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Gold Rush Maisie (1940) Edwin L. Marin, J. Walter Ruben, Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, Slim Summerville
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family Read More »
Sea of Lost Ships (1953) Joseph Kane, John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan
The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. Read More »
Scalplock (1966) James Goldstone, Dale Robertson, Diana Hyland, Todd Armstrong
In a high stakes poker game, Ben Calhoun wins an unfinished railroad. Read More »
Apology for Murder (1945) Sam Newfield, Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks
Reporter Kenny Blake (Hugh Beaumont) falls in love with scheming Toni Kirkland (‘Ann Savage’) Read More »
From Headquarters (1933) William Dieterle, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
A wealthy Broadway playboy is found dead. He was actually a vicious blackmailer. Read More »
Where Lights Are Low (1921) Colin Campbell, Sessue Hayakawa, Tôgô Yamamoto, Goro Kino
The Chinese prince T’Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener Read More »
A Night of Love AKA Manifesto (1988) Dusan Makavejev, Camilla Søeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow
In 1920, in Central Europe, the tyrannical king of an Empire is visiting Read More »
Out for Justice (1991) John Flynn, Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach
Brooklyn cop Gino Felino is about to go outside and play catch with his son Tony when he receives Read More »
On Deadly Ground (1994) Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen
Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal) is an environmental Agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Read More »
Kongo (1932) William J. Cowen, Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. Read More »
Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want Read More »
Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
In early-1950s Hollywood, obscure screenplay-writer Joe Gillis is unable to sell his work to the studios Read More »
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter
What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid Read More »
Cold Sassy Tree (1989) Joan Tewkesbury, Faye Dunaway, Richard Widmark, Frances Fisher
Handsome May-December romantic drama set in a sleepy Southern town at the turn of the century. Read More »