Jason Robards
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
(1967)Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
(1983)Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival arrives in Green Town.

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
(1970)Love, comedy and drama are combined in this tale of desert survival in the Old West from legendary director Sam Peckinpah.

The Night They Raided Minsky's
(1968)To distance herself from her strict Amish family, naïve Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) escapes to New York City to become a dancer. While Rachel's dances based on Biblical stories are too innocent for Minsky's Burlesque House, club-owner Billy Minsky (Elliott Gould) plans on using Rachel's routine to humiliate critics of his business. But trouble arises when partners in a comedy duo (Jason Robards, Norman Wisdom) compete for Rachel's affections.

Mark Twain and Me
(1991)A shy 11 -year- old is thrilled to meet Mark Twain, the man she most admires in all the world.

Dream a Little Dream
(1989)An aging man desperately searching for a way to prolong his and his wife's lives, switches brains with a teenager.

Noon Wine
(1966)In desolate, late-19th century Texas, a neglectful dairy farmer trapped in a loveless marriage unsuccessfully tries to make amends for a past mistake.
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
(1996)This film explores the influences of Theodore Roosevelt’s childhood, charts his meteoric rise to the presidency and explores the turbulent years after he left office. The result is an engaging portrait of a skillful politician, rugged outdoorsman, caring father, and fascinating individual.

Raise the Titanic
(1980)To acquire a rare mineral that could end the Cold War, special agent Dirk Pitt must raise the sunken Titanic before the Soviets do.

The Christmas Wife
(1988)Para evitar pasar su primera Navidad solo, un anciano viudo responde a un anuncio en el periódico y conoce a una misteriosa mujer.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1971)As a theater troupe prepares for a gruesome production in Paris, a madman with an ax to grind arrives and begins spilling blood backstage.
Max Dugan Returns
(1983)A widow's wayward father suddenly shows up and buys expensive gifts for her and her teenage son.

Hour of the Gun
(1967)When Marshal Wyatt Earp kills outlaw gangsters in a brawl, their leader aims to kill his brother in revenge. Doc Holliday lends the lawman a hand.

Inherit the Wind
(1988)A Tennessee teacher is jailed for teaching evolution, creating a global spectacle as a politician prosecutes and an ACLU lawyer defends him.

Julius Caesar
(1970)When Julius Caesar's growing ambition begins to worry his friend Brutus, Brutus is easily persuaded to participate in a plot to assassinate Caesar.
Act One
(1963)The time is 1929. The place is Broadway. Moss Hart, one of the greatest playwrights of the American theater, struggles until he begins a lifelong collaboration with Samuel Kaufman, raising the curtain on one of the theater's most prolific teams: For Moss Hart, success begins--Act One. Hart (George Hamilton) writes dark, unproduced dramas and directs local theater comedies. But only when he writes a comedy and a producer teams him with Samuel S. Kaufman (Academy Award winner Jason Robards) does Hart find commercial success with Once in a Lifetime and a lifelong collaborative partnership destined to produce a string of hits.

Black Rainbow
(1989)Mike Hodges ('Flash Gordon', 'Get Carter') wrote and directed this supernatural chiller as a meditation on the human race's ability to destroy the world, a gothic tale of suspense and the occult, guaranteed to send shivers down your spine. Martha Travis (Rosanna Arquette, 'Pulp Fiction', 'Crash') is a travelling clairvoyant on the road with her sceptic father (Jason Robards, 'Once Upon a Time in the West', 'Magnolia'). During a séance Martha communicates a message from a dead man to his wife in the audience. Shocked the wife insists her husband is still alive. Later that evening the husband is killed by a ruthless assassin. As Martha foresees more and more tragic events journalist Gary Wallace (Tom Hulce, 'Amadeus', 'Animal House') follows the pair in pursuit of a hot story... with catastrophically eerie results. Sent direct-to-video by its struggling distributor on initial release, 'Black Rainbow' unfairly never got the exposure it deserved, newly restored from the original negative audiences can now discover the darkness at the end of the rainbow, as never before.

Thomas Hart Benton
(1989)Filmmaker Ken Burns uses long-lost footage, penetrating interviews, and the glorious art of Thomas Hart Benton to tell the story of an American artist who became emblematic of the price all artists must pay to remain true to themselves.
Any Wednesday
(1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)A railway magnate hires a ruthless killer to murder a family whose farm is on the rail route, but reckons without the subsequent arrival of the farmer's young widow and a mysterious stranger intent on tracking down the killer.