The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he
is promptly chased around by the police who
think he is a pickpocket. Running into the
Bigtop, he is an accidental sensation with
his hilarious efforts to elude the police. The
circus owner immediately hires him, but
discovers that the Tramp cannot be funny
on purpose, so he takes advantage of the
situation by making the Tramp a janitor who
just happens to always be in the Bigtop at
showtime. Unaware of this exploitation, the
Tramp falls for the owner's lovely acrobatic
stepdaughter, who is abused by her father.
His chances seem good, until a dashing
rival comes in and Charlie feels he has to
compete with him

Silent Film

Johnnie loves his train ("The General")
and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War
begins he is turned down for service
because he's more valuable as an engineer.
Annabelle thinks it's because he's a
coward. Union spies capture The General
with Annabelle on board. Johnnie
must rescue both his loves.

Charlie is an expert bricklayer. He has lots
of fun and work and enjoys himself greatly
while at the saloon. As he leaves work his
wife takes the pay he has hidden in his hat.
But he steals her purse so he can go out
for the evening. He has a terrible time
getting home on a very rainy night.
When he does so he finds his wife waiting
for him with a rolling pin.

Silent Film

A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes
are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly
unbeatable young player.

Black & White

After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a
small town, his gang continues to threaten.
Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to
take Wade (in secret) to the nearest town with
a railway station to await the train to the court
in Yuma. Once the two are holed up in the hotel
to wait, it becomes apparent the secret is out
and a battle of wills starts.

Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't
quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought.

The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret
and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill,
even if he has yet to receive a cent.

He thinks he may have found the solution in the form
of flubbergas, which can change the weather.

It also helps Medfield College's football team to win
a game.

At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention
lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend.

Richard Pryor plays three roles:
Leroy Jones, a poor orange-picker who gets
laid off for accidentally joining the workers'
union during one of their demonstrations;
Leroy's father, whom he leaves behind with
the rest of his family to go to Los Angeles;
and Reverend Lenox Thomas, who impregnates
Leroy's wife Annie Mae during his absence.
In Los Angeles, Leroy ends up working for
the same company that fired him back home;
he is a manager at the company, but is now
distant from his former pals. Though married,
he falls in love with labor organizer Vanetta
and must divide his time between her and
Annie Mae. When he discovers that Annie Mae
is pregnant by Reverend Thomas, he puts the
moves on Mrs. Thomas.

Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners
on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy.
Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan
has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers
he is commanding.

Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking
traveling salesman who always has a risqué
story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and
customers alike.

He is immediately taken with
Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose
hellfire-and-damnation revivalism has attracted
quite a following.

Gantry uses his own quick wit and Bible knowledge
to become an indispensable part of Sister Sharon's
roadshow, but his past soon catches up with him
in the form of Lulu Bains, now a prostitute.

While Gantry seeks and eventually gets forgiveness
from Sharon, tragedy strikes when she finally
manages to get out of her revivalist tent and
opens a permanent church.

During the early 1800s, English Lord John Morgan
(Richard Harris) is hunting in the Dakotas, but he
is captured by a group of Sioux warriors. Morgan's
guides are killed, but he is spared by Sioux Chief
Yellow Hand (Manu Tupou), who marvels at Morgan's
OPLblond hair. Brought to Yellow Hand's tribal village,
Morgan has to endure physical abuse and mockery
at the hands of women and children who consider
him to be a wild horse. Restrained by a rope around
his neck, Morgan is given as a gift to an old squaw,
Buffalo Cow Head (Dame Judith Anderson), to be
her slave and help her with daily chores. In the village,
Morgan meets Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei), the
beautiful young sister of Chief Yellow Hand. Morgan
witnesses the traditional courtship process when
Running Deer is asked in marriage by a tribe member
who presents Yellow Hand with gifts in return for
his sister's hand in marriage. Morgan starts to fall
in love with her. Also in the village is half-breed,
Batise (Jean Gascon), whose mother was Sioux and
father was French. Batise becomes Morgan's friend
and interpreter. Batise advises Morgan against
escaping citing his own escape attempt when he
was re-captured and hamstrung by the savage Sioux.
Despite these warnings, Morgan tries to escape
several times, but he is re-captured. He decides to
bide his time for another escape opportunity. When
a rival Shoshone war party approaches the Sioux village,
Morgan kills two of the Shoshone scouts, winning
the respect of his Sioux captors. Instead of escaping,
Morgan plans to learn the ways of the Sioux, become
a warrior, and gain his place amongst them. But this
would require much more than killing a few Shoshone
scouts. Lord John Morgan's true ordeal is just beginning.

An epic movie that follows the life of
Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King
that conquered all of the ancient Greek
tribes and led the Macedonian Army against
the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered
most of the then known world and created
a Greek empire that spanned all the way from
the Balkans to India.

Fugitive bank robbers Robert (John Wayne), William (Harry Carey Jr.)
and Pedro (Pedro Armendáriz) stand at a desert grave. Caring for the
newborn infant of the woman they just buried will ruin any chance
of escape. But they won't go back on their promise to her. They won't
abandon little Robert William Pedro. Director John Ford's Western
retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and
thematic masterpiece. Ford adds color to his feature-film palette,
capturing stunning vistas via cinematographer Winton C. Hoch,
who would win two of his three Academy Awards for Ford films.
Again, populist-minded Ford asserts that even men of dissolute
character can follow that inner star of Bethlehem to their own redemption.

Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge
to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by
Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two
develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan
passes up several chances to get away - but in the
end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.

Audie Murphy .... Seven Jones
Barry Sullivan ..... Jim Flood
Joy Karrington .... Venetia Stevenson
John McIntire ..... Sergeant Henessey

When this movie is made in 1956, one could circumnavigate
the globe in a little less than two days.

When Jules Verne wrote the story
"Around the World in Eighty Days" in 1872,
he predicted that one day man could accomplish the task
in eighty hours, but which most considered folly to do in
eighty days in current times, that is except for people like
Englishman Phileas Fogg, a regimented man who believed
all it would take is exacting work, the skills he possesses.

He just has to make sure a train's schedule meets the
required sailing schedule which meets the required coach
schedule and so on.

As such, he takes up what ends up being the highly
publicized twenty thousand pounds
sterling wager from his fellow members at the
London Reform Club to do so, losing the bet which would
ruin him financially.

Along for the ride is Fogg's new, loyal and devoted valet,
the recently arrived Latin immigrant, Passepartout, who
possesses unusual skills which could be major assets,
but whose all consuming thoughts on the opposite
sex could take away his focus from the task at hand.

Although Fogg has accounted for certain transportation
delays, he may not account for cultural peccadilloes he
may encounter along the way which could also cause
delays.

He is also unaware of the true reason a man name Fix
is following them, he who could also derail Fogg's
task permanently.

As Fogg and Passepartout proceed on their journey,
they get into one misadventure after another.

Ultimately, Fogg may find other things in life more
important than winning the bet.

In times of great upheaval during Passover in early
first century Jerusalem, the fifth governor of the
Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, finds
himself before a pressing dilemma.

As part of a tradition, the indecisive ruler offers
the agitated crowd the choice to have either
Jesus of Nazareth or the murderer, Barabbas,
released from Roman custody; but, instead,
the people demand the release of the thief.

Now, as Jesus takes Barabbas' place on the cross,
an inhumane act of punishment paves the way for
an arduous spiritual journey of faith, leading
Barabbas to Sicily's dark Sulphur mines, and the
blood-soaked soil of Emperor Nero's Coliseum.

Will Jesus' sacrifice set Barabbas, the slave, free?

On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling,
recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old
pal Francis the Talking Mule.

Gradually, it dawns on Peter that a clerical error
has assigned him to an all-female WAC base,
where broad slapstick is the order of the day and
Francis has more horse sense than any of the
human officers.

Too innocent to appreciate the pleasant aspects
of his predicament, Peter ends by helping the
"enemy" in a war-game battle of the sexes.

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an
extremely small army of Greek Soldiers
(300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta)
to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to
have numbered 250,000.

The actual heroism of those who stood
(and ultimately died) with Leonidas
helped shape the course of Western
Civilization, allowing the Greek city
states time to organize an army which
repelled the Persians.

Set in 480 BC.

In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a
gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus
(Sir Peter Ustinov). The uprising soon spreads
across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand
of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds
to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who
could then transport them to other lands from
Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator
Gracchus (Charles Laughton) schemes to have
Marcus Publius Glabrus (John Dall),
Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an
army against the slaves who are living on
Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor,
Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus
(Sir Laurence Olivier) is greatly embarrassed
and leads his own army against the slaves.
Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves
successfully make their way to Brandisium
only to find that the Silesians have abandoned
them. They then turn north and
must face the might of Rome.

Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is
caught up in an immigration raid on a factory.

Deported to Mexico as an undocumented immigrant,
he has no way of proving that he is in fact an
American citizen, and is forced to rely on his
cunning to sneak his way back home.

Cheech and Chong house sit for a marijuana grower
and rip off the crop.
Stalked by keystone-style cops, Los Guys have a
series of encounters with L.A. area characters
even weirder than themselves.

Cheech must deal with losing his job, his angry
neighbor, and trying to score with sexy Donna.

Meanwhile, Chong meets Cheech's cousin Red
and the two have a wild time in Hollywood
with a big bag of buds and a cool Ferrari.

Along the way they meet everyone from
Pee Wee Herman to really cool aliens.

U.S. Army veteran Peter Stirling and his friend,
Francis the talking Mule (who was not a donkey),
arrive in New York City, where Peter has ambitions
to become a big-time newspaper reporter, but
can only get a job as a copy boy.

Francis, the talking MULE (and not a donkey),
though is boarding at the stables where the
horses of the city's mounted police are kept,
and mounted-police horses are known for
being gossips, so Francis gets lots of inside
information regarding local crime activity,
passes it on to Peter, and Peter is soon leading
the town in big-time scoops.

This pleases his city-editor to no end,
but the local gangsters are not amused.

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out
of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

Peter's been friends with Francis since Burma.
Francis is a talking mule. He ends up being sent
to the race tracks with Travers' race horses.
Peter gets a ride there from Miss Travers.

Francis tells Peter who's winning the horse race
and he bets $10. FBI agents are suspicious as
to how he knew. Miss Travers steps in and helps
him.

Peter gets a job with the Travers looking
after the horses. With a big race coming up,
Peter's problems with the FBI and
a mob boss are not over.

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about
his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis,
so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another
hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that
appeared in his right mind.

In the process of all this,
the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Maureen,
who pretended to be lost among the jungles.

A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes
are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly
unbeatable young player.

Black & White

A woman is treated badly by some odd
salespeople on an otherwise empty
department store floor.

Black & White

The town drunk in the old-west faces his past
when Fate lends a hand.

Black & White

A pitchman is visited by Mr. Death and is forced
to get his priorities in order.

Black & White

After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a
small town, his gang continues to threaten.
Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to
take Wade (in secret) to the nearest town with
a railway station to await the train to the court
in Yuma. Once the two are holed up in the hotel
to wait, it becomes apparent the secret is out
and a battle of wills starts.

Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant
in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together
with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as
commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they
are happy to meet after a long time but their different
politic views separate them. During the welcome parade
a roof tile falls down from Judah's house and injures the
governor. Although Messala knows they are not guilty,
he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and
sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and
take revenge.

Charlton Heston ........ Judah Ben-Hur
Jack Hawkins ............. Quintus Arrius
Haya Harareet ........... Esther
Stephen Boyd ............ Messala
Hugh Griffith ............ Sheik Ilderim
Martha Scott ............. Miriam
Cathy O'Donnell ....... Tirzah
Sam Jaffe .................. Simonides
Finlay Currie ............. Balthasar/Narrator
Frank Thring ............ Pontius Pilate
Terence Longdon ... Drusus
George Relph ......... Tiberius Caesar
André Morell ......... Sextus

Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't
quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought.

The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret
and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill,
even if he has yet to receive a cent.

He thinks he may have found the solution in the form
of flubbergas, which can change the weather.

It also helps Medfield College's football team to win
a game.

At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention
lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend.

Richard Pryor plays three roles:
Leroy Jones, a poor orange-picker who gets
laid off for accidentally joining the workers'
union during one of their demonstrations;
Leroy's father, whom he leaves behind with
the rest of his family to go to Los Angeles;
and Reverend Lenox Thomas, who impregnates
Leroy's wife Annie Mae during his absence.
In Los Angeles, Leroy ends up working for
the same company that fired him back home;
he is a manager at the company, but is now
distant from his former pals. Though married,
he falls in love with labor organizer Vanetta
and must divide his time between her and
Annie Mae. When he discovers that Annie Mae
is pregnant by Reverend Thomas, he puts the
moves on Mrs. Thomas.

Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners
on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy.
Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan
has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers
he is commanding.

Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking
traveling salesman who always has a risqué
story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and
customers alike.

He is immediately taken with
Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose
hellfire-and-damnation revivalism has attracted
quite a following.

Gantry uses his own quick wit and Bible knowledge
to become an indispensable part of Sister Sharon's
roadshow, but his past soon catches up with him
in the form of Lulu Bains, now a prostitute.

While Gantry seeks and eventually gets forgiveness
from Sharon, tragedy strikes when she finally
manages to get out of her revivalist tent and
opens a permanent church.

During the early 1800s, English Lord John Morgan
(Richard Harris) is hunting in the Dakotas, but he
is captured by a group of Sioux warriors. Morgan's
guides are killed, but he is spared by Sioux Chief
Yellow Hand (Manu Tupou), who marvels at Morgan's
OPLblond hair. Brought to Yellow Hand's tribal village,
Morgan has to endure physical abuse and mockery
at the hands of women and children who consider
him to be a wild horse. Restrained by a rope around
his neck, Morgan is given as a gift to an old squaw,
Buffalo Cow Head (Dame Judith Anderson), to be
her slave and help her with daily chores. In the village,
Morgan meets Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei), the
beautiful young sister of Chief Yellow Hand. Morgan
witnesses the traditional courtship process when
Running Deer is asked in marriage by a tribe member
who presents Yellow Hand with gifts in return for
his sister's hand in marriage. Morgan starts to fall
in love with her. Also in the village is half-breed,
Batise (Jean Gascon), whose mother was Sioux and
father was French. Batise becomes Morgan's friend
and interpreter. Batise advises Morgan against
escaping citing his own escape attempt when he
was re-captured and hamstrung by the savage Sioux.
Despite these warnings, Morgan tries to escape
several times, but he is re-captured. He decides to
bide his time for another escape opportunity. When
a rival Shoshone war party approaches the Sioux village,
Morgan kills two of the Shoshone scouts, winning
the respect of his Sioux captors. Instead of escaping,
Morgan plans to learn the ways of the Sioux, become
a warrior, and gain his place amongst them. But this
would require much more than killing a few Shoshone
scouts. Lord John Morgan's true ordeal is just beginning.

An epic movie that follows the life of
Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King
that conquered all of the ancient Greek
tribes and led the Macedonian Army against
the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered
most of the then known world and created
a Greek empire that spanned all the way from
the Balkans to India.

Fugitive bank robbers Robert (John Wayne), William (Harry Carey Jr.)
and Pedro (Pedro Armendáriz) stand at a desert grave. Caring for the
newborn infant of the woman they just buried will ruin any chance
of escape. But they won't go back on their promise to her. They won't
abandon little Robert William Pedro. Director John Ford's Western
retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and
thematic masterpiece. Ford adds color to his feature-film palette,
capturing stunning vistas via cinematographer Winton C. Hoch,
who would win two of his three Academy Awards for Ford films.
Again, populist-minded Ford asserts that even men of dissolute
character can follow that inner star of Bethlehem to their own redemption.

Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge
to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by
Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two
develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan
passes up several chances to get away - but in the
end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.

Audie Murphy .... Seven Jones
Barry Sullivan ..... Jim Flood
Joy Karrington .... Venetia Stevenson
John McIntire ..... Sergeant Henessey

When this movie is made in 1956, one could circumnavigate
the globe in a little less than two days.

When Jules Verne wrote the story
"Around the World in Eighty Days" in 1872,
he predicted that one day man could accomplish the task
in eighty hours, but which most considered folly to do in
eighty days in current times, that is except for people like
Englishman Phileas Fogg, a regimented man who believed
all it would take is exacting work, the skills he possesses.

He just has to make sure a train's schedule meets the
required sailing schedule which meets the required coach
schedule and so on.

As such, he takes up what ends up being the highly
publicized twenty thousand pounds
sterling wager from his fellow members at the
London Reform Club to do so, losing the bet which would
ruin him financially.

Along for the ride is Fogg's new, loyal and devoted valet,
the recently arrived Latin immigrant, Passepartout, who
possesses unusual skills which could be major assets,
but whose all consuming thoughts on the opposite
sex could take away his focus from the task at hand.

Although Fogg has accounted for certain transportation
delays, he may not account for cultural peccadilloes he
may encounter along the way which could also cause
delays.

He is also unaware of the true reason a man name Fix
is following them, he who could also derail Fogg's
task permanently.

As Fogg and Passepartout proceed on their journey,
they get into one misadventure after another.

Ultimately, Fogg may find other things in life more
important than winning the bet.

In times of great upheaval during Passover in early
first century Jerusalem, the fifth governor of the
Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, finds
himself before a pressing dilemma.

As part of a tradition, the indecisive ruler offers
the agitated crowd the choice to have either
Jesus of Nazareth or the murderer, Barabbas,
released from Roman custody; but, instead,
the people demand the release of the thief.

Now, as Jesus takes Barabbas' place on the cross,
an inhumane act of punishment paves the way for
an arduous spiritual journey of faith, leading
Barabbas to Sicily's dark Sulphur mines, and the
blood-soaked soil of Emperor Nero's Coliseum.

Will Jesus' sacrifice set Barabbas, the slave, free?

On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling,
recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old
pal Francis the Talking Mule.

Gradually, it dawns on Peter that a clerical error
has assigned him to an all-female WAC base,
where broad slapstick is the order of the day and
Francis has more horse sense than any of the
human officers.

Too innocent to appreciate the pleasant aspects
of his predicament, Peter ends by helping the
"enemy" in a war-game battle of the sexes.

Cheech and Chong meet up by chance on the highway somewhere in California.
They go in search of some dope and are accidentally deported to Mexico
where in their desperation to get home they agree to drive a van back
to the States so they can get back in time for a gig they are due to play.
Unaware of the properties from which the van is constructed they make their
way back having acquired a couple of female hitch-hikers whilst all the
time avoiding the cops whom they are not even aware are following them.

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an
extremely small army of Greek Soldiers
(300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta)
to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to
have numbered 250,000.

The actual heroism of those who stood
(and ultimately died) with Leonidas
helped shape the course of Western
Civilization, allowing the Greek city
states time to organize an army which
repelled the Persians.

Set in 480 BC.

In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a
gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus
(Sir Peter Ustinov). The uprising soon spreads
across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand
of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds
to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who
could then transport them to other lands from
Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator
Gracchus (Charles Laughton) schemes to have
Marcus Publius Glabrus (John Dall),
Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an
army against the slaves who are living on
Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor,
Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus
(Sir Laurence Olivier) is greatly embarrassed
and leads his own army against the slaves.
Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves
successfully make their way to Brandisium
only to find that the Silesians have abandoned
them. They then turn north and
must face the might of Rome.

Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is
caught up in an immigration raid on a factory.

Deported to Mexico as an undocumented immigrant,
he has no way of proving that he is in fact an
American citizen, and is forced to rely on his
cunning to sneak his way back home.

Cheech and Chong house sit for a marijuana grower
and rip off the crop.
Stalked by keystone-style cops, Los Guys have a
series of encounters with L.A. area characters
even weirder than themselves.

Cheech must deal with losing his job, his angry
neighbor, and trying to score with sexy Donna.

Meanwhile, Chong meets Cheech's cousin Red
and the two have a wild time in Hollywood
with a big bag of buds and a cool Ferrari.

Along the way they meet everyone from
Pee Wee Herman to really cool aliens.

One short year after the life-changing adventure in
Crocodile Dundee (1986), the rugged hunter from
Down Under, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, has managed
to become a legend even in New York City.

Living happily with Newsday's tenacious journalist,
Sue Charlton, Mick will soon find himself neck-deep
in trouble, when the love of his life becomes the target
of the murderous Colombian drug cartel leader, Luis Rico.

Now, from Manhattan's urban jungle to Walkabout Creek's
dangerous wilderness, Mick will have to put to good use
his unparalleled survival skills, to protect Sue from Rico's
evil henchmen.

But, do they know that they are no match for the
Australian Crocodile Dundee?

U.S. Army veteran Peter Stirling and his friend,
Francis the talking Mule (who was not a donkey),
arrive in New York City, where Peter has ambitions
to become a big-time newspaper reporter, but
can only get a job as a copy boy.

Francis, the talking MULE (and not a donkey),
though is boarding at the stables where the
horses of the city's mounted police are kept,
and mounted-police horses are known for
being gossips, so Francis gets lots of inside
information regarding local crime activity,
passes it on to Peter, and Peter is soon leading
the town in big-time scoops.

This pleases his city-editor to no end,
but the local gangsters are not amused.