Gene Autry and the local town folk fall victim to greedy land developers in "Man From Music Mountain." Besides the drama, there is plenty of music from Autry and co-stars Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Sally Payne, and Polly Jenkins and her Plowboys. (Carol Hughes' daughter Kay [..]

"Bringing Up Baby" is an over-rated screwball comedy about a paleontologist who is in trouble because he loses a valuable dinosaur bone and somehow gets stuck taking care of a leopard named Baby. It was a failure with critics and the public alike when it was released [..]

"The Old Barn Dance" tells the story of Gene Autry's horse trading business being threatened by a tractor company, with tractors replacing horses for farm work. This fun Republic Pictures movie was directed by Joseph Lane, written by Bernard McConville and Charles F. Royal, and produced [..]

"Holiday" is a romantic comedy film that is the story of a man from humble beginnings who gets engaged to a woman from a wealthy, upper-crust background. The comedy proceeds from there, benefiting from polished direction from George Cukor ("Camille" 1936) and a witty screenplay by [..]

The Best Picture of 1938 is....."You Can't Take It with You." This is a romantic comedy about a man from a family of wealthy snobs who becomes engaged to his secretary, a woman from a good-natured and eccentric family of a lower middle class background. Director [..]

"Unstoppable" is a disaster thriller film about a huge unmanned locomotive out of control on railroad tracks in urban Pennsylvania, loaded with toxic chemicals which would cause an environmental disaster and massive loss of human life if derailed. The only hope of stopping the train is in the [..]

"Morning Glory" is the story of a young producer, played by Rachel McAdams, who accepts the challenge of reviving a low-rated morning talk show with battling co-hosts, one a "happy talk" hostess (Diane Keaton) and the other a serious-minded veteran journalist (Harrison Ford). Roger Mitchell ("Notting Hill" 1999) [..]

"Watermelon Man" is the story of a bigoted white man who wakes up one morning to finds he has turned black. He becomes the victim of discriminatory practices, the very same behaviors he himself once used on black people. Director Melvin Van Peebles put together a thoughtful comedy [..]

"12 Angry Men" is the story of a jury deliberating a guilty/not guilty verdict on an inner city teenage boy accused of killing his father. At the beginning, one juror believes in the boy's innocence with the other eleven ready to vote guilty. The lone juror [..]

"The Manchurian Candidate" is a the story of a Gulf War veteran experiencing terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad member, now a candidate for U. S. Vice President, is the hero that people remember him being. The political and psychological drama continues from there, [..]