Killer Red Kluger (Charles McGraw) busts out of Folsom Prison and makes for a bleak desert hideout. But first he makes a violent detour to Los Angeles to kidnap the three people he blames for his ticket to the gas chamber: a cop (Michael O'Shea), the DA (Frank Conroy) and ex-girlfriend (Virginia Grey) he believes betrayed him. Before Red gets out of the country, he's going to get even, one sweating, sadistic murder at a time. In this gripping, relentlessly paced B-movie, film noir great McGraw...
The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
Three conversations with noteworthy American writers about their work and the process of writing. Frank McCourt discusses his first book, "Angela's Ashes," a memoir celebrating his Irish childhood. Toni Morrison, winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, discusses "Paradise." And, shortly after receiving the PEN-Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction, John Barth talks about his novels and short stories and the process of writing.
A millionaire dies in a plane crash, leaving one evil daughter to conspire against her siblings for the family inheritance.
A mild-mannered Englishman leading a bus tour across Italy, Stanley Thrumm (David McCallum), wins a fortune at a Riviera casino, making him a target for Carla Moretti (Sylva Koscina), a beautiful adventuress. Convincing he love-struck Stanley to invest his winnings in Switzerland to avoid paying British taxes, Carla persuades him to hand over the cash to her partner in crime (Domenico Modugno), who promptly absconds with the loot. Realizing he's been swindled, Stanley embarks on a madcap chase...
Three sisters from Kansas move to California to try to snare themselves millionaire husbands. Academy Award winner David Niven stars.
Consummate actor Ernest Borgnine stars in this tale based on the true story of a Navy employee who was fired as a security risk, who then took the case to court to prove his loyalty to the United States.
"Throughout the Ages, half of the women of the world have been working women -- and the rest of the women have been working men! Gal pals Schatzi Sutro and Polaire Quinn are a couple of sexy blondes fresh off the chorus line. They're both on the make for a rich husband, and playboy Dey Emery and concert pianist Boris Feldman look like the perfect suckers. Their plans for lives filled with expensive champagne and French lingerie are thrown into chaos by the arrival of an old friend from Europe,...
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the twenties come roaring back with immorality and in-fighting.
The true story of Agnes Newton Keith's imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII.
Claudette Colbert stars in this harrowing war drama based on the autobiography of American author Agnes Newton Keith. Trapped on Borneo when the Japanese invade the island during World War II, Mrs. Keith and her husband, a British administrator (Patric Knowles), are sent to separate prison camps with other American and British subjects. Mrs. Keith's camp is overseen by Colonel Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), who takes an avid interest in the American authoress. Despite his humanitarian views, he is...
As part of a plot to assassinate a visiting Middle-Eastern premier, professional killers invade the home of a flight controller and hold his terrified family hostage.
Proud Irish police officer Peter Casey (Thomas Mitchell) is forced into retirement after 20 years of devoted service. To add insult to injury, he's replaced by rookie Angus Ferguson (Dennis Morgan), who, according to Casey, is a "contemptuous Scottishman." While delivering a complaint one night to the Casey apartment, Ferguson meets Casey's eldest daughter, Maureen (Priscilla Lane). The two fall for each other, but fearing the wrath of their feuding families, they hide their romance and elope...
World War I is over, let the living begin. So three German soldiers open a repair ship and get on with their lives. Erich (Robert Taylor) finds unexpected love with frail Patricia (Margaret Sullavan), Gottfried (Robert Young) falls in with a verboten anti-nationalist group, Otto (Franchot Tone) approaches each day with worldly cynicism. And through all that's to come, the men know they will remain Three Comrades. This lyrical adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel is one of F. Scott...
When a divorcee returns from a Caribbean cruise, her three bright-eyed girls have a surprise for her: they intend to reunite the family by bringing home the father they scarcely know. But Mom has a surprise, too: she married another man during the cruise! Family ties are knotted in a loop-de-loop for Jeanette MacDonald in her next-to-last film. She plays Louise Morgan, a longtime single mother and editor of a fashion magazine. Famed pianist and condustor Jose Iturbi portrays the man who,...
Award-winning film director Philippe Mora and music legend Eric Clapton team up to tell the life and death of Mora's family at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz. Mora combines art and interviews with Clapton's score in this personal journey.
A hero's journey from the most unlikely of sources, a Shakespeare in Love for the reality set...What makes this first-person doc so unique is the hero's personal narrative; an actor/manager, dealing with the "ghost" of his father, both real and imagined. Taking place over three days, they rehearse and perform a stage reading of Shakespeare's classic -- in this day of mixed media and cultural attention deficit, a monumental task that is rendered gracefully. As the lives of the players juxtapose...
Directed by Emmy -nominated filmmaker Dan Reed (HBO's Terror at the Mall), this 60-minute documentary is a searing account of the horrific events that began on January 7, 2015, when two brothers -- members of Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen -- stormed into the Paris offices of the satiric weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 11 others before also killing a French police officer outside. As a massive manhunt for the elusive killers was mounted, an...
An unconventional story conveyed with a delicate sensuality about two broken souls and a brief encounter reigniting memories and leading to difficult choices.
During World War I, the fate of nations were decided not on the battlefield but at the imposing estate of Sir Winston Chamberlain, the First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. There, covert agents may or may not be allied - the film carefully doesn't reveal its hand until late - in deceit and disguise, moves and countermoves that center on a scheme to torpedo American transport ships. Eric Von Stroheim, who was both a famed dictator of silent films and a powerful on-screen presence (he played...
The ground-breaking documentary that compares similarities and differences in religious beliefs and practices that Islam has with Christianity and Judaism. It also examines how people of goodwill in the Abrahamic faith communities are coming to terms with historical conflicts that impact their lives today. This video is for individual use only, not for public or institutional viewing.
For a brief period during the heyday of silent comedy, The Three Fatties (a.k.a. A Ton of Fun) stood tall - and round - as among the most beloved slapstick funnymen on the silver screen. Frank "Fatty" Alexander, Hilliard "Fat" Karr and "Kewpie" Ross each weighed over 300 pounds, and together this tubby trio wrought hilarious havoc in a series of comedy shorts produced between 1925 and 1928 by FBO (the Film Booking Office), which was owned by Joseph P. Kennedy.This exclusive collection of nine...
In Three For The Road (1987), a crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution. In Battletruck (1982), someone with a killer truck goes on a rampage in a Post World War III world. A lawless age where governments and bankrupt countries have collapsed.