Michael Shayne, a private detective serving on a jury trying a society girl for murder, suddenly becomes embroiled in the case when a witness is killed in the middle of the courtroom. Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter, and Richard Derr star in Just Off Broadway.
These rare silent crime melodramas offer two-fisted action in the style of 1920's pulp magazines, and served as a template for the Warner Bros. gangster pictures, whose popularity would explode in just a few short years. Just Off Broadway (Silent, BW, 1929): Tom Fowler watches in horror as his brother Ed is gunned down in cold blood. With his dying breath, Ed asks his brother to bring the killer to justice. Discovering that the hit was ordered by the city's top mobster, Marty Kirkland, Tom...
Terri (Joyce Hyser, TV's "L.A. Law") blames sexism when her journalism teacher refuses to enter her article in a competition to win a summer internship at the local newspaper. With the help of her kid brother, Buddy (Billy Jacoby), she masquerades as a guy at a rival school and enters the contest there. During her charade, "Terry the Boy" tangles with a vicious bully, Greg (William Zabka, The Karate Kid), and fends off an amorous classmate, Sandy (Sherilyn Fenn, TV's "Twin Peaks"). But when...
Every town needs a town drunk, and the tiny village of Norwalk is no exception. "Bim" has no interest in anything except getting soused, until the day he rescues a young orphan named Bill from some thugs. The two become fast friends, and Bim even has the boy placed in the Norwalk school. It's there he meets Mary Bruce, the beautiful young school mistress. Mary unwittingly makes Bim want to sober up, but she's already engaged to bank clerk Harvey Cahill. When Cahill comes up short in his teller...
After enduring years of abuse from his alcoholic father and the school bully Chase, Jesse Peterson tells his best friend Sarah that he plans on committing suicide. After promising to tell no one, Sarah finds it upon herself to try to stop him, taking any means necessary.
Vanessa has always had trouble in the dating world, never mind now being confined to her home. She soon discovers just how much you can get away with dating via webcam, but is the love she feels true or only a distorted version of reality?
When Max Herschel (Alan King), the ruthless magnate who has everything, loses his executive mistress Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw) to a young playwright (Peter Weller), he carves out a whole new battlefield in the war between the sexes! Director Sidney Lumet's sophisticated comedy, written by three-time Lumet collaborator Jay Presson Allen, chronicles the combat in winningly witty style. When the very rich spat, weapons include movie studios, TV talk shows and art collections -- and in the most...
Longtime New York con man Gary (Garcia) is a king among scam artists but a loser in life. The only thing he has going for him is Linda (MacDowell), a stunning chef-in-the-making with a soft spot for underdogs. But even Linda isn't a sure thing when she's accepted into a Parisian cooking school, and decides it's time to leave the city and Gary! Now this streetwise hustler must pull out all the stops and turn on all the charm if he ever hopes to win his way back into her heart!
In the enchanting tapestry of "Just the Two of Us," three couples embark on separate journeys, each an important chapter in the novel of love. Zoe and Anthony, a collision of personalities, traverse the uncharted territory of their new online connection. Kevin and Rachel celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. Successful in their careers, their marriage faces turbulent waters. Christopher and Grace, whose love story spans over three decades, grapple with a cancer diagnosis that forces them...
The girl with the leg brace. That's how people have seen Susan Berlanger all her life. But while on a ski trip in the French Alps, she conceals her crippled leg in a cast. Now, people won't see her as someone to be pitied. Or avoided. Or coddled. Kristy McNichol is Susan in a thoughtful, often funny and rapturously scenic (filmed in part in France's mountainous Haute-Savoie region) tale of love's liberating power and of Susan's coming to terms with issues of self-esteem, smartly written by...
Fox - Tom Mix, Tony, Claire Adams, Duke Lee, J. P. Lockney, Frank Campeau, Walt Robbins. We decided to make the move into silent B westerns after seeing this film at the Lone Pine Film Festival last Fall. This is a delightful film that aptly displays the amiable western charm that made Mix the biggest western star of his era. Tom plays a roving cowboy who seeks revenge against the man who shot him in a saloon brawl. During his searches through the region, he comes to know and admire a dazzling...
Grace and Vincent -- beautiful, young, and married -- are forced to engage in underground illegal activities in an attempt to keep their family business and marriage alive. Having been struggling with the pressures of wealth and social recognition, the innocent couple, and their best friend Mike, will soon discover that they will all surrender to the burdens of prosperity and success. While these "upper classes" lead a comfortable and seemingly worry-free life, their underlying ruthless (and...
Bill (George Burns, Oh, God!) is an ex-vaudevillian who now lives alone. Kate (Brooke Shields, The Blue Lagoon) is a 14-year-old girl running away from a drug dealer. The two meet when Kate is hiding in the trunk of Bill's car, naked. Bill and Kate have to avoid the drug dealer, nosy neighbors and Bill's concerned daughter in order to keep Kate safe. Also featuring Academy Award winner Burl Ives (1958, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Big Country) and Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz), JUST...
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of...
Together, they've saved the world countless times from unimaginable dangers. But the price has been high. Their ranks have diminished after fighting off an alien invasion and with new dangers arising at an ever-increasing pace, the remaining crime fighters realize that protecting the entire world is going to take more technology and more manpower. A lot more. Featuring the original seven Leaguers - Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, J'onn J'onzz, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl - now joined by...
Justin Bieber's odds were a million to one, until millions of fans found him online. Now his world is yours with Never Say Never, the "riveting and inspiring"* story of his journey from average teen to the youngest performer to sell out the most famous stage in New York City.
Everyday a new childhood dilemma presents itself to Justin, and in order to understand and solve the situation, he imagines alternate scenarios where he and his friends are different people in different places. They ride rockets into space, discover new worlds with the Vikings and chase Cleopatra's cat through the pyramids of Egypt. Typically, Justin meets an animal who needs help, and in figuring out how to lend a hand, he learns lessons about science and nature. At the end of each show,...
The amazing story of a beautiful, ruthless woman who used her family and friends in her schemes to send arms to Israel to protect her future as a Coptic in Egypt; when her arms are discovered, she turns to prostitution to remain in the good graces of the government.
Two cousins with similar hustles but different methods come up with what they believe to be the perfect juug - until it goes wrong.
Broken teens facing incarceration for a crime they were forced to commit decide refuse their destitute destinies and go about making a new one by forcing redemption onto scumbags. The Juvenile Delinquents (JD's) form a dysfunctional family as they manoeuvre around problems manifesting from their youth, competitiveness, irrationality and gruesomeness of their new lives.
A 6-DVD set of classic films of the extraordinarily bad behavior of teenage delinquents terrorizing their schools, neighbors and all authority.
Lucas Bates is a college-bound senior in a small town most people never leave, but after learning more about the circumstances surrounding his father's death he runs the risk of repeating history.