James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Blue Hawaii (1961) Norman Taurog, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. Read More »
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) Robert Mulligan, Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray
With her infant daughter Margaret Rose in tow, Georgette Thomas pulls up stakes from Tyler, Texas to head to Columbus Read More »
Apache Drums (1951) Hugo Fregonese, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches. Read More »
When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, “Have you checked the children lately?” Read More »
He Laughed Last (1956) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter
In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Robert Florey, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. Read More »
Dr. Sexual and Mr. Hyde (1971) Anthony Brzezinski, Suzanne Fields
A Scientist runs a spooky asylum and does sexual experiments on the female inmates. Read More »
Power of the Press (1943) Lew Landers, Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
Stagecoach (1939) John Ford, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
Higher and Higher (1943) Tim Whelan, Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra
Formerly rich Mr. Drake is broke…with his household staff’s wages seven months in arrears. Read More »
Cass Timberlane (1947) George Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. Read More »
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Charles Barton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr.
The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Read More »
Wings (1927) William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots in WW1. Read More »