The Deadly Companions is a classic 1961 American Western starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran and Chill Wills. The movie is based on a novel of the same name and is the directorial debut of Sam Peckinpah. When her young son is killed in a bank robbery, a widowed dance hall hostess, Kit Tilden (Maureen O'Hara) is determined to bury her son by his father in Siringo which is now deserted and located in Apache territory. The ex-army sergeant who accidentally killed her son,...
A woman and an ex-army officer who killed her son travel through dangerous Indian territory to bury the child.
An unholy alliance! Marking the feature film debut of one of Hollywood's most influential and widely referenced auteur directors, Sam Peckinpah, The Deadly Companions centers on a redemptive journey to escort a funeral procession through dangerous Indian Territory. Featuring fine work from a top-notch cast that includes the inimitable Maureen O'Hara at the height of her illustrious career, Peckinpah's first foray into film provides a promising glance into the energetic and violent nature of...
It's man versus insect in The Deadly Mantis, a thrilling classic from the golden age of sci-fi cinema! When a giant, thousand-ton, carnivorous praying mantis is released from its million-year slumber in the frozen Arctic, a determined commander (Craig Stevens), a paleontologist (William Hopper) and a photojournalist (Alix Talton) work together to stop its terrible path of deadly destruction. As it walks, leaps and flies towards Washington DC, the fate of a nation rests on stopping the menacing...
Sheriff Kilpatrick makes sure his town lives by the rule of the law. "We must not allow guns to do our thinking for us," he decrees. But even a man as determined as Kilpatrick has his limits. When marauding outlaws kill his wife and son, he invokes a new rule: the rule of the gun. Richard Harris (A Man Called Horse, Unforgiven) portrays Kilpatrick, a deadly tracker seeking revenge. Kilpatrick is single-minded, unsparing and bullet-hard. Although his badge gives him no jurisdiction in Mexico,...
A leading man, who is a womanizer, is killed while shooting a film. Most of the women at the studio end up being suspects. When one is arrested, it is a writer that decides to demonstrate her innocence.
When an actor in a mystery film called The Death Kiss ends up killed during a drive-by shooting scene, the film's screenwriter Franklin Drew (David Manners) takes it upon himself to investigate. Among the suspects are an actress named Marcia Lane (Adrienne Ames), who is not only the dead actor's widow but also the screenwriter's lover, and Joseph Steiner, an arrogant studio executive played by Bela Lugosi. In this behind-the-scenes murder mystery, the film's director Edwin L. Martin reunites...
Holy Crap. Dick is dead. Died last night after band practice, and his bandmates, Zeke & Earl (Michael Abbott, Jr. & Andre Hyland), don't want anybody finding out how. That's too bad though, 'cause news travels fast in small town Alabama, and these guys suck at covering their tracks. The authorities haven't ID'd the body just yet, but Zeke's wife (Virginia Newcomb) and his daughter are suspicious already.
From Emmy winning*, Oscar nominated** creator Armando Iannucci, The Death of Stalin is a fearlessly funny parody of Cold War Russia, with a striking similarity to today's world scene. When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his surviving Soviet comrades desperately maneuver to save the Union and most importantly their own skins. Rolling Stone calls the film a "brilliant satire from a crack ensemble"' (including Emmy and Golden Globe winner***Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea...
Longtime friends Vaughn (a devout hypochondriac) and Larry (a hapless and perpetually single romantic) have never met a challenge they haven't run from. When a chance encounter with a stranger leads to their finding themselves transported to an old west town in the 1870s, they're forced into situations where failure appears to be a foregone conclusion. Terrified by change and even the hint of danger, Vaughn and Larry are a given a task that must be completed within two weeks or risk never...
Set against the backdrop of an international finance deal with profound social implications, THE DEBT tells the story of a wealthy American businessman who sets out to score the deal of a lifetime and gets entangled in a battle for land, money, and power in Peru.
Danger and suspense sail the high seas in this nautical thriller that some commentators call uncommonly fierce for its time. James Mason portrays Capt. Edwin Rummill, eager to prove himself after being made a ship's captain for the first time in his career. One of his earliest decisions has a troublesome impact on his freighter's voyage from New Zealand -- he allows the alluring wife of the ship's cook to sail with the otherwise all-male crew. More tensions also take shape. Crewmembers launch...
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in this WWII drama. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind that the plane turns out to be one of ours). To prove that he's worthy of command, Austin volunteers for a dangerous mission: the rescue of a group of US pilots on...
On November 29, 1992, 35-year-old Judy Blake Moilanen went walking with her five springer spaniels on Michigan's upper peninsula. When one of her dogs returned without her, Judy's mother went looking for her. She found her daughter's body in the woods, shot to death. AMERICAN JUSTICE details how what looked at first like a hunting accident eventually became a murder conviction for Judy's husband Bruce. A state police detective thought that his alibi was shaky, but it was Bruce and Judy's...
The untamed wilderness of colonial America hides dark mysteries and dangerous secrets. Valiant woodsman Deerslayer and his fiercely loyal friend, Chingachgook (a bare-chested Bela Lugosi), struggle frantically to keep an uneasy peace between white settlers and the native tribes. The heroic scouts - and those close to them - are caught between the settlers' guns and the Indians' deadly arrows. When Chingachgook's true love is kidnapped by a renegade brave, he and Deerslayer embark on a perilous...
This two time primetime Emmy winning* Television movie is based on a true story of Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a demoralized man surviving under Soviet oppression during the 1970s. He is portrayed with passionate accuracy by the Academy Award Winning actor Alan Arkin**. A captivating plight of sacrifice and determination, we follow Kudirka's life from a carefree family man to a discarded prisoner charged with treason. In a death defying leap onto an American Naval ship Kudirka announces...
Dragon smuggles North Korean defectors across borders for a living, but his latest undercover trip with Sook-Ja and Yong-hee takes an unexpected turn. He abandons them in China, halfway through the journey, putting their dramatic escape plan into question. Their perilous journey reflects the reality of tens of thousands of North Koreans currently in hiding in China, and the human smugglers who risk their own freedom and their lives. Filmed undercover by a Korean-Canadian filmmaker, Ann Shin...
E.G. Marshall, winner of two Emmys for his role as Lawrence Preston in the 1960s TV series "The Defenders," returns in The Defenders: Payback. Beau Bridges ("Masters of Sex," "Brothers & Sisters") and Martha Plimpton ("The Good Wife," "Raising Hope") join Marshall, as a father-son-and-granddaughter team of lawyers set to defend a man (John Laroquette) who is accused of murdering his daughter's rapist. The Defenders: Payback, which aired on Showtime in 1997, is the first of three made-for-cable...
The Delinquent Season is a tense drama which revolves around two couples in suburban Dublin. On paper, they both appear to live in marital bliss, until an altercation occurs and cracks begin to appear in both of these seemingly steady marriages. The Delinquent Season is an examination of love, lust and family relationships, and asks the question: how well do any of us really know each other?
A man tries to save his wife and daughter from supernatural occurances inside his house.
Hal Towne is a New York City widower attempting to balance his career as a newspaper columnist with the raising of his young son, Randy. With the help of stern but devoted housekeeper Sarge and friends Karen and Eliot, Towne manages to get in and out of all sorts of trouble in four episodes from the sitcom's single season run.Episode 1: Randy has a crush on a new girl who's moved into the Towne's apartment building. Not knowing her name, he begins a campaign of sending letters and gifts to...
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself. THE DEPARTURE captures Nemoto at a crossroads, when his growing self-destructive tendencies lead him to confront the same question his patients ask him: what makes life worth living? The second documentary by...