Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O’Hara. His uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco forbids the marriage because she is a commoner. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Queen Kelly (1929) Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Drama
Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy. Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love. Read More »
Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. Read More »
Summer of 42 (1971) Robert Mulligan, Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. Read More »
Pollyanna (1960) David Swift, Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Drama, Family
A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. Read More »
Gun for a Coward (1957) Abner Biberman, Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Western
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice Read More »
The Red Danube (1949) George Sidney, Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Drama, Romance, War
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael ‘Hooky’ Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. Read More »
Rosemarys Baby (1968) Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Drama, Horror
Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. Read More »
Burma Convoy (1941) Noel M. Smith, Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Charles Bickford plays the boss of a group of American truck drivers on the Burma Road. Read More »
Woman in Hiding (1950) Michael Gordon, Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »
Meeting Venus (1991) István Szabó, Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Kiri Te Kanawa, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. Read More »
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Drama
Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Read More »