Jack London’s brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost. Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Girl in Danger (1934) D. Ross Lederman, Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Mystery
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. Read More »
The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Drama
Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can’t walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice Read More »
The Oscar (1966) Russell Rouse, Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Drama
Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he’s preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces over their life together Read More »
Anna (1987) Yurek Bogayevicz, Sally Kirkland, Paulina Porizkova, Robert Fields, Drama
Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. Read More »
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Action, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war…and for Taza’s betrothed, Oona. Read More »
Street Scene (1931) King Vidor, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. Read More »
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Drama
Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. Read More »
Take Me to Town (1953) Douglas Sirk, Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Comedy, Western
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O’Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Read More »
La cena delle beffe / The Jester’s Supper (1942) Alessandro Blasetti, Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti, Clara Calamai, Drama, Romance
In times of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Neri and Giannetto, two young Florentine, maintain a bitter rivalry. Read More »
Ikite iru Magoroku / The Living Magoroku (1943) Keisuke Kinoshita, Ken Uehara, Fumiko Katsuragi, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Drama
A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation’s troops. Read More »
Linda Linda Linda (2005) Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Comedy, Drama, Music
Linda Linda Linda tells the story of a group of girls, Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, who decide to put together a band for their school festival. Read More »
Tire-au-flanc 62 / The Sad Sack (1960) Claude de Givray, François Truffaut, Christian de Tillière, Ricet Barrier, Jacques Balutin, Comedy
Jean Lerat de la Grignotière is as full of himself as his name is long. Heeding (somewhat reluctantly to be true) the call of the Motherland he goes to the barracks where he is to accomplish his military duty. Read More »
Kanko no machi / Jubilation Street (1944) Keisuke Kinoshita, Ken Uehara, Eijirô Tôno, Chiyo Shin, Drama, War
As World War II escalates, the tight-knit habitants of a street in Tokyo must relocate from their homes so that the government can use the space. Read More »
Up in Smoke (1957) William Beaudine, Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Comedy
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil. Read More »