A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. Read More »
Daily Archives: March 2, 2021
Sons O’ Guns (1936) Lloyd Bacon, Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, Beverly Roberts
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. Read More »
The Sea Chase (1955) John Farrow, John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Read More »
Buccaneer’s Girl (1950) Frederick De Cordova, Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas
Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Read More »
Mississippi (1935) A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart’s honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer Read More »
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) James P. Hogan, Ludwig Donath, Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz
A clerk in 1942 Vienna who has a gift for mimicry, is arrested for doing a Hitler impression. Read More »
An Innocent Man (1989) Peter Yates, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house Read More »
American Dreamer (1984) Rick Rosenthal, JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini
Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan Read More »
Life Show AKA Sheng huo xiu (2002) Jianqi Huo, Höng Tao, Zeru Tao, Yueming Pan
The story of a gorgeous, single girl who runs a restaurant in inland China Read More »
North West Frontier (1959) J. Lee Thompson, Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom
In northwestern India soon after the turn of the 20th Century, Moslem rebels seek to kill a six-year-old Hindu prince to end his family line. Read More »
Horror Rises from the Tomb AKA El espanto surge de la tumba (1973) Carlos Aured, Paul Naschy, Emma Cohen, Víctor Alcázar
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Read More »
Man of the First Century AKA Muz z prvního století (1962) Oldrich Lipský, Milos Kopecký, Radovan Lukavský, Anita Kajlichova
In the near future in Czechoslovakia (the movie was made in 1961, after all), a space flight is in the final stages of preparation. Read More »
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »
Pandora’s Box AKA Pandora’nin kutusu (2008) Yesim Ustaoglu, Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Ünsal
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul Read More »
Bull Durham (1988) Ron Shelton, Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
In Durham, N.C., the Bulls minor league baseball team has one asset no other can claim Read More »