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Running her own restaurant in Little Italy, Teresa Lorenzo - "Mama" - has a heart of gold. It is her sincerity in doing right by all involved that she was able to convince Judge Davis to give who was her then adolescent son Joe Lorenzo one more chance rather than send him to a reformatory for his delinquency. At the same time, she was able to convince the judge to let her adopt Joe's equally delinquent and orphaned friend Nick if only to give him a chance at life instead of also sending him to the reformatory. While Mama's actions have led to Nick seizing that chance, he on the cusp of obtaining his college degree, Joe has continued his criminal ways. Mama either is unaware or has her head in the sand about Joe, who has pretended to be managing an orange orchard in Calabasas CA for the past three years, while in reality he has been in prison, he able to maintain the ruse by having friends and associates, including his girlfriend Laurie Romayne, a proverbial dame, send letters enclosed with criminally obtained money back to Mama on his behalf. Joe's release from prison coincides with Nick's graduation, Joe able to convince an initially reluctant Laurie to accompany him back to New York for the convocation and to meet the family. Joe has ulterior motives in returning to New York in wanting revenge on two former associates, Cy Turner and Frisco Scarfi, who double crossed him, that double cross leading to his imprisonment. While Joe continues his criminal ways, Laurie, seeing the other side of life for the first time, is drawn to Mama and Nick's sincerity, Laurie and Nick who mutually fall in love with each other. Joe, however, will not give Laurie up without a fight, his threats against her which could ruin any happiness in that life on the straight and narrow with Mama and Nick.

T.H."Randy" Randall and Valerie Randall are divorced but friendly, but not to the extent she doesn't have him jailed for non-payment of alimony. His attorney, Bill Carter, suggests that the only way out of his financial strain is for him to get Valerie married off to someone else. Dizzy matron Ethel thinks that is a good idea and arranges a week-end party at which Valerie is to be paired off with likely-prospect Paul Hunter. Plans are disrupted when free-loading Freddie crashes the party and makes a heavy move on Valerie, and she likes it, mostly because Randy doesn't. Carter can't see any problem - a husband is a husband - but Randy is so certain that Freddie is bad news that he decides to win her back and remarry her himself, since he has also decided that he still loves her.

Get ready to take a ride on a train-wreck! Enter the world of Josh Lowell -- demented loser, town pillar, self-loathing transvestite in denial. The centerpiece, the proverbial objet d'art, he is the center of his universe, surrounded by minions of devoted followers, over whom he exerts an almost cult-like control. The first member of these so-called "minions" is Malaise, goth-warrior-princess and trailer-trash vampire. Malaise blazes a trail strewn with flotsam and jetsam on whatever path she chooses to tread. In this case, the path is where Josh happens to be walking. Malaise is also a really big slut. The second of these minions, and Josh's sergeant-at-arms, is Salem. A brute force of wasted air,Salem commands the respect of those around him, like crackheads, the homeless and runaway kids. Accompanied by these two devoted followers, Josh busies himself preparing for his comeback. Where has he been to necessitate this comeback? Well, that's what this documentary is about. Josh is, in fact, (according to him), none other than Tori Amos, in spite of the Adam's apple and the propensity to use urinals. Unfortunately, the population of Seattle doesn't quite accept him as the avant-garde rockstar, Ms. Amos. Therein lies the basis for the wonderful series of hijinks and conflicts that erupt as Josh spends his days walking the streets of Seattle spouting obscenities to all passers-by, threatening shopkeepers, performing for his fans and drawing all sunshine and cosmic energy from the ether above. He does this by simply walking around in a tattered housecoat and red wig, but that's the fun part.

In the first movie of the series, we are introduced to the kind Dr. Christian (Hersholt), who runs the small clinic in the town of River's End. With the town growing, Dr. Christian petitions the mayor for money to build a new hospital. But the mayor believes that the good Doctor is too old-fashioned and wants to replace him with a more "modern" medicine man, along with commissioning a new highway to be built through the town. When the mayor's young daughter is injured in an accident, Dr. Christian is able to perform extremely delicate surgery without having the correct medical instruments. The town council is so impressed with Dr. Christian that they not only allow him to keep his job, but are convinced to build the new hospital.

The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.

Shortly after being released from jail, Dodger Cole sees her family's still bulldozed to make way for yet another Super-Great Mart she vows to take back the South and leads her small gang on a moonshine fueled rampage of revenge to send modern day carpetbaggers to hell.

Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his 4 younger brothers, the Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. Until When paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today.

Adapted from Rod Sterling's teleplay, REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris. It tells the story of a prizefighter who eventually falls into the world of professional wrestling. Muhammad Ali (billed as Cassius Clay) has a small role as a fighter.

Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in The Yellow Cab Man, The Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs. Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of "the slums of tomorrow": the 'burbs. So, of course, when Ben movies his family to a sprawling housing development, he struggles (hilariously_ to keep the fact a secret. Jean Hagen, a year after her iconic portrayal of the itsy-voiced screen siren in Singin' in the Rain, plays Ben's long-suffering wife, and singer Polly Bergen makes a guest appearance with a torrid nightclub-scene rendition of "Love."

During the period after the Republic of Texas had been granted statehood, lawless forces sough to divide the state. During a six-month trial period for the newly-created Texas Rangers as a law-enforcement agency, every effort is made to discredit them. State senator Clarke Faulkner (Joseph Schildkraut) and power-hungry Beau Laroux (Brude Cabot) wage a campaign of terror to convince west Texans that they should secede from Texas because the Rangers are not strong enough to protect them. Cattleman Gary Conway resists the efforts of his Ranger friend Tom Banner (James Brown) to join the Texas Rangers. But when Conway's kid brother Chuck (Hal Landon) is killed by the renegades, he joins the Rangers seeking revenge.

Joy (Janis Paige) is used to getting male attention, while her step-sister, Jackie (Joyce Reynolds), stands on the sidelines. The pair, who have a strong bond, come home from college and meet the handsome Warren (Robert Hutton) at a dance. Despite initially being attracted to Jackie, those feelings are instantly forgotten when he meets Joy. The two sisters vie for his attention, and Jackie decides to undergo a makeover in order to gain his affections. Her makeover has surprising consequences.

Racing-car enthusiast Jerry O'Connor and his dim-witted mechanic Buddy Buttle get their chance to join the crew of race-car builder Pinky Delano, who just suffered a setback when one of his drivers was killed by failing to make a turn on the track. Then, one by one, his other drivers suffer the same fate, until it is Jerry's turn to drive in the big race. Buddy tries an experiment and determines these were no accidents, but is it too late to help Jerry, who has started the race?

Ex-showgirls and roommates Polaire Gwynn (Madge Evans) and Schatze Citroux (Joan Blondell) are reunited with their sometime friend and former co-worker, Jean Lawrence (Ina Claire), when she returns from France. Jean, a hard-boiled gold digger, asks the honest Polaire and loyal Schatze to introduce her to a new man, and Polaire calls her boyfriend, playboy Dey Emery (David Manners), for help. The girls meet Dey and his friend, pianist Boris Feldman (the film's director Lowell Sherman), at a speakeasy, where Boris bets Jean that if his piano playing does not induce her to love him, he will give her $5,000. Later, at Boris' apartment, Jean pretends to sleep through Boris' concert. Polaire then plays, and Boris, impressed with her talent, offers to be her teacher. He implies that she will have to be his lover as well as his student, however, and Polaire becomes upset when Dey does not protest. Dey mistakenly assumes that an exhibition of jealousy would be unwelcome, and his inaction results in Polaire's acceptance of Boris' proposition. After Polaire leaves to collect her things, Schatze and the heartbroken Dey also leave, but Jean stays to seduce Boris. Jean's calculated exhibitionism is successful, and Boris does not answer the door when Polaire returns. After she leaves, Polaire is hurt in an automobile accident and is hospitalized. Sometime later, Jean tires of Boris and breaks up with him, then pursues Dey. Dey welcomes Jean's attentions until Schatze tells him that Polaire has been in the hospital since their parting. Dey immediately goes to Polaire and proposes to her, and they reconcile. Later, Jean makes an unwelcome appearance at Polaire and Schatze's apartment while Polaire is waiting to meet Dey's father Justin (Phillips Smalley) for the first time. When Dey arrives and Jean learns that Polaire is to meet Justin at the Emery house, she slips a pearl necklace into Polaire's pocket so that she will have an excuse to follow. Polaire's interview with Justin is going splendidly until Jean arrives and intimates that Polaire stole the necklace. Indignant that Dey believes Jean, Polaire storms out, while Jean stays to flirt with Justin. Later, on the day of Jean and Justin's wedding, Schatze and Polaire arrive to retrieve a bracelet that Polaire loaned Jean. Jean returns the jewelry and miserably contemplates her future of wedded boredom as Schatze and Polaire brag about the fun they will have when they sail for France that afternoon. The trio are soon drunk, and Jean decides that she cannot exchange her freedom for Justin's fortune. She sneaks out of the house with Schatze, but Polaire is caught by Dey. Dey apologizes to Polaire for misjudging her, but Polaire leaves anyway. The determined Dey follows her onto the ocean liner, where Polaire consents to marry him when he states that he is certain of her virtue. The couple then cuddles happily as Jean flirts with Schatze's male traveling companion.

When a wealthy but deluded environmentalist opens a secluded woodland retreat, four dentists get much more than a free and relaxing weekend getaway. Something is amiss at Camp Arbor Diem this Arbor Day weekend as campers from all walks of life begin to disappear. Who is behind these strange occurrences? Could it be the spirit of the woods? And can the dentists figure it all out before death comes calling for them?

A hen and her chicks stumble across some wheat. The hen asks other farm animals to help her sow the wheat, but they all decline. They also refuse to help her water and harvest the wheat or bake bread with the resulting grains. She and her chicks manage to do all the work themselves, then delight in refusing to share the bread with the animals who would not help her to make it.

A musical about a man who rides into a frontier town looking for his brother's killer, but is surprised to find everyone in the town is celebrating his kin's death and, for that matter, gunplay in general. He eventually discovers the murderer and each man swears to shoot down the other in a gunfight. However, their girlfriends team up to put an end to the bloodshed.

Generational family saga set in Shanghai in the thirties, sixties and eighties.

Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. The latest is British, and Hammond of the Secret Service, comical but competent, investigates undercover. Also interested is Hammond's sister Kay, a reporter working under cover as a waitress. The government and plane manufacturer Barrett think the whole business is just coincidence, but the "Viking", ostensible salvage ship controlled by a foreign power, has much to do with it.

Three heartless killers, J Dog, Keith, and Peaches, instill fear in a homeless man who witnessed their brutal murder. To ensure his survival, the homeless man shares chilling tales of terror and vengeance that unfolded within the city. The first story, "The Reckoning," recounts the tragic fate of Jessica, a young girl betrayed by her classmates and left to drown in a neighbor's pool. Two decades later, Jessica returns to seek retribution against the three girls responsible for her demise. In the second story, "The Clinic," Jaleesa Daniels grapples with doubts about her impending abortion as eerie visions and unsettling noises plague her conscience. Lastly, "Graduation Night" transports us to the early 1970s, specifically 1975, where Bernice, a naive country girl, falls victim to a heinous act of rape by a football player named Big Willy, while bystanders idly watch. Falsely accused and expelled, Bernice tragically takes her own life. However, on graduation night, the five culprits anticipate a joyous celebration, unaware that Bernice has returned to deliver their diplomas... straight to hell!

Fact-based story about a woman's fight to get her rodeo star husband freed from a false murder conviction.

Young boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a tough boxing match in Tijuana. Before long, he's back fighting while Peggy stays in the desert. But in the city, after new triumphs, Jim meets Joan, a teasing Society blonde. Will he see through her before it's too late?

It's the early days of the F.B.I. - federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they have limited powers - they don't carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests - that doesn't stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his former roommate James "Brick" Davis (James Cagney) to do so as well. Davis, having completed law school, wants to be an honest lawyer, not a shyster, despite his ties to mobster boss McKay. He's intent on doing so, until Buchanan is gunned down trying to arrest career criminal Danny Leggett. Davis soon joins the "G-Men" as they hunt down Leggett (soon-to-be Public Enemy Number One) and his cronies Collins and Durfee, who are engaged in a crime and murder spree from New York to the midwest.