Burgess MeredithFilmography

Endangered Species: Cranes - Flight to Survival

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Actors: Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Directed by the acclaimed Walter Hill and narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William Wellman (1896-1975). Ambulance driver for the French Foreign Legion and decorated American pilot in World War I, Wellman later became Read More

Grumpier Old Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: In this sequel to the surprise hit Grumpy Old Men, life goes on much as it usually does in Wabasha County, Minnesota, with the only notable differences being that John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are getting along all right (or at least to the extent that they're Read More

Conserving America: The Rivers

Synopsis: The highly acclaimed PBS {^Conserving America} four-part series provides an entertaining and inspiring look at how Americans of all ages are taking action to preserve our natural heritage. Produced in association with The National Wildlife Federation, the documentary depicts ordinary citizens Read More

Conserving America: The Wetlands

Synopsis: The highly acclaimed PBS {^Conserving America} four-part series provides an entertaining and inspiring look at how Americans of all ages are taking action to preserve our natural heritage. Produced in association with The National Wildlife Federation, the documentary depicts ordinary citizens Read More

Camp Nowhere

Actors: Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, Andrew Keegan, Marnette Patterson, Melody Kay

Synopsis: This light-hearted comedy depicts a typical summer camp, but with a special twist: this camp was designed by the campers themselves! "Mud" Himmel is a nerd. Once again he is faced with attending computer camp. His buddy Zack will be marching into go to military camp while Trish is acting happy Read More

Across the Moon

Actors: Elizabeth Peña, Christina Applegate, Tony Dean Fields, Peter Berg, Michael Aniel Mundra

Synopsis: Elizabeth Pena and Christina Applegate play Carmen and Kathy, two women from Los Angeles with practically nothing in common. Carmen is a working-class Latina and single mother from the East Side barrio, while Kathy comes from a wealthy family in Beverly Hills. However, both of their boyfriends Read More

Grumpy Old Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor Read More

Jean Renoir

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894-1979) had an extremely long career writing, directing, producing and acting in films, beginning in the silent era, right up until the time of his death, when most of his productions were influenced by the medium of television. He was one of the sons of the famous Read More

The Tribute: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo & Skylab

Synopsis: NASA: Tribute -- Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab provides a time capsule of America's first steps into space. These four NASA-produced films, The World Was There, Legacy of Gemini, Time of Apollo, and Four Rooms, Earth View, chronicle the space missions and offer an overview of the historical Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 6

Synopsis: Each episode of this series presents different battles from the war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, {$Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss to bring the events of the war to vivid life. This episode concentrates on the Wilderness campaign Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Each episode of this series offers different battles of the war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss to bring the events of the war to vivid life. Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 3 Read More

Maxwell Anderson - Lost In the Stars

Synopsis: This documentary is named for a play written by Maxwell Anderson, one of the giants of 20th century American theater. The film is an intimate portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anderson, who was born in 1888 and educated at Stanford University before turning to journalism and then to the Read More

Oddball Hall

Synopsis: Advertised as a comedy in the style of The Gods Must Be Crazy, the crime farce Oddball Hall bears little actual resemblance to that film but for the fact that it is set in a remote African village and centers on cross-cultural differences between the natives and a quartet of jewel thieves who have Read More

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Synopsis: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Read More

Night of the Hunter

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: "Remake fever" spread in 1991 to the producers of the TV-movie Night of the Hunter. 36 years earlier, writer James Agee, director Charles Laughton and stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish combined their considerable talents to create the original Night of the Hunter, a first-rate Read More

Dear Mr. Gable

Synopsis: This documentary offers a loving tribute to one of Hollywood's most beloved actors, Clark Gable. Burgess Meredith narrates and many of Gable's closest friends and colleagues remember him. Their stories are rounded out with rarely-seen home movies of the great actor and his wife Carole Lombard and Read More

The Chieftains: The Bells of Dublin

Synopsis: This musical performance video of The Chieftain's is a holiday celebration. Guest stars highlight this video, including Jackson Browne singing "The Rebel Jesus," Ricki Lee Jones performing "O Holy Night," and Marianne Faithful singing "I Saw Three Ships a Sailing." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rocky V

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth entry in the long-running series of sports dramas reunites star Sylvester Stallone with John G. Avildsen, director of the Oscar-winning original. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, suffering from career-ending brain damage as a result of Read More

State of Grace

Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro

Synopsis: This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best Read More

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Evelyn Keyes, Arthur Miller, Michael Caine

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most distinguished directors, John Huston is profiled in this no-holds-barred documentary. Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two-hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man. We Read More

Afterglow: A Tribute to Robert Frost

Synopsis: This biographical documentary takes the viewer on an expedition through Robert Frost's poetry by recreating events from his life. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Full Moon in Blue Water

Actors: Gene Hackman, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith, Elias Koteas, Kevin Cooney

Synopsis: Written by playwright Bill Bozzone, Full Moon in Blue Water stars Gene Hackman as Floyd, the owner of a small bar in a coastal Texas town. Floyd's emotional baggage is awesome: he has never recovered from the death of his wife, he is saddled with his senile father "The General" (Burgess Meredith) Read More

Hot to Trot!

Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: After his mother's death, Fred P. Cheney (Bob Goldthwaith) must share the family financial business with his scheming stepfather Walter Sawyer (Dabney Coleman) in this misfired comedy. Fred also inherits Don, a talking horse who provides him with hot tips on the stock market. Don's voice is Read More

King Lear

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Two highly talented and innovative directors -- filmdom's Jean-Luc Godard and the theatre world's Peter Sellars -- join forces in this unusual (to say the least) slant on Shakespeare's King Lear. This offbeat adaptation gives the viewer a postmodern taste of Shakespeare through the eyes of a Read More

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

Synopsis: In this ghostly comedy set on New Year's Eve, 1767, a dissatisfied young worker makes a bargain with a soul collector who quickly dispatches with the fellow's boss. But the young man's troubles are far from over as the boss's ghost cannot keep from meddling, and the soul collector has come to Read More

Blinkins And Blizzard

Outrage!

Actors: Beau Bridges, Robert Preston

Synopsis: Robert Preston stars as a family man who kills the man who raped and murdered his daughter. After confessing to the police, he is defended by an idealistic attorney played by Beau Bridges. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard

Synopsis: A heroic toy confronts evil in this animated Japanese adventure. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

National Geographic: Creatures of the Namib Desert

Synopsis: This National Geographic documentary examines the unique wildlife of the Namib Desert, a 1300-mile-long arid desert along the southwestern coast of Africa. With surface temperatures that reach 170 degrees Fahrenheit, the region is home to creatures with fascinating adaptive phenotypes and Read More

G.I. Joe: The Movie

Synopsis: In this animated children's film, G. I. Joe and his friends must defend the world when it is threatened by Golobulus and his evil COBRA team. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Santa Claus: The Movie

Actors: David Huddleston, Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, Judy Cornwell, Christian Fitzpatrick

Synopsis: After introducing how Santa and Mrs. Claus came to the North Pole and began their work delivering toys at Christmas time, this routine children's film segues into a story about an evil corporate magnate (John Lithgow). One of Santa's elves (Dudley Moore) goes to work for the nasty tycoon and Read More

Broken Rainbow

Synopsis: In 1983, Interior Secretary James Watt sold coal leases at unusually low prices to developers in New Mexico, and hundreds of Navajo families were torn from their homes and displaced to other areas. The tragedy of this occurrence and the lack of humanity or even minimal human understanding of the Read More

Wet Gold

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-TV adventure, a beautiful young woman and her drunken beach bum boy friend join the financially ruined owner of a diving shop and go looking for sunken treasure. Tensions mount as both men vie for the gold and the love of the woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Bannister, Patricia Barry, Peter Brocco, Albert Brooks

Synopsis: Based on the popular television series created by Rod Serling, this film of horror and the supernatural tells four separate stories--each by a different director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller. In one, a bigot is taught a lesson when he is transported to experience the Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Thumbelina

Synopsis: This lively, funny Faerie Tale Theatre production of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is about a thumb-sized girl (Carrie Fisher) who has to find her way back home after being kidnapped by a toad and a mole. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Rocky III

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Mr. T, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including pinball machines. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to young thug Clubber Lang (Mr. T Read More

Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody

Synopsis: This animated adventure centers on the exploits of Puff the Magic Dragon, a character created by songwriter Peter Yarrow. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gloria [TV Series]

Actors: Sally Struthers, Christian Jacobs, Burgess Meredith

The Last Chase

Actors: Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart, George Touliatos

Synopsis: This futuristic adventure stars Lee Majors as a former racing champ who reassembles his old Porsche and drives to California in a world where cars have been outlawed by the powers that be. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

True Confessions

Actors: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Burgess Meredith, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators wear clerical collars. In, 1948 Los Angeles Read More

Clash of the Titans

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen was a delightful highlight of this action adventure that attempted to give Greek mythology the Star Wars (1977) treatment. Harry Hamlin stars as Perseus Read More

American Vision

Synopsis: This art documentary takes the viewer on a tour through the National Gallery of Art, giving an overview of American painting from the days prior to the American Revolution through the beginning of the 20th Century. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Final Assignment

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael York, Burgess Meredith, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: In this complex spy caper, Nicole (Genevieve Bujold) is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former U.S.S.R. She is there to cover a visit by the Canadian prime minister, but along the way she discovers an unethical experimentation on children involving the use of steroids. Read More

When Time Ran Out

Actors: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons

Synopsis: After producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to fire again but this time it is within the earth, at least for awhile. This fairly routine disaster film is set on a resort island with a volcano that Read More

Rocky II

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: By concentrating on character development with this first of several sequels to his Oscar-winning smash Rocky (1976), writer/director Sylvester Stallone earned critical praise that would desert him with the boxing saga's shallower subsequent chapters. Stallone returns as Rocky Balboa, a Read More

Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of Living Lies

Synopsis: In this children's fantasy, that rascal Puff teaches an imaginative little girl the important difference between the truth and her fantasies by taking her to the "Land of Living Lies," where she encounters such famous fibbers as Pinocchio and the boy who cried wolf. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Manitou

Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar

Synopsis: Low-budget horror director William Girdler's last film stars Susan Strasberg as Karen Tandy, a San Francisco woman who develops a strange growth on her neck. After an operation fails because the doctor is forced to cut his own hand, Karen seeks out an Indian shaman (Michael Ansara), who tells her Read More

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Synopsis: Right after wrapping up her role as Emily on The Bob Newhart Show, Suzanne Pleshette began her reign as "queen of the TV pilot films" with Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid. Kate Bliss (Pleshette) is a private investigator in the 19th-century West, setting up her shingle in a tough frontier town. Read More

National Geographic: Hong Kong - A Family Portrait

Synopsis: This National Geographic documentary follows a single family struggling toward success in the frantic world of Hong Kong. The Family lives on a houseboat and is part of the large boat community that occupies the waterways of the giant city. Following the family for several days, the cameras film Read More

Magic

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, E.J. Andre

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins is a ventriloquist psychologically tormented by his dummy in the Richard Attenborough thriller Magic (a film with a story that may seem familiar to those who have seen the Michael Redgrave segment of Dead of Night, or the Cliff Robertson episode "The Dummy" from The Twilight Zone Read More

Foul Play

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: As he did in his screenplay for Silver Streak (1974), writer/director Colin Higgins mixes life-and-death melodrama with broad slapstick in Foul Play. Goldie Hawn stars as Gloria Mundy, a recent divorcée whose attempts to start life anew in San Francisco are bollixed up when she is inadvertently Read More

Puff the Magic Dragon

Synopsis: This animated adventure centers on the exploits of Puff the Magic Dragon, a character created by songwriter Peter Yarrow. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Amazing Captain Nemo

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Lynda Day George, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: We'll confess not to having seen The Amazing Captain Nemo, principally because we can't find it anywhere. It's our loss, because it certainly sounds fascinating. Jose Ferrer stars as Nemo, the demented but essentially well-meaning technological genius created by Jules Verne in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Read More

The Last Hurrah

Synopsis: 1977's Last Hurrah is a TV-movie remake of the 1958 John Ford film of the same name. Both versions are based on the Edwin O'Connor novel about the last days of flamboyant, larcenous Mayor Frank Skeffington--based upon the equally colorful, equally underhanded Boston mayor James Curley. Carroll O'Connor Read More

The Great Bank Hoax

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Richard Basehart, Ned Beatty, Charlene Dallas, Paul Sand

Synopsis: Shortly before the bank examiner is due to arrive, higher-ups at a small-town bank discover that a beloved long-term employee has embezzled $100,000. The embezzler (Paul Sand), says he did it just to point out a flaw in the bank's bookkeeping practices. Bank officers Jack and Emanuel (Burgess Meredith Read More

Tail Gunner Joe

Actors: Peter Boyle, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Told in flashback form, Tail Gunner Joe traces the rise and fall of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy (Peter Boyle). The story begins with McCarthy's judicial career, then progresses to his rise to the U.S. senate on the Republican ticket and his ultimate exploitation of the postwar "anti Read More

SST: Death Flight

Actors: George Maharis, Doug McClure, Martin Milner, Robert Reed, Susan Strasberg, Billy Crystal, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Death Flight was originally known as SST: Death Flight when it was first telecast February 25, 1977. Though fairly expensive so far as TV movies go, the film is brought down to earth by its standard B-flick plot. On its maiden flight, America's first supersonic transport runs into deadly danger Read More

Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye

Synopsis: Made for television, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye is based on the bestseller by Kenneth P. O'Donnell, David F. Powers and Joe McCarthy. The film is set in 1946: Paul Rudd plays 29-year-old John F. Kennedy, fresh out of the Navy and preparing for his first campaign for public office in Boston. He Read More

Golden Rendezvous

Actors: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith, John Vernon

Synopsis: Richard Harris dodges bullets from stem to stern in this middling thriller, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. The plot concerns high-sea hijinks aboard the Caribbean Star, a combination cargo ship and floating casino. In the midst of the high rollers and spinning roulette wheels appears Luis Read More

The Sentinel

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer

Synopsis: In the wake of such Satanic-themed thrillers as Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen comes The Sentinel. When New York fashion model (Cristina Raines) splits with her fiance (Chris Sarandon) and moves into an old brownstone, she soon discovers she has more than she bargained for in the Read More

Rocky

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has Read More

Burnt Offerings

Actors: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Bette Davis

Synopsis: Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy from its inhabitants and selects its own "keeper" from the family of Ben and Marian Rolf (Oliver Reed & Karen Black), who rent the strangely-affordable house one fateful Read More

The Hindenburg

Actors: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young

Synopsis: "The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg, pausing and then adding, "But then, nothing is these days." That seems to sum up the ponderous, irony-laden script and plot of Robert Wise's movie, which is posited -- in Read More

The Day of the Locust

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy. The movie tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener (Karen Read More

92º in the Shade

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: Though set in Key West, Florida, a goodly portion of 92 in the Shade was filmed in England. Peter Fonda plays Tom Skelton, a bum who gets a job as a fishing guide in his old home town. Nobody wants to have anything to do with Skelton, least of all rival guides Nichol Dance and Carter (Warren Oates Read More

Golden Needles

Actors: Alice Fong, Edgar Justice

Synopsis: This martial arts film has an interesting twist. The conflict is over a mythical 30-inch-tall statue with very special properties. Protruding from the sculpture are seven golden needles. If the needles are inserted into a man's body in the precisely right positions, he will become a sexual Read More

Hay que Matar a B.

Actors: Patricia Neal, Darren McGavin, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: At first glance, we were prepared to designate B Must Die as a hybrid TV feature, consisting of two episodes of either The Outsider or Night Stalker. That's because the star of this obscure entry is Darren McGavin, who also headlined the two aforementioned weekly series. Further research revealed Read More

UFOs: It Has Begun

Synopsis: A close look at evidence that UFOs come from outer space is presented here by Rod Serling and Burgess Meredith. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Fan's Notes

Actors: Julia Robinson

Synopsis: Football is the focus of this drama, adapted from Frederick Exley's famous novel. It tells the tale of an aspiring writer obsessed with football. His father was a football star, and the writer, wanting to follow in his dad's illustrious footsteps, constantly berates himself for not having any Read More

The Man

Actors: Elizabeth Ross, James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, William Windom

Synopsis: Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the story contrives to kill off the President, the vice president, and virtually everyone in line of succession in a bizarre accident. This turn of events elevates Read More

Beware! The Blob

Actors: Richard Stahl, Godfrey Cambridge

Synopsis: Cashing in on director Larry Hagman's fame as star of Dallas, a canny distributor reissued Beware! the Blob (aka Son of Blob) with the come-on line "The Film That J.R. Shot!" Picking up where the original Blob (1958) left off, the film begins as the pudding-like goo thaws out and begins wreaking Read More

Probe

Synopsis: This pilot for the TV adventure series Search stars Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, a secret agent implanted with a electronic transmitter which allows everything he sees and hears to be beamed back to police headquarters. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: Unreasonable Facsimile

Synopsis: In his second Ironside guest appearance, Burgess Meredith is cast as Harry Grenadine, a Hollywood make-up expert who has done jail time for bank robbery. No sooner has Harry been released from prison than a series of holdups occur, each one bearing his distinctive "signature." Ironside (Raymond Read More

Getting Away From It All

Synopsis: In this drama, two middle-aged businessmen decide to chuck it all and get back to the land. Unfortunately, they too soon discover that living a "natural" life isn't all it is cracked up to be; they return to the rat race from whence they came. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Such Good Friends

Synopsis: Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by Dyan Cannon), a woman with intense, often wild emotions that are held in check beneath a rather conventional façade. After her chauvinistic and Read More

Apollo 14: Mission to Fra Mauro

The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove

Synopsis: In this children's adventure, three kids try to save the good name of a teacher who swears he saw a sea monster, and they end up stumbling across a smuggling operation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Yin and Yang of Dr. Go

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Hong Kong-set spoof of Asian spy movies, a CIA agent is assigned to return a purloined set of plans for a devastating new weapon. Unfortunately, in order to succeed, the operative must work in conjunction with a Russian spy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Clay Pigeon

Actors: Marilyn Akin

Synopsis: This crime drama from the 1970s examines the experiences of a Vietnam vet who gets involved with illegal drugs. In time he wants out of that scene, but a narcotics agent forces him to stay involved and help him find the local drug lord. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

There Was a Crooked Man

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris Pitman, Jr. (Kirk Douglas) is the leader of a band of outlaws that steals $500,000 from a wealthy businessman named Lomax (Arthur O'Connell). The other gang members die in a Read More

Lock, Stock and Barrel

Actors: Claude Akins

Synopsis: This TV movie is set in the old Northwest. Belinda J. Montgomery wants to marry young Tim Matheson, but her father (Claude Akins) is against it. Matheson takes matters in his own hands by "kidnapping" Belinda and heading for Oregon. With Montgomery's daddy and her goonish brothers in hot pursuit Read More

All the Old Familiar Faces

Synopsis: All the Old Familiar Faces premiered as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute adventure series Name of the Game. Gene Barry plays Glen Howard, owner and publisher of Crime magazine. Howard tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely Read More

MacKenna's Gold

Actors: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Keenan Wynn, Lee J. Cobb, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to memory the map that leads to some hidden Apache gold. The Indians now want the gold to finance their fight against the white men who invade their territory. Mexican bandit Read More

The Reivers

Actors: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Adapted from William Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers top-bills Steve McQueen, but the major character is feisty 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin, played by Mitch Vogel. Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, Lucius finds himself (through a hectic series of circumstances) in a bordello, where Read More

Hard Contract

Actors: James Coburn, Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer, Burgess Meredith, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: John Cunningham (James Coburn) is a cold-blooded assassin sent by his superior Ramsey (Burgess Meredith) to murder three people in Europe. He takes off for Spain where he meets a foursome of jet-setting socialites. Sheila (Lee Remick) is a wealthy divorcee who falls for John. Alexi (Patrick Magee) Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 7: Wall of Crystal

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Skidoo

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Read More

Stay Away, Joe

Actors: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: This forgettable comedy finds Joe Lightcloud (Elvis Presley) as a mixed-blood Indian with strong ties to his tribe and his father Charlie (Burgess Meredith). Joe tries to get government assistance for the tribe in exchange for permitting the local congressman to graze cattle on Indian land. Maime (Quentin Dean Read More

Ironside: The Macabre Mr. Micawber

Synopsis: It is altogether fitting that Burgess Meredith, who'd played The Penguin on Batman, should guest-star in this episode, which likewise boasts an "avian" theme. A wealthy man has been murdered, and his faithful manservant (Meredith) has been charged with the crime. To get to the truth of the matter Read More

The Monkees: Monkees Blow Their Minds

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: Suffering from writers' block, Peter visits a nightclub hypnotist, The Great Oracullo (Monte Landis). But instead of curing Peter, Oracullo drugs the poor Monkee and places him under his evil spell. The other Monkees try to rescue Peter by pretending to succumb to Oracullo's hypnotic powers -- but Read More

Bonanza: Six Black Horses

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Burgess Meredith, David Lewis

Synopsis: Burgess Meredith guest-stars as Irishman Ownie Dugan. Suddenly striking it rich, Ownie decides to strike a blow against political corruption by turning the tables on his ex-partner Giblin (David Lewis)-but has he really turned over a new leaf, or is this just another scam? Featured in the cast are Read More

Hurry Sundown

Actors: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Robert Hooks

Synopsis: Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. However, two parcels of land have escaped Read More

Torture Garden

Actors: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate Read More

Branded: Headed for Doomsday

Synopsis: Once again, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has a fateful brush with history when he save legendary journalist Horace Greeley (Burgess Meredith) from an assassination attempt. Impressed by Jason's courage, Greeley hires him as his "social secretary" (translation: bodyguard). Now it is up to Jason to Read More

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Actors: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Jr., Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ford, Chester Conklin, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the wealthiest men in the West (among them Jason Robards Jr., Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford and Paul Ford). Into this rarefied atmosphere trudges impoverished farmer Henry Read More

Madame X

Actors: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is married to respected diplomat Clay Anderson (John Forsythe), but his busy schedule prevents them from seeing each other very often. Distracted and lonely, Holly allows her head Read More

Batman

Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Tongue-in-cheek humor prevails in Batman, a witty homage to the Dynamic Duo's exaggerated exploits. The Caped Crusaders (Adam West and Burt Ward) are called in as a last resort when the criminal masterminds of the millennium team up to conquer Gotham City by turning the U.N. Security Council into Read More

Batman [TV Series]

Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward

The Crazy Quilt

Actors: Tom Rosqui, Ina Mela, Ellen Frye

Synopsis: Narrated by Burgess Meredith, this drama chronicles the confusion of a young woman who has difficulty deciding whether she wants to stay married or have her freedom. The trouble begins soon after the optimistic woman marries her true love. She gets pregnant, but miscarries. The devastated couple Read More

Profiles in Courage: John Peter Altgeld

Actors: Burgess Meredith

In Harm's Way

Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Dana Andrews, Paula Prentiss

Synopsis: In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell Read More

The Kidnappers

Synopsis: Set in the Philippines, this thriller centers on the desperate attempts of a loving American father to save his son from ruthless kidnappers. He is unable to do it alone and so calls up his wife's former lover, an ex-FBI agent to assist. Unfortunately, the former agent is devious and greedy. Read More

Fanfare for a Death Scene

Synopsis: Fanfare for a Death Scene was one of a handful of TV dramas originally presented on NBC's Kraft Suspense Theatre, then reedited for European theatrical release. Richard Egan stars as an American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist. Egan must recover the scientist's Read More

The Twilight Zone: Printer's Devil

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Robert Sterling, Pat Crowley, Ray Teal, Charles P. Thompson

Synopsis: In his last Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Mr. Smith, a slightly demonic fellow who offers his services as a reporter and typesetter to small-town newspaper editor Doug Winter (Robert Serling). Knowing full well that Winter's Danzburg Courier is on the verge of folding Read More

The Cardinal

Actors: Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Gish, Maggie McNamara, John Huston, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from Monsignor to the College of Cardinals, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) must undergo several grueling life experiences: standing up to bigots in Georgia, defying Nazis in Read More

Advise and Consent

Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney

Synopsis: The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the screen by producer/director Otto Preminger. The film hinges upon the appointment of Robert Leffingwell (Henry Fonda) to Secretary of State. Leffingwell has been hand-picked by Read More

Naked City: Hold for Gloria Christmas

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Herschel Bernardi, Sanford Meisner, Eileen Heckart, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Greenwich Village poet Duncan Kleist (Burgess Meredith) goes on a violent rampage early one morning, accosting people he meets for money and for help in mailing a parcel he's carrying. This leads to a confrontation with Stanley Dorkner (Herschel Bernardi). The two argue and fight, and Kleist is Read More

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, Douglas Spencer

Synopsis: First telecast March 3, 1961, this is a deft reworking of the first-season Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis." Making his second appearance on the series, Burgess Meredith stars as Luther Dingle, a mild-mannered salesman whom a pair of Martians select for a most unusual experiment. The aliens endow Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver, Josip Elic, Harry Fleer, Barry Brooks

Synopsis: The second season of Twilight Zone came to a powerful conclusion with this Rod Serling-scripted "message" drama. In a futuristic society where books and religion have been outlawed, librarian Romney Wordsworth stands on trial for his life. Adjudged "obsolete" by the imperious Chancellor (Fritz Weaver Read More

The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Vaughan Taylor, Jacqueline De Wit, Lela Bliss

Synopsis: In his first Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Henry Bemis, a miopic bank clerk who wants nothing more out of life than to be left alone to read his precious books. He unexpectedly gets his wish when, while hiding in a bank vault with a book in his hands, a hydrogen bomb Read More

Joe Butterfly

Actors: Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Based on a play by Evan Wylie and Jack Ruge, Joe Butterfly also bears the influence of Teahouse of the August Moon. The title character, played by Burgess Meredith, is a wily Japanese wheeler-dealer who offers his services as interpreter to the American GIs occupying postwar Tokyo (where the film Read More

Playhouse 90: The Jet-Propelled Couch

Crew: Director

Actors: Donald O'Connor, David Wayne, Peter Lorre, Gale Gordon, Phyllis Avery

Synopsis: This semicomic Playhouse 90 episode was based on a true case history, as related in The 50 Minute Hour, a book by psychologist Dr. Robert Lindner. Although Donald O'Connor receives top billing in the role of Lindner's counterpart Robert Harrison, the real star of the proceedings is David Wayne as Read More

Christmas Classics 3

Synopsis: Included are two Christmas specials from 1953: Christmas with Liberace and Playhouse Past Memories. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

More Christmas Classics

The Gay Adventure

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kathleen Harrison, Richard Murdoch

Synopsis: Three disparate male travellers quietly amuse themselves by fantasizing about the same beautiful blonde in this interesting, episodic comedy. A French bus driver sees her first and promptly imagines that she is a seductive photographer's model. In his fantasy, the two end up having a passionate Read More

Second Chance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance, Sandro Giglio

Synopsis: Even without its 3D/stereophonic sound gimmickry, Second Chance is a crackling good suspenser. Robert Mitchum plays Russ Lambert, a prizefighter who heads to South America to forget a recent tragedy in the ring. Here he meets Clare Shepard (Linda Darnell), who is likewise running away -- not from Read More

Man on the Run

Actors: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey, Howard Marion-Crawford

Synopsis: A man recently gone AWOL from the Army (Derek Farr) is arrested in a store robbery that occurred while he was shopping. With help from a beautiful lawyer (Joan Hopkins), he must prove his innocence. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Jigsaw

Actors: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Winifrid Lenihan

Synopsis: Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy (Tone), a crusading New York assistant district attorney, is dedicated to exposing a group of supposedly patriotic Americans who have murdered his friend after he Read More

A Yank Comes Back

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: In the tradition of his wartime "special services" filmmaking activities, actor Burgess Meredith is director, author and star of the 48-minute documentary The Yank Comes Back. The film is conceived as a tribute to WW II England from the viewpoint of an average GI (Meredith). The point is that Read More

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace

Synopsis: Though hampered by a small budget that shrank with each shooting day, director Burgess Meredith fashioned a serviceable film version of Georges Simenon's A Battle of Nerves. Retitled The Man on the Eiffel Tower, the film pits Simenon's analytical Inspector Maigret (Charles Laughton) against a wily Read More

On Our Merry Way

Crew: Producer

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, James Stewart, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lamour

Synopsis: Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It is Meredith's job to interview several people, asking them what effect children have had on their lives. First he checks with two itinerant musicians (James Stewart and Henry Fonda Read More

Mine Own Executioner

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: London psychiatrist Burgess Meredith takes on the case of schizophrenic ex-POW Kieron Moore. So long as Meredith is diligent in his approach, Moore shows signs of improvement, and a lessening of his more violent tendencies. But the moment Meredith takes too much for granted, Moore goes off the Read More

Magnificent Doll

Actors: Erville Alderson, Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Robert H. Barrat, George Barrows, Burgess Meredith, Joe Forte, Horace McNally, Henri Letondal, Peggy Wood

Synopsis: Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll. The usually ebullient Rogers seems encased in wax as Dolly Madison, first lady of the United States in the early 19th century. The story begins as young Washington socialite Read More

Diary of a Chambermaid

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau, Diary of a Chambermaid is a noble experiment: a "Continental" sex drama with a virtually all-Anglo cast. Paulette Goddard plays the title character, a saucy servant named Celestine whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Read More

The Story of G.I. Joe

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Chris Cunningham, Wally Cassell, Lucien Hubbard

Synopsis: The Story of G.I. Joe was based on the columns of Scripps-Howard war correspondent Ernie Pyle (Burgess Meredith). Though already past 40, Pyle insists upon marching along with an Army infantry unit during the Italian campaign. He befriends several of the soldiers, including commanding officer Lt. Read More

The Rear Gunner

Street of Chance

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Sheldon Leonard, Jerome Cowan, Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel The Black Curtain (later dramatized several times on the radio series Suspense), Street of Chance top-bills Burgess Meredith as an amnesia victim. He awakens in the middle of the street, with nary a clue of who he is or what he's done. Meredith comes to learn that Read More

San Francisco Docks

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Irene Hervey, Barry Fitzgerald, Raymond Walburn, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an aircraft mechanic. He is also in love with a barmaid who works at her father's saloon. One day at the bar, the longshoreman gets into a fight with a man who is later found dead. Read More

Tom, Dick and Harry

Actors: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith, Phil Silvers, Joe Cunningham

Synopsis: Working girl Ginger Rogers (who dresses like movie star Ginger Rogers, despite her meager salary!) cannot decide which of her three suitors will march her down the aisle. Will it be fast-talking automobile salesman George Murphy, wealthy Alan Marshall, or free-spirited, eternally unemployed Burgess Meredith? Read More

The Forgotten Village

Actors: Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: The Forgotten Village in this powerful 68-minute documentary is an unnamed, poverty-stricken Mexican community. Living in deplorable conditions, the villagers must not only contend with the elements but with their own lack of inner resourcefulness. In grim detail, the film records the life-cycle Read More

That Uncertain Feeling

Actors: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray, Olive Blakeney

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were inspired the Victorien Sardou-Emile de Najac bedroom farce Let's Get a Divorce. Six year into her marriage to preoccupied insurance salesman Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas), Jill Read More

Pot O' Gold

Actors: James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt, Burgess Meredith, Charles Winninger, Mary Gordon

Synopsis: James Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get along with his costar Paulette Goddard (who is supposed to have dismissed Stewart's acting technique with a flippant "Anyone can swallow.") Inspired by the popular radio Read More

Castle on the Hudson

Actors: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith, Jerome Cowan, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: In this remake of the classic prison story 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing, John Garfield plays Tommy Gordon, a jewel thief who has been sent up the river for a minimum of 25 years. Tommy isn't especially worried about prison, as he's convinced his well-connected friends will help him get out before Read More

Second Chorus

Actors: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Charles Butterworth, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current public-domain status. Astaire and Burgess Meredith play Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor, friendly-enemy musicians who after spending seven years in a college band aspire to join the Read More

Idiot's Delight

Actors: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Idiot's Delight starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on Broadway. Set in a lavish alpine hotel bordering an Italian air base, the story throws together several disparate people, each in his or her own way affected by the World War that threatens to Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: This 1939 film version of John Steinbeck's classic novel was a surprising choice for comedy producer Hal Roach; in fact, Roach had no intention of filming the property until forced to do so as a result of a lawsuit brought by director Lewis Milestone. Burgess Meredith stars as itinerant farm Read More

Spring Madness

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey, Burgess Meredith, Ann Morriss

Synopsis: In this collegiate romance, the love affair between two seniors is threatened by their different graduation plans. The fellow and his roommate are planning a two-year trek through Europe after the ceremony. This doesn't set well with the young woman who uses all her feminine wiles to convince him Read More

There Goes the Groom

Actors: Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Mary Boland, Onslow Stevens, William Brisbane

Synopsis: In this screwball comedy, a fresh-out-of-college fellow heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. He is gone for a long time. He returns to marry his girl friend and is dismayed to discover that she is no longer interested him. When her mother learns that the fellow has struck it Read More

Winterset

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine, Edward Ellis

Synopsis: Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the result was the blank-verse theatrical piece Winterset. Burgess Meredith, Margo and Eduardo Cianelli repeat their Broadway roles, respectively playing the grown son of an Read More

Bloody Shenandoah