TV Guide: Mercedes McCambridge

Listing: The Lady From Baltimore

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:00:00 -0500

Mon Dec 8 02:00 PM TVLAND Melinda Banning doesn't love Joe but she is being forced to marry him by her status-seeking mother. Melinda: Audrey Dalton. Ben: Lorne Greene. Adam: Pernell Roberts. Hoss: Dan Blocker.

Listing: All the King's Men

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 04:00 PM TCM

Listing: A Farewell to Arms

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 04:30 AM AMC

Listing: Touch of Evil

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:15:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 01:15 AM TCM

Video: All The King's Men

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:50:14 -0500

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his constituents by bucking the corrupt state government. Journalist Jack Burden (John Ireland) is impressed by Willie's seeming sincerity, and aids Stark on the road to political power. Once he's reached the governor's mansion, however, Willie proves himself to be as dishonest and despotic as the crooks whom he's replaced. He also cheats shamelessly on his wife with both his campaign manager (Mercedes McCambridge, another Oscar winner) and with Anne Stanton (Joanne Dru), the sister of idealistic doctor Adam Stanton (Sheppard Strudwick). Fiercely protective of his power, Willie organizes a fascistic police force and arranges for accidents to befall those who oppose him; even so, he retains the love of the voters by lowering the p

Video: Deadly Sanctuary

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:43:04 -0500

One of cult director Jesus Franco's most popular films, this uneven adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's notorious Justine stars Romina Power, daughter of actor Tyrone Power, in the title role. Justine and her sister Juliet (Maria Rohm) are poor orphans in 1700s France forced to leave school and find a way to survive in Paris. Juliet soon becomes a prostitute, while Justine is employed as a maid by Scrooge-like innkeeper Mssr. de Harpin (Akim Tamiroff). Eventually, Justine is falsely arrested for stealing a brooch and sentenced to death. Escaping prison with the murderous Mme. Dubois (Mercedes McCambridge), Justine becomes a fugitive. In her efforts to hide from the law, Justine finds herself captured first by a perverse gay Marquis (Klaus Kinski), who subjects her to various tortures, then by a group of sadistic monks led by Brother Antonin (Jack Palance in an amazingly bizarre performance). Rosemary Dexter was originally intended to portray Justine, and might have done a better job than the wooden Power, but