The Bad and the Beautiful (BD)

The Bad and the Beautiful (BD)Appearances are everything in Hollywood. So when conniving moviemaker Jonathan Shields realizes few mourners will show up for the funeral of his equally conniving father, he knows what to do: hire extras. Kirk Douglas gives a magnetic, Oscar nominated performance as Shields, who turns talent, charisma and ruthlessness into film success, stomping on careers and creating enemies along the way. Vincente Minnelli directs this winner of five Academy Awards

A monsoon strikes

BEFORE THE FEATURE - THE AUGUST 6

And keep your eyes peeled for Partridge Danny Bonaduce among the Bradford's guests

a lawless frontier town

Can jittery Ben help Vitti find gainful employment

So Joe makes a run for it with the foreman's pretty stepdaughter (Priscilla Lane)

Hart and more in this "bright and snappy ode to Hollywood stardom" (Allrovi

lesser-known comic riff on the same theme

revises others and introduces a now-classic charmer: "The Donkey Serenade" (engagingly set to the clip-clop of a mule-drawn coach)

Pep� Le Pew and Foghorn Leghorn

As The Saint explores sinister places in the dead of night

Mistaken for a couple of outlaws