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A documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries including Roger Corman, Joe Dante and Leonard Maltin. Nominated for an Audience Award for Best Documentary at **SXSW Film Festival**. *"Miller is such a character that Drenner takes the advice offered him by many of the...
23) Some like it hot
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In order to escape retaliation after they witness a gangland murder, two unemployed musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-girl band headed to Miami. En route, one falls for the band's lovelorn singer, who thinks she loves an aged playboy. Their cover is blown by his love interest and by a mob boss, who refuses to fall for their hoax.
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Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Stymie, Darla and the rest of the Little Rascals are back.
Fly my kite: When Dirty Dan tries to take away Grandma's retirement fortune, it's the kids and Pete the Pup to the rescue. Honkey donkey: Spoiled rich kid Wally invites the gang and their pet mule to his mansion. Beginner's luck: Spanky's reciting Shakespeare in a talent show but he can't seem to get his lines out. Reunion in rhythm: The grammar school is...
26) Score
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Documentary bringing Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. Features interviews with nearly 60 composers, directors, orchestrators, studio musicians, producers, recording artists, studio executives, agents, and journalists.
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In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America's boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps to fulfill his family mission and serve his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in 20 often-brutal World War II combat missions over Germany and France. In mere months the war took away his boyish looks as he faced near-death experiences and the loss of men under his command....
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Throughout the 1950's and 60's, William Castle produced and directed a series of horror films marked by their outrageous audience participation gimmicks. Castle treated moviegoers to buzzing seats, flying skeletons, luminescent ghosts and life insurance policies — and they loved every minute of it. SPINE TINGLER! is a documentary about the last great American showman. It is a rags to riches tale of a legend of exploitation and master of self-promotion,...
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For the first time on home video, these exceptional short films look exactly as they did decades ago when they sent Saturday matinee audiences into fits of laughter. Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Stymie, Darla and the rest of the Little Rascals are back - and better than ever - in this collection of completely remastered, unedited, original films.
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For the first time on home video, these exceptional short films look exactly as they did decades ago when they sent Saturday matinee audiences into fits of laughter. Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Stymie, Darla and the rest of the Little Rascals are back - and better than ever - in this collection of completely remastered, unedited, original films.