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Daily Archives: January 21, 2019
Hard Contract (1969) S. Lee Pogostin, James Coburn, Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for ‘one last score’. Read More »
Hotel Paradiso (1966) Peter Glenville, Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. Read More »
Don’t Play with Fire (1980) Hark Tsui, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin, Albert Au
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Read More »
April in Paris (1952) David Butler, Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin
Miss Ethel ‘Dynamite’ Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department Read More »
The Merry Gentleman (2008) Michael Keaton, Kelly Macdonald, Tom Bastounes
A woman leaves an abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city Read More »
Scent of a Spell (1985) Toshiharu Ikeda, Mari Amachi, Johnny Ohkura, Yuki Kazamatsuri
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Read More »
The Walls of Jericho (1948) John M. Stahl, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman Read More »
The Baron of Arizona (1950) Samuel Fuller, Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. Read More »
Hot Diamonds in Cold Blood (1967) Aldo Florio, Richard Harrison, Alida Chelli, Luis Dávila
When $300,000,000 in diamonds are stolen from a fiery plane wreck the British Government become concerned that it might Read More »
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) Crane Wilbur, Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey
Another in a unrelated series of Warner’s penitentiary tours in three different decades. Read More »
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Naima Wifstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Max von Sydow
The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man Read More »
Cattle Drive (1951) Kurt Neumann, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. Read More »
Cheer Up (1936) Leo Mittler, Stanley Lupino, Sally Gray, Roddy Hughes
A couple of out of work songwriters try to persuade a wealthy stockbroker to back them. Read More »
She’s Got Everything (1937) Joseph Santley, Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore
Carol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father Read More »