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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Midnight Party (1976) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Olivier Mathot, Claude Boisson, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Erotic
A nightclub stripper hooks up with two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy. Read More »
I Am Frigid Why? (1972) Max Pécas, Sandra Julien, Marie-Georges Pascal, Jean-Luc Terrade, Drama, Erotic
The title to this underrated follow-up to director Pecas “I Am A Nymphomaniac” seems to mislead people into thinking this film doesn’t deliver the eurosex goods. Read More »
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) H. Bruce Humberstone, Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Western
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory Read More »
The Cherokee Strip (1937) Noel M. Smith, Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Robert Paige, Action, Music, Western
It’s the opening of the Cherokee Strip and Ling Carter has slipped in early and now controls the new town of Big Rock. Read More »
Trailin West (1936) Noel M. Smith, Dick Foran, Paula Stone, Bill Elliott, Western
Sent by President Lincoln to prevent an outlaw band from hampering the war effort, secret agent Red Colton is ambushed and his identity papers stolen Read More »
The Strip (1951) László Kardos, Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Musical
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder. Read More »
Time to Kill (1942) Herbert I. Leeds, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Doris Merrick, Film-Noir, Mystery
A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. Read More »
Gun Street (1961) Edward L. Cahn, James Brown, Jean Willes, John Clarke, Western
In this movie filmed and released in 1961 (and not a 1962 production), an escaped convict returns to town and begins a reign of terror. Read More »
Pocket Money (1972) Stuart Rosenberg, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Western, Comedy, Drama
Jim Kane is a loser cowboy in Nogales, Arizona.He has more good nature than good sense and often takes jack-of-all-trades jobs. Read More »
Quicksand (1950) Irving Pichel, Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera, the type whose life’s ambition is a fur coat Read More »
Quei loro incontri / These Encounters of Theirs (2006) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri, Grazia Orsi, Drama
These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pavese’s abstract, philosophical work.
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Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) Bud Yorkin, Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Comedy, History
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. Read More »
Treachery Rides the Range (1936) Frank McDonald, Dick Foran, Paula Stone, Craig Reynolds, Music, Western
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. Read More »
Maria Chapdelaine (1934) Julien Duvivier, Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Desprès, Gaby Triquet, Drama
A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris. Read More »