A Rebel vet, O’Meara has refused to surrender when Lee does at Appomatox. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Jack London (1943) Alfred Santell, Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen
Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »
Hell Below Zero (1954) Mark Robson, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through Read More »
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) Roy William Neill, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact Read More »
Three Bites of the Apple (1967) Alvin Ganzer, David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes
A woman (Sylva Koscina) offers to help a British tour guide (David McCallum) avoid paying taxes on his Italian casino winnings. Read More »
Persons in Hiding (1939) Louis King, Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish
Dorothy Bronson, the ‘girl behind the crime’ according to J. Edgar Hoover Read More »
Frontier (2001) David Zellner, Wiley Wiggins, Nathan Zellner
After their feature debut PLASTIC UTOPIA was deemed too strange Read More »
Hold Back the Night (1956) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves
A bottle of Scotch carried by WW2 veteran Captain Sam MacKenzie of the U.S. Marine Corps Read More »
I Love a Bandleader (1945) Del Lord, Phil Harris, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Leslie Brooks
Harris and his assistant Eddie “Rochester” Anderson are painters doing a job at a nightclub. Read More »
Of Love and Desire (1963) Richard Rush, Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran, Curd Jürgens
American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned Read More »
Mame (1974) Gene Saks, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur
It’s the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis Read More »
The Young Don’t Cry (1957) Alfred L. Werker, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish
A teenager (Sal Mineo) fights to retain his dignity and self-respect against the brutality Read More »
633 Squadron (1964) Walter Grauman, Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy
633 Squadron of the RAF is tasked with an operation that is vital to the Allied invasion of France. Read More »
Eat and Run (1987) Christopher Hart, Ron Silver, Sharon Sharth, Pat Ryan
A humanoid alien lands on earth, and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian. Italian people, that is. Read More »
The Great American Broadcast (1941) Archie Mayo, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne
After serving in World War I, two army buddies (John Payne and Jack Oakie) become partners Read More »