Aging ex-marshal Steve Judd is hired by a bank to transport a gold shipment through dangerous territory. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2020
The Father AKA Pedar (1996) Majid Majidi, Hossein Abedini, Mohammad Kasebi, Parivash Nazarieh
Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. Read More »
Heart of the North (1938) Lewis Seiler, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson, Gale Page
Cpl. Jim of the R.C.M.P. is taking his daughter Julie to school in Edmonton on the Arctic Queen. Read More »
Boulder Dam (1936) Frank McDonald, Ross Alexander, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot
“Rusty” Noonan, a hard-boiled, cynical, selfish smart-aleck, working as a mechanic in a Detroit garage Read More »
…And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986) Louis Malle, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Louis Malle, Anastasio Samosa Portocarrero
After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980’s. Read More »
City of Chance (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods
Texas girl (Bari) goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend (Woods) to come home. Read More »
Road to Life AKA Putyovka v zhizn (1931) Nikolai Ekk, Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. Read More »
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) Burt Kennedy, James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam
James Garner plays a ladies’ man who ends up on the run from a conquest. Read More »
Summer Camp Nightmare (1987) Bert L. Dragin, Chuck Connors, Charlie Stratton, Harold Pruett
At Camp North Pines for Boys, the campers, led by the charismatic Franklin Reilly Read More »
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) John Frankenheimer, Richard Stanley, David Thewlis, Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer
Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. Read More »
The Gypsy Moths (1969) John Frankenheimer, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman
On a 4th of July weekend, three barnstorming skydivers arrive to perform in a small Kansas town. Read More »
Going Places AKA Les valseuses (1974) Bertrand Blier, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder Read More »
Pick-up (1933) Marion Gering, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Lilian Bond
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies Read More »
Hit Parade of 1941 (1940) John H. Auer, Kenny Baker, Frances Langford, Hugh Herbert
A small radio station is saved of getting bankrupt by a backer, who invests money for a TV equipment Read More »
Paper Moon (1973) Peter Bogdanovich, Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn
Set in the midwest of the depression-era, Paper Moon follows Moses Pray Read More »