Plot
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.
Keywords: 1950s, acid, bb-gun, beaten-to-death, black-comedy, bloodthirsty, box-office-flop, boy-dog-relationship, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, bully
Good dead are hard to find
He'll steal your heart... or eat it!
Bill Robinson: Now, I know you're not supposed to have a hand gun until you're twelve... but it can come in real handy.
Bill Robinson: I'd say I'm a pretty darn good father. My father tried to eat me, I don't remember trying to eat Timmy.::Helen Robinson: Bill, just because your father tried to eat you, does that mean we all have to be unhappy... forever?
Mr. Bottoms: They're not particularly fast, are they?
School Children: [singing] In the brain and not the chest. Head shots are the very best.
Priest: Head coffin please.
Little Girl: Grandpa fell down and he's getting back up!
Bill Robinson: Well, she is over sixty-five, Helen, and old people can't be trusted. [to Mr. Bottoms] Ain't that right?::Mr. Bottoms: Yeah, we've had a lot of trouble with old people.
Timmy Robinson: I knew you wouldn't eat me, boy!
Priest: From dust have you come and to dust shall you return, but from dust shall you not be resurrected.
Cindy Bottoms: Hi Timmy. Surprised?::Timmy Robinson: Sort of.::Cindy Bottoms: It's okay. It's sort of cool in a way. And he's a lot nicer.::Timmy Robinson: Do you wanna play catch?::Cindy Bottoms: Sure.::Timmy Robinson: Does, uh, your zombie wanna play? What do you call him anyways?::Cindy Bottoms: I don't know. Right now I'm just calling him 'Daddy.'::Timmy Robinson: Sure, okay. Come on.::Cindy Bottoms: Come on, Daddy.
Plot
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.
Keywords: african-american, baseball, baseball-movie, birmingham-alabama, black-romance, friendship, racial
Plot
A beautiful computer programmer is framed by her fraudulent lover and sent to prison. When she gets out she agrees to cooperate with a scheme of a fellow-inmate to defraud a bank, in order to have enough money to escape from her (by then) ex-lover. At the bank she falls in love with a co-worker and befriends a female co-worker who sleeps with her boss. Unfortunately when she has activated the program that will embezzle the money her ex-lover finds her...
Keywords: erotica, female-nudity, independent-film, sex, softcore
Plot
For 8 days in 1986, the earth passed through the tail of a mysterious Rea-M rogue comet. During that time, machines on earth suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators. A small group of people in a truck stop, surrounded by "alive" semi-trailers, set out to stop the machines before the machines stop them.
Keywords: 18-wheeler, adaptation-directed-by-original-author, airplane, arcade, auto-accident, automated-teller-machine, bare-chested-male, baseball, based-on-short-story, bible-salesman
Who Made Who?
Stephen King's masterpiece of terror directed by the master himself.
Imagine your worst nightmare: machines take over the world!
Evil's wheels.
The day horror went into overdrive.
Man At Cashpoint: [First lines] [as the ATM machine is calling him an asshole] Honeybun! This machine just called me an asshole!
Camp Loman: [chasing after semi that crashed into his car] I'm gonna tear 'em off, boy!
Connie: Curtis? Are you dead?
Brett: I ain't never seen a hero with his ass in the air like that.
Brett: If you don't get your hand off my leg, you're going to be wiping your ass with a hook next time you take a dump!::Camp Loman: I never heard no talk like that when I was a boy.
Bill Robinson: Jesus is coming and he is pissed!
Bill Robinson: Adios, motherfucker!
Joe: What do you think happened here?::Hendershot: Fucked if I know, Bubba. Fucked if I know.
Coach: Sodas, I'm buyin'!
Man At Cashpoint: Honey! C'mon over here, Sugar-buns. This machine just called me an asshole!
Plot
Halfwit Indian Akaena promises a fictitious treasure to anyone who takes her down south where the sun always shines. Trapper Bill Robinson, an honest fur trader in Alaska, refuses to sell his dog sled to dishonest gold-digger Mike Williams, who steals it at gunpoint. While Akaena proves unable to keep her promise, Mike is shot before he can kill her. His corps is found on Bill's sled, making him the suspect as conniving crook gangs arrive in town.
Keywords: abuse, animal-in-title, based-on-novel, beating, boy, color-in-title, dog, duel, flogging, kidnapping
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was an American tap dancer and actor of stage and film. Audiences enjoyed his understated style, which eschewed the frenetic manner of the jitterbug in favor of cool and reserve; rarely did he use his upper body, relying instead on busy, inventive feet, and an expressive face.
A figure in both the black and white entertainment worlds of his era, he is best known today for his dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930s.
Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia to Maxwell, a machine-shop worker, and Maria Robinson, a choir singer. He was raised by his grandmother after both parents died in 1885 when he was 7 years old—his father from chronic heart disease and his mother from natural causes. Details of Robinson's early life are known only through legend, much of it perpetuated by Robinson himself. He claimed he was christened "Luther"—a name he did not like. He suggested to his younger brother Bill that they should exchange names. When Bill objected, Luther applied his fists, and the exchange was made.
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later Shirley Temple Black, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She began her film career in 1932 at the age of three, and in 1934, found international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935, and film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid-to-late 1930s. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her wholesome image included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Her box office popularity waned as she reached adolescence, and she left the film industry at the age of 12 to attend high school[clarification needed]. She appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid-to-late teens, and retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. She was the top box-office draw four years in a row (1935–38) in a Motion Picture Herald poll.
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907. He lived there until moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1918. His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church. His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite his parents' and vocal teachers' disapproval of jazz, Calloway began frequenting and eventually performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones.
Billy Robinson (born September 18, 1939) is a British professional wrestler and catch wrestling instructor. Robinson was well known in Japan where he has trained mixed martial arts fighters in catch wrestling. Robinson is one of the few wrestlers who was successful in several continents (Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania), winning titles in promotions nearly everywhere he wrestled.
Robinson began his amateur wrestling career in England. He was the British National Wrestling Champion in 1957, and in 1958 he was the European Open Wrestling Champion in the light heavyweight class, beating an Olympic bronze medal winner in the finals.
Billy Robinson also attended the fabled "Snake Pit" started by legendary trainer Billy Riley. The Snake Pit was one of the most respected catch wrestling training schools in all of the world. Legends such as Karl Gotch had trained in catch wrestling in the Snake Pit with Riley.
Robinson had to survive bare minimum amenities (luxuries such as a toilet were not provided at the Snake Pit), a very rough training environment (Riley was very impatient with those who showed even the slightest bit of weakness on the mat) and rigorous conditioning. Robinson stayed at the Snake Pit for eight years.
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.
He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.