Returning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s, Captain Vance Colby finds his father, a professional gambler, has been killed. Read More »
Romance
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) Raoul Walsh, Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
In 1674, “reformed” pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica, but Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Read More »
South Seas Adventure (1958) Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone, Diane Beardmore, Marlene Lizzio, Tommy Zahn
The fifth in a series of Cinerama travelogues—and not a Documentary since the vast majority of the film, aside from the scenery, is comprised of fictional stories. Read More »
I Loved a Woman (1933) Alfred E. Green, Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin
Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father’s meat packing business on his father’s death. Read More »
Arch of Triumph (1948) Lewis Milestone, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton
In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. Read More »
Hit and Run (1957) Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, Vince Edwards
Garage owner Gus Hilmer marries showgirl Julie, many years his junior, and this causes a conflict between Gus and Frankie, a young mechanic he has befriended. Read More »
The Westerner (1940) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Cole Harden just doesn’t look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Read More »
The Destruction of Herculaneum (1962) Gianfranco Parolini, Susan Paget, Brad Harris, Mara Lane
In 79 AD the Roman city of Herculaneum was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius. Read More »
Poker Alice (1987) Arthur Allan Seidelman, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton
Alice Moffit, ‘Poker Alice’, has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. Read More »
Hanover Street (1979) Peter Hyams, Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer
During the Second World War, an American Pilot stationed in England meets a young British nurse during an air raid on London. Read More »