The Godfather of Comedy
One of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Comics of All Time
Plot
A portrayal of the Johnson presidency and its spiraling descent into the Vietnam War. Acting on often conflicting advice from his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and other advisers, President Johnson finds his domestic policy agenda for the Great Society overtaken by an ever demanding commitment to ending the war. It also depicts his political skills as he crosses swords with political foes such as Bobby Kennedy and Governor George Wallace. Despite support and encouragement from stalwart friends such as Clark Clifford, Johnson realizes his management of the war no longer has the confidence of the American people and announces that he will not seek the nomination of the Democratic party for the the 1968 election.
Keywords: 1960s, air-strike, american-president, anti-war-movement, baby, beagle, black-and-white-scene, black-sheep, bombing, cabinet
Beyond the battlefields of Vietnam. Inside the halls of power. A different kind of war would decide the fate of a nation.
While one war was being fought in Vietnam another was being fought in the White House.
Senator Everett Dirksen: If this is a defeat, I would hate to see a victory.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Pack your suitcase, we're goin' to Vietnam.
Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: [Looking at the fighter jet escort next to Air Force One] Are they ours? Dean, Dean!::Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: Are they ours?::Lyndon Baines Johnson: I sure fuckin' hope so.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Haven't you been paying attention? Hell, they got hundred-year-old women re-supplying them!
Lyndon Baines Johnson: He doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: How many planes will we lose?::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: 20 to 25.::Lyndon Baines Johnson: How many casualties?::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: 50.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: 50 to 300 is my estimate, and if the bombs miss, it can go as high as 12,000, with fifty percent of these civilians and fifty percent of those killed.::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: Of course, we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets.::Lyndon Baines Johnson: But you do miss sometimes. And this time you could hit a Russian ship. And the bomber pilot will be a kid from Johnson City, Texas, and that'll be the kid that starts World War III, thank you very much.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: They don't need damn trucks! Weren't you watching? They've got hundred-year-old women hauling crap! What do you want me to do, kill everyone's grandmother in that place?
George Ball, Undersecretary of State: Clark, I can't tell you how grateful I am to finally have an ally at the barricades.::Clark Clifford: Well, it's just what makes sense, George. Not to Bob McNamara, but to me. A million men was straight out of your memo of October of last year. An impressively persuasive document, in my opinion.::George Ball, Undersecretary of State: All 67 pages of it? Well, it's true I haven't shown much restraint on the subject. If the President brought you in, it must be because I'm like... an old, broken record now.::Clark Clifford: Then there'll be two of us - scratchy and irritating as hell.
Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: The bridge is a major target, and we've never hit it. Chances of civilian deaths will be almost zero.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: I say 100 to 500, possibly more!::Lyndon Baines Johnson: Which is it? 500 or zero?
Walt Rostow: Mr. President, the Stennis committee is up in arms over our holding back on these bombing targets! Bob's testimony is coming up, and it'll take some heat off him if some of these could be cleared up before his appearance.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: I think I can take the heat without padding my resume with more bombing missions.
Let's Go On a Trip!
Plot
The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets worse. Soon Steve himself is accused of the crime.
Keywords: based-on-book, murder
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Bob loves Virginia! Virginia loves Bob...but she's CRAZY about her career! A million laughs...as the love-sparks fly!
The first 100 years of marriage are the hardest! I know!
Plot
Pa Wallace, an ardent member of the Whales, is offered a chance to invest $5,000 in a gold mine by the head of the Whales, Grand Harpoon F. Q. Whitney. Mrs Wallace is opposed but the four Wallace children, Willie, George, Edna and Mary are all for it, on the premise that if Pa makes some easy money, they can continue to loaf. Grandpa, a kindly but meddling old soul also arrives for a visit. Money begins to roll in but not as fast as the children spend it. The bubble bursts when the police arrest Whitney and his accomplice Nordingham as swindlers involved in a pyramid scheme. Stone broke and without the money to pay the mortgage Pa put on the house, the clan moves back to their small, old home. The children come through and knuckle down down to work to help the family recover. Then, Grandpa tells them that the gold mine never existed and the monthly checks had been coming from him, as he was anxious to prove that they weren't just loafers.
Keywords: comeuppance, costume, doorman, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, fortune-hunter, fraternity, grandfather-granddaughter-relationship, grandfather-grandson-relationship
RIOTOUS! The intriguing story of the reckless Wallaces...plunging rashly down the dizzy course of their mad life...never heeding danger signals!
Plot
In order to gain control of a big circus,Butte Morgan ('Tom London' (qv)), manager of the Circus, wants to marry Marie Wallace ('Alberta Vaughn' (qv)), daughter of the circus owner. Marie is in love with Jack Grant ('Ralph Bushman' (qv)), the cowboy star of the Wild West show. Morgan knows no boundaries in his quest for Marie, including a kidnapping and a forced marriage.
Keywords: 10-chapters, 1930s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, cigarettes, circus, circus-clown, circus-cowboy, circus-manager, circus-owner, circus-wagon
This way to the big top thriller! A circus brought to the screen! Thrills and laughs galore! The Biggest Show In Town!
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. The film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay.
Frankenheimer's film was highly praised by critics: in addition to the Emmy awards, it received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. Angelina Jolie also received a Golden Globe for her performance as Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.
George Wallace follows the history of its namesake, commencing in the 1950s when Wallace was a circuit court judge in Barbour County, to his tenure as the most powerful Governor in Alabama's history. The film portrays Wallace as a complex man, detailing his stance on racial segregation in Alabama at the time, which proved popular with his white constituents. It also depicts Wallace's rise as a presidential hopeful—eventually leading to his attempted assassination—and his surprise victory in several states during the 1968 Presidential election. The movie also depicts his symbolic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", where Wallace attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama.