Mr. Fat-W Video

Mr. Fat-W Video Films Around the World, Inc. owns and distributes one of the largest independent copyrighted libraries of classic and contemporary American entertainment.

Westerns, Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy, Whodunit/Gangster/Crime, Famous Detective Series, Swashbucklers, Young Children's Films, Pre-Teen Juvenile, Really Rotten Flicks - The Worst of the Worst, Old Fashioned Musicals, Comedies, Melodramas, Famous Directors, Sleepers and Classics, Restored By UCLA Film and Televsion Archives

The Shanghai Gesture (1941). Starring Gene Tierney in this classic film noir! A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement i...
08/04/2014

The Shanghai Gesture (1941).

Starring Gene Tierney in this classic film noir!

A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy is Charteris’ daughter, the smarmy Doctor Omar leads Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin Sling, realizing that Charteris was her long-ago husband who she thinks abandoned her, plans her revenge by inviting Charteris to a Chinese New Year dinner party to expose his past indiscretions. Charteris, however, has a suprise of his own to spring on Gin Sling.

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Writers: Josef von Sternberg (adaptation), Geza Herczeg (collaborator for adaptation)

Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shanghai-Gesture-Gene-Tierney/dp/B006OFDMQO

ERROL AND FIDEL: A CUBAN STORY (F/K/A) THE CUBAN STORY (1959)Documentary narrated by Errol Flynn, and the last known per...
07/29/2014

ERROL AND FIDEL: A CUBAN STORY (F/K/A) THE CUBAN STORY (1959)
Documentary narrated by Errol Flynn, and the last known performance work of his career.

“[Errol] Flynn first came to Cuba on a 1936 yachting trip in the Caribbean after four weather forced him to take shelter. … It was around 1956, when Flynn was shooting the forgettable forgery thriller THE BIG BOODLE in Havana, that the actor met Victor Pahlen. The two exiles became partners in a local Havana movie theater, but business, according to Pahlen’s daughter Kyra, wasn’t what originally drew them together. "They became good friends,’ she says, ‘because they were attracted to the same things, story-telling and gambling.’" Flynn and Pahlen were there when Castro and Che Guevara were fighting Batista, and the pair decided to make a movie about the revolution. “Why would a rapidly fading Hollywood icon and committed roue join a jet-setting gambler and raconteur, who had fled Bolshevik Russia with his family [want to] make a documentary in praise of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution? In keeping with the hard-and-loose lifestyle of Errol Flynn and risk-taker-buddy-turned-writer-director Pahlen, coherent answers are few and far between. One can only guess at the sozzled and plainly hurried state of the film’s production…” The result was THE CUBAN STORY, by all accounts the most authentic visual record of the key figures in the revolution.

http://mrfatwvideo.tumblr.com/post/93134909841/errol-and-fidel-a-cuban-story-f-k-a-the-cuban

Errol [Flynn] had the capacity to make everything an adventure - Even a quiet stroll through a simple country lane came ...
07/26/2014

Errol [Flynn] had the capacity to make everything an adventure - Even a quiet stroll through a simple country lane came alive either through a quick remembrance or a philosophical thought or a simple observation of the ecological patterns of the earth trees and flowers and their support system. His was a mind relentlessly searching."

- Patrice Flynn, wife

In 2012, Films Around the World, Inc. entered into agreements with Kyra Pahlen, daughter of the late Victor Pahlen, to d...
07/26/2014

In 2012, Films Around the World, Inc. entered into agreements with Kyra Pahlen, daughter of the late Victor Pahlen, to distribute four of her father’s features, GUNMAN IN THE STREETS, PIRATES OF CAPRI, CUBAN STORY, and the long-lost Hedy Lamarr movie LOVES OF THREE QUEENS. All four will be released on our Mr. FATW-Video label, and FATW has acted as a licensing agent for GUNMAN IN THE STREETS to Turner Classic Movies.

07/24/2014

Check out the trailer to "Two Lost Worlds!"
“The story of a young hero who battles prehistoric creatures when he and his shipmates are shipwrecked on an deserted island.” Corel All Movie Guide 2

James Garner making Audrey Hepburn laugh on the set of The Children’s Hour. Photograph by Bob Willoughby, 1961. (scan by...
07/20/2014

James Garner making Audrey Hepburn laugh on the set of The Children’s Hour. Photograph by Bob Willoughby, 1961. (scan by rareaudreyhepburn from the book Remembering Audrey.)

"It was not in Audrey’s character to complain, but the emotional content of the script and the slow pace were taking a toll on everyone. This was when Jim Garner was at his best. he had an off-the-wall humor, and when things got especially grim he would say something funny to break everyone up and literally save the day." - Bob Willoughby

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