The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind(1988)
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Während terroristischer Aufstände auf der Philippinen-Insel Mindanao um die Jahrhundertwende geht ein amerikanischer Militärarzt gegen sturen Kadavergehorsam und die Unvernunft der Schutztruppe an und stellt die Ordnung wieder her.
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Der Karriere wegen verlässt der kaltherzige Barney (Edward Arnold) seine Geliebte Lotta (Frances Farmer). Daraufhin heiratet sie den treu-einfältigen Swan (Walter Brennan). Jahre später verliebt sich Barney inzwischen Millionär in deren gemeinsame Tochter. Aber auch sein Sohn Richard (Joel McCrea) umgarnt das Mädchen….
Die verwöhnten New Yorker Erbinnen Cornelia und Irene Bullock nehmen an einer extravaganten “Schnitzeljagd” teil, bei der nach einem “forgotten man” gesucht wird. Auf einer städtischen Müllhalde treffen sie auf den überraschend wohlerzogenen Godfrey. Nach einigen Turbulenzen läßt dieser sich von Irene als ihren Fund mitbringen, so daß sie die “Schnitzeljagd” gewinnt, doch Godfrey ist abgestoßen von dem sinnentleerten Lebenswandel der Reichen. Gerade als er zurück auf die Müllkippe kehren will, bietet ihm Irene einen Job als Butler der Familie an….
A cowboy realizes too late that his girlfriend's father had been cheated out of everything in a crooked card game. He sets out to get revenge on the crooks.
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into thinking she's a detective in pursuit of herself, there's no shortage of great laughs.
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.