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A business-like syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations.

The Gang's All Here
Starring: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, James Ellison
& Benny Goodman

Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie's show troupe, at which she's sure to learn his true identity...and meet Vivian, his 'family-arrangement' fiancée

When 4 men follow a woman into redskin country to help rescue her husband they find trouble within their own ranks as well as having to face a deadly threat from the savages who claimed the land as their own.

Gaslight
Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton & Angela Lansbury

The removal of an old tree in Glen's backyard reveals a large and mysterious hole. Glen and his sister, Al, are left to look after themselves for three days when their parents go away. This is when strange things begin to happen, all of them centered around the "hole".

Made for television in 1974, Richard Burton stars as Sir Winston Churchill in this epic, which spans the pre-war years of 1936-40. Following Churchill from being both ignored and ridiculed to the point where he is asked to lead the British nation, as Hitler rolls across Europe.

Gangster Shoots Magiz is the producer of the show in which Mary is appearing. She marries him even though she can't stand a thing about him, knowing that in his business he may not be around for long. She's right. A series of loves and deaths ensues.

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

Genghis Khan
Starring: Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd, Telly Savalas
& James Mason

A young Mongol escapes to form his own war party in this loose adaptation of the legendary warlord's life and exploits.

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Starring: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young & Rudy Vallee

Mare Winningham was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character in this Indie feature from 1996, and Jennifer Jason Leigh gave one of her best performances ever. But as incredible as the movie itself was, the music was fantastic! Mare Winningham sang her folk numbers with a masterful charm at her craft. Jennifer Jason Leigh sings her rock numbers with an honest grit that reflects the emotions of the character, Sadie- Georgia’s sister, she plays. Included are performances by John Doe (of punk rock group, X, fame), Blues Great Jimmy Witherspoon, Smokey Hornet, & West Coast Folk Duo- Ranch Romance. A great soundtrack that is out of print, here it is for you on CD

Track Listing:

Hard Times-Mare Winningham
Ain’t Nobody’s Business- Jimmy Witherspoon
There She Goes – John Doe
Almost Blue – Jennifer Jason Leigh
Sally Can’t Dance – John Doe & Jennifer Jason Leigh
Optimistic Voices – John Doe & Jennifer Jason Leigh
Yosel Yosel – Jennifer Jason Leigh
I’ll Be Your Mirror- Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Doe & Smokey Hornet
Arizona Moon – Ranch Romance
If I Wanted – Mare Winningham & Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mercy – Mare Winningham
Take Me Back – Jennifer Jason Leigh
Midnight Train to Georgia – Jennifer Jason Leigh
Hard Times – Mare Winningham & Jennifer Jason Leigh

A government agent goes under cover as a prison inmate to unearth information regarding a gang of wanted men.

Gideon's Trumpet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrar, Fay Wray, Dean Jagger
& John Houseman

True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.

Gidget
Starring: Sandra Dee, James Darrin & Cliff Robertson

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She's fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf. Soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggy.

Gidget Gets Married
Starring: Monie Ellis, Don Ameche, Michael Burns & Joan Bennett

After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

Gidget's Summer Reunion
Starring: Caryn Richman, Dean Butler & William Schallert

Former beach bunny/girl surfer Gidget is fully grown up and married to her long-term beau Moondoggie, and deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband's old surfing friends.

A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute. Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor without uttering a sound as he plays the bumbling, kind-hearted janitor, Gigot. Gleason wrote the original story and music for this film.

The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.

When a beautiful socialite has her apartment rent go up due to the repeal of the city’s rent control laws, she takes her cause to City Hall. Finding no help from the Mayor, she takes on City Government, and sets up house in the city park. The press of course rallies to her side. When the Mayor orders her arrest, she then takes the fight to court. But there is one catch, she is falling in love w/ the City Attorney who’s prosecuting her. A classic TV teleplay from 1957.

Girl Stroke Boy
Starring: Clive Francis, Peter Straker, Joan Greenwood
& Michael Hordern

The straight-laced parents of a young man who is 30 yrs old ( and still lives at home) and has, until now, shown no interest in the opposite sex, are surprised when he comes home with a girl (or boy. No one is sure which) from the West Indies. Finding out which leads to comical results.

The Glass Wall
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Vittorio Gassman & Ann Robinson

Peter, a WW II 'displaced person' about to be deported jumps ship in New York harbor in an effort to find an ex-G.I named Tom whom he helped during the war and can prove Peter's right to legal entry in the United States. It is a race against time for if he can't Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship. His quest leads him to befriending Maggie, a down-on-her-luck factory worker whom he rejuvenates through his good faith; a visit to a jazz club where Shorty Rogers and his band and trombonist Jack Teagarden are playing, and an interlude with a good- hearted burlesque dancer, Tanya Zakoyla, takes him to her mother's home for food and rest. The climax comes at dawn in the United Nations building (the "glass wall" of the title) where he goes to plead his case and that of all displaced persons.

Go Naked in the World
Starring: Gina Lollobridgida, Anthony Franciosa
& Ernest Borgnine

A young man from a wealthy family falls in love with a call girl whose past customers include his father.

A female New England reporter and the widow of a cavalry officer team up to go out West, and wind up trying to evade outlaws, gamblers and the law. A made for TV classic!!

Federal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandit 'Pecos Pete'. Penny Singleton is adorably ditzy as the heroine, Glenn Ford honed his comic skills as "the tenderfoot" and sparkling Ann Miller as the tart-tongued saloon-singer steals the show. The Sammy Cahn score is a treat, and Annie's tip-tapping with Allen Jenkins singing "I Wish That I could Be a Singing Cowboy" is one of the many highlights of this unique lark of a film.

Going Places
Starring: Dick Powell, Ronald Reagan, Anita Louise
& Louis Armstrong

Mr. Mason is a salesman at Detridge & Frome who wants to advertise their line of riding clothes. Since they have the rights to famous jockey Peter Randall, who is in Australia, Peter will impersonate him at the Steeple Chase. At the event, he is invited to a party by Cora and sees young Ellen. Since all Ellen and Peter have in common is horses, he continues the charade to woo her. But two gamblers named Maxie and Duke, try to make money on the race by fixing him up with the wild 'Jeepers Creepers'. That horse can jump high and run like the wind, but he will only calm down enough to be ridden when Gabriel plays his trumpet.

Gold Diggers of 1933
Starring: Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell
& Ruby Keeler

A musical about the Depression? It's so crazy, it just might work. A poverty-flummoxed producer tries to mount an extravaganza with a handful of his favorite showgirls and an assist from a young composer with a fat bankroll and a secret.

The Good Die Young
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Laurence Harvey,
Richard Basehart, John Ireland & Robert Morley

Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted by Miles Ravenscourt, an amoral "gentleman." Because they need money, they let Miles lure them into his scheme to rob a postal van with a large cash cargo.

Good Morning Miss Dove
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack & Chuck Connors

Miss Dove is a strict disciplinary, plus a well-respected teacher, who has inspired her students to individual greatness. One day during class, Miss Dove experiences great pain in her back, but continues with the class. After class she asks one of her students who is staying after class to get a doctor. Thomas, a doctor, and a former student of hers takes her to the hospital and hospitalizes her. While in the hospital her former students rally around her causing Miss Dove to reflect on her past.

A Classic Made for TV Movie. A sports columnist and a fashion-magazine editor try to develop a close friendship without allowing sex to intrude.

Goodbye, My Fancy
Starring: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy & Eve Arden

Journalist Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at rekindling any sparks are thwarted by the arrival of another rival for her affections and the showing of her controversial film which could put her former beau's job in jeopardy.

A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend on the phone. She flees for her new beau's private railcar at the same station. When she is then found murdered the cops round up a motley group of suspects including the escapee, several guys feeling sore at the way the gold-digging broad had treated them, some jealous dames, and a private eye already on the case. Inspector Gunther soon has a problem - enough evidence to fry all of them.

The Great American Broadcast
Starring: John Payne, Alice Faye, Cesar Romero & Jack Benny

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.

The Great American Pastime
Starring: Ann Miller, Tom Ewell, Ann Francis & Dean Jones

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.

The Great Bank Robbery
Starring: Kim Novak, Zero Mostel, Clint Walker & Claude Akins

In this hilarious western farce, a bogus preacher, a Mexican gang and all the local outlaws try to break into a well-guarded bank.

Real-life 19th-century British actor David Garrick makes a disparaging remark aimed at French actors on the eve of visiting the Comedie Française in Paris. In retaliation, the company at the Comedie Française decide to embarrass the Great Garrick and send him back to Britain shamed and ridiculed. Taking over the Adam and Eve Inn where Garrick is scheduled to stay, they put on an elaborate show designed to scare Garrick out of his wits. The great actor becomes suspicious and foils their plans, winning the heart of the Countess Germaine–the only guest at the Inn who is not involved in the actors’ machinations in the process.

Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
Starring: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Kay Lenz
& Elizabeth Ashley

The Greatest American Heroine
Starring: Mary Ellen Stuart, Robert Culp, William Katt
& Connie Selleca

Although meant to be aired as the final episode of “ The Greatest American Hero “ TV series, it was never to be. This pilot for a proposed spin-off from that successful show, was relegated to run as the final episode for the series in syndication only, as the ABC passed on this idea to continue the story.

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

Jimmy Stewart plays a gentle soul who vows to protect and defend the natural beauty of his surroundings as well as the innocence of his granddaughter, who’s grown up with him on the unspoiled African plains. However, both are threatened, when into their midst, comes a mysterious stranger.

In one of the minor and non-costume films of his career, Flynn plays a noble doctor in a story adapted from the inspirational novel by Lloyd C. Douglas.

Greenwich Village
Starring: Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, Vivian Blaine
& William Bendix

In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas, hoping to publish his concerto; he meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a Broadway show. Ken's affairs take a turn for the better when he falls for singer Bonnie Watson. But while he labors on orchestration, O'Mara is surreptitiously adapting his tunes to the Greenwich Village Gaieties

Lawyer Ginger Rogers is hired to keep dumb cowboy Jack Carson out of trouble. Which is a comical responsibility.

The Group
    Starring: Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman,
                      Larry Hagman, Jessica Walter, Hal Holbrook,
                      Richard Mulligan & James Broderick

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

Guide For A Married Man
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Inger Stevens, Walter Matthau, Lucille Ball,
Jack Benny, Sid Ceasar, Joey Bishop, Polly Bergen, Carl Reiner, Phil Silvers
& Marty Ingles

Robert Morse and Walter Matthau are friends. Though both are married, Matthau discovers Morris is fooling around. When asked about it, Morse passes on the oral history and guide to fooling around without your wife finding out. This is done by a series of vignettes with cameos from famous actors that illustrate the point Morse wants to make. Between pieces of advice, we follow Matthau as he begins to prepare for his big affair.

Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Starring: Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, DeForest Kelley
& Colleen Miller

Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?

Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. The other two trick him into a final mission where they end up confronting the entire cult by themselves as the British Army is entering a trap.

Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian attacks triggered by Army massacre. He overcomes initial distrust and convinces the homesteaders (all women whose men are away fighting in the Confederate Army) to take refuge in an abandoned mission. He trains them to fight and shoot in anticipation of the attack. The only other man at the mission runs away to save his scalp and ends up leading the Indians back to the mission. Surrounded and outnumbered, the defenders prepare for the final assault.