Rod La Rocque
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Shadow strikes (62 min.): The owner of a large estate is mysteriously shot and killed and leaves an eleven million dollar fortune. The heirs begin fighting over the inheritance and soon underworld figures move in to steal the prize. The ony hope for the innocent heir to claim the fortune is-- the Shadow.
International crime (87 min.): Enter the shadow-- Lamont Cranston, into the scene of a murder of a wealthy businessman. Bullets fly as our sleuth...
Publisher
Hal Roach Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his...
Language
English
Description
Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this epic tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's household, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom.