Gangster Eddie Kagel is killed by a trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr’s special-effects Hell Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Hudson’s Bay (1941) Irving Pichel, Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines Read More »
This Man Is Mine (1934) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy
Irene Dunne is married to Ralph Bellamy. Their union is comfortable but all that changes Read More »
Invitation to Happiness (1939) Wesley Ruggles, Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charles Ruggles
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer’s daughter. Read More »
The Street with No Name (1948) William Keighley, Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan
After two gang-related killings in “Center City,” a suspect (who was framed) Read More »
On Your Toes (1939) Ray Enright, Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale
Junior Donal, an ex-vaudevillian now teaching music at Knickerbocker University in New York Read More »
Pack Up Your Troubles (1939) H. Bruce Humberstone, Jane Withers, The Ritz Brothers, Lynn Bari
Out of work vaudevillians join the army in WWI and head for France Read More »
Five Days (1954) Montgomery Tully, Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter
A man hires a hitman to kill him so his wife can collect on his life insurance. Read More »
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Joseph Sargent, Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run Read More »
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) William Asher, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies Read More »
Chasing Sleep (2000) Michael Walker, Jeff Daniels, Molly Price, Ben Shenkman
Via Tubitv on the Roku; Jeff Daniels (Traitor) plays a man left devastated by the sudden Read More »
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934) Norman Taurog, Pauline Lord, W.C. Fields, Zasu Pitts
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew Read More »
The Patent Leather Kid (1927) Alfred Santell, Richard Barthelmess, Molly O’Day, Lawford Davidson
A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance Read More »
Unexpected Uncle (1941) Peter Godfrey, Anne Shirley, James Craig, Charles Coburn
Seton Mansley aka Alfred Crane narrates–and steals the show–as a Florida retiree Read More »
Grand Hotel (1932) Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words Read More »