Jack Palance

Jack Palance plays against type as soft-spoken, taciturn and thoughtful police lieutenant Alex Bronkov in this hard-edged post-Serpico crime drama created by Carroll O'Connor and Ed Waters. Called back into service following the murder of his old partner, Bronk is an acting lieutenant with a special commission from Ocean City mayor Pete Santori. Corruption runs rampant in Ocean City, blurring the line between cop and criminal, leaving Bronk and his...

Two rival L.A. policemen who have one thing in common -- each thinks he is the best -- team up to pursue a vicious international crimelord who has set them up.

New Yorker Mitch Robbins is 39 and miserable. He's tired of his job and bored with his life. And his two best friends, Ed and Phil, aren't doing much better. So when they all decide to chase their troubles away with a fantasy vacation, Mitch and his pals trade their briefcases for saddle bags and set out to find freedom and adventure herding cattle under the wide New Mexico sky. But what they discover instead is more insight into themselves and each...

On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang commercialize the picture. Against this backdrop, Javal's marriage to Camille, a young former typist, disintegrates. It opens with the couple talking in bed, she asking assurance that he finds her attractive. Later that day he introduces...

The swan princess: The beautiful Princess Odette is transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer's spell (which can only be broken by a vow of everlasting love) and held captive at an enchanted lake. There, she befriends Jean-Bob the frog, Speed the turtle and Puffn the bird. Despite their struggle to keep the princess safe, these good-natured animals can do nothing about the sorcerer's spell. The swan princess and the secret of the castle: When Prince...

After a young boy witnesses the murder of his parents on the streets of Gotham City, he grows up to become a mysterious figure in the eyes of Gotham City's citizens, known as Batman. He takes crime-fighting within the city into his own hands. Jack Napier becomes horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory, and becomes known as the Joker. Now, the Joker is out for revenge on his former employer.

Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulphur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas himself faces crucifixion, that he discovers his faith....

"When the English renege on a peace treaty with France, the French general Napolén Bonaparte has no recourse but to pursue a bitter war against England and her allies. Political conspiracies are rife and Napolén brings forward his planned coronation to secure his position. Yet he needs one more great military victory to secure his future and enable him to realise his ambitions for France. The battle of Austerlitz offers him the opportunity he seeks...

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.