Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film about the appalling conditions he saw while he was incarcerated. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Over The Hill Gang Rides Again (1970) George McCowan, Walter Brennan, Fred Astaire, Edgar Buchanan, Comedy, Western, Family
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. Read More »
Messenger of Death (1988) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Action, Crime, Thriller
Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. Read More »
Oliver Twist (1982) Clive Donner, George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern, Crime, Drama
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets. Read More »
Beachhead (1954) Stuart Heisler, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, War, Drama
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Read More »
White Dog (1982) Samuel Fuller, Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Deprogramming a dog who kills Blacks is the ultimate challenge for an unorthodox African-American trainer. Read More »
The Honeymoon Killers (1969) Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
In the early 1950s, Martha Beck, who lives with her slightly senile mother, is the head nurse in a Mobile, Alabama hospital. Read More »
Hound-Dog Man (1959) Don Siegel, Fabian, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Comedy, Drama
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney (Dennis Holmes) constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother (Betty Field). Read More »
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) George Waggner, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Adventure, Romance, War, Western
Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
Finger Man (1955) Harold D. Schuster, Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Treasury agents, desperate to get evidence on syndicate kingpin Dutch Becker, give ex-con hood Casey Martin a choice…life in prison or courting sudden death as a government ‘finger man.’ Read More »
Breaking In (1989) Bill Forsyth, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Adventure, Comedy
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has “larceny in his heart”, it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie. Read More »
The Big Fisherman (1959) Frank Borzage, John Saxon, Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, Drama, History
Howard Keel stars as a stalwart Simon-Peter, the apostle of Christ called “the fisher of men” and the “Rock” upon whom the Christian Church was founded. Read More »
The Young Warriors (1966) John Peyser, James Drury, Steve Carlson, Jonathan Daly, Drama, War
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans. Read More »
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979) Peter Collinson, Topol, Nick Mancuso, Janet Suzman, Drama
Nazi’s, in places not seen, almost invisible to the naked eye, travel to Bologna Italy starting a concentration kamfp there and discover a secret underground group Read More »