Sacked from his latest gig, music hall performer Jack James (Mark Jones) got the timely news that his dear old aunt passed away and left him her mansion. Upon checking it out, it turns out that the... more
Bilked of her school tuition and stranded in D.C., determined Midwesterner Katie Holstrom (Best Actress Oscar-winning Loretta Young) took a domestic’s job in the home of Rep. Glenn Morley (Joseph... more
Snow White meets the Jazz Age when a young grammarian (Gary Cooper), part of a team of eight bookish researchers working on a mammoth encyclopedia, becomes fascinated with the slangy speech of brassy... more
Winner of six Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Actor, Robert Zemeckis' modern-day "Candide" stars Tom Hanks as the simple-minded but good-hearted Forrest, whose life is a series of... more
Frank Oz directed this film version of the Off-Broadway musical based on the 1960 horror movie spoof. At a flower shop, nebbish employee Seymour (Rick Moranis) dreams of a better life with a... more
This offbeat "electric western," loosely based on Herman Hesse’s novel "Siddhartha," combines a standard gunfight plot with '60s psychedelia. Cowboys Zachariah (John Rubinstein) and Matthew (Don... more
While the public image of radio spokeswoman Glory Eden (Ginger Rogers) was one of squeaky cleanliness, her private life of clubbing and carousing was something else again. Her nervous handlers looked... more
Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.? Director Tim Burton's hilariously heartfelt paean to the cross-dressing creator of "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9 from... more
Hollywood Westerns were never the same after director/co-writer Mel Brooks put them through the comedy wringer with this tasteless, hilarious spoof. Can the frontier town of Rockridge cope with the... more
Judy Holliday won an Academy Award for repeating her Broadway role as Billie Dawn, the streetwise but uncultured girl of a gruff junk magnate (Broderick Crawford), who hires a newsman (William... more
Two gorgeous carhops (Jillian Kesner and Sterling Frazier) buy the greasy drive-in where they work and, joined by a Parisian-trained--and equally gorgeous--chef (Dorothy Buhrman), turn the place into... more
Candy magnate and car nut Michael Bannon (Michael Sarrazin) gathered an eccentric pack of fellow motorheads in a Manhattan garage, and laid down a challenge: See who’d be the first to finish a... more
Robert Redford (in what is intended to be his last role before retirement) stars as real-life septuagenarian bank robber Forrest Tucker in this delightfully offbeat crime comedy. In the early 1980s,... more
Fantastic adaptation of Harry Segall’s 1938 play (filmed in 1941 as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan") stars Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton, an NFL quarterback who is killed before he's due "upstairs."... more
Beachcomber Walter Eckland (Cary Grant) leads a peaceful, quiet life on a Pacific island in 1943, working for the Allies as a planespotter watching for Japanese aircraft. His solitude is disrupted... more
Beginning as a sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show," this 1983-90 sitcom starred Vicki Lawrence as sharp-tongued widow Thelma "Mama" Harper, who shared her home in the small Midwestern burg of Raytown... more
Winner of Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards, Frank Capra's heartfelt filming of the Kaufman/Hart play stars Lionel Barrymore as Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the eccentric Sycamore... more
After three years at sea, merchant sailor Charles Tuttle (Jon Hall) came home to Polynesia, and found his eccentric extended clan--spearheaded by patriarch Uncle Jonas (Charles Laughton)--to be as... more
Director Peter Bogdanovich's splendidly etched portrait of Depression-era mid-America stars Ryan O'Neal as Moses Pray, a smooth-talking con man who makes his living hustling personalized bibles to... more
The luscious Jayne Mansfield dares and bares all in this outrageous sex comedy set on an ocean liner where a sea cruise becomes a bed-hopping mix-up for Jayne, real-life spouse Mickey Hargitay, Tommy... more
The mind-blowing, Oscar-winning blend of Raymond Chandler and Tex Avery stars Bob Hoskins as a seedy private eye in a '40s Hollywood populated by humans and animated "toons" who must clear cartoon... more
A spoiled heiress (Claudette Colbert) fleeing her dad's tough-love efforts to have her impulsive marriage annulled. An intemperate reporter (Clark Gable) looking for a career-salvaging scoop. A... more
Three Academy Awards, including Best Actress (Cher) and Best Supporting Actress (Olympia Dukakis), went to director Norman Jewison’s wonderful romantic comedy. Cher stars as Loretta Castorini, an... more
Disney perennial Dean Jones stars as Peter Denwell, a scientist working on a cure for the common cold. When he imbibes a strange serum from India that turns him invisible, he’ll have to use his... more