
A male Polish secret agent and a female Russian secret-police spy smuggle messages to St. Petersburg in candlesticks. While chasing after stolen candlesticks they discover each other’s identity and fall in love.
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Monthly Archives: July 2017
The Lonely Man (1957) Henry Levin, Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Drama, Western

Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Read More »
Johnny Belinda (1948) Jean Negulesco, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Drama

Dr. Robert Richardson, a dedicated young general practitioner, seeks to establish himself in an isolated fishing village on Cape Breton Island off the Nova Scotia coast. Read More »
The Hearse (1980) George Bowers, Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Horror, Mystery

Jane Hardy decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce. Read More »
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Partner (1963) Gerard Glaister, Yôko Tani, Guy Doleman, Ewan Roberts, Drama, Mystery

Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril. Read More »
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) H.C. Potter, Stuart Heisler, Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western

Poor Mary Smith can’t go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father’s political career. Read More »
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: We Shall See (1964) Quentin Lawrence, Maurice Kaufmann, Faith Brook, Alec Mango, Drama, Mystery

Alva Collins is the attractive wife of a captain in a civil airline. Read More »
Zemsta / The Revenge (2002) Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Comedy

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier’s niece. Read More »
Fontane Effi Briest (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Drama, History

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. Read More »
He Walked By Night (1948) Alfred L. Werker, Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

In the Post-World War II, in Los Angeles, a criminal shots and kills a police officer in the middle of the night. Read More »