To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty construction worker Chesty O’Connor Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Last Night at the Alamo (1983) Eagle Pennell, Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Steven Mattila
The cheerless events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. Read More »
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert, Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen Read More »
Hester Street (1975) Joan Micklin Silver, Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard
It’s 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier Read More »
Chip Off the Old Block (1944) Charles Lamont, Donald O’Connor, Peggy Ryan, Ann Blyth
The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star. Read More »
David Holzman’s Diary (1967) Jim McBride, L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Louise Levine
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life Read More »
Address Unknown (1944) William Cameron Menzies, Paul Lukas, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky
Martin Schulz (Paul Lukas), a German/American art dealer, returns to Germany at the outbreak of World War Two Read More »
B.S. I Love You (1971) Steven Hilliard Stern, Peter Kastner, JoAnna Cameron, Louise Sorel
A female executive who is the head of an advertising agency on Madison Avenue has slept her way to the top Read More »
Destination Tokyo (1943) Delmer Daves, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Made during World War II, this chronicles a voyage of a U.S. submarine on a secret mission to the very shores of Japan. Read More »
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Read More »
Dragstrip Girl (1957) Edward L. Cahn, Fay Spain, Steven Terrell, John Ashley
Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don’t like either one. Read More »
The Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996) Dante Harper, Gabrielle Greigo, Shannon Gelobter, Joy Gewalt
A surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay. Read More »
The Smokers (2000) Kat Slater, Dominique Swain, Busy Philipps, Keri Lynn Pratt
Looking back a few years later, Jefferson Roth tells the story of the last few weeks of her senior year at a Wisconsin boarding school Read More »
Grand Old Girl (1935) John S. Robertson, May Robson, Mary Carlisle, Fred MacMurray
Miss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Read More »
Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Read More »