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In the Florida of the 1990s, real estate boomed, newspapers flourished and the heavens rained money. John and Jenny Grogan, golden-fleeced journos, move from Kalamazoo, Michigan to West Palm Beach, Florida and adopt a yellow Labrador that John names Marley (after Bob.) This is meant to be a test, suggested by John's co-worker Sebastian. to see whether the Grogans are ready for a family. Within a year, Marley has grown into a rambuctious and incorrigible dog. John's editor offers him a twice-weekly column writing anything he likes. Initially stumped for ideas, John realises that Marley's misadventures might be the perfect topic for his first column - and Marley proves to be very popular with readers. But one dog does not make a family...Also stars Eric Dane, Alan Arkin, Haley Hudson, Haley Bennett and Kathleen Turner. Based on the 2005 memoir of the same name by John Grogan. -
Advertising exec Neal Page just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal gets is misery - in the shape of Del Griffith - a loud-mouthed, lovable, optimistic, eternally upbeat salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild-goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey. If it's painful, funny or just crazy, it'll happen to Neal and Del - two guys with a knack for making the worst of a bad situation - it's every traveller's nightmare in a comedy-come-true. -
When Solomon is chosen to succeed his father, King David, he vows to rebuild Jerusalem and make Israel a world leader. But his jealous brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharoah and the seductive Queen of Sheba conspire to bring down Solomon's throne. Also stars George Sanders and Marisa Pavan. King Vidor's last film. -
When Yanko Góral, a Ukrainian peasant, is swept ashore on the coast of Cornwall, the sole survivor of the wreck of an emigrant ship he makes his way to a farm, where his dishevelled appearance frightens the family - except Amy, a loner who is regarded by some as a simpleton and others as a witch, a queer character who collects things that wash ashore. When Yanko has recovered from his ordeal, he is put to work by the local townspeople as slave labour. But when he shows the local doctor some brilliant chess moves, he begins to receive more respect in the village...until he begins to court the 'queer' Amy. Also stars Kathy Bates, Zoe Wanamaker, Ian McKellan and Joss Ackland. -
Debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a small and modest black college, works to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a fear for blacks. Tolson uses the power of words to shape his 'underdog' students into an elite debating team while challenging the social mores of the time, culminating in a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard University's championship team. Based on a true story. Also stars Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker and John Heard. -
Cosmo Topper, the mild-mannered bank manager who was persuaded to take a walk on the wild side by the ghosts of George and Marion Kerby (he inherited them when he bought the wrecked sports car in which they'd died) is having more adventures. Ever the gentleman, Topper gives a lift to Ann and Gail - two pretty young ladies stranded after a car accident. But then Gail turns up back on Topper's doorstep as a ghost, having been accidentally murdered while holidaying at the home of her wealthy friend - who was the intended victim! And Gail is determined that Topper will help her find her killer. Plenty of absurdity and zany comedy as Mrs Topper is confused - again - by her staid husband's eccentric behaviour and Gail's body goes missing. Also starring Carole Landis and Billie Burke. -
In Hollywood, appearances are everything - so when conniving film maker Jonathon Shields realises the funeral of his father, a notorious former studio head dearly loathed by many, he hires extras to pose as mourners. When he needs financing for a film project, Shields turns to producer Harry Pebbel, who in turn contacts director Fred Amiel, movie star Georgia Lorrison and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow and asks them into his office to explain that Shields needs the three of them for the project. With their names attached, there would be no problem getting the finance he needs. They have already refused - but Pebbel asks them to allow him to get Shields on the phone before they give their final answer. As they await Shields' call, Pebbel assures the three that he understands why they refused to speak to Shields. Their involvement with Shields then unfolds in a series of flashbacks. Also starring Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan and Gloria Grahame. This film won five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952. -
In 1928, elderly and wealthy Samuel Fulton has no family of his own and he decides to leave his fortune to the family of his first love, the late Millicent Blaisdell, who turned down his proposal years before because he was poor. Wondering what sort of people the Blaisdells might be, he takes a room in their home posing as 'Mr Smith', a poor man. They are a poor family who seem happy - Mr Blaisdell has taught his children to to place value on material things - but Mrs Blaisdell wants her daughter Millie to marry a wealthy, snobbish young man who can give her everything she never had as a young woman. Millie would rather marry her hard-working beau Dan. Fulton arranges for his lawyer to contact the family with news of a surprise 'inheritance' of $100,000 - will they pass the test or do they have to learn that money cannot ever buy happiness? Also starring Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau and Lynn Bari - with a surprise uncredited appearance by a young man who only three years later became a very big star indeed. -
Volume 3 of the award winning series that covers the dynamic history of the railroads during warfare from the American Civil War to World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. Whether under full attack or evacuating the wounded, the trains kept running.
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