Ernie Kovacs
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The Ernie Kovacs Show
In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn’t even been made yet and created a “language” that is now taken for granted.

Operation Mad Ball
(1957)A group of enlisted men, led by Private Hogan, are tasked with planning a dance party, while trying to keep it a secret from a busy-body officer.

North to Alaska
(1960)John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this comedy adventure set during the Alaskan gold rush as prospectors who hit the mother lode with gold, but not with women!

It Happened to Jane
(1959)When a shipment of expired shellfish arrives to her New England lobstery, Jane Osgood decides to take a capitalist railroad tycoon to court.

Our Man in Havana
(1960)Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, Alec Guinness stars in this classic spy spoof as Jim Wormold, an English expatriate who sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His life is irrevocably changed as he is recruited by Hawthorne (Noel Coward), and pressed into service as an operative of M.I.5, which he reluctantly agress to so he can earn extra money for his 17-year-old daughter.