 Batman 1966  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Cast: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Reginald Denny, Stafford Repp, Madge Blake, Milton Frome, Gil Perkins, Dick Crockett, George Sawaya
The stars of the popular TV series are brought to the big screen with new and advanced (for that time) special effects. Batman and Robin (Adam West and Burt Ward) have to deal with not just one of their nemeses but with four–Joker (Cesar Romero), Penguin (Burgess Meredith), Catwoman (Lee Meriwether), and Riddler (Frank Gorshin). Fun, often corny lines, and lots of "Pows" and "Bams."
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Beethoven's 3rd 2000  G, 99 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: David M. Evans
Cast: Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney, Joe Pichler, Greg Pitts, Michaela Gallo, James Marsh, Mike Ciccolini, Danielle Keaton, Frank Gorshin, Holly Mitchell, Mark Carlton, Dana Lee, Big Nate Kanae, Dean Wayton, Scott Evans
In this third of the "Beethoven" films (this one was direct to video), Charles Grodin declined the offer to repeat his role as the Newton family patriarch. The plot involves the Newton family reunion for which the father, Richard (Judge Reinhold), rents an RV. Just as they are ready to leave for California, the Newtons get a surprise: Beethoven will be joining them.
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Bells Are Ringing 1960  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr., Jean Stapleton, Frank Gorshin, Ruth Storey, Dort Clark, Ralph Roberts, Valerie Allen, Bernard West, Steve Peck, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Ames, Jan Arvan
Judy Holliday recreates her Broadway role of Manhattan telephone operator Ella Peterson who works for an answering service run by her cousin, Sue (Jean Stapleton). Ella gets involved with her clients and, while on the phone with playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), Ella falls in love with him. Problems develop because Ella will not reveal her true identity, but Moss and other clients appear together at Ella's doorstep, and all ends happily. The songs include "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over." The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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Game Day 1999 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Klein
Cast: Richard Lewis, Sean Squire, Gerry Becker, Frank Gorshin, Alicia Minshew, Brenton Birmingham, Lee Bryan, Valorie Hubbard, Hillel Meltzer, Kenny Albertas
Alcoholic doper Steve Adler (Richard Lewis) is also a basketball coach fired from a high-profile college after losing championship games too many times. Now he is coach of a second-rate team in a second-rate backwoods town. He brings the team to the championship game and another chance to win–at basketball if not in life. This drama/comedy is just another rags-to-riches sports story going nowhere.
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Hot Rod Girl 1956 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Cast: Lori Nelson, John Smith, Chuck Connors, Frank Gorshin, Mark Andrews, Roxanne Arlen, Eddie Ryder, Fred Essler, Del Erickson, Russell Thorson, Dabbs Greer, Charles Keane
Hot rodding was a big deal in the 1950s, and this film, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, homes in on that fad. Ben (Chuck Connors) is a cop who attempts to set up a drag strip to keep the young hot rodders off the streets. Two deaths associated with the races make Ben's job more difficult.
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Man of the Century 1999 R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Adam Abraham
Cast: Gibson Frazier, Susan Egan, Anthony Rapp, Cara Buono, David Margulies, Kevin Weisman, Alan Davidson, Bobby Short, Marisa Ryan, Frank Gorshin
Johnny Twennies (Gibson Frazier), an optimistic New York columnist for a modern-day newspaper, appears to live like he is in the Jazz Age; Johnny wears spats and utters words like "Moxie" and "You're the limit." The key to this comedy is that Johnny's eccentricity is there for all to see, and it is accepted by those around him.
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Manna from Heaven 2001   PG, 119 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gabrielle Burton, Maria Burton
Cast: Ursula Burton, Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Jill Eikenberry, Louise Fletcher, Frank Gorshin, Shirley Jones, Cloris Leachman, Austin Pendleton, Faye Grant, Hallee Hirsh
One day, 40 years ago, in Buffalo, New York, neighbors watched as $20 bills–$19,820 of them–fell from the sky. Ten-year-old Theresa (Hallee Hirsh) convinced family and friends that the money was a gift from God; the cash was divided, and all went their separate ways. Now, in 2000, Theresa (Ursula Burton) is a nun and tells her past neighbors and family that the gift was a loan from God that must be repaid. No one has the money, but they all work together to raise the funds and, in the process, learn about love and redemption.
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The Meteor Man 1993 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Townsend
Cast: Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Roy Fegan, Don Cheadle, Bill Cosby, Frank Gorshin, Sinbad
After mild-mannered schoolteacher Jefferson Reed (Robert Townsend) is struck by a meteor, he obtains superhuman powers and uses them to end crime in his city.
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Midnight 1989 R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane
Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Tony Curtis, Steven Parrish, Frank Gorshin, Wolfman Jack, Rita Gam, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Kathleen Kinmont, Gustav Vintas, Karen Witter, Robert Miano, Gloria Jean Morrison, Robert Axelrod, Barry Diamond, Nathan Le Grand
When the staff members of a late-night TV show featuring horror movies become murder victims in a series of killings, the show's hostess "Midnight" (Lynn Redgrave) wants out. Mr. B. (Tony Curtis) has been scheming to take over the rights to the show. Is he responsible for the killings?
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Skidoo 1968  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Otto Preminger, John Uris
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Groucho Marx, Austin Pendleton, Alexandra Hay
Former racketeer and hit man Tony Banks (Jackie Gleason) is now the owner of a car wash with a zany wife, Flo (Carol Channing), and daughter Darlene (Alexandra Hay) who has gotten into the hippie scene–much to the dismay of Tony. But his problems really begin when gang boss "God" (Groucho Marx) orders Tony to do one more "job." He must get into the prison where his target, "Blue Chips" (Mickey Rooney), "resides." Tony ends up high on LSD, realizes he must get out of the prison, and with help from new-found prisoner friends gets the prison guards high on LSD and takes off in a balloon. Menawhile, Darlene has been taken hostage on "God's" yacht. And the wacky, weak film continues.
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Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 35 (Episodes 69&70) 1969 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Herb Wallerstein, Jud Taylor
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Lee Meriwether, Lou Antonio, Frank Gorshin, Naomi Pollack
Two episodes from the third season are presented on this DVD. "That Which Survives" (aired 1/24/1969, stardate unknown)-A beautiful woman appears on the Enterprise as a landing party is about to be transported to a planet. She kills a crewman and then disappears. A landing party is beamed to the planet to try to find answers, but it is stranded when she reappears in the Enterprise and sends it far from communication range. With her ability to appear and disappear and prevent a rescue of the Enterprise, Kirk may have met his match. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (aired 1/10/1969, stardate 5730.2)-The Enterprise runs across a damaged shuttlecraft that had been stolen from Starbase 4. The life form on board is rescued, and thus begins an adventure of racial and social differences between two factions of people on the planet Cheron. How does Kirk get mixed up in such matters?
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Studs Lonigan 1960 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Carolyn Craig, Jack Nicholson, Dick Foran, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Westcott, Jack Kruschen, George Keymas
This film is based on James T. Farrell's trilogy about Studs Lonigan growing up in the 1920s on the South side of Chicago.
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 That Darn Cat 1965 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand, Elsa Lanchester, William Demarest, Frank Gorshin, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon, Richard Eastham, Grayson Hall, Tom Lowell, Iris Adrian, Liam Sullivan
In this Disney film Siamese cat D.C. (Darn Cat) ends up in the middle of an FBI investigation and leads to solving a kidnapping case. D.C. is allowed into the home used by bank robbers Iggy and Dan (Frank Gorshin and Neville Brand) who are holding bank teller Margaret Miller (Grayson Hall) hostage. Margaret etches the word "Help" on her watch and then attaches it to D.C.'s neck. When D.C. arrives home to his owners Patti and Ingrid Randall (Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine), Patti discovers the watch and calls the F.B.I. When agent Zeke (Dean Jones) arrives at their home, they decide to tail D.C., believing that he will lead them to the robbers and hostage Margaret. Zeke, Patti, neighbors, and friends join in the hunt and provide good slapstick comedy along the way.
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Twelve Monkeys 1995 R, 130 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: 12 Monkeys
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Frank Gorshin, David Morse, Jon Seda, Joseph Melito, Simon Jones, Bill Raymond
The title of this film refers to a riddle, and a 21st-century prisoner (Bruce Willis) must solve it when he is sent back in time to 1996 to find a virus, named "Army of the 12 Monkeys," that now threatens human life in 2035. Brad Pitt received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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 Where the Boys Are 1960 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Barbara Nichols, Paula Prentiss, Frank Gorshin, Chill Wills, Connie Francis
Ft. Lauderdale during Spring Break is the setting for this sex-and-surf musical starring Connie Francis in her first film. Of course, she sings the title song. Barbara Nichols excels in her role as dumb-blonde Lola.
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| 1. Batman (1966)
2. Beethoven's 3rd (2000)
3. Bells Are Ringing (1960)
4. Game Day (1999)
5. Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
6. Hot Rod Girl (1956)
7. Man of the Century (1999)
8. Manna from Heaven (2001)
9. The Meteor Man (1993)
10. Midnight (1989)
11. Skidoo (1968)
12. Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 35 (Episodes 69&70) (1969)
13. Studs Lonigan (1960)
14. That Darn Cat (1965)
15. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
aka: 12 Monkeys
16. Where the Boys Are (1960)
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