5.3

The Million Dollar Duck

1971, USA

• Actors: Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts, James Gregory, Lee Montgomery, Jack Kruschen, Virginia Vincent, Jack Bender, Billy Bowles, Sammy Jackson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Frank Wilcox, Bryan O'Byrne, Ted Jordan, Bing Russell, Peter Renaday, Frank Cady, George O'Hanlon, Jonathan Daly, Hal Smith, Edward Andrews, Robert Shayne, Peter Camlin, Winnie Collins, Howard Culver, Maurice Dallimore, Bernard Fox, John J. Fox, Jerry Fujikawa
• Genre: Family, Comedy
• Director(s): Vincent McEveety
• Available languages:
  • English English.

To save it from being put to death, Professor Albert Dooley takes home a dumb duck from the research laboratory, which accidentally was exposed to X-rays. At home he discovers that it lays now golden eggs. Since he's broke all the time, his family welcomes this new source of income greatly, and tries to keep it secret. But their greedy neighbors become suspicious.

  8.0

In Cold Blood

1966, USA

• Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Brenda Currin, Paul Hough, Vaughn Taylor, Duke Hobbie, Sheldon Allman, Sammy Thurman, Raymond Hatton, Sadie Truitt, Myrtle Clare, Ted Eccles, Al Christy, Don Sollars, Harriet Levitt, Rhonda Fultz, Mary Linda Rapelye, John Collins, Pamela Crosley, Nick Dimitri
• Genre: Crime, Drama, History
• Director(s): Richard Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book.

  8.7

Psycho

1959, USA

• Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson, Lurene Tuttle, Patricia Hitchcock, John Anderson, Mort Mills, Janet Leigh, Fletcher Allen, Prudence Beers, Muriel Bradley, Kit Carson, Francis De Sales, George Dockstader, George Eldredge, Harper Flaherty, Sam Flint, Margaret Furrer, Virginia Gregg, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Jasmin, Myra Jones, Lee Kass, Frank Killmond, Ted Knight
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

  8.0

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958, USA

• Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor, Zelda Cleaver, Brian Corcoran, Hugh Corcoran, Patty Ann Gerrity, Bobby Johnson, Walter Merrill, Deborah Miller, Robert 'Rusty' Stevens, Vince Townsend, Jeane Wood
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Richard Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he's dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little "no-neck monsters," celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick's wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy's health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences.

  6.3

Jailhouse Rock

1956, USA

• Actors: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor, Jennifer Holden, Dean Jones, Anne Neyland, Dorothy Abbott, Peter Adams, François André, Robert Bice, Bill Black, Don Burnett, Jack Chefe, George Cisar, Fred Coby, John Daheim, John Dennis, Francis De Sales, Elaine DuPont, Joan Dupuis, Bess Flowers, D.J. Fontana, William Forrest, Jo Gilbert, Bill Hale, Percy Helton, Jack Herrin, Bill Hickman, Harry Hines
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Richard Thorpe
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?