A pioneer of a man convinces his family to take advantage of news of a road soon to be built through an area of the country that can be had for next to nothing. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2018
It Happened in Hollywood (1937) Harry Lachman, Richard Dix, Fay Wray, Victor Kilian
While hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart’s career. Read More »
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut
Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Read More »
Born to Be Bad (1934) Lowell Sherman, Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. Read More »
Palmy Days (1931) A. Edward Sutherland, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Weeks, Spencer Charters
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: “Glorifying the American Doughnut”) with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic Read More »
Sombrero (1953) Norman Foster, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman
Adapted from the book, “Mexican Village,” by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Read More »
Limpiegato (1960) Gianni Puccini, Nino Manfredi, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Anna Maria Ferrero
Nando is employed by a large company. Life takes place in the home, where he lives with his sister, and the office, where he does a job that leaves him totally dissatisfied. Read More »