George ‘Hotsy’ Hamilton II, heir to a meat-packing fortune, returns home from an expedition in the Congo. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The River Wild (1994) Curtis Hanson, Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn
Gail Hartman is facing problems with with her husband, the workaholic architect Tom. Read More »
Near Dark (1987) Kathryn Bigelow, Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
A small-town farmer’s son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter. Read More »
Hello, Everybody! (1933) William A. Seiter, Kate Smith, Randolph Scott, Sally Blane
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters Read More »
I Am a Thief (1934) Robert Florey, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
An insurance company hurt by a string of jewel thefts decides to smoke out the international community Read More »
Zelda (1993) Pat O’Connor, Natasha Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rutanya Alda
Famous 1920s modernist US writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre’s Read More »
Tomorrow at Seven (1933) Ray Enright, Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called “The Black Ace.” Read More »
The Peacemaker (1956) Ted Post, James Mitchell, Rosemarie Stack, Jan Merlin
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. Read More »
The Wings of the Dove (1997) Iain Softley, Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alex Jennings
Kate Croy’s (Helena Bonham Carter’s) mother was born to wealth and privilege Read More »
A Star Is Born (1954) George Cukor, Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett Read More »
A Star is Born (1937) William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Esther Blodgett is another starry-eyed farm child trying to break into the films. Read More »
Natural Causes (1994) James Becket, Janis Paige, Ken Wisan, Joke Tachalom
An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees. Read More »
Lost Treasure (2003) Jim Wynorski, Stephen Baldwin, Nicollette Sheridan, Coby Ryan McLaughlin
A painting is stolen from a building during a great fire and after it is recovered Read More »
Divorce Among Friends (1930) Roy Del Ruth, James Hall, Irene Delroy, Lew Cody
Pre code, sexually suggestive romantic comedy in which Mr and Mrs Morris both have Read More »
A Woman, a Part (2016) Elisabeth Subrin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Maggie Siff, Khandi Alexander
An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself Read More »