A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Nise daigakusei / A False Student (1960) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Comedy, Drama
Nise Daigakusei is an odd, straightforward youth drama by Yasuzo Masamura, set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students. Read More »
Innocent Lust / Chu ge chu nu chu ye qing (1977) Fan Ho, Yen Ho, Fei Ai, Chun-Hao Chen, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Innocent Lust mirrors Hollywood’s current teen flicks where young adolescents go out looking for sex. Read More »
I Sent a Letter to My Love / Chère inconnue (1980) Moshé Mizrahi, Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Drama
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. Read More »
Stage Mother (1933) Charles Brabin, Alice Brady, Maureen O’Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband’s stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. Read More »
36 Hours (1953) Montgomery Tully, Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Rogers, an American pilot taking special training in the States, gets an unauthorized hop to England to pay a surprise visit his beautiful Norwegian wife. Read More »
Where It’s At (1969) Garson Kanin, David Janssen, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Drivas, Drama
A “Sixties Generation” comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. Read More »
Serenade (1956) Anthony Mann, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Drama, Music, Romance
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. Read More »
What a Carry On! (1949) John E. Blakeley, Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, Josef Locke, Comedy
Jewell and Warris join the army and under the watchful, friendly eye of Sergeant Locke somehow manage to get promoted despite causing maximum havoc along the way. Read More »
We Went to College (1936) Joseph Santley, Charles Butterworth, Walter Abel, Hugh Herbert, Comedy
Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. Read More »
Victim Five (1964) Robert Lynn, Lex Barker, Ann Smyrner, Ronald Fraser, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
When a millionaires valet is murdered he hires a detective to discover by who and why his valet was killed, leading to connections of the nazi sort! Read More »
Hell Bent for Leather (1960) George Sherman, Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally, Western
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. Read More »
Exterior Night (1993) Mark Rappaport, David Patrick Kelly, Mark Arnott, Victoria Bastel, Drama, Short, Experimental
Shot in high-definition video using rear-screen process plates from classic Warner Bros. films noirs. Read More »
Noose / The Silk Noose (1948) Edmond T. Gréville, Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury, an American newspaper reporter, learns about him and his operation. Read More »
Hong ying tao / Red Cherry (1995) Daying Ye, Ke-Yu Guo, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Vladmill Nizmiroff, Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School. Read More »