James Francis “Ginger” Coffey has no luck finding a job in his native Ireland and him being a dreamer, he decides the place to find a job is Canada. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2018
A Hen in the Wind (1948) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband’s return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. Read More »
Love on a Bet (1936) Leigh Jason, Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Helen Broderick
In order to raise money to produce a play (as well as prove that the plot isn’t ridiculous) Read More »
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Françoise Rosay
“Le Dabe” retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. Read More »
Dust Devil (1992) Richard Stanley, Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Zakes Mokae
A shape shifter (Burke) comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call “The Dust Devil”. Read More »
Town Without Pity (1961) Gottfried Reinhardt, Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann
In 1960 Germany, Army lawyer Major Steve Garrett is assigned to defend four American soldiers charged with raping 16 year-old Karin Steinhof. Read More »
The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Wadsworth Harris
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. Read More »
The Jericho Mile (1979) Michael Mann, Peter Strauss, Richard Lawson, Roger E. Mosley
Larry “Rain” Murphy is stuck in Folsom Prison for life on a first-degree murder charge. Read More »
Suspect (1987) Peter Yates, Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson
A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Read More »
Waterloo Bridge (1940) Mervyn LeRoy, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I Read More »
Relations (1969) Hans Abramson, Brandon Chase, Gertie Jung, Bjørn Puggaard-Müller, Jeanne Darville
Sonja, 16 is a porn model, and her middle aged lover is obsessed with her Read More »
Kuei-Mei, A Woman (1985) Yi Chang, Hui-Shan Yang, Hsiang-Ping Hu, Li-Chun Lee
Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Read More »
Key Witness (1947) D. Ross Lederman, John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd
Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don’t sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit—the killing of a girl he had just met Read More »
Japans Longest Day (1967) Kihachi Okamoto, Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Read More »
Whom the Gods Love (1936) Basil Dean, Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper, John Loder
The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Read More »