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Adventure, Drama
The movie begins about a year after the events of the first story. The Davis family has fit in very well with the townspeople of Lucifer Falls. *Almost* all of them, except for a grumpy general store owner, Tom Lynch (Eugene Levy) who has a great disdain for Carlton and the growing popularity he's gained among the townspeople.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, thriller film, war film
In the film's opening sequence, young reporter Jim Benton asks train engineer Mr. Wilson about three menGriffin, Cook and Landiswho hopped his freight train five years earlier, in 1961. "He ran all the way to hell," the engineer remarks about Griffin.
Adventure, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
At the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland in 1745, Jamie Durie (Errol Flynn), his younger brother Henry (Anthony Steel) and their father Lord Durrisdeer (Felix Aylmer) receive news of the Jacobite rising. Their retainer, MacKellar (Mervyn Johns), recommends that one brother join the uprising while the other remains loyal to King George II, so that whichever side wins, the family's status and estate will be preserved. Both brothers want to go.
Western
In the southwestern Pennsylvania region, of colonial America, in the 1760s, colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by Native Americans, who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders. Local adventurer James Smith and his followers complain to British officials, pressuring them to make it illegal to trade weapons to the Indians.
Adventure, Comedy, romance film
Samy Diakhaté is a young man of Senegalese origin from the Cité des 4000 in La Courneuve. Like many of his friends, he is unemployed but wants to get out of it. Since middle school, he has been in love with Nadia, an employee of the neighborhood supermarket.
Adventure, children's film, fantasy film
One morning in the magic garden, after a rude awakening from his cuckoo clock, Dougal the dog remembers a strange event that happened the night before. He then takes the train to speak to Zebedee about it (while briefly conversing with Ermintrude, Brian, Dylan, and Mr. MacHenry on the way).
Adventure
thumb|Lobby card Jane's (Maureen O'Sullivan) two cousins, Eric and Rita, arrive in Africa to tell Jane about a fortune left to her back in their world and to try to convince her to return with them. They are led to Tarzan's escarpment home by Captain Fry (John Buckler), a hunter with an agenda of his own. Jane convinces Tarzan to let her go back with Eric (William Henry) and Rita (Benita Hume), promising that their separation will only be temporary.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy, Computeranimation
In Poppy Meadow, Maya is full of the joys of spring as she tries to wake the hive and Willy to let them know that spring has finally arrived, but the others went back to sleep. Maya and Willy go to the glow worms, but they wreck the hive and the precious sunstone, much to the displeasure of the Queen. Maya overhears that she and Willy are to be separated because of their calamitous partnership and she needs no further invitation to get away from the hive to do something special to prove her and Willy's worth to stay together.
Action, Adventure, mockbuster
Adrian Sinbad is a millionaire owner of an oil company and is from a long-line of descendants of great mariners. He and a small group of people fly to the Indian Ocean after learning that his oil rig has sunk after being taken over by Somali pirates. The helicopter becomes trapped in a thunderstorm and Sinbad refuses to go back, ignoring the pleas of his pilot.
Crime
The story takes place in modern-day Chicago. Lou Marazano was once a feared hit man, but his reputation has dimmed significantly twenty years after his retirement. Unable to help his daughter financially after her ex-husband fails to pay child support, he asks the current local mob boss, Lorenzo Galante, for work.
Drama, war film
During the Pacific War, lieutenant commander Ken White orders the submarine USS Tiger Shark to crash dive to evade a Japanese aerial attack. Chief petty officer Boyer begs him to wait for commander Josh Rice, still topside, but White refuses, and his close friend Rice and the quartermaster are lost. When they resurface shortly afterward, they learn that the war is over.
Action, Drama, spy film, war film
During World War II, Nazi Germany is aware of Operation Overlord, but is unaware of the date and landing sites. German Army Colonel Brausch, Gestapo agent Hoffman, and S.S. member Ritter repeatedly fail to learn when Operation Overlord will happen.
Adventure, Comedy, Western
Union Colonel Claude Brackenbury has a cozy arrangement with his Confederate counterpart. They fire a few artillery rounds in each other's general direction at precisely the same time each morning, then go back to contentedly waiting for the war to end. Captain Jared Heath, however, disturbs the status quo one day by going out and capturing some of the enemy.
Adventure, Biography
Henry Stanley is a fearless newspaper reporter ready to do whatever it takes to get a story, no matter how dangerous. Colonel Grimes tells two peace commissioners sent from Washington DC that he cannot permit them to try to contact the Indians of the Wyoming Territory of 1870, as it would be suicidal, only to have Stanley emerge from the wilderness, escorted by a band of the natives and his guide, Jeff Slocum. When Stanley returns to New York City, his employer, New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr., gives him another near-impossible assignment.
Comedy, spy film, teen film, thriller film
17-year-old Lance Elliot is a summer intern at a US government department known as the Agency, on a youth agent scouting internship promotional program ran by Agency department head Maggie Lomax. Living with his single mother and his younger juvenile brother Billy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while aspiring to become a secret agent spy, Lance at heart is an everyday teenage high school boy, who is also seeking to make the most of his summer vacation in his quiet and peaceful if uneventful hometown, and can't wait for his 18th birthday for his independence. At the same time, madman millionaire computer virus designer, Cashpot, and his…
musical film
Huckleberry Finn is a boy from Missouri living with a kindly widow and her sister who has taken him in. One day his father, previously thought dead, shows up because he heard of treasure Huck had found. Huck's father essentially kidnaps the boy, wanting $1,000 for his safe return.
Comedy, musical film
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a pair of vocal cords that bring down the house. Her eccentric aunt runs a boarding house for the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan, famous for his daring come-from-behind wins in the stretch. Into their lives comes Sir Peter Calverton and his young grandson Roger Calverton, who are titled but cash poor with only one asset, a prize-winning stakes horse called The Pookah.
Western
To exact revenge on the men who killed her family and raped her, Selina Stevens (Sage Mears) enlists bounty hunter Frank Allison (Barry Van Dyke), to teach her the art of gunfighting.
Adventure, disaster film, Science fiction
Dr. Jeremiah Morley is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists to use a large, atomic-powered, tank-like boring machine called the Cyclotram.
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Jonsy is a teenager who meets her father Billy, who has just been released from prison, for the first time. The two slowly forge a relationship as they rebuild a boat named The River Rat. The father cannot escape his criminal past, being blackmailed by the prison psychiatrist Doc Cole, who believes he knows the location of a large amount of cash stolen before imprisonment.
Adventure, Drama
In an 1840s schoolroom in St. Petersburg, Mo., a schoolteacher warns her students about associating with Huckleberry Finn, whom she calls "a very unhappy boy." After school, Ben, Joe, Sam, Harry and Elliot find Huck at the fishing hole, relaxed and carefree. The boys warn him that the teacher plans to visit the Widow Douglas, Huck’s guardian, to tell her Huck will not get promoted because of his poor attendance.
Adventure, Biography, Spaghetti Western, Western
After being double-crossed in an arms deal by a gun merchant McDermott (Luis Dávila) from Columbus, New Mexico, legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Telly Savalas) and his American lieutenant Scotty (Clint Walker) decide to exact revenge by raiding a US Army weapons depot in Columbus and seizing McDermott. The detail-obsessed Colonel Wilcox (Chuck Conners) and his army is stationed on the American side of the border. Also on the scene is Flo (Anne Francis), Scotty's wife, the two of them enjoy a bickering relationship.
Drama, Western
Confederate veteran Matt Weaver (George Segal) returns home to New Mexico after the Civil War and discovers that his farm was sold by an unscrupulous banker named Brewster (Pat Hingle), while his fiancee-to-be, Ruth, (Janice Rule) married another man while he was at war. Weaver's absence allowed Brewster to sway the town's occupants towards his own bigoted prejudices, racism and corrupt methods, all so that he can gain financial and peremptory control of the town. Weaver, already knowing full well what Brewster is like, wrests back control of his farm via an ill-enacted use of force.
Comedy, Parody, screwball comedy film, Western
Milford Farnsworth is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James. Farnsworth is sent out west to shield the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James. James has his own plan: to have Farnsworth killed while the insurance man is dressed as the outlaw so that James and his soon-to-be "widow", Cora Lee Collins, can collect on the $100,000 insurance policy.