Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart.
A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a subject for parodies and cash-in attempts.
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that.
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs.
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River.
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
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The Ugly Duckling (1959) Sun-14-Oct at 1:40pm / Wed-17-Oct at 6:20pm
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Hans Christian Andersen (1952) - The Ugly Duckling Scene (6/10) | Movieclips
Hans Christian Andersen - The Ugly Duckling: Andersen (Danny Kaye) comforts an unhappy child by singing him the story of the ugly duckling. BUY THE ...
The Ugly Duckling (1930) Silly Symphonies
A black duckling is rejected by its mother a hen but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen's chicks. If you know either the 1939 Disney ...
"The Ugly Duckling" super 8 film (60's ?)
Filmed with EOS 5D Mark II on tripod. @ 25fps This is my first attempt at filming a movie on the wall. Projector: ELMO SOUND ST600D M 2-TRACK.
The Ugly Duckling (1959 Recording)
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises The Ugly Duckling · Gracie Fields Gracie ℗ 2013 Stage Door Records Released on: 1959-01-01 ...
The Ugly Duckling [Timeless Tales]
This is one of the episodes from the Timeless Tales series created by Hallmark between 1990 and 1991. This is for only entertainment and educational purposes ...
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This film records the struggle for life within the Arctic Circle. It reveals flowers of startling beauty, whose entire life cycles last less than thirty days, and strange animals like the shaggy musk-ox, the shy lemming, and migrant water birds that survive in a land of vast deserts and almost perpetual cold.
When a ship bringing a contingent of international wounded from Korea is torpedoed, three women (two nurses and a secretary) and a male journalist survive and reach a lonely island in a boat.
This is a film comprised primarily from footage shot by the exploring team of Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, nee Bill and Eve Phillips, a minor league version of the better-known Martin and Osa Johnson.
