Movies: John Abbott

  • 1967
    The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book (1967)

    The Jungle Book

    7.21967HD

    The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the tru...

    The Jungle Book
  • 1965
    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    6.41965HD

    From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in ...

    The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • 1943
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre (1943)

    Jane Eyre

    6.91943HD

    After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter....

    Jane Eyre
  • 1943
    Hangmen Also Die!

    Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

    Hangmen Also Die!

    6.91943HD

    During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by his...

    Hangmen Also Die!
  • 1958
    Gigi

    Gigi (1958)

    Gigi

    6.21958HD

    A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something mon...

    Gigi
  • 1937
    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    4.21937HD

    Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission....

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 1942
    Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver (1942)

    Mrs. Miniver

    7.01942HD

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin jo...

    Mrs. Miniver
  • 1949
    Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary (1949)

    Madame Bovary

    6.71949HD

    After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavi...

    Madame Bovary
  • 1942
    This Above All

    This Above All (1942)

    This Above All

    6.61942HD

    In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a wee...

    This Above All
  • 1947
    The Web

    The Web (1947)

    The Web

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    A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head....

    The Web
  • 1966
    Gambit

    Gambit (1966)

    Gambit

    6.91966HD

    Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point...

    Gambit
  • 1952
    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow (1952)

    The Merry Widow

    5.81952HD

    Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving t...

    The Merry Widow
  • 1946
    Anna and the King of Siam

    Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

    Anna and the King of Siam

    6.11946HD

    In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King....

    Anna and the King of Siam
  • 1943
    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow (1943)

    Mission to Moscow

    5.21943HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism....

    Mission to Moscow
  • 1944
    The Mask of Dimitrios

    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

    The Mask of Dimitrios

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    A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Alo...

    The Mask of Dimitrios
  • 1963
    Who's Minding the Store?

    Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

    Who's Minding the Store?

    6.91963HD

    Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in a...

    Who's Minding the Store?
  • 1976
    Sherlock Holmes in New York

    Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)

    Sherlock Holmes in New York

    5.71976HD

    An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler....

    Sherlock Holmes in New York
  • 1944
    Cry of the Werewolf

    Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

    Cry of the Werewolf

    4.31944HD

    A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies....

    Cry of the Werewolf
  • 1941
    The Shanghai Gesture

    The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

    The Shanghai Gesture

    6.21941HD

    A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint....

    The Shanghai Gesture
  • 1957
    Omar Khayyam

    Omar Khayyam (1957)

    Omar Khayyam

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    Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biog...

    Omar Khayyam