Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
High Tide (1947) John Reinhardt, Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. Read More »
The Homestretch (1947) H. Bruce Humberstone, Cornel Wilde, Maureen O’Hara, Glenn Langan
A film that qualifies as a Travelogue Documentary in that it contains footage Read More »
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942) Charles Barton, Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant, Florence Rice
A pair of barbers are driven out of business because most of the men in their small town are drafted into the army. Read More »
Straight Is the Way (1934) Paul Sloane, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Karen Morley
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies. Read More »
Rio Rita (1929) Luther Reed, Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit “The Kinkajou” over the Mexican border Read More »
Bar 20 Justice (1938) Lesley Selander, William Boyd, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Russell Hayden
Hoppy’s friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine Read More »
Hideout (1949) Philip Ford, Lloyd Bridges, Lorna Gray, Ray Collins
Hannah Kelly and Edie Hanson vie for the attentions of the naive attorney George Browning. Read More »
Stage Struck (1925) Allan Dwan, Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor
A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt Read More »
Three for Bedroom C (1952) Milton H. Bren, Gloria Swanson, James Warren, Fred Clark
A film star and her young daughter stow away on a cross-country train to California. Read More »
The Smiling Ghost (1941) Lewis Seiler, Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith
Elinor Bentley Fairchild’s previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Read More »
Desperate (1947) Anthony Mann, Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
When mobster Walt Radak tries to trick independent trucker Steve Randall Read More »
Footlight Parade (1933) Lloyd Bacon, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies Read More »
The Jack-Knife Man (1920) King Vidor, F.A. Turner, Harry Todd, Bobby Kelso
A lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. Read More »
Beyond Rangoon (1995) John Boorman, Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances McDormand
Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband Read More »