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King Creole
LouisianaBack on screen for the first time in a year! — Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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The Long, Hot Summer
MississippiThe red-hot lowdown on a southern family...that people talked about in whispers! — Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.
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Terror in a Texas Town
TexasWhen the Texas Plains Ran With Blood and Black Gold! — Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be the guilty party.
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Texas The 1930sCigar Smoking Hellcat of the Roaring Thirties — In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
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The Invisible Avenger
LouisianaShuddering thrills... as the Shadow Man strikes! — Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
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Wind Across the Everglades
Florida The 1900sSTORMING THE HEIGHTS OF MOTION PICTURE GREATNESS! — An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
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The Gun Runners
Florida The 1950sHemingway-hot adventure ! — Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
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Mardi Gras
LouisianaA military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
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Serenade of Texas
Texas The 1890sMusic seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big Bend in Texas.
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Hot Spell
LouisianaA housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
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Loving You
TexasYou'll Love Loving You — Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Texas The 1920sOne of the Great Adventures of Our Time! — Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Texas The 1880sThe Wildest Gunfight in the History of the West! — Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Old Yeller
Texas The 1860sAll the heart, all the excitement of a great frontier adventure! — Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
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Band of Angels
Louisiana The 1860sYou're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'! — Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.
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The Tarnished Angels
Louisiana The 1930sThe Book They Said Could Never Be Filmed! — In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
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Tammy and the Bachelor
MississippiAll about a little Mississippi riverboat gal who taught a sophisticated bachelor about love! — An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
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Untamed Youth
TexasOUR VAGRANT YOUTH! — Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women get put in the fields to work off their sentence. Tropp is dating the widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor in order to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he begins falling in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.
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The Big Land
Texas The 1860sOh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock. — Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
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Giant
Texas The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sNOW HE'S TOO RICH TO KILL. — Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.
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The Searchers
Texas The 1870s The 1860sHe had to find her... he had to find her... — As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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The Houston Story
TexasTerror Over Texas! — A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
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Swamp Women
LouisianaFlaming passions against a background of weird adventure! — An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
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Nightmare
LouisianaClarinettist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
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Miami Exposé
Florida"Operation Joyland!" — A police detective (Lee J. Cobb) baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
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Baby Doll
MississippiShe's nineteen. She makes her husband keep away -- she won't let the stranger go. — Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
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Written on the Wind
TexasThis woman in his arms was now the wife of the man he called his best friend! — Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
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Three Violent People
TexasViolent love ... violent hate ... violent conflicts. — A rancher (Charlton Heston), his shady bride (Anne Baxter) and his one-armed brother (Tom Tryon) fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
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The First Texan
Texas The 1830sHE LEFT HIS MARK ACROSS THE WEST'S THOUSAND TOUGHEST MILES — After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.
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Gunslinger
TexasHired to kill the woman he loved! — After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Texas The 1810s The 1830sNOW...on the MOTION PICTURE SCREEN! — Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.
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The Phenix City Story
Alabama The 1950sALABAMA'S CITY OF SIN AND SHAME! — Phil Karlson's docudrama based on the notorious Phenix City -- a city known for its gambling, crime and prostitution rackets.
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The Tall Men
Texas The 1860sAs Big and Spectacular and Exciting As The Mighty West Itself! — Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
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The Last Command
Texas The 1830sTHE BUGLE SOUNDS... No Mercy! No Quarter! for the brave women and 180 gallant men! — During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans.They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen,married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence.After serving as president for 22 years,Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant.He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern.Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy,given Santa Anna's power and cunning.Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Louisiana The 1920s The 1910sA jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s! — In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
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New Orleans Uncensored
Louisiana The 1950sFilmed at White Heat...At the Bottom of Desire Street! — William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
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The Rose Tattoo
Louisiana The 1950sThe boldest story of love you have ever been permitted to see! Seething with realism and frankness! — A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
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The Kentuckian
Texas The 1820sHunter...Frontiersman...Adventurer! — A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Texas The 1920sHe defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial! — A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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The Americano
TexasAdventure in Brazil! — An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war......and in love. His concern, who are really his friends and who are his enemies
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Texas Lady
TexasWOMANLY WILES WERE HER WEAPONS! — Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
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Cinerama Holiday
LouisianaThe 2nd Cinerama presentation — Two couples, one from St. Louis and one from Switzerland each go to the other's country and travel around.
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As Long as They're Happy
TexasThe suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
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Apache Ambush
Texas The 1860sApache fury rides the trail to Abilene! — Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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Carmen Jones
Louisiana The 1940sSomething Really New! Something Truly Different! — The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.
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War Arrow
TexasIndian tomahawk and cavalry saber fighting side-by-side for the glory of the West! — A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
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The Miami Story
FloridaHow Miami put the big heat on the Mob! — Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
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Princess of the Nile
Louisiana The 13th CenturyShalimar, THE FLAME THAT IGNITED EGYPT! — Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.
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The Gambler from Natchez
Louisiana The 19th CenturyReturning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s, Captain Vance Colby finds his father, a professional gambler, has been killed. The police tell him his father was killed while caught cheating in a card game by Andre Rivage, an arrogant young dilettante. Vance protests that his father was an honest gambler and never used marked cards, but the police inspector tells him there were witnesses. Aided by a riverboat owner, Captain Barbee, and his daughter, Melanie, Vance sets out to clear his father's name and avenge his death.
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