Lois Nettleton

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas documents in rousing song and dance a new Texas Legend, which now joins the Alamo as a historical institution immortalized in story, song, book, play and movie. The demise of the real-life Chicken Ranch inspired the musical stage play, and now the big screen version stars Burt Reynolds as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd and Dolly Parton as the Chicken Ranch's proprietress, Miss Mona. The two join together not only in romance, but to fight big city TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down.

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. This is the story about the fight to keep the Chicken Ranch whorehouse open against the intentions of TV preacher Melvin P. Thorpe.

A sheriff and a whorehouse madam team up to battle publicity-seeking politicians and the Moral Majority to protect their town's most popular business -- the "Chicken Ranch," a notorious Texas whorehouse -- from the threat of closure.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas documents in rousing song and dance a new Texas Legend, which now joins the Alamo as a historical institution immortalized in story, song, book, play and movie.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas documents in rousing song and dance a new Texas Legend, which now joins the Alamo as a historical institution immortalized in story, song, book, play and movie.

When a TV preacher targets a local brothel as "The Devil's Playhouse," it's up to the town sheriff, a frequent patron, to save it. The film version of the Broadway hit boasts a star-studded cast and features the timeless ballad "I Will Always Love You."

Focusing on the fears of psychological terror, "Deadly Blessing" is the story of a young woman who marries a member of a strange religious sect and is then pursued by unknown forces after he is murdered.

Arthur Goldman (Maximillian Schell), a Jewish businessman living in 1965 Manhattan, is kidnapped by a group of Israeli underground agents who put him on trial as a Nazi war criminal. Goldman protests and claims he was actually a Holocaust victim. But he soon begins to revel in the notion that he is, in fact, the man they've been hunting and it's not a misunderstanding. This is an American Film Theatre adaptation of Robert Shaw's play.

Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) benevolently rules his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. Seemingly at the edge of sanity, Goldman holds forth on everything from Papal edicts to ex-wives, from baseball to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When Goldman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuously parked outside his building, Goldman's captive audience of assistant (Lawrence Pressman) and chauffeur (Henry Brown) dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of Goldman's passionate, seemingly capricious ravings are transformed into a shocking, inadvertent deposition when Israeli agents capture Goldman and put him on trial as Adolph Dorf, the commandant of the concentration camp where Goldman's family was supposedly exterminated.

Comedy about newlyweds who try to help the troubled marriage of another couple, based on a Tennessee Williams play.

A pretty hospital night nurse says "I do" to the Korean War vet under her care. Within moments she wonders what she's done. Ralph wed for money five years ago but has grown to love his bride, except she just walked out on him. Linger and look on as these pairs go through a Period of Adjustment.