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Return to the Doghouse

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:49:35 -0500

Watch the sequel to last seasons Doghouse video. This year its personal and the guys cant seem to stay out of the doghouse. Find out what it takes for the Review Board to set them free.

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:37:57 -0400

As the private eyes of private eyes, Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He’s tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker, haS died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead him to the "Carlotta Lists".

Kisses for My President (1965)

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:13:50 -0400

It’s start-to-finish laughs when Polly Bergen ("Making Mr. Right," "The Winds of War") is America's first female president and Fred MacMurray ("My Three Sons") is the husband who has to cope with his new title of "First Man."

Imitation of Life - Trailer

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:27:22 -0400

In IMITATION OF LIFE, the second screen adaptation of Fannie Hurst's emotionally charged novel (the first, made in 1934, starred Claudette Colbert), Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) and Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) are two widowed mothers, one white, the other black, who forge a close friendship when financial circumstances demand they share a small cold-water flat. Lora's financial lot improves when her acting career takes off, but life changes little for Annie, who continues to stay with Lora as her maid. Both women's daughters grow to resent their mothers; golden-haired Susie (Sandra Dee) becomes the spoiled, neglected daughter of a celebrated actress, while Annie's daughter, light-skinned Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), frustrated at the difficulties of being black in American society, continues to reject her mother's admonitions that she not try to pass for white. Turner centers an outstanding cast that garnered Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for both Kohner and Moore. Director Douglas Sirk, in what was to be his final feature film, creates an intoxicating carnival of lush colors and dizzying, metallic surfaces. In his heightened rendering of the 1950s American dreamworld, with its widespread yearning for material success and submerged racial tensions, the most alluring realms reveal themselves as substanceless halls of mirrors.

Good Day for a Hanging

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:21:11 -0400

The central performances of Fred MacMurray as a U.S. Marshal and Robert Vaughn as a psychopathic killer make this an unusual and absorbing Western. MacMurray must prove his charismatic young captive guilty of murder against much opposition.

Mr. Imperium (1951)

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:06:38 -0500

Mr. Imperium (Pinza), a royal bachelor prince, takes a vacation in Italy, where he meets and falls in love with nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Turner). Circumstances force them to part at the end of the trip, but the two meet again ten years later, after Mr. Imperium has become king and Fredda has become a major Hollywood movie star. Passion rekindles again in the two, as they renew their romance.

Honeymoon in Bali

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:48:16 -0500

Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) is a no-nonsense businesswoman with little time left for any personal life. Bill Burnett (Fred MacMurray) is in love with Allen and hopes to share his feelings with her during a trip to Nassau.

Imitation of Life

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:03:19 -0400

This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst. Originally, the heroine was a widowed mother who kept the wolf from the door by setting up a successful pancake business with her black housemaid. In the remake, Lana Turner stars as a would-be actress who is raising her daughter on her own. She chances to meet another single mother at the beach: African-American Juanita Moore. Moore goes to work as Turner’s housekeeper, bringing her light-skinned daughter along. As Turner's stage career goes into high gear, Moore is saddled with the responsibility of raising both Turner's daughter and her own. Exposed to the advantages of the white world, Moore's grown-up daughter (Susan Kohner) passes for white, causing her mother a great deal of heartache. Meanwhile, Turner's grown daughter (Sandra Dee), neglected by her mother, seeks comfort in the arms of handsome photographer John Gavin. When Moore dies, her daughter realizes how selfish she's been; simultaneously, Turner awakens to the fact that she hasn't been much of a mother for her own daughter, whose romance has gone down the tubes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide