Bio of swing band leader ‘Benny Goodman’ from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Read More »
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Nightside (1980) Bernard L. Kowalski, Doug McClure, Michael Cornelison, John de Lancie
Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, street-wise cop working the dusk to dawn shift in Los Angeles Read More »
Chelsea on the Rocks (2008) Abel Ferrara, Ira Cohen, Gerald Busby, Stanley Bard
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from the legendary residence, the Chelsea Hotel, in the heart of New York. Read More »
Knife Edge (2009) Anthony Hickox, Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press, Matthieu Boujenah
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son Read More »
The Sullivans (1944) Lloyd Bacon, Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II Read More »
Jack London (1943) Alfred Santell, Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen
Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »
Homecoming (1948) Mervyn LeRoy, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it’s “the thing to do” rather than deep-seated patriotism. Read More »
Experiment in Terror (1962) Blake Edwards, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
When the bank clerk Kelly Sherwood arrives home after hours, she is intimidated by a stranger that knows her routine habit. Read More »
Daytons Devils (1968) Jack Shea, Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, Lainie Kazan
A crook brings together a group of ex-cons and other misfits in order to rob the payroll at an Air Force base. Read More »
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) Howard Brookner, Josef Sommer, Madonna, Tony Azito
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. Read More »