Former police officer John Kennedy doesn t have a ticket but he s determined t...Former police officer John Kennedy doesn t have a ticket but he s determined to stay aboard the overnight train rolling from New York to Washington DC. He s convinced that someone or some ones among the passengers intends to kill newly elected...more
First the Pearl. Then the whole Pacific. Soon after the World War II attack on...First the Pearl. Then the whole Pacific. Soon after the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor soldiers of the Rising Sun unleash their fury on other U.S. outposts. Among their targets: The Philippines whose defenders include the 26th Cavalry an...more
In the war between the blue and the gray one soldier is yellow! When a cantank...In the war between the blue and the gray one soldier is yellow! When a cantankerous Union colonel is labeled a coward after his horse bolts for the rear the brass puts him in command of a company of the brainless and brawn less and sends them all...more
Before he was an award-winning playwright screenwriter and director Moss Hart ...Before he was an award-winning playwright screenwriter and director Moss Hart was a poor stage-struck Brooklyn dreamer who after years of writing submissions rejections galore and sheer persistence finally grasped the brass ring. He chronicled the...more
They say crime doesn t pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The...They say crime doesn t pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a...more
Gene Kelly hits the happy road to Paris love and laughter! The Hollywood icon ...Gene Kelly hits the happy road to Paris love and laughter! The Hollywood icon - the creative force behind Singin in the Rain An American in Paris and more musical landmarks - produces directors and stars in a winning family comedy about two single...more
In an era when Sean Connery Michael Caine James Coburn Dean Martin Robert Vaug...In an era when Sean Connery Michael Caine James Coburn Dean Martin Robert Vaughn and more brought varying styles of secret-agent cool to movie screens along came one of the most unusual spies ever to enter the Top Secret realm of hush-hush bang-bang...more
In the carnage and cruelty of Vietnam Navy surgeon Don Jardian learned he had ...In the carnage and cruelty of Vietnam Navy surgeon Don Jardian learned he had to move fast to deal with black marketeers who control vital supplies and even faster to stitch together a shrapnel-riddled combatant. But he couldn t foresee the...more
Society girl Margaret Richards in full snit has roared off in the family valet...Society girl Margaret Richards in full snit has roared off in the family valet s car without a cent in her pocket. But now there s a matter of $3.48 to be paid at the gas station and the attendant isn t buying her promise of payment tomorrow. He...more
Leipzig East Germany. A flashpoint of spies and counterspies moves and counter...Leipzig East Germany. A flashpoint of spies and counterspies moves and countermoves in a Cold War that could turn hot nuclear hot in seconds. In that perilous city the CIA asks American physicist James Bower (Montgomery Clift) to meet with a Russian...more
Academy Award-? winner. Tommy Lee Jones writes as well as stars and makes his ...Academy Award-? winner. Tommy Lee Jones writes as well as stars and makes his directorial debut in this rousing turn-of-the-century Western based on Elmer Kelton s popular novel and featuring Sissy Spacek Sam Shepard and Wilford Brimley. It s the...more
Gary Cooper is wonderful (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) alongside Andrea Leeds ...Gary Cooper is wonderful (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) alongside Andrea Leeds and screen legend David Niven in this epic-scale thriller that delivers excellent action scenes (Leonard Maltin) and is exciting as all hell (New York World-Telegram). In...more
Clark Gable takes off in his first starring role a high-flying action-adventur...Clark Gable takes off in his first starring role a high-flying action-adventure costarring Wallace Beery and directed by George Hill (Tell It to the Marines). Once friendly rivals Naval airmen Windy Riker (Beery) and Steve Nelson (Gable) are now the...more
Laura Mead (played by celebrated ice-skating queen-turned-actress Belita) insi...Laura Mead (played by celebrated ice-skating queen-turned-actress Belita) insists she didn t do the crime. But she did the time swearing she would murder the incompetent attorney who represented her at her jewel-theft trial. Not long after her...more