St. Louis based banker Roger Hobbs is writing a letter to his wife, Peggy Hobbs Read More »
Daily Archives: June 6, 2020
The Great Jesse James Raid (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Willard Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal
Jesse James, retired and living under an assumed name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests Read More »
Crescendo (1970) Alan Gibson, Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott
Stefanie Powers stars as an American girl who goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer. Read More »
The Man Who Committed the Murder AKA Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931) Curtis Bernhardt, Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo, Heinrich George
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. Read More »
Crime and Punishment AKA Rikos ja rangaistus (1983) Aki Kaurismäki, Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, set in modern Helsinki. Read More »
Memories of a Marriage AKA Dansen med Regitze (1989) Kaspar Rostrup, Frits Helmuth, Mikael Helmuth, Ghita Nørby
Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Read More »
Band of Assassins AKA Shinsengumi (1969) Tadashi Sawashima, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins Read More »
Madame White Snake AKA Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
The Ambush: Incident at Blood Pass AKA Machibuse (1970) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Read More »
Death of a Salesman (2000) Kirk Browning, Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz, Ron Eldard
An aging salesman is fired from his job after a long career in it. Broken, without much to look forward to Read More »