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Synopsis: The world of professional wrestling is peopled by giants of men and women whose names often reflect their size and girth or fierceness. Marketing and public relations play a big part in this multi-million-dollar entertainment industry, in which fan allegiance depends as much on image as skill. Read More
Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety
Synopsis: Honored at a testimonial by her fellow medical examiners, Julianna Cox (Laura Ballard) relates the curious tale of Mr. and Mrs. Cochran (Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows), who, during one of their violent arguments, may very well have spared their son the trouble of committing suicide -- by killing him Read More
Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Steve Allen, Bill Maher
Actors: David Byrnes, April Breneman, Alisa Christensen, John Cragen, Loren Schmalle
Synopsis: In this seventh entry in the "Witchcraft" series of horror thriller an attorney turns to the black arts to save his neck from vampires. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King
Synopsis: The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend Read More
Synopsis: After evaluating the calibre of her girl's basketball team, the new coach realizes she will have to work long and hard to turn them into winners. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This PBS documentary features jazz legend Gene Krupa playing on the drums with many of the great names in music. Archival film clips capture Krupa at his best accompanying other jazz greats such as Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Benny Goodman. Interviews with family, friends, and colleagues Read More
Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher
Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More
Crew: Featured Music
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish Read More
Synopsis: A documentary video that looks at the many hilarious comedians in history. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson
Synopsis: Until its last 10 minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live-action cartoon. As played by Dennis Quaid, "the killer" is a very mixed-up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naif, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a Read More
Synopsis: This 1987 documentary presents the life story of influential singer, songwriter, and musician Jerry Lee Lewis, whose pioneering brand of country-blues-boogie shook the world of rock & roll. Nicknamed "The Killer," and a cousin of notorious televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis displayed a prodigious Read More
Actors: Richard Lewis
Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg
Synopsis: The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a Read More
Actors: David Amram, Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs
Synopsis: In the U.S., in the 1950s, contemporary jazz was becoming more and more esoteric, and a small group of writers, poets and musicians who were hip to that beat were exploring the cracks in the American dream. Meanwhile, the Cold War and insistently cheerful and upbeat attitudes were being promoted Read More
Actors: Steve Allen, William S. Burroughs
Synopsis: This biographical documentary tackles the legend of Jack Kerouac, one of the foremost writers of the Beat Generation. Kerouac started a beat that goes on; he's still a major influence in contemporary literature and poetry. The author first broke into prominence with his famous Read More
Synopsis: These are the funniest pieces taken from one of the all-time funny TV men, Steve Allen. These takes from his hit The Steve Allen Show series, are priceless. Featured with Allen in these takes are such notables as Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis Jr., Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis and Zsa Zsa Gabor. ~ All Read More
Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the history of Betty Boop, and looks at the run-ins she had with film censors. Originally in black and white, these cartoons have been tinted. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This video contains some of the most memorable moments from Steve Allen's long-running talk show. Featured guests include Mel Brooks, Jimmy Durante and Johnny Carson. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Steve Allen
Synopsis: Steve Allen will probably always be best remembered for his keen wit, intellect, and creation of The Tonight Show television comedy format in the 1950s. Yet those who had the pleasure of hearing him deliver a speech in public know that he was a masterful speaker. In this program, Allen shares tips Read More
Synopsis: The Paul Masson Vineyards theater in Santa Cruz, California, was host to a series of jazz concerts. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Taped at the Troubadour nightclub in Hollywood, California, this video features Bill Cosby, Steve Allen and others in tribute to late comic Lenny Bruce. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Gerritt Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Jayne Meadows
Synopsis: Made for cable television, The Ratings Game was directed by Danny DeVito, who co-starred in the film with his wife Rhea Perlman. DeVito plays the owner of a New Jersey trucking firm who yearns for a televison career. He offers several TV-series ideas to a receptive network programming head. On the Read More
Actors: Jack Coulter
Synopsis: In this romantic, sentimental homage to America's well-known Beat writer Jack Kerouac, director John Antonelli combines readings from Kerouac's works, footage of the writer with figures such as Steve Allen and William Buckley, views of his home and favorite locales, commentary by fellow writers Read More
Synopsis: It's a star-studded extravaganza of epic proportions as the biggest names in showbiz gather together on-stage to pay tribute to public television in a 1983 television special captured live at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas and hosted by acting veterans Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley. A Read More
Synopsis: Steve Allen hosts and performs with an assortment of pop, jazz and contemporary musicians in this video. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Donald O'Connor
Synopsis: This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world Read More
Synopsis: Volume 3 in this collection features a challenging game that test your knowledge of the 20th century. Includes over 1500 questions from the Hearst Time Capsule Library. Fun for all ages. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Miles Chapin, Tracey E. Bregman, Eileen Brennan, Jack Carter, Peter Aykroyd
Synopsis: Some potent comic talent lends credibility to the Canadian Funny Farm. Michael Chapin stars as Mark, a would-be stand-up comedian. Mark leaves his Midwestern hometown behind to try his luck at the California comedy club managed by Gail (Eileen Brennan, doing a superb takeoff of real-life Comedy Read More
Synopsis: Produced for public television, Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius has in the past 15 years become a mainstay of local PBS fund drives. Utilizing deftly chosen vignettes from Kovacs' best TV work, the film is at once a biography and a paean to this unique talent. The story of Kovacs' Read More
Actors: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Anne Dusenberry
Synopsis: John Byrum wrote and directed this loosely based biographical tale of Beat author Jack Kerouac and Neal and Carolyn Cassady. John Heard stars as Jack Kerouac, and the film chronicles the Beat lifestyle that shaped the literary and social forces brewing and overflowing in Kerouac's imagination Read More
Actors: Steve Allen, Jim Backus, Jack Carter, Jayne Meadows, Martha Raye, Sylvia Sidney, Rip Taylor, Lyle Waggoner, Betty White, Dick Sargent
Synopsis: The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such miniseries as The Kent Family Chronicles. Fourth-billed Kim Cattrall plays the title character, journalist Dina Moran. Instructed by her boss (Dick Sargent) to take over the Read More
Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays Daniel Stone, a Joe Wambaugh-style LA cop turned novelist. The pressures of his new career cause a rift between Stone and his superior officer Pat Hingle, and also puts additional barriers between Stone and his estranged wife Mariette Hartley. The fact that Stone's partner Roy Thinnes Read More
Synopsis: Narrated by Milton Berle, Hey Abbott! is a compilation of highlights from Abbott & Costello's numerous television programs. Includes routines like "Who's on First," "The Birthday Party," "Floogle Street" and "Oyster Stew." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Bill Bixby
Synopsis: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth Read More
Actors: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Carol Arthur
Synopsis: In this 1975 adaptation of Neil Simon's stage play, director Herbert Ross presents the story of two old-time Vaudvillians played by Walter Matthau and George Burns in his first starring role since 1939's Honolulu. After decades apart, the cantankerous duo is persuaded to reunite for a television Read More
Synopsis: An antacid pill, provided by Gwen Snoop, causes a basketball star to become ill prior to appearing on a television talk show. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Lenny Bruce was a stand-up comic (though he frequently sat down do deliver his monologues) whose work in the early '50s electrified the intellectual community of his time. It is not just that he was foul-mouthed; many contemporaries were that. It was his daring inclusion of political observations Read More
Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne
Synopsis: In The Comic, Dick Van Dyke plays Billy Bright, silent-era film comedian. The opening scene is at his funeral in which his sidekick Cockeye (Mickey Rooney) honors his partner's last request by hitting the preacher in the face with a pie. Van Dyke's voice then narrates the life story of the comic Read More
Actors: Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas, Patrick O'Neal, Lola Albright
Synopsis: This light romantic comedy is set during the November 9th power outage of 1965 that darkened New York and much of the East Coast. Margaret (Doris Day) is a theater actress who storms out on her architect husband, Peter (Patrick O'Neal), when a pretty female reporter spends too much time Read More
Actors: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker, Lillian Gish
Synopsis: LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard luck lately -- his marriage is a wreck, and he hasn't fully recovered from a serious wound suffered in the line of duty a year ago. He and his partner, Sgt. Ed Musso (Keenan Wynn Read More
Synopsis: In his only starring made-for-TV movie, comedian Jonathan Winters plays an art expert engaged by an insurance company. Winters is assigned to protect a valuable Rembrandt, on loan from the Louvre to a major New York gallery. The Rembrandt disappears and passes through several hands (including the Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Terry Moore, Jan Murray, Sue Ane Langdon, Paul Mantee, Eileen O'Neill
Synopsis: Armed with the latest in high-tech gadgetry, a spy attempts to bring in a mad Nazi war-criminal determined to conquer the world by brainwashing powerful leaders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert
Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More
Synopsis: Created by television pioneer Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. This video contains a pair of programs - one featuring the trombone player Frank Read More
Synopsis: Created by television pioneer Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. This video contains a pair of programs - one featuring the pianist Phineas Read More
Synopsis: Created by television pioneer Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. This video contains footage from that show with appearances by Cannonball Read More
Synopsis: Created by television pioneer Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. This video contains a pair of programs - one featuring the cool jazz pioneer Read More
Actors: Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows
Synopsis: An expose on campus sex provides the basis of this bizarre film made in 1960. A college professor is taking the survey which focuses upon the sexual habits of the students. Unfortunately, some people object and bring him up on charges of indecency. The film climaxes with his trial. ~ Sandra Read More
Synopsis: This volume features a different selection of game shows from the '50s and '60s, including "People Are Funny," "Concentration," and "I've Got a Secret." This video also features some of the original commercials. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre
Synopsis: Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who is trying to get back on his feet, despite cutthroat competition from a rival organization. He also has a younger sister (Kathryn Grant) to watch out for. After arranging Read More
Actors: Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, Herbert Anderson, Robert Simon
Synopsis: Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over his career choice, and his early frustration over not being able to play his kind of music, the film tends to be more a series of musical highlights than a biography. The film Read More
Actors: June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria de Haven, Dennis Day, Harry James
Synopsis: I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Read More
Actors: Steve Allen, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Donald Novis, Gloria Swanson, Mabel Normand
Synopsis: Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied together by a thin continuity wherein TV host Steve Allen hopes to boost his ratings by screening excerpts from Sennett's silent and talkie two-reel comedies. Among the Read More
Synopsis: This compilation tape features unexpected happenings on local TV news shows, funny animal footage, and bloopers and outtakes from such television shows as The Price Is Right, Happy Days, All My Children and One Day at a Time, among others. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Steve Allen's skills as a pianist were quite impressive, though most fans remember him as a comedian, author, and the original host of The Tonight Show. On this video, Allen's in-depth knowledge of jazz piano is revealed. Viewers are shown many of the ways a talented pianist adds flair to his or Read More
Synopsis: Comedian Steve Allen is remembered by many for creating The Tonight Show television format in the 1950s. In How to Use Your Home Computer, Allen offers information and advice on how to use a PC. He talks about many of the basic ways people can use their computers as they handle daily business and Read More
Synopsis: Elvis on Television is a collection of filmclips dating back to "The King's" first video appearances in 1956. We see Elvis making his small-screen debut on January 28, 1956, as a guest on the Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show. We watch Presley trade quips with a gloriously clueless Milton Berle. We Read More
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