Storyline: Soundies A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein 2007 Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies First appearing in 1941, these three minute black and white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U S These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nations history
Perilous (2000)
Perilous (2000) A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous world of jewel thieves and gangsters.
Blue (1968)
Blue (1968) A Mexican bandit, part of a gang led by his father, goes on a raid into the U.S. He falls for a beautiful woman and decides to leave his life of crime and settle down with her. Eventually his father and the gang come back for him, and he finds himself torn between his love for the woman
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
The Powerpuff Girls Movie 2002 In the city of Townsville, the frustrated Professor Utonium is gathering all the ingredients to make a perfect little girl sugar, spice, and everything nice But when his lab assitant, a monkey named Jojo, causes the accidental addition of Chemical X to the mix, the Pro
The Love God? (1969)
The Love God? (1969) Abner Audubon Peacock (Don Knotts) is the publisher of a bird-watcher's magazine which is converted into a girlie mag by an unscrupulous operator Osborn Tremaine (Edmond O'Brien).
Sweet Sugar (1972)
Sweet Sugar (1972) Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who performs cruel medical experiments on the people who work for him.
The More the Merrier (1943)
The More the Merrier (1943) It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. W
Foolish (1999)
Eddie Griffin is Miles Waise, a fast rising nightclub comedian. His life is made difficult by his manager, who wants him to sell out for big bucks, and his brother Fifty Dollah, a scheming ...
Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1996)
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The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (2014)
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Killer Workout (1987)
Killer Workout (1987) Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
Android Apocalypse (2006)
Android Apocalypse (2006) In an age when Machines dominate the world, the fate of man rests in the hands of an outlaw and an android.
The Gong Show Movie (1980)
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BB Merry (2022)
BB Merry 2022 Tracey a travel blogger is invited by Graham Cooper to Christmas getaway for familys small bed and breakfast BampB is facing tough competition from a hotel resort that has been stealing guests and threatens survival of the family
Surprise (2019)
Surprise 2019 Mike buys a lemon of a video camera to record his girlfriend Jennys Surprise birthday party only to find its stuck on record As the guests reveal secrets they would never want Mike to see, the party degenerates into a fight for control of the camera only for one guest to reveal a secre
Threshold (2003)
Threshold 2003 A space shuttle crew return to Earth, bringing alien seeds with them These begin to grow into alien life forms, needing hosts to complete their evolution When their number reach the Threshold amount, they will be an unstoppable swarm, so its up to two scientists to stop them beofre it
Black Sea Raid (2000)
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Baghdad Texas (2009)
Baghdad Texas (2009) While a Middle Eastern dictator is fleeing his besieged country his plane crashes on the Mexican Border. He is inadvertently carried into Texas by illegal immigrants. Struck by a truck occupied by three cowboys he is taken back to their exotic game ranch where their housekeeper
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Bri