Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker’s union during one of their demonstrations. Read More »
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Men Against the Sky (1940) Leslie Goodwins, Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe
Phil Mercedes, the world-famous “Greatest Pilot of Them All,” who has been grounded because of his addiction to alcohol. Read More »
The Missing Juror (1944) Budd Boetticher, Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready
A detective tries to stop whomever is murdering the jurors on a notorious murder case. Read More »
Black Magic (1949) Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff
Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged Read More »
Winning (1969) James Goldstone, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one–the Indianapolis 500. Read More »
Son of a Gunfighter (1965) Paul Landres, Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook
The year is 1877. Johnny Ketchum, son of notorious gunfighter Ace Ketchum, seeks the man who killed his mother. Read More »
Small Town Girl (1936) William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard, Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. Read More »
Kid Nightingale (1939) George Amy, John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett
A singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. Read More »
Broadway (1929) Pál Fejös, Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Read More »
Road Gang (1936) Louis King, Donald Woods, Kay Linaker, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Jim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. Read More »
Ozploitation Trailer Explosion (2014)
In the late 70s and early 80s, films like MY BRILLIANT CAREER and BREAKER MORANT put Australia’s New Wave on the map. Read More »
Applause (1929) Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Neil Hamilton
In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. Read More »
Broadway Musketeers (1938) John Farrow, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson
Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now more stringent Hollywood censors. Read More »
The Birth of a Nation (1915) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. Read More »