Alice Moffit, ‘Poker Alice’, has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. Read More »
Daily Archives: November 4, 2018
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964) Henri Verneuil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Géret
Set during World War II, and stuck on the beaches near Dunkirk, Julien Maillat tries to join England by boat with the English Army, but cannot succeed. Read More »
Outlaw: Rub-out! (1969) Keiichi Ozawa, Eiji Gô, Kenji Imai, Chieko Matsubara, Gorô Mutsumi
New force joins the creators of the “Outlaw” series in this final installment. Read More »
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) Uli Edel, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young
Hailed as an uncompromising look at life on the dark side, Last Exit to Brooklyn follows a gang of young hoodlums Read More »
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967) Lindsay Shonteff, Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton
Frankie Avalon and George Nader (that guy from “The Robot Monster”) are a couple of wise-cracking, swingin’ secret agents. Read More »
Tom Browns Schooldays (1951) Gordon Parry, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, James Hayter
A faithful rendition of the Thomas Hughes book of life at the famed Rugby School for Boys in 1834, when Dr. Thomas Arnold Read More »
Five Golden Dragons (1967) Jeremy Summers, Robert Cummings, Margaret Lee, Rupert Davies
Hitchcock hero Robert Cummings stars in this exotic British feature from 1967, adapting one of Edgar Wallace’s celebrated Commissioner Sanders stories. Read More »
An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive (1976) Yves Robert, Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos
Etienne falls in love with a sexy woman he meets in his bureau. This woman is then chosen for an advertisement… Read More »
Bugsy Malone (1976) Alan Parker, Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger
A pint-sized cast illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Read More »
Hanover Street (1979) Peter Hyams, Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer
During the Second World War, an American Pilot stationed in England meets a young British nurse during an air raid on London. Read More »
When in Rome (1952) Clarence Brown, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Joseph Calleia
An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest. Read More »
Submarine D-1 (1937) Lloyd Bacon, Pat O’Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris
Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. Read More »
So This Is Africa (1933) Edward F. Cline, Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. Read More »
The London Connection (1979) Robert Clouse, Jeffrey Byron, Larry Cedar, Roy Kinnear
Family spy adventure sees secret agent Luther Starling hoping to have a vacation in England to visit his friend Roger. Read More »
La croisière jaune (1933) Léon Poirier, André Sauvage
The film tells the expedition, led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and sponsored by André Citoën Read More »