A young, unwed, pregnant girl is made an offer she can’t refuse. Marry a rich young man with a wealthy estate to please his dying mother, and she’ll be well taken care of. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
On the Edge (1986) Rob Nilsson, Bruce Dern, Bill Bailey, Pam Grier, Drama, Sport
In one final attempt to achieve victory, an aging professional runner is training vigorously for a very tough marathon race. Read More »
Bowery Bombshell (1946) Phil Karlson, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car Read More »
The Canterville Ghost (1944) Jules Dassin, Norman Z. McLeod, Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O’Brien, Comedy, Fantasy
In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. Read More »
Follies in Concert (1986) Michael Houldey, Andre Gregory, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Rubin, Biography, Drama, Music, Romance, Documentary
Film of the legendary 1985 concert performance presented by the New York Philharmonic of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Read More »
Blonde Comet (1941) William Beaudine, Virginia Vale, Robert Kent, Barney Oldfield, Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Beverly Blake, the ‘Blonde Comet,” and the daughter of a tire-manufacturer, gets behind the wheel of a race-car, and is soon tearing up the tracks and winning races in Italy Read More »
A Change of Seasons (1980) Richard Lang, Noel Black, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Comedy, Drama
A self-centred university lecturer thinks it quite all right that he has taken one of his students as a lover Read More »
Pilgrimage (1933) John Ford, Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Drama
Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) fears being abandoned by her son Jim (Norman Foster), and she doesn’t approve of his romance with Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon). Read More »
The Indian Fighter (1955) André De Toth, Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Western
Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. Read More »
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Adventure, Biography, Drama
He was a riverboat pilot, newspaper reporter, penniless prospector, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. Read More »
Jungle Siren (1942) Sam Newfield, Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe, Evelyn Wahl, Adventure, Romance, War
A woman who was raised in the jungle helps a man fight Nazis who are trying to start a native uprising. Read More »
In Enemy Country (1968) Harry Keller, Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France. Read More »
So Goes My Love (1946) Frank Ryan, Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jane Budden, a country girl goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Hiram Maxim, a struggling inventor. Read More »
Red Dust (1932) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Drama, Romance
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. Read More »
The Savages (2007) Tamara Jenkins, Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Comedy, Drama
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Read More »