Six by Sondheim
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
The Long Days of Summer
In this sequel to his 1978 “When Every Day Was the Fourth of July” (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during…
Any Wednesday
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive’s mistress falls for the executive’s young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his…
Original Cast Album: Company
Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. D.A. Pennebaker,…
That Darn Cat
While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti’s pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enlists skeptical law enforcement…
Tea and Sympathy
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom’s school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him…
Beethoven
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This “hole” is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives….
The Ugly Dachshund
The Garrisons are the “proud parents” of three adorable dachshund pups – and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity…
Other People’s Money
When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a ‘mom and pop’ company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife’s attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to…
The Love Bug
Herbie is a car – but no ordinary car. The story follows the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own from the showroom to the race track, with various…
Two on a Guillotine
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her…
Never So Few
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Imitation General
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.
Torpedo Run
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Snowball Express
When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that…
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named “Aspercel”…
Jailhouse Rock
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
Blackbeard’s Ghost
Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of…
Monkeys, Go Home!
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local…
The Shaggy D.A.
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just…
The Million Dollar Duck
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
The Great American Pastime
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.