TV Guide: Burl Ives

Listing: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 08:00 PM CBS

Listing: The Big Country

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:15:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 04:15 AM TCM

Video: Erik the Librarian: The Secret of Burl Ives

Hulu — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:03:28 -0500

Season 1, Episode 3: In his continuing quest to win the heart of his one true love Mindy, Erik enlists the help of Matt Braunger to tap into the power of Music.

Video: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Want Your Hand

TCM — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:40:57 -0500

Father Big Daddy (Burl Ives) and son Brick (Paul Newman) clash over Brick's drinking and his wife Maggie's misdeeds in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, from the Tennessee Williams play.

Video: Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

iTunes — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:01:37 -0500

Thrilling performances by Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives make this adaptation of Tennessee Williams's story about a wealthy plantation owner succumbing to cancer one of the most acclaimed movies in history.

Video: Summer Magic

iTunes — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:05:04 -0500

Hayley Mills brings a joyful enthusiasm to this nostalgic, musical, and bighearted adventure in small-town living. When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love, and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine. A good-natured postmaster, pretentious cousin Julia, and the mysterious absentee landlord, Mr. Hamilton, populate their new life in a charming old yellow house. Featuring an all-star supporting cast, including Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, and Deborah Walley, this classic and wondrous tale will delight the entire family.

Video: Two Moon Junction

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:45:07 -0500

Zalman King wrote and directed this soft-core Harlequinesque Romance that plays like Tennessee Williams meets Fredericks of Hollywood. April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn) is the daughter of a powerful senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern family. April is engaged to marry the granite-handsome Chad Douglas Fairchild (Martin Hewitt) within a few days. But Chad has gone to Tuscaloosa to sign papers for their condo and the rest of the family has headed off to the lake, leaving April in the house alone with nothing to do except take long and languid showers--until she sets her eyes on the pecs of carnival roustabout Perry (Richard Tyson). Soon the two are making tasteful love in every nook and cranny of April's mansion. Unfortunately for the two sexual athletes, April's grandmother (Louise Fletcher) has assigned the local sheriff (Burl Ives) to keep an eye on her. And an eye on her he keeps, so that during the wedding ceremony, he has quite a story to tell. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide.

Video: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:55:26 -0500

This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (Paul Newman) and Gooper (Jack Carson). He has cancer, but a doctor has deliberately and falsely declared it in remission. Seemingly perfect son Gooper and his wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood), have several children and are anxiously expecting to inherit Daddy's millions. By contrast, Big Daddy's favorite, Brick, is a has-been football star who's taken to drinking his days away since the suicide of his best friend a year earlier. He resents his wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), because he believes that she had an affair with his deceased friend. As a result, he refuses to sleep with her, although she remains devoted to him. Since Brick and Maggie have failed to produce any grandchildren, Big Daddy is inclined to leave hi

Video: East Of Eden

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:46:48 -0500

This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen personality James Dean, who plays Cal Trask, the bad son of taciturn Salinas valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask (Raymond Massey). Although he means well, Cal can't stay out of trouble, nor is he able to match the esteem in which his father holds his good brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Only Aron's girlfriend Abra (Julie Harris) and kindly old sheriff Sam Burl Ives) can see the essential goodness in the troublesome Cal. When Adam invests in a chancy and wholly unsuccessful method of shipping his crops east, his wealth plummets. In an effort to save the business, Cal obtains money from his estranged mother (the proprietor of a whorehouse) and invests it in a risky new bean crop. The gamble pays off (thanks in no small part to the war), but Adam refuses to take the money from Cal, and the resultant quarrel causes Adam to have a stroke. Released the same year as Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden

Video: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:14:04 -0500

This stop-motion animagic version of the classic Christmas tale adds a bit of a twist when Rudolph encounters an abominable snowman. This was made for TV and features Burl Ives as the narrator. ~ All Movie Guide.

Video: Big Country, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:41:45 -0500

In The Big Country Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a coward, especially when challenged by Bickford's cocksure foreman Charlton Heston. The far-from-cowardly Peck decides to distance himself from the machismo overload at the Bickford spread, settling for a romance with headstrong schoolmarm Jean Simmons, whose water-rich lands are being fought over by the two warring ranchers. When Jean is kidnapped by Ives' no-good son Chuck Connors, Peck decides to take action. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.