Nan, a racketeer’s daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Read More »
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Carefree (1938) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Dr. Tony Flagg’s friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. Read More »
Hollywood Party (1934) Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
The Lovers! (1973) Herbert Wise, Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, Susan Littler
Big-screen version of the TV sit-com about the ups-and-downs of a young courting couple’s relationship. Read More »
Cornered (1945) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing Read More »
Yours for the Asking (1936) Alexander Hall, George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess Read More »
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews
Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Read More »
Up the Down Staircase (1967) Robert Mulligan, Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York’s inner-city Calvin Coolidge High Read More »
The Show Goes On (1937) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, Owen Nares, John Stuart
A mill worker is plucked from obscurity and thrust towards fame and fortune when an ailing composer needs a singer to perform his work. Read More »
That’s My Man (1947) Frank Borzage, Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track Read More »
Sins of Man (1936) Otto Brower, Gregory Ratoff, Jean Hersholt, Don Ameche, Allen Jenkins
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. Read More »
A Honeymoon Adventure (1931) Maurice Elvey, Benita Hume, Peter Hannen, Harold Huth
An inventor and his new bride go on their honeymoon, only to be pursued by criminals after his latest invention. Read More »
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (1993) Eric Walton, John Page, Helena Norberg-Hodge
Ladakh, or Little Tibet, is a wildly beautiful desert land high in the western Himalayas. Read More »
Venus Boyz (2002) Gabrielle Baur, Diane Torr, Dréd Gerestant, Del La Grace Volcano
A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. Read More »