As another Christmas approaches in the small Wisconsin town of Paradise, the local television news director, Lucy Collins, struggles to recapture the joy of Christmas after a traumatic event in her life just two years earlier. When the mysterious but attractive Joe McNamara arrives from Chicago to apply for the stations associate producer position everything changes for Lucy, her family, and their small town independent television station. But, why has Joe really made the journey to Paradise?...
WWII hero Lt. Royal Stratton leads a mission to save the lives of nine downed airmen. Gripping action mixed with firsthand accounts showcase the valor of his courageous squadron who face overwhelming odds to bring their brothers home.
This made-for-television adaptation features an ensemble cast as a team of scientists who find themselves trapped below the earth's surface in a dangerous subterranean world. Geophysicist Chris Turner (Jeffrey Nordling) theorizes that by penetrating the interior wall of an erupting volcano, it is possible to access an unexplored "Inner World." He assembles a crew to undertake a scientific exploration, and they discover upon entering this world that it is in a constant state of flux; their...
Gruff, hard-nosed new boss Stanton takes over a scientific research company upon the death of his benevolent father. Scientists Manning, Gordon and White, who are very close to a breakthrough in time travel, are told by Stanton they must have results in 24 hours or face a funding cut-off. Trying to push their equipment past its safe operating limit they travel into the far future and distant past, with Stanton along as an accidental participant, unaware that a surprise awaits them as they...
Scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in time travel shouldn't be placed under a deadline by a gruff new boss, but that's exactly what happens in this odd adventure from exploitation director David L. Hewitt (The Mighty Gorga; The Girls from Thunder Strip). Scott Brady, Anthony Eisley, and Gigi Perreau star in this H.G. Wells inspired fable about what happens when you don't take time traveling seriously. Also, look for 1970s heartthrob Lyle Waggoner (The Carol Burnett Show; Wonder Woman)...
National Geographic presents the first nonstop voyage from Earth to the edge of the universe. Created with a single, unbroken shot using spectacular CGI technology, building on images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, this epic voyage across the cosmos takes us from Earth, past the Moon and our neighboring planets, out of our solar system, to the nearest stars, nebulae and galaxies, and beyond right to the edge of the universe itself. Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the...
Debra Padget, Paul Christian, Walter Reyer, directed by Fritz Lang. Padget plays an exotic dancer who is coveted by an evil maharajah she looks absolutely stunning
As far as we know, Fritz Lang's Journey to the Lost City has not been seen in an anamorphic format since its Colorscope release by AIP in 1960. The film was originally culled from two separate movies, The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) and its sequel, The Indian Tomb. In this great 2-disc edition, you get both films in their anamorphic widescreen format. Most of us know the story: Hubschmid is an architect who has come to the far-off city of Eschnapur to do work for a Maharajah (Walter Reyer). He...
In 1956, a band of international refugees flee Budapest, escaping the bloodshed of the Hungarian uprising. Among them are Lady Diana Ashmore (Deborah Kerr) and her lover, Hungarian Paul Kedes (Jason Robards, Jr.), who is forced to hide both his nationality and the wound he suffered in a street battle. The frightened refugees are halted at the Austrian border by Soviet Major Surov (Yul Brynner). Surov finds himself drawn to Diana as he interrogates the refugees in a hunt for suspicious persons....
This production sweeps us inexorably through the 'greatest story ever told,' from Jesus' birth in Bethlehem to His triumphant ascension on the Mount of Olives. David Nunn's enthusiastic presentation never tires as he features the latest archaeological discoveries and the insights they provide.
Broadway star Maggie Garret sings for her supper. And for everybody else's. She's the meal ticket for relatives who sap her of money and time, rob her of the joy of living. But Maggie's workaday world changes when she meets a carefree millionaire who thinks Maggie is a peach. And her family is the pits.
In post-World War I Vienna, the economic depression hits retired civil servant Rumfort and his young daughter Greta particularly hard. Rather than see Greta begging on the street, Rumfort trades in his pension for supposedly valuable shares in a coal mine. When the shares are revealed to be worthless, the Rumforts are left poorer than before. To support her father, Greta is forced to become a cabaret dancer at Madame Gill's, a haven for debauchery and hedonism. When she discovers what her new...
Juarez is the story of three men -- Benito Juarez (Paul Muni), Napoleon III (Claude Rains) and Emperor Maximilian (Brian Aherne) -- driven by political passions. And of a woman, Empress Carlota (Bette Davis), driven to madness. John Garfield and Gale Sondergaard join the illustrious cast of this epic, directed by William Dieterle (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Life of Emile Zola) and set against a backdrop of revolution and royal ambition, with Mexico as the prize. All the leads earned...
In Jubilee (1977), Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk. In Space Is the Place (1974), legendary jazz prophet Sun Ra returns to earth in his spaceship to rescue his people.
Ghosts exist; whether you choose to believe in them or not. When multiple reports of supernatural occurrences from an old schoolhouse point to a haunting, a team of ghost hunters are dispatched to investigate. But things go from bad to worse when it becomes clear that they are facing something far more sinister than they first anticipated. The school has an evil, dark secret that could strip the souls from their bodies.
When an elderly couple is faced with eviction, Judge Hardy unleashes Carvel's secret weapon: his son, the irrepressible Andy Hardy! Suspecting that the couple (character great Maria Ouspenskaya alongside Egon Brecher) is concealing the existence of an estranged daughter Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) tasks Andy (Mickey Rooney) with finding that daughter. Acting on a hunch, Andy decides to investigate any local girls who have the middle initial "V". Narrowing the field to three, Andy finds himself...
Beloved humorist and political commentator Will Rogers stars as down-to-earth Solomon like Judge Priest who presides over his post Civil War Kentucky courtroom with compassion and humor. His pride is wounded when a political rival forces him to remove himself from the bench in a controversial assault case. Nevertheless, "private citizen" Priest will take desperate measures to see that justice is served.Will Rogers appeared in over 70 movies in addition to his success as a political commentator...
Will Rogers plays a post Civil War judge in a southern town as well as a bit of a matchmaker along the way.
Widowed judge William "Billy" Priest (Will Rogers), a proud Confederate veteran, uses old-fashioned horse sense to bestow justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky. He also has time to play matchmaker for his lovelorn nephew! With a tremendous cast of characters, including Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Stepin Fetchit, and Hattie McDaniel, this amusing tale was directed by four time Oscar Winner John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers) and as its original tagline boasted, has enough...
In the untamed frontier, the law of the Pecos was enforced by one man alone - the irascible Texan, Roy Bean. Edgar Buchanan (Petticoat Junction) stars as the powerful judge who, assisted by his pretty niece, Letty (Jackie Loughery) and Deputy Jeff Taggard (Jack Buetel), dispenses justice with common sense backed up by a Winchester rifle and a dollop of good humor. This 1956 television series is based on the true-life legend of the real Judge Roy Bean. Infamous in American folklore as "the...
In the untamed frontier, the law of the Pecos was enforced by one man alone - the irascible Texan, Roy Bean. Edgar Buchanan (Petticoat Junction) stars as the powerful judge who, assisted by his pretty niece, Letty (Jackie Loughery) and Deputy Jeff Taggard (Jack Buetel), dispenses justice with common sense backed up by a Winchester rifle and a dollop of good humor.This 1956 television series is based on the true-life legend of the real Judge Roy Bean. Infamous in American folklore as "the...