Fuddlehead is addicted to watching television. He runs his life according to what products are advertised on the commercials. The idiot does everything that the TV tells him, much to his wife's annoyance. It gets him pummeled, the kitchen floor wrecked, the kitchen demolished, and the house repossessed. But when Fuddlehead wins a TV contest, things work out for the best... or do they?
Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion.
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from Brideshead Revisited to Prime Suspect.
Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet illustrator Roland Topor.
A woman secretly sells her ancestral home in order to fund her sweetheart's new invention, a videophone, and then marries him when his fortune is made, only to be betrayed by his affair with her best friend.
Popular movie trailers from 1959
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1959:
During a trip to Morocco, an American oil tycoon is involved in a murder and other intrigues. To solve the riddle, Bruce Reynolds will investigate the death in mysterious circumstances of his companion Kennedy.
A fairy tale story about how the enchanted mill was freed from ghosts and how the shepherd Franta knew fear when he had to confess his love to Verunka.
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.
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
