they try and ignore each other whenever they
accidentally meet, it is obvious the past is not dead. Then one night they
find themselves in a nightclub doing the mambo together. |
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER |
A lawyer, told that his wife is having an
affair, sets out on a journey and becomes involved in the lives of fellow
plane passengers. |
PIANO |
It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a
mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her
native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in
the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have
imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She
suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George.
Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano
lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada
despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels
them into a dire situation. |
PICNIC |
The morning of a small town Labor Day
picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity
buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in
town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He
meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan
Benson. |
PIECE OF THE ACTION |
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two
high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a
retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them
behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go
straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks
are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain
the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All
goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last
heist...or else... |
PIED PIPER |
Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing
holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try
and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children,
and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in
German-occupied northern France a new problem arises - the risk of being
heard speaking English. |
PIED PIPER |
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease.
Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to
Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her
dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral
he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a
treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the
minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to
rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the
morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once. |
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM |
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by
his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by
Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins
showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of his two married
friends, he actually tries dating again, with less than satisfactory results,
until he relaxes. |
PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD |
A quiet little village, and especially a
pretty young woman, falls under the spell of a charming, somewhat roguish
stranger who suddenly appears one day. |
PLAYTIME |
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American
official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which
is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion,
Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in
his usual manner. |
POCKET MONEY |
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest
cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. |
POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES |
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a
basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway
itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks
they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more
than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help:
Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is
coming to America with a Count and his son. The count wants to marry Louise,
who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and
Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince
the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite. |
POPI |
Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent
with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run
down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized
and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed
ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos. |
POPPY |
Poppy, daughter of carnival medicine
salesman Professor McGargle, falls in love with the Mayor's son. Countess
Maggie Tubbs DePuizzi is claimant to the Putnam estates, but McGargle and
lawyer Wiffen plot to make Poppy claim the fortune. Wiffen and the Countess
double-cross the Professor, but kindly Sarah Tucker notices a resemble
between Poppy and the deceased Mrs. Putnam. It turns out that McGargle
adopted the girl, she is the rightful heir, the purported Countess is only a
showgirl, and every one has a happy ending. |
PRINCE OF PLAYERS |
A tragic and sentimental story that
depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth with
some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President Lincoln
by Edwin's brother, John Wilkes Booth. In the film, Edwin's days in the
spotlight dwindle shortly after his brother is caught and killed for
assassinating Lincoln. |
PRINCE OF THE CITY |
New York City cop Daniel Ciello is
involved in some questionable police practices. He is approached by internal
affairs and in exchange for him potentially being let off the hook, he is
instructed to begin to expose the inner workings of police corruption. Danny
agrees as long as he does not have to turn in his partners but he soon learns
that he cannot trust anyone and he must decide whose side he is on and who is
on his. |
PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE |
The story of Mel and Edna ('Jack Lemmon
(I)' and Anne Bancroft), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple
living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Mel loses his job, the
apartment is robbed, Edna gets a job, Mel loses his mind, Edna loses her job
. . . to say nothing of the more minor tribulations of nosy neighbors,
helpful relatives and exact bus fares. The couple suffers indignity after
indignity (some self-inflicted) and when they seem on the verge of surrender,
they thumb their noses defiantly and dig the trenches for battle. |
PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY THE EIGHTH |
This movie tells the story of King Henry
VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal
castle, it begins just before the death of his second wife (Anne Boleyn) and
ends just after his sixth wedding (to Catherine or Katherine Parr). |
PRODUCERS |
Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max
Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When
timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's accounting books, the two hit upon a
way to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which is to be
their gold mine? "Springtime for Hitler." |
PROFESSOR BEWARE |
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd),
accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a
group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he
gets in and out of scrapes along the way. |
PROMISE AT DAWN |
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PSYCHO |
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed
up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch
breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money
away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her
employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life,
Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the
long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls
into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman
who seems to be dominated by his mother. |
PURPLE DEATH FROM OUTER SPACE |
Earthmen are suddenly stricken with a
mysterious disease, which causes instant death and leaves a purple spot on
the forehead of each victim. Investigating, Dr. Zarkov discovers a spaceship
from Ming's kingdom on Mongo spreading a dust across Earth's atmosphere,
which Zarkov correctly deduces is causing the plague. Accompanied by Flash
Gordon and Dale Arden, Zarkov drives off the ship and hurries to the friendly
Mongo kingdom of Arboria, to enlist the aid of Prince Barin. At Barin's
palace, they meet Queen Fria and Count Korro of the ice-kingdom Frigia.
Helping them rescue a Frigian general from Ming's palace, they learn the
nature of Ming's plague-dust and its antidote, found only in Frigia. With
Fria's blessings they fly to Frigia to obtain the antidote, accompanied by
Arboria captains Ronal, Roka and Turan. But Ming learns this, sends his own
officers Torch and Thong to stop them with raygun fire and an army of
humanoid robots... |
PURPLE HEART |
This is the story of the crew of a downed
bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the
hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation:
being tried and convicted as war criminals. |
PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO |
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during
the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom
Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of
Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of
raising her spirits. Much to her surprise Tom Baxter walks off the screen and
into her life. There's only one problem..Tom isn't real. Meanwhile Hollywood
is up in arms when they dicover that other Tom Baxters are trying to leave
the screen in other theatres. Will Tom ever return and finish the film or
will he decide to stay in the real world? |
PYGMALION |
The snobbish and intellectual Professor of
languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a
London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a
society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human
being with ideas of her own. |
QUEEN OF THE STARDUST BALLROOM |
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a
widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust
Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s.
There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman.
With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine. |
QUILLER MEMORANDUM |
Two British agents are murdered by a
mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service
sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi
chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game where each side
tries to find out the enemy's headquarters at any price… |
QUlTTER |
When her husband, who founded the town's
crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of
World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper
going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of
the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting
champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the
rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their
father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's
identity and is still living there. |
RACERS |
Kirk Douglas dusts off his character from
Champion and gives it a new home in the European Auto Racing Circuit. |
RACHEL RACHEL |
Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who
has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big
city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her
life and where she wants it to go. |
RADIO CITY REVELS |
Washed-up songwriter Harry Miller and his
neighbor, dancer Billie Shaw, are insolvent despite efforts to find work in
radio. But Harry is visited by his "student," hillbilly Lester
Robin, who can only write songs in his dreams. And lo! Lester's first nap
yields a song hit for which Harry takes credit. But to fulfill his new
contract, he needs to keep Lester sleeping, amidst romantic complications. |
RADIO STARS ON PARADE |
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid
finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air. |
RAIN |
For residents of the Samoan village of
Pago Pago, life is simple until a boat arrives carrying two couples, the
Davidsons (who are missionaries), the MacPhails and a prostitute named Sadie
Thompson. Davidson is more than just a religious zealot; he's a mad man. When
the boat, which was en route to another port, is temporarily stranded on the
island due to a possible Cholera outbreak on-board, Sadie spends her time
"partying" with the American soldiers stationed on the island. Her
behavior, however, is more than the Davidsons can stand and soon Mr. Davidson
confronts Sadie about her evil ways and offers salvation. When Sadie rebels
and the attempted redemption does not go as planned, Davidson arranges to
have her sent back to San Francisco, where she fled some years ago due to
mysterious personal issues. Davidson soon becomes unhinged and thus begins a
series of surprising events which culminate in disaster. |
RAINMAKER |
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a
hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't
make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff,
File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the
town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and
father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker! |
RAINS CAME |
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns
from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of
Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Ransome get in the
way, but everyone shapes up when faced by plague, earthquakes and flooding. |
RAISIN IN THE SUN |
Walter Lee Younger is a young man
struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife,
son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the
family gets an unexpected financial windfall... |
RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS |
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite
who becomes involved in various shenanigans with his wife Grace Oglethorpe,
leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base
in their community. |
RARE BREED |
When her husband dies en route to America,
Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the
introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam
"Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a
Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught
with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare
breed" of cattle. |
REAL WEST |
|
REBECCA |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte
Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and
Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in
Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a
boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the
housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange
hold on everyone at Manderley. |
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE |
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has
been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here
he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though
he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both
Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove
himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie"
games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff. |
RED PONY |
In the coast range mountains on the
western edge of the Salinas Valley is a ranch where Tom, a lad of about ten,
longs for a pony. He lives with his mom, who was born there, her dad, a
talkative pioneer who misses the old West, Tom's dad Fred Tiflin, who comes
from the city and after years on the ranch doesn't feel at home there, and
Billy, their trusted hand, a real cowboy. While Fred has to sort out whether
he wants to stay a rancher and come to terms with his son being closer to
Billy than to himself, Tom gets a pony and learns directly about
responsibility and loss. What lessons can each learn, and are tragedy and
hard choices all that life offers? Are laughter and joy anywhere? |
RED SKY AT MORNING |
The film follows Josh Arnold (Thomas),
whose family relocates to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico during World War II. |
REIVERS |
An old man looks back 60 years to a road
trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of
age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first automobile in the area, a bright
yellow Winton Flyer. While he's away, the plantation handyman, Boon
Hogganbeck, conspires to borrow the car, taking Lucius with him. Stowed away
is Ned, a mulatto and Lucius's putative cousin. The three head for Memphis,
where Boon's sweetheart works in a whorehouse, where Ned trades the car for a
racehorse, and where Lucius discovers the world of adults - from racism and
vice to possibilities for honor and courage. Is there redemption for reivers,
rascals, and rapscallions? |
RENDEZVOUS WITH ANNIE |
A homesick American soldier stationed in
England, during WWII, makes an unauthorized (a.w.o.l) trip on an American Air
Force plane to the United States to see his wife, and then hops the plane
back to England, with only his wife knowing he was home for a few hours.
Later, she learns that she is pregnant and, to disclose that her husband had
paid her a visit would get him into trouble and she does not, the townspeople
are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, when her husband is
discharged, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person
who knew he came home, and the gossips are left to find something else to
prattle on about. |
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER |
No One Knew She Was An Undercover
Policewoman. Including The Detective Who Killed Her. |
REQUIUM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT |
Mountain Rivera is at the end of his
boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left
eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his ears turned to cauliflower, his
speech slurred from "being hit a million times," and he slings
punches anytime he hears a bell, but his trainer and 'cutman' Army, and Miss
Miller, a manipulative social worker, support his illusion that he could be a
movie usher, a camp counselor, or a romantic partner for Miller. But his
manager Maish Rennick, knowing the truth, can't admit that he's bet
everything he had that Rivera wouldn't go four rounds against Clay. Maish
will pay with his life when the goon squad comes to collect if he can't
persuade Rivera to abandon his pride ("I fought 111 fights and never
took a dive") and agree to a wrestling contract of which he's ashamed.
When Maish blurts out his secret... |
RIDER ON THE RAIN |
A beautiful young woman in the South of
France is stalked by, then raped by, a mysterious masked assailant. She
shoots him dead soon afterwards and dumps his corpse in the sea. Later, an
American investigator turns up, and to her horror he seems to know everything
about what she has done...... |
RIFFIFI (aka Du rififi chez les
hommes) |
After five years in prison, Tony le
Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and
they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the
famous jewelry Mappin and Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former
girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club
L' Âge d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back and
taking her jewels. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the
safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant
wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are
successful in their plan, but the D. Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he
gives a valuable ring to his mistress. |
RISING OF THE MOON |
Three vignettes of old Irish country life,
based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a
police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for
assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village,
including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's
Wait" is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of
the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece is called
"1921" and is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring
escape. Tyrone Power introduces each story. |
ROAD TO HONG KONG |
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby return as Con-men
Chester Babcock and Harry Turner, in the last of their road movies. When
Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian
formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into
international intrigue, trying to stay alive, and keep the formula out of
enemy hands. |
ROAD TO MORROCO |
Jeff and Turkey, two wild and crazy guys
adrift on a raft in the Mediterranean, are cast away on a desert shore and
hop a convenient camel to an Arabian Nights city where Turkey soon finds
himself sold as a slave...to luscious Princess Shalmar of Karameesh.
Naturally, Jeff would like to rescue Turkey from this "dire" fate,
even if it means taking his place! But they haven't figured on virile desert
chieftain Mullay Kassim, who has designs on the princess himself... |
ROBBERY |
A dramatization of the Great Train
Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care
and planning that took place to pull it off. |
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS |
Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan
McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploratory surveyor. A malfunction forces
them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must
learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even
hostile aliens if he expects to see home again. |
ROMANCE IN THE RAIN |
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance
magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and
Prince Charming" contest. |
ROOM SERVICE |
The Marx Brothers try and put on a play
before their landlord finds out that they have run out of money. To confuse
the landlord they pretend that the play's author has contracted some terrible
disease and can't be moved. Originally a stage play, the setting shows it's
origins, but this is vintage Marx Brothers. |
ROOTS |
A saga of African-American life, based on
Alex Haley's family history. Kunta Kinte is abducted from his African
village, sold into slavery, and taken to America. He makes several escape
attempts until he is finally caught and maimed. He marries Bell, his
plantation's cook, and they have a daughter, Kizzy, who is eventually sold
away from them. Kizzy has a son by her new master, and the boy grows up to
become Chicken George, a legendary cock fighter who leads his family into
freedom. Throughout the series, the family observes notable events in U.S.
history, such as the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, slave uprisings, and
emancipation. |
ROPE |
Brandon and Philip are two young men who
share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior
to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him.
Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old
chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father,
his fiancée Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they
mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring,
Rupert begins to suspect. |
ROSIE! |
Rosie is a sweet, rich and generous woman,
especially when is comes to giving money. Daughters, Mildred and Edith, are
worried that she will spend all their inheritance, so they plan to have Rosie
put away in a home and have her legally declared insane. When Daphne,(Rosie's
devoted and caring grand-daughter), over hears their plan, she vows to help
her grandmother win. |
ROUNDERS |
Ben and Howdy are a couple of aging
cowboys who bust broncos out of Sedona for Jim Ed Love, a slick operator if
ever there was one. Sisters, Meg and Agatha, have their eyes on Ben and
Howdy, but the boys aren't ready to settle down yet. They spend the winter in
the high country corralling more than 100 stray cattle at $7 a head for Jim
Ed. Most years, they blow their winter pay in one spring night at a Sedona
bar, but this year, Ben and Howdy have a plan: to take an ornery roan that
Ben has been unable to break and bet their bankroll that no cowboy at the
Sedona rodeo can stay on the horse. What will they do if they win - marry the
sisters or head for Tahiti? |
ROYAL FLASH |
Ne'er-do-well Harry Flashman is coerced by
Otto von Bismark into impersonating a prince. |
RULES OF THE GAME (aka La règle
du jeu) |
Aviator André Jurieux has just completed a
record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring crowd, all he
can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come
to meet him. He is in love with Christine, the wife of aristocrat Robert de
la Cheyniest. Robert himself is involved in an affair with Geneviève de
Marras, but he is trying to break it off. Meanwhile, André seeks help from
his old friend Octave, who gets André an invitation to the country home where
Robert and Christine are hosting a large hunting party. As the guests arrive
for the party, their cordial greetings hide their real feelings, along with
their secrets - and even some of the servants are involved in tangled
relationships. |
RUSSIANS ARE COMING, RUSSIANS ARE
COMING |
When a Soviet submarine captain comes up
for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he
runs aground. He sends his two English speaking crewmen to procure a boat
with enough power to pull them off. The 2 English speakers, along with 7
other Russian sailors, don't exactly blend in and the town is convinced that
they are being invaded. |
RUTHLESS |
Horace Vendig shows himself to the world
as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy
broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by
richer neighbours he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make
more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end. |
SACCO AND VANZETTI |
In 1920, the anarchist Italian immigrants
Niccola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria
Volonté) are sentenced to death, falsely accused of a robbery and murder.
Indeed they are condemned due to their political beliefs, in one of the most
shameful and hypocrite judgments of the human history. |
SAN FRANCISCO DOCKS |
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with
Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up
Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered
that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy,
and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all
evidence points to his guilt. Johnny's story that he was at pier seven
watching a tugboat being repaired is discredited by the police, who prove
that pier seven has long been closed, and no tugboat such as the one
described by Johnny can be found. Following up a clue found by her father,
Kitty finds the boat and uncovers the identity of the real murderer, Alcatraz
escapee Monte March. Kitty and Father Cameron locate and confront him, but
his loving wife Frances March is ready to defend him. A terrific struggle
between Kitty and Frances, and the priest and the murderer will decide
theirs... |
SAPS AT SEA |
After working in the noisy horn factory,
just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson
prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, so Stan and Oliver rent a boat and set
sail, unaware that escaped killer Nick Grainger has stowed away onboard. To
disable the crook, the boys prepare him a meal using string for spaghetti,
sponges for meatballs and soap for cheese. But Grainger discovers their plan
and decides to make them eat the stuff themselves. |
SAYONARA |
Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying
ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military's opposition to
marriages between American troops and Japanese women. But that's before
Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices...
and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan's own
cultural taboos. |
SCANDALOUS JOHN |
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be
able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and
the law--tell him he has to. |
SCARFACE |
When Fidel Castro opens the harbor at
Mariel, Cuba, he sends 125,000 Cuban refugees to reunite with their relatives
in the United States. Among all the refugees, there is one who wants it all,
his name is Tony Montana. Tony and his friend Manny when they arrive in the
United States and start in small time jobs, soon they are hired by Omar
Suarez to pay money to a group of Colombians. When the deal goes wrong, Tony
and Manny leave with the money and succeed in their job. Soon Tony meets with
drug kingpin Frank Lopez and falls for his boss's girl Elvira. Pretty soon
Tony will know that those who want it all, do not last forever and that is
the price of power. The world will know Montana by one name....SCARFACE. |
SCARLET PIMPERNEL |
Leslie Howard plays Sir Percy Blakeney, an
18th century English aristocrat who leads a double life. He appears to be
merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort
to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Based on the novel
by Baroness Orczy. |
SCOTT JOPLIN |
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and
how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time. |
SCROOGE |
Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser,
hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and
nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. But in the night, Scrooge is visited
by spirits of another color. Straightforward adaptation of Dickens |
SEANCE ON A WEST AFTERNOON |
Myra, a self-styled psychic in London,
concocts a scheme to gain celebrity. She convinces Billy, her weak-willed
husband, to kidnap the young daughter of wealthy parents. She and Billy will
demand money, and then she will go to the parents with extra-sensory messages
that will help the police find the child and the ransom. The plan unfolds
beautifully, except that after her first visit to the parents, the police
want to check her out. He's scared. As her delusions worsen, Bill realizes
Myra may not want the child found alive. Behind it all is also the death at
birth, years before, of their only child, whom they've named Arthur and who
is Myra's contact with the beyond. |
SECOND CHORUS |
Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie
Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two
trumpet players scheme to get into Shaw's outfit themselves, each trying to
trump the other's plays. |
SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN |
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the
Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter
addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston Foster),
the manager of this combination bar and gambling house. He refuses to turn
the letter over to her and she steals it. Bonnell later recovers the letter
which contains a coded note. Kay reveals she is an agent of the British
Secret Service. Bonnell, a fugitive from American justice, says he will turn
over the note to the highest bidder. When he approaches the Japanese, they
seize him but he escapes, after learing that the note was part of an alarm
for Japanese fifth columnists everywhere after the attack on Pearl Harbor
that has just been set in motion. |
SECRET OF THE CHATEAU |
Inspector Marotte, attending an auction of
rare collectible books previously ownded by the recently murdered M. Le Duc
de Poisse, hopes he can catch his old nemesis Prahec, a murderer and book
thief. More murders occur at the deceased's estate when it is learned that a
rare first edition of the Gutenberg Bible is hidden on the premises. Among
all the friends, relatives, and servants gathering at the estate, Marotte is
finally able to reveal the identity of Prahec and apprehend the guilty. |
SECRET WAYS |
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the
Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a
threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and
Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but
they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go! |
SEE MY LAWYER |
Comedy duo's mgr. won't release them from
their contract so they can act in a movie. However,they realize that by
abusing their audience, they can incur lawsuits which will bring the lawyers
some business and convince their mgr. it's cheaper to fire 'em. |
SEGREANT RUTLEDGE |
Lieutenant Tom Cantrell is sent to defend
Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, a black cavalry soldier, on a charge of rape and
murder. The story begins in a courtroom and it is told through flashbacks.
This is a story of how a black soldier in the face of danger from the Indians
can be so easily mistaken as a criminal. |
SENTINEL |
A fashion model moves into a house
inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind priest. She begins having strange
physical problems, has trouble sleeping at night, and has some nasty
flashbacks of her attempted suicide. She complains to the real estate agent of
the noise caused by her strange neighbors, but finds out that the house is
only occupied by the priest and herself, and ultimately discovers that she
has been put in the house for a reason. |
SEVEN DAYS ASHORE |
Dan Arland, a womanizing playboy, is
looking forward to a seven day leave in his home town of San Francisco with
one of two beautiful violinists playing for an all-girl swing band but can't
decide which of the two gorgeous gold-diggers he wants to squire around the
City by the Bay. Through a series of unusual circumstances both girls, as
well as his former fiancée, show up to meet him when he arrives. As both
musicians believe they are engaged to him, Dan fears he may become part of
one or more "breach of promise" lawsuits. Faking an old war injury,
he enlists the help of bumbling shipmates Monty and 'Handsome,' who pose as
millionaires in order to distract the girls with unforeseen results. |
SEVEN WOMEN |
In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha
Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief
Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark,
Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British mission, Charles Pather, a
teacher at the mission and his pregnant wife Florrie. When Dr. D.R.
Cartwright arrives, she agrees to sacrifice herself to the Tunga Khan in
exchange for his letting the ladies go free. |
SEVENTH SEAL |
A Knight and his squire are home from the
crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death
appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges
Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural
turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to
deal with the upheaval the plague has caused. |
SHACK OUT ON 101 |
At an isolated, seaside greasy-spoon cafe
live George, the sarcastic owner; Slob, the potentially violent cook; and
Kotty, the sexy waitress all the men lust after. Plus an occasional customer,
including "Professor Sam", Kotty's boyfriend from a nearby research
facility. And something's going on under the potentially explosive surface
emotions...nuclear secrets being smuggled out of the country. |
SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST |
Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental
school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west "to fight oral
ignorance." Meanwhile stagecoach robber Penelope "Bad Penny"
Cushing is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers.
She tricks the bungling Haywood into a fictitious marriage as a disguise, and
he becomes the heroic "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down
"Arnold the Kid" and performs other exploits with Penny's help
(unbeknown to him or anyone else). |
SHE COULDN'T SAY NO |
As usual with most of the RKO films from
this era "presented" by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, the PCA number is
usually 500-1000 digits lower than the one from other studios being released
at the time, indicating it was released a year or more after it was
completed. This one finds heiress Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) coming to a small
Arkansas town to play Santa Claus because, when she was a small child
traveling with her impoverished father, the townspeople saved her life by
donating money needed for medical treatment. She meets and falls in love with
"Doc" Sellers (Robert Mitchum), an easy-going doctor who enjoys
fishing and the unhurried pace of the town. Corby's gesture of handing out
money and lavish gifts to the citizens backfires when, after it has been
publicized, the town becomes the destination of every wayward traveler and
fortune seeker. |
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET
WEAPON |
Starting in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes
rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the allies want to keep from the
Nazis. Back in London it sems that the inventor is not all that he seemed. |
SHIP AHOY |
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine
to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but
fails to see why she would be involved. The enemy agents got the plan from a
pulp novel written by Kibble, who is also on the ship and falls for her. But
then she overhears his new novel and believes that he is talking about her.
So when they leave the boat, she ignores him, but somehow, the bags get
switched and he gets the magnetic mine - which she must later retrieve. It is
mainly a Tommy Dorsey showcase with Sinatra singing - Powell dancing - and a
small plot. |
SILKWOOD |
Fairly accurate recounting of the story of
Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on
dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances
which are still under debate. |
SINBAD THE SAILOR (Short?) |
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SIX OF A KIND |
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip
to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in
Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob
Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself
arrested in Nevada. |
SIXTEEN CANDLES |
Samantha's life is going downhill fast.
The fifteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the
geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and
with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Add all
this to a pair of horrendously embarrassing grandparents, a foreign exchange
student named Long Duc Dong, and we have the makings of a hilarious journey
into young womanhood. |
SKY RIDERS |
Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life
seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by
terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police,
Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James
Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang
gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top
lair. |
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE |
Jane Hoyt (Susan Hayward) arrives in Hong
Kong, looking for her husband, thrill-seeking photojournalist Louis Hoyt
(Gene Barry). She attracts the eye of shady shipping magnate Hank Lee (Clark
Gable). With his help, she learns that Louis entered Communist |
SOLID GOLD CADILLAC |
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic
small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation
based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to
question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
These are not the questions which the board expected to be asked of them,
especially since they are all crooked, except for Edward McKeever, the
current CEO who has resigned in order to take an advisory position at the
Pentagon. Following the meeting, he bumps into Laura and offers to drive her
home. On the way there, Laura displays her enthusiasm for being a
stockholder, as a result, Edward takes a liking to her. With Edward in
Washington, John Blessington and Clifford Snell establish their hold on
International Projects - They see greater riches now that Edward has
influence with the US senate, especially with the awarding of federal
contracts... |
SOME LIKE IT HOT |
Two struggling musicians witness the St.
Valentine's Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they
are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an
all girl band so the two dress up as women. In addition to hiding, each has
his own problems; One falls for another band member but can't tell her his
gender, and the other has a rich suitor who will not take "No," for
an answer. |
SONG IS BORN |
Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into
hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better
to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely
bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the
institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to fall for her. |
SONS OF THE DESERT |
So that he and Stan can sneak away to
Chicago and attend the annual "Sons of the Desert" lodge
convention, Ollie pretends to be sick, and gets a doctor (who turns out to be
a veterinarian) to prescribe a long ocean voyage to Hawaii. Decked out in
leis and strumming ukeleles, they return home only to learn that the ship
supposedly carrying them has sunk. Their hastily- contrived tale of
"ship-hiking" their way back cuts no ice with their wives, who've
been at the movies watching a newsreel of the lodge's convention parade,
starring... guess who? |
SOUND OFF |
An obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's
is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At his arrival at his
basic training he meets a WAC Lieutenant and romantically pursues her. |
SOUTHERNER |
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of
a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the
first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can
they make it as farmers? |
SPECIAL DELIVERY |
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank
robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police
are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a
clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the
stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight,
forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he
waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other
people, all of whom want a share of the loot. |
SPELLBOUND |
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum
Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous
psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful
but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr.
Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. He goes on the run with
Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what
happened to the real Dr. Edwardes. |
SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN |
Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who
loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always
ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a
newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a
bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it's to build his wife Olivia a
beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender's mountain. When
his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and
has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him. |
SPITFIRE |
Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce
loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her
faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. She shows a
vulnerable side when John Stafford, a philandering engineer working on a new
dam, is attracted to her. Matters come to a head when Trigger
"rescues" an abused baby from its parents, and seeks help from the
engineers. |
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN |
"Dakota," a young soldier on a
pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous
stars of the theatre and films appear and host a recreational center for
servicemen during the war. Dakota meets a pretty young hostess, Eileen, and
they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance. |
STAGE STRUCK |
The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl
who comes to New York in order to become a great actress. With hard work she
succeeds in working at a theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a
lot of changes and difficulties. |
STAND-IN |
Atterbury Dodd is an efficiency expert who
believes everything can be reduced to mathematics. He is sent to Hollywood to
see whether Colossal Pictures is a good investment. He soon learns that movie
production doesn't fit his formulaic mindset. |
STAR CHAMBER |
Disgusted with criminals escaping the
judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an
alternative method for punishing the guilty. |
STAR IS BORN |
Esther Blodgett is just another
starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a
Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given
a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor machine (ruthlessly satirized).
She and her idol Norman marry; but his career abruptly dwindles to nothing |
STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM |
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has
told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in
Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the
studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get
more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring
Paramount's top contract players. |
STARDUST MEMORIES |
Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker,
attends a festival conducted to honor his work. During the course of the
weekend he reconsiders his cinematic accomplishments as well as his past
relationships. |
START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME |
An account of the adventures of two sets
of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French
Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat
dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens
around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's _A Tale of Two Cities_,
Dumas's _The Corsican Brothers_, etc. |
STATION WEST |
Dick Powell stars as Haven, a government
private investigator assigned to investigate the murders of two cavalrymen.
Travelling incognito, Haven arrives in a small frontier outpost, where saloon
singer Charlie controls all illegal activities. After making short work of
Charlie's burly henchman, Haven gets a job at her gambling emporium, biding
his time and gathering evidence against the gorgeous crime chieftain Cast as
a philosophical bartender, Burl Ives is afforded at least one opportunity to
sing. |
STATUE |
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a
universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An
ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S.
to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement.
Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a
pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the
statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking
he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue.
The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative
image. Can art and love reconcile? |
STORMY WEATHER |
Dancing great Bill 'Williamson' sees his
face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: just back from
World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and
promises to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Years
go by, and Bill and Selina's rising careers intersect only briefly, since
Selina is unwilling to "settle down." Will she ever change her
mind? Concludes with a big all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway. |
STRANGE AFFAIR OF UNCLE HARRY |
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a
small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous
hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship
with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by
passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry
resort to desperate measures? |
STRANGE BREW |
Something is rotten at the Elsinore
Brewery. Bob and Doug Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain
the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must
confront the suspicious brewmaster and two teams of vicious hockey players. |
STRANGE ILLUSION |
Paul, a young man whose father was once
lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange,
recurring dream in which his mother falls in love with a dangerous man (Brett
Curtis), a dream which also contains the image of his father's death in an
automobile accident under mysterious circumstances. Through the help of his
friend, a psychiatrist, Paul realizes that his dream is coming true, and that
his mother is falling under Curtis's influence. Curtis, in fact, is a
homicidal maniac who lives as an out-patient at the sanitarium of the
unscrupulous Dr. Muhlbach. When Curtis makes an attempt to marry Paul's
mother, Paul intervenes, and after a series of events discovers the truth
behind his dreams. |
STRANGE ONE |
Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern
military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the
school's executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Through various
pressures, Jocko silences such involuntary accomplices as his roommate Harold
Koble, football star Roger Gatt and freshmen Robert Marquales and Maynard
Simmons, a girl-fearing cadet whom Jocko terrorizes into dating Rosebud, a
town girl. |
STREET SMART |
Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher, in
danger of losing his job, promises to write a factual hard-hitting story of
prostitution. But when he tries to get information from the subjects, he is
ignored. So he ends up faking a well received story of a pimp, describing his
life and crimes. But police think the story is of a real life pimp who is
wanted for murder and start pressuring him to reveal the identity of subject
in his story, and all he knows. The pimp the police suspect, also thinks the
story is about himself, and wants to know what Jonathan knows, and who told
him. |
STRIKE |
In Russia's factory region during Czarist
rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management
brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being
falsely accused of thievery, the workers strike. At first, there's excitement
in workers' households and in public places as they develop their demands
communally. Then, as the strike drags on and management rejects demands,
hunger mounts, as does domestic and civic distress. Provocateurs recruited
from the lumpen and in league with the police and the fire department bring
problems to the workers; the spies do their dirty work; and, the military
arrives to liquidate strikers. |
SUBJECT WAS ROSES |
When Timmy Cleary (Sheen), comes home from
soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents,
John and Nettie, (Neal and Albertson). Once considered sickly and weak, he
has now distinguished himself in the service and is ready to begin a new
life. His parents, however, are still trapped in the bygone days of early and
unresolved marital strife and begin emotionally deteriorating through several
drama packed encounters. Now mature, the young Tim Cleary finally understands
the family dynamics that has played all throughout his boyhood. By the simple
act of bringing his mother roses on behalf of his father, Tim realizes he may
have destroyed his family, but is helpless to obtain resolution which must
come from both his parents. |
SUGARLAND EXPRESS |
Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her
husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child,
who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they
take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas... |
SUMMER OF '42 |
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us
day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42
on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's
main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in
love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband
returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her. |
SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER |
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish
family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an
outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father
can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war
camp. A young german soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him
hiding in her secret places in the woods outside of town. After getting to
know him she ends up harboring him from his captors, and, in the way of many
adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking to help
him, but in his company she feels important, special, and respected as she
has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to
face the heartbreaking events to come. |
SUNDOWNERS |
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody
family--Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on
the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to
keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking,
gambling and a race horse will all have a part in the final decision. |
SUNFLOWER (aka. I girasoli) |
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a
war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio,
missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief
courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses
to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war,
still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him,
starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with
his photograph, what will she find? |
SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO |
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout
with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially wife Eleanor)
cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to
his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story
follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover -
based on the award winning Broadway play of the same name. |
SUNSHINE BOYS |
Lewis and Clark were famous comedians
during the vaudeville era; off-stage, though, they couldn't stand each other
and haven't spoken in over 20 years. Ben, Willy Clark's nephew, is the
producer of a variety show that wants to feature a reunion of the classic
duo. How will Ben convince the crotchety old comedians to put aside their
differences before the big show? |
SUSPICION |
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who
seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on
a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class
ticket. He begins to court Lina and before long they are married. It is only
after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character and she starts to
become suspicious when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed
mysteriously. |
SWEET LOVE BITTER |
A black jazz musician bent on self
destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of
feeling sorry for himself. |
SWING TIME |
Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding
to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to
make $25000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they
run into Penny, a dancing instructor. She and Lucky form a successful dance
partnership, but romance is blighted (till the end of the film at least!) by
his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricardo, the band leader who
won't play for them to dance together. |
SWING! |
When Mandy Jenkins catches her husband
Cornell out on a date with Eloise Jackson in a small cabaret in Birmingham,
Alabama, she and Jackson have a fight. Months later, Eloise is living in
Harlem and about to star in a musical, produced and directed by Ted Gregory,
who hopes to be the first black producer to put on a show on Broadway. Mandy,
meanwhile, has also moved to Harlem, and is hired by Gregory as wardrobe
mistress at the suggestion of his secretary, Lena, with whom Gregory has
fallen in love. But Gregory has problems getting backing for the show, and is
unhappy that Eloise often comes drunk and late to the rehearsals. And things
look hopeless when Eloise breaks her leg falling down a stairway while in a
drunken stupor. |
SWISS MISS |
Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen
hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their
money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt, Oliver falls in
love with a chambermaid, Anna, who in reality is a famous opera singer spying
on her composer husband, Victor, while he works on his new opera. The boys
are assigned to move Victor's piano to a secluded tree house, but become
trapped on a rickety rope bridge high above an Alpine gorge when they're met
halfway across by a gorilla. |
T.R. BASKIN |
An idealistic young woman arrives in
Chicago with hopes of finding romance, adventure and a fulfilling career. |
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN |
This film is presented as a documentary on
the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. It
describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical
career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over
narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances. |
TAKING OFF |
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie
Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the
process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone,
the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life. |
TALE OF TWO CITIES |
During the French Revolution, French
national Lucie Manette meets and falls in love with Englishman Charles
Darnay. He is however hiding his true identity as a member of the French
aristocratic Evrémonde family, who he has denounced in private. The Marquis
St. Evrémonde in particular was a cruel man, those he wronged who have vowed
to see the end of the family line at any cost. Lucie's father Dr. Alexandre
Manette, in fact, was imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years because
of actions of the Marquis. Into their lives comes English barrister Sydney
Carton, who enjoys his alcohol to excess. Carton earlier defended Darnay in a
trial on trumped up charges of treason. Carton doesn't really like Darnay in
part because Carton also loves Lucie, he realizing that that love is
unrequited. But Carton does eventually learn of Darnay's true heritage at a
critical time... |
TALL BLONDE MAN WITH ONE BLACK
SHOE (aka. Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire) |
Hapless orchestra player becomes an
unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is
chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent. |
TAMING OF THE SHREW |
Baptista, a rich Paduan merchant,
announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca, will remain unwed until her
older sister, Katharina, a hellish shrew, has wed. Lucentio, a student and
the son of a wealthy Pisan merchant, has fallen in love with Bianca. He poses
as a tutor of music and poetry to gain entrance to the Baptista household and
to be near Bianca. Meanwhile, Petruchio, a fortune-hunting scoundrel from
Verona, arrives in Padua, hoping to capture a wealthy wife. Hortensio,
another suitor of Bianca, directs Petruchio's attention to Katharina. When
Hortensio warns him about Katharina's scolding tongue and fiery temper,
Petruchio is challenged and resolves to capture her love. Hortensio and
another suitor of Bianca, Gremio, agree to cover Petruchio's costs as he
pursues Katharina. |
TARNISHED ANGELS |
In the 1930's, a First World War flying
ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the
crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live
like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke
Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened
to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished
circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne. |
TASTE OF HONEY |
Black and white, gay and straight, mothers
and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens,
living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom
marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co
worker who's adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself
pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes
over the preparations for the baby's birth, and becomes, in effect, the
child's father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo's
mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which
"family" will emerge? |
TELEFON |
The KGB is looking for one of their
people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but,
unfortunately, he manages to get through the border. Later in the U.S. some
seemingly ordinary people after receiving a phone call go out and destroy key
American military installations. Back in the U.S.S.R. General Strelsky and
Colonel Malchenko send for Grigori Borzov, a KGB agent who has been to the
U.S. on missions before. They inform him that after the U-2 incident in fear
of the possibility that a war with the U.S. will occur; they were part of an
operation called TELEFON that involved recruiting young agents and then
brainwashing them into believing that they are Americans. They would assume
the identity of an American who died a long time ago and who would be their
age now. They would be situated in a city that is near or where a key U.S.
military installation is located... |
TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE |
Based on true events, Tell Them Willie Boy
Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie
Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and
the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher
Cooper. |
TEN |
On the night of his 42nd birthday, George
Webber, a popular songwriter, begins showing symptoms of "middle-age
crisis." Over the succeeding weeks, he finds himself continually staring
at young girls on the street, and he begins envying his high-living neighbor,
whose life is one endless orgy. George's behavior causes great concern to his
lover, singing star Samantha Taylor, and to his partner Hugh, who has
seemingly avoided George's dilemma by being gay. While driving home one
afternoon, George spots Jenny, a stunning young beauty en route to her
marriage ceremony. Regarding her as "the most beautiful girl I've ever
seen" (on a scale from one to 10), George follows her to the church. He
later learns her name, and discovers that she and her husband are
honeymooning in Mexico. Driven by the impulse to see her again, George flies
to Mexico and checks into the hotel where Jenny is staying... |
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
(OCTOBER) |
In documentary style, events in Petrograd
are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of
the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November
of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put
down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October,
the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the
Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace.
Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the
provisional government. |
TEN NORTH FREDERICK |
At her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks
back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and
personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only
by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that there was in fact one brief and
unsuspected period of happiness and love. |
TENDER MERCIES |
Alchoholic former country singer Mac
Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables
him to find inspiration to resume his career. |
TEORAMA |
A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He
seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father
before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue
living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ? |
TEX |
Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage
brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother
dies and their father leaves them. |
THANKS A MILLION |
Entertainers enter a political rally to
get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a
speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the
candidate by backers he later exposes as crooks. |
THAT LADY IN ERMINE - DUPLICATE
ENTRY |
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of
an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her
lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years
before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating
factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome
invader... |
THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING |
Against her better judgement, happily
married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her
psychosomatic hiccups. Soon, she's disillusioned about husband Larry; and one
day in the doctor's waiting room she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian, who's
even more confused than she is. Can this marriage be saved? Larry has a plan
that is pure Lubitsch... |
THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL (aka Le
caporal épinglé) |
An upper-class corporal from Paris is
captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and
accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a
myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant,
the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few
yards, sometimes reaching the French border. |
The KEY |
During World War II, tug boats conduct
what are called salvage missions - picking up disabled ships. Not well
equipped with weaponry, the tugs are sitting ducks for enemy fire. As such,
the crew working the tugs have precarious lives, many with deep seated
emotional problems. Before the Americans join the war, ex-American military
man David Ross is assigned to captain a tug for the British military. He is
shown the ropes by an old friend, Captain Chris Ford. Chris currently shares
a flat with a young beautiful Italian-Swiss woman named Stella, who came with
the flat and who lives a reclusive life there. Chris is the latest in a long
line of tug boat captains who have lived there, each who has found another
person to take over the flat and the associated looking after of Stella if
anything is to happen to him. That person is given a key to the flat, the key
only to be used if needed. The first in the series was Phillip Westerby... |
The MAN |
When the President and Speaker of the
House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the
office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman
(James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval
Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if
he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader. |
The OUTFIT |
When the small criminal Macklin is
released from prison, he learns that shortly before his brother was shot by
two killers. They didn't know that the bank they robbed was owned by the
syndicate. When he's almost offed by a killer too, he pays the mobster Jack
Manner a visit and demands reparation. His friend Cody helps him to gratify
his thirst for revenge. |
THE VISIT |
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge
Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of
town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for
a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla,
only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed... |
THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN |
Charm, intelligence and success in
criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in
prison, in the middle of the Arizona desert. However, those years should pass
quickly because of a $500,000 loot previously stashed away. New idealistic
warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortune even sooner. He
starts to manipulate everyone to achieve his goal. |
THEY GOT ME COVERED |
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has
been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's
botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her.
When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he
convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The
pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the
criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown
at a beauty salon. |
THEY WERE TEN |
At the turn of the century, 10 Jews
respond to a Russian pogrom by emigrating to Galilee. In the desert the nine
men and one woman battle for survival against the forces of nature, hostile
Arabs, and their own human weaknesses. |
THIEF |
Frank is an expert professional
safecracker, specializing in high-profile diamond jobs. After having spent
many years in prison, he has a very concrete picture of what he wants out of
life--including a nice home, a wife, and kids. As soon as he is able to
assemble the pieces of this collage, by means of his chosen profession, he
intends to retire and become a model citizen. In an effort to accelerate this
process, he signs on to take down a huge score for a big-time gangster.
Unfortunately, Frank's obsession for his version of the American Dream allows
him to overlook his natural wariness and mistrust, when making the deal for
his final job. He is thus ensnared and robbed of his freedom, his
independence, and, ultimately, his dream. |
THIN MAN |
After a four year absence, one time
detective Nick Charles returns to New York with his new wife Nora and their
dog, Asta. Nick re-connects with many of his old cronies, several of whom are
eccentric characters, to say the least. He's also approached by Dorothy
Wynant whose inventor father Clyde Wynant is suspected of murdering her
step-mother. Her father had left on a planned trip some months before and she
has had no contact with him. Nick isn't all that keen on resuming his former
profession but egged-on by wife Nora, who thinks this all very exciting, he
agrees to help out. He solves the case, announcing the identity of the killer
at a dinner party for all of the suspects. |
THING From Another World |
Scientist at an Arctic research station
discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they
discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to
their station and he is accidentally thawed out! |
THINGS TO COME |
A global war begins in 1940. This war
drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly
those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why.
Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down
into primitive localized communities. In 1966 a great plague wipes out most
of what people are left but small numbers still survive. One day a strange
aircraft lands at one of these communities and its pilot tells of an
organization which is rebuilding civilization and slowly moving across the
world re-civilizing these groups of survivors. Great reconstruction takes
place over the next few decades and society is once again great and strong.
The world's population is now living in underground cities. In the year 2035,
on the eve of man's first flight to the moon, a popular uprising against
progress (which some people claim has caused the wars of the past) gains
support and becomes violent. |
THIRD MAN |
An out of work pulp fiction novelist,
Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the
victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing
black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry
Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died
in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates
Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and
determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime. |
THIRTY NINE STEPS |
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to
London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets
Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide
her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be
accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring. |
THIRTY YEARS OF FUN (compilation) |
Spanning a period from the Gay Nineties
through the Roaring 20S, the film is a compilation of excerpts from silent
screen comedies, presented chronologically and placed in historical
perspective by newsreel clips of Teddy Roosevelt, AND the Wright brothers. |
THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR |
Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery
at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas
Crown, a successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects
it. Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in to
recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew enough about
the bank to have pulled the robbery and discovers Crown. She begins a tight
watch on his every move and begins seeing him socially. How does the planner
of the perfect crime react to pressure? |
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE |
In 1922 New York City, Millie Dillmount
and Miss Dorothy Brown are just two of the girls living at the Priscilla
Hotel for Single Young Ladies run by Mrs. Meers. Orphaned, Miss Dorothy, just
recently arrived, is a naive, old-fashioned girl from a seemingly privileged
background who has aspirations to be a stage actress. From more modest means,
Millie, in New York for three months, used to be old fashioned, but now has a
new modern sensibility and look to match, complete with bobbed hair and
dresses with hemlines above the knee. Included in this new modern sensibility
is Millie's goal of getting a job as a stenographer, with a quick promotion
to being her wealthy boss' "Mrs.". Love is not to factor into the
equation. She believes she's found the right employer in the form of
chisel-jawed Trevor Graydon of the Sincere Trust Insurance Company. Millie's
pursuit of Mr... |
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR
FLYING MACHINES |
In the early days of the 20th century, a
British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race
which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the
flyers jockey for position and the affections of various women. |
THREE SISTERS |
In a small Russian town at the turn of the
century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live
but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is
charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of
dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some
companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their
hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a
life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family
her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins
a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife.
Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in
her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes. |
TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND (aka. Whisky
Galore) |
Based on a true story. The name of the
real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having
left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside
Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000
bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before
the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand
or in the sea every other year. |
TILLIE AND GUS |
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are
thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying
cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry
franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race
against Pratt's boat. |
TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE |
Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter
Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city
Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with her money and
his old girlfriend Mabel. Later Charlie reads that Tillie (now working as a
waitress) has inherited the estate of her multi-millionaire uncle. Charlie
dumps Mabel and talks Tillie into moving into her uncle's villa, and Mabel
arranges to become a housemaid there. The uncle (never really dead) returns
and summons the police to have them all thrown out. |
TIME MACHINE |
On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking
H.G. Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party. He
tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his
friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use
if it did indeed work. George knew that his machine was stationary in
geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over
time to that location. He also learns that the machine is not impervious and
he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine's purpose.
George tells his friends that he did not find the Utopian society he so
wished had developed. He mentions specifically a civilization several
thousand years into the future which consists of the subterranean morlocks
and the surface dwelling eloi, who on first glance lead a carefree life.
Despite all these issues, love can still bloom over the spread of millennia. |
TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER SPY |
George Smiley has been retired for about a
year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British
Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an
advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters where he finds evidence
that one of the men in the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy.
Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in
the Circus or letting on that anyone is under suspicion. With only a few old
friends, his own powers of deduction, and secrecy as weapons, Smiley must
unearth the spy who turned him out of the Circus. |
TO BE OR NOT TO BE |
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe
of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with
the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish
resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans. |
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT |
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick,
Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for
hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business
is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails
to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their
preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a
fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the
stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a
resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends
most of his days. |
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD |
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize
winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama
town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of
raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out
of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and
will it change any of the racial tension in the town ? |
TOKYO OLYMPIAD |
Ichikawa's cameras follow the 1964 Summer
Olympics from opening to closing ceremonies. Sometimes he focuses on
spectators, as athletes pass in a blur; sometimes he isolates a competitor;
other times, it's a closeup of muscles as a hammer is thrown or a barbell
lifted; or, we watch a race from start to finish. We see come-from-behind
wins in the women's 800 and the men's 10,000 meters. We follow an athlete
from Chad from arrival to meals, training, competition, and loss. Throughout,
the film celebrates the nobility of athletes pushing themselves to the limit,
regardless of victory. |
TOO LATE THE HERO |
A WWII film set on a Pacific island.
Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group
of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go
exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heros' are very
reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are
determined to prevent them returning to base. |
TOO MANY HUSBANDS |
It's been a year since Bill Cardew was
declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old
friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill unexpectedly returns
from the island where he was marooned, what is Vicky to do? Well, having
twice been a rather neglected wife, Vicky finds all the attention from two
husbands competing for her favors delightful, and is in no hurry to make a
decision...much to the discomfiture of hapless Bill and Henry. |
TOPAZ |
A high ranking Russian official defects to
the United States, where he is interviewed by US agent Michael Nordstrom. The
defector reveals that a French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been
passing NATO secrets to the Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and
counterpart Andre Devereaux to expose the spies. |
TOPAZE |
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a
lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and
his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked
business scheme. |
TOPKAPI |
A small-time con-man with passport
problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to
rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence, suspecting arms
smuggling, gets involved, and under pressure the con-man rises to heights
he'd never dreamed of. |
TOPPER |
The funloving Kerbys, stockholders in the
bank of which henpecked, stuffy Cosmo Topper is president, drive recklessly
once too often and become ghosts. In limbo because they've never done either
good or bad deeds, they decide to try a good one now: rehabilitating Topper.
Lovely, flirtatious Marion takes a keen personal interest in the job. Will
Topper survive the wrath of jealous ghost George? Will Mrs. Topper find that
a scandalous husband isn't all bad? |
TOPPER RETURNS |
Topper is once again tormented by a
fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally
murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington
(Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Joan sets out to find her
killer with the expected zany results. |
TOPPER TAKES A TRIP |
Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has
convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange
circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from
heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to
a strange behaviour of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs
Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange
the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron,
Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get
her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too
easy.... |
TOUCH OF EVIL |
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel
'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an
American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his
car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb
was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to
Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime
and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US
side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is
soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them
planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie,
safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks
- he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the
corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and
they start with his wife Susie. |
TRACK OF THE CAT |
A family saga: In a stunning mountain
valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play
out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous
panther with seemingly mythical qualities which is killing cattle. An
arrogant, pitiless son (Robert Mitchum) and a rigid pharisaic mother side
against a moral eldest son and and a defeated alcoholic father while the
youngest son tries to lay low, hoping against hope to persuade his family to
allow him to marry a girl he has brought to visit. The girl however draws
venomous condemnation and the two elder brothers set out in the midst of a
violent snowstorm on a dangerous mission to kill the deadly panther. |
TRADE WINDS |
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then
changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship.
She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing
detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance. Will Sam be able to
bring Kay back to the States and likely imprisonment? |
TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP |
Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet
Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a
$25,000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off
his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty. |
TRANSATLANTIC MERRY-GO-ROUND |
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed
aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is
his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations
with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last
night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's
clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling
debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen
thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together
with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe
Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by
Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone. |
TRAP OF SOLID GOLD |
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TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE |
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on
their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector
named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of
central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in
finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten
to turn their success into disaster. |
TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN |
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage
to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come
to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's
scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree
visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a
better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together. |
TRIAL AND ERROR |
After 40 years of undistinguished practice
Morgenhall (Sellers), an unsuccessful barrister, is assigned the defence of
an accused murderer. His client Fowle (Attenborough), wants to plead guilty
to murdering his wife. Morgenhall botches the case. |
TRIBUTE |
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he
is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit. |
TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN |
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who
strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve
Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock's ways, although he takes an
immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta. |
TRUE GLORY |
A documentary account of the allied
invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by
nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train
for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major
events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin. |
TWELVE CHAIRS |
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of
the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in
Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden
in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find
the hidden fortune. |
TWICE IN A LIFETIME |
A middle-aged steelworker is content with
his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On
his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He
finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his
surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him. |
TWISTED CROSS |
Documentary of how Hitler came to power
and was eventually was defeated. |
TWO RODE TOGETHER |
The US Army is under pressure from the
desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their
rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an
army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However,
just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white society
proves highly problematic. |
TWO THOUSAND TEN |
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a
joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went
wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global
tensions. Among the mysteries the expedition must explain are the appearance
of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L., the
Discovery's sentient computer. Based on a novel |
TWO WOMEN |
Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter,
Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They
travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the
village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one
occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event
is too much for the always powerful fighting Cesira and she suffers from a
breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele
falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of
such a gentleman. |
TYCOON |
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to
build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is
complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his
boss's daughter. |
UGLY AMERICAN |
An intelligent, articulate scholar,
Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the
hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian
country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once
he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He
can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for
self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a
local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the
building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country
and his friends pay for him to get some sense? |
UNCLE HARRY (aka ZERO MURDER
CASE) |
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UNDER FIRE |
Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel
Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel
fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When
the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to
be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter
friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army. |
UNDER TEN FLAGS |
665-Day Pursuit of the Killer-Ship
Atlantis. |
UNDER THE RAINBOW |
In World War II era Los Angeles, the
manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The
nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty,
assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of
_Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_ ). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting
director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion. |
VAMPIRE BAT |
When the villagers of Klineschloss start
dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism.
While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann
cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded
Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds
Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. |
VARIETY (aka Jealousy, aka
Varieté) |
Prologue: The murderer "Boss"
Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell
the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife
own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for
his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan
Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son
behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day,
the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for
his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate
sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys
"Boss'" happiness. |
VARIETY TIME (compilation) |
Jack Paar introduces musical numbers,
comic bits from RKO cast-offs, and a few variety acts. |
VIEW FROM POMPEY'S HEAD |
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots
leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to
investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and
embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his
native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled :
racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now
married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out
whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah
and Anson renew their love story? |
VINEGAR BELL,BOOK AND CANDLE |
Gillian Holroyd is just your average,
modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar,
Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her
building and Gillian decides she wants him--especially as it turns out he's
marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian's college days.
So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being
exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love. |
VIOLENT SATURDAY |
A number of otherwise insignificant
small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob
the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son's eyes, a timid clerk
who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to rewin his wife's love, an
Amish farmer faced with viciousness, and a proper older woman turned thief,
all find themselves entangled with the bank robbers as a peaceful weekend
turns violent. |
VIRGIN QUEEN |
Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with
Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants
ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth
Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Raleigh and returns the attraction. But
soon the Queen shows her desires and he bends in order to achieve his goal of
ships. But still he loves Beth. |
VIVA LAS VEGAS |
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VOICE IN THE WIND |
A concert pianist has lost his memory, the
result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for
playing a banned song. He journeys to the island of Guadelupe to try to
regain his memory and his health. |
WAGES OF FEAR (Le salaire de la
peur) |
In the South American jungle supplies of
nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four
men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivallry develops between
the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can
result in death. |
WAIT UNTIL DARK |
Susie's husband is asked to hold a doll
for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino are
small time hoods who find the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there
by her partner, Harry Rote. Susie's blindness is the key to them searching
the apartment for the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be
an old friend of Susie's husband while her husband is away and together the
crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the
discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Rote is a killer, and
his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story unfolds,
leaving us with the question, how does a blind woman defend herself? |
WALK IN THE SUN |
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one
American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take
a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic
picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random
bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown
to the soldiers. |
WANTON CONTESSA (aka Senso) |
Venezia, spring of 1866, in the last days
of the Austrian occupation. A performance of Il Trovatore ends up in
confusion due to an anti-Austrian demonstration, organised by Count Ussoni.
His cousin Countess Serpieri falls in love with vile Austrian Lieutenant
Franz Mahler, but the times are changing. |
WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN |
2 quirky Manhattanites crash into each
other cute at an ophthalmologist's office. Peter is a grouchy
cartoonist/author whose vision is failing, divorced mother Theresa is also
reluctant to plunge into a relationship right now. It's not love at first
sight - both have their eyes dilated, plus Peter constantly lampoons women in
his work, which book seller Theresa knows well. Loosely based on James
Thurber's drawings "The War Between Men and Women," and Thurber's
life, the film features animated sequences. |
WAR WAGON |
Taw Jackson returns from prison having
survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him.
Jackson makes a deal with Lomax, the man who shot him 5 years ago to join
forces against Pierce and steal a large gold shipment. The shipments are
transported in the War Wagon, an armored stage coach that is heavily guarded.
The two of them become the key players in the caper to separate Pierce from
Jackson's gold. |
WATERMELON MAN |
Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in
a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak.
But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off
the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark
overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon
that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his
friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his
marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When
all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff
accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of
being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help
of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white
man, taunted and harassed. |
WAY OUT WEST |
Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering
the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector.
However they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn
who is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon singer
wife Lola. |
WEB |
Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby
Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew
Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a
secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun,
and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's
secretary Noel, begins to suspect he's been used. |
WE'RE NO ANGELS |
In Christmas, three prisoners - Joseph,
Albert and Jules - escape from the Devil Island to a French small coastal
town. They decide to robber a store, to get some money and clothes and travel
by ship to another place. They pretend to be there to fix the roof, but
pretty soon they realize that the financial condition of the family Ducotel
is not good. Andre Tochard, the selfish and mean owner of the establishment,
explores the family Ducotel. The three convicts spend the Christmas night
with the Ducotel and are so well treated by the family that they decide to
help them. Their pet will help them to fix the situation. |
WE'RE NOT MARRIED |
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings
a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn
they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris, already Mrs.
Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. America contest, is now free to enter
the Miss Mississippi contest. |
WHAT A WAY TO GO |
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster
donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks
she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four
marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died
prematurely because of their drive to be rich. |
WHEN COMEDY WAS KING |
Robert Youngson's affectionate, nostalgic
retrospective of the Golden Age of Silent Comedy with special attention to
the three acknowledged comic geniuses of the period: Charlie Chaplin, Buster
Keatonm and Harry Landon. The two major comedy studios of the era, Mack
Sennett and Hal Roach, especially Laurel an Hardy, are given credit as the
great innovators of slapstick visual comedy. |
WHERE DANGER LIVES |
One night at the hospital, young doctor
Jeff Cameron meets Margo, who's brought in after a suicide attempt. He
quickly falls for her and they become romanticly involved, but it turns out
that Margo is married. At a confrontation, Margo's husband accidentally gets
killed and Jeff and Margo flee. Heading for Mexico, they try to outrun the
law. |
WHITE ZOMBIE |
Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed
by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation.
Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince
the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the
devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has
turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on
Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be
changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont
as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil
is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks
her out. |
WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN and WHY IS
HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME? |
Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song
writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various
women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him. |
WHY WORRY |
Harold Van Pelham (Lloyd) is a
hypochondriac, rich businessman who sails to the tropics for his 'health.'
Instead of the peace and seclusion he is seeking, he finds himself in the
middle of a revolution. He is imprisoned where he befriends the friendly giant,
Colosso (Aasen), and they engineer an escape. Together, they quell the
revolution. |
WICKED LADY |
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and
invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph,
however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation,
she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road
she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people
begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her
nefarious activities. |
WILD HEART |
A re-editing of Gone to Earth after a
disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer
David O. Selznick. Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. (2)
Adding scenes explaining things, often by putting labels or inscriptions on
them. (3) Adding more close-ups of Jennifer Jones. He also deleted a few
scenes that he felt weren't dramatic enough. Sadly some of these were major
plot points so the story doesn't make as much sense as the original. In his
autobiographies, Powell claimed that Selznick only left about 35 mins of the
original film. In fact there's a lot more than that. About 2/3 of the
original remains. |
WILD RIVER |
A young field administrator for the TVA
comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee
River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer
who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the
plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an
island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's
widowed granddaughter. |
WILD SEED |
A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east
coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has
learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from
her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by
an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey. |
WILD STRAWBERRIES |
With the exception of his elderly
housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife,
widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and
professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but
partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because
of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to
accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he
decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his
daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has
now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him
reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him
reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his
equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants
praise him as a man for his work... |
WINCHESTER 73 |
In a marksmanship contest, Lin McAdam wins
a prized Winchester rifle, which is immediately stolen by the runner-up,
Dutch Henry Brown. This "story of a rifle" then follows McAdams'
pursuit, and the rifle as it changes hands, until a final showdown and
shoot-out on a rocky mountain precipice. |
WITH SIX YOU GET EGG ROLL |
Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and
Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up. They start
dating and decide to get married. They're not prepared for the hostile
reactions from their children, especially Jake's daughter Stacy, who wants to
be the woman of the house, and Abby's oldest son Flip, who hates Jake. |
WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS
GRIMM |
The fictionalized lives of the
story-telling Grimm brothers are brought to life in this all-star fantasy
film. In the early nineteenth century, the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
are commissioned to write a family history for a local Duke. Reenactments of
three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess", "The
Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone". |
WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP |
Based on the John Irving novel, this film
chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees
himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at
an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed
women. |
WORLD AT WAR-DOCUMENTARY:
1930-1950 Laurence OIivir, narrator |
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WORLD WAR II-Documentary.
1.1939-1941,2.1942-1945, 3-Prologue |
|
WRATH OF GOD |
Irish adventurer Emmett Keogh finds
himself partnered with a hard-drinking priest named Van Horne in
revolutionary Central America. Tricked into delivering guns by smuggler/con
man Jennings, the three end up joining forces against despot Tomas de la Plata,
who treats his subjects ruthlessly and who has a special hatred for priests.
Van Horne, who seems to be a priest in costume only, decides to stand up to
de la Plata and lead a revolt against him. |
WRONG ARM OF THE LAW |
The crooks in London know how it works. No
one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that
go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's
the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the
crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers),
including an armored car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to
set a trap. |
WRONG BOX |
A tontine is established for a dozen
children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each
to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the
group dwindle until only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his
nephews who will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health
and poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and
bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone has
died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first,
hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when a pound was a
pound) will be theirs. |
WUTHERING HEIGHTS |
The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff
and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by
circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first
meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them.
When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of
the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and
working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she
eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point
Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but
little can be done. |
WUTHERING HEIGHTS |
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during
the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the
city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's
son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and
soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and
Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued
enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar
Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. |
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY |
A musical portrait of
composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star
in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he
received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US,
this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and
starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs. |
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW |
Three different stories of Italian social
mores are presented. In "Adelina", unemployed Carmine Sbaratti and
his wife Adelina Sbaratti survive through Adelina selling black market
cigarettes on the street. They are unable to pay for the furniture they
bought (which is under Adelina's name), but are able to avoid the bailiff
when he comes for the money or to repossess. They come up with a longer term
solution to avoid Adelina being prosecuted for non-payment, but that solution
has a profound effect on the family, especially Carmine. In "Anna",
Anna Molteni, the spoiled wife of a successful businessman, and an artist
named Renzo are on the cusp of an affair. Anna is feeling neglected in the
marriage, as her husband seems more concerned about success and money than
her. But a car accident shows both Anna and Renzo if an affair with each
other is really what they want... |
YOJIMBO |
Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a
rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper
that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against
the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke,
the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro
beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then
massacres his father's opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes
with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he
learns of innkeeper's abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to
confront him. |
YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN |
Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus
which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble,
especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's son and
daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. Vicky turns down her
caddish but rich suitor Roger Bel-Goodie, but changes her mind when she
learns of her father's financial troubles. Will Vicky marry for money or
succumb to the ventriloqual charm of Edgar Bergen? Will Whipsnade's Circus
Giganticus make it over the state line one jump ahead of the sheriff? |
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU |
The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love
with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company
owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly
in the trade of weapons, and needs to buy one last house in a twelve block
area owned by Alice's grandparent Martin Vanderhof. However, Martin is the
patriarch of an anarchic and eccentric family where the members do not care
for money but for having fun and making friends. When Tony proposes Alice,
she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic
family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tone decides to visit Alice with his
parents one day before the scheduled. There is an inevitable clash of classes
and lifestyles, the Kirbys spurn the Sycamores and Alice breaks with Tony,
changing the lives of the Kirby family. |
YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY |
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is
pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night,
she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who
just wants to sleep. Somehow, she persuades him to take her to California.
Her fellow passengers include a chimpanzee, a corpse (in a coffin), an
absconding embezzler, and two smoochy newlyweds. Can love be far behind? |
YOU MUST BE JOKING |
A motley group of soldiers are set loose
on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric
items. |
YOUNG FRANKENSlEIN |
A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder)
inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von
Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty
lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young
Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when
he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation
experiment, he suddenly changes his mind... |
YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS |
Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony
Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the
Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested
as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his
colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder
count. |
YOUNG STRANGER |
Hal Ditmar is a clean-cut kid, the son of
a wealthy movie producer. When an argument at a theatre turns into a fight
between Hal and the theatre manager, Hal finds no one, not even his father,
will believe his actions were justified as self-defense. The police are
concerned that Hal is a juvenile delinquent in the making, but the real
problem lies in Hal's father's inattention to his son. It's up to Hal's
mother to try to bridge the gulf between father and son. |
YOU'RE TELLING ME |
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works
(e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His
daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin
his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions
prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.. |
Z |
In a mid-sized metropolis (population
500,000) in a right-wing military led country, a pacifist organization, which
supports the opposition party in the government, is planning on holding an
anti-military, nuclear disarmament rally. The organization's charismatic
leader - the deputy - is scheduled to arrive in the town from the capital the
day of the rally. Beyond the problems arranging the rally due to the probable
incitement of violence at such a rally, the organization learns of an
unconfirmed report that there will be an attempt on the deputy's life. The
rally does happen, after which a three-wheeled kamikaze runs over the deputy,
who eventually passes away from his injuries. The official report is that the
incident was a drunken accident. In reality, the deputy's death was murder
orchestrated by the secret police, the general for who likens the pacifist
organization to mildew killing off agricultural crops... |
ZERO FOR CONDUCT |
After the holidays, Caussat and Bruel are
going back to the boarding school, where their life is sad, dull, as all
prisoner's ones. But there is plot setting up for a revolt... |
ZORBA THE GREEK |
An aimless Englishman finds he has a small
inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he
meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers
the earthy pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life
changing. |
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