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Tag Archives: USA
Lust, Caution AKA Se, jie (2007) Ang Lee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai Read More »
Back in the Saddle (1941) Lew Landers, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone’s cattle dying. Read More »
Without Orders (1936) Lew Landers, Frances Sage, Robert Armstrong, Sally Eilers
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth) lands at the end of a cross-country record flight Read More »
Speak Easily (1932) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn
Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money Read More »
Just Between Friends (1986) Allan Burns, Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Danson, Christine Lahti
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don’t know however that they have more in common than they’d like. Read More »
Advise and Consent (1962) Otto Preminger, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda
Robert Leffingwell is the president’s candidate for Secretary of State. Read More »
My Dinner with Jimi (2003) Bill Fishman, Justin Henry, Royale Watkins, Jason Boggs
Howard Kaylan, a singer for the rock band The Turtles, is about to marry his girlfriend and his band is traveling to England Read More »
Strike Me Pink (1936) Norman Taurog, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers
After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. Read More »
Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) Mervyn LeRoy, Pat O’Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir
An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company’s interests. Read More »
Northwest Territory (1951) Frank McDonald, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Gloria Saunders
Fort McKenzie prospector Pop Kellogg, just before the arrival of his newly-orphaned grandson Billy Read More »
The King’s Thief (1955) Robert Z. Leonard, Hugo Fregonese, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven
Lady Mary’s father is innocently accused of treason and is executed. It is the king’s evil chancellor, the duke of Brampton Read More »
Yukon Manhunt (1951) Frank McDonald, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Gail Davis
Canadian Mountie Rod Webb (Kirby Grant) has been assigned to the case where three messengers carrying Kenmore Mine payrolls have been robbed and murdered. Read More »
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz
Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic Read More »
Double Wedding (1937) Richard Thorpe, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Read More »