Academy Award winner Joan Crawford earned another Best Actress nomination for her tour-de-force performance in Possessed (1947) which opens with Crawford portraying a woman found wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Taken to a mental hospital, she weaves a harrowing tale of insanity, murder and the passion by which provides the basis for the film's apt title. Louise Howell's (Crawford) psychiatrist learns that she is a nurse hired to care for a dying woman and that she rekindled a former...
Factory girl Marian Martin has two ways out of poverty: brains and beauty. But it's 1928, and brains don't help a girl much unless she uses them to promote her other asset. So in no time Marian's living on Park Avenue, draped in designer gowns, dripping in jewels, and cuddled up with a man who isn't her husband. Joan Crawford plays the lollipop and Clark Gable plays the sucker she lands -- and eventually comes to love -- in this pre-Code scorcher that expertly mixes greed, ambition, politics...
Papers mysteriously burn, curtains suddenly ignite and the class president inexplicably bursts into flame. There's something evil happening at Salem's Helen Page School and only a defrocked minister-turned-exorcist (James Farentino) can save the students from a fiery fate. Co-starring Joan Hackett and highlighted by an eerie score from two-time Oscar winner* Leonard Rosenman, The Possessed also features a attention-grabbing turn by Harrison Ford as the school's hunky biology teacher....
Why do so many people distrust the media? How has the internet changed journalism? Many have questioned the role of fake news and false information in the American election and in the Brexit referendum. Donald Trump actively brands journalists, experts and the media as liars. Opinions seem more important that facts. So is truth absolute or are there levels of truth? Do people have time to worry whether they are receiving accurate information? In the age of media filtered by algorithms, do we...
A dark comedy based on true events, Postal reimagines the emotional meltdown of Philip Tress, a Jacksonville millennial described by local media as "unable to break from a psychotic, unrequited love affair." Phil's downfall gained notoriety as his breakdown was documented by multiple recordings to a customer service agent at a renowned shipping company. Postal brings us into the heart and mind of Phillip Tress on the day of his downward spiral, as he fails to negotiate a re-delivery of an...
A beautiful, charming nightclub singer, Connie Larrimore, becomes caught up in a sinister plot to steal a $3 million fortune when she appears at The Golden Eagle Club. The nightclub is owned by Gregory Benez, an unscrupulous man who has hired Connie to sing. Government Postal Inspector Bill Davis has a watchful eye on the corrupt Benez and becomes suspicious of Connie's connection to him. When a mail shipment of millions in cash is stolen by Benez and his gang during an unexpected flood, the...
Renowned novelist and screenwriter Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) had a hand in this story of postal inspectors tracking down stolen money. Ricardo Corte, Patricia Ellis, and Bela Lugosi head the cast for director Otto Brower, while the cinematography was by one of Universal's ace photographers, George Robinson (Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, The Mummy's Tomb).
An older man and his attractive young wife Cora, take on drifter FrankChambers as an employee at their roadside cafe. Cora is searching for away out of her drab day-to-day existence.
In the mountains of Italy, a car plunges off a cliff and bursts into flames. The driver, newsman Lewis Forrestor and his passenger, actress Allison Ford, are instantly killed. In London, artist Tim Forrestor is crushed by the news of his brother's death, but not surprised by it. He knew Lewis was covering a dangerous story, investigating an international diamond smuggling ring. A mysterious postcard that Lewis had mailed to London before the crash draws Tim into a deadly web of intrigue and...
The war on drugs has failed, but is legalization of cannabis the answer? POT LUCK takes a road trip across the state to find out what the new normal looks like. A colorful cast of locals including businessmen, budtenders, barbers, cops and farmers share a stake in the still-evolving world of legal cannabis.
Pot o' Gold was radio's first big-money giveaway program, garnering huge ratings within weeks of it's debut and leading to a this 1941 romantic comedy film based on the radio program. The owner of a failed music shop goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. He befriends an Irish band who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to get his uncle to reconcile with them.
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly!
Jimmy Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, a penniless musician who goes to work for the family business. He discovers that his no-nonsense uncle is trying to evict the company's neighbors - a family of talented musicians whose incessant playing is driving the greedy executive crazy. When Jimmy falls for the band's beautiful singer, he is forced to hide his feelings from his family and his identity from the band. An elaborate scheme to bring the enemies together backfires and Jimmy finds himself in...
This lesser-known gem is not just for Jimmy Stewart fans. Filled with great musical numbers and a thoroughly amusing storyline, Stewart plays a small-town music lover who reluctantly travels to the city to help his uncle run the family business. Once there, he falls for the daughter of a rival family (think: Hatfields and McCoys), unbeknownst to both parties. That is, until a live radio broadcast ends up getting everyone into trouble! Also starring Paulette Goddard, Charles Winninger (who is...
Hysterical 1940's classic comedy starring Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard and Horace Heidt. Based on the radio show of the period, 'Pot O' Gold' is an amusing look at a failed music store owner, Jimmy Stewart and his uncle Horace Heidt, owner of a food factory who wants Stewart to come to work for him. Before Stewart goes to work for his uncle, he befriends an Irish family who are his uncle's worst nightmare, as they are in-house musicians and always practicing. Stewart finds himself helping...
Jimmy Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, a failed music store owner who gets involved with a scrappy band of Irish musicians, much to the dismay of his uncle C.J. (Charles Winninger), an avowed music-hater who had hoped Jimmy would work in his health food store. Bandleader Horace Heidt stars as himself, while Paulette Goddard, fresh from her appearance in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, stars as Molly, Jimmy's love interest. This rollicking comedy was loosely inspired by the popular 'Pot O'...
Pot o' Gold -- Digitally Remastered. In this showbiz comedy, a down-on-his-luck man with a love of music befriends the orchestra of a wildly popular radio program, much to his family's disapproval. Jimmy Stewart, one of the greatest screen legends of all time, stars in this romantic comedy musical directed by George Marshall and based on the popular radio series of the same name. After his music shop is forced to close its doors, Jimmy Haskell (Stewart) agrees to work for his uncle at a health...
The near future, Charles and Eve practice their escape plan from New York City in case of nuclear attack. Their flight to safety takes them to an even less safe place. Tensions run high when the world collapses around them. Can the couple's already strained relationship survive the fall-out? When your relationship is in trouble, sometimes it feels like the end of the world.
"I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. "We are held captive by the donor community." The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry the business of doing good has never been better. Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing...
Two films spotlight young actor Jackie Moran, best known for his role as Buddy, the youthful co-pilot in Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers serial of 1939. Moran also appeared as Huckleberry Finn in David O. Selznick's adaption of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, which featured Haunted House co-star Marcia Mae Jones as well. Director Robert McGowan, is best known for his film work during the late 20s and early 30s and for many Our Gang shorts.Barefoot Boy (1939, B&W): Billy Whittaker and his pals are...
Present day Coachella Valley country clubbers prepare for their annual Pow Wow party. The backdrop for this festivity is a native American youth named Willie Boy who outran a mounted posse on foot across five hundred miles of desert one hundred years earlier. An experiment in comparative storytelling, as well as ethnographic study of the people of the Desert Empire, "Pow Wow" is a cinematic walkabout through the beauty and brutality of the Sonoran desert.
When Chino Bullock's partner is shot dead, the former U.S. Marshall turned gold-prospector returns to his trade, becoming the town sheriff to avenge his friend's death.
The scene opens upon a sinister South American copper mine. New men are being signed up to work. Jonathan arrives and, after the mine's doctor tries to dissuade him, joins the workers. The brutal captain of the mine has a beautiful wife, Consuelo. What is her secret? The Federales Lieutenant remembers the rape. Will he have his revenge? Dynamite is a drug in this action-packed story of a young man trying to survive his dreams.