After a seriously bad day, Jeffrey Hansen's life is sent spiraling into memories of lost loves, ruined lives, casualties of war, and the heartache of never being enough.
Champion air racer "Speed" Leslie is facing his two greatest challenges. On the racing circuit, his dominance is jeopardized by a feisty female pilot, Brenda Gordon, whose interest in Leslie goes beyond simple competition. Back on the runway and in the hangar, he finds himself in a deadly confrontation with a ruthless gang of aircraft thieves. The outlaws' biggest heist involves an experimental flying machine known as the Mercy Plane, which can take off and land almost vertically, making it a...
The place: World War II Burma. The mission: Drive a fatal wedge between an enemy linkup. The troops: the 5307th Composite Unit, led by Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler) and manned by Stock (Ty Hardin), Chowhound (Will Hutchins), Kolowicz (Claude Akins) and other young dogfaces who, after a few weeks of basic training, have the fate of the world loaded on their backs. Director Samuel Fuller, whose later The Big Red One is a benchmark work about GIs in World War II's European theater,...
Starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney, Merrily We Go to Hell is a gripping Pre-Code drama about a rich young woman who falls in love with an abusive alcoholic. Reporter Jerry Corbett (March) aspires to be a playwright but finds himself drinking more than writing. Everyone is stunned when heiress Joan Prentice (Sidney) agrees to marry him - though it initially appears that he has changed his ways. However, when his work takes the couple to New York, Jerry's bad behavior and a persistent old...
Archaeologist Andrew Larabee tunnels below an English meadow, seeking a rare historical relic. His shoveling takes him back to the surface and into the lions' cage during a circus act. Just like that, a star -- or at least a Joey -- is born. A Joey is circus-speak for clown and who better to play that clown than Danny Kaye? The effusive star unleashes his singing, swooning and jesting talents in this bright musical-comedy tale of circus extravaganza and romantic complications. Famed...
Everyone thinks new recruit Hansel is too small to be a K-9 dog, but when a greedy package thief is ruining the holidays, little Officer Hansel must go on a mission to catch him and save Christmas.
Lucy has a complicated relationship with her family, but when her mom disappears on Christmas Eve, she must be the one to bring them together again whether she knows it or not. Warm-hearted and sharp, this is a new holiday favorite in the making.
Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas star in this sumptuous Oscar -nominated musical based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar. After the King of Marshovia invites her to visit her late husband's homeland, wealthy American Crystal Radek (Turner) takes off for Paris when she discovers it's a plot to marry her off so she can pay the Marshovian debt. Followed by Count Danilo (Lamas), who's been ordered by the King to woo her, Crystal finds that she's attracted to the man although they've never been...
The Merry Widow with no singing? A silent version of an operetta may seem an unlikely venture, but this vivacious hit proved that the right ingredients make for an irresistible romantic souffle. Those ingredients include Erich von Stroheim's stylish direction (in his first film after Greed), ex-Ziegfeld bombshell Mae Murray in her best role, a star-making turn for John Gilbert and a mythical European kingdom straight out of fairyland. Murray plays showgirl Sally O'Hara, who's jilted by a...
Only during the silent film era would you find this kind of plot: Prior to the outbreak of World War 1, a nobleman, disguised as a necktie salesman falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he's already married to the daughter of his country's war minister. There's even a lovelorn hunchback! The legendary Erich Von Stroheim was hired to direct this strange romantic epic, but after shooting a few scenes was fired and replaced by Rupert Julian, who would later direct...
Spider-women lure men to their death in this thriller from the golden era of Drive-in schlock!- This story of a mad scientist (Jackie Coogan) is regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.- Still, dig the crazy guitar and piano score which was purloined by Ed Wood Jr. for- Jail Bait, and notice a couple of Wood regulars (Dolores Fuller and Lyle Talbot) in the credits. What you have here is a sort of cousin to- the films of Ed Wood,- but one that can stand on its own as being truly awful....
Plane crash survivors are discovered wandering through "The Desert of Death." Grant, the pilot, regains his senses in the hospital and relates a tale of horror. A brilliant scientist, Dr. Arana, has devised a bizarre crossbreeding program to create an army of nightmarish creatures. Giant tarantulas, fiendish dwarves and beautiful, scantily-clad superwomen run amuck in his laboratory atop the Zarpa Mesa. Jackie Coogan appears as the mad scientist. Also in the fantastic cast of characters is...
A couple are found wandering nearly dead in a desert. Recovering, they tell their story. The movie flashes back a year. A mad scientist,(Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence. Aranya invites another scientist, Dr. Masterson, to join him....
Based on true accounts of the Victoria Thompson murder trial, MESMERIZED tells the story of an 18-year old orphan who is forced into an arranged marriage with a cruel older man. Set in New Zealand in the 1800s, this drama stars Jodi Foster as penniless, naive Victoria, who at the young age of 17, is coerced to move into her new husband's home. Before long, Victoria realizes that Oliver Thomspon (John Lithgow) has some strange sexual habits, and an abusive nature. Concerned for her own safety,...
Mesmerized is a drama film starring Jodie Foster, John Lithgow and Michael Murphy.In 1880 New Zealand, Victoria (Jodie Foster) is on trial. She recalls her journey to that point. As a baby, she was dropped off at an orphanage. Growing up at the orphanage, she is introduced to merchant Oliver Thompson (John Lithghow) who quickly proposes marriage to her. She married him only to later discover that he is a controlling, volatile and manipulative man. His father is of the same temperament, but his...
Mesmerized (Color, 1986): Based on the true story of the sensational murder trial that rocked New Zealand in 1880!Seventeen-year-old Victoria weds a man decades older to escape her life as a destitute orphan. Oliver Thompson is a cruel and unscrupulous brute, and Victoria's days - and especially her nights - with her new husband are unendurable. When all of her attempts to escape are thwarted, she turns to the new science of hypnotism, combining it with daily doses of poison to slowly and...
Six teens, in an affluent community, grow up with the benefits and luxuries that come with their birth right. Attending a Christian school and are taught Biblical studies from the Faithful Pastor Anne. But, except for the compassionate attempts of one single girl, Sarah, who dreams of love and heavenly things, many of the less fortunate in the surrounding area are left forgotten and ignored by the wealthy, yet uncaring adults, especially Sarahs father, who is hardened by the world around him....
Augusta is new to her high-school, her parents are too busy for her with their new jobs and she is immediately picked on by the local bully. She throws a page of her journal into a hollow tree, and is answered by a monk from medieval England. They encourage one another through their correspondence, enabling each other to come to terms with their dificult situations.
When a journalist is being brutally murdered, a man who is haunted by ghostly apparitions must help grant the man his dying wish.
When high school student Jake Casper finds a small wooden box in the attic of his grandpa's antique store, his life is forever changed, especially when he discovers a secret compartment that appears to contain a nail used during Christs crucifixion. Now, the more Jake learns of the power within the box and its purpose, the more obstacles he must overcome to get the box to a stranger before its too late. A powerful faith-based film, The Messenger's Box demonstrates why we should never...
A Detective's Secret Has Become A Killer's Obsession: Brilliant detective Red Metcalfe (Ken Stott) and his top team of investigators are pitched against a terrifying serial killer that is stalking the streets of London, leaving his victims with silver spoons in their mouths in place of tongues. A mysterious pattern is emerging, but any theories they develop regarding the killings turn into dead ends. More corpses are discovered with horrific injuries. As the body count rises steadily, the...
Messiah of Evil (1973, Color): 100 years ago, a demonic priest from Hell passed through a seaside town, carrying a blood-crazed contagion that reduced all the good citizens to mindless, cannibal zombies. Following a frenzied, flesh-eating orgy, the dark priest walked straight into the sea, promising to return a century later to lead a new zombie apocalypse. This time around, the vile contagion precedes him. As spaced-out followers gather on the beach, awaiting their master's return, the town...
Hailed in 2003 by The British Film Institute as "a rare work of cinematic genius," this occult tale comes from writer/director Willard Huyck, known for his work on such popular movies as American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and of course, Howard the Duck. Starring a bevy of 1970s eye candy, including Anitra Ford, Joy Bang, and Marianna Hill, Messiah of Evil is about a young woman (Hill) whose search for her missing father brings her to a strange seaside town under the...