The film is an often light-hearted look at the not-so-glorious side of the WW II Occupation of France: black market, war profiteers cracking open bottles of Champagne while many Parisians are suffering substantial deprivation. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2018
She Couldnt Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
As usual with most of the RKO films from this era “presented” by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, Read More »
True to the Navy (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green
While sailors are know far and wide as having a girl in every port, all of the sailors in the Pacific Fleet appear to have the same girl when in their home-port of San Diego Read More »
The Story of Three Loves (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. Read More »
Eye of the Cat (1975) Alberto Bevilacqua, Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Eli Wallach
In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man’s wife as his own. Read More »
The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »
Something for Everyone (1970) Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins
Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Read More »
One Way Street (1950) Hugo Fregonese, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea
Shortly after a bank robbery, gangster John Wheeler and his henchmen hide in a small apartment, awaiting for the rest of the gang to arrive. Read More »
Montparnasse 19 (1958) Jacques Becker, Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Read More »
Raising the Wind (1961) Gerald Thomas, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Paul Massie
A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together. Read More »
The Secret Place (1957) Clive Donner, Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, Michael Brooke
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a smalltime gang of hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery. Read More »
Wharf Angel (1934) William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, Preston Foster
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright’s bar. Read More »
Bengazi (1955) John Brahm, Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson
An American with a shady past, John Gilmore and an Irishman without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan Read More »
Interrupted Melody (1955) Curtis Bernhardt, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. Read More »
Bring Your Smile Along (1955) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle’) Read More »