Victor Schertzinger
Language
English
Formats
Description
American sideshow performers Chuck and Fearless are stranded in the jungle after their human cannonball act starts a fire that burns down the circus. They become entangled with a larcenous pair of entertainers from Brooklyn anxious to separate them from their bankroll. Duped into accompanying the ladies on a safari, Chuck and Fearless soon find themselves in the clutches of savage tribesmen who pit Fearless against a gorilla in a wild wrestling match....
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A New York bandleader is offered a film contract in Los Angeles. He and his wife move to California, where his lack of desire to be a star is thought to be arrogance. Sick of Hollywood, he takes his wife on a cruise; and when they come back he is a superstar.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Running out on his stuffy desk job and marriage-minded girlfriend, Josh Mallon links up with sailor-buddy Ace and sets sail for the farthest point on the map: Singapore. On the exotic island of Kaigoon, they meet Mima, a lovely young dancer on the run from her domineering fiance. Josh and Ace rescue Mima, who moves into their shack, cooks, cleans, sings, and quickly becomes the object of their wise-cracking war for her affections.
6) The Mikado
Series
Criterion collection volume 559
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger. The result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan. Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan, fled his...
7) The Mikado
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A spoof of Victorian English society. Presents the story of a lowly tailor's transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner and a Japanese prince who is on the run from an arranged marriage.
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The fourth and final program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) goes to San Francisco for some fun prior to settling down with fiancé Paula Gibson (Britton). After a night out, he wakes up and is told he's been poisoned and will soon die. He embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer.
The admiral was a lady: In this comedy/romance, ex-WAVE Jean Madison (Hendrix) encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men all wanting to marry her. Jimmy Stevens (O'Brien) nearly gets...