Steve Allen Movies

A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.

Featuring a host of archival appearances, interviews and performances, this comprehensive documentary celebrates the never-ending love affair America...

I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie...

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean.

Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird...

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a...

The sun's too bright, the traffic's going to be bad, there's too many people out there... It's just easier to sit back on the couch and laugh with...

"The Television Years" examines the events that took place in the years between 1956 and 1960, in which Elvis Presley excited a whole nation as the...

Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the...

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May.

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny...

A compilation film of stand up performances and comedy routines featuring some of the biggest stars in the early years of television. This film was...

With an uncanny ability to mimic just about any dialect he heard and accompany it with a hilariously appropriate facial expression, classic nightclub...

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of...

Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.