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Tag Archives: USA
The Great Gatsby (1949) Elliott Nugent, Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Drama
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. Read More »
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) Peter Bogdanovich, Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1998, six months after the collision of a meteor and subsequent explosion of a rocket sent to Venus Read More »
The Master Gunfighter (1975) Tom Laughlin, Ron O’Neal, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Drama, Western
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians’ land and claim it as his own. Read More »
Sex and the Single Alien (1993) Peter Daskaloff, Eric Kohner, Melanie Rose, Frank Fowler, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Harry Smith is your typical sexually-unfulfilled husband whose wife Olivia is more interested in UFOs than in him. Read More »
Macbeth (1971) Roman Polanski, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Drama, War, History
Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Read More »
El Norte / The North (1983) Gregory Nava, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. Read More »
The Food of the Gods (1976) Bert I. Gordon, Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Read More »
Of Human Bondage (1934) John Cromwell, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Drama, Romance
Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. Read More »
Larceny (1948) George Sherman, John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she’s received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead. Read More »
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948) Zoltan Korda, Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. Read More »
American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984) James Benning, Documentary
American Dreams is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades. Read More »
J.D.’s Revenge (1976) Arthur Marks, Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Action, Horror, Thriller
A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940’s mobster in mid-70’s New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister. Read More »
Cohen and Tate (1988) Eric Red, Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Crime, Thriller
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other’s throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Read More »
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952) Joseph M. Newman, Anne Baxter, Dale Robertson, Miriam Hopkins, Western
A murderous western outlaw, his wife, a disgraced gambler and a faded dance hall floozie and a few other socially undesirable characters are trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin. Read More »