Lucy (Arquette) is a frustrated magician, specifically an escape artist, who is obsessed with becoming a modern female version of Harry Houdini. She collects Houdini artifacts and waits for her big break while working as a waitress at a trendy Manhattan restaurant. With British bartender, Monte (Bowie), and her roommate Vivian, she arranges a heist of the restaurant. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The 3rd Voice (1960) Hubert Cornfield, Edmond O’Brien, Julie London, Laraine Day, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Marion Forbes is the secretary, the lover and the creator of the financial fortunes of Harry Chapman, but Chapman falls in love with Francis and decides to marry her. Read More »
The War Wagon (1967) Burt Kennedy, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Western
Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Read More »
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) Arthur Lubin, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Drama, Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller
Jean takes the job of caretaker/companion (before the word took on a completely alternate-life style meaning) to blind woman Zenobia. Read More »
Africa: Texas Style (1967) Andrew Marton, Hugh O’Brian, John Mills, Nigel Green, Adventure, Western
An American cowboy is hired to work on a ranch in Africa, and winds up having to fight predators, both the four- and two-legged kinds. Read More »
Killer Bees (1974) Curtis Harrington, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Roger Davis, Horror, Mystery
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard. Read More »
Zone Troopers (1985) Danny Bilson, Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art LaFleur, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
In Italy during WW II, a patrol of American soldiers discover a space ship that has crash-landed in the woods, and they come across its alien crew. Read More »
Safety in Numbers (1930) Victor Schertzinger, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Comedy, Musical, Romance
William Butler Reynolds is slated to inherit ten-million dollars on his 21st birthday, but his worldly uncle, F. Carstairs Reynolds, thinks the lad could use a bit of seasoning before that happens. Read More »
It (1927) Clarence G. Badger, Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Comedy, Romance
Shopgirl Betty Lou has designs on Cyrus Waltham, the handsome owner of the department store where she works. Waltham, though, doesn’t even know Betty Lou is around. Read More »
Here Come the Waves (1944) Mark Sandrich, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Twin sisters Rosemary and Susie Allison are successful nightclub performers. Their act is about to come to a close when serious-minded Rosemary announces she’s joining the Waves. Read More »
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) Robert Fuest, Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing, Comedy, Horror
The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes three years later. Read More »
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) Robert Fuest, Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Comedy, Horror
Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. Read More »
The Fury (1978) Brian De Palma, Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) from his son, Robin (Andrew Stevens), the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Read More »
For Heavens Sake (1926) Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Action, Comedy, Romance
The Uptown Boy, J. Harold Manners (Lloyd) is a millionaire playboy who falls for the Downtown Girl, Hope (Ralston) who works in Brother Paul’s (Weigel) mission. Read More »
White Slaves of Chinatown (1964) Joseph P. Mawra, Audrey Campbell, Marlaina Abbie, Gigi Darlene, Crime, Drama
Olga uses pot parties and comic-book violence to turn Gigi Darlene and other female captives before putting them to work as drug-addicted hookers. Read More »