A sexy starlet resembles Lylah Clare, a flamboyant star of the thirties, who died mysteriously and tragically on her wedding night gets a chance to play her in a biographical film directed by Lylah’s real-life husband (Peter Finch) and history repeats itself as he falls for her reincarnation.
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Tag Archives: USA
The Purple Gang (1959) Frank McDonald, Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards, Crime, Drama
A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard, teams with adult hijackers during prohibition and in three years controls the city’s underworld. Detective Bill Harley is given a special assignment to break the gang.
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Equalizer 2000 (1987) Cirio H. Santiago, Richard Norton, Corinne Wahl, Robert Patrick, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
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He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Victor Sjöström, Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.
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Hell in the Pacific (1968) John Boorman, Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune, Adventure, War, Drama
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft…
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The Wild Life (1984) Art Linson, Chris Penn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Eric Stoltz, Comedy, Drama
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
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The Trouble with Women (1947) Sidney Lanfield, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Comedy
Milland is charming as Gilbert Sedley, an innocent professor – he’s apparently been isolated working in the Orient too long – who is baffled by his strong reactions to a young newspaper reporter, Kate Farrell (Teresa Wright). Why does he think of Niagara Falls whenever he’s around her?
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Tomboy (1985) Herb Freed, Betsy Russell, Gerard Christopher, Kristi Somers, Comedy
Scrappy, willful, and fiercely self-reliant spitfire hoyden automobile mechanic Tomasina ‘Tommy’ Boyd develops a huge crush on cocky race car driving dreamboat hunk Randy Starr after meeting Randy at a party held at a jerky rich guy’s house.
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College Girls (1968) Stephen C. Apostolof, Forman Shane, Capri, Marsha Jordan, Comedy, Erotic
A bunch of sorority sisters from “LSD University” go out “looking for kicks” and get it on in a variety of ways.
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Forever Evil (1987) Roger Evans, Red Mitchell, Tracey Huffman, Charles L. Trotter, Horror
One night at a cabin retreat, Marc Denning became the sole survivor of a bloody massacre which claimed the lives of his lover, his brother, and three friends.
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Death Ring (1992) R.J. Kizer, Mike Norris, Billy Drago, Chad McQueen, Action
Ex-Green Beret Matt Collins is kidnapped along with his fiancée, Lauren Sadler, by crazed hunter extraordinaire Danton Vachs. Every year he holds a contest where people can purchase the right to hunt down and kill a human being.
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois
Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Read More »
Lady of the Night (1925) Monta Bell, Norma Shearer, Malcolm McGregor, Dale Fuller, Drama, Romance
Lady of the Night ~ the story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life, – Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning the daughter of the judge who would send Molly’s father to prison. The girls’ lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.
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Two Thousand Maniacs (1964) Herschell Gordon Lewis, Connie Mason, William Kerwin, Jeffrey Allen, Horror
The citizens of the southern town Pleasant Valley lure six Yankee tourists into town where they are to be the reluctant guests for the centennial celebration of the day a band of renegade Union troops decimated the town.
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September Affair (1950) William Dieterle, Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay, Drama, Romance
An industrialist (Joseph Cotton) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives.
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