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Movie classics meet FLASH DANCE (I'm So Excited!)Scores of Hollywood personalities dancing up a storm.A meeting of clips and music.

Jimmy "All American Hero" Stewart was being slandered and fighting corruption to exhaustion back then. At that time, in reality, the US Senate tried to stop the movie from being released. http://www.tcm.com/ We the People!

Help me find an old adventure movie, probably from the 1950s. I saw it on late night TV back in 1969. All I remember is one battle scene. An expedition with two cannon are crossing a shallow river. they are then attacked by natives using arrows, spears, blow guns. The main characters, two men, unlimber the cannon, and load them in the middle of the river, with the water almost up to the muzzle. they then fire off several rounds to chase of the natives. One native releases a poisoned blow dart which hits one of the men in the...

Presenting to you, this weekend, from pcottraux and rzenjikj at stout: From “King Kong” (1933) By Pcottraux (a.k.a Philip) A publicity still from “King Kong.” “King Kong” is one of my personal favorite movies, and unquestionably one of the greatest American films. It was a pioneering breakthrough in film special effects technology, as well as one of the most technically influential movies ever made. “Aliens” and “Jurassic Park” are its grandchildren.However, since its original premiere in 1933, the movie itself has taken many forms. Five years after its release, “Kong” began to fall under the scissors of the editors. For...

(CNSNews.com) - The Fox Movie Channel, apparently torn between the sensitivities of Asian Americans and the desires of its viewers, has amended an earlier decision to cancel a Charlie Chan film festival. Fox had announced the cancellation of the broadcasts last week after complaints from Asian American groups about the fictional Chinese detective the groups said was portrayed as a racially offensive stereotype. However, the Fox Movie Channel, which serves about 20 million households through either cable or satellite service, added a sentence late Tuesday to its website statement indicating a possible shift in the network's decision to cancel the...