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- From his life with Hal Roach Studios to the B-Movies with Randolph Scott, and to the influence of Mexican bullfighter, Carlos Arruza, this documentary layouts a comprehensive look into Bud Boetticher's life with film.
- The life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer and subversive star Mae West. Over a career spanning eight decades, she broke boundaries and possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s.
- A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
- The legend of the Cowboy as told by over 100 years of classic films and television series.
- There's a curious sentence in Judges 5:17, "and Dan remained in ships." In this episode of the Naked Archaeologist we try to determine whether some of the Dan took to the sea and became part of a Mediterranean confederation of Sea Peoples.
- 2005–200822m6.8 (12)TV EpisodeIn part two, the Naked Archaeologist takes his investigation of King Solomon up a notch, and makes some amazing discoveries that just might prove that Solomon really was the King of Israel in the 10th Century BCE.
- Russell Banks speaks about the pioneers and founding values of the United States, immigrants and Americanness, economic development and modernity, relations between America and Europe
- A profile of the filmmaker ("The Tall T," "Seven Men from Now") who, notes narrator Ed Harris, "made his mark in one of America's greatest art forms.the Western movie." Included: comments by admiring colleagues
- Astaire and Rogers experts and aficionados delve into the development of the the legendary duo's dancing partnership, focusing on Follow The Fleet.
- Spattered with blood and controversy, Sam Peckinpah's Westerns revolutionized their genre. SAM PECKINPAH'S WEST: LEGACY OF A HOLLYWOOD RENEGADE goes in search of the man behind these legendary films. Through a poignant array of film clips and rare interviews, the documentary reveals a tortured artist whose genius and demons changed the Western forever. Interviewees include actor/director Billy Bob Thornton, Benicio Del Toro, Paul Schrader, film critic Roger Ebert, actors who worked with Peckinpah such as Harry Dean Stanton, Stella Stevens, L.Q. Jones and others. The personal side of Peckinpah will feature interviews with family members, sister Fern Lee, son Mathew Peckinpah, plus exclusive home movies and photos.
- American Masters explores the life and career of Cary Grant (born Archie Leach) with celebrity interviews.
- This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
- 1985– 55mTV-147.8 (113)TV EpisodeWith its concentration of theaters and publishing houses, New York became the center of the music world and at the center of New York was a small area called Tin Pan Alley where musicians would play their songs for publishers.
- A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
- 1995–19983h 45m8.5 (5.1K)TV EpisodeMartin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.
- As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race- on stage, in films, on radio and television. Including clips from Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Belle of the Nineties, and Klondike Annie. In addition to home movies and archival footage, Anthony Quinn, Rex Reed and Robert Wise provide interviews.
- George Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "cr*ppy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe Américaine is a montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed to fit the narration of what is arguably the greatest story ever told.
- Cary Grant was the very essence of a movie star - a man every woman loved and every man wanted to be. His deft comic style merged easily with his strength as a romantic leading man. The actor's suave exterior, however, concealed a complex and often sensitive individual. Cary's painful journey from his lonely working-class beginnings to the peak of Hollywood royalty is made vivid through family photos, archival footage, clips from many of his films - including his first, following his discovery by blonde bombshell Mae West, starring role in She Done Him Wrong.
- Host Jack Palance looks how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse, and the O.K. Corral.
- This documentary traces the history of many of the Old-West's most notorious gunfighters and describes some of the most famous shootouts, including the James/Younger gang's bungled Northfield Minnesota bank robbery, the Daltons' attempt to rob two banks simultaneously and the carnage that resulted and the Earps and Clanton gang's shootout in Tombstone, Arizona. The film uses historical accounts, photographs from the period as well as film clips from Western movies depicting the historical events.
- Tribute to the cowboy as portrayed in American motion picture Westerns.
- Compilation of clips, primarily from musicals of the 1930's, revering prior Hollywood productions.
- The most fabulous cast of stars and action scenes are spotlighted in this Western spectacular. A feature film compilation which tells the story of the West with footage from various feature films.
- A compilation of scenes from 83 films, divided into 5 segments: The Land, The Cities, The Families, The Wars, The Spirit.
- Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's greatest stars in candid moments.
- In a restaurant the tables sit empty despite the talents of Primo the chef and the ambitious efforts of his brother Secondo. A celebrity night at their restaurant promises not only to turn their business around but to change their lives.
- The world of the screen musical, starting with The Jazz Singer (1927), with emphasis on the big extravaganzas of the 1930s with the Busby Berkley-directed hits starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler and Fred Astaire's famed dance teaming with Ginger Rogers.
- An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
- Syndicated program for the 1961 March of Dimes fund-raising campaign.
- A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.
- Hollywood celebrities are interviewed, often at their homes.
- Originally aired in 1960, this celebrity golf match pitted golf legend Sam Snead with the stars of Hollywood in a 9 hole match for charity. Harry Von Zell is the host and commentator of the match. The Golf Channel revived this series in 2003 by adding pop up factoids to the show.
- Price walks through a cowboy town movie set, then in an indoors, he shows off some of "his" collection of western movie props and costumes. He proceeds to screen film on a Moviola showing a collection of cowboy clips taken from the long running Columbia series "Screen Snapshots", as is most of Price's commentary.
- A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.
- Texan Tom Buchanan is heading back home with enough money to start his own ranch, but when he stops in the crooked town of Agry, he's robbed and framed for murder.
- In 1864 Capt. John Hayes goes to Colorado to take over the stagecoach line and keep the flow of Western gold flowing and help the North win the Civil War.
- An independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.
- Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.
- In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
- A former sheriff blames himself for his wife's death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible.
- An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
- When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
- A special agent from Chicago is sent out west to bring in the notorious Reno brothers.
- Marshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
- Larry Madden returns to Little River after several years, still vowing to avenge himself against the humiliating whipping he received at the hands of cattle baron Tucker Ordway.
- In this pilot for a proposed Western TV series, host Randolph Scott introduces a story called "Officer's Choice," from a story by Ernest Haycox. It involves Sheriff Cliff McLain, who is a devoted family man and good citizen who has a dark secret. He was formerly an outlaw who has turned his life around. When a Ranger comes to town searching for the one-time outlaw, whom he suspects Cliff might be, Cliff has to decide whether to give up the life he has made for himself and run, or to let himself be revealed for his past.
- A bounty hunter, hired by Pinkerton, trails 3 unknown murderous train robbers to a town and finds a host of suspects.
- When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang
- A former spy moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but when he gets there decides that it's not for him and tries to change his life.
- An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists whose want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.
- In Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers.
- Nine minute excerpt from the feature film, Wagon Wheels (1934), released to the 16mm home movie market in the pre-VCR days of the 1950's.
- How support for the United Jewish Appeal has affected the lives of three people.
- In this Screen Snapshots (Columbia production number 6853), Randolph Scott visits Ralph Staub's projection room to plug his latest Columbia western, and Staub shows Scott some footage from silent films with Tom Mix and Will Rogers. A brief resume of the careers of both actors is also presented.
- When a banker finds his stagecoach shipments of gold from Carson City are vulnerable to holdups, he commissions the building of a railroad through the mountains.
- A Confederate Major and his troops are falsely led to believe the Civil War is not over, and become wanted men after they attack a Union Army wagon train in Nevada.
- A private deadly feud ensues when ruthless wealthy rancher Will Isham attempts a takeover of small rancher Owen Merritt's land and marries Owen's old flame, Laurie Bidwell.
- After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
- To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
- Arriving in Arizona on a wagon train in 1866 former Confederate officer Jackson Redan partners with local businessman Don Miguel while their competitor Asa Goodhue is joined by opportunistic drifter Jacob Stint.
- Civil War veteran and former newspaperman Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the war is over and finds himself fighting an old friend who's grown ambitious.
- Ralph Staub visits the third annual Los Angeles Sheriff's Rodeo. There, he sees Randolph Scott and Lucille Norman plugging the upcoming "Carson City"; Gene Autry and Champion taking a few bows in the arena; Montie Montana giving an exhibition of his trick-roping-and-riding skills; and Chill Wills just hanging out. And, there are some actual shots of the rodeo action itself.
- A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
- Montanans Jim Redfern and Mike Evans head into Canada's British Columbia via the Cariboo Trail intent to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble instead.
- Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
- A group of treasure hunters search for a wagon load of gold, buried years before in Death Valley.
- Former Dalton gang member Bill Doolin puts together his own bank-robbing gang but federal Marshals are closing in.
- A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
- Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element--with help from an old pal, Jesse James.
- A man is bent on taking revenge on those he believes are responsible for his fiance's death.
- When part of Oklahoma Territory becomes officially part of the U.S., Vance Cordrell is forced to deal with some of the most infamous outlaws of the Old West.
- Cole Armin, recruited by his corrupt uncle as heir apparent to his freight-hauling empire, defects to his honest rival.
- Gunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.
- Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
- To save her fortune from a designing nephew, Matilda Reed must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion.
- A sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War.
- Sheriff Mark Rowley and his brother John find themselves in an annexed area of Indian Territory which is home to notorious outlaws like Jesse James and Sam Bass.
- A mystery writer's three children confuse a police detective working on a murder.
- A reunion of Hollywood stars playing golf.
- The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
- The conflicts of war-torn China are reflected in miniature within an American mission hospital.
- In the Yukon mining town of Malemute, saloon owner John Calhoun and an assortment of shady characters are after the bags of gold dust the miners deposit in the new bank managed by Calhoun himself.
- During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
- A wanted outlaw arrives in town to rob a bank that has already been held up! His past and his friendship with the sheriff land them both in trouble.
- The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
- Major "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.
- The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
- In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
- Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
- Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
- At the end of the Civil War, an embittered Southern belle joins forces with a Confederate guerrilla leader to raid Union towns.
- Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flee the city when the goose-stepping German storm troopers arrive. After her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of German bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation, is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancé, a pro-German informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee through a French seaport.