Modest budgeted comedy mystery.... Yarn revolves around... an itinerant salesman, who wanders into a western town around the turn of the century and falls for the daughter of the sheriff. After latter is killed by a gang of smugglers [he] sets about tracking down the varmint through a complicated series of ruses. Expose of the varmints in the end takes place when a local youngster simply identifies the killer and his boss who happens to be the town banker. (Variety, April 9, 1947)
Rhino (Leon Schuster, You Must Be Joking!) and Zulu (John Matshikiza, Cry Freedom) were childhood friends in South Africa who went their separate ways, with Zulu going to America. Twenty-five years later, their paths cross again when Zulu is deported back to South Africa. When Zulu steals a winning lottery ticket worth $500,000, Rhino and Zulu partner up to get the ticket to Sun City in time to claim the prize. However, their efforts are hindered when Rhino's ex-wife and her new husband, the...
Before the Cold War, before Khruschev declared Stalin a mass murderer of his own people, American industry worked at the side of 'Uncle Joe' as he struggled to implement the grandiose goals of his Five Year Plan. YANKS FOR STALIN reveals the extent to which American labor and expertise contributed to Stalin's massive undertaking. See how the Depression drove executives, consultants, engineers, skilled laborers and even citizen volunteers to the Soviet Union. Rare footage shows the disparate...
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester (Karen Allen) retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.
YEAR MILLION explores what it will be like to be human 1 million years from now. Through illustrative, dramatic storytelling, YEAR MILLION paints a vision of humanity through the lens of a typical future American family, which includes a daughter who is part AI. The series propels us into an odyssey of unfathomable human choices and predicts how every aspect of technology may affect our lives.
Matt, a loner alcoholic, struggles to maintain sobriety and honor his mother's dying wish to see him get sober. His AA sponsor offers him refuge at his farm where Matt finds Yup'ik, a stray husky with a unique talent. Their relationship struggles at first, but with the help of their Montana community, the two strays find a connection and discover what it takes to pull thru to the finish line.
Corruption. Extortion. Sometimes, even assassination. For the tradition-bound mob bosses of Manhattan's Chinatown, there are age-old ways of running things. And now there's police captain Stanley White's way. Mickey Rourke portrays White, a war veteran who has a Vietnam-sized chip on his shoulder when dealing with an emerging blood feud in Chinatown. John Lone plays the crime lord standing in the line of fire of White's relentless campaign. And Academy Award -winning* director Michael Cimino...
Brian Cox, Leonard Rossiter, Suzanne Neve, Tony Vogel. Bizarre drama about Earth in the distant future. Overpopulation is a big problem so television has been filled with gluttony and porno programs in order to put people off food and sex. It is also the year of the Sex Olympics. However, when TV ratings fail, a reality-based show is introduced in which a real-life couple is deposited on a remote island with no modern conveniences. Considering this was a British TV feature, itOs amazing to see...
Year-round Metal Enjoyment explores the New England origins of freight train graffiti, using unprecedented access to trace the narratives of several members of the prolific YME and Circle T crews. Both a snapshot of a fading history and a love letter to the trains themselves, this documentary captures the voices, faces and thoughts of artists, railfans and train workers alike, while showcasing the unlikely beauty of the trains in their environment.
Life abounds in the 1870s Florida scrubland that's home to young Jody Baxter. There are bears to hunt, cash crops to plant, evenings of storytelling with Pa and Ma. And there are timeless lessons of love and letting go that Jody learns from Flag, the orphaned pet fawn that follows him around with devotion.
Life abounds in the 1870s Florida scrubland that's home to young Jody Baxter. There are bears to hunt, cash crops to plant, evenings of storytelling with Pa and Ma. And there are timeless lessons of love and letting go that Jody learns from Flag, the orphaned pet fawn that follows him around with devotion. From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and sensitively directed by Clarence Brown (National Velvet), The Yearling is superb family entertainment that knows well what a...
Follow the hopes, fears and joys of an ordinary British family over the course of 15 years in the funny, frightening and provocative six-part series Years and Years. As Britain withdraws from Europe, America becomes a lone wolf and China asserts itself, the world is rocked by a flurry of unstable political, economic, cultural and technological advances. It's a world in which no one can tell political right from left -- as evidenced by the rise to power of Vivienne Rook (two-time Academy Award...
A once successful P.R. Specialist deals with the trials and tribulations of managing a local grocery store known as "The Yellow Bird" while struggling with his loveless marriage, an unhappy stepdaughter and his own sobriety.
Sheer, utter madness is the order of the day in this laugh riot on wheels that features one of America's all-time favorite funnymen, Red Skelton. In a story ranging from the weird to the whimsical, Skelton plays "Red," an accident-prone inventor of safety gadgets (no one can bump his head any funnier) who winds up driving a cab to prove the worth of his latest brainchild, Elastiglass. But while he is falling in love with the cab company's claims adjuster (Gloria De Haven), a crooked lawyer...
The Yellow Day at Camp Grace celebrates miracles, faith and community but for one young man, it's the chance to locate the elusive girl he's fallen for. With the help of a friendly little girl, he learns wonderful stories of the camp.
The Spanish-American War is over, but not the scourge of death. Yellow fever has killed more U.S. soldiers deployed to Cuba than battle -- and a medical team led by Dr. Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) is determined to defeat the microbial enemy. The secret to wiping it out may lie in the once-discredited theory of a dedicated researcher (Charles Coburn): an infected mosquito. Proving it will put more lives on the line: volunteers to be bitten and treated. From Sidney Howard's esteemed 1934 play (a...
The Yellow Rose is 200,000 acres of cattle, oil and Texas pride. Which is why two proud Texas families, the Hollisters (who once owned the vast spread) and the Champions (the current owners), fight to possess it. Here on 5 discs are all 22 episodes of the series that has everything -- lust and jealousy, schemes and secrets, greed and rivalry, kidnapping and murder -- that made sweeping 1980s TV epics like Dallas and Falcon Crest such hits. The Yellow Rose also boasts a cast as outsized and...
The attack on Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered WW2. More than 110,000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. Hollywood was quick to react with films from THE PURPLE HEART to KNOW YOUR ENEMY: JAPAN. With the arrival of the Cold War the enemy image had to change quickly, and Hollywood obliged. Clara and Julia Kuperberg found the right interview partners in Joseph McBride, film...
The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we'll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves -- Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?
Part survival epic, part psychological horror and part coming-of-age drama, this is the story of a team of wildly talented high school girls' soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they've attempted to piece back together 25 years later. What began in the wilderness is far from over. Starring Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, with...
Set in the days of Civil War, several confederate soldiers dessert the army and fight through the Florida Everglades. Coming from hellish Civil War into the unfortunates of nature fighting off poisonous snakes, insects and alligators.