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.
Frenemies and veteran comedians Dana Gould and Bobcat Goldthwait carefully navigate the highways of the American South and their decades-old contentious friendship; reflecting upon their careers and relationship with comedy. Buckle up.
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...
Will Rogers plays a post Civil War judge in a southern town as well as a bit of a matchmaker along the way.
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...
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...
This 4-DVD set contains 16 thrilling episodes from the lost color TV series.
Western set in the Texas town of Langtry, named after Lillie Langtry. When storekeeper Roy Bean becomes fed up with the lawlessness in the town, he sets establishes himself as a judge and introduces a system of law and order.
Boston judge Tom Bailey (Alexander Knox) has position, security and a lovely home on Beacon Hill. He also has a disagreeable wife, a selfish daughter and a nagging suspicion that somehow his life has gone terribly wrong. Then one day Bailey falls ill and gets a diagnosis from a no-nonsense doctor: he's suffering from "inflammation of the family." A few weeks later, the judge is serving up a plate of Adam and Eve on a raft at a California diner run by a warm-hearted blonde (Ann Sothern). He's...
Based on a shocking, true story - what happens when a family discovers their son has been molested by the local priest? Will the Church stand by the people - or by their minister?
Noted producer/director Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, 24, Predator 2) navigates this harrowing journey of four suburban men into the nightmarish neighborhood of Chicago's crime-infested underworld. When four young men (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven) take a wrong turn on their way to a boxing match in a state-of-the-art RV, they witness a murder. Now, the killer's leader (Denis Leary) cannot let them live, and the four must find their way...
Noted producer/director Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, 24, Predator 2) navigates this harrowing journey of four suburban men into the nightmarish neighborhood of Chicago's crime-infested underworld. When four young men (Emilio Estevez; Cuba Gooding, Jr.; Stephen Dorff; Jeremy Piven) take a wrong turn on their way to a boxing match in a state-of-the-art RV, they witness a murder. Now, the killers' leader (Denis Leary) cannot let them live, and the four must find their way...
A desperate scientist will resort to anything, including murder, to continue his experiments. In need of money, the sadistic Dr. Satorius (Boris Karloff) accepts an offer from a millionaire's wife, Lady Von Clifford (Mona Goya), to murder her ailing husband, Sir Charles (Morton Selten). He injects the victim with a deadly poison, condemning him to a slow death. The millionaire alters his will to favor his son Roger (Arthur Margetson) before perishing, instantly making him the target of his...
After a lengthy absence, a small town outlaw returns home, irrationally plagued with the notion that his mother's death was not a suicide, and embarks on a violent revenge mission that shakes up the quiet town of his birth.