An American prisoner-of-war in Tokyo, manages to escape and hooks up with the Japanese underground. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Vanishing Virginian (1942) Frank Borzage, Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »
Justify (2010) Insung Hwang, Rebecca Larsen, Jaret Sacrey, Elizabeth Anweis
Abby is determined to do anything to avenge her father’s murder. Read More »
Fingered (1988) Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Emilio Cubeiro, Marty Nation
Lydia Lunch plays a phone sex operator/prostitute that gets together with a guy she’s been on the phone with. Read More »
Leadbelly (1976) Gordon Parks, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Read More »
Zebrahead (1992) Anthony Drazan, Michael Rapaport, DeShonn Castle, Kevin Corrigan
This is a Romeo and Juliet type tale based in Detroit, Michigan. Read More »
Unfaithfully Yours (1984) Howard Zieff, Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante
Claude Eastman, is a composer and conductor. He is married to Daniella, who is half his age. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
She’s Too Tall (1999) Redge Mahaffey, Brigitte Nielsen, Corey Feldman, George Hamilton
In the glamorous and competitive world of hi-fashion, Veronica Lamar now designs the clothes that she once modeled on the runway. Read More »
Carnival Magic (1981) Al Adamson, Don Stewart, Jennifer Houlton, Howard Segal
A magician in a carnival–who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects–works with a superintelligent chimp named Alex, who can also talk. Read More »
Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972) Martin Ritt, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page
Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn’t marry soon. Read More »
The Merry Widow (1952) Curtis Bernhardt, Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek Read More »
Little Fugitive (1953) Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams
Joey, a young boy, runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother. Read More »
Law and Order (1969) Frederick Wiseman, Richard Nixon
LAW & ORDER surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order Read More »
The Fan (1949) Otto Preminger, Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Comedy, Romance
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret – as the perfect husband. Read More »