
Jacques d’Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Little Old New York (1940) Henry King, Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance

Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn’t. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
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Cita imposible (1958) Antonio Santillán, Beni Deus, Claudine Dupuis, Juanita Espín, Crime, Drama

When Rosario is released from a one year prison sentence in Barcelona women’s detention center, she is determined to prove her innocence. Read More »
Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Read More »
Sword in the Desert (1949) George Sherman, Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Action, Drama, History, War

Cynical freighter captain Mike Dillon hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine. Read More »
Rikollinen nainen / A Woman of Crime (1952) Teuvo Tulio, Regina Linnanheimo, Eija Karipää, Tauno Majuri, Drama, Romance

Regina Linnanheimo plays Eeva, a happy and spirited lady who is being courted by two gentlemen. Read More »
Shi no toge / The Sting of Death (1990) Kôhei Oguri, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi, Drama

Period drama set in the 1950’s about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair. Read More »
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Action, Adventure

The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. Read More »
Lo sbarco di Anzio / Anzio (1968) Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan

Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. Read More »
Kong shan ling yu / Raining in the Mountain (1979) King Hu, Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Chun Shih, Action, Drama

An esquire brings a female thief and his bailiff to search out a priceless handwritten scroll by Tripitaka, in a temple at the mountains. Read More »