Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American home entertainment and production company. It is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of and a joint venture with Starz Inc., which owns 75%, and The Weinstein Company, which owns 25%. It was owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series, television specials and short films to consumers worldwide. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have its movies distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011.
Anchor Bay also has a film studio known as Anchor Bay Films which mainly distributes independent theatrical films.
There's Always Vanilla follows the life of Chris Bradley (Raymond Laine) a retired U.S. Army soldier who has become a drifter and makes money by various means, from pimping to guitar playing. Chris returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and visits his father who owns and operates a baby food factory. After an evening out with his father of drinking at a local bar, and visiting an old girlfriend named Terri Terrific (Johanna Lawrence), Mr. Bradley wants Chris to abandon his bohemian lifestyle and do what was agreed upon when he retired from the military; return to the family business, but Chris refuses.
Marianne, riche héritière, vient de s'enfuir d'un local où elle travaillait comme danseuse déshabillée... Elle est recueillie par un jeune aventurier anglais qui l'emmène à Londres et lui propose de se marier. À cause d'une erreur de l'homme de loi, elle se retrouve mariée avec le témoin ! De son côté, le père de la jeune fille veut absolument retrouver Marianne qui détient le code secret d'un coffre bancaire en Suisse, renfermant des documents compromettants et une immense fortune...
The film deals with creativity and commercialism. Quint attempts to get back at his boss by making a negative commercial reusing themes from earlier in the film, including Lute saying "The number one product of all human endeavor is waste...waste." The commercial, advertising a Super-8 camera, talks about capturing events while you still can before everything is destroyed and discarded. It ends with Quint operating a car crusher and destroying numerous cameras. The commercial is hailed as a masterpiece, and wins an award, but Quint hurls the award into the Thames.
Raspoutine fait connaître son don de guérison, en pleine Russie, en guérissant la femme d'un tavernier. Il décide alors de se rendre à la capitale afin de devenir important. Il hypnotise certaines personnes, ce qui lui permet de s'introduire à la cour du Tsar.
Le film s'ouvre sur une prise de vue aérienne de nuages bouillonnants au-dessus de New York, une voix-off énonçant des pensées perspectivistes sur le déroulement du temps et les deux exergues suivantes :
Le docteur Constance Petersen travaille dans un établissement psychiatrique du nom de Green Manors, dirigé par le docteur Murchison. Ce dernier est sur le point de partir en retraite (anticipée) et doit être remplacé par le jeune et talentueux docteur Anthony Edwardes. Une fois installé, le nouveau directeur s’avère être un amnésique du nom de J. B., soupçonné d’avoir fait disparaître le véritable docteur Edwardes. Constance Petersen, qui en est tombée amoureuse, va l’aider à retrouver son identité. Ensemble, ils vont tenter de découvrir qui a assassiné l’infortuné docteur Edwardes.
A family of con artists led by Colonel Anthony "Sahib" Carleton (Roland Young) and his wife Marmy (Billie Burke) are working the French Riviera in search of wealthy potential mates for their daughter George-Anne (Janet Gaynor) and son Richard (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.). Sahib, a former Canadian actor, passes himself off as a former officer who served with the Bengal Lancers in India where he was given his honorary name. George-Anne flirts with her Scottish suitor, Duncan Macrea (Richard Carlson), whom she dismisses when she learns that he is not rich. And while Richard puts the moves on wealthy Adele Jennings, Sahib cheats her father out of a large sum of money in a card game. When the local police confirm the true identities of the Carleton family, they provide them with complimentary train tickets to London and order them to leave the country.
Vince, un jeune homme naïf assume l'identité d'un homme mort et se retrouve en proie à un monde souterrain de la puissance, la violence et la chance, où les hommes jouent à huis clos sur la vie des autres hommes et se retrouve embarqué dans un jeu de roulette russe….