During the 1960s, in a fictitious strife-ridden Arab nation, captured revolutionary nationalist leader Sharif is being transported to a prison for execution. Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Who Done It? (1956) Basil Dearden, Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. Read More »
Katyn (2007) Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow Read More »
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) Mark Sandrich, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting
Todd stars as Amelia Frisby, the owner of a beauty supply business. Andy Williams (Wheeler) and Dr. Bob Dudley (Woolsey) Read More »
The Gay Diplomat (1931) Richard Boleslawski, Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson, Ivan Lebedeff
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy Read More »
Who’s Minding the Store? (1963) Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Ray Walston
Barbara is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier, a poor young man. Read More »
Courage for Every Day AKA Kazdy den odvahu (1964) Evald Schorm, Jana Brejchová, Jan Kacer, Jirina Jirásková
Jarda Lukás (Jan Kacer), a worker from a big machine-tool plant Read More »
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass (1970) Ray Laurent, Isaac Bonewits, Anton LaVey, Diane LaVey
A profile of Anton LaVey and the Satanic Church that he founded in San Francisco Read More »
My Wife Is an Actress AKA Ma femme est une actrice (2001) Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Terence Stamp
Paris can boast a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses. Read More »
Men in Her Life (1931) William Beaudine, Lois Moran, Charles Bickford, Victor Varconi
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves Read More »
Cold Harvest (1999) Isaac Florentine, Gary Daniels, Bryan Genesse, Barbara Crampton
A bounty hunter protects his dead brother’s wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth. Read More »
The Street Player AKA El harrif (1983) Mohamed Khan, Adel Emam, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui
The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack Read More »
Kit Kat (1991) Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Read More »
Shelf Life (1993) Paul Bartel, O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner
On November 22, 1963, Mister and Misses St. Cloud hear about the tragic assassination of the President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Read More »
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »