The Comedian
Television comedian Sammy Hogarth is constantly berating his brother Lester and bullying writers for better material.
The Young Stranger
John Frankenheimer makes his directorial debut with this drama about a teen (James MacArthur) in danger of going delinquent. Also starring Kim Hunter and James Daly.
Stolen Hours
Susan Hayward stars as a rich Texas playgirl with no real ambition who meets a young Welsh doctor who sees the despair beneath her indifference -- and the illness she's trying to hide.
Lady In A Corner
Loretta Young's final appearance features her character's efforts to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, Young's character must also deal with a mole.
Rooster Cogburn
The one-eyed, tough-as-nails lawman with "true grit" teams with a Bible-thumping spinster schoolmarm to bring the killers of her father to justice - and recover a load of explosive nitro in this action-comedy-western.
Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth is determined to buy a cottage in the country as a weekend retreat.
Little Big Man
In the present day, 121-year-old Jack Crabb, the oldest living man in the world and residing in a hospice, recounts his plentiful life story to a curious historian. Among other things, Crabb claims to have had been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Keeping Up Appearances
Award-winning actress Patricia Routledge plays super-snob Hyacinth Bucket in this comic masterpiece. Season Five reveals that Hyacinth is determined to join the cast of Emmet's production of The Boyfriend. Hyacinth also decides to share her talent as the perfect hostess and places an advertisement in the local newspaper. But her clients have a different service in mind.
Little Big Man
From director Arthur Penn (BONNIE AND CLYDE), Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan star in a genre-defying tale of an alleged 121-year-old white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.
Finding The Funk
Filmmaker-historian Nelson George conducts a passionate archeology of funk music replete with loving testimonials about funk heydays from now-mythical music makers like Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins and George Clinton. With The Roots' Questlove as our guide, George carves out a nostalgic portrait of funk music as an enduring artistic assertion of the black experience in the USA.
Keeping Up Appearances
When it comes to snobbery, Hyacinth Bucket is in a class of her own. Season Two of this award-winning comedy reveals that Daddy has gone missing - again. Meanwhile Hyacinth drags Richard off for a weekend of golf, and determined that the neighbors should see her new living room suite, Hyacinth has parking cones placed outside the house.
Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz - The Uncut Film Classic
Story of Bob Stroud, (Burt Lancaster) a steely two-time killer with a volatile temper who develops a growing interest & love for birds behind bars, (starting after Stroud finds an orphaned sparrow in the prison yard). Full of wonderful performances, this drama from director John Frankenheimer is rich in character detail, absorbing & rewarding. Lancaster was nominated for an Academy Award.
Wentworth
The women of Wentworth Prison face a high-stakes power struggle in Season 3 of the internationally acclaimed Australian drama. After receiving a life sentence without parole, Bea Smith assumes the mantle of top dog and asserts her dominance over the other inmates. Enlisting the help of both prisoners and officers, Bea wages war with sadistic governor Joan “The Freak” Ferguson.
Scaramouche
By day, Andre secretly perfects his parries and lunges...and hides his true identity at night behind the mask of stage clown Scaramouche.
Birdman of Alcatraz
Burt Lancaster stars as a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, who becomes a world renowned authority on birds. The excellent supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas and Karl Malden.
