Joe Mantell

Jack Nicholson is private-eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extramarital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.

Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (imdb)

Marty is a lonely butcher approaching middle-age. His Italian mother is incessantly hounding him to get married... (imdb)

L.A. 1948: private eye Jake Gittes shall convict the client Jake Berman's wife of adultery. But instead of making her a scene like planned, Berman shoots her lover in affect - or was it murder?

The Ship's Cook who has the Coast Guard in a Stew!

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison. (imdb)

A small-town librarian is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves. (imdb)

Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. (imdb)

Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises. (imdb)

A woman about to divorce her husband and marry for a second time discovers that she is pregnant by her husband. She must decide whether she wants to stay with him or divorce him and marry her lover. (imdb)