2024-09-24
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans.
Version of the Twain classic with young rascal Huck (Mickey Rooney) escaping both the oppressive kindliness of the widow Douglas and the brutality of his drink-sodden Pap by faking his own death and heading down the Mississippi River in the company of fugitive slave Jim, who hopes to be reunited with his wife and child.
Best Picture nominee is a slice of Americana about lives intersecting in unexpected ways in a small California town during WWII, where a telegram-delivery boy (Mickey Rooney, nominated for Best Actor) drops off missives that are not always welcome.
Aboard a train from Istanbul, a passenger is found murdered and famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot steps up to determine which of the other passengers is responsible. The victim, who just the night before had asked Poirot for protection, turns out to not be who he seemed. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie.
A dying gunman aims to go out in a blaze of glory while settling old scores and making new friends in turn-of-the-century Nevada..
Peter Ustinov returns as Hercule Poirot, probing the murder of a vacationing dowager. Lady Westholme: Lauren Bacall. Carbury: John Gielgud. Emily: Piper Laurie. Nadine: Carrie Fisher. Miss Quinton: Hayley Mills. Sarah: Jenny Seagrove. Directed by Michael Winner.
A sportswriter and a fashion designer meet on vacation and marry on spur-of-the-moment. But they have to get to know each other when they come back to reality.
After being driven from his spread by an autocratic tobacco tycoon, a tenant farmer returns in triumph with a revolutionary cigarette-making machine and sets about driving the mogul out of business.
About the disintegration of a woman's sanity. Elaine Stritch. Ed: Steven Hill. Corey: Gene Lyons. Kenny: Andrew Prine.
A contented wife's domestic bliss is threatened when a predatory divorcée returns to their posh social circle to poach away the ex-beau she once left at the altar. The two rivals connive elaborate schemes to win their man until only one woman prevails.
A widow pays a visit to her late husband's family estate for his wake, but after a series of mysterious and suspicious situations, she learns a dark secret.
A farmer, who has raised a girl as his own, keeps a secret that only his wife knows.