When a European diplomat is named ambassador to the United States, he relocates to Washington, D.C., with his niece, Princess Maria, where he hopes she'll meet an eligible American bachelor. On a side trip by plane to San Francisco, Maria takes a tranquilizer to settle her nerves, passes out in mid-flight, and is out for hours. The pilot, Eddie O'Rourke, volunteers to put her up at his place for the night, and when Maria awakens, she is taken with Eddie's decency and charm, and it is love at...
A thirteenth century, scimitar-wielding Egyptian princess leads her people against a powerful Bedouin to save Egypt.
The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
Visually stunning, bursting with action, desire and sexual tension, is the mad journey of a rebellious princess who ventures to work at a brothel to find the tattooed intruder she met on a fateful night. (Japanese with English subtitles).
Beauty and the Beast and Legend of Su-Ling
Princess Castle, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, and Cinderella
Fisherman Joaquin Shannon sees his picturesque life torn apart following the murder of his fiance's brother. Though innocent of the crime, Shannon confesses to attacking Joe Fenderson in order to protect the friend whom he assumes was responsible. Facing one to ten years for manslaughter, Joaquin resolves to stay out of trouble while in prison, and be free in just a year to marry Jean Fenderson and resume his life. His plan quickly unravels when he runs afoul of Red Kincaid, a dangerous inmate...
An innocent man is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. He intends to stay out of trouble, but he mistakenly gets involved with a crime boss. Then he stops a prison break in order to win his parole.
Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up
A reckless playboy, framed for bank robbery and sentenced to a long prison stretch, lets bitterness warp his mind and he forgets the old axiom "You can't beat the law!"Behind bars, young Johnny Gray becomes his own worst enemy: sharing a cell with Cain, the pen's toughest con, he agrees to Cain's plan to escape prison or die trying. The new warden's attempt at rehabilitation revives a bit of the old Johnny; and then proof of his innocence turns up unexpectedly and wins him a pardon. Johnny...
Raging floodwaters and violent prisoners greet young nurse Judy when she and two co-workers pull up to the prison gate. The flood has caused a deadly typhoid outbreak that is overwhelming the elderly prison physician. He had called in the nurses after trying and failing earlier to enlist help from a prisoner named Dale, an ex-doctor with a troubled past. After the old doctor collapses from exhaustion, Dale's innate decency and his growing attraction to Judy cause a change of heart. His duties...
Boxer Gene Harris is serving 5 years in prison after being convicted for killing a man in the ring. He is paroled when crooked fight promoter George Miller promises to keep Gene employed. Wishing to leave his tragic past behind, the boxer is not happy to learn that Miller is promoting him as "Killer" Harris and cashing in on the publicity. Things get worse when in his first bout, his knockout punch leaves his opponent dead. The ex-con is being set up to take the fall while promoter Miller...
Frankie Terris and Mannie Robbins are the two most powerful gangsters in their city. Frankie has a young sister, Louise, whom he has kept at a boarding school away from the stench of his racketeering. Mannie's young son, Joe, is also ignorant of his father's profession. Louise and Joe meet, and Joe tries to make love to her. Frankie interrupts and, in a fight that follows, kills Joe. Mannie vows to get Frankie. The latter, sentenced to Alcatraz, fears for Louise's safety and makes her promise...
Ruthless crime boss Frankie Terris (Fred Keating) kills the son of his rival, Mannie Robbins, in a vicious street brawl. Terris is convicted and sentenced to 90 years at the infamous Alcatraz prison. Robbins plans revenge on Terris, vowing he'll never make it to "The Rock" alive. Murder and mayhem ensue as Terris must outwit hit-men and fellow convicts while traveling cross-country on the prison train. Featured player Linda Winters changed her name to Dorothy Comingore, and went on to star in...
Scientist David Bowman has retired to a tropical island, his only friend a native boy he has adopted as his own. A conscientious objector, he has no desire to choose sides in the war that has erupted in the Pacific. His pacifism makes him an easy victim for Matsuru, a Japanese secret agent who seizes his home. Matsuru uses the scientist's experimental equipment to destroy American ships while David stands by helplessly. But when the saboteur kills his adopted son, he will have to stand and...
Of all tales of gallantry and romance, few are as durable as Andrew Hope's beloved swashbuckler. There are at least seven screen versions, including this 1922 adaptation featuring some of the era's most luminous players. Lewis Stone, no stranger to leading-man roles in the 1920s, plays the dual role of a kidnapped king and the look-alike Englishman recruited to fill in for him. The cast includes Barbara La Marr, the exotic and ill-fated looker hailed as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful." And...
As the world rages in war and civil strife, CIA agent Carmen Reese arrives at a secret underground prison to interrogate a captured terrorist with links to recent attacks on American soil. But the prisoner is more than he appears -- he has arrived from the future with ninety-eight other time travelers who are still at large and wreaking havoc across the globe. Now it's a race against the clock as Carmen and the prisoner engage in a battle of wills to see whose version of the future will...
Two legendary actors at the height of their careers face off in a film so controversial that both the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals banned it. Following World War II, a strong-willed cardinal (Academy Award winner Alec Guinness, 1957 Best Actor, THE BRIDGE OVER RIVER KWAI) is arrested as a traitor to the state. His will is strong, but so is that of his inquisitor (Jack Hawkins), a seemingly benevolent man who uses oily charm to lure the cardinal into speaking freely. The interrogator...
In Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983), three people are transported into a parallel reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord. In The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965), Surfers are being brutally murdered. Is the culprit a sea monster or just one of the teens' jealous parents?
The Pritzker Prize is architecture's most prestigious honor. In these NewsHour conversations, Pritzker laureates discuss their work and the significance of architecture in our daily lives. The collection features a brief retrospective and a conversation with the first Pritzker winner, Philip Johnson, on his 90th birthday. Other segments include conversations with architects Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Ricardo Legorreta and Jacques Herzog.
The Andrews Sisters and Harry James are the entertainers for the USO dances for the new recruits in basic training.
An all-star cast including Donald O'Connor, the Andrews Sisters, and Joe E. Lewis help to tell this tale of bandleader Harry James being drafted into the army! Great musical numbers and hysterical gags highlight this treat from World War II, but the unheralded scene stealer in this film is Shemp Howard, who proves that a single Stooge can be just as funny as three!
One of the first movies to place British cinema firmly on the international map, "The Private Life of Henry VIII" is a comedy of manners loosely based on the matrimonial adventures of a sixteenth-century English king who was married six times.