Self (archive footage)
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Professor Cabel
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!
actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Martin
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her. Based on a true story.
John Pace
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Washington DC. FBI probes indicate that the attack is by Arab terrorists led by Iranians. Subsequent attacks are via airplanes exploded in mid-air, crowded restaurants, and an attack on a mall. Administration cabinet heads push the President to retaliate. The director of the FBI believes that there may be more to the story than the investigation has revealed and the Secretary of Defense is the only other person urging caution.
Doc
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
Himself
A documentary directed by Hans Beller.
Candy
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.
Bob Hollander
A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his long-ago high school girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter, whose boyfriend is the star player on the school's basketball team his fellow alumni are playing.
Dan Miller
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes enraged and starts writing letters to his son, Richard, expressing his fury.
Mr. Graham
Despite their different backgrounds working class Regina Malloy and wealthy Jack Graham fall in love leading to marriage and the birth of a son. All is bliss until tragedy strikes.
Noah
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.
President Adar
콜로니 생활을 하던 인류가 사이보그 사일론의 눈을 피해 최후의 안식처인 지구를 찾아 나서면서 일어나는 에피소드를 담은 스페이스 오페라의 정석
Bill Atherton
6월 6일 6시, 악마의 사주를 받고 태어난 데미안. 그는 자신의 악마적 능력을 자신도 그 누구도 모른 채 숨기고 성장한다. 13세가 된 데미안은 천재로 알려져 있다. 시카고의 실업가인 백부의 양자로서 육군 사관 학교를 수석으로 졸업한 데미안은 이제 자신의 악마적 재능을 분출할 시기가 되었음을 직감한다. 이에 그의 악마적 비밀을 눈치챈 여기자는 무서운 새에 의해 온통 피범벅이 된 채 죽고 데미안의 친구와 백부모 마저도 죽음을 당한다. {"저런 사람들은 거짓 사도요, 궤휼의 역군이니, 자기를 그리스도의 사도로 가장하는 자들이니라
(For Such Are False Apostles, Deceitful Workers, Transforming Themsklves Into The Apostles Of Christ) - 고후11:13(II Cor.11:13)".}
Com. Joseph Beckerman
After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.
Allen Dulles
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
(archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Director
This is the last film to ever win the Golden Globe as best Documentary, now an extinct category in the Globes.
Dr. Grayson
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
Vaslovik
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who's now under suspect of having stolen the android.
Mandemus
2670년, 노예 반란군들의 지도자 시저가 이끄는 원숭이들과 살아남은 인간들은 서로 함께 공존하며 살아가는 평화로운 삶을 살아간다. 그러나 폭력적인 성향이 강한 고릴라 군대의 장군 알도는 이러한 평화를 깨고 반란을 노린다. 한편 시저는 맥도날드로부터 자신의 부모에 대한 기록이 남아있다는 말을 듣고, 그들의 흔적을 찾기 위해 원자력 방사능에 의해 폐허가 된 도시로 떠난다. 그러나 그들은 인간들에게 노출되고, 지하세계의 인간들은 두려움과 식량확보 및 쟁탈을 위해 전쟁을 벌이기로 한다. 시저는 간신히 그곳을 탈출하지만 인간들은 그들을 추적해 전쟁을 일으키는데...
Prof. Dylan MacAuley
In this unsold TV pilot, an astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.
Noah Calvin
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
Mr. Ames
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl Holliman) tells his son Lonnie that his dog, Moreover, is a good-for-nothing "biscuit eater."
Dr. Sam Carpenter
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
President Charles Carter Durant
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. Can the crew disarm the bomb before it detonates, not only destroying the station but setting off World War III?
Dr. Andrew Swanson
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.
The Governor
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.
Himself
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
'Mac' McAllister
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
The Vice President
국무장관 임명에 대한 상원청문회와 임명을 표결로 밀어붙일 때까지의 며칠동안의 과정을 영화로 만들었는데, 이걸 스릴러처럼 흥미진진하게 연출해낸다. 물론 위원장의 사망과 대통령의 서거라는 극적인 장치가 배치되어 있긴 해도 전체적인 밸런스가 훌륭하다. 극의 무게중심이 여당대표에게서 반대파인 시브 의원과 레핑웰로 넘어갔다가 협박받는 위원장으로 옮겨가는 과정도 자연스럽고. 느끼하면서 온갖 협잡은 다 가지고 있는 듯한 정치인을 찰스 로튼이 멋지게 연기해낸다. 초반에 이 악역같던 인물이 후반부로 가면서 그렇게까지 악의는 없는 보수 정치인의 당연한 몸짓이었다는 점도 캐릭터를 풍성하게 만드는 요소.
Dr. Patrick J. Cory
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
John Howard Tracy
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.
Capt. Hunt
Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.
Lin Vanner / Lindley Brown
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
Dr. Robert Richardson
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Larry Hannaford
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Narrator (voice)
Punctuated with stories from the Bible, the film’s purpose was to reinforce Christian values in the atomic age by condemning the consequences of human conflict with scenes of the crucifixion, lynching and Nazi fascism.
Dr. Scott Elliott
한 남자가 살해당한 채 발견된다. 목격자의 증언에 따라 경찰은 한 여성을 용의자로 지목하지만, 곧 그녀에게 쌍둥이 자매가 있음이 드러난다. 과연 두 사람 중 진짜 범인은 누구일까. 사건은 미궁으로 빠지고, 스티븐슨 형사의 혼란은 더 커져간다. (2017년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 다크 시티: 필름 누아르 특별전)
Self
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1946
Oliver Duffy
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Dr. James Kildare
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
Dr. James Kildare
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
Dr. James Kildare
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
Bob Rawlston
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Dr. James Kildare
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Self
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Dr. James Kildare
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Henry Twinkle
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Dr. James Kildare
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Sky Ames
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Dr. James Kildare
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Philip S. Griswold III
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Self
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.
Dr. James Kildare
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
James Geoffrey 'Jimmy' Seymour
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Eddie Burgess
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Sam Thatcher
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
Dr. James Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Henry Thayer
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
Ned Seton
죠니는 고생을 많이하며 자랐지만 하버드를 졸업한 유능한 젊은이. 어느날 그는 평생 처음 휴가를 즐기러 레이크 플레씨드에 가고, 거기서 쥴리아와 사랑에 빠진다. 둘은 결혼을 약속하고 죠니는 절친한 친구 부부 파터에게 그 사실을 알린다. 파터 내외는 죠니가 혹시 가난한 처녀를 만난 건 아닌가 걱정한다. 그러나 쥴리아가 준 주소로 찾아간 죠니는 엄청난 부유함에 놀란다. 한편 줄리아의 아버에게 죠니와 결혼하겠다고 조르고 아버지 에드워드는 죠니의 직장 상사한테 그의 사업 수완이 탁월하단 평가를 듣고 내심 흡족해한다. 쥴리아의 언니 린다와 인사한 죠니는 린다의 자유스러운 성격, 활달함에 매료되고 린다는 린다대로 죠니를 향한 사랑에 가슴앓게 된다.
Jerry Flynn
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Joe McKnight
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
Tommy Graham
Two football players fight over the same girl.
Bill Dexter
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Nick Milburn
Three playwrights (Lew Ayres, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker) develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
Kent Murdock
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Chester aka Dynamite
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Bob Sanderson
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Director
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.
Jerry Franklin
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
Woodruff 'Woody' Davis
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Eddie Howard
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
Caleb Enix
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
Cadet Frank Harrington
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters.
Director
An amateur film by actor Lew Ayres featuring Ginger Rogers, Ayres second wife.
Erik Landstrom
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Larry Wilson
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together.
Norman Winthrop
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Ronnie Gregory
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Bill McCaffrey
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Pat Gilbert
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Larry Wayne
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Michael Rand
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Lew Ayres
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Dr. Myron Brown
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
States
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Edward Aloysius "Bucky" O'Brian
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
Robert Marshall
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
Kid Mason
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Jerry Brooks
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
Billy Benson
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Louie Ricarno
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Hugh Fullerton
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all.
Paul Bäumer
1차 대전이 진행되고 있을 무렵, 폴과 알버트, 프란츠, 뮬러, 벤은 전쟁에 참전해 조국을 구하라는 한 교수의 연설에 감동을 받아 혹독한 훈련을 마친 후 전선으로 향한다. 하지만 전선에 배치되자마자 벤은 전사하고, 프란츠는 부상으로 다리를 절단하게 된다. 정신을 차린 후, 평생 불구로 살아야한다는 사실에 이성을 잃고 날뛰던 프란츠도 병원에서 사망한다. 한편, 뮬러는 프란츠가 아끼던 군화를 받게 되자 아주 기뻐하지만 그 역시 전사한다. 결국 폴은 전쟁터에서 전쟁의 참상에 대해 서서히 깨닫기 시작하는데...
Pierre Lassalle
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Copyboy (uncredited)
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Sophomore Fraternity Brother (uncredited)
Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
