Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this “ideal” civilization. 70’s jokes, props and stars abound.
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Tag Archives: USA
The Name of the Game Is Kill! (1968) Gunnar Hellström, Jack Lord, Susan Strasberg, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Thriller
A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn’t realize exactly what they have in store for him.
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Robo Vampire (1988) Godfrey Ho, Robin Mackay, Nian Watts, Harry Myles, Action, Crime, Horror
Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot.
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Matters of the Heart (1990) Michael Ray Rhodes, Jane Seymour, Chris Gartin, James Stacy, Drama, Romance
In a Vermont small-town, talented Steven Harper dreams of nothing less than a concert pianist career. His father, Glenn, a wheelchair Vietnam vet, would rather he take over the hardware store he runs with uncle Frank.
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Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro, C. Aubrey Smith, Drama
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as “the icebox” by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea.
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Ashes of Vengeance (1923) Frank Lloyd, Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Drama
When Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by making him an indentured servant in his castle.
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Flamingo Road (1949) Michael Curtiz, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, Drama, Romance
Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus.
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Intimate Nights (1998) Jay Madison, J. Cynthia Brooks, Chris Johnston, Jim Stevens, Thriller, Erotic
Both love and larceny threaten a woman’s safety in this erotic thriller. Tina Tudor (J. Cynthia Brooks), an exotic dancer, finds her life in great danger when she’s the sole witness to a murder.
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O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose (1974) George A. Romero, O.J. Simpson, Marvin Goux, John McKay, Documentary, Sport
An independently produced sports documentary on the career of O.J. Simpson, (32#) the upcoming running back for the Buffalo Bills football team.
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Bronco Billy (1980) Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a small traveling Wild West show. But the business isn’t doing too well: for the past six months he hasn’t paid his employees.
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Curdled (1996) Reb Braddock, William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Gabriella, a Colombian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by “The Blue Blood Killer” of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Archie Mayo, John Cromwell, Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, Adventure, Biography, Romance
Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor’s daughter.
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The Tao of Steve (2000) Jenniphr Goodman, Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, Comedy, Drama, Romance
In his early 30s, the beer-bellied Dex has things figured out. He’s widely read in philosophy, he’s studied Steve McQueen the prototypical cool American hero, and he’s distilled Buddhism and Taoism into three laws that make him a hit with women: don’t express desire, do something heroic in front of her, then retreat.
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Meet Me After the Show (1951) Richard Sale, Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Comedy, Musical
Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames’ Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show’s vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.
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Cover Girl (1944) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire’s Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a ‘Cover Girl’ as a stepping-stone in her career. She reminds the publisher, John Coudair, of his lost love, showgirl Maribelle Hicks.
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