1945

NR

Plot: Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B-pictures based on Chester Goulds classic comic strip. Though Ralph Byrd is most closely ...

Romance

1996

PG13

Plot: The classic Shakespearean omantic ragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Lo ...

Drama

1998

Plot: Though not the most ambitious British TV adaptation of William Makepeace Thackerays 19th century novel Vanity Fair, this six-part BBC1 version was arguably the most expensive and elaborate. Natasha Lit ...

Drama

1998

Plot: Though not the most ambitious British TV adaptation of William Makepeace Thackerays 19th century novel Vanity Fair, this six-part BBC1 version was arguably the most expensive and elaborate. Natasha Lit ...

Mystery

1998

Plot: Based on a true story, this two-part British miniseries chronicled the sorry career of Victorian-era doctor -- and unrepentant murderer -- William Palmer. Eager to become the most famous surgeon in Eng ...

Plot: The mystery of the 18-minute-gap in Richard Nixons White House tapes -- and how it connects to the previously undocumented involvement of two teenage girls in the Watergate scandal -- is the subject of ...

Plot: The mystery of the 18-minute-gap in Richard Nixons White House tapes -- and how it connects to the previously undocumented involvement of two teenage girls in the Watergate scandal -- is the subject of ...

Adventure

1998

PG

Plot: Director Franc Roddam and co-scripter Anton Diether adapted Herman Melvilles 1851 classic for this four-hour TV miniseries sea adventure. Ishmael (Henry Thomas) ignores the warnings of dockside prophet ...

Comedy

1940

NR

Plot: W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a fleeing bank robber is knocked cold upon tripping over the park bench where Egbert ...

Comedy

1977

PG

Plot: Though it peters out towards the end, Fun with Dick and Jane is fun indeed while it lasts. Dick Harper (George Segal) and his wife Jane (Jane Fonda) have always lived way beyond their mea ...

Plot: A not-so-ordinary family finds a new way of paying the bills in this comedy. Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) and his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), would seem to have it made -- Dick has a high-paying job, th ...

Plot: The first season of The Dick Van Dyke Show finds all the familiar ingredients firmly in place, even if they havent completely jelled yet. Dick Van Dyke is given ample opport ...