The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Girls in the Night (1953) Jack Arnold, Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A morbid and rugged look at life in the tenements of New York City. Chuck Haynes and his girl friend, Georgia Cordray, plan to rob a fake beggar of a supposed fortune Read More »
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Comedy, Western
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. Read More »
Brewster McCloud (1970) Robert Altman, Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Comedy, Fantasy
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. Read More »
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward Brophy, Crime, Mystery
On vacation, Tom Lawrence–The Falcon–and his Brooklyn-born sidekick ‘Goldie’ Locke meet cute with a little girl named Annie whose nurse has just been murdered. Read More »
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Norman Taurog, Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, Adventure, Family
Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Read More »
Come September (1961) Robert Mulligan, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Comedy, Romance
Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Read More »
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) H.C. Potter, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Comedy, Romance
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night Read More »
Strange Alibi (1941) D. Ross Lederman, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A gambler comes into town to testify before the grand jury. He is killed by the mob before he can testify. Read More »
Ladies of the Jury (1932) Lowell Sherman, Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Ken Murray, Comedy, Mystery
Society Matron, Mrs. Crane, is selected as a juror in the trail of an ex-chorus girl, Yvette Gordon, who’s accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. Read More »
Girls School (1938) John Brahm, Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy
A student monitor at a girls’ school reports one of the popular girls for staying out late and faces the scorn of her fellow pupils. Read More »
The First Auto (1927) Roy Del Ruth, Russell Simpson, Frank Campeau, Gibson Gowland, Comedy
Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. Read More »
Dakota (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Western
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Read More »
The Big Bus (1976) James Frawley, Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Comedy, Action
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the Oil lobby. Read More »
The Four Feathers (1978) Don Sharp, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
In 1882, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the insurgent Arab tribes, British Lieutenant Faversham resigns his officer’s commission in order to remain with his fiancée Ethne in England. Read More »