This Man Can't Die (1968, Color): Government undercover agent Martin Benson is investigating a gang of arms smugglers who are selling rifles to the Indians. He returns home to a scene of grotesque horror - his parents have been shot down in cold-blood and his younger sister savagely raped. The massacre was intended to persuade Martin to terminate his investigation, but has the opposite effect. Martin Benson is a U.S. army-trained, professional assassin - a veritable killing machine. He sets...
Wallace Beery and director William A. "Wild Bill" Wellman had more in common besides long and celebrated film careers: They were flyboys who loved piloting their own planes. This Man's Navy returns both - in feisty, fighting form - to the skies in a thrilling and sentimental World War II tale that salutes the lighter-than-air airships of the US Naval and Marine Corps. Ned "Old Gasbag" Trumpet (Beery) skippers a dirigible training unit and, per his nickname, spins tall tales, including one...
Young Valentine Winters (Joan Crawford) leaves America to join her ooh-la-la mama in Paris and Life begins. Soon Valentine is caught up in a whirl of hot music and cold champagne, of the right clothes and the wrong men, of all pleasure and no happiness. Then she meets an upstanding Harvard man. The future looks bright, until his strait-laced parents visit Paris. They discover not only Valentine's wild ways, but a shocking secret about her mother -- and Valentine's world comes crashing down....
Benny and Victoria, with the help of James and Moscow Mules, discover their personal insecurities growing up in such a divided home, now left to them after their parents have gone.
This uncensored look at nudist colonies around the world lays bare the history of the practice of nakedness in a "100-percent authentic" style that had 1933 censor boards fuming, protesters marching and police squads raiding theaters.Our clothing-optional tour begins at the Catskills' Camp Olympia where New Yorkers enjoy their weekends of freedom exercising, swimming and lounging in the sun. The next stop is France where we get an Eiffel of the tower, enjoy a Folies-Bergere performance, and...
Every Thursday night hundreds of women gather for a potluck celebration and the chance to throw singles at the hottest dancers in New Jersey, The Nasty Boyz featuring Satan, Mr. Capable, Fever, Young Rider and lesbian 'dom' dancer Blaze. This One's for the Ladies isn't just about the tips or the dancing. It's a heartwarming story of friendship and the resilience that comes from community. Hilarious, eye-opening, and breathtakingly sexy, This One's for the Ladies is a virtual how to guide for...
aka BLACK REBELS. Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Dyan Cannon. Damon's in black-face as blacks take on whites who take on Hispanics in this very entertaining teenage gang war extravaganza. Teenage punks slice and dice each other, turn innocent young girls into sleazy tramps, threaten innocent citizens, get involved in interracial romance, and sell drugs to local citizens. Whew! That's a lotta trashy behavior for one movie. Needless to say, the result is a very entertaining J.D....
A plague of hate crimes threatens to provoke the city to race riots. Posing as high school troublemakers, two detectives, Frank and Don - one white and the other Latino, trade their badges for switchblades in an effort to infiltrate and bust the ethnic youth gangs suspected of instigating the savage violence. Don is quickly recruited into the Royals, a dope-dealing gang of white boys, but Frank's efforts to get into the Latino gang, The Caballeros, are met with failure due to his increasingly...
The Taylor family has long awaited this moment. The final bequest of Malcolm Taylor, a millionaire missing nearly seven years and about to be declared dead, will go into effect and his heirs will own his Sans Souci estate. But -- just like that -- dreams of wealth and power slip from everyone's grasp. There, standing inside Sans Souci and very alive, is Malcolm. Kent Smith (Cat People) portrays a hard-luck vagrant and Malcolm look-alike manipulated by a shady attorney (Robert Douglas) into...
Whether soaring from the high board or redefining grace in a lavishly choreographed water ballet, Esther Williams is at her radiant, swimsuited best in this lighthearted aquatic musical centered on her romance with an ex-GI (Johnnie Johnston). Settings include Michigan's Mackinac Island, filmed on location with picture-postcard resplendence. And notable supporting stars provide specialty numbers: famed tenor Lauritz Melchior brings his artistry to "La Donna E Mobile," Xavier Cugat (with...
Ricky "Hellcat" Heller is a fading Americana rockstar, and time and tragedy have taken their toll. Now, three years after leaving everything behind following the death of his teenage son, Ricky returns to Anderson, Indiana. While his aging father welcomes Ricky with open arms, his estranged wife, Susanna, would prefer not to reopen the past wounds. Thinking that the best solution might be to end his life, Ricky is reintroduced to a troubled young man, Tyler, who was once the best friend of...
Nothing like a death to bring a family back together again. 22 year old Danny thought he'd never go back home, a place where all roads seem to lead to a body bag or a straight jacket. But when a child hood friend commits suicide, Danny must return to bury his friend, put to rest the demons of his past, and set the wrong things right with the people he left behind.
This woman is tough. This woman is smart. This woman is Joan Crawford. This Woman Is Dangerous. Who else but Crawford could portray a criminal mastermind and a glamour gal? In this gritty melodrama, the silver-screen legend stars as Beth Austin, the brains behind a skilled robbery crew. She's also the inamorata of callous killer and fellow gang member Matt (David Brian) -- until a medical emergency sends Beth to a hospital and into the arms of a handsome, compassionate doctor (Dennis Morgan)....
Without the success of his innovative and groundbreaking inventions, modern-day life as we know it would be wholly unimaginable. Thomas Alva Edison rightly earned a place among the most important persons in history when his inventions such as the light bulb, phonograph, and movie camera literally transformed the way the world functioned. In this compelling program, discover the complete story of the famous inventor, from his long quest to develop the light bulb to the devastating effect his...
Gordon Parks, Jr. directs this western-romance with a twist, often compared to Bonnie and Clyde, whose fresh take on the genre was written and produced by, and starred Max Julien (Cleopatra Jones). Vonetta McGee (Blacula) is featured as the female bounty hunter who resumes an old romance with bandit Bushrod (Julien). Amid the changes transforming the country at the beginning of the twentieth century cars replace horses and trails turn to roads the "wild" west of the 1900s is gradually being...
Music City, USA has a new crimefighting superhero! Assistant District Attorney Lana Layonme fights crime in the courtroom in a city that's known for bright lights and country music stars. But sometimes legal justice is just not enough -- and that's when she becomes THONG GIRL! When there's trouble on the streets Thong Girl dons her red bikini and cape and fights evil and corruption with her martial arts skills and her soon-to-be-patented ass-firing laser beam!
After a tragic mishap in which Assistant DA Lana Layonme, aka Thong Girl, is accidentally electrocuted in the bathtub, her older sister Laura reluctantly assumes the role of crime-fighting superhero. With the help of sidekick BoxerBrief Boy and nerdy brainiac Dweeble Mahoney, Thong Girl must face her greatest challenge to date.
A race of Amazon warriors is enslaving the men of a country, and the mighty Thor is called upon to help them regain their freedom.
Devastated by some of life's trials, Catherine enters a local flower shop hoping to find something that will help fill the void. What she finds instead is something much more beautiful than flowers. During her short interaction with the shop owner GRACE and the others who visit the shop, Catherine learns lessons about unconditional love and faith. "Thorns" is a heart-warming, inspirational story about what happens when ordinary people overcome trails by learning to trust in God's healing...
Unemployed reporter Chick Williams wins a racehorse, Special Delivery, in a dice game. His girlfriend, Anne O'Malley, runs the hamburger stand at the racetrack, and having grown up with horses, is an experienced trainer. Chick and Anne discover that Special Delivery is a born champion, and have him poised to race in the high stakes "King's Plate." Their horse is a shoe-in to win and the broke sweethearts are counting on the prize money so that they can marry. But the night before the big...
The horse-racing tale Thoroughbreds Don't Cry marks the first of eight screen pairings (plus two variety-act films) of Hollywood legends Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney plays a swell-headed top jockey pressured by his disreputable pop to throw a race so that the ol' man can cash in at the window. Garland is a singing cutie who knows her way around the paddock because she lives at a boarding house for jockeys run by her aunt (a delightful Sophie Tucker). Ronald Sinclair plays the...
Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) is a man with a dream: to one day establish a sanctuary for the geese that fly overhead during their long migration. Unfortunately, Cam lacks the money to buy the necessary property -- until his son Buck (Brandon de Wilde) embarks on a project that will guarantee success ... unaware that greedy hunters are manipulating the Calloway family for their own selfish gains. Beautifully filmed in Vermont, THOSE CALLOWAYS is a stirring outdoor drama glowingly filmed in the...
In this touching family drama about memories, guilt, and the ghosts that lurk in our minds, a getaway to the idyllic lakeside summer home of her childhood brings 45-year old doctor Shelly (Daphne Zuniga) face to face with unresolved grief over the suicide of her younger brother Jamie when they were both in their teens. Award-winning director Maria Finitzo sensitively evokes the conflicting emotional undercurrents in the family dynamic, as an aging mom's acceptance and a dad's anger serve to...