Chill Wills

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Chill Theodore Wills (July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978) was an American film actor, and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet.

He was a performer from early childhood, forming and leading the Avalon Boys singing group in the 1930s. After appearing in a few westerns he disbanded the group in 1938, and struck out on a solo acting career.

One of his more memorable roles was that of the distinctive voice of Francis the Mule in a series of popular films. Wills' deep, rough voice, with its Western twang, was matched to the personality of the cynical, sardonic mule. As was customary at the time, Wills was given no billing for his vocal work, though he was featured prominently on-screen as blustery General Ben Kaye in the fourth entry, Francis Joins the WACS. He provided the deep voice for Stan Laurel's performance of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" in Way Out West (1937), in which the Avalon Boys Quartet appeared.

Wills was cast in numerous serious film roles, including as "the city of Chicago" as personified by a phantom police sergeant in the film noir City That Never Sleeps (1953), and that of Uncle Bawley in Giant (1956), which also features Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Wills was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Davy Crockett's companion "Beekeeper" in the film The Alamo (1960). However, his aggressive campaign for the award was considered tasteless by many, including the film's star/director/producer John Wayne, who publicly apologized for Wills. Wills' publicity agent, W.S. "Bow-Wow" Wojciechowicz, accepted blame for the ill-advised effort, claiming that Wills had known nothing about it. The Oscar was instead won by Peter Ustinov for his role as Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus.

In Rory Calhoun's CBS western series The Texan, Wills appeared in the lead role in the 1960 episode entitled "The Eyes of Captain Wylie".

Wills starred in the short-run series Frontier Circus which aired for only one season (1961–62) on CBS. In 1966, he was cast in the role of a shady Texas rancher, Jim Ed Love, in the short-lived ABC comedy/western series The Rounders (reprising his role in the 1965 film The Rounders, starring Henry Fonda), with co-stars Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne and Walker Edmiston.

in 1963-64, Wills joined William Lundigan, Walter Brennan and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In 1968, Wills refused to support Richard Nixon for the presidency and served as master of ceremonies for George C. Wallace, former governor of Alabama, for the California campaign stops in Wallace's presidential campaign.[5] Wills was among the few Hollywood celebrities to endorse Wallace's bid against Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey; another was Walter Brennan.

Also in 1968, he starred in the Gunsmoke episode "A Noose for Dobie Price", where he played Elihu Gorman, a former outlaw who joins forces with Marshal Matt Dillon, played by James Arness, to track down a member of his former gang who has escaped jail. His last role was in 1978, as a janitor in Stubby Pringle's Christmas. CLR

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Burke's Law

overview: Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

character: Harry Riggs

original_name: Burke's Law

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Trackdown

overview: Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

original_name: Trackdown

Route 66

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original_name: Route 66

Alias Smith and Jones

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original_name: Alias Smith and Jones

Gunsmoke

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character: Abe Blocker

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

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character: The Janitor

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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character: Mr. Kilmer

original_name: Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Rawhide

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character: Sheriff Asa Tanner

Judd, for the Defense

overview: High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

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Tarzan

overview: Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.

original_name: Tarzan

Frontier Circus

overview: Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.

character: Colonel Casey Thompson /Col. Casey Thompson

original_name: Frontier Circus

The Texan

overview: The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

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The Rounders

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The Rounders was a 17-episode western-style situation comedy about two cowboys on the fictitious J.L. Ranch in Texas. It starred Ron Hayes as Ben Jones and Patrick Wayne, a son of John Wayne, as Howdy Lewis. The M-G-M television series aired on ABC from September 6, 1966, to January 3, 1967. The program was loosely based on a 1965 film of the same name, The Rounders, starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, set near Sedona, Arizona, rather than Texas.

Chill Wills, a native Texan and formerly of CBS's Frontier Circus, appeared as the shady ranch owner, Jim Ed Love. Janis Hansen co-starred as Ben's girlfriend, Sally, and Bobbi Jordan played Howdy's girlfriend, Ada. Jason Wingreen appeared as Shorty Dawes, and Walker Edmiston as Regan. Character actors Strother Martin and J. Pat O'Malley appeared as "Cousin Fletch" and "Vince", respectively. James Brown, formerly the lieutenant on The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, played "Luke".

Selected episodes with notable guest stars include: "A Horse on Jim Ed Love", series premiere with Harry Carey, Jr.; "It's a Noble Thing to Do", with John Smith, formerly Slim Sherman on NBC's Laramie; "Don't Buffalo Me", with Jay Silverheels, formerly Tonto of The Lone Ranger, as John Tallgrass; "The Moonshine Still Shines"; "It Takes Only One to Suffer"; "The Scavenger Hunt" with Zsa Zsa Gabor as Ilona Hobson; "Some Things Are Not for Sale"; "Four Alarm Wing Ding", with Dick Haynes as a sheriff; "Horse of a Different Cutter" with Andy Devine as Honest John Denton and Strother Martin as Cousin Fletch; "Polo, Anyone?", with Jay C. Flippen as Kenny Fahrbush; "Efficiency Is for Experts", and "What Elephants?", the series finale, in which Ben and Howdy try to hide an elephant in plain sight.

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Gunsmoke

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Burke's Law

character: Stanton Custer

character: General Hector Harder

The Merv Griffin Show

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Night Gallery

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character: Heppelwhite (segment "The Little Black Bag")

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Català

biography: Theodore Childress Wills (Seagoville, Texas, 18 de juliol de 1903 - Encino, Califòrnia, 15 de desembre de 1978), més conegut com a Chill Wills, va ser un actor i cantant estatunidenc.

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普通话

奇尔·威尔斯

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奇尔·西奥多·威尔斯（1902 年 7 月 18 日 - 1978 年 12 月 15 日）是美国电影演员，也是阿瓦隆男孩四重奏的歌手。

他从小就是一名表演者，在 1930 年代组建并领导了 Avalon Boys 歌唱团。在出演了几部西部片后，他于 1938 年解散了乐队，并开始了自己的演艺生涯。

他最令人难忘的角色之一是在一系列流行电影中扮演骡子弗朗西斯的独特声音。威尔斯低沉、粗犷的嗓音，带着西式的嗓音，与愤世嫉俗、讽刺的骡子的个性相得益彰。按照当时的惯例，威尔斯的声乐作品没有得到任何报酬，尽管他在第四部作品《弗朗西斯加入 WACS》中作为咆哮的本凯将军在银幕上占据了突出地位。他为斯坦·劳雷尔（Stan Laurel）在《Way Out West》（1937年）中表演的“寂寞松树的踪迹”（The Trail of the Lonesome Pine）提供了深沉的声音，其中出现了阿瓦隆男孩四重奏。

威尔斯出演了许多严肃的电影角色，包括在黑色电影《不眠之城》（1953 年）中饰演的幽灵警长化身为“芝加哥市”，以及在《巨人》（1956 年）中饰演鲍利叔叔，该片还由洛克·哈德森、伊丽莎白·泰勒和詹姆斯·迪恩主演。威尔斯因在电影《阿拉莫》（1960 年）中饰演戴维·克罗克特的同伴“养蜂人”而获得奥斯卡最佳男配角奖提名。然而，他为该奖项而激进的竞选活动被许多人认为毫无品味，包括这部电影的明星/导演/制片人约翰韦恩，他公开为威尔斯道歉。威尔斯的宣传代理人 W.S. “Bow-Wow” Wojciechowicz 接受了对这一不明智努力的指责，声称威尔斯对此一无所知。奥斯卡奖由彼得·乌斯季诺夫（Peter Ustinov）获得，因为他在《斯巴达克斯》中饰演Lentulus Batiatus。

在罗里·卡尔霍恩 （Rory Calhoun） 的哥伦比亚广播公司 （CBS） 西部连续剧《德克萨斯人》中，威尔斯在 1960 年名为“威利船长的眼睛”的剧集中担任主角。

威尔斯出演了短剧《边境马戏团》，该剧在哥伦比亚广播公司只播出了一季（1961-62 年）。1966 年，他在短命的 ABC 喜剧/西部剧《The Rounders》中饰演阴暗的德克萨斯州牧场主吉姆·埃德·洛夫（Jim Ed Love）（在 1965 年由亨利·方达主演的电影《The Rounders》中重新扮演他的角色），与罗恩·海耶斯、帕特里克·韦恩和沃克·埃德米斯顿联合主演。

1963-64 年，威尔斯与威廉·伦迪根、沃尔特·布伦南和小埃夫雷姆·津巴利斯特一起代表美国参议员巴里·戈德华特出庭，巴里·戈德华特是反对美国总统林登·约翰逊的竞选中的共和党候选人。

1968年，威尔斯拒绝支持理查德·尼克松（Richard Nixon）担任总统职位，并担任阿拉巴马州前州长乔治·C·华莱士（George C. Wallace）在华莱士总统竞选期间的加州竞选活动的司仪。[5]威尔斯是少数支持华莱士反对尼克松和休伯特·汉弗莱的好莱坞名人之一;另一位是沃尔特·布伦南（Walter Brennan）。

同样在 1968 年，他出演了《硝烟》剧集“多比·普莱斯的绞索”，他在剧中饰演前亡命之徒伊莱胡·戈尔曼，他与詹姆斯·阿内斯饰演的马特·狄龙元帅联手，追查一名越狱的前帮派成员。他的最后一个角色是在 1978 年，在 Stubby Pringle 的圣诞节担任看门人。CLR（CLR）

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普通话

奇爾·威爾斯

biography:
奇爾·西奧多·威爾斯（1902 年 7 月 18 日 - 1978 年 12 月 15 日）是美國電影演員，也是阿瓦隆男孩四重奏的歌手。

他從小就是一名錶演者，在 1930 年代組建並領導了 Avalon Boys 歌唱團。在出演了幾部西部片後，他於 1938 年解散了樂隊，並開始了自己的演藝生涯。

他最令人難忘的角色之一是在一系列流行電影中扮演騾子弗朗西斯的獨特聲音。威爾斯低沉、粗獷的嗓音，帶著西式的嗓音，與憤世嫉俗、諷刺的騾子的個性相得益彰。按照當時的慣例，威爾斯的聲樂作品沒有得到任何報酬，盡管他在第四部作品《弗朗西斯加入 WACS》中作為咆哮的本凱將軍在銀幕上佔據了突出地位。他為斯坦·勞雷爾（Stan Laurel）在《Way Out West》（1937 年）中表演的“寂寞松樹的蹤跡”（The Trail of the Lonesome Pine）提供了深沉的聲音，其中出現了阿瓦隆男孩四重奏。

威爾斯出演了許多嚴肅的電影角色，包括在黑色電影《不眠之城》（1953 年）中飾演的幽靈警長化身為“芝加哥市”，以及在《巨人》（1956 年）中飾演鮑利叔叔，該片還由洛克·哈德森、伊麗莎白·泰勒和詹姆斯·迪恩主演。威爾斯因在電影《阿拉莫》（1960 年）中飾演戴維·克羅克特的同伴“養蜂人”而獲得奧斯卡最佳男配角獎提名。然而，他為該獎項而激進的競選活動被許多人認為毫無品味，包括這部電影的明星/導演/製片人約翰韋恩，他公開為威爾斯道歉。威爾斯的宣傳代理人 W.S. “Bow - Wow” Wojciechowicz 接受了對這一不明智努力的指責，聲稱威爾斯對此一無所知。奧斯卡獎由彼得·烏斯季諾夫（Peter Ustinov）獲得，因為他在《風雲群英會》中飾演 Lentulus Batiatus。

在羅裏·卡爾霍恩 （Rory Calhoun） 的哥倫比亞廣播公司 （CBS） 西部聯續劇《德克薩斯人》中，威爾斯在 1960 年名為“威利船長的眼睛”的劇集中擔任主角。

威爾斯出演了短劇《邊境馬戲團》，該劇在哥倫比亞廣播公司只播出了一季（1961 - 62 年）。1966 年，他在短命的 ABC 喜劇/西部劇《The Rounders》中飾演陰暗的德克薩斯州牧場主吉姆·埃德·洛夫（Jim Ed Love）（在 1965 年由亨利·方達主演的電影《The Rounders》中重新扮演他的角色），與羅恩·海耶斯、帕特里克·韋恩和沃克·埃德米斯頓聯合主演。

1963 - 64 年，威爾斯與威廉·倫迪根、沃爾特·布倫南和小埃夫雷姆·津巴利斯特一起代表美國參議員巴里·戈德華特出庭，巴里·戈德華特是反對美國總統林登·約翰遜的競選中的共和黨候選人。

1968 年，威爾斯拒絕支持理查德·尼克松（Richard Nixon）擔任總統職位，並擔任阿拉巴馬州前州長喬治·C·華萊士（George C.Wallace）在華萊士總統競選期間的加州競選活動的司儀。威爾斯是少數支持華萊士反對尼克松和休伯特·漢弗萊的好萊塢名人之一; 另一位是沃爾特·布倫南（Walter Brennan）。

同樣在 1968 年，他出演了《硝煙》劇集“多比·普萊斯的絞索”，他在劇中飾演前亡命之徒伊萊胡·戈爾曼，他與詹姆斯·阿內斯飾演的馬特·狄龍元帥聯手，追查一名越獄的前幫派成員。他的最後一個角色是在 1978 年，在 Stubby Pringle 的聖誕節擔任看門人。CLR（CLR）

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Français

biography:
Chill Theodore Wills (18 juillet 1902 – 15 décembre 1978) était un acteur de cinéma américain et chanteur du quatuor Avalon Boys.

Artiste dès son plus jeune âge, il fonda et dirigea le groupe vocal Avalon Boys dans les années 1930. Après quelques apparitions dans des westerns, il dissout le groupe en 1938 et se lance dans une carrière d'acteur solo.

L'un de ses rôles les plus mémorables est celui de la voix si particulière de Francis la Mule dans une série de films populaires. La voix grave et rauque de Wills, avec son accent du Far West, correspondait parfaitement au caractère cynique et sarcastique de la mule. Comme c'était l'usage à l'époque, Wills n'était pas crédité pour son travail vocal, bien qu'il apparaisse à l'écran dans le rôle du général Ben Kaye, personnage autoritaire, dans le quatrième opus, « Francis rejoint les WACS ». Il prêta sa voix grave à Stan Laurel pour l'interprétation de « The Trail of the Lonesome Pine » dans le film Way Out West (1937), où figurait également le quatuor Avalon Boys.

Wills obtint de nombreux rôles dramatiques au cinéma, notamment celui de « Chicago », personnifiée par un sergent de police fantôme dans le film noir City That Never Sleeps (1953), et celui de l'oncle Bawley dans Giant (1956), avec Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor et James Dean. Il fut nommé à l'Oscar du meilleur acteur dans un second rôle pour son interprétation de « Beekeeper », le compagnon de Davy Crockett, dans le film The Alamo (1960). Cependant, sa campagne acharnée pour obtenir la récompense fut jugée de mauvais goût par beaucoup, y compris par John Wayne, acteur, réalisateur et producteur du film, qui présenta publiquement ses excuses pour Wills. Son agent, W.S. « Bow-Wow » Wojciechowicz assuma la responsabilité de cette initiative malheureuse, affirmant que Wills n'en avait rien su. L'Oscar fut finalement remporté par Peter Ustinov pour son rôle de Lentulus Batiatus dans Spartacus.

Wills joua dans la série éphémère Frontier Circus, diffusée pendant une seule saison (1961-1962) sur CBS. En 1966, il fut choisi pour incarner Jim Ed Love, un éleveur texan louche, dans la série comique/western The Rounders, diffusée sur ABC et de courte durée (reprenant son rôle du film The Rounders de 1965, avec Henry Fonda), aux côtés de Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne et Walker Edmiston.

Entre 1963 et 1964, Wills s'associa à William Lundigan, Walter Brennan et Efrem Zimbalist Jr. pour soutenir le sénateur Barry Goldwater, candidat républicain face au président Lyndon B. Johnson.

En 1968, Wills refusa de soutenir Richard Nixon à la présidence et anima les meetings de campagne de George C. Wallace, ancien gouverneur de l'Alabama, en Californie. [5] Wills fut l'une des rares célébrités hollywoodiennes à soutenir la candidature de Wallace contre Nixon et Hubert H. Humphrey ; Walter Brennan était également de celles-ci.

Toujours en 1968, il joua dans l'épisode de la série Gunsmoke intitulé « La Pendaison pour Dobie Price », où il incarnait Elihu Gorman, un ancien hors-la-loi qui s'allie au marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) pour traquer un ancien membre de son gang qui s'est évadé de prison. Son dernier rôle remonte à 1978, celui d'un concierge dans le film « Le Noël de Stubby Pringle ».

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Chill Wills

biography:
Chill Theodore Wills (18. Juli 1902 – 15. Dezember 1978) war ein US-amerikanischer Filmschauspieler und Sänger des Avalon Boys Quartetts.

Schon in seiner frühen Kindheit trat er auf und gründete in den 1930er-Jahren die Gesangsgruppe Avalon Boys, die er auch leitete. Nach einigen Auftritten in Western löste er die Gruppe 1938 auf und startete eine Solokarriere als Schauspieler.

Eine seiner einprägsamsten Rollen war die der unverwechselbaren Stimme von Francis, dem Maultier, in einer Reihe populärer Filme. Wills' tiefe, raue Stimme mit ihrem Western-Akzent passte perfekt zum Charakter des zynischen, sarkastischen Maultiers. Wie damals üblich, wurde Wills für seine Gesangsleistung nicht im Abspann erwähnt, obwohl er im vierten Teil, „Francis Joins the WACS“, als der aufbrausende General Ben Kaye prominent auf der Leinwand zu sehen war. Er lieh Stan Laurel in „Way Out West“ (1937) seine tiefe Stimme für dessen Interpretation von „The Trail of the Lonesome Pine“. In dem Film trat auch das Avalon Boys Quartet auf.

Wills spielte zahlreiche anspruchsvolle Filmrollen, darunter die des „Stadt Chicago“, verkörpert durch einen geisterhaften Polizeisergeant, im Film noir „Die Stadt, die niemals schläft“ (1953), und die des Onkels Bawley in „Giganten“ (1956), in dem auch Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor und James Dean mitwirkten. Für seine Rolle als Davy Crocketts Begleiter „Beekeeper“ in „Alamo“ (1960) wurde Wills für den Oscar als Bester Nebendarsteller nominiert. Sein aggressives Werben um die Auszeichnung wurde jedoch von vielen, darunter auch von John Wayne, dem Star, Regisseur und Produzenten des Films, als geschmacklos empfunden. Wayne entschuldigte sich öffentlich für Wills. Wills’ PR-Agent, W.S. „Bow-Wow“ Wojciechowicz übernahm die Verantwortung für das unüberlegte Unterfangen und beteuerte, Wills habe nichts davon gewusst. Der Oscar ging stattdessen an Peter Ustinov für seine Rolle als Lentulus Batiatus in „Spartacus“.

In Rory Calhouns Westernserie „The Texan“ auf CBS spielte Wills 1960 die Hauptrolle in der Folge „The Eyes of Captain Wylie“.

Wills wirkte in der kurzlebigen Serie „Frontier Circus“ mit, die nur eine Staffel (1961–62) auf CBS ausgestrahlt wurde. 1966 übernahm er die Rolle des zwielichtigen texanischen Ranchers Jim Ed Love in der kurzlebigen ABC-Comedy-Westernserie „The Rounders“ (in der er seine Rolle aus dem Film „The Rounders“ von 1965 mit Henry Fonda wieder aufnahm). Zu seinen Co-Stars zählten Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne und Walker Edmiston.

In den Jahren 1963/64 trat Wills gemeinsam mit William Lundigan, Walter Brennan und Efrem Zimbalist Jr. für US-Senator Barry Goldwater auf, den republikanischen Kandidaten im Wahlkampf gegen US-Präsident Lyndon B. Johnson.

1968 weigerte sich Wills, Richard Nixon bei der Präsidentschaftswahl zu unterstützen, und moderierte stattdessen die Wahlkampfveranstaltungen von George C. Wallace, dem ehemaligen Gouverneur von Alabama, in Kalifornien.[5] Wills gehörte zu den wenigen Hollywood-Stars, die Wallaces Kandidatur gegen Nixon und Hubert H. Humphrey unterstützten; auch Walter Brennan gehörte dazu.

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The Avalon Boys

title: Meet Me in St. Louis

overview: A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

character: Mr. Neely

original_title: Meet Me in St. Louis

title: Giant

overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

character: Uncle Bawley

original_title: Giant

title: The Alamo

overview: The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

character: Beekeeper

original_title: The Alamo

title: I'll Be Seeing You

overview: Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.

character: Swanson

original_title: I'll Be Seeing You

title: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

overview: Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

character: Lemuel

original_title: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

title: Rio Grande

overview: Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

character: Dr. Wilkins

original_title: Rio Grande

title: The Rounders

overview: Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.

character: Jim Ed Love

original_title: The Rounders

title: City That Never Sleeps

overview: Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...

character: Sgt. Joe, the 'Voice of Chicago'

original_title: City That Never Sleeps

title: Tarzan's New York Adventure

overview: Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.

character: Manchester Montford

original_title: Tarzan's New York Adventure

title: The Westerner

overview: Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

character: Southeast

original_title: The Westerner

title: The Wheeler Dealers

overview: Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market.  He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

character: Jay Ray Spinelby

original_title: The Wheeler Dealers

title: Where the Boys Are

overview: Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.

character: Police Captain

title: The Sundowners

overview: Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.

title: McLintock!

overview: Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.

title: Western Union

overview: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

title: Allegheny Uprising

overview: South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.

title: Francis in the Navy

overview: In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. Pete rushes to the train station, but before he can board, nurse Betsy Donevan mistakes him for her shell-shocked brother, Navy boatswain Slicker Donevan. She tries to forcibly remove his uniform so he will not get into trouble for impersonating an Army officer. Finally she realizes that Pete is not Slicker but merely his mirror image.

title: Mr. Billion

overview: An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.

title: The Man from the Alamo

overview: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?

title: Sky Murder

overview: This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.

title: Leave Her to Heaven

overview: A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

title: The Deadly Companions

overview: An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

title: The Yearling

overview: Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

title: Belle Starr

overview: After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

title: Boom Town

overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

title: From Hell to Texas

overview: The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.

title: Fireball 500

overview: Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race.

title: Honky Tonk

overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

title: The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

overview: Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.

title: High Lonesome

overview: When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.

title: Family Honeymoon

overview: Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.

title: The Bugle Sounds

overview: An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.

title: Her Cardboard Lover

overview: A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

title: Tulsa

overview: It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

title: The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

overview: Director Andrew V. McLaglen's 1961 drama, based on John William Fox's novel, is the tale of a young man returning home after fighting in the Civil War. The cast includes Jimmie Rodgers, Luana Patten, Chill Wills, George Kennedy, Neil Hamilton and Morris Ankrum.

title: Cattle Drive

overview: The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.

title: Gun Glory

overview: An ex-gunslinger returns home; shunned by townsfolk he is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman from driving his herd through their town.

title: Red Canyon

overview: A horse breeder's daughter falls for a cowboy out to capture the stallion she aims to ride.

title: A Stranger in Town

overview: In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

title: Drive-In Movie Memories

overview: A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photographs and interviews with Leonard Maltin, John Bloom, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Barry Corbin and many others... Drive-In Movie Memories is a film celebration of America's greatest icon of youth, freedom and the automobile. What began as an auto parts owner's business venture to make some easy money accidentally became a magical place where romance, fun and a sense of community flourished. This film chronicles the drive-in's birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana.

title: Santiago

overview: Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba.  Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.

title: What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

overview: An Army corporal and his con-man sidekick take a shortcut to heroism in World War II France.

title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again

overview: Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

title: Francis Joins the WACS

overview: Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!

title: The Sad Horse

overview: A lonely boy finds companionship with a horse.

title: Francis Goes to the Races

overview: In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.

title: The Grass Is Always Greener

overview: Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.

title: The Sainted Sisters

overview: Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.

title: Young Guns of Texas

overview: A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.

title: Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

overview: A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.

title: Bronco Buster

overview: A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.

title: Racketeers of the Range

overview: A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.

title: Gun for a Coward

overview: A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.

title: Gallant Bess

overview: Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)

title: Tumbleweed

overview: Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.

title: The Cardinal

overview: A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

title: Oh! Susanna

overview: Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.

title: Gold of the Seven Saints

overview: Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory.

title: Timberjack

overview: A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.

title: Barbary Coast Gent

overview: Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

title: Northwest Stampede

overview: In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequeathed him a ranch in Calgary, Canada. The rider really tries to settle down to ranching, but finds himself pining for the rodeo. His forewoman, also a former rodeo performer, thinks her employer is shirking his duties and needs to forget about broncos, and bull-riding and settle down. Meanwhile, the fellow also longs to catch the white stallion running wild. The dog helps out.

title: Kentucky Rifle

overview: A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians know about it, and give the occupants an ultimatum: either the rifles or their lives.

title: At Sea Ashore

overview: Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets her purse, so when she arrives at the immigration office, she can't pay the cabbie, who tells her he'll wait while the meter runs. Inside, Patsy finally finds the high-spirited Lyda, but by then, Patsy has sneaked into the holding area and may need a passport to get out. She hides in Lyda's trunk, but with the cabbie, a suspicious immigration officer, and a traffic cop buzzing around will uncle and niece ever connect?

title: That Wonderful Urge

overview: When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.

title: Apache Trail

overview: The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.

title: Sorority House

overview: A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.

title: Way Out West

overview: Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

character: Lead Singer of the Avalon Boys / Stan's Bass Singing (uncredited)

title: Billy the Kid

overview: Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric Keating. When Keating is killed by a rival, Billy seeks revenge, even if it means opposing his old friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

title: Rock Island Trail

overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

title: Ride the Man Down

overview: After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.

title: Arizona Legion

overview: A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town.

title: Bar 20 Rides Again

overview: Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.

title: Ricochet Romance

overview: Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the critter into marriage. Veteran comedy director Charles W. Lamont moves the proceedings along with style, never missing an opportunity for a low-comedy slapstick turn. The most surprising aspect of Ricochet Romance is that it is not an entry in Marjorie Main's Ma and Pa Kettle series.

title: Best Foot Forward

overview: Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

title: The Day the Bookies Wept

overview: A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

title: Call of the Prairie

overview: Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.

title: Timber Stampede

overview: Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.

title: The Omaha Trail

overview: The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

title: Lawless Valley

overview: After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.

title: Trouble in Sundown

overview: The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.

title: The Liberation of L.B. Jones

overview: A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.

title: Stella

overview: Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

title: Wyoming

overview: With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

title: Hell's Outpost

overview: A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.

title: Stand by for Action

overview: U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.

title: Heartaches

overview: Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats in the mail and an attempt on his life is made. Soon after, two of his associates are murdered. Who is behind it all?

title: Francis

overview: During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.

title: Poco… Little Dog Lost

overview: It looks like the end of the line for Poco and Kim when they are separated following a car accident. Poco's relentless search takes him through the desert. Bravely facing the odds, Poco encounters many dangers, and makes some new friends.

title: Francis Covers the Big Town

overview: A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

title: Francis Goes to West Point

overview: Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

title: Stubby Pringle's Christmas

overview: Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday along the way.

title: The Sea Hornet

overview: "The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan

title: That's Entertainment! III

overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.

title: The Bad Man

overview: Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.

title: Loaded Pistols

overview: A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.

title: Guns of a Stranger

overview: Forced to kill a young Abilene gunman in the line of duty, Sheriff Matthew Roberts, torn by anguish takes off his badge and leaves Kansas. Roberts becomes known as 'The Drifter', wandering restlessly through the west. In Arizona, he aids elderly rancher, Tom Duncan, Tom's granddaughter, Virginia and kid-brother Danny in their fight to save their small ranch from a crooked banker and his gang of outlaws.

title: New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

overview: Star-studded charity New York City premiere of the film Giant.

title: See Here, Private Hargrove

overview: Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.

title: Mr. Gardenia Jones

overview: Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.

title: The Steagle

overview: In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and adopting a different persona in each city.

title: Big Daddy

overview: A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.

title: It's Showtime

overview: A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

title: The Harvey Girls

overview: On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.

title: Disneyland '59

title: John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

overview: Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of the film, clips from it and interviews with members of the cast, crew and local residents in Brackettville, TX, where it was filmed.

title: The Saxon Charm

overview: In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.

title: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

overview: An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.

original_title: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

title: Nobody's Baby

overview: Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty  resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.

title: The Over the Hill Gang

overview: A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.

title: High Barbaree

overview: After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

title: Hideaway Girl

overview: An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.

title: The Immortal Blacksmith

overview: This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who lived the first half of the 19th century.

title: The Western: A Lost TV Special

overview: A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and more.

title: Small Town Girl

overview: Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.

title: Anything Goes

overview: A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.

title: Meet Me in St. Louis

title: Giant

title: The Alamo

title: I'll Be Seeing You

title: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

title: Rio Grande

title: The Rounders

title: City That Never Sleeps

title: Tarzan's New York Adventure

title: The Westerner

title: The Wheeler Dealers

title: Where the Boys Are

title: The Sundowners

title: McLintock!

title: Western Union

title: Allegheny Uprising

title: Francis in the Navy

title: Mr. Billion

title: The Man from the Alamo

title: Sky Murder

title: The Deadly Companions

title: Leave Her to Heaven

title: The Yearling

title: Belle Starr

title: Boom Town

title: From Hell to Texas

title: Fireball 500

title: Honky Tonk

title: The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

title: High Lonesome

title: Family Honeymoon

title: The Bugle Sounds

title: Her Cardboard Lover

title: Tulsa

title: The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

title: Cattle Drive

title: Gun Glory

title: Red Canyon

title: A Stranger in Town

title: Drive-In Movie Memories

title: Santiago

title: What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again

title: Francis Joins the WACS

title: The Sad Horse

title: Francis Goes to the Races

title: The Grass Is Always Greener

title: The Sainted Sisters

title: Young Guns of Texas

title: Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

title: Bronco Buster

title: Racketeers of the Range

title: Gun for a Coward

title: Gallant Bess

title: Tumbleweed

title: The Cardinal

title: Oh! Susanna

title: Gold of the Seven Saints

title: Timberjack

title: Barbary Coast Gent

title: Northwest Stampede

title: Kentucky Rifle

title: At Sea Ashore

title: That Wonderful Urge

title: Apache Trail

title: Sorority House

title: Way Out West

title: Billy the Kid

title: Rock Island Trail

title: Ride the Man Down

title: Arizona Legion

title: Bar 20 Rides Again

title: Ricochet Romance

title: Best Foot Forward

title: The Day the Bookies Wept

title: Call of the Prairie

title: Timber Stampede

title: The Omaha Trail

title: Lawless Valley

title: Trouble in Sundown

title: The Liberation of L.B. Jones

title: Stella

title: Wyoming

title: Hell's Outpost

title: Stand by for Action

title: Heartaches

title: Francis

title: Poco… Little Dog Lost

title: Francis Goes to West Point

title: Francis Covers the Big Town

title: Stubby Pringle's Christmas

title: The Sea Hornet

title: That's Entertainment! III

title: The Bad Man

title: Loaded Pistols

title: Guns of a Stranger

title: New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

title: See Here, Private Hargrove

title: Mr. Gardenia Jones

title: The Steagle

title: Big Daddy

title: It's Showtime

title: The Harvey Girls

title: Disneyland '59

title: John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

title: The Saxon Charm

title: Nobody's Baby

title: The Over the Hill Gang

title: High Barbaree

title: Hideaway Girl

title: The Immortal Blacksmith

title: The Western: A Lost TV Special

title: Small Town Girl

title: Anything Goes


Tom Courtenay

biography:
An English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963), and Dr. Zhivago (1965). Since the mid-1960s he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre. Courtenay received a knighthood in February 2001 for forty years' service to cinema and theatre. Courtenay is the President of Hull City A.F.C.'s Official Supporters Club. In 1999, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University.

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Little Dorrit

overview: Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

character: Mr. Dorrit

original_name: Little Dorrit

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

character: Jesus

original_name: BBC Play of the Month

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

overview: Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams tasked with saving planet earth from alien invasion! Each team must find clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny enough for Harry to place in a capsule which, in the event that we're invaded by aliens, we can present to them to demonstrate earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving. Over a series of rounds, the two teams of two present Harry with fun stuff which Harry must adjudicate on and ultimately decide what's in and what's out of the Fun Capsule with the triumphant team winning bragging rights. Along the way there will be sketches, studio items and special guests. And the occasional appearance of an alien.

original_name: Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

The North Water

overview: Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

character: Baxter

original_name: The North Water

Unforgotten

overview: London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.

character: Eric Slater

original_name: Unforgotten

Mandy

overview: Mandy is a woman with dreams. Big dreams. Most of all she dreams of breeding Doberman Pinchers. But there are hurdles to overcome before that dream can become a reality. In the series we'll see her go on a health kick, rent out her small back bedroom on Airbnb and attempt a series of short-lived jobs in the modern gig economy.

character: Engineer Woodcock

original_name: Mandy

name: Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

overview: Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

original_name: Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Parkinson

overview: Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

original_name: Parkinson

Theatre Night

overview: A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

character: Colin

original_name: Theatre Night

BBC Play of the Month

character: Oswald Alving

ScreenPlay

overview:
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993.

Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

character: Stanley Peachey

original_name: ScreenPlay

Solo

overview: Series of 20-minute monologues by famous British actors, portraying historical characters or reading poetry.

original_name: Solo

Film '72

overview: The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

original_name: Film '72

Stage 2

overview: BBC anthology series of classic plays.

character: Marlow

original_name: Stage 2

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

普通话

汤姆·康特奈

biography: 英国演员

普通话

湯·葛特聯

biography: 英國演員

Deutsch

Tom Courtenay

biography: Der englische Schauspieler erlangte Anfang der 1960er-Jahre mit Filmen wie „Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers“ (1962), „Billy Liar“ (1963) und „Doktor Schiwago“ (1965) Bekanntheit. Seit Mitte der 1960er-Jahre ist er vor allem für seine Theaterarbeit bekannt. Im Februar 2001 wurde Courtenay für seine vierzigjährigen Verdienste um Film und Theater zum Ritter geschlagen. Er ist Präsident des offiziellen Fanclubs von Hull City A.F.C. 1999 verlieh ihm die Universität Hull die Ehrendoktorwürde.

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

also_known_as:
Thomas Daniel Courtenay
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay

title: The Golden Compass

overview: In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

character: Farder Coram

original_title: The Golden Compass

title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

overview: A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

title: Otley

overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.

character: Gerald Arthur Otley

original_title: Otley

title: Flood

overview: Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.

character: Leonard Morrison

original_title: Flood

title: Leonard Part 6

overview: After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.

character: Frayn

original_title: Leonard Part 6

title: Billy Liar

overview: A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.

character: William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher

original_title: Billy Liar

title: King Rat

overview: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.

character: Grey

original_title: King Rat

title: The Dresser

overview: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

character: Norman

original_title: The Dresser

title: Operation Crossbow

overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

character: Robert Henshaw

original_title: Operation Crossbow

title: The Night of the Generals

overview: A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

character: Corporal Hartmann

original_title: The Night of the Generals

title: Last Orders

overview: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy

character: Vic

original_title: Last Orders

title: The Day the Fish Came Out

overview: A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.

character: The Navigator

original_title: Όταν τα Ψάρια Βγήκαν στη Στεριά

original_language: el

title: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

overview: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.

character: Colin Smith

original_title: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

title: Let Him Have It

overview: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

character: William Bentley

original_title: Let Him Have It

title: The Old Curiosity Shop

overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

title: Queen at Sea

overview: As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.

title: A Rather English Marriage

overview: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.

title: Moscow in Madrid

overview: When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a location on the plains outside Madrid, Spain and built a set to look like the Russian capital. This promotional film gives viewers a short look at the set under construction.

title: Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

overview: It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

title: A Dandy in Aspic

overview: Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.

title: Catch Me a Spy

overview: While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.

title: King and Country

overview: During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

title: Gambit

overview: An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.

title: Quartet

overview: Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.

title: Me and the Girls

overview: Ken Taylor's adaptation of the Noel Coward short story, "Me and the Girls", one of a series called "Noel Coward's The Master's Collection". George Banks, a homosexual dancer, looks back over his life as he lies dying in a Swiss sanatorium.

title: The Last Butterfly

overview: Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.

title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

overview: Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway

title: Happy New Year

overview: Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.

title: Night Train to Lisbon

overview: Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure.  In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

title: Famous Fred

overview: Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar, but a case of cat flu threatens to cut short his musical career.

title: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

overview: A young priest is sent to an indigenous village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.

title: The Boy from Mercury

overview: Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.

title: The Legend of Barney Thomson

overview: Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

title: 45 Years

overview: There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

title: Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

overview: In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles in the movie.

original_title: Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

title: Absent Friends

overview: Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn.

title: Dad's Army

overview: A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

overview: Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos

title: Doctor Zhivago

overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

title: Nicholas Nickleby

overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

title: Redemption

overview: After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?

title: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

overview: Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

original_title: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

title: Grandpa's Great Escape

overview: Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that Miss Dandy is running Twilight Towers for her own ulterior motives, and it is up to Grandpa and grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Failure could have the direst of consequences, but success will give Grandpa a final chance to relive his past and take to the sky once again in his beloved Spitfire.

title: King of Thieves

overview: London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.

title: Summerland

overview: A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

overview: The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas, where he has a run-in with a murderous band of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns and flying fists. Marooned by the pirates on a remote desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters, but before they can turn him into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and makes a life-altering decision.

original_title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

title: The Aeronauts

overview: In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

title: The Queen's Corgi

overview: Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty’s heart. His arrogance can be quite irritating. When he causes a diplomatic incident during an official dinner with the President of the United States, he falls into disgrace. Betrayed by one of his peers, Rex becomes a stray dog in the streets of London. How can he redeem himself? In love, he will find the resources to surpass himself in the face of great danger…

title: The First Film

overview: Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888.

title: Private Potter

overview: A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.

title: The Royle Family: The New Sofa

overview: Festive special edition of the hit family sitcom. Inspired by Nigella Lawson, Denise decides to cook Christmas dinner for the family. Jim provides the yuletide log and, much to his dismay, Dave's mum and dad are invited to join the festivities.

title: Cinderella: After Ever After

overview: Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

title: The End of an Era

overview: Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental debates. This animation takes an insect eye view to explore these deeply troubling themes with wit and generosity.

title: The Railway Children Return

overview: Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.

title: The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa

overview: Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scenes at the production of the show and interviews with the cast.

title: Alec Guinness: A Class Act

overview: The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

title: The Chester Mystery Plays

overview: Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.

title: Chekhov in Yalta

overview: A visit by the Moscow Arts Theatre company to Chekhov's country villa at Yalta in 1900. Based on the stage play by John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow.

place_of_birth: Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

title: The Golden Compass

title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

title: Otley

title: Flood

title: Leonard Part 6

title: Billy Liar

title: King Rat

title: The Dresser

title: Operation Crossbow

title: The Night of the Generals

title: Last Orders

title: The Day the Fish Came Out

original_title: Όταν τα Ψάρια Βγήκαν στη Στεριά

title: Let Him Have It

title: The Old Curiosity Shop

title: Queen at Sea

title: A Rather English Marriage

title: Moscow in Madrid

title: Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

title: A Dandy in Aspic

title: Catch Me a Spy

title: King and Country

title: Gambit

title: Quartet

title: Me and the Girls

title: The Last Butterfly

title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

title: Happy New Year

title: Night Train to Lisbon

title: Famous Fred

title: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

title: The Boy from Mercury

title: The Legend of Barney Thomson

title: 45 Years

title: Absent Friends

title: Dad's Army

title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

title: Doctor Zhivago

title: Nicholas Nickleby

title: Redemption

title: Grandpa's Great Escape

title: King of Thieves

title: Summerland

title: The Aeronauts

title: The Queen's Corgi

title: The First Film

title: Private Potter

title: The Royle Family: The New Sofa

title: Cinderella: After Ever After

title: The End of an Era

title: The Railway Children Return

title: The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa

title: Alec Guinness: A Class Act

title: The Chester Mystery Plays

title: Chekhov in Yalta