Storyline: Soundies A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein 2007 Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies First appearing in 1941, these three minute black and white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U S These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nations history
Dames and Dreams (1974)
Four beautiful young women are foretold of mysterious adventures that will have them each take advantage of men with their enchanting looks But, will they survive their escapade And, in the end, are things really as they seem
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Qing bao long hu men (1985)
An American in Hong Kong battles mobsters
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022)
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Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)
A group of Christian teens visits the Happy Day Bible Camp, where in 1977 a sadistic nun punished a group of teens for their sinful behavior
Robin Redbreast (1970)
After a long term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country The locals are friendly , if eccentric She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob But events at a festival have her feeling ma
Black Snake Moan (2006)
A God fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it
Ibiza (2018)
A young American woman and her two best friends seek out a hot DJ in Spain
Everybody Wins (1990)
Angela Debra Winger hireslures a P I Nick Nolte to prove a convicted teenager is innocent of his uncles murder
Mandrake: The Movie (2013)
HBO HD After the murder of his client, Joao Paulo Birman, Mandrake investigates and uncovers new suspects and Birman family secrets
Pieces (1982)
The co eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts
Heavenly Desire (1979)
The Devil recruits two seductive ghosts to try to make two virgins lose their virginity in a sorority house in order for them to gain entrance into Hell
The Big Day (1999)
While trying to make amends, a man sends his soon to be married brother fleeing on his wedding day, all while his bride is anxiously awaiting him
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
In 1500s England, a cruel witch hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family