Benny Carter Movies

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist...

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...

A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one...

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a...

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names...

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

"Jazz Seen" is an exploration of the life of William Claxton, whose photographs turned the world of jazz on its keen and perceptive ear. Various jazz...

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours...

Are our lives predetermined? Is it possible to change fate? These questions are addressed in "Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot", a heartwarming tale of...

A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.

Traces life in USA from the first Native Americans to the Bicentennial.

The paintings of Gregorio Prestopino convey the sights and sounds of a day in Harlem. Music by Benny Carter.