Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Ryôjû / Hunting Rifle (1961) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshie Minami, Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa, Drama
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »
The Black Hole (1979) Gary Nelson, Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
It is the year 2130 A.D. An Earth exploratory ship, the USS Palomino, discovers a black hole with a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, just outside its event horizon. Read More »
Nihon no don: kanketsuhen / The Godfather: Resolution (1978) Sadao Nakajima, Toshirô Mifune, Bunta Sugawara, Naoko Ôtani, Crime, Drama
Double crosses and backstabbing while older yakuza bosses fight for the title of “The Godfather of Japan” violent history and a cast full of stars. Read More »
Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Read More »
Spermula (1976) Charles Matton, Dayle Haddon, Udo Kier, François Dunoyer, Horror, Sci-Fi
The planet Spermula is facing destruction and the Spermulites plan to relocate to Earth. To do this, they have come up with a brilliant plan. Read More »
The House of Fear (1939) Joe May, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor’s murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. Read More »
Dead End Run (2003) Gakuryû Ishii, Tadanobu Asano, Urara Awata, Mikako Ichikawa, Action, Thriller
Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Read More »
Paratroop Command (1959) William Witney, Richard Bakalyan, Ken Lynch, Jack Hogan, Drama, War
A squad member of the U.S. Paratroop unit in WWII accidently shoots one of his unit. Over the forthcoming months there is some anamosity against him as they battle their way across Italy. Read More »
Le Baron Fantôme / The Phantom Baron (1943) Serge de Poligny, André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt, Drama
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié’s daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. Read More »
Divorce (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Drama
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend. Read More »
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Read More »
Nihon no fûikusaîchi / The Fixer (1979) Yasuo Furuhata, Shin Saburi, Masakazu Tamura, Kyôko Enami, Crime
A fixer controls political events from behind the scenes – the portrait of a political fixer and his machinations. Read More »
Lovers and Luggers (1938) Ken G. Hall, Lloyd Hughes, Ann Richards, James Raglan, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Read More »
Yoru no nagare / Evening Stream (1960) Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Takarada, Drama
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. Read More »