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Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach

Der reiche Plantagenbesitzer Big Daddy versammelt zu seinem 65. Geburtstag die ganze Familie auf seinem herrschaftlichen Anwesen. Was der alte Mann nicht ahnt: Er hat Krebs und seine gesamte Verwandtschaft versucht nun, sich das umfangreiche Erbe zu sichern. Der Beginn einer Auseinandersetzung zwischen den Familienmitgliedern, die tragisch endet ...

Uphill All the Way

Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers.

White Dog

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Just You and Me, Kid

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Hugo the Hippo

The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he brings twelve hippos into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the hippos are no longer a novelty and the people no longer feed them, they begin to starve. After the hungry hippos rampage through the city looking for food, Aban-Khan, the king's adviser, slaughters all the hippos except one, a little hippo ...

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever

A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.

Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon

Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...

Ensign Pulver

1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...

The Brass Bottle

A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

Rudolph mit der roten Nase

Rentier Rudolph hat bei seinen Artgenossen einen schweren Stand, weil er eine knallrote Nase hat. Schließlich macht sich der arme Rudolph auf den Weg in eine bessere Welt. Begleitet wird er von anderen Kreaturen, die in ihren Gemeinschaften Außenseiter sind. Als sie schließlich einen Ort finden, an dem es von Ausgestoßenen wimmelt, entwickelt Rudolph den Willen, seine Situation und die der Anderen zu verbessern. Denn in Rudolph steckt mehr, als man auf den ersten Blick sieht. Auch ...

Summer Magic

Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an ...

Our Man in Havana

Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offer from the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start, so he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provide fictional tales for his masters in London, and is soon known as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere. However, it all unravels when the local police decode his cables ...

Day of the Outlaw

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Begierde unter Ulmen

Neuengland um 1850. Eben Cabot will sein rechtmäßiges Erbe antreten, die kleine Farm, die seiner Mutter gehörte, bevor Vater Ephraim sie mit Arbeit in den Tod trieb. Eben kauft die Anteile seiner Stiefbrüder auf, da bringt Ephraim seine dritte Frau, die schöne Italienerin Anna, heim. Anna beansprucht, sollte sie einen Sohn gebären, die Farm für sich. Sie verliebt sich in Eben, bringt beider Sohn zur Welt und tötet das Kind, um Eben ihre Liebe zu beweisen, als er fortgehen will. Eben bekennt ...

Wind Across the Everglades

An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Sierra

Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).