Animaniacs - Behind The
Scenes. Bonus footage and interviews with animators on how this
classic cartoon came together. Add
Animaniacs to your DVD collection.
For many, Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of Star Trek. A pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.
The original Ghostbusters movie trailer (1984). When Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) lose their university jobs, they decide to go freelance by starting a ghost removal service. As soon as they open their doors, their first order of business becomes saving the beautiful Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and nerdy Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), who have inadvertently opened the gates of hell, right in their own apartment building!
The intro to the
Hanna-Barbara Jeannie cartoon from the 70's, based on the live-action
sitcom, "I Dream of Jeannie" starring the voice work of
Julie McWhirter, former Three
Stooges star Joe Besser and future Star Wars star Mark Hamill. And
yes, that is Mark Hamill singing the theme song. The force is stong
in this one?
The Wilhelm Scream is a popular stock scream used in countless films, tv shows, and video games. It was recorded in 1951 for Distant Drums, but found it's infamy when sound magician Ben Burtt snuck it into the films he was working on, especially Star Wars and Indiana Jones. This video features a collection of the films that The Wilhelm Scream has been in. There are different takes of the Wilhelm Scream from the original recording. The most popular version is take 4, but you will hear other versions as well.
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner and Capucine co-star in the sidesplitting film that launched one of the greatest comedy series of all time! Arriving at an Italian ski resort with a large diamond known as the Pink Panther, Princess Dala (Claudia Cardinale) encounters the suave Sir Charles (Niven), who also happens to be the notorious jewel thief The Phantom. Can Clouseau (Sellers), the clumsiest inspector ever to trip over a case, stop Sir Charles' plot... or will The Phantom steal the cat and leave Clouseau holding the bag?
"Meglio Stasera" known in English as "It Had Better Be Tonight" is a 1963 song with music by Henry Mancini, Italian lyrics by Franco Migliacci and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was composed for the 1963 film The Pink Panther where it was performed by Fran Jeffries.
Here is the original trailer for A Shot in the Dark (1964). This time Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is accidentally assigned to track a gorgeous, high-profile murder suspect (Elke Sommer), who is connected to several Parisian murders by circumstantial evidence. Believing her to be innocent when all clues indicate otherwise, Clouseau captures his suspect and releases her several times, to the dismay of Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom).
Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers's most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from India who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party.
Burke's Law, season 2 episode 30, Who Killed The Jackpot aired April 21st, 1965 and introduced Anne Francis as Honey West. This episode was the pilot for the Honey West TV series.
Ernie Kovacs with Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life, March 31, 1958. The other contestant on the show was Sanita Pelkey, actress, showgirl and Miss New York, in the 1957 Miss USA pagent.
The Nairobi Trio was a comedy skit that Ernie Kovacs performed many times for his TV shows. The skit was a live-action version of a child's animatronic wind-up music box. Always experimental, Kovacs combined several existing musical and comic concepts with impeccable timing for a unique and memorable result. The middle gorilla was always played by Kovacs with a cigar and conducted the musicians with either a baton or a banana. To the left stood a gorilla holding two oversized timpani mallets. This character was played by different actors including Jack Lemmon and Frank Sinatra. Seated at a piano was a female simian who robotically thumped her hands up and down on the keys. This part was variously played by Barbara Loden, Jolene Brand, and Kovacs's wife, Edie Adams.
Danger Man was broadcast in the U.S. as Secret Agent, first shown as a CBS summer-replacement program. It had a new U.S. only theme song, "Secret Agent Man", sung by Johnny Rivers, which became a success in its own right. Rivers' version peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Canadian RPM charts, one of the biggest hits of his career. Numerous covers and adaptations have been recorded since then with the song becoming both a rock standard and one of Johnny Rivers' signature songs. Surf rock band the Ventures did an instrumental version for their 1966 album, "Go with the Ventures". In 1974, the song was recorded by Devo and again in 1979 on the "Duty Now for the Future" album with a jerky, heavily modified arrangement and significantly altered lyrics. Bruce Willis recorded a version for his 1987 album "The Return of Bruno".
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