
This film was Peter Bogdanovich’s homage to musical comedies of the 1930s. A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O’Kelly meet and fall in love. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2017
The Day of the Triffids (2009) Richard Mewis, Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Action, Horror, Sci-fi

It’s an up-to-date setting of the 1962 Sci-fi thriller. With the world blinded and the Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered Read More »
Ragtime (1981) Milos Forman, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Drama

The story runs in the 1910’s New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Read More »
No Man of Her Own (1950) Mitchell Leisen, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Drama, Film-Noir

In a mansion in Caulfield, Illinois, Patrice Harkness and Bill Harkness are waiting for the police. Read More »
Gigot (1962) Gene Kelly, Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Gabrielle Dorziat, Comedy

A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute. Read More »
Saint Jack (1979) Peter Bogdanovich, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Drama

Compelling character study, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. Read More »
China Gate (1957) Samuel Fuller, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Action, War, Drama

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border, to blow up an arms depot. Read More »
The Scarface Mob (1959) Phil Karlson, Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Drama, Crime

Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone. Read More »
Mystery House (1938) Noel M. Smith, Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Banker Hubert Kingery invites fellow officers to his hunting lodge only to announce that one of them has forged critical company documents. Read More »
Au pan coupé / Wall Engravings (1968) Guy Gilles, Macha Méril, Patrick Jouané, Bernard Verley, Drama, Romance

Jean Jeanne loves, but he does not think more than leave. One day flees down the road, then dies. Jeanne never know. Read More »