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"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman. Directed with intensity by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, They Live by Night) and...

Peter Potamus premiered in syndication courtesy of the masters of funny animals, Hanna-Barbera. Accompanied by his monkey sidekick, So-So, Peter Potamus crisscrosses the globe (and history!) in his preferred mode of travel, a magical flying balloon. Always ready to land and lend a hand, Peter has hilarious adventures in Egypt, France, Morocco and other global "fun spots" and whenever he and So-So get into trouble (and they always do), he's prepared with his mighty Hippo Hurricane Holler....

Roy Erskine (Charles Kaley) is aiming for songwriting stardom. And if he has to use and abuse a lineup of Broadway babies to do it, that's fine with Roy. This smoky-hearted tale of a heel on the rise shows the dark side of the moon-June-spoon plots at the center of most early musicals. The cast includes Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards (later the voice of Jiminy Cricket), whose wide-eyed mug serves as counterpoint to the film's worldly attitude. The songs include the Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown...

Laughs onstage, tears offstage! Playing members of a traveling theatrical troupe, a starry cast -- The Broadway Melody's Bessie Love and Charles King, plus Jack Benny, Marie Dressler and Polly Moran -- hit the road and all the right notes in an early musical extravaganza. This bedazzlement of tapping feet and aching hearts (Love loves King, he loves a two-timing temptress) boasts not only stellar support from three of Hollywood's grandest comics, but grand music as well. Highlights include...

Canvas, color, metal, ceramics. The century's leading artist commanded them all. But what about the legendary Pablo Picasso's other great passion? Was romance also dominated by his genius? Academy Award winner* Anthony Hopkins gives a full-throttle performance as the acclaimed artist in this masterful movie told from the viewpoint of Picasso's longtime mistress (Natascha McElhone in a luminous film debut) and mother of his children Claude and Paloma. Director James Ivory, producer Ismail...

"I've decided to take up coaching as my life work," Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men. This famed sports biopic combines a passion for the game (and footage of actual Notre Dame contests) with two...

What cops in their right minds would arrest a big-time racketeer on an indecent exposure charge because he zipped up his fly? The answer is none. The answer's also Freebie Waters and Benito "Bean" Vasquez, who are assuredly not in their right minds. James Caan and Academy Award -winner* Alan Arkin are Freebie and Bean, mismatched San Francisco cops who bird-dog a notorious mobster like they're auditioning for a demolition derby, cutting loose with bullets and wisecracks all the way. Directed...

Winnie Lightner strikes it rich in a gold mine of gags in this racy pre-Code comedy costarring the team of Olsen and Johnson. A brassy gold digger who loves 'em and leaves 'em, Gertie Dale (Lightner) drops by the office of ex-husbands Elmer (Chic Johnson) and George (Ole Olsen) when they're late with their alimony checks. Recently re-wed to ensure their employment, the boys work for John Aberdeen Arnold (Claude Gillingwater), a lifelong bachelor who insists his employees be married and doesn't...

HEDY LAMARR IS TONDELAYO, THE JUNGLE TEMPTRESS WHO SCORCHES THE SCREEN WHILE TOYING WITH MEN. The damned hot air, damp rot and isolated monotony keep the men at an African plantation either drowning in drink or at each other's throats with frayed nerves. But the tropical temperature reaches white heat when she appears. The cocoa-skinned, sarong-robed, half-caste temptress Tondelayo, indelibly personified by impossibly beautiful Hedy Lamarr in her iconic role, is a force of nature against whom...

CAN LOVERS HEDY LAMARR AND ROBERT TAYLOR ESCAPE THE SHADOW OF HER HALF-CASTE ORIGINS? Hedy Lamarr's next screen destination after her splashy Hollywood debut in Algiers was exotic Saigon, where she bewitches heartthrob Robert Taylor as alluring Manon DeVargnes, the half-caste whose mixed-race French/Vietnamese parentage is a perpetual barrier to her dream of relocating to Paris. Powerful local businessman Pierre Delaroch (Joseph Schildkraut, improbably playing Eurasian) loves her, but his...

One flies them. The other keeps them flying. Nothing in their job descriptions says they must like each other. Ever since a run-in during the Korean War, grizzled airplane mechanic Sgt. Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden) has disliked hotshot pilot Col. Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.). Now Brennan has a new reason to be ticked off: Herlihy is romancing Brennan's daughter (Natalie Wood). Professional and domestic conflicts of men charged with maintaining war readiness during an uncertain peace give...

Peter O'Toole and Susannah York star in this controversial tragicomedy about a brother's obsessive love for his sister. Having left her husband, Douglas (Michael Craig), Hilary (York) moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink (O'Toole), who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings. Agreeing to meet Douglas at a local dance, Hilary soon discovers to what lengths Pink will go to prevent a reconciliation. Directed by J. Lee Thompson, Brotherly Love was based on James Kennaway's 1961...