Cary Scott is a widow with two grown children. She’s been leading a quiet life since her husband died, socializing with a small circle of friends. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Read More »
Never Wave at a WAC (1953) Norman Z. McLeod, Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. Read More »
Pretty Poison (1968) Noel Black, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, Comedy, Crime, Romance
A formerly institutionalized young man (Anthony Perkins) meets up with a cute, sexy high school cheerleader (Tuesday Weld) and pretends to be a CIA agent Read More »
King of the Mounties (1942) William Witney, Allan Lane, Gilbert Emery, Russell Hicks, Action, Adventure
The chapter-crunched version of this 196 minutes, 12-episode serial from Republic finds Canada being bombed mercilessly by a mysterious-enemy plane (shaped like a boomerang) called the Falcon Read More »
Chilly Scenes of Winter / Head Over Heels (1979) Joan Micklin Silver, John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. Read More »
Angels in the Outfield (1951) Clarence Brown, Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates’ losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. Read More »
Angels Die Hard (1970) Richard Compton, Tom Baker, William Smith, Carl Steppling, Action, Drama
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster. Read More »
The Great Garrick (1937) James Whale, Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Romance
The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Read More »
The Divorcee (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Romance, Drama
Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York ‘in-crowd’. Jerry’s decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Read More »
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) Leo McCarey, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Drama, Family
Father O’Malley, the unconventional priest from ‘Going My Way’, continues his work for the Catholic Church. Read More »
The Clock (1945) Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Drama, Romance
Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. Read More »
Calling Homicide (1956) Edward Bernds, Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Kathleen Case, Crime, Drama
The third of five films (Dial Red-O, Sudden Danger, Calling Homicide, Chain of Evidence, and Footsteps in the Night in release order and released across a full period of three years) in which Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant Read More »
Breaking Home Ties (1987) John Wilder, Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, Doug McKeon, Drama
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. Read More »
Mysterious Island (1961) Cy Endfield, Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. Read More »