Rhythm In The Clouds (1937, B&W): Pretty young Judy Walker is a songwriting whiz, hungry to make a name for herself in the Big Apple. With the help of a faked letter of introduction, she occupies the apartment of vacationing songwriter Phil Hale. Forging Hale's name atop her own music, she poses as his collaborator and steals his job writing for a hit radio show. Judy is teamed with ace composer Bob McKay, and the two make beautiful tunes together, at least on the air. The musical partners'...
America's favorite crooner, Bing Crosby, lassoes up love and laughter as big as the great outdoors in Rhythm on the Range. Jeff Larabee (Crosby) is a champion rodeo rider heading back West after performing in New York. On the train ride home, he discovers a runaway heiress hiding out in his boxcar. It seems that the gorgeous Doris Halliday (Frances Farmer) is fed up with big city wolves and hankers for romance with a real-life cowboy! This charming comedy is filled with unforgettable songs...
Rhythm on the River stars Bing Crosby and Mary Martin as star-crossed songwriters who step out from the shadows in the hopes of making it big. Oliver Courtney (Basil Rathbone) is a well-known composer of hit songs who is very much in demand. However, beneath the gloss of a well-polished performance lies the truth about Oliver's talent - it's the work of ghostwriters! Bob Summers (Crosby) writes the tunes and Cherry Lane (Martin) writes the lyrics - only neither knows the other exists and both...
"A STAR-Studded, SONG-Spangled low-down on the lives and LOVES of the cuties who make history AT NIGHT!" Nils Thor Granlund (1890-1957) was a household name in the 1930s and 40s. Originally the publicity manager for the Loews Theatres chain, N.T.G. (as he was known) really made his name when he convinced owner Marcus Loew to buy radio station WHN in New York. Loew made Granlund station manager and announcer, and N.T.G. was soon treating audiences to performances by Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson,...
How does rhythm affect us? How does drumming make you feel? Rhythms of Life is a musically fueled documentary with lots of high energy drumming, that features inspiration from internationally recognized drum circle leaders, music therapists, professional musicians and lots of people who simply love to drum. Prominently featured in the film are Arthur Hull of Village Music Circles - who has taught over 25,000 people to lead drum circles, Christine Stevens - a world renowned music therapist who...
After a miscarriage threatens their marriage, Molly and Tim find solace in helping a pregnant homeless girl. But when the child's father appears, it forces all involved to confront their deepest fears a gripping tale of love and loss.
Windy Yee is a dimwitted actress desperately trying to land a big role in Director Martini's new movie, Hooker X.
One friend is an intense writer of works that win rarefied critical praise. The other, a housewife, pens trashy tales inspired by her La-La-Land neighbors, and -- voila! -- best-seller charts. Can friendship survive that? A decades-long friendship travels a savvy, sexy and often humorously bumpy road when Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen star in Rich and Famous. George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story, My Fair Lady) directs, bringing a sophisticated touch to his final film. And Meg Ryan makes...
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. They receive a big inheritance by a rich relative and now they can realize all their dreams. They leave for a cruise behaving as rich people....but this is the beginning of the end. Richness makes they soon forget their love and family.
The richest woman in the world (Ruth Chatterton) has everything money can buy. But with her heart torn between her faithless husband and an ardent writer (George Brent), she can't have the one thing every woman wants: happiness. Herbert Hoover was still President and the Depression was at its most depressing when this delicious wallow in uptown romance hit the Bijou, featuring an electric performance by young Bette Davis as a society girl also enamored of the writer. This wasn't the end of...
The legendary Albert Finney heads an all-star cast (Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan and Ethan Hawke) in this heart-warming drama of a retired man whose family blossoms after his wife leaves them.
Matias is a bright teenager whose family struggles with harsh financial troubles. When he discovers "Los Ricos," a wealthy family, are out of town, Matias breaks into their mansion, where he and his friends spend an afternoon basking in the good life. The party is soon disrupted when a trouble-making relative shows up uninvited. Loyalties are then pushed to the breaking point as Matias's desire for power in the house rises.
A documentary feature film based on the life and legacy of Rich Mullins. Rich Mullins was renownd as a Christian singer songwriter, but he lived recklessly and furiously through this life before dying in a tragic car accident. He was boldly honest, ruffling the feathers of both the music industry and his fellow Christians at the peek of his career Mullins gave up fame and fortune to live on a Native American Reservation teaching kids music and the hope of the gospel of Jesus. Thousands,...
Alex Ardenti presents Rich Piana: The Final Season. Action-packed exclusive footage never before released of the cult phenomenon that changed bodybuilding forever.
Rich Relations (1937, B&W): When hot red-head Nancy Tilton applies for a job in the steno pool of a large insurance company, she sets loose a whirlwind of jealousy. Most of the eligible males in the office rush to get her attention, which angers some of the females, particularly sultry and conniving Trixie Lane. Both women have their heart set on smooth-talking rake, Don Blair, but Nancy also has eyes for her supervisor, the upstanding Dave Walton. The romantic work-place rivalries continue to...
The prairie meets Paree when a Texas rancher (Wendell Corey) brings his daughter Liz (Jane Powell) to the City of Light. There's a lot for a Lone Star gal to experience: romance with a handsome young Frenchman (film-debuting Vic Damone). Chic fashion (songbird Liz is decked out in some mighty fine feathers). And finding her long-lost mother (Danielle Darrieux), a glamorous chanteuse who may still be carrying a torch for Liz's dad even though she's won the heart of her nightclub-act partner...
Richard "Dick" Barthelmess, one of the most popular leading men of the silent era and "the idol of every girl in America", stars in three of his classic films: "Tol'able David" (1921), "Soul-Fire" (1925), and "The Drop Kick" (1927).
Cutting-edge comic and actor Richard Jeni stars in his first HBO special in over seven years - an all-new hour of off-the-wall characterizations and humor taped before a live audience at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine, California. Among the topics Jeni will explore: terrorism, political correctness, religion, France, the U.S. obesity epidemic, the drug war, the Iraq war, the battle of the sexes, the effects of PMS, internet porn, Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson, circumcision (why?),...
A hero's life is shattered by one massive, misplaced rush to judgement when the man who thwarted the 1996 Atlanta bombing was wrongly accused as the main suspect.
A collection of important speeches by the 37th President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon....from talking about his dog to the doghouse! It begins on September 23, 1952, with the infamous "Fund" speech, or, as it is more commonly known, the "Checkers" speech (much to Nixon's disdain.) Having been recently accused of misappropriating campaign funds, then-Senator Nixon took to the airwaves to defend his moral integrity. He went into painstaking detail about his finances, but what the...
As a child, he was playful and loved music, but he began to change after he saw his cousin commit murder right in front of him. This portrait of Richard Ramirez follows his descent from peeping tom and expert burglar to one-man crime wave. At age 25, Ramirez was arrested for five robberies, 14 burglaries, four counts of sodomy, three acts of forced oral copulation, two kidnappings, three lewd acts on children, six rapes, and 13 murders.
On the night of July 13, 1966, eight nurses were savagely murdered in their Chicago townhouse. The killer, Richard Speck, eventually became America's symbol of evil. For all his brutality, Speck was careless, and after hearing the chilling testimony of a survivor, the jury took only 45 minutes to convict him. He was sentenced to death, but the execution was never carried out. Speck settled in to a seedy prison life filled with drugs, sex and money. See shocking footage of his life behind bars...