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<p>On behalf of M-G-M, writer, producer, director and narrator James A. FitzPatrick trotted all over the earthly sphere, training his Technicolor camera at sights picturesque and poignant for more than twenty years. His simple, straightforward looks at what was best and most interesting in...

<p>"The end is near" for the unconventional, lovable staff of the Billy Barnes Extended Care Unit as HBO presents the third and final season of this offbeat comedy series. Set eight months after the Season 2 cliffhanger, this season finds Dr. Jenna James (Laurie...

<p>Billie Dove and Rod La Rocque star in this risque part-talkie comedy, once believed to be lost but now restored. Relentlessly pursued by gold digger Viola Hatfield (Gwen Lee), millionaire Michel Towne (La Rocque) decides to put her off through a marriage of convenience....

<p>Between the years 1933 and 1939, over 800 Jewish members of the German film industry would flee the Nazis and make their way to Hollywood. Adapting to a new culture and homeland, they would soon have a massive impact on American cinema through their...

<p>Beside their nuptial promises, newlywed society sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) and crime novelist Harriet Vale (Constance Cummings) make another vow: no more crime in their lives. Fat chance for that when the lovebirds and faithful butler Bunter (Seymour Hicks) arrive at the...

<p>"DEMOBILIZED OFFICER, finding peace unbearably tedious would welcome any excitement. Legitimate, if possible, but crime of humorous description, no objection. Reply at once -- Box X 10, The Times." With the placement of this curious advert, Capt. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, World War One veteran...

<p>Both Marion Davies and Billie Dove were one-time Ziegfeld chorus girls, so they became a natural fit as pals and romantic rivals when Davies' chum, two-time Academy Award winner* Frances Marion (with input on dialogue from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes author Anita Loos), fashioned Davies'...

<p>From W. Somerset Maugham's popular 1925 novel about an unloving marriage at a flash point and a selfish adulteress who travels a turbulent path to redemption, this second film version of The Painted Veil fixes Eleanor Parker (of the 1946 Maugham-based Of Human Bondage),...

<p>David and Lynn Conway are a two-career New York couple. He (Robert Montgomery) is a shipbuilder whose opportunities have been sparse. She (Virginia Bruce) manages a thriving theatrical agency and has been the major breadwinner for a while. But he's just received a prime...

<p>Tally ho! The farcical flair of Robert Montgomery meets its match in the lampooning style of British humorist P.G. Wodehouse in Piccadilly Jim, a blithe and expertly cast concoction from Hollywood's golden age of screwball comedy. Montgomery plays a London-based cartoonist whose caricatures spoil...

<p>The Spanish-American War is over, but not the scourge of death. Yellow fever has killed more U.S. soldiers deployed to Cuba than battle -- and a medical team led by Dr. Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) is determined to defeat the microbial enemy. The secret...

<p>Following triumphs in the silent The Patsy, The Cardboard Lover and Show People, Marion Davies took her first headlong leap into talkies with the crazy-quilt musical- comedy-romance Marianne, inspired by and from the scriptwriter of (believe it or not) King Vidor's The Big Parade....

<p>San Francisco has long enjoyed its reputation as the counter-culture capital of America, drawing bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists into its streets. With the onset of the digital Gold Rush, however, young members of the tech elite are flocking to the West Coast to...

<p>How the West Was Won aired as a sprawling maxi-series of double-length episodes broadcast over three seasons -- a true saga, as befits the film that inspired it. Each installment presents unique themes, viewpoints and characters, all tied together by their connection to the...

<p>Tarzan swings back into action in this thrill-packed adventure starring Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Joanna Barnes and Robert Douglas. When a Watusi leads them to believe his distant homeland lies near an elephants' graveyard, Colonel James Parker (Douglas), his daughter Jane (Barnes) and partner...

<p>Robert Taylor wins track meets, friends and Maureen O'Sullivan in this smashing British collegiate comedy costarring Vivien Leigh. Arriving in England to attend Oxford's Cardinal College, cocky American athlete Lee Sheridan (Taylor) soon learns his boasts have earned him more enemies than mates. Dating...

<p>Robert Taylor and Susan Peters are trapped between love and war in this WWII romantic drama, costarring Robert Benchley and featuring the music of Tchaikovsky. When John Meredith (Taylor) meets amateur pianist Nadya Stepanova (Peters) at a Moscow concert in 1941, the America conductor...

<p>Robert Taylor and Greer Garson prove love is better the second time around in this off-the-wall romantic comedy costarring Lew Ayres. When Sky (Ayres) introduces his new fiancee Linda (Garson) to his best pal Jeff (Taylor), he's dismayed when he's dumped over lunch and...

<p>A dashing nightclub host uses his looks and charm to separate an heiress from her fortune in this riveting crime drama starring Virginia Bruce and Robert Taylor in his first leading role. When Toni Bradley (Bruce) inherits her wealthy father's New York businesses, the...

<p>Remember to knock five times, as the Cinema Speakeasy is open again with a quintet of controversial pre-Code classics. Lionel Barrymore stars as a DA who commits the perfect crime in W.S. Van Dyke's Guilty Hands, costarring Kay Francis. Next Warren William is crowned...

<p>The first major Hollywood production to film in Egypt, Valley of the Kings is a grandly scaled and ravishingly scenic adventure about the search for clues across the Sinai terrain offering proof of Biblical events. Set in 1900 and unfolding across landscapes of awesome...

<p>Less than a decade after its three season stint on television, Gilligan's Island reigned supreme as a smash syndication success story. Picking up new fans each and every year, with scores of them being the after-school crowd, a revival via animation was a Gilligan-apropos...

<p>Set decades before the brassy, bustling contemporary Busby Berkeley musicals to follow three years later, 1930's period pre-code musical The Florodora Girl might also be called Gold Diggers of 1900. Sharpie showgirls of the Florodora Sextette cast their nets wide for rich husbands while...

Project Greenlight Executive produced by Oscar and Golden Globe - winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Project Greenlight spans the entire filmmaking process, taking a revealing, uncensored look at the challenges facing a first-time director. Equipped with a Hollywood-vetted script and surrounded by a...

<p>As painter Walter Hartright (Gig Young) walks through the wooded dark night to Limmeridge House, she arrives like a heavenly apparition: The Woman in White, the title character of Wilkie Collins' pioneering 1859 mystery novel, well-embodied in this eerily effective, lushly atmospheric screen adaptation...

<p>Marion Davies was twice the age of the character she was playing, but never you mind. As a plucky Irish lass taken from village life in Erin to claim a 2-million inheritance if she lives three years with a snooty family of destitute British...

<p>Dulcy Parker is the most well-meaning, supportive fiancee a business up-and-comer could want, except that she's a birdbrain who spews idiotic malapropisms when otherwise not saying and doing the wrong thing to the wrong person throughout the weekend dinner party she's arranged to better...

<p>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...

<p>A New York City police detective finds himself in deep trouble when a beautiful Italian woman from his past tricks him into taking part in a jewel robbery.</p>

<p>In a reckless quest to avenge his father's death, sword-maker On loses his right arm and becomes a disgraced outcast in the martial world. On's only hope for retribution lies in his ability to create a new style of fighting that will both compensate...

<p>CHARMING HONG KONG ROMANTIC FARCE IN THE TRADITION OF VICTOR/VICTORIA Pop music super fan Lam Chi Wing disguises herself as a man so she can meet her idol, Rose, at an audition for male singers being staged by Rose's producer/boyfriend, Sam. The couple's relationship...

<p>Following their collaborations on the international art house hits Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, director Zhang Yimou and actress Gong Li reteamed for this bigbudget fantasy. Stepping in front of the camera this time, Zhang stars as a Qin Dynasty chamberlain who makes the...

<p>Blaxploitation superstars Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee and Jim Kelly take on the mob in this super-charged, action-packed thriller. When Melinda Lewis (McGee) is found brutally murdered in his L.A. apartment, smooth-talking disk jockey Frankie J. Parker (Lockhart) turns sleuth to clear his...

<p>Meet Ben Maverick (Charles Frank), the crown prince of cardsharps. Son of Beau (played by Roger Moore on the original series), Ben may be Harvard educated, but he's still cut from the same cloth as his cousins (once removed). So it's a good thing...

<p>Chad Everett and James Daly, as Chief of Surgery Joe Gannon and Chief of Staff Paul Lochner, return for another season of their groundbreaking medical drama. While the country around it seethed through a time of astonishing societal changes, Medical Center remained at the...

<p>Dr. Kildare's swansong fifth season carried with it some significant changes to the show's format. No longer a once-weekly one hour drama, Dr. Kildare was now a twice-weekly half hour serial with storylines stretching over multiple parts and, perhaps even more excitingly, James Kildare...

<p>In these three anthology films, RKO Pictures plumbed their library of musical and comedy shorts to cull together a series of celluloid variety shows that are toe-tapping and rib-tickling. Comedian Gil Lamb hosts Make Mine Laughs and delivers up musical and comedic delights from...

<p>Questions of identity and destiny rise to the surface in the sixth season of this fan-favorite family sit-com. As the antics of Steve Urkel threaten to steal the show in a fit of nerdtastic slapstick, the Winslow clan shows it has more than enough...

<p>In 1957, two starkly dramatic movies about a mentally troubled woman with three distinct personalities vied for attention. The second of these elevated Joanne Woodward to stardom and won her a Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve. But the first, arriving...

<p>ALL THAT HE’LL EVER OWN IS JUST A BADGE AND A GUN Lawman’s fourth and final season finds Marshal Dan Troop (John Russell) and Deputy Johnny McKay (Peter Brown) functioning as a fully-formed justice machine, ably aided by the lovely Miss Lily (Peggie Castle)....

<p>Every spring in America more than 8,000 people are shot and killed. Directed and produced by the Emmy -winning filmmaking team of Shari Cookson and Nick Doob, Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014 tells some of these stories. Made entirely from existing, found...

<p>Three become five as two new Centurions-John Thunder and Rex Charger- join the fight against the malevolent Doc Terror and his mechanoid minions. It's a much-needed boost too, as Crystal Kane and her original three Centurions Max Ray, Jack Rockwell and Ace McCloud- find...

<p>Toe Tag Parole: To Live and Die on Yard A explores one prison's handling of the nation's extreme sentencing policy: life without the possibility of parole. Faced with the largest population of men serving life sentences, the California Department of Corrections developed an experimental,...

<p>Cowboy king George O'Brien rides high in this 3 Disc, 9 Movie Collection of some of his most thrilling RKO oaters. The good-natured, barrel-chested, good-man-in-black delivered justice and box-office gold for RKO Pictures during his reign, only giving up his reins when duty called...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>The action and adventure never stop in this thrill-packed sequel to King Solomon's Mines, starring George Montgomery and directed by Kurt Neumann (The Fly). Determined to succeed where his father failed, Harry Quartermain (Montgomery) convinces jungle guide Rick Cobb (David Farrar) to accompany him...

<p>College friends Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) and Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) run a thriving rural Massachusetts girls' school. Karen is in love with local doctor Joe Cardin (Joel McCrea), and they plan to marry soon. Then an incorrigible, vindictive student tells a shocking fib...

<p>"Gary Cooper is wonderful" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) alongside Andrea Leeds and screen legend David Niven in this epic-scale thriller that delivers "excellent action scenes (Leonard Maltin) and is "exciting as all hell" (New York World-Telegram). In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor...

<p>A suspenseful, romantic drama of a woman's past and how it affects her daughter, her husband, her best friend and their futures is depicted with a deep understanding in this picture of a woman who has deceived herself and her husband. Susan Hayward makes...