David Downing Movies

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...

Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his...

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her...

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.

Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.

The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of...

A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose....

Meet the Raisins! spoofs musical documentaries with its use of anthropomorphic food characters. Through its historical perspective, the special also...