2024-07-20
In Richard Roundtree's first outing as supercool private-eye John Shaft (which he would play in two sequels and a short-lived CBS TV series), the sleuth is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter, which leads him to a black-militant group and a gang of Mafia hit men. Isaac Hayes' title tune won a Best Song Oscar.
A Midwesterner hides from mobsters in a gay Manhattan steam bath.
Hymn to gospel music, featuring interviews with Willie Mae Ford Smith and Thomas A. Dorsey. Also: performances by Sallie Martin, Delois Barrett Campbell, Billie Barrett Greenbey, Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edward and Edgar O'Neal. One from the heart.
A collection of very brief cartoons, mostly revolving around sight gags and puns, on the subject of hunting and fishing, and the men who are addicted to them.
Pro bowlers Lee Jouglard and Sylvia Wene offer instruction to young keglers, then take a shot at making difficult spares. Directed by William Deeke. (Repeat).
Focusing on the history, culture, and people of Bath, England.
Charles Farrell and Bette Davis as a young pharmacist and his wife who are victimized by a vicious gangster (Ricardo Cortez). Lefty: Allen Jenkins. Lil: Glenda Farrell. John: Phillip Faversham. Regan: Robert Emmett O'Connor. Sheffner: Henry O'Neill. Directed by John Francis Dillon.
Musical star Hal LeRoy lands a job as a dance teacher, but runs into trouble when he proves to be too popular with his students and jealousy rears its head.
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
After a Broadway star is murdered in a private train car at Grand Central Station, a police inspector gathers together likely suspects. One of them is a wisecracking private eye, who endeavors to uncover the real killer himself before he's charged.
World War II propaganda piece chronicles American history from the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The rise of Manhattan go-getter J. Pierpont Finch is chronicled in this adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit. Songs include 'How To,' 'The Company Way,' 'Been a Long Day,' 'I Believe in You,' 'Gotta Stop That Man,' 'Rosemary,' 'A Secretary Is Not a Toy,' 'Grand Old Ivy' and 'Brotherhood of Man.'.
Two vaudevillians find themselves on the run from some deadly crooks, so they take on some assumed identities as cowboys and hide out on a dude ranch.
In the 1896, a cowboy and his pals drive cattle from Wyoming to Alaska, where a corrupt sheriff steals their herd and they must tangle with him to get it back. One of eight films James Stewart made with director Anthony Mann, and one of four Westerns on which the duo collaborated.
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as Depression-era con men out to fool a big-time criminal in this Best Picture Oscar winner.