In 1920s Florida, a small-town sheriff investigates a race riot and discovers a dark history of racism, corruption, and wrongful accusations. As he delves deeper into the case, he uncovers shocking secrets and faces the challenge of overcoming deeply ingrained prejudice.
A group of ex-convicts find themselves entangled in a business rivalry when they participate in a land auction. As they navigate through the auction and deal with various obstacles, including a dying young man and a series of humorous mishaps, they learn the value of friendship and the importance of second chances.
In a small Australian town, a woman returns home for her father's wedding and uncovers a dark family secret involving her own paternity.
Queen Bee is a drama/romance movie that tells the story of a jealous woman and a lumber company owner. The woman is the business manager for the company and becomes infatuated with the owner, who is married. The plot follows their complicated relationship and the consequences it has on those around them.
When a successful store buyer in New York City is forced to return home for Christmas, she reconnects with her family and reevaluates her priorities. In the process, she learns the true meaning of love, family, and the holiday spirit.
When US Army Master Sergeant Cody Cullen receives a Christmas card from a stranger, he is determined to thank her in person. He travels to the small town of Nevada City, where he meets Faith, a woman engaged to be married. As he spends time in the close-knit community, Cody begins to feel a deep connection with Faith and her family. A love triangle ensues as Cody and Faith start to fall for each other, leaving her current boyfriend jealous and conflicted. In the end, Cody must decide whether to leave and continue his military service or stay and pursue a future with Faith.
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
A woman with money problems competes in a lumberjack competition during the Christmas season. She falls in love with a lumberjack and has to choose between a business merger and her new relationship.
Beauty is a drama/thriller movie that explores the complex dynamics of a dysfunctional family, an infatuation, and a forbidden relationship. It delves into themes of self-hatred, infidelity, and sexual repression, as well as the consequences of hidden desires and societal pressures.
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
Come and Get It is a movie set in 1884 Wisconsin, telling the story of a woman who humiliates a man and a father and son who fall in love with the same woman. It explores themes of ambition, love, and jealousy within the backdrop of the timber business and the challenges of an unhappy marriage. The story spans over two decades, from 1884 to 1907.
Laawaris is a gripping drama about a man named Aditya, who is abandoned as a child and grows up facing numerous challenges. He embarks on a journey to discover his true identity and reconnect with his roots. With themes of love, family, and societal acceptance, this movie explores the complexities of human relationships.
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
The Iron Mistress is a film based on the life of Jim Bowie, a frontiersman and pioneer during the early 19th century. The movie follows Bowie's adventures and struggles as he becomes a prominent figure in the American West.
Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
Toby is a teenager who doesn't care much about school. In fact, he has his eyes on the title of a prestigious dog-sleigh race. He will have to undergo extensive training in order to win it.
Five years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to find his kidnapped baby niece. One step ahead of the police, and one behind an unraveling criminal syndicate, he must once again sacrifice everything in the name of family.
America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.