Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's classic tale of infidelity and greed, is updated to 1930s New York. Wealthy Dr. Gregory is shocked when his son Jerry elopes with a beautiful social-climber, Sheila Bailey. Bored with the routine of married life, she engages herself in a torrid love affair with wealthy playboy Alex Stockmar. Her untamed desires will bring scandal to the Gregory family and lead to tragedy."B" movie star Joyce Compton, whose lengthy career included roles in Imitation Of Life...

Ten years after they collaborated on the "extra! extra!" fine newspaper yarn Five Star Final, star Edward G. Robinson and director Mervyn LeRoy set the presses rolling again with another rattling-good tabloid tale. They're playing with dynamite as zealous newshound Robinson returns from World War I juiced to start his own sensation-stoked rag and strikes a devil's bargain to bankroll it with a well-heeled racketeer (Edward Arnold, on screen earlier that year as Meet John Doe's nefarious...

Lon Chaney -- the Man of a Thousand Faces -- used his makeup skills, astonishing physicality and profound empathy to create Quasimodo, the Phantom of the Opera and more of the Silent Era's greatest horror roles. In this hypnotic mix of creepiness and crime, he plays a ventriloquist who dons a granny disguise to team with a strongman and a little person in a bizarre robbery scheme that ends in murder. The film marks an even more fateful alliance than that of the Unholy Three: the collaboration...

Finders keepers. Amid the comings and goings at Union Depot, on-the-grift Chic and his pal Scrap Iron retrieve a dropped baggage-claim ticket. They redeem it for a violin case -- and open it to find a fortune in cash. Now Chic can put on airs and impress the doll-faced, down-on-her-luck chorus girl he meets at the station. And maybe she can travel to her next show on his dime (and flee a deviant stalker, to boot). Meanwhile, detectives can close in on the pair for passing around a lot of...

Barbara Stanwyk and Joel McCrea star in director Cecil B. DeMille's explosive western, Union Pacific, about the struggle to build America's first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific's construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston). Dick is a former pal of Jeff's, but their relationship changes as they fight over the...

Living under the threat of an atomic holocaust, a group of scientists build the Cyclotram, a vehicle capable of drilling to the center of the earth. Dr. Jeremiah Morley and his team enter the earth through a volcano in search of an inhabitable new world 1,500 miles below the planet's surface. Their mission is threatened by disaster as their water supply is contaminated and two members of the team are killed by toxic gas. They find an underground cavern, which may be the new world they seek,...

"Be sure the story is something you cannot resist," Richard Rodgers once advised Meredith Willson. After considering 100 projects for a successor to The Music Man, Willson found one that was irresistible. And unsinkable. Debbie Reynolds plays the title role, inviting all to Belly Up to the Bar, Boys for the whoop-and-holler film of Willson's 1960 Broadway hit. Reynolds won a 1964 Best Actress Oscar nomination as the backwoods heroine who survives the Titanic and the snobbery of Denver society....

Tune in again, dear listeners. Same time, same spot on your radio dial for another cunning tale of murder. But something isn't the same about suave Victor Grandison, the host of the popular weekly program. He's secretly trying his own hand at murder. And he'll kill again if people don't get wise to him. Claude Rains (Casablanca) plays the smooth, scheming radio star in a swanky film noir that includes Joan Caulfield (Monsieur Beaucaire) and noir icon Audrey Totter (The Set-Up). Casablanca's...

Among those leaving Ireland during the potato famine are Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.

Crawford Speaks! And Sings! And Dances! In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister (Robert Montgomery), the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben (Ernest Torrence), who seeks to scuttle their love match. In addition to its...

The swamp folk of the deep Okefenokee live a brutal primitive life untouched by modern times - they support themselves by hunting alligators and selling them to the outside world. Jeff returns home from college with an engineering degree and dreams of bringing modern medical care and education to the swamps. He is immediately confronted by his old boyhood rival, "Gator-Bait" Blair, who thinks things are just fine the way the are. "Gator" whips the ignorant locals into a frenzy of fear and...

What can anyone do about hitchhiking, skinny-dipping, rock-'n'-rolling vagabonds? One suggestion: haul sisters Penny and Jane and other examples of untamed youth before a judge in the rural South and sentence them to pay for their infractions by picking cotton on a labor farm. Another suggestion: enjoy the movie! This tale of kids gone to (cotton) seed is rightly on the side of the kids and resides in movie lore as a "side-splitting camp masterpiece" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide)....

The men of New Zealand march off to war, leaving behind cities and villages filled with women and loneliness. In time, new men come ashore: U.S. Marines facing uncertain futures in Pacific battles yet to come. And new loves -- tender or tragic, transitory or lasting -- begin to flower. A constellation of actresses shines in a bittersweet James A. Michener story of sisters (Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Piper Laurie and Sandra Dee) embracing love in a time of war, but it's the sensitive romance...

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

Two amateur "criminologists" become embroiled in a perplexing mystery when radio singer Rita Wilson (Lorna Gray) is murdered. In one of seven film appearances together, Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland find plenty of laughs and adventure in their pursuit of the killer. Mantan Moreland, a veteran actor who delighted audiences as "Birmingham Brown" in the Charlie Chan series, provides many comedic moments including a soft shoe dance and a black face routine with Frankie, reminiscent of the...

New York's Calvin Coolidge High begins the new school year. With no chalk. No books. Too many students. Over clanging bells, the P.A. booms, "Please disregard all bells." It might say, "Please disregard all learning." Academy Award -winner Sandy Dennis* stars as an idealistic new teacher in this straight-A movie from Bel Kaufman's beloved best seller. To Kill a Mockingbird producer Alan J. Pakula and director Robert Mulligan memorably bring it to the screen. Eileen Heckart, Ruth White and Jean...

Warren William. Ginger Rogers. Mary Astor. Sidney Toler. Andy Devine. J. Carroll Naish. John Qualen. No fan of Golden Era films would want to miss this luminous cast, even if all the stars did was sort socks. Instead, they light up a dynamic pre-Code programmer loaded with '30s moxie. Railroad tycoon Alex Stream (William) gets the blues when his society-page wife (Astor) forgets their anniversary. Impulsively, he celebrates instead with vivacious burlesque dancer Lily Linda (Rogers). The two...

Beautiful Patricia Smith is devastated when her lover Max Silver chooses to follow his family's request and marry a woman of wealthier background in order to pursue medical training in Vienna. As the esteemed doctor rises to prominence, gumball machine salesman Eddie Doyle falls in love with the brokenhearted blonde and proposes marriage. When the ex-beau returns to the States, however, he seeks to rekindle the romance. Pat is faced with having to choose between her married lost love and the...

A great murder thriller that examines the fine line between brilliance and insanity. Mason is excellent as a famed surgeon, unhappily married, who falls for another woman, unhappily married herself. When a death occurs, Mason is driven to do his own detective work and determine whether it was murder. He soon finds himself considering murder himself. Mason's real life wife, Pamela almost steals the show as a beautiful femme fatale. Literate script and fine acting with some great twists.

Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963, Color): The mighty warrior Ursus rescues a drowning princess and this heroic act unintentionally triggers a bloody massacre. The king of a tribe of fire-worshippers is convinced by a traitorous general that Ursus has defiled the princess, and that her honor must be avenged by slaughtering the defenseless citizens of the strongman's village. After the surprise attack that follows, Ursus sneaks into the enemy capital, where he discovers that the king has been...

Hamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. A hero named Ursus appears at a tournament to challenge Hamilan's authority.

This action-packed TV series stars John Bromfield as law enforcer Frank Morgan, whose Old West tactics are put to rugged use in modern day Arizona. Filmed mostly on location in the Tucson area, U.S. Marshal continued where Bromfield's earlier series, The Sheriff Of Cochise (1956-1958) left off. Bromfield's character was promoted from sheriff to marshal so he could work on bigger cases, in an attempt to broaden the show's appeal. Produced by Desilu, these four episodes are tough and engrossing...

Roy Rogers and the cowboys at the Bar X Ranch go to great lengths to keep their home from being sold by Dorothy Bryant (Dale Evans), an actress from Chicago who has inherited the property. Dorothy and her theater troupe head out to Utah, where Roy does his best to convince them that the ranch is run down and worthless. Realizing that Roy has been stonewalling her, she sells the valuable Bar X for a measly sum and heads back East. With the ranch now in the hands of the unscrupulous Ben Bowman,...