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Tag Archives: USA
Queen of the Mob (1940) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish
Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns. Read More »
Sit Tight (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown, Paul Gregory
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Read More »
The Wrong Man (1993) Jim McBride, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Anderson, John Lithgow
US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico Read More »
Public Housing (1997) Frederick Wiseman
Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman takes an intimate and nuanced Read More »
Domestic Violence 2 (2002) Frederick Wiseman
The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband Read More »
The Prowler (1951) Joseph Losey, Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
In a fancy suburb in California, the gorgeous housewife Susan Gilvray finds a prowler Read More »
Hijack! (1973) Leonard J. Horn, David Janssen, Keenan Wynn, Lee Purcell
Two truck drivers are hired to transport a top-secret cargo from New York to Houston. Read More »
Defenseless (1991) Martin Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt
The lawyer Thelma “T.K.” Knudsen Katwuller is having a love affair with her client Read More »
Golden Dawn (1930) Ray Enright, Walter Woolf King, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery
The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. Read More »
Run of the Arrow (1957) Samuel Fuller, Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith
A Rebel vet, O’Meara has refused to surrender when Lee does at Appomatox. Read More »
Jack London (1943) Alfred Santell, Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen
Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »
Hell Below Zero (1954) Mark Robson, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through Read More »
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) Roy William Neill, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact Read More »
Three Bites of the Apple (1967) Alvin Ganzer, David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes
A woman (Sylva Koscina) offers to help a British tour guide (David McCallum) avoid paying taxes on his Italian casino winnings. Read More »