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Actors: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley
Synopsis: Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the Chicago production). In the film version of Shirley Valentine, Pauline Collins Read More
Actors: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally
Synopsis: Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington Read More
Actors: Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Jan Chappell, Josette Simon, Steven Pacey
Synopsis: While in pursuit of the evil Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce), the Liberator is drawn into the energy field of Sardos, an unchartered planet controlled by liberated Federation convicts. These men and women intend to link up with a group of renegade Federation troops, who have harnessed the power of Read More
Actors: Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Georgia Brown
Synopsis: This is not the same kind of film as the 1962 production, Tom Jones. In fact, it is a "nudie musical", as evidenced by the presence of singing star Georgia Brown in the dual role of Jenny Jones and Mrs. Waters. The project originated as a Las Vegas stage presentation, with Nicky Henson in the Read More
Actors: Alastair Sim, Peter Barkworth, Maurice Colbourne, Susan Tebbs, Geraldine McEwan
Synopsis: The Littlest Horse Thieves is a Walt Disney Production. Set in early 20th-century England, the film concerns three Yorkshire children who take pity on the ponies that are used as beasts of burden in the coal mines. The kids "liberate" the ponies with the help of a sympathetic groom. This action Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias
Synopsis: James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a hotshot Canadian bush pilot who delights in stealing jobs-and women-away from his competitors. Brian is forced to shape up in a hurry when he's assigned to Read More
Actors: George Montgomery, Maureen O'Hara, John Sutton, Laird Cregar, Victor Francen
Synopsis: This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government Read More
Actors: Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore
Synopsis: (Preston Sturges) wrote and directed this classic romantic comedy starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, who are involved in a scintillating battle of the sexes, as Sturges points up the terrors of sexual passion and the unattainability of the romantic ideal. Henry Fonda plays Charles Pike Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Synopsis: A Yank in the RAF is brash pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power), freshly arrived in London. Hoping to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend Carol Brown (Betty Grable), Tim joins the Royal Air Force, immediately alienating everyone with his cockiness and "What the Hell?" attitude concerning the war. Read More
Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry, John Hartley, Marilyn Knowlden
Synopsis: This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films, Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus in 1918, and The Way of All Flesh in 1927. In this melodrama, Paul Kriza (Akim Tamiroff), a respectable bank cashier, leaves his wife Anna (Gladys George Read More
Actors: Martha Raye, Charlie Ruggles, Richard Denning, Gertrude Michael, William Frawley
Synopsis: Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in the belief that they've actually gotten hold of the same-named 1947 Loretta Young picture. Hardly in the same league as its namesake, the 1940 film casts Raye as Patience Read More
Actors: William Holden, Bonita Granville, Ezra Stone, Judith Barrett, Vaughan Glaser
Synopsis: William Holden and Bonita Granville, heavily if not convincingly decked out in "old age" makeup, recall on their 35th wedding anniversary how they first met in 1904. Holden was a brash college freshman, while Bonita was the daughter of a local judge (Vaughn Glaser). Since Holden couldn't stay out Read More
Actors: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Lois Ranson
Synopsis: Though they may seem as corny as Kansas in August when seen today, the Weaver Brothers and Elviry was one of the most popular music-and-comedy aggregations on the Country-Western circuit in the early 1940s. The group consisted of Leon Weaver as Abner, Frank Weaver as Cicero (who never spoke, a la Read More
Actors: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Lois Ranson, Spencer Charters
Synopsis: The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end Read More
Actors: Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Billy Lee, Donald O'Connor, Clem Bevans
Synopsis: In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must also begin caring for an orphaned lad. They take a shine to the boy and desire to adopt him, but first they must convince his grandfather who is not impressed by their Read More
Actors: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley
Synopsis: This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, together in the same picture. Brown and Raye play a show business couple who inherit a near-bankrupt college. They decide to build up the school's scraggly football team in hopes Read More
Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor, Joyce Mathews, John Hartley
Synopsis: It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents. Charlie Ruggles stars as a small town shopkeeper whose wife (Mary Boland) adopts a pair of rambunctious orphan boys (Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee). Ruggles is at first hostile Read More
Actors: Betty Grable, John Hartley, Donald O'Connor, Jackie Coogan, Dorothea Kent
Synopsis: No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of Paramount's younger contract players. The college is in financial trouble, so the students pin their hopes on a race horse--the "million dollar legs" of the title. As it turns Read More
Actors: Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry, Helen Twelvetrees
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting existence, more robberies ensue until they get really greedy and attempt a kidnapping. Unfortunately, they chose an unusually perceptive victim who is able to recall the flight Read More
Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by Prohibition. Both of them are fairly depressed by their lives and end up living together in the home of the fighter's recently murdered manager. The deceased's young son comes home Read More
Actors: John Howard, Gail Patrick, William Frawley, Harvey Stephens, Jane Darwell
Synopsis: In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional methods of investigating a story; especially when they interfere with the judicial process as they did when he began eavesdropping upon a grand jury. One of the reporter's Read More
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