A teenage drifter becomes embroiled in the lives and mysteries of the residents in a small coastal fishing village while searching for his family roots. Read More »
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Eyes of the Underworld (1942) Roy William Neill, Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Lon Chaney Jr.
Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry, whose present respectable veneer obscures the fact that he once served a prison sentence. Read More »
Pancho Villa (1972) Eugenio Martín, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors
Having lost his influence and on the way to be executed in Mexico City, the once mighty Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa Read More »
Xanadu (1980) Robert Greenwald, Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. Read More »
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) Charles Jarrott, Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Leo Genn
This made-for-television adaptation doesn’t waste time with preliminaries. Read More »
Murder with Mirrors (1985) Dick Lowry, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills
Christian Gilbranson, Miss Marple’s lawyer, persuades her to visit the baronial estate of his step-mother Read More »
The Restless Years (1958) Helmut Käutner, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. Read More »
Chappaqua (1966) Conrad Rooks, Jean-Louis Barrault, William S. Burroughs
The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by director Conrad Rooks. Read More »
Star Dust (1940) Walter Lang, Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young
Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she’s too young. Read More »
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. Read More »
My Gal Sal (1942) Irving Cummings, Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton
Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer Read More »
The Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore
Nerd. Milquetoast. Klutz. These are just three of the many undesirable words that can be used to describe Professor Julius Kelp. Read More »
Count Three and Pray (1955) George Sherman, Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey
This laid-back western manages to deliver a full quota of action, an agreeable dash of sentiment, and quite a few three-dimensional characterizations. Read More »
Black Samson (1974) Charles Bail, Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. Read More »
Smoke Signal (1955) Jerry Hopper, Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, Rex Reason
Capt. Harper’s cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. Read More »