Tony Curtis

After witnessing a shooting, two Chicago musicians head south disguised as female jazz artists. Their cover seems perfect...until love comes along.

Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini, the struggling circus performer who emerged as the world’s most captivating magician and escape artist.

Two convicts bound together by an unbreakable iron chain escape a Southern work gang and must put aside their differences in order to evade capture.

A saxophonist (Tony Curtis) tries to share an apartment platonically with a dancer (Debbie Reynolds) in New York.

A lie told to a suspicious wife entangles a philandering chemistry professor and his TV writer friend into a web of Feds, spies and beautiful women.

The stubborn son of a Cossack chieftain who has vowed to fight to the death to regain his lands from Polish invaders is torn between family and love.

In the reign of King Henry IV, Miles (Tony Curtis) is a peasant determined to save the throne and the Lady Anne (Janet Leigh) in an epic tale filled with jousts, jests and medieval heroics.

A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.

Goodbye Charlie begins with Charles Sorel, an inveterate philanderer, practicing his wily crafts on women aboard an ocean liner. He is found out by a jealous husband and shot dead. Through a celestial fluke, Charles' soul enters the body of a woman who renames herself Charlie. In this form, Charlie seeks to settle old scores with her murderer.

A couple of mercenaries agree to escort three girls of important parentage and a shipment of gold to safety, but their greed gets the better of them.

"It's entertainment that fills up the screen like she fills out a bikini," the trailer for Don't Make Waves proclaimed. She is Sharon Tate, portraying a beach-loving, sky-diving beauty named Malibu. The entertainment filling up the screen is a gleeful sand-and-surf-and-sex satire based on Ira Wallach's Muscle Beach, set to a title tune by The Byrds and targeting SoCal's go-go beach culture and the high-living hillside denizens of its ocean-view enclaves. Tony Curtis, reteaming with director Andrew Mackendrick of Sweet Smell of Success, plays an eastern interloper who arrives with little and hits on ways to finagle his way into lots. Also making waves: Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes and bodybuilder David Draper.

Trapeze, Spartacus, Sweet Smell of Success, The Boston Strangler, Some Like It Hot. Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean, was one of the very first teen idols and one of the last real movie stars. From his difficult upbringing in the Bronx, where he was born Bernie Schwartz, to his unprecedented fame and infamous way with women, Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom presents Mr. Curtis's life in all its rags to riches glory. Interviews with Tony's family, friends and co-stars (Hugh Hefner, Harry Belafonte, Debbie Reynolds, Mamie Van Doren, Piper Laurie, Theresa Russell, Jill Curtis among others!) along with exclusive footage and film clips are given deeper meaning and clarity by the most honest and intimate interview the actor may have ever given. Here, in the definitive film about Tony Curtis, filmmaker Ian Ayres forms this incredible material into a revealing portrait of one of the greatest Hollywood celebrities of all time. Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom explores the man's rebellious demeanor, his struggle as a Jew in Hollywood, his difficult childhood, the brief love affair with Marilyn Monroe and his failed marriages to actresses Janet Leigh and Christine Kaufmann, his courageous stance to break the color barrier with The Defiant Ones (the film that earned him an Oscar Nomination), and his entire six-decade career. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the original movie star.

A woman's tumor turns out to be the reincarnation of an evil medicine man in this crazy cult horror hit from 1977.

Led by another inept manager, the infamous Bears travel to Japan to take on the country's top baseball team. Faced with their toughest competition yet, the lovable Little Leaguers look to learn the value of sportsmanship – no matter what it takes.

An ancient mummy returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman who he is convinced is the reincarnation of his dead lover.

Featuring interviews with Hollywood luminaries, this film examines depictions of LGBTQ characters on the silver screen from the silent era onward.

An influential Broadway columnist recruits a publicist to break up his daughter’s romance with a jazz guitarist in an ugly game of power and survival.

A compassionate Army psychiatrist, Captain Newman, treats battle-scarred soldiers in a WWII military hospital. With humor, heart and the support of a resourceful staff, he uses unconventional methods to heal minds from the trauma, guilt, and psychological wounds of war-even while the battle rages on around them.

Set in 1908, dastardly, black-garbed Professor Fate dares the world's greatest hero, The Great Leslie, to race 22,000 miles from New York to Paris.

When a former slave discovers he is the son of a ruthless Viking leader, he competes with his brother for the throne in northern England.