Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth and Adolphe Menjou star in this lavish 1942 musical set in Buenos Aires. Astaire plays a down-on-his-luck dancer who romances an elegantly cool Hayworth against the wishes of her suspicious father, Menjou.
A remake of the...
Appearances are everthing in Hollywood. So when conniving moviemaker Jonathan Shields realizes few mourners will show up for the funeral of his equally conniving father, he knows what to do: hire extras.
Kirk Douglas gives a magnetic performan...
This powerful story of postwar hopes and dreams, from Sloan Wilson's best-seller, resonated with many men and their families.
Gregory Peck stars as a doting husband and father who gives up his smalltime job and enters the more promising world ...
Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yellow grain. Trees bursting with white Bloom. "The pictures come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare.
Winner of Golden Globe and New York F...
December 1944. A civilian victim of the Battle of Bastogne scrounges through garbage to find a scrap of food. "I don't even see those things," a war-numbed GI says. "I want to remember them!" his buddy snaps.
Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh rem...
One of Paramount's funniest films of the Forties is this Preston Sturges screwball classic starring Betty Hutton The Greatest Show On Earth and Eddie Bracken Hail The Conquering Hero. Hutton is Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town gal who feels it is her...
In a role that was one of her favorites, the 22-year-old star headlines this warm turn-of-the-century delight presented for the first time on DVD. Set in 1903, this captivating musical is a slice of Americana about the Smith family's experiences duri...
The great Howard Hawks was renowned for working in pretty much every known film genre during his long directorial career (and usually wound up making one of the definitive films of those very genres); this effort about the construction of the Great P...
A beautiful ingenue joins a tawdry music hall troupe and quickly becomes its feature attraction in Federico Fellini’s stunning debut film (directed in collaboration with neorealist filmmaker Alberto Lattuada). Featuring Giulietta Masina, Fellini’s ...
A filmmaker from Tehran travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustli...
Legendary screen icons Gary Cooper (High Noon) and Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry) teamup for a magnificent, action-packed western from director Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and screenwriters Roland Kibbee and James R. Webb. With sweeping vistas an...
During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of thos...
The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption, and intrigue that tears apart the greatest empire the world has seen. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of charact...
All hands on deck! In the fifth of 10 Astaire/Rogers pairings, Fred trades his top hat for a sailor's cap, Randolph Scott gets the girl (pre-Nelson Harriet Hilliard), Ginger gets a tap solo and viewers get the unending delight of seven sparkling Irvi...
In their seventh movie, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers croon, swoon and sway to a glorious George and Ira Gershwin score. It's time to Slap That Bass when Fred taps to the mechanized rhythms of a luxury liner's Art Deco engine room. The two lace up r...
