Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Kisses for My President (1964) Curtis Bernhardt, Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen, Eli Wallach
When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Read More »
The Man with Two Faces (1934) Archie Mayo, Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. Read More »
Zeppelin (1971) Etienne Périer, Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Read More »
Assignment Redhead (1956) Maclean Rogers, Richard Denning, Carole Mathews, Ronald Adam
Murderous master criminal Dumetrius flies to London from post-war Berlin plying his trade in counterfeit money and false travel documents. Read More »
The Trumpet Blows (1934) Stephen Roberts, George Raft, Adolphe Menjou, Frances Drake
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. Read More »
Laughing Boy (1934) W.S. Van Dyke, Ramon Novarro, Lupe Velez, William B. Davidson
There were very few laughs in this phlegmatic film adaptation of the Oliver LaFarge’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Laughing Boy. Read More »
Laburnum Grove (1936) Carol Reed, Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper
Laburnum Grove is a suburb so dull one could actually hear the tomatoes grow in the gardens. Read More »
The Girl from Parma AKA La parmigiana (1963) Antonio Pietrangeli, Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair Read More »
The Late Show (1977) Robert Benton, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
Ira Wells is an aged retired Los Angeles, California based private investigator comes out of retirement when a former partner Read More »
The Elephant God AKA Joi Baba Felunath (1979) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares Read More »
Someone at the Door (1936) Herbert Brenon, Aileen Marson, Billy Milton, Noah Beery
A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Read More »
Saloon Bar (1940) Walter Forde, Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns
Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord Read More »
Unholy Partners (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold
Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. Read More »
Bad Guy (1937) Edward L. Cahn, Bruce Cabot, Virginia Grey, Edward Norris
“Lucky” Walden is a power lineman-turned-criminal. He is due to go to the electric chair, which he helps prison electricians wire correctly Read More »