The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani),
an honest woodworker, falls in love with Marie (Simone Signoret), the moll of minor crook Roland (William Sabatier). Gangster boss Felix Leca (Claude Dauphin) orders ...
Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as
playing the title role -- proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph ...
Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of
thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated ...
The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee
Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's ...
This release compiles the eight made-for-TV movies that were made with Telly Savalas as the
popular detective Kojak. In addition to the 1973 pilot, this set serves up 7 more films made between 1985 and 1990, years after the series ...
Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by Anonymous (Joe
Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of ...
Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star
(Jean Harlow) responsible for the celebratedBombshell (itself a film à clef loosely based on Clara Bow) -- with the added appeal of William Powell. One ...
Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving
in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James ...
