Franny (Eve Hewson) and Dan (Avan Jogia) are 22, fresh-faced and unemployed -- and they're about to get married. Much to the chagrin of Franny's straight-laced mother (Andie MacDowell), the couple follows through with their impromptu LA County courthouse wedding. Hired to write for a television game show, Franny is drawn into the intoxicating world of studio lots, catered lunches, and egos. Dan meanwhile lands a job as a full-time dog-sitter to a C-list celebrity that requires them to move...
They called him Papillon, meaning butterfly. If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctures. After a decade of fine work in The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles and Bullitt, Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough-guy...
In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel's estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. Their training at Fort Benning, Georgia is followed in semi-documentary style, with time out for personal dramas and the romantic rivalry of Bill and Don over the sergeant's daughter.
"I'm a stenographer without a typewriter to pound, a piece of gum to chew or a place to put it!" In Central Park, a plucky blonde named Alabama (Bette Davis) explains Depression realities to Bill (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an ex-Marine pilot who's likewise out of a job. They strike up a romance that leads them straight into danger when Bill finally finds employment with a bootlegger. Bill thinks he's flying premium booze from Canada to Prohibition-era America. Unknown to him, his contraband also...
John Wayne joins Doc Carter's medicine show as a cover to find some counterfeiters.
With the last of the set, Paradise Canyon, Wayne was back to undercover work for the Federal government, playing John Wyatt who is assigned to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters working along the Mexican border. Doctor Carter (Earle Hodgins) is a prime suspect, so Wayne joins his traveling medicine show, and, along with developing an interest in Carter's daughter (Marion Burns), shows that Carter has been an innocent tool of the real villains, led by the notorious Curly Joe (Yakima Canutt)....
The King of the Cowboys In A Whizz-Bang Western! John Wayne stars as an undercover man trying to catch up with some counterfeiters. Joining a traveling medicine show to find the culprits, he uncovers a history of frame-ups and double-crosses. Gino Corrado, Yakima Canutt, and Earl Hodgins also star in this wild tale from Paul Malvern Productions. This was Wayne's final Monogram Pictures/Lone Star Production Western, but he gave Hollywood's Poverty Row plenty to remember him by!
After years of faithful service, the Moon Valley Railroad line is being forced into bankruptcy by mobsters who control a rival trucking firm. Old Jed Carson, the railroad's owner, is furious that slick, young Larry Doyle has been dispatched from the East to manage the freight line's finances. Doyle quickly discovers that the gangsters have been orchestrating train disasters to steal business for the truckers. With the huge farmer's association contract at stake, a winner-take-all race is...
Socialite Ellen Bradford arrives on Tonga, a remote island in the South Pacific, to marry her fiancee, Roy Armstrong. She is shocked to discover that he has become a drunk and is heavily in debt to "Dutch Mike" Lutze, the gangster who controls the island. Seeking to free Roy from Lutze's clutches, she enlists the aid of Jim Thorne, a sea captain stranded on Tonga. But her fiancee's fortunes become less important when Ellen finds herself falling in love with the handsome adventurer.Paradise...
The many islands that lie between Asia and Australia can claim to be the biologically richest on earth. The fascinating diversity of life is due to the many millions of years that these islands have remained in the tropics.
The film provides fascinating insights into the pressures facing non-Western people as they confront the global economy. Follow two women from Ladakh, or Little Tibet, on a reality tour of London to see what life in the West is really like. The women are exposed to aspects of modern urban life homelessness, old-age homes, massive garbage dumps that contrast sharply with the idealized media and advertising images impressed upon people's minds in the less-developed parts of the world.
BACK ON DVD! When hotshot pilot Rick Richards (Elvis Presley) sets up a helicopter charter service on the islands, say aloha to trouble. One misadventure after another leaves Rick grounded for a month, while Danny, his business partner and best friend, is left to pick up the pieces. But when Danny and his young daughter go missing, Rick risks his license and his future to take to the skies and find them.
A volatile man with a violent past, Ethan Allen Cord (Lee Horsley) lives alone in the frontier mining town of Paradise, California, until the unexpected arrival of a quartet of kin, the orphaned children of his deceased sister. Though gifted as a gunslinger, Cord possesses little aptitude for raising Claire (Jenny Beck), Joseph (Matthew Newmark), Benjamin (Brian Lando) and George (Michael Patrick Carter), four city kids abruptly transported to a farmhouse in the wilderness. With the help of...
PARADOX is about a group of M.I.T. students who have secretly built a time machine in an underground facility. They send one of their own, Jim, forward in time one hour to test it. But when Jim arrives one hour into the future he sees...blood everywhere, dead bodies, they've all been murdered! So Jim reverses the machine and is sent back to the present - where he says to the others, "I've got some bad news..." Now they have an hour to try and figure out which one of them is the Killer and stop...
It's 2040, and a group of astronauts have been sent on a dangerous mission to retrieve water from Europa, one of the several moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. After narrowly escaping the moon to head back home, the team discovers that a nuclear war has left earth uninhabitable. While the remaining male astronauts come to grips over their losses, one of the crew members spontaneously transforms into a woman (in a scene that is as shocking as 1979's Alien). Each character tries to uncover the...
A young violinist struggles to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her pianist father and the formidable weight of her own musical ability. Twisted and torn between her father's needs and her own, this music-driven drama explore issues of consent and control from a female artist's perspective. Starring Bjorn Johnson (Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Mad Men) Laura Kirk (American Honey, Lisa Picard is Famous) and Rachel Ann from award winning Parallel Chords (overture).
Dirk Bridle has just been released from prison after 8 years for good behavior. He has always maintained his story of falling asleep at the wheel and not drunk driving that caused the death of a teenager. While in prison, Dirk had an affair with a prison officer, Josh Cummings. Josh has been persistent in tracking down the person who mixed up the lab results in the case against Dirk while Dirk is hellbent on finding the dirty cops who he thinks framed him.
A documentary film about Luxury, a band from Georgia, who suffer a devastating touring wreck with long-term consequences. In the following years, three members of the band become Eastern Orthodox priests, yet they continue to make records.
A race-car driver whose life, both personal and professional, is in a rapid downfall is invited by her ex-husband's new wife to stay at their plush estate. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
Paranormal Attraction centers on a young woman named Sara Myer (Brooklyn Haley), who moves into an abandoned house that has a tragic and mysterious past. Sarah begins to rid her new home of the previous owner's belongings. As she does, Sara begins to uncover its deadly secrets. Rookie police officer Evelyn Bennett (Nicole Cinaglia) aids her in investigating the mysterious happenings and captures Sara's heart. Will they learn the secrets of the house or will the house claim Sara's soul?
Spectacular new discoveries by scientists and archeologists give us revolutionary insight into the paranormal mysteries of Ancient Egypt's supernatural world.