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This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a sweeping soap opera about the guests at the Grand Hotel. Several plots intertwine, but mostly it's about Stars! Stars! Stars! Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and both Barrymore brothers head up the cast. Garbo is luminous as Grusinskaya, the...

This feature version of Rod Serling's memorable teleplay, theatrically released in 1962, was previously produced in 1956 for live television. The grim tale stars Anthony Quinn as a brain-damaged fighter suffering from too many years in the ring yet pushed into another and yet another punishing roun...

Dramatization of the turbulent life of Bob Crane, popular for his role in the television program Hogan's heroes.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 3-JUL-2007Media Type: DVD...

Set in 1957 this is the fascinating story of the last days of flamboyant frankenstein director james whale. Far removed from the glamour of hollywood an aging whale suffers a series of strokes which triggers memories of his past his career and his world war 1 days in the trenches. Studio: Lions Gat...

The year: 1946. The event: Oakland's "Jazz at the Philharmonic." The music streaked into the unknown daring listeners to grab hold and fly there too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles "Yardbird" Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker's extra...

Tells the story of boxer Jake La Motta's life and how his self-destructive behavior affected his career and relationships.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 8-FEB-2005Media Type: DVD...

Theatrical sparks flew when veteran Eugene O'Neill interpreters Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst joined forces in the celebrated 1973 revival of O'Neill's tender semi-autobiographical drama. In a towering performance, the great Robards portrays a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor based on O'Nei...

This riveting, gut-punching boxing picture plays out in something close to "real time." We are locked in with an over-the-hill pug (Robert Ryan) as he arrives at an arena for a match against a younger opponent. What he doesn't know yet is that his crooked manager has agreed to throw the fight for so...

Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics' poll at the end of the decade, and it's a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later sc...

Sometimes everything comes together in a movie and it becomes something so much greater than the sum of its parts that it can only be described as a miracle. That's the case with Tender Mercies, a quietly luminous character piece about an alcoholic, washed-up country singer named Mac Sledge (Robert ...