Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. Read More »
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Give Us Tomorrow (1978) Donovan Winter, Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt, James Kerry, Crime, Drama
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank. Read More »
Adventure in the Hopfields (1954) John Guillermin, Mandy Miller, Hilda Fenemore, Russell Waters, Adventure, Family
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother’s favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it. Read More »
Summer of 42 (1971) Robert Mulligan, Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. Read More »
Pollyanna (1960) David Swift, Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Drama, Family
A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. Read More »
The Missing Scientists (1955) Steve Sekely, Paul Campbell, Irene Papas, Kurt Kreuger, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two international atomic scientists working in London go missing in mysterious circumstances. Read More »
Gun for a Coward (1957) Abner Biberman, Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Western
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice Read More »
The Red Danube (1949) George Sidney, Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Drama, Romance, War
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael ‘Hooky’ Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. Read More »
Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) Riccardo Freda, Georges Marchal, Gianna Maria Canale, Renato Baldini, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. Read More »
Rosemarys Baby (1968) Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Drama, Horror
Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. Read More »
Burma Convoy (1941) Noel M. Smith, Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Charles Bickford plays the boss of a group of American truck drivers on the Burma Road. Read More »
Woman in Hiding (1950) Michael Gordon, Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Chatos Land (1972) Michael Winner, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Western
Half-Apache Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) finds himself in a bar fight with a bigoted sheriff and kills the man to save his own life. Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »