Frank DeKova

American Pop -- Ralph Bakshi directs this journey into an explosion of sight, sound, song and superb storytelling, set to a soundtrack with hit music.

American Pop -- Ralph Bakshi directs this animated musical that follows a family of musicians from the pre-jazz age through soul, '50s rock, drug-laden psychedelia, punk and more.

Calhoun stars as a drifter who finds himself helping a group of backbiting settlers under Indian attack. Most of the ungrateful pilgrims run to their deaths in spite of the cowboy's efforts to save them. Calhoun eventually defeats the Indians and rides off into the sunset with Bates in this story based on a Louis L'Amour novel and co-produced by Calhoun.

Tempers flare and fists fly in Cowboy, an action-packed sagebrush classic based on the real-life adventures of a young tenderfoot turned tough cattleman. Glenn Ford stars as Tom Reece, a range-hardened trail boss who has just arrived in Chicago after months on the plains. When he loses all his money in a high-stakes poker game, he reluctantly accepts a $3,800 loan from hotel desk clerk Frank Harris (Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon) in exchange for a piece of his cattle business. Frank, a would-be cowboy, has fallen hopelessly in love with Maria Vidal (Anna Kashfi), the voluptuous daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher. Though her father forbids the lovers from seeing each other again, Frank holds Tom to their partnership agreement, and forces the feisty wrangler to take him on the cattle drive to Maria's hometown of Guadalupe. There, the two men find all the excitement they can handlein this all-star Technicolor tale of fiery emotions and dangerous desires.

The first movie ever filmed in CinemaScope, The Robe was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1953, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Richard Burton. Burton stars as Marcellus Galilo, the Roman centurion charged with overseeing the crucifixion. But when he wins Christ's robe in a gambling game at the foot of the cross, his life is forever changed.

An intensely satisfying drama of rugged primitive justice, "The Man from Laramie" marked the final, and finest, collaboration of one of the most important teams in Western films: director Anthony Mann and star Jimmy Stewart. Together this perfectly-matched pair provided audiences with eight classic pictures, including "Winchester '73" and "Strategic Air Command." Under Mann's superb direction, Stewart departs from his well-loved "ordinary hero" role and gives a riveting performance as a resolute vigilante obsessed with finding the man responsible for his brother's death. Among the suspects are an arrogant cattle baron (Donald Crisp), his sadistic son (Alex Nicol) and his ranch foreman (Arthur Kennedy, in the best performance of his career). One explosive confrontation, in which Stewart is dragged by a wild horse and shot in the hand at close range, is one of movie history's most memorable sequences. Among the first Westerns filmed in CinemaScope, "The Man from Laramie" uses the widescreen technology to emphasize the scope and power of this harrowing action-drama, making it a perfect example of the Western as America's epic art form.

Journey into an explosion of sight, sound, song and superb storytelling as brilliantly conceived by animation innovator Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, The Lord of the Rings, Wizards). From a turn-of-the-century immigrant vaudevillian to a rock superstar, "American Pop" is the story of four generations whose lives revolve around the beat of American popular music. Featuring a mind-blowing soundtrack bursting with the hit music of The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas & The Papas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pat Benatar, Lou Reed, Bob Seger and more. Packed with energy, excitement, electricity and enthusiasm, Bashki's work is a ground-breaking, kaleidoscopic animated trip.

Animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi ("Fritz the Cat," "Heavy Traffic," "American Pop") brings us this musical cartoon feature based on his recollection of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s.

Animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi brings us this musical cartoon feature based on his recollection of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s.

Animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi brings us this musical cartoon feature based on his recollection of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s.

Ralph Bakshi, creator of "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" brings you the outrageous '50s the way they really were in an outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.

Ralph Bakshi directs this journey into an explosion of sight, sound, song and superb storytelling, set to a soundtrack with hit music.