2024-08-18
An examination of the process of making movies follows a production from script to screen.
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be f
Yarn about a greenhorn (Gary Grimes) whose first cattle drive is beset by a stampede, rustlers and horse thieves. Frank: Billy Green Bush. Luke: Luke Askew. Dixie: Bo Hopkins. Russ: Geoffrey Lewis. Missoula: Wayne Sutherlin. Pierce: John McLiam. Pete: Matt Clark. Filmed on location in Sonora, Mexico, and Santa Fe, N.M. Directed by Dick Richards. (Repeat).
A beloved king lusts after the wife of his faithful soldier, whom he sends to the front and certain death, clearing the way for him to have the widow. (Repeat).
Turn-of-the-century Australia is the setting for this standard cattle-ranching Western. Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Richard Boone, Finlay Currie, Chips Rafferty. Directed by Lewis Milestone. (Repeat).
Good African scenes in this story of a girl torn between divorced parents. William Holden, Capucine, Trevor Howard, Pamela Franklin. Wavering direction. Directed by Jack Cardiff. (Repeat).
Adaptation of the Jules Verne sci-fi classic about a Scottish professor who receives a rock inscribed with an explorer's description of a subterranean passage and follows the directions into a prehistoric lost world. (Repeat).
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there. (Repeat).
A mysterious transmission from a distant moon is picked up by a commercial spaceship. Investigating the call, the crew discovers a strange nest of eggs and, when one egg is disturbed, an alien form attaches itself to a crew member and makes for an unsettling journey home. (Repeat).
Crash landing on a barren penal-colony planet with an unwelcome visitor in tow, Ripley contends with a group of hardened convicts while using nothing but her wits to battle a terrifying new breed of alien. Although her plan to corner and kill the creature just might work, a horrifying discovery reveals that her fight is far from over. (Repeat).
Tormented space heroine Ellen Ripley returns in the fourth film in the popular series. Two-hundred years after her fiery death in "Alien 3," Ripley is cloned and ready to battle another army of vicious extraterrestrials. (Repeat).
Two of science fiction's most memorable monsters face off in this thrilling and chilling creature feature. An expedition to an underground pyramid in Antarctica goes horribly wrong when the team finds two extraterrestrial species at war. (Repeat).
After a spaceship carrying aliens crash lands near a small Colorado town, a lone Predator arrives to wipe them out before the aliens kill everyone in sight. The thrilling sci-fi franchise continues with this action-packed sequel. Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, Ariel Gade. Directed by Colin and Greg Strause. (Repeat).