Beginning with Penobscot Bay and continuing eastwards to the Canadian border, the "downeast" area of Maine is a rugged, often desolate region. Sparsely populated and largely undeveloped, it is a place of rocky shorelines, vast blueberry barrens and a scattered assortment of small towns and villages. But downeast is also a region of spectacular, unparalleled beauty, as captured from a bird's eye view in "Over Downeast Maine". Using helicopter-mounted cameras, this film captures the breathtaking...
Beginning in the town of York and continuing northeast until it reaches Lubec and the Canadian border, the coast of Maine is a region dotted by hundreds of islands and a diverse array of geographical features. From long, sandy beaches to rugged, rockbound shorelines, from coastal cities to small fishing villages, the Maine coast is both a place to work and a place to play. It is also a region of spectacular, unparalleled beauty, as captured from a bird's eye view in "Over the Coast of Maine"....
This tuneful sports comedy-drama follows a college football star who must choose between preserving his health and playing in the big game. Wealthy Carlton College alumnus Grant Haines makes a secret pact with the college president (Douglas Wood) that he will bequeath his fortune to the nearly bankrupt college, provided they beat archrival State three years in a row. Haines' young cousin Ken Thomas (William Hopper), the star quarterback, is a large reason why Carlton College is one win shy of...
Sargent Nash Crawford visiting one of his former Texas Ranger friends, George playing cards in a saloon. Once they leave the saloon Crawford explains that a mutual friend, The Baltimore Kid (played by Fred Astaire), has been accused of murder down in Waco, TX and they need to gather up their gang and go down to rescue him. When the Gang arrives in Waco, they are told that the Baltimore Kid has already been hung for his crimes - held up the cargo station, stole $10,000, and killed the Marshall...
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.
a young newspaper editor who is conducting a campaign to unseat the town's "tinhorn mayor." The mayor is backed by a "gun-happy sheriff" and a "whiskey-soaked judge." The editor's campaign receives a boost when he is joined by a former Texas Ranger and "three of the fightin'-est straight shooters around.
Though often neglected in favor of the world famous sights of the coast, the northern regions of Maine are nonetheless places of spectacular and untamed beauty. It is here that one can find some of the most remote land in the continental United States, where human settlements are given numbers instead of names, and where populations number in the dozens or less. The scenery is gorgeous, but inaccessible to all but the heartiest explorers willing to venture down dirt logging roads or hike up...
Imagine a film about the Catholic Church made in the third century or a portrait of the Amish premiering at the turn of the 18th. The Church of Scientology is in its infancy as a religion, and while it has aptly been the source of intense public scrutiny, few outsiders have approached its believers in good faith. Director Jeffrey Peixoto spent nearly a decade earning the trust of his subjects both inactive and active members of the Church and in his mesmeric and startling debut, he has...
Warner Bros.' celebrated "Singing Cowboy" Dick Foran trades in his leathers for a prison jumper in this tale of crime and redemption based upon a story by Sing Sing's famed reformer warden Lewis E. Lawes (20,000 Years in Sing Sing, You Can't Get Away with Murder, Invisible Stripes). Foran plays street tough Jerry Davis, a natural born crooner who would rather fight his way to the top. Jerry think he's on his way when he gets the go-ahead from boxing promoter Eddie Edwards (Ward Bond), but...
Colton is a teenager who thrives on making the lives of others miserable. After his parents pray for God's intervention, Colton has an experience that compels him to change his life. But facing life after you've done everything wrong can sometimes be the hardest step, and Colton must find a way to prove to everyone that he's overcome the person he used to be. Based on the conversion of Paul.
Overland Mail (1939, B&W): Pony Express rider Jack Mason is attacked by renegade Indians who are on the warpath after one of their tribe was murdered by a white man. With the help of a half-breed interpreter, Jack negotiates a cease-fire with the angry natives by promising to find and deliver the real killers to them. He won't have to look far - the outlaw gang responsible for the killing has set up operations in one of the towns along Jack's mail route.Ex-Broadway singer Addison Randall moved...
Frontier Marshal Jim Lane and his partner Sierra Pete must find the culprit behind the attacks on the Overland Mail. Pony Express riders are being murdered and Congress is about to take away the contract from Tom Gilbert. Although the attacks are the work of a local Indian tribe, Marshal Lane suspects that another sinister force is behind their actions. He arrives in La Paz and befriends Gilbert, as well as his beautiful daughter Helen, but all of their lives are plunged into danger as the...
Billy didn't know that buying Barkley's cattle will get him involved in Landreau's scheme to get Barkley's ranch.
When college guy Wyatt Tripps (Paul Rudd, Clueless) thinks his high school sweetheart is cheating on him, he and Ivy (Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama), a new "friend," send her the world's most disgusting poison pen letter...via overnight delivery. But when Wyatt gets home, he is in for a shocking surprise. His girlfriend's message explains that she hasn't been unfaithful after all. Now he's got 24 hours to get the letter back in this wildly funny romantic comedy.
In Overnight Models (1973), the randy adventures and misadventures of a group of out-of-towners attending a trade show in Berlin unfold. In Six She's And A He (1968), a soldier stranded on a desert island is captured by a tribe of sadistic women who torture and mutilate the men who oppose them.
James Daly plays Michael Powers, a crusading reporter investigating the crime and corruption that arose from the ashes of World War II in this long-lost TV drama! Overseas Adventure originally aired as part of Foreign Intrigue, a four-year series that began in syndication starring Jerome Thor. After two seasons, he was replaced by Daly (the change of star also meant a change in character and locale.) Thor's episodes were later rerun as Dateline Europe, while a fourth and final season starring...
The famous Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko journeys to a synagogue in Vilnius to see the acclaimed cantor Yoel Duvid Strashunsky perform. Upon hearing his magnificent voice, Moniuszko declares that Yoel is the only one who can sing his recently competed opera. Going against the wishes of his rabbi, Yoel accepts the composer's offer to star in the new opera about to open in Warsaw. The cantor leaves his wife and child behind in Vilnius, despite his rabbi's warning that he cannot live in two...
The young Ovid enrages the brutal emperor by writing a provocative guide to love and runs for his life. Set in a world filled with togas, hip-hop, sneakers, oration, and poetry slams (think Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet or Hamilton), this film follows the life of the popular, witty, and controversial Roman poet, set in a lively mash-up of contemporary Detroit and ancient Rome.
OVUM is a provocative dark comedy about a quirky actress who tries method acting to approach a role and is drawn into the shady world of egg donation clinics and the characters who populate them: from unscrupulous doctors with mind bending fertility drugs to the model donors and a notorious faded movie star who wants our heroine's OVUM at any cost. But things are not as they first appear in a world where wealthy couples seek to buy the perfect designer egg. Is more at stake than just a role?...