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Daily Archives: November 27, 2018
The Wedding Ring (1970) Christian de Chalonge, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Carrière, Isabelle Sadoyan
A vet meets a mysterious woman through a dating agency and moves into her large apartment. Read More »
The Singing Nun (1966) Henry Koster, Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson
Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House Read More »
US Go Home (1994) Claire Denis, Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin
The 1960’s: Martine lives with her mother in a Parisian suburb near an American military base. Read More »
Big City Blues (1932) Mervyn LeRoy, Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland
Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money Read More »
Fast Company (1953) John Sturges, Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Marjorie Main
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father’s stable, she inherited. Read More »
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) Henry Levin, Arduino Maiuri, Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone
An outlandish science-fiction, comedy-thriller full of tongue-and-cheek action, ingenious gadgets in the James Bond style combining violence Read More »
Plunder of the Sun (1953) John Farrow, Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist Read More »
The Dogs (1979) Alain Jessua, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence. Read More »
Visit to a Chiefs Son (1974) Lamont Johnson, Richard Mulligan, Johnny Sekka, John Philip Hogdon
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe. Read More »
The Eternal Return (1943) Jean Delannoy, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »
Les filles du Golden Saloon (1975) Gilbert Roussel, Sandra Julien, Evelyne Scott, Roger Darton
Richard le Noir, disguised as a woman, helps free the local girls of the California town of Harriba Lannana, from enslavement at a local brothel called the Golden Saloon. Read More »
Jirocho Fuji (1959) Kazuo Mori, Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu
An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
Steel Trap (2007) Luis Cámara, Georgia Mackenzie, Mark Wilson, Pascal Langdale
A who-is-it setting in the claustrophobic corridors of an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests Read More »
A Gamblers Life: The Massacring Fudo (1969) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Jûshirô Konoe, Machiko Hasegawa
A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler – the gambler’s wife and daughter are sick Read More »