The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2020
The Lady Is Willing (1934) Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes
A private detective is hired by three men to kidnap a wealthy man’s wife in order to get a ransom, but he soon falls for her. Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
Madison Avenue (1961) H. Bruce Humberstone, Dana Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Jeanne Crain
An adman and an ad woman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House. Read More »
Danger Has Two Faces (1968) John Newland, Robert Lansing, Dana Wynter, Murray Hamilton
The year is 1968 and the Cold War has been smoldering for more than 20 years. The scene is the divided Germany. Read More »
The Girl Downstairs (1938) Norman Taurog, Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly
Paul Wagner and Rosalind Brown are in love, but her father doesn’t feel Paul’s lifestyle will make him a suitable husband for his daughter. Read More »
The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) Larry Lansburgh, George Fenneman, Dorian Williams, Slim Pickens
A palomino horse born into poverty is given a chance to compete in what he loves best- jumping and soaring over hurdles. Read More »
The Angel Levine (1970) Ján Kadár, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. Read More »
One Christmas (1994) Tony Bill, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Winkler, Swoosie Kurtz
In 1930, young Buddy (T.J. Lowther) lives with his aunt (Julie Harris) in Alabama. Read More »
Rape on the Moor AKA Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab (1952) Hans H. König, Ruth Niehaus, Hermann Schomberg, Armin Dahlen
In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk Read More »
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) George Schaefer, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes
A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can’t survive one week of living with an average family. Read More »
What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971) Curtis Harrington, Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver
Set in the 30s, Helen and Adelle are two women whose sons commit a gruesome murder. Read More »
Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Woody Allen, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Read More »
Fly Away Home (1996) Carroll Ballard, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany
Amy is a young teenager when she loses her mother to a car accident. Read More »