Robert Pierce

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Soaring above the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch stands today as the nation's tallest arch and national monument. "Monument to the Dream", at unnerving heights, traces the adventures of the Arch's evolution, from the early concepts on the drawing board to the fabrication of its stainless steel sections, and the triumphant placement, in a race against the sun, of its final section in the fall of 1965. Through the words of the master architect Eero Saarinen, and the ambient chorus of mallets beating metal sheets into graceful curves, the film reveals the innovative structural techniques and the brilliant design of this avant-garde monument, presenting one of this century's greatest civil engineering achievements as a metaphor for the struggle to win the West. This film went on to be nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short in 1967.

Cuando un autobús se queda aislado a causa de una inundación, los pasajeros se convierten en Adán, Eva y el demonio en un sueño.

A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.

Un gigantesco meteorito cae cerca de la pequeña población de San Angelo. Un geólogo encuentra un fragmento y se lo lleva para analizarlo; poco después, el hombre aparece petrificado y el laboratorio lleno de rocas. Un colega suyo investigará el secreto que hay detrás de las piedras que llegaron de allende el espacio...

Cuando Scott Carey se ve expuesto a una combinación de radiación e insecticida, empieza a menguar sin que la medicina sea capaz de encontrar solución a su mal.

Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?

Una vez terminada la guerra, la mula Francis está apunto de ser subastada como excedente. Por otro lado, Peter es confundido por otro hombre y acusado de todas sus fechorías...

Johnny Dark, joven ingeniero que intenta diseñar coches especiales para personas sensibles, convence al dueño de la empresa para la que trabaja, Fielding, para que le permita construir un modelo preparado específicamente para una importante carrera.

En el Museo del Terror de Londres van a exhibir los cuerpos de dos de las figuras más escalofriantes de todos los tiempos, dos de los monstruos más importantes dentro del imaginario terrorífico de la historia de la literatura fantástica. Se trata, nada más y nada menos, que del conde Drácula (interpretado por el mítico Bela Lugosi) y Frankenstein (encarnado por Glenn Strange).

Un ejecutivo de una compañía de seguros y genio de las matemáticas es incapaz de divertirse. Un día asiste al espectáculo de una feria ambulante y se enamora de una de las chicas. El hombre se une a la feria y acaba salvándola de la ruina.

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.

Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....