Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2017
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) Arthur Lubin, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Drama, Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller
Jean takes the job of caretaker/companion (before the word took on a completely alternate-life style meaning) to blind woman Zenobia. Read More »
Riten / The Rite (1969) Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand, Drama
A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Read More »
Africa: Texas Style (1967) Andrew Marton, Hugh O’Brian, John Mills, Nigel Green, Adventure, Western
An American cowboy is hired to work on a ranch in Africa, and winds up having to fight predators, both the four- and two-legged kinds. Read More »
The Best of Enemies (1961) Guy Hamilton, David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Amedeo Nazzari, Adventure, Comedy, War
In 1941 the Italian and British forces face one another.Italian army Captain Blasi and his troops capture a British army Major Richardson and his pilot when their scout plane crashes. Read More »
Killer Bees (1974) Curtis Harrington, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Roger Davis, Horror, Mystery
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard. Read More »
Ni luo he nu er / Daughter of the Nile (1987) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Lin Yang, Jack Kao, Shu-Fang Chen, Crime, Drama
The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime. Read More »
Un pilota ritorna / A Pilot Returns (1942) Roberto Rossellini, Massimo Girotti, Michela Belmonte, Gaetano Masier, Drama, War
A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. Read More »
The Triple Echo (1972) Michael Apted, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Drama, War
Barton is a soldier in WW2 England; he meets Alice, who is looking after her farm single-handed as her husband is a prisoner of the Japanese. Read More »
Zone Troopers (1985) Danny Bilson, Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art LaFleur, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
In Italy during WW II, a patrol of American soldiers discover a space ship that has crash-landed in the woods, and they come across its alien crew. Read More »
Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976) Marcelo Motta, José Mojica Marins, Alfredo Almeida, Giulio Aurichio, Horror
Coffin Joe opens a hostel which will be run by himself and five other carefully chosen people. Read More »
Safety in Numbers (1930) Victor Schertzinger, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Comedy, Musical, Romance
William Butler Reynolds is slated to inherit ten-million dollars on his 21st birthday, but his worldly uncle, F. Carstairs Reynolds, thinks the lad could use a bit of seasoning before that happens. Read More »
Khartoum (1966) Basil Dearden, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880’s, the British government is in a quandary. Read More »
Michael (1924) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Drama, Romance
Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, and their relationship is sexual as well. Read More »
It (1927) Clarence G. Badger, Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Comedy, Romance
Shopgirl Betty Lou has designs on Cyrus Waltham, the handsome owner of the department store where she works. Waltham, though, doesn’t even know Betty Lou is around. Read More »