Dr. Strangelove (1964)
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
The Killing (1956)
The Killing (1956) After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated by the intervention of the wife of a teller (George Peatty) in on the scheme, the boyfriend of the wife, airport regulations, and a small dog.
Crime of Passion (1957)
Crime of Passion (1957) Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her ca
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954) Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. When four men hold up a stagecoach and kill a man the town officials, led by Emma Small, come to the saloon to grab four of Vienna's
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Long Goodbye (1973) In the middle of the night, private eye Philip Marlowe drives his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. When Marlowe returns home police are waiting for him and learns that Terry's wife Sylvia has been killed. He's arrested as an accessory but released after a few days a
Naked Alibi (1954)
Naked Alibi (1954) A chief of police detectives fired for brutality, tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Zero Hour! (1957)
Zero Hour! (1957) A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie..
Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
Ten Days to Tulara 1958 Tramp pilot Scott McBride Sterling Hayden goes to meet a Mr Rodriguez who has a mission for him in the South American jungle Rodriguez turns out to be Cesar Rodolfo Hoyos, an old enemy of Scottys, who demands that Scotty fly him and his henchmen, on the lam on a robbery and m
Crime Wave (1953)
Crime Wave (1953) Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, Morgan flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey, who's paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and can't afford to be caught a
Suddenly (1954)
Suddenly (1954) The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightl
The Eternal Sea (1955)
The Eternal Sea 1955 Biopic of Rear Adm John M Hoskins, U S Navy During World War Two, U S Navy Capt John Madison Hoskins returns home for a short leave after spending two years at sea In 1942, he is given command of the USS Hornet CV 8 Unfortunately, news reach him that the Hornet has recently been
El Paso (1949)
El Paso (1949) Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the j
Loving (1970)
Loving (1970) Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Sven Hanson is one of a number of farmers whom Ed McNeil wants to run off their land (because he knows there's oil on it). When Hanson is murdered by McNeil's gunman, Johnny Crale, Hanson's friend Pepe Mirada hides his knowledge of the murderer's identity in order to pr
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
Denver and Rio Grande (1952) Edmund O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad
The Final Programme (1973)
The Final Programme (1973) After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on micr
The Outsider (1979)
The Outsider 1979 Idealistic Vietnam veteran Michael Flaherty Wasson, enthralled by the stories told to him by his grandfather Hayden and disillusioned by the lack of a clear cut cause in Vietnam, leaves his comfortable life in a Detroit suburb and goes to Ireland to fight for the IRA, only to disco
5 Steps to Danger (1956)
5 Steps to Danger (1956) When his car breaks down during a trip from Los Angeles to Texas John Emmett meets another motorist, Ann Nicholson, who offers him a lift. He learns that she is running away from her physician, Dr. Simmons, and the police, who want to question her about a murdered Central In
Angels Leap (1971)
Angels Leap (1971) The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the candidature of Forestier, an estate promoter. To ensure his election and to get his hands on the city
Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Carol for Another Christmas 1964 Presented without commercial interruptions, this United Nations Special was sponsored by the Xerox Corporation, the first of a series of Xerox specials promoting the UN Director Joseph Mankiewiczs first work for television, the 90 minute ABC drama was publicized as h
The Last Command (1955)
The Last Command 1955 During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans They dont heed his advice since hes a Mexican citizen,married to the daughter of the Mexican vice governor of the province and a friend to Ge
The Star (1952)
The Star 1952 Middle aged Oscar winning actress Margaret Elliot Maggie to those that know her is a Hollywood has been Her life is in shambles She clings to the hope of resurrecting her past movie stardom as a leading ingenue No one will hire her, shes penniless with creditors selling off anything th
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Kansas Pacific 1953 Just before the Civil War but after the South has seceded, Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabota
Pharos of Chaos (1983)
Pharos of Chaos 1983 Documentary profile of actor Sterling Hayden
Flat Top (1952)
Flat Top 1952 Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron In flashbacks, he recalls the arrival of the squadron, led by Executive