With each episode, a different level of crazy ensues when bizarre guests of a tiny cottage in a tiny town drop in for a visit.
It's fast, funny, outrageously illegal and the granddaddy of the cross-country speed spectacles that have raced across movie screens in the past two generations. Put your pedal to the metal for The Gumball Rally. New York City is the starting point, and this supersonic contest ends 2,900 miles later in Los Angeles. In between, director Chuck Bail (coordinator of many classic movie stunt sequences) and a crew of actors and stuntpersons treat you to a truly breakneck road comedy. Gary Busey...
Gunslinger Rory Calhoun dispenses his own brand of justice in this action-packed Western adventure costarring Rod Cameron and Ruta Lee. It's been three years since gunfighter Blaine Madden (Calhoun) visited his hometown. So when he warns the Sully brothers to stop harassing the town drunk, they shoot the old man dead, not realizing he's Madden's father. Killing them both, Madden is badly wounded by the sheriff (Cameron) but escapes to an outlaw haven where the law fears to tread and prepares...
Browning guns and rifles were the favorites of figures as diverse as Buffalo Bill, John Wayne, Theodore Roosevelt and Annie Oakley. They have seen action in every conflict of the 20th century. But very little is known of the man whose creations have led him to be regarded as the greatest gunmaker the world has ever known.THE GUNS OF BROWNING explores the life of the legendary weaponsmith and introduces the firearms that made him famous. Filled with interviews with weapons collectors,...
Follow the exploits of Will Sonnett, a retired Army Scout, and his grandson Jeff as they journey through the West in search of James, the boy's father. James abandoned his family twenty years before to become a gunfighter. As Will and Jeff ride through the plains in hopes of finding and redeeming him, they become involved with people who have been touched by the guns of James Sonnett.
They first became known to the Western World when British commanders clashed with them in the hills of Nepal in 1816. After the war ended, the victorious British actively recruited their former foe for their own forces, and a military legend was born. They have been called "the ideal infantrymen" by those fortunate enough to command them. Brave, tough, patient and fiercely loyal, Gurkhas served in both World Wars, in conditions from the blistering deserts to the steamy jungles of Asia. THE...
Join acclaimed psychic and medium, Patrick McNamara, as he journeys into the world of the paranormal. Ghostcircle went to the Guy Fawkes Inn to investigate the various paranormal activities and to do a physical circle in "Guy Fawkes Cottage" located at the back and which was owned by his mother. Patrick also did some room investigations picking up a lot of information which was very relevant to the history especially in two of the most haunted rooms, the Belfry and room Eight. During the...
During the 1940s, social class conflict is depicted when a spoiled socialite, traveling on a freighter, calls the ship's head stoker a hairy ape, provoking him into stalking the rich woman once ashore in New York.
Hank Smith's great strength and childlike nature makes him perfect for the job of chief coal stoker on a mighty ocean liner. He never doubts his role as a common laborer until he is called "a hairy ape" by Mildred Douglas, a spoiled heiress making a transatlantic trip. Docking in New York, Smith walks the city streets in a daze, questioning his formerly unexamined life. His twisted thoughts soon turn to a desire for revenge upon the unsuspecting Mildred, who has returned to her posh Fifth...
"Get away from me. Don't touch me, you ape. You hairy ape!" So says wealthy society girl Mildred Douglas (Susan Hayward) when she boards a freighter and encounters Hank Smith (William Bendix), a stoker with a brutal disposition. Her callous comment sends Smith on a journey of self examination. Based loosely on the play by Eugene O'Neil, this was one of the last movies directed by Alfred Santell, a Hollywood journeyman who began his career in the silent era on the Mack Sennett lot. The film...
Flim-flamming carny barker Jimmy Bates (Lee Tracy) vows to turn a hooch dancer into a Broadway sensation. Since the hooch dancer is played by incendiary Lupe Velez, the screen's Mexican Spitfire, it's a good bet she's going to see her name in lights! To start, Jimmy passes off his protege as a Turkish princess and goes straight to the Imperial Suite at a posh Manhattan hotel. Now all he needs to generate a blitz of ballyhoo is a lion and 30 pounds of raw meat ordered from room service -- and...
Joseph H. Lewis directed this intense Western about a young man's (Joseph Cotten) disillusionment with his father (Ward Bond), a corrupt sheriff. When his dad turns away from the lynching of his sister's lover, the boy rebels and his father declares him an "outlaw."
A gifted cartoonist's life comes apart at the seams when his drawing hand is accidentally severed. Slowly, painfully, he tries to adjust but a terrifying evil creeps into his consciousness. And one by one, the people who stand in his way begin to die. Written and directed by Academy Award winner* Oliver Stone, this spellbinder showcases a vivid central performance by Michael Caine and wonderfully ghoulish special effects by veteran macabre master Carlo Rambaldi. Stone called for more than 30...
Past war atrocities return to haunt three veterans, inspiring scandal, bloodshed and murder. Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of murders where the victims are found with their hands amputated. When one of the suspects is said to be missing a hand as well, the detectives begin to uncover the sordid history of the mutilated participants. As soldiers in Burma, the three men were captured and tortured until one gave in to their captor's demands. For years a vengeful grudge has grown in the...
After a condemned gunfighter (Steve Forrest) survives his own hanging, he helps a young widow stop a pitiless land baron from taking her ranch. This television feature boasts a strong cast of recognizable characters, including Will Geer, Dean Jagger, and Cameron Mitchell. Director Michael Caffey would go on to work on such hit shows as Barnaby Jones and MacGyver.
Many stars saddled up and rode into Technicolor sunsets during the great Western revival of the 1950s, but only a few would be forever associated with the rugged individualists of the West. Among them are John Wayne, Randolph Scott and the star of The Hanging Tree, Gary Cooper. The story takes place in Skull Creek, an 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail (Cooper) arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just...
Todd Phillips invites you to embark on the ultimate odyssey of bad judgement, hilarious havoc and madcap mayhem with The Hangover Trilogy. Join "The Wolfpack," a.k.a. Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis), and Doug (Justin Bartha), as they endure a plethora of outrageous indignities -- including a disaster-magnet Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) -- in all three movies from the explosively funny "Hangover" franchise. Complete with an all new documentary covering all three...
Maggie's dreams of starting a family of her own begin to take shape after she and her husband, Jonah, purchase their first home together. However, the pretty picture's frame cracks when Jonah loses his job writing for a newspaper soon after moving into the new house.
In a cheap Parisian hotel, Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and recalls his past with wit and irony. Was he once the most famous man in London? He reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the devotion of Robbie Ross, who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, Oscar is a penniless vagabond, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group...
In a town full of suffering people, the statue of a Happy Prince asks a swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the gold leaf covering his body to give to the poor. Vbooks.tv presents The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
The Hard Times Of RJ Berger orbits the hilariously-hellish lives of a deeply unpopular 15 year-old (Paul Iacono) and his scheming; sex-obsessed best friend; Miles Jenner (Jareb Dauplaise). Other than pining after the girl of his dreams; Jenny Swanson (Amber Lancaster); receiving daily beatings from the meanest jock in school; Max Owens (Jayson Blair); and evading the stalker-ish advances of Lily Miran (Kara Taitz); there really isnt much excitement in RJs life. That is; until his anatomical...
THE HARPER HOUSE, an adult animated comedy, follows an overconfident female head of a household, as she struggles to regain a higher status for herself and for her family of oddballs, after losing her job and moving from the rich side to the poor side of an Arkansas small town. To save money, they've moved into their inherited Victorian fixer-upper, the historic Harper House.
Jake, (Chris Conner, "Altered Carbon") Dinah, (Elena Caruso, Cloverfield) and their children take a summer trip to Amish country for a change of pace. On their first night there, the ghost of Amos Zook, an axe-wielding murderer, visits the old country home they are staying at and begins to invade their son's fragile mind. The Amish, who were keeping the evil at bay, while dealing with the fallout from a massacre, will not discuss the ghost's presence with Jake and Dinah, forcing them to search...