Pierre Watkin

Washington'da senatörün ölmesinin haberi tüm eyalette yayılmıştır ve Senator Joseph Paine'in medya patronu Jim Taylor'dan istediği geçici göreve gelecek kişi için işlerine pek karışamayacak birini bulmasıdır. Jefferson Smith Boy Rangers'ın başkanı, dürüst ve idealleri olan biridir ve bu istek için biçilmiş kaftandır. Ne var ki, Washington entrikaları içinde Jefferson'ın dürüstlüğü ve kendini insanlara adaması bazı değişimlere sebep olur * İzlemeden önce sıkıcı bir politik film olduğunu zannediyordum.Kesinlikle sıkıcı değilmiş, aksine bir başucu filmiymiş. Kararında ilerleyen senaryo finaline doğru kalitesini hep arttırıyor. Zaten eski filmlerde en çok sevdiğim şey bu * Frank Capra neden filmlerinin son yarım saatini tüyleri havaya dikecek kadar etkileyici biçimde işliyor?

Stenograf Alice Sycamore, çalıştığı şirketin başkan yardımcısı da olan patronu Tony Kirby’ye aşıktır, seçkin şirketse patronunun açgözlü babası Anthony P.Kirby’ye aittir. Baba Kirby, silah ticaretinde tekel olmaya çalışmakta ve 12 blokluk bir bölgede son ev olan Alice’in dedesi Martin Vanderhof’un evini satın alması gerekmektedir. Bununla birlikte, Martin, bireyleri para yerine arkadaş edinmeye ve eğlenmeye önem veren anarşik ve uçuk bir ailenin reisidir. Tony, Alice’e evlenme teklif ettiğinde; basit ve çılgın ailesinin züppe Kirby’lerle tanışmasının zaruri olduğunu söyler, Tony kararlaştırılandan bir gün önce Alice’i ve ailesini ziyaret etmeye karar verir. Kaçınılmaz bir sınıf ve yaşam tarzı çatışması vardır, Kirby’ler Sycamore’ları küçümseyerek reddeder ve Alice, Kirby ailesinin hayatını değiştirerek, Tony ile olan ilişkisini bitirir...

Deeds küçük bir kasabada kendi halinde yaşamaktadır. Bir akrabasının ona yüklü bir miras bırakması üzerine şehre taşınır ve lüks bir hayat yaşamaya başlar. Bir anda herkesin gözdesi olan Deeds'in hayatı gazeteci Babe Beneth ile tanıştıktan sonra altüst olur.

An American woman seeking divorce from her wealthy, controlling husband falls for a romantic Parisian who saves her from his entrapment.

Hanri Verdoux işi gereği çok seyahat ediyordu. Onun işi zengin ve yalnız kadınları baştan çıkarıp, kalplerini ve banka cüzdanlarını ele geçirdikten sonra, yeni bir kadına geçmeden önce öldürmekti. Charles Chaplin, alışık olduğumuz o neşeli karakterin dışına çıkarak, sakat karısı ve çocuğuna daha iyi bir hayat sağlamak için cinayetler işleyen bir aile babası ile tersdüz oluyor. Burada ölümsüz Tramp karakteri oldukça az pay sahibi, fakat yine de titiz ve çıtkırıldım tavırları espritüel anlamda eksik olmuyor.

Bireyselci ve idealist mimar Howard Roark, tasarımları mevcut mimari düşünceyle uyuşmadığı için üniversiteden atılır. İş bulamayacak gibi görünse de sonunda benzer düşüncelere sahip Henry Cameron'ın yanında iş bulur; ancak birkaç yıl içinde patronu Cameron kendini içkiye vererek ölür ve ölmeden önce ideallerinden ödün vermediği takdirde aynı kaderin onu beklediği konusunda, Roark'ı uyarır. Roark, ne pahasına olursa olsun sanatsal bütünlüğünü korumaya kararlıdır.

Ünlü beyzbol oyuncusu Lou Gehrig'in kariyeri ve hayat hikayesini anlatan bir yapım. Gehrig’in yaşamından uyarlanan The Pride Of Yankees, Amerikan erkeği açısından "duygusal sinema" dendiğinde ilk akla gelen filmlerden biridir. Gary Cooper’ın kariyerinin en başarılı performanslarından biri ile Gehrig’i canlandırdığı film, Gehrig’in konuşmasını Cooper’ın ağzından aktararak yürek burktuğu kadar, gururlandıran muazzam bir final de sunmaktadır...

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

Kulübün şarkıcısına aşık olan bir gece kulübünün kat görevlisi, yanlışlıkla Fransız Kralı Louis XV olduğunu hayal etmesini sağlayan uyuşturulmuş bir içeceği yudumlayarak rezil Madame Du Barry'ye kur yapıyor.

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers. Featuring Bob's funniest moments on television, this tribute includes a virtual who's who of legendary entertainers like Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Newhart, Lucille Ball, Ann-Margret, Jack Benny, Angie Dickinson, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Danny Thomas, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Redd Foxx, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Dyan Cannon, Debbie Reynolds, Lassie and more.

At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

Bir kumarbaz ve dansçı olan Lucky, (Fred Astaire) kendi düşününe geç kalınca, kızın babası evlenebilmeleri için 25.000 dolar kazanmasını şart koşar. Lucky, şansını New Yorkta denemek üzere yakın arkadaşı Pop ile birlikte yola çıkar. New Yorkta Penny ile (Ginger Rogers) tanışıp başarılı bir dans çifti oluşturan Lucky, bu genç kadınla aralarında romantik bir ilişkinin başlamasıyla, hem kendi nişanlısından hem de Pennynin nişanlısından kurtulmanın yollarını arar. Fred Astaire ve Ginger Rogers ikilisi, ışıltılı Broadway sahnelerinden Hollywooda taşınan müzikal filmler döneminin sembolüdür. Swing Time (Dans Vakti) bu unutulmaz ikilinin en güzel filmlerinden biridir.

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.

Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

Farklı geçmişlerden cinayetler, intiharlar, hırsızlıklar ve algılanan veya algılanamayan belirli motivasyonların neden olduğu diğer suç türlerine ilişkin suç, korku, drama ve komedi unsurlarını kapsayan ilgisiz kısa öyküler dizisi.

Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights dons a suit and glasses for his secret identity as Daily Planet newspaper reporter Clark Kent, who works alongside friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen for gruff boss Perry White.

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.

The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".

Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.

Fury is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The frequent introduction to the show depicts the beloved stallion running inside the corral and approaching the camera as the announcer reads: "FURY!..The story of a horse..and a boy who loves him." Fury is the first American series produced originally by Television Programs of America and later by the British-based company ITC Entertainment.

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American action adventure northwestern television series based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. It was initially broadcast in color on CBS across three seasons from September 29, 1955 to September 25, 1958. Richard Simmons stars as Sergeant William Preston, who patrols the Yukon Territory in search of renegades and outlaws, during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.

The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.