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Inc First National Pictures
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Traveling Saleslady finds Joan playing a toothpaste heiress who takes her "cocktail-flavored toothpaste" discovery on the road and to the competition, after her father decides that the office is no place for a lady. Glenda plays a drugstore proprietress and provides Joan's romantic competition, while Hugh Herbert plays a zany inventor.
Miss Pacific Fleet has the girls playing carnival hucksters, stranded and strapped for cash on the wrong coast....
Pub. Date
p2006, c1949
Language
English
Description
An Irish horse trainer and his niece come to Kentucky after her brother's death in a riding accident. While the trainer takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit and tries to convince the owner that the ungainly little horse can become a champion, his niece begins a romance with a jockey but is haunted by memories of her brother's accident.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The inventor of an unsinkable swimsuit, shipping clerk Joe Holt quits his job at the Armstrong Rubber Goods Corp. and moves to California. While on Catalina Island looking for work, Joe is mistaken by socialite Alice Brandon for a champion marathon swimmer, who is competing in a 21-mile race to the mainland, and Joe is shocked to discover he's expected to participate. Begged by Alice to show up her pompous ex-suitor, Ed, Joe agrees despite the fact...
8) The General
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[The general] Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken fro a coward by his beloved, Annabelle Lee (marion Mack), young Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive. [The playhouse] ... Keaton portrys every member of a stage company, the entire audience and an undisciplined chimp to boot. [Cops] is the quintessential chase film.
10) Lucky me
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Struggling performer Candy Williams (Doris Day) has many ways to ward off bad luck. Maybe that's why the most lopsided, unlucky day of her life eventually turns out to be the luckiest."--Container.
11) The pajama game
Language
English
Description
A labor/management dispute at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory is the subject of this musical comedy.
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott) washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling the dead man's unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Lorre) takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters (Greenstreet). But as Leyden zeroes...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Doctor X: An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by recreating the crimes in a lab filled with dials, gizmos, beakers and crackling displays of electricity.
The return of Doctor X: A pallid, bunny-cuddling, once-dead fiend needs his victims' blood to stay alive.
14) On Moonlight Bay
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Musical about a family that moves to a small town in Indiana, where their tomboy daughter@ begins a romance with the neighbor across the street.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid of her, but with love and patience they finally manage to integrate her into the family. Just then Anne invites another orphan, the aggressive handicapped Jimmy-John, to their...
16) Dark victory
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
17) Battling Butler
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[Battling Butler] Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes masculinity will blossom, is there mistaken for "Battling" Butler, a renowned prizefighter. Alfred carries on the ruse to impress a young lady, but his charade is soon complicated by the arrival of a true contender. [The haunted house] Buster takes refuge in a mansion rigged with a series of frightening booby traps. [The frozen North] Keaton...
19) A stolen life
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Davis plays identical twins-- one good, one evil-- who are both in love with the same man.
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist but as man, struggles with an impossible note trapped in his mind.