The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer is a reimagination of Mark Twain's classic American novel. After witnessing Muff Potter get framed for the murder of the town's local doctor, Thomasina Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn write a blood oath and swear to not tell a soul what they saw in order to escape the killer's revenge. They promise to "drop dead" if they were to ever tell anyone. But when the day of Muff 's trial arrives, Tom can't help herself but to stand up and tell the court what she saw. As...
The Affair is a 1973 American TV movie starring Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison and Jamie Smith-Jackson. This made-for-TV movie marked the return to television for Natalie Wood after an 18-year absence. The film starred Natalie Wood in her first appearance since Bob & Carol & Ted and Alice. Her co-star was Robert Wagner who was her first husband and whom she had recently remarried. Courtney Patterson (Natalie Wood) is a beautiful young songwriter who is physically disabled due to...
Jeanne de la Motte-Valois knows what she wants. She also knows how to get it -- by conniving, deceiving and betraying. And by doing it so scandalously that it helps send Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Wealth and desire. Politics and corruption. Celebrity and sexuality. Jeanne combines them all in a scheme to acquire a diamond necklace that will enable her to buy back the royal status taken from her. Academy Award winner* Hilary Swank (as Jeanne), Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Walken...
Cecil B. DeMille directed this risque all-star revue of decadence which must have been jaw-dropping in 1921 and which remains astonishing today, although for entirely different reasons. Anatol de Witt Spencer (Wallace Reid), as incredibly wealthy as he is naive, and his child-like bride, Vivian (Gloria Swanson), are on their honeymoon. At a posh speakeasy he spies his high school sweetheart, Emilie (Wanda Hawley), from Pompton Lakes, New Jersey (DeMille's own hometown), who is obviously the...
In The Alchemist (1983), a man seeks revenge on an evil magician who placed a curse on him. In The House by the Cemetery (1981), a New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Jacob waits in the Mojave Desert every Saturday night believing that extra-terrestrials will land. One night, a mysterious guide limps into his campsite, bringing along travelers seeking to cross the border to make a new life in America. Returning every so often, Jacob must soon decide whether to continue to believe in the aliens above that he has never seen or to pursue the one that keeps appearing to him in the desert night. l
Here are fourteen short films -- some favorites, others unfamiliar -- produced between 1902 and 1965. They were photographed silent, but they're not silent anymore. All boast new music composed and performed by The Alloy Orchestra, a three-man ensemble critic Roger Ebert called "the best in the world at accompanying silent films." Alloy Orchestra shuns the nostalgic approach, successfully using found percussion and state-of-the-art electronics to reinvigorate films for new audiences with its...
A suburban family drives their new gadget "The Alpha Home Assistant" to a killing rampage after mistreating and abusing it, leading to a full A.I. uprising.
When little Judy can't finish her English homework, 'Dr. Linguistics' (Frank C. Baxter) takes her on a tour of the history of speech and language. But they run afoul of the Mad Hatter and the Jabberwock (from Alice in Wonderland) who have hatched a conspiracy to erase the alphabet forever! This award-winning Bell Science documentary was Baxter's favorite in the series, since he actually was a professor of English at the University of Southern California.Made under the auspices of Warner...
Cary Grant stars as a wealthy-yet-unfulfilled millionaire who attempts to spend a year among the working classes instead of relying on his family fortune in this British comedy-romance. But his loyalties are challenged when he falls in love with a woman from the impoverished side of town. Co-starring Mary Brian, the film is based on best-selling novel "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss", which is also the title used for its original UK release.
Featuring another charming performance from the irresistible Cary Grant, The Amazing Adventure tells the story of a bored millionaire (Grant) who wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance. Lushly shot by renowned Czech cinematographer Otto Heller (Peeping Tom) and adapted from E. Phillips Oppenheimer's novel by Academy Award nominee John L. Balderston (Gaslight) this classic film has enough comedy, romance and drama for the...
The Amazing Adventure - Digitally Remastered. Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) is the miserable heir to a huge fortune. Determined to prove his worth, Bliss makes a wager that he can earn his keep for a full year without touching the family millions. The bet becomes all the more difficult, however, when he falls in love with the poverty-stricken Frances (Mary Brian) and decides that he must rescue her from her unhappy marriage of convenience. Also known as "Romance and Riches" and "The Amazing Quest...
Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) doubts her own sanity after hearing the voice of her dead husband calling to her from the sea. Against the wishes of her new fiance Martin (Richard Carlson), she begins to see a mysterious man known only as Alexis (Turhan Bey) who claims to be able to make psychic contact with spirits from beyond. Although Alexis continually provides accurate information known only to Christine and her late husband, she begins to suspect him of being a fraud. Expressive use of...
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind.
Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars an American schoolteacher who pretends she is the widow of a wealthy sailor to escape war-torn China with eight orphans in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald co-stars as the hilarious first mate who helps Mrs. Holliday (Durbin) and the kids find refuge in the huge mansion of his former boss. The old Commodore's grandson (Edmond O'Brien) is captivated by his new family but Mrs. Holliday risks losing everything - including her...
Runaway cheese wheels start off an unforgettable season of The Amazing Race. The eclectic cast facing this grueling course of 40,000 miles includes stuntmen brothers, flight attendants, a brother/sister team of Harvard lawyers, an accomplished screenwriter/producer/director/actor and his author father, former NFL cheerleaders, and the race's first ever deaf contestant and his mother. They face the introduction of the blind u-turn, allowing one team to hinder another while remaining anonymous....
One of the fastest courses ever assembled kicks off with teams racing to avoid an unprecedented elimination at the starting line. The Amazing Race Season 15 has a diverse cast of 12 teams that includes Harlem Globetrotters, professional female poker players, the first-ever racer with Asperger's Syndrome, married yoga teachers, and a former Miss America. The competition heats up when temperatures soar past 130 degrees and teams begin to feel delirious. Relief comes in the form of a six-story...
"The Emmy * award-winning reality adventure returns with THE AMAZING RACE Season 13. Eleven Teams cover 30,000 miles across five continents in approximately 30 days. The cast showcases diverse couples: long-married beekeepers; a separated couple looking to rebuild their marriage; joke-cracking fraternity brothers described by rival teams as "Team Superbad"; and two comic book aficionados, one of whom "wears geek as a badge of honor." The Race begins in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, they...
In the 28th Season of The Amazing Race at least one team member was required to be a social media star, which included: Erin White Robinson and Joslyn Davis, YouTube hosts for the news and entertainment channel Clevver; teammates professional frisbee players Kurt Gibson and Brodie Smith a YouTuber; Vine personality Zach King and wife Rachel; and Instagram models and friends Jessica Versteeg and Brittany Oldehoff (Miss Florida USA, 2014). Instead of a traditional Starting Line, teams received a...
Strangers - including a butcher, an Army officer, a pro snowboarder, a K-9 police officer, a Wall Street banker and a Wall Street analyst - meet for the first time and are paired up at the starting line after completing a challenge to determine the order for picking a teammate. The teams traverse 36,000 miles through five continents and nine countries competing in various feats and challenges that test agility, strength and courage. Along the way, teams skydive 10,000 feet from a helicopter in...
Featuring eleven teams of two - consisting of contestants from previous seasons of "Big Brother," "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race" - the racers traverse 25,000 miles through four continents, ten countries and 18 cities, competing in various feats and challenges that test agility, strength and courage.
THE AMAZING RACE is a multiple Emmy Award-winning reality series hosted by Emmy Award-nominated host Phil Keoghan, where teams of two embark on a trek around the world. At every destination, each team must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical, and only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination...
A mad scientist makes invisibility possible and plans to use it to create an army.