Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan (1884-1933) left the state from which she took her name as a teenager with dreams of becoming a movie star. Her crass, brazen personality, forged in poverty, made stardom harder than she expected, but her leggy figure guaranteed her regular work as a chorus girl on Broadway. Moonlighting in vaudeville, she developed a cowgirl character that caught the attention of Hollywood, and was cast in her first film, The Wildcat (1917). Over the next few years, Texas...
In the region South of Chicago, everything seems bigger than life -- the heroes and villains, the bridges, boats and buildings, and even people's dreams. Take a journey along the waterways, highways and railways of Chicago's SouthSuburbs and Northwest Indiana. Starting in Gary, with a look inside the largest steel mill in the Western Hemisphere, travel along the Lake Michigan shoreline to Chicago's Calumet Harbor and cruise the Calumet River to Blue Island.
1-Little Sister. Jackie DelaCroix, A street wise woman from the wrong side of town, finds herself in the middle of a deadly struggle. 2-Jake Darcy, a down on his luck Private detective takes on a job looking for a missing girl. Jake stumbles upon a murder scene and rescues a femme fatale. Drawn into a deadly intrigue, Jake is pursued by a psychotic killer with a vendetta. 3-The Long Walk Home. In Episode three, We are reunited with Detective Jake Darcy and Femme fatale Jackie Delacroix. They...
No sooner has reporter Mike Lawrence landed in Panama than he is embraced by a beautiful blonde he's never met before, spied upon and pursued by enemy agents, who are convinced he possesses a secret formula that could ensure the safety of the Panama Canal.PRC's Panama Menace marks the first Hollywood credit for writer Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007), billed as "Sydney Sheldon," later an Academy Award winner for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1948). Sheldon's film credits include Easter Parade...
Handsome Emilio Cervantes has come to the South American nation of El Tovar as a representative for the International Export Company to discuss a major deal with Presidente Larendon. One look at Larendon's beautiful daughter Carmelita, however, and business becomes the last thing on Emilio's mind. What Emilio doesn't realize is that his firm is actually in the arms-dealing business. His boss, "Ace" Carney, plans to stir up trouble between El Tovar and the neighboring nation of Caracon, so that...
South of Sanity is a dark comedy spanning from 2018-2022 and follows Lacy Hilgreen, a recovering addict, and her dysfunctional Alabama family through the flea market circuits of the Deep South. Fresh out of rehab, fresh out of money and fresh out of options, Lacy is forced to leave Los Angeles and return to her home in rural Alabama and help with the family business to make ends meet. The flea market is no place for a recovering addict, however, as the family uses their booth as a cover for...
Jack Stone murders rancher John Thornton for the map to his secret gold mine. Arriving too late to save her father Thornton's daughter Beth rips the map in two and Stone is forced to flee with just half. Resourceful cowboy Tom Keene shows up at the Thornton ranch looking for work and agrees to help Beth bring her father's killer to justice.Bob Steele, son of director Robert Bradbury, starred in dozens of cowboy pictures and headlines this Trem Carr production. Unlike many of his fellow western...
Eli Snedeker (George Tobias) runs his diamond mine with a ruthless iron fist, skillfully engineered by John Gamble (George Brent). Tiring of Snedeker's sadistic treatment and advances from Snedeker's wife, Delia (Lee Patrick), Gamble quashes Snedeker's attempt to buy out Roger Smythe's (Miles Mander) neighboring claim and convinces Smythe to take him on as a partner. Smythe's bad fortunes turn around thanks to Gamble's efforts, and the two discover the fabulous Star of Africa, a diamond of...
It's why the tropics are hot. In the early days of World War II, Marine Sgt. James O'Hearn brawls his way from China to a palm-fringed isle, from barroom to brig, from romance with a beautiful gal to rivalry with a leatherneck pal, and from tough-guy combat to wiseguy comedy in the spirited South Sea Woman. As O'Hearn, screen icon Burt Lancaster flashes his million-dollar grin, flexes his muscular knack for heroics and delivers the kind of tongue-in-cheek adventure that made The Flame and the...
The first season of South Side follows two community college graduates who are ready to take on the world. But until they do, they're stuck working as repo men at Rent-T-Own. Shot on location in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, this show offers a look into what life on the South Side is really all about.
Exactly a year after he reported on a killing spree in the town of his unhappy childhood. English journalist David Whitehead (Rory Kinnear, James Bond films) returns to the scene of the crime in response to an anonymous message. Someone who? warns that the killing is about to begin again. Is tragedy somehow woven into the fabric of the town? Will the people closest to last year's victims ever find ways to heal their broken lives? You'll break through time, space and darkness in this powerful...
This feature documentary visits Montgomery County, Georgia, one year after the town merged its racially divided proms, and during an historic election campaign that many hoped would lead to its first African-American sheriff. Photographer Gillian Laub, whose photographs of earlier segregated proms brought the area unwanted notoriety after being published in the New York Times Magazine, returns to the town of Mount Vernon, GA to document the repercussions when a white resident is charged with...
The year is 1912. Kramer (Harry Andrews) has carved out a private empire for himself in West Africa, complete with a personal militia. But, as his daughter, Erica (Ursula Andress), and the American geologist Dan Rockland (George Segal) are celebrating their engagement, Kramer's fabulous diamond, the Southern Star, disappears. Dan's African helper, Matakit, suspected of the theft, flees into the jungle, pursued by Dan and Erica, who believe him to be innocent, and by Kramer's militia commander,...
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War. He gets his chance when he inadvertently causes the capture of a notorious Confederate spy known as "The Grey Spider" and adopts the spy's identity. The plot thickens when Aubrey meets the beautiful Confederate agent Sallyann Weatharby (Arlene Dahl) and falls in love with her. He is then forced to carry on the masquerade by posing as The...
Money is the root of all evil in this "solid documentary-style crime thriller" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) starring Don DeFore and Andrea King. When phony $10 bills flood the country, the Treasury Department recognizes the work of imprisoned counterfeiter Eugene Deane (Morris Ankrum), a master engraver who smuggled the plates out of his San Quentin cell. Assigned to take down the ring, undercover agent John Riggs (DeFore) follows the money trail to a Los Angeles hotel, where he...
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four SOUTHWEST OF SALEM excavates the nightmarish persecutions of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh and Anna Vasquez four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls. This bizarre case is the first to be adjudicated under momentous new legislation: for the first time in U.S. history, innocents can challenge convictions based on debunked scientific evidence. The film also unravels the sinister interplay...
A Western explorer has a unique scheme to open a new Southwest desert route for the U.S. Cavalry by using camels as pack animals. His trek is imperiled by a phony law-avoiding doctor, his woman, the constant search for water and attacking Native Americans.
It's a part of Chicago that's full of surprises. It's home to a 28 square mile forest with a rock canyon. It's where one of the Blues Brothers did time (along with thousands of other real life convicts). And it's the setting for Chicago's most famous ghost story. It's home to major league soccer andminor league baseball. Chicago's largest Arab and Ghanaian communities are here. It's also home to a bustling industrial canal where salty mariners navigate a Panama Canal sized lock past a hundred...
In this lush, dreamlike story of young adulthood and first love, a shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke).
Nero, born and raised in Los Angeles but deported to Mexico, crosses the border illegally to return to the only home he's known. Risking life for the nation, he becomes a "green card soldier" in the U.S. army as a shortcut to citizenship.
In the year 2050, Dr. Ada Gray and her fellow astronauts aboard The Udo fight for survival after an accident leaves them stranded in deep space.
Ace astronaut Scott McCloud (codename: "Space Angel") of the Interplanetary Space Force thwarts extraterrestrial threats in twenty rare episodes of this animated TV classic with artwork by Alex Toth and Doug Wildey.