When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
WATCHGlossy melodrama starring Lana Turner as a young woman from Kansas who moves to New York, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
WATCHA stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family. This 1954 MGM musical, directed by Richard Thorpe, stars Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, Evelyn Varden, Linda Christian and Steve Reeves.
WATCHClark Gable and Lana Turner team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself.
WATCHRichard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
WATCHTexas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the ...
WATCHBarbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp ...
WATCHThe Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo) in a lunatic plot about a mythical kingdom. Minnie's boys at their peak, well directed by Leo McCarey. Mrs. Teasdale: Margaret Dumont. Trentino: Louis Calhern. Vera: Raquel Torres. Lemonade Seller: Edgar Kennedy. Zander: Edmund Breese. Agitator: Leonid Kinsky. Secretary: Verna Hillie.
WATCHWhen the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
WATCHMarried book-dealers Joel and Gerda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
WATCHSusan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes a ...
WATCHFrisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. When her underling Dutton proposes killing the DA, she kills the underling and must face execution.
WATCHHenry Van Cleve (Don Ameche), an aged former playboy, has died and gone to hell. But the ruler of the realm of darkness, His Excellency (Laird Cregar), isn't convinced Van Cleve's come to the right place. Henry proceeds to recount his life story, from his first real stirrings of passion with a French governess, to the wooing and winning of his beautiful wife, Martha (Gene Tierney). Yet, though deeply in love, he found it impossible ...
WATCHChildhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. Bing still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Grace's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding.
WATCHShy, plain Ellen Bowker has found unexpected fulfillment as the bride of handsome Dan Pierce. What she doesn't know is that Dan was bought and paid for - he's a "gift" from Ellen's wealthy father, who wants his fatally ill daughter to experience romance before she dies.
WATCHThe story of three men - Benito Juarez, Napoleon III and Emperor Maximilian - driven by political passions and of a woman, Empress Carlota, driven to madness.
WATCHDuring the era of the Roman empire, Brutus and Cassius lead a conspiracy to kill Caesar, only to fall to Mark Antony. Oscar-nominated Shakespeare adaptation stars Academy Award-winners Marlon Brando ("The Godfather"), John Gielgud ("Arthur,"), Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver"), Deborah Kerr ("From Here to Eternity") and Edmond O'Brien ("The Wild Bunch") and Oscar-nominees James Mason ("North by Northwest") and Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle"). Powerful drama received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and ...
WATCHElizabeth Taylor strives for sweet harmony as a privileged young woman who must choose between the two musicians she loves. She first falls for a devoted violinist (Vittorio Gassman) and follows him when he goes off to musical studies abroad. There, she also meets a talented pianist (John Ericson) who tries to play the initially uninterested lady into his heart. As events and emotions unfold, the inevitable conflict arises: which man does she truly love?
WATCHThe second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with theaddition of comedy and drama films.
WATCHThe 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
WATCHLed by an aging professional, a gang of thieves discover betrayal and death following a successful jewel heist. Directed by Academy Award- winner John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"), this classic crime thriller stars Sterling Hadyn ("Dr. Strangelove," "The Godfather") and Oscar-nominees Louis Calhern ("The Prisoner of Zenda") and Jean Hagen ("Singin' in the Rain"). With beautiful Marilyn Monroe ("Some Like It Hot," "The Seven Year Itch") as a mobster's ...
WATCHAn unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
WATCHThe Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the ...
WATCHSet in ancient Rome, this action-filled 1935 spectacle stars Preston Foster as a blacksmith who becomes a Roman gladiator.
WATCHWhen 61-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. arrives in Washington DC in 1902 to take his seat on the Supreme Court, he worries that he may be too old to achieve much. But his wife Fanny will hear no such nonsense. Holmes will remain on the Court for 30 years, helping bring about momentous changes in the law of free speech, labor relations and other vital issues. But one thing would never change: the bedrock devotion ...
WATCHA common man who resembles the King is forced to take the monarch's place in an attempt to foil a murderous revolt.
WATCHA young Hebrew named Micah, unsatisfied with his father's rural life, demands his inheritance so he can try his luck in the city. Once there he falls under the spell of a beautiful pagan priestess who induces him to squander his money and betray his faith.
WATCHJanet Leigh and Peter Lawford star as lovers trapped on either side of the newly fallen Iron Curtain, a man and a woman stranded on opposite sides of The Red Danube. Post World War II Vienna. In a city that now lies across the river from Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, British Major John McPhimister (Lawford) works to repatriate war refugees – to reunite families but also to sometimes force displaced people back to their native countries ...
WATCHA district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
WATCHWE'RE NOT MARRIED, five couples find out that they are not legally married and react in all sorts of different ways (most are pretty overjoyed) in this anthology of comic vignettes. Marilyn Monroe plays a beauty queen whose husband, stuck at home with the baby, sees this turn of events as perfect leverage; Fred Allen and Ginger Rogers are co-hosts of a radio show, whose marriage is purely for ratings; Zsa Zsa Gabor is a ...
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