Virginia Mayo

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.

A community is shocked to learn that their new neighbor is a convicted sex offender who has been paroled.

Born November 2, 1913, he went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster - later Burt Lancaster - was one of five children of a New York City postal worker. Burt recalled family life as warm and mutually supportive. At the Union Settlement House, he and boyhood friend Nick Cravat formed an acrobatic team. By eighteen, Burt was 6'2" and blessed with the athletic physique and dynamic good looks that helped make him famous. A basketball scholarship was not enough to keep him in NYU beyond his sophomore year. That's when he and the 5'2" Cravat joined a circus, earning $3 weekly between them. A stint in the Army introduced Burt to acting and led him to Hollywood where his first release, The Killers (1946), propelled him to stardom at age 32. He took control of his own career and seldom faltered.

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine.

Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Ben Hur, The Bible ... In the Beginning and many more titles. With iconic clips, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the likes of Charlton Heston, Peter Ustinov and Virginia Mayo, Dye's film is a celebration of the golden age of epic moviemaking.

Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims.

Documentary on the life and career of James Cagney

A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.

"Do it Debbie's way" is an aerobics workout video hosted by actress Debbie Reynolds. It features other well known actresses taking her class such as Teri Garr and Florence Henderson. Debbie coaches and encourages you through her work out to upbeat jazz selections using exercise equipment found around the house. She also provides alternative movements/positions for people who are unable to go full out.

Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers.

In Arizona during the Civil War, a woman is accused of witchcraft, tied to a horse and left to die in the desert. One hundred years later, the descendants of the woman's accusers start being killed off, and the townspeople suspect the woman has come back as an evil spirit.

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband.

An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.

The relatives of a recently deceased man named Kovac gather at is creepy mansion for the reading of the will. Before the will can be read, however, the relatives began to be murdered one by one.

A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. The leader's father is an infamous ex-gunfighter, and he straps his guns on one more time.

Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.

Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.

An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richard Eyer, Brian Keith, Michael Dante and Russ Conway.

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.

The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.

Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.

After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town.

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.

1세기에 로마에 노예로 팔려간 그리스인 조각가는 예수의 제자들로부터 예수가 최후의 만찬에서 마신 포도주 잔을 디자인하라는 주문을 받는다. 하지만 로마인들과 네로 황제는 예수의 은술잔은 파괴하려 한다. 자만심에 가득 차있던 시몬은 네로 황제에게 이 계획을 이룰 수 있게 하겠다고 공언한다. 시몬은 자신의 능력을 과시하려고 바벨탑을 만들어 그 위에서 뛰어내려 하늘을 날아감으로써 하느님에 대항할 수 있다고 단언하는데...

Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.

Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.

An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.

When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.

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.

The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.

New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

12세기 이탈리아 북부의 롬바르디아는 독일에서 온 울리히 백작의 지배를 받고 있다. 아들 루디를 홀로 키우는 궁수 다르도는 용맹하고 정의로워 마을 사람들의 지지를 받고 있다. 어느 날, 광장에서 다르도는 울리히 백작과 그 곁에 있는 프란체스카를 보게 되는데, 그녀는 백작이 빼앗아 간 다르도의 아내이다. 다르도와 백작 사이에 신경전이 벌어지고, 수려한 활 솜씨를 가진 다르도가 백작이 아끼는 매를 쏘아 떨어트린다. 그러나 달아나던 도중 루디가 그만 백작의 손에 잡히고 만다. 〈미드나잇 카우보이〉(1969, 존 슐레진저) 등을 쓴 각본가 왈도 솔트가 각본을 맡은 액션 모험극. 중세를 배경으로 로빈 후드와 같은 주인공이 등장한다. ((재)영화의전당)

When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

코디 자렛과 그의 어머니를 포함한 갱들은 열차 강도를 한 후 산 속에 숨는다. 코디는 발작적인 두통에 시달리고 있다. 한편 갱의 일원 중에는 보스가 되길 원하며 코디의 부인인 버나를 탐내는 빅 에드라는 인물이 있다. 경찰에 체포된 코디는 감옥에서 빅 파도와 친해진다. 그러나 빅은 사실은 비밀 수사를 하고 있는 경찰이다. 코디는 빅 에드와 버나가 자신의 어머니를 살해했다는 사실을 전해 듣고 충격을 받는다. 그는 빅의 도움을 받아 탈옥을 감행한다. 30년대 갱스터 영화와 전후 필름 느와르의 교차점에 위치하는 범죄영화의 걸작. 라월 월시의 대표작일 뿐만 아니라 영화사상 최고의 터프 가이로서의 제임스 캐그니의 연기도 눈여겨볼 만하다.

Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro

무법자 웨스 맥퀸은 감옥에서 친구의 도움으로 나오게 된다. 그리고 그 친구를 도와 마지막으로 한 건을 하려고 하지만 그는 그의 새로운 동료가 마음에 들지 않는다. 범행을 준비하던 중 서부로 이주해 온 줄리 앤이라는 처녀와 그녀의 아버지를 도와주게 되고, 웨스는 그녀의 순수함에 빠져든다. 그러나 범행준비는 자꾸 꼬여만가고, 웨스에게 위기가 닥친다. 이제는 정말 벗어나야 할 시간이다. 그러나 불행히도 그의 목에는 만달러의 현상금이 걸려있다. 죽느냐 사느냐 그것이 문제인 것이다.

Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.

프레드와 호머는 제2차 세계대전 참전 용사들로 전쟁이 끝나고 귀향하는 길에 만나 친구가 된다. 그들은 집에 돌아간다는 기쁨에 들뜨면서도 한편으로 가족과 사회에 적응해야 한다는 두려움에 사로잡힌다. 또한 항공모함의 화재로 두 손을 잃고 불구가 된 호모는 사랑하는 애인과 가족이 자기의 이런 모습을 어떻게 받아들일지 초조해한다. 고향으로 돌아온 첫날, 세 사람은 호머의 삼촌이 경영하는 술집에서 우연히 다시 만나 즐거운 한 때를 보내고 술에 만취한 프레드는 알의 집에까지 가서 자게 된다. 그 다음날 아침, 아내와 반가운 재회를 한 프레드는 그녀와의 새 삶을 꿈꾼다. 프레드는 나이트 클럽에 다니고 있는 아내를 설득해 일을 그만두게 하고 자신이 일을 구해보려 하지만 생각과는 달리 쉽게 취직을 하지 못해 고민한다. 한편, 호머는 가족들이 자신을 정상인으로 바라보지 않고 동정어린 시선으로 바라본다고 생각하며 가족을 피해 겉돈다. 또한 사랑하는 윌마를 회피하고 그녀를 떠나보내려고 한다.

Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.

WWII U.S. Navy training film MN-5075a that addresses the end of the war. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby try to convince sailors not to desert but to wait for their government benefits and honorable discharge.

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

실베스터는 비열한 행동를 했던 연예인으로 영국에서 추방되어진다. 배를 타고 미국으로 떠나기 위해 해외여행을 하던 중 그는 예쁜 마가렛공주를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 그녀는 그에게 관심도 없다. 그러던 중 높은 파도 속에서 그녀가 탄 배는 해적에게 납치당한다. 해적은 공주의 신분을 알고 그녀를 유괴하여 왕에게 몸값을 받아내려 계획은 세운다. 공주의 유일한 희망은 비열한 코미디언 실베스터 뿐이다. 과연 실베스터는 하찮은 농담 따윈 그만 두고 그녀를 구조해 낼 수 있을까?

Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).

In PRC's Follies Girl, Wendy Barrie plays dress designer Anne Merriday, who becomes the object of middle-aged millionaire J. B. Hamlin's (J.C. Nugent) affections. To save his dad from throwing his life away on a supposed golddigger, Hamlin's son, Army private Jerry Hamlin (Gordon Oliver), begins courting Anne-and, of course, falls genuinely in love with her himself. Meanwhile, the rogueish J.B. tries to mount a Broadway burlesque show, with costumes designed by Our Heroine.