The (guest) stars shine bright on Alice's seventh season. Joel Grey (as himself) saves the day when Mel takes over as producer of a local show after Alice (Linda Lavin) lands the lead. Tommy (Philip McKeon) has moved out to attend Arizona State College on a basketball scholarship. A crisis of confidence threatens to derail his collegiate dreams, so Alice drafts Meadowlark Lemon to give Tommy a much-needed pep talk. When a glamorous movie star Felicia Blake (Debbie Reynolds) pens her tell-all...

Alice's sixth season sees the staff settling in for a steady service of hopes, dreams, chili and grits-kissing. While Alice (Linda Lavin) ponders her life choices as she approaches forty, Vera (Beth Howland) attends her school reunion and ends up engaged, Jolene (Celia Weston) trades in her wages for fear as a dynamite trucker, Tommy (Philip McKeon) considers becoming an actor and Mel (Vic Tayback) thinks about getting a nose job. Among the celebrity diners stopping by Mel's for some chili are...

The third season saw Alice gets its sitcom service down to a science, delivering regular orders of laughter and workplace wisdom weekly while enjoying a regular slot in the top twenty. Series regulars Vic Tayback (Mel), Vera (Beth Howland), Polly Holliday (Flo), and Philip McKeon (Tommy) fit their roles perfectly, while Linda Lavin (Alice) set the comedy temp, whether it be a slow-burn simmer, smoking hot slapstick, or on-the-boil gut-busters. Situations found in this 3-Disc, 24-Episode...

When Vic "Bomber" Bealer enters the ring, he comes out a winner. But there may be one opponent this amateur boxer may never defeat: himself. Jon Voight answers the bell as Bealer in The All-American Boy, a provocative study of alienation from the writer of Little Fauss and Big Halsy. Drifting through a string of passionless affairs (E.J. Peaker, Rosalind Cash and Anne Archer play the women in Bealer's life), working a dead-end gas-jockey job in a dusty nowhere, Bealer knows he's safe in his...

Crane's Colossal Carnival receives a radical downsizing after rubes rise up and the carnival's assets are repossessed, leaving ace pitchman "Honest" Bill Hogan (Robert Armstrong), owner Jeffrey Crane (Edmund Gwenn) and Crane's daughter Betty (Betty Furness) in desperate need of funds. Venturing to the local bank, Bill encounters aptly named Elmer Lamb (Stuart Erwin), a country bumpkin possessed of an extraordinary brain. Capable of amazing feats of calculation, Elmer works as a human adding...

Oscar-nominee Brandon de Wilde ("Shane") co-stars in this evocative coming-of-age story about an adolescent boy who discovers that his older brother, played by Oscar-winner Warren Beatty ("Bullworth," "Love Affair"), is a shallow wreck of a man. Featuring Academy Award-winners Eva Marie Saint ("Superman Returns," "On the Waterfront") and Karl Malden ("A Streetcar Named Desire," TV's "The Streets of San Francisco"), and Oscar-nominee Angela Lansbury (TV's "Murder, She Wrote," "Beauty and the...

It's Christmastime as young Robbie Eunson pulls his little sister on a sled through the snow to a snug house in the woods. But this is no yuletide treat. Instead, Robbie is fulfilling the promise he made to their dying mother -- that he would find a home for each of the six orphaned Eunson children. All Mine to Give follows pioneers Mamie and Robert Eunson (Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell) through hardship, hard work and joy in 19th-century Wisconsin as they raise a family united by love....

People who live in glass houses...should shut the curtains, okay? Especially if red-haired, on-the-make window washer Ginger (Victor Henry) is on the job. The incessant amorous pursuits of Ginger and his pal Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) are coupled with opportunities for either or both to grow up in a comedy-drama that, from its British roots to its boy-meets-bird(s) storyline, belongs in a lineage with Alfie, Morgan! and The Knack...and How to Get It. "What's mine is his and vice versa," Ginger...

Swashbuckling screen legends Stewart Granger ("King Solomon's Mines") and Robert Taylor ("Ivanhoe") star as feuding New England whaling brothers. Their fraternal loyalties are tested when Granger leads Taylor's crew to mutiny in an effort to steal sacred pearls from island natives. Oscar-nominee Ann Blyth ("Mildred Pierce") costars. With Kurt Kasznar (TV's "Land of the Giants," "Lili"). Produced by Academy Award-recipient Pandro S. Berman ("Ivanhoe," "Top Hat," "Father of the Bride").

The California Dolls are hot, young and dirty (well, muddy). But although the gorgeous tag-team wrestlers may be wallowing in a down-market mud-wrestling bout right now, they have a dream: the championship match at the MGM Grand in Reno. Director Robert Aldrich's (The Dirty Dozen, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) last film is a boisterous, body-slammin' blast. The fun comes from the ladies who aim for glory, one takedown at a time; from Peter Falk as the team's irrepressible manager who...

Bette Davis at the height of her phenomenal screen stardom. Charles Boyer in his only screen pairing with la Bette. A plot rich in mystery and grand emotion. A powerful period drama honored with three 1940 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Fans get all this in All This, and Heaven Too. From Rachel Field's fact-based best seller, the story follows Henriette (Davis), governess at the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin (Boyer) and his jealous wife (Barbara O'Neil). When governess...

That ruckus in Europe? Churchill and Roosevelt can have it. Gloves Donahue is too busy laying his peepers on the Saratoga morning line or noodling out another way to rub up against considerable dough. But when someone bumps off the little old man who bakes Gloves' favorite cheesecake -- well, this means war! %09 Humphrey Bogart had fun in the change-of-pace role of Gloves, and the fun is winningly contagious in a spoof that pits him against Nazi spies. "Gangsters vs. Gestapo -- and it is...

It was a time of heroes. Well, almost. They were hearty men in those days. Men who, like Bartholomew Hunt and Leslie Edwards, made sure that when adventure called, it got a wrong number. Chris Farley and Matthew Perry team with director Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) to venture into uncharted comedy territory. Where explorers Lewis and Clark go, Hunt (Farley) and Edwards (Perry) follow, hoping to overtake the famed expeditioners and be the more fiery trailblazers. In a...

In this action-packed show set in 2048, a worse-for-wear cop teams up with a second-hand synthetic android to fight a strain of urban crime that's evolved in ever more frightening ways. Detective John Kennex survived a catastrophic attack on the city's police department that cost him nearly everything. Returning over a year later, he finds the transition difficult. Not only does he suffer guilt for the lethal ambush, but department policy now requires that every cop be paired with a highly...

Kirk Douglas makes his Western film debut as a righteous lawman battling nature and pursuing vigilantes to bring an accused killer to trial. Virginia Mayo and Walter Brennan co-star.

With a twinkle of his eye and a twirl of his moustache, Tony Randall steps into the patent leather pumps of Hercule Poirot - and joins the ranks of Charles Laughton, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, David Suchet and more distinguished actors who've charmed generations of audiences as Agatha Christie's renowned Belgian detective. The Alphabet Murders, based on Christie's The ABC Murders, adds lots of laughs to the brain-teasing tale of a serial killer who chooses his/her victims in alphabetical...

From hit making producer Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) comes the triumphant return of the greatest adventurer of all (by way of Jules Verne)! Awakened from a 100-year cryogenic freeze, the legendary Captain Nemo (Academy Award winner* Jose Ferrer) pursues a mad scientist (Burgess Meredith) who threatens to destroy Washington unless he's paid a billion dollars in gold. Co-written by Psycho's Robert Bloch, The Amazing Captain Nemo was originally conceived as a...

Chinese-American supersleuth Charlie Chan made his cartoon transition with his customary grace, only this time he brought along the clan. Maintaining Hanna-Barbera's winning formula (kids, mysteries, canine, van), the hit kid show also introduced some innovations (the van transforms, a double-sized team, HOWdunnits not whodunits). Most significant among these is the casting of the amazing Keye Luke (Kato, Master Po) as the voice of Charlie Chan. Not only was this the first time that an...

What makes a criminal tick? For Dr. Clitterhouse, there's only one way to find out. Eager to study the physical and mental states of lawbreakers, he joins a gang of jewel thieves. Edward G. Robinson plays the title role, giving his thuggish screen persona a sly comic kick. Claire Trevor costars as a savvy crime queen. And Humphrey Bogart plays Rocks Valentine, an ice-blooded tough the doc calls "a magnificent specimen of pure viciousness." The movie also marks the start of one of film's most...

The U.S. Cavalry knows that traveling the unmapped Arizona Territory canyons and trails in search of a woman kidnapped by Apaches could mean riding into a trap. So they ask the help of Ward Kinman, a prospector and scout who knows both the terrain and the ways of the warring tribesmen. Nearly a decade after Billy the Kid, Robert Taylor saddled up a second time and portrayed Kinman in Ambush, the film that began his steady string of work in a genre that suited him like a Colt .45 tucked easy...

One of the greatest mysteries of this century has yet to be solved. Based on a true story that has captured the imagination of America for more than half a century, Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight explores the mysterious disappearance of the brave aviatrix, in an exciting and suspenseful way. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton* plays the legendary aviator whose disappearance over the Pacific Ocean is one of the great unsolved mysteries of all time. Earhart's career and her life goal...

Steve Tevere wants a perfect 10. He's an elite gymnast who dominates a field where a 9.5 can be an also-ran. It's the little things that make the difference in Steve's sport. It's the big things that may hold him back forever. A troubled home life could destroy Steve's athletic career in this stirring salute to gymnastics, dazzlingly directed by Albert Magnoli (Purple Rain) to ensure that in the vibrant competition scenes American Anthem really sings. Four-time Olympic medalist Mitch Gaylord...

Heiress Falls to Death, Husband Alleges Suicide newspaper headlines declare. But the cops don't buy it. They believe it's a case of cold-blooded murder and they're pinning it on Steven Rojack (Stuart Whitman), a controversial TV talk show host whose prime-time target is the city's mafia-infested police force. Walking a tightrope between the cops and the mob that owns them, Rojack finds sanctuary in the arms of his former flame (Janet Leigh), a woman he left in the dust years ago. Will she...

"American Flyers," Rex Reed wrote, "is a fine mixture of romance, humor and tears with action sequences among the most exciting ever captured on film. It's guaranteed to increase the viewer's adrenalin." Two-time Academy Award winner* Kevin Costner and David Grant star as brothers struggling to win a world-class cycling competition and regain the respect and affection they once shared. The painful events surrounding their father's death have caused a rift. To bridge the gap, both enter the...