Three men gun down Solly Pitts, ‘rebel’ against the racket-ridden Longshoremen’s Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife ‘Cockeye’ Cook was one of the killers…but won’t repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. Read More »
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The Stud (1978) Quentin Masters, Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Drama, Romance
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. Read More »
Absolution (1978) Anthony Page, Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher’s pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. Read More »
In Between (1991) Thomas Constantinides, Robert Forster, Wings Hauser, Robin Mattson, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Three strangers – two women and one man – find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. Read More »
A Flea in Her Ear (1968) Jacques Charon, Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Comedy
A Frenchwoman (Rosemary Harris), suspecting her lawyer husband (Rex Harrison) of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act. Read More »
The False Madonna (1931) Stuart Walker, Kay Francis, William ‘Stage’ Boyd, Conway Tearle, Drama
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man; she comes to feel a true motherly love for the young man, and refuses to try to cheat him. Read More »
The Delinquents (1957) Robert Altman, Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Richard Bakalyan, Drama
Scotty White (age 19) must stop ‘going steady’ with Janice Wilson (age 16) when Janice’s parents intervene. Read More »
The Lady Vanishes (1979) Anthony Page, Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
On a train traveling through pre-WW II Germany, American heiress Amanda Kelly befriends a Miss Froy, an older nanny. Read More »
Santa Fe Passage (1955) William Witney, John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Western
Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank, whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and neither he nor his pal Sam Beekman can get jobs. Read More »
Beatrice Cenci / The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) Lucio Fulci, Tomas Milian, Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Biography, Drama
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazy landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci whom he keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle for his plaything, sexually abusing her when he feels like it. Read More »
Six-String Samurai (1998) Lance Mungia, Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire, Kim De Angelo, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
A mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, Buddy is as skilled with his guitar as he is with his samurai sword. Read More »
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) Robert Mulligan, Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Angie Rossini is an innocent (Italian Catholic) Macy’s salesgirl, who discovers she’s pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Read More »
Leaving Normal (1992) Edward Zwick, Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Patrika Darbo, Comedy, Drama
For her entire life, twenty-seven year old Marianne Johnson has been on the move, the decisions which she’s made as an adult which have been total failures, such as her second most recent marriage to Curtis Johnson, which brought her to Normal, Wyoming. Read More »
Gunslinger (1956) Roger Corman, John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Western
Oracle, Texas Marshal Scott Hood is murdered and his wife, Rose, takes his badge and sets out on a personal vendetta to find the killers. Read More »
Fail Safe (1964) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Drama, Thriller
American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it’s a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?
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