Boots Malone is jockey’s agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Deerslayer (1957) Kurt Neumann, Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Adventure, War, Western
In the wilderness of early Colonial days, trapper Tom Hutter lives with his two daughters in an isolated floating fort. Read More »
Duffy of San Quentin (1954) Walter Doniger, Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly, Crime, Drama
Based on the book and the reflections of San Quentin Prison Warden Clinton T. Duffy, the film is episodic and rambling in nature but, unlike most prison dramas, there are touches of humor. Read More »
Safari Drums (1953) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Barbara Bestar, Emory Parnell, Adventure
A bunch of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife. One of their party kills a geologist and Bomba the Jungle Boy must find out whodunnit. Read More »
The Spiral Road (1962) Robert Mulligan, Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Adventure
An arrogant young doctor helps an eccentric older doctor care for natives in the Dutch West Indies circa 1936. Read More »
Pushover (1954) Richard Quine, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. Read More »
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Gerd Oswald, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Bud Corliss (Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Woodward) purely for her father’s mining fortune. Read More »
Chicago Deadline (1949) Lewis Allen, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Read More »
The Corsican Brothers (1941) Gregory Ratoff, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, Romance
Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta Read More »
First Love (1939) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Comedy, Musical
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. Read More »
Halls of Montezuma (1950) Lewis Milestone, Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Adventure, War, Drama, Action
The Marines attack a strongly held enemy island in the Pacific. Read More »
The Jazz Singer (1927) Alan Crosland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Drama, Musical, Romance
Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family’s traditions and heritage. Read More »
The Circus (1928) Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, Comedy, Romance
The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he is promptly chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Read More »
The Power of the Whistler (1945) Lew Landers, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Film-Noir, Thriller
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets. Read More »
1925 Studio Tour (1925) Mrs. M.F. Lee, Carey Wilson, Howard Hawks, Documentary, Short
Untitled and without any crew credits, this 32-minute silent documentary takes you on a tour of MGM in 1925, meeting the people who create the movies, and watching some of them do it. Read More »