John Ireland

"Bebop Noir" is the last of The Los Angeles Stories, an anthology of human dramas and comedies. Rooted in The City of Angels, the time is the present, the characters are all passengers to an uncertain future, and the only technology that is important is the human heart. Los Angeles is the kaleidoscope through which we view these lives.

A lookalike for the late Jesse James, decides to wear the dead man's rep and begins posing as the fabled badman.

The Dhammapada, a collection of 423 verses in 26 chapters, is perhaps the most famous of all Buddhist texts. It presents the Buddha's teachings in a clear and highly accessible form and has been used for personal instruction and teaching for centuries throughout the Buddhist world. It comes from the Khuddaka Nikaya section of the Pali Canon and is here collected with two other key texts from the same source. The Udana ('inspired utterance') contains...

A Swiss Bank president hires an American investigator to ferret out a group of blackmailers that have been terrorizing his clients. The investigator (David Janssen) identifies four potential suspects, including the bank vice-president's mistress (Elke Sommer). Ultimately, the investigation leads to the bank paying in uncut diamonds, which results in a dramatic showdown in the snow-covered Alps!

Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star as larger-than-life heroes in this classic Western epic directed by John Sturges. Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp (Lancaster) joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John "Doc" Holliday (Douglas) and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one...