Married NYPD Captain Mike Harmon receives a visit from Esmeralda Marini, who he has not seen in twelve years since she was a child. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Bellissima (1951) Luchino Visconti, Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. Read More »
Orchestra Wives (1942) Archie Mayo, George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison’s band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. Read More »
Good Times (1967) William Friedkin, Sonny Bono, Cher, Sonny & Cher
Done in a similar style to the musical duo’s TV show “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour”, this film is more a series of unconnected skits and parodies than a single running plot. Read More »
Slander (1957) Roy Rowland, Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran
Steve Cochran plays the slick, debonair owner of a notorious gossip magazine who is anxious to break a big scandal to reverse a recent decline in sales. Read More »
Morning Breeze in Edo (1960) Hideaki Onishi, Chiezô Kataoka
The sole survivor of a shipwreck searches for missing members of a family. Read More »
That Other Woman (1942) Ray McCarey, Virginia Gilmore, James Ellison, Dan Duryea
Secretary Emily Borden is in love with her boss, Henry Summers, but he is too involved with Constance Powell to notice. Read More »
The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) Arthur Lubin, Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing
At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. Read More »
Lake of the Dead (1958) Kåre Bergstrøm, André Bjerke, Bjørg Engh, Henki Kolstad
A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It’s a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin. Read More »
The Man Who Lies (1968) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sylvie Bréal, Zuzana Kocúriková
This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. Read More »
Let Us Be Gay (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Read More »
The Great Adventure (1953) Arne Sucksdorff, Anders Nohrborg, Kjell Sucksdorff
A vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop until she is shot by a farmer. Read More »
April Showers (1948) James V. Kern, Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere Read More »
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) Berthold Viertel, Conrad Veidt, René Ray, Frank Cellier
In a London boarding house, a number of lives exist precariously on the edge of disaster or despair. Read More »
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) Michael Curtiz, Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish Read More »