During WWII, in France, Jean Picard is a criminal who is about to be executed via the guillotine, but an air raid interrupts it and allows him to escape. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Stallion Road (1947) James V. Kern, Raoul Walsh, Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
A veterinarian and rancher (Ronald Reagan) and a novelist (Zachery Scott) compete for the affections of a horse breeder (Alexis Smith) during an outbreak of anthrax. Read More »
The Secret Six (1931) George W. Hill, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown
Bootlegger/cafe owner Ralph Bellamy recruits crude working man Wallace Beery to join his gang which is masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Lewis Stone. Read More »
Appointment in Honduras (1953) Jacques Tourneur, Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett Read More »
The Wolf Man (1941) George Waggner, Claude Rains, Warren William, Lon Chaney Jr.
Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. Read More »
Too Good to Be True (1988) Christian I. Nyby II, Loni Anderson, Patrick Duffy, Glynnis O’Connor
Writer Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet, fall in love, and soon marry. Read More »
Spy Ship (1942) B. Reeves Eason, Craig Stevens, Irene Manning, Maris Wrixon
A radio repoter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. Read More »
Ambush Bay (1966) Ron Winston, Hugh O’Brian, Mickey Rooney, James Mitchum
With General MacArthur poised to strike against the Japanese defenses in the Philippines, a group of nine Marines are given a secret mission. Read More »
Pickup (1951) Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon
Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who’s busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they’re married. Read More »
Quigley Down Under (1990) Simon Wincer, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Read More »
Kiss of Death (1947) Henry Hathaway, Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D’Angelo Read More »
Born Free (1966) James Hill, Tom McGowan, Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have longed lived in northern Kenya for George’s work as the senior game warden of the region. Read More »
Chuck and Buck (2000) Miguel Arteta, Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros
Buck is a man-child who has lived his existence in a life of Romper Room, kindergarten collages, and lollipops. Read More »
Two Guys from Texas (1948) David Butler, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone
In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a Texas dude ranch. Read More »
The Way West (1967) Andrew V. McLaglen, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark
In the mid nineteenth century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement Read More »